[UA] Schizophrenia

[Greg Stolze]

>Which brings us to a on-topic post. Could a "Wronged" be created when a
>mentally incapable person is put to death? Theoretically, they aren't
>"Guilty" of anything, not being able to comprehend guilt.

I'd say you're just as likely to get a simple pissed off demon.  Of course,
a schizophrenic demon could be very, VERY dangerous because it has no grasp
of the usual limitations on humanity and reality.  On the other hand, once
the spirit was severed from the body, any chemical imbalances creating the
schizophrenia would presumably be gone.  Not exactly the "easy cure," but
interesting.

You could springboard this to another idea, too.*  Suppose you've got
someone who's been struggling with schizophrenia off and on his whole life.
He's managed to get by, more or less -- he's stable enough to work some
menial job, maybe lives in a group home -- until, for whatever plot
contrived reason, an epideromancer blows a major charge on fixing the
broken valves in his brain.  (Or some other effect -- major unnatural
phenomenon? -- either repairs the damage or moves his spirit and memories
into a new body.)  What's the effect when you've gone through your life
with your personality broken... and suddenly it's whole?

-G.

*Feeling a bit of remorse here for all my OT nattering.  Though I must say,
I find that even the OT stuff on this list is often better than on-topic
commentary elsewhere.



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