"Are We Killing This One?" More of the Story of Addergoole Post-Apoc (@inventrix @cluudle)

[aldersprig]

Warnings on this snippet: Implied abuse, implied rape, death threats, mind control.

In the series with:
Separation Anxiety (LJ) Boom!/RP timeline/ Cynara
Parting Advice, and Mother Bears (LJ)
Mother-Son Bonding (LJ)
Kept du Jour (LJ) in the Boom!/RP timeline. I believe this is part three of four four of five five of MANY.







She had never, Cya noted dispassionately, seen someone fight so hard against her mind control. Well, there had been Pelinore, but that had been physical Workings against the car. She'd learned, after him. Panlong, in the back seat, was barely moving, trembling with the effort.

She glanced over at Yoshi, to find him looking at their captive thoughtfully. "I think he thinks I want revenge," he told Cya, rather flatly.

That stopped Pan dead. "Revenge? Yoshi, what? I didn't..."

"Except when Tethys sent me to you," Yoshi answered sharply. "Then you sure as hell did."

Cya felt her claws digging into the steering wheel. Shit. If she didn't kill this kid, she was going to have to Keep him to keep Yoshi's father, her crew, or both, from killing him. "Yoshi," she interrupted slowly, "are we killing this one?"

"What?" the boy yelped, trying very, VERY hard to move now. "Okay, okay, Keep me. I can handle being under the collar again, but come on, Yoshi. You never said no. I thought..." He slumped against the back seat.

Her son sighed. "No, Mom. I mean, I want to poke him with a stick a bit. Maybe kick him a few times. He's kinda naive, but Tethys had him good and brainwashed. He doesn't deserve to die for being stupid."

"I thought..." Pan repeated woefully.

"Tethys," Yoshi bit off tersely, "did not encourage complaint. Or bad moods. Or the concept of saying 'no' to anything. You were under her collar, Pan. You should have known what it was like."

The boy couldn't slump any lower, but he was trying. "You seemed so happy," he muttered. "I was never that happy when I was under her collar."

Comments

[lilfluff]

Hmm... So we can't spell naive without 'panlong'?

Hmm. And did Tethys give a 'make people think you are happy' order (considering that if I am understanding correctly she could have said, 'you are happy, you like doing what I say' order, then that would be a rather cruel order to only say he should look like he was happy).

[inventrix]

She could have ordered him to be happy, which would in itself be a horrible thing to do. Emotions are difficult to order around.

But there are other, more subtle ways one can... convince one's Kept to seem happy. It isn't just a matter of orders, after all; there's also the emotional aspect of the Bond. One method: the Bond makes you want to make your Keeper happy, your Keeper makes it clear that it makes her happy when you're happy.

[aldersprig]

I know from the RP with Cluudle that, yes, there was some telling him to have different emotions than he had.

But there's also, a, Yoshi is generally a cheerful fellow, and, b, Panlong is not an empath. "Go in there and act like you enjoy it..."

[aldersprig]

I do believe a little of a and a little of B.

Tethys, in my head... was generally just casually negligent. Not often Agatha-evil. But there were things she did to smooth *her* life that made Yoshi's life hard.

[clare_dragonfly]

Aww. Cya will knock some sense into him, or at least the brainwashing out!

[aldersprig]

Or something@ :-D