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devilspirit) wrote2022-05-06 12:27 pm
devilspirit) wrote2022-05-06 12:27 pm
warnings.
Hanseok is a villain capital V diagnosed with ASPD at the age of 16 following a string of murders, and he occupies the furthest and most violent extreme of the disorder's spectrum. He does not and neurologically cannot experience remorse, compassion, or empathy, but he masks extremely well when he makes an effort to and can give the impression of a completely average person who does. He is extremely violent, physically and psychologically abuses his brother, and has committed several gruesome murders.
His sense of danger is warped, leading him to take enormous risks, and when he’s not masking, his reactions to negative emotions are explosive and violent. He frequently shouts, screams, and verbally abuses the people close to him.
Hanseok also comes with several warnings for his own trauma as implied by canon. In light of the facts that his parents showed some belief in clinical psychiatry by paying for ongoing childhood therapy for his brother and that there was a formal diagnosis of ASPD by a psychiatrist following his string of murders, it’s safe to say that the context for his encounter with a clinician was probably time in a max security mental institution, not a therapist's appointment in the free world, during a stay lasting at least a week or two given standard procedure for such cases.
Being that he was a minor with a cluster B disorder and involuntarily admitted - and shown to be extremely combative and resistant when he’s detained in a similar situation in prison, as well as assaulting nurses in a clinical one - it’s safe to say that he’s been both medicated and given tranquilizers without his consent in the past, and will react extremely poorly to any suggestion that he get ‘help’ - because of his deficits and inability to care about the needs or emotions of anyone other than himself, the “problems” that arise from his disorder (hurting the people around him, lack of compassion, etc) aren’t problems to him and don’t need to be fixed. While I don’t necessarily think that he was abused, there are still numerous unavoidable factors involved in involuntary institutionalization that are inherently traumatic, and most Cluster B patients have a much worse experience than others. I write his experience with this as being fairly typical for an adolescent diagnosed with violent ASPD and therefore deeply traumatizing, compounded by being sent to a foreign country in his father's efforts to sweep him under the rug.
He had an extremely poor relationship with his father, who had an affair on his now deceased mother. In any situations in which family comes up, discussion of deep dysfunction and cheating will be present.
I am willing to play Hanseok against his brother, but I am not interested in playing him as a 2D caricature used for endless Hanseo whump. Infantilizing and/or feminizing Hanseo is a dealbreaker for me as although he is not the sharpest crayon in the box he is a grown man and both of those tendencies reek of fetishism to me.
It’s important to note that while he does not care about the pain of others and cannot relate to it, he himself is still fully able to suffer, to feel pain, distress, loneliness, and even affection—to quote Hanseok himself, he still experiences "human emotion". This doesn't mean that he's redeemable, or that his suffering—or mental illness—negates what he does, but he's still a (deeply flawed) human being and I play him as such.
Hanseok loves in a way that falls somewhere between how a cat loves and something deeply obsessive: everything has to be on his terms, at his whim, and people are either disposable to him or the object of deep, unhealthily obsessive infatuation. He doesn't stop to consider that the answer might be no or that the person might just not care for him like that; his perception of how life works is warped by his own narcissism and sense of grandiosity: obviously the other person would want to be with him, and if they don't, he just needs to keep asking until they say yes.
He loves people because of the way they make him feel, or, in very rare cases (his mother being the only one shown) because they've shown him consistent, unconditional affection. Anything less than being the center of a partner's world is unacceptable, and he's prone to very intense possessiveness. He doesn't feel like other people are a threat to him because of his narcissism, but by the same token, he's likely to react very poorly to a partner seeming to show interest in someone else.
Lastly, Hanseok is a very unreliable narrator. His perception of events is warped by grandiosity, intense wrathfulness, and an extreme sense of entitlement. Many things are to him personal slights when they are not intended as such - for instance, one of his victims stealing the ball during a game of soccer in high school.
His sense of danger is warped, leading him to take enormous risks, and when he’s not masking, his reactions to negative emotions are explosive and violent. He frequently shouts, screams, and verbally abuses the people close to him.
Hanseok also comes with several warnings for his own trauma as implied by canon. In light of the facts that his parents showed some belief in clinical psychiatry by paying for ongoing childhood therapy for his brother and that there was a formal diagnosis of ASPD by a psychiatrist following his string of murders, it’s safe to say that the context for his encounter with a clinician was probably time in a max security mental institution, not a therapist's appointment in the free world, during a stay lasting at least a week or two given standard procedure for such cases.
Being that he was a minor with a cluster B disorder and involuntarily admitted - and shown to be extremely combative and resistant when he’s detained in a similar situation in prison, as well as assaulting nurses in a clinical one - it’s safe to say that he’s been both medicated and given tranquilizers without his consent in the past, and will react extremely poorly to any suggestion that he get ‘help’ - because of his deficits and inability to care about the needs or emotions of anyone other than himself, the “problems” that arise from his disorder (hurting the people around him, lack of compassion, etc) aren’t problems to him and don’t need to be fixed. While I don’t necessarily think that he was abused, there are still numerous unavoidable factors involved in involuntary institutionalization that are inherently traumatic, and most Cluster B patients have a much worse experience than others. I write his experience with this as being fairly typical for an adolescent diagnosed with violent ASPD and therefore deeply traumatizing, compounded by being sent to a foreign country in his father's efforts to sweep him under the rug.
He had an extremely poor relationship with his father, who had an affair on his now deceased mother. In any situations in which family comes up, discussion of deep dysfunction and cheating will be present.
I am willing to play Hanseok against his brother, but I am not interested in playing him as a 2D caricature used for endless Hanseo whump. Infantilizing and/or feminizing Hanseo is a dealbreaker for me as although he is not the sharpest crayon in the box he is a grown man and both of those tendencies reek of fetishism to me.
It’s important to note that while he does not care about the pain of others and cannot relate to it, he himself is still fully able to suffer, to feel pain, distress, loneliness, and even affection—to quote Hanseok himself, he still experiences "human emotion". This doesn't mean that he's redeemable, or that his suffering—or mental illness—negates what he does, but he's still a (deeply flawed) human being and I play him as such.
Hanseok loves in a way that falls somewhere between how a cat loves and something deeply obsessive: everything has to be on his terms, at his whim, and people are either disposable to him or the object of deep, unhealthily obsessive infatuation. He doesn't stop to consider that the answer might be no or that the person might just not care for him like that; his perception of how life works is warped by his own narcissism and sense of grandiosity: obviously the other person would want to be with him, and if they don't, he just needs to keep asking until they say yes.
He loves people because of the way they make him feel, or, in very rare cases (his mother being the only one shown) because they've shown him consistent, unconditional affection. Anything less than being the center of a partner's world is unacceptable, and he's prone to very intense possessiveness. He doesn't feel like other people are a threat to him because of his narcissism, but by the same token, he's likely to react very poorly to a partner seeming to show interest in someone else.
Lastly, Hanseok is a very unreliable narrator. His perception of events is warped by grandiosity, intense wrathfulness, and an extreme sense of entitlement. Many things are to him personal slights when they are not intended as such - for instance, one of his victims stealing the ball during a game of soccer in high school.