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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-04-07 06:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #3382 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3382 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2016-04-08 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting point, but I think you might be too quick to dismiss that otherkin/fictionkin based manipulation also starts with a low point in the victims' lives. I haven't read it in a while, but the author of FF7 House makes it pretty clear he is not in a good place mentally or financially, and that helps the manipulation happen. Same place with Andy Whathisname/ Victoria Bitter - in fact, across his years of fictionkin manipulation you can see how he learnt to target vulnerable people. You can also see in both cases how the abusers basically followed the emotional abuse textbook in terms of isolating their victims from outside support.

Fictionkin predators go for a specific kind of vulnerable: instead of the type of people religious cults might victimise, they go for isolated, socially awkward young people with rich fantasy lives they use as coping mechanisms, and insecurities that manifest in a deep desire to be 'special', just like their fictional heroes. The abusers use the fictionkin fantasy to fill those holes, and take their pound of flesh along the way.

[personal profile] lady_dragoon 2016-04-08 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Good point. They still prey on vulnerable people, but rather than the desperate, they go after the highly suggestible.