endlessdel | OOC: Delirium Primer

I ought to have done this months ago, but it completely slipped my mind. Here's another for Del's book, then.

Eden McCain is currently suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, brought on by her early death at her own hand, as well as a massive guilt complex which, while not strictly insanity, puts a lot of undue stress on her mind. If you're familiar with Heroes, you know how and why Eden died; if not, it's at the end of her history in the wiki. Just let me know if you need more details. Needless to say, turning up on a beach with the gun in her hand when she'd thought she was going to die was just icing on the cake as far as trauma went, and Eden's been having nightmares about her death since her arrival. As the months go by, it gets easier to deal with, but it's likely she'll never fully come to terms with what became of her. Although all of this is island information, I imagine Delirium has a sense for that kind of thing, so I gave it to you just in case.

More relevant is her time before the island. She's not very stable - less so since coming to the island, but to some degree she never really was. She shut down very young, stopped talking because when she talked she got in trouble; her father left when she was 13, leaving her with a stepmother who was emotionally abusive (of the Cinderella variety, essentially). When she finally started talking again, she triggered her power and her stepmother died, dropping her cigarette and burning their house down. Following this, in LA, she smothered her own emotions and used her power to make people give her whatever she wanted; when she left this life, the guilt of this combined with all that had come before was overwhelming. She suffers from occasional nervous breakdowns and is, for all her sweetness and patience, not the most stable of personalities.

I should mention, because I don't know if this is the kind of thing Del would know, but it might be - her real name isn't Eden McCain. Eden McCain is the name she took on when she left home after her stepmother's accidental death (details on the Wiki) and moved to L.A. She was born Sarah Ellis.

On the other side of the coin is Eden's clone, Laura Dannon. What you need to know about her is fairly basic: she's a very cool, clean, calculation sane sort of mad. Spoiled luxury turned a bored California rich girl into a sociopath who gambles with the lives and hearts of others for her own entertainment. She's never really content with what she's got because she had everything, and she constantly lacked for challenges to keep her life interesting.

Late to the party. :D

In Jaye's cannon, fake animals talk to her. That's not a hallucination though. That's really happening. But the fear of what that means and the stress of dealing with it and trying to convince herself that she's okay even though she's following the instructions of (among other things) a stuffed chameleon and a wax lion have made her a little... unstable. She wouldn't entirely be one of Delirium's, but she's had her moments. If the show had gotten to a season 3, the producers said that she would have been put into an asylum because others thought she had a messiah complex, if that has any bearing. So... I don't know. Del might vaguely remember her as one she wanted or something?

... Third time works?

I put all the information in his journal now since that's nicer than cluttering up this one.

http://over-and-dunne.livejournal.com/1047.html#cutid1

Sorry.

LOL, I didn't even mind! But ooh shiny post!

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over-and-dunne.livejournal.com - 2007-12-06 17:32 (UTC) - Expand

Ford spent three years on prehistoric Earth going crazy. He spent one memorable occasion thinking he was a lemon and jumpin in and out of a lake that thought it was a ginand tonic. Going crazy and seeing things is almost just a hobby of his.

I keep meaning to do this but always forget...

Michael Scofield definitely straddles the fine line between genius and madman, and after his brother was put in death row, it's safe to say that he strayed over to the loopy side more and more frequently. He had his share of mental breakdowns when he was putting together his super seekret plan to break his brother out of prison. They were likely brief episodes, as he couldn't really afford to waste time going insane, so he worked through them as best he could.

He's incredibly empathetic and he can't take the pain and suffering of others and when that gets too overwhelming, he has panic attacks. Large amounts of guilt also brings them on as well. He was also abused by a foster parent as a child and kept in a small dark room for sixth months.

In short? He's fucked XD Though he plays it off incredibly well.

And, you know... there's Asher. But do I really have to explain him? Crazy, killer, ex-vampire man, blah-blah-blah.

Even later to the party! There's a good chance Del knows Crews, what with how he got convicted of a murder he didn't commit that one time, especially the bit where he ended up in solitary confinement talking to the walls and people who weren't there for a couple years.

Further details are in his official bio (http://zenish-moment.livejournal.com/1333.html), which despite reading like a bad fanfic I can assure you I copied right from the NBC website. Bless their hearts.

Crap, I almost forgot to add Vincent to Del's primer :O

Vincent is here because...well, because he's Van Gogh. His entire life he's been a bit of the socially awkward and depressed side, but after he started eating his paints when he got heavy into his art (all of which were lead based), he got a lot worse. He is, legally, insane. He's got days and phases where he's pretty good, then boughts of mania, depression, hallucinations, paranoia and the like. He can be a little unpredictable.

Watch me add all my characters one by one as they appear. Luz isn't crazy. Yet. He probably went a bit crazy and cracked in Bastogne, but everyone did. It was hell. And if he did go crazy it was probably very low key. He's more of a delight person than anything else. He is always happy and he's always trying to make other people happy.

Thought she should know since the man is trying to dance with her.

Oh. And it should probably be mentioned (I find it interesting anyway) that in real life he later marries a woman named Del.

Edited 2008-04-11 17:20 (UTC)

HAHAHAHAHA that made me laugh so loudly my mum is not WTFing at me. George/Del=CANON (Just not that Del.) HAHAHAHA.

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gonnajumpnomore.livejournal.com - 2008-04-11 17:41 (UTC) - Expand

I've talked to you some in IM already, but just to have it here for future reference- Gil(gamesh) is officially a Mad Scientist. He's usually rational, but when his genius really kicks in, so, usually, does the crazy. And, though this hasn't been explicitly confirmed, he seems to have more fine control over his own mania than others- he's been seen to almost deliberately slip into the higher levels of nutcase at times when a berserk ranting fury would confer an advantage in intimidation or combat, and come down quickly when it was no longer needed, when everyone else seen to get that crazy had to be drugged or knocked unconscious.

Which could be interesting.

Aya is an assassin. That just about says it all. He has killed many people and doesn't really regret any of it. That being said he has only killed those who were 'evil', or at least those that would never find justice in the human world.

Yes, he does believe in Heaven and Hell, at the very least in an afterlife, and he knows he's damned for what he has done. He is willing to accept his fate, because he thinks it is worth it in having done his best to make the world a better place.

He also has a very strange relationship with his sister. He is slightly obsessive about her happiness, and falls for someone (well as close as he can come to 'falling' for someone anyway) just because this girl looks like her. (Anything you think is important for her to know go for it! *grins* Right now my brain is all mush.)

Oh Brian. Well, simply put he was abused and has locked ALL of that away. He remembers quite a bit of it now, but there's still one missing night. He's had recurring nightmares about what happened since he was a child. He did have nosebleeds and fainting spells, but these won't play a big factor in his island life. (Anything else you think she should know go for it, because yes again mush brain...)

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Mohinder Suresh is not mad. He's seen things that might drive a man mad, but his scientific skepticism combined with a shockingly compassionate heart make him more or less immune.

Yet he's given to bouts of depression and guilt and spends a lot of time wondering what if. Other men have thought him mad for the things he believed to be true - until they learned he was right. After that, he wished they had been.

And yet, he's a dreamer and a philosopher. Someone who can imagine Kali come to get him in one breath and assert scientific principles in the next. And after everything he's seen and done, he still believes, deep down, in the good and potential for humanity.

Perhaps he is a little bit mad. ;) I'll let Del decide.

..would Stephen's gay paranoia count? If so, there you go. ;P (Not to mention, of course, his thoughts about non-Americans and stuff..)

It's probably a good thing we don't have a Dream anymore...as Blair would want to both cry at him and kick his ass...

ANYWAYS.

Blair is...[dramatic sigh] Blair? She's got her mixed bag of things ranging from OCD, to anxiety disorders, to depression, coupled with a generalised feeling of self-loathing and self-involvement. She's been hospitalised for her crazy, she's been medicated, she pretends it doesn't exist and yet it very much does. Oh yes, there's that eating disorder I mentioned on the Slated. Which is why this is getting posted here, since Del works in the Kitchen...and yeah. :D

Del: I iz feeding you up naow?

XOXO

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filmstarbeauty - 2008-04-24 18:10 (UTC) - Expand

SHE BAKES PEOPLE INTO PIES AND SELLS THEM AND EATS THEM.

Seriously. Cannibal. Obesessive and kinda stalkery. If Mrs. Lovett doesn't belong to Del then she belongs to nobody. Except maybe desire, but who doesn't?

Dani Reese:

Where to start? ...I should link you to the write up. Good. Most of the shit's here (http://community.livejournal.com/island_medical/74051.html) and here (http://9mmshotglass.livejournal.com/1850.html) and even here (http://9mmshotglass.livejournal.com/1093.html). If you want more, brilliantrouble is the proper IM....and journal, too.

Hello, Del! <33

I seriously need to see this show. EEEEE!

Dani is <3

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Johnny is... loved. Somewhere all of the Endless must have a special place just for him. In his first book he entered another reality (the gamespace) in his dreams and began pulling other people in after him. It was definitely real, but he could only get there while he was dreaming and his dreaming influenced the gamespace's appearance and what happened to it in real life (all the aliens disappeared from the game). One of his friends said that he was a shaman, leading and guiding people in his dreams. All of the other friends said he was a loony.

In the second book he sees the dead. Not for any real reason, just because he's too lazy not to see them when they're hanging around like that. (He also died quite a bit in the gamespace/dreams). Eventually he helped the dead of the cemetery to move on. His friends still said he was a loony.

In the third book he travels in time. Pratchett is his normal self and basically says that to manipulate time you have to be insane. Because he knows everything that's going to happen, sort of like remembering it in reverse. The only other person who sees the dead and travels in time is the town's bag lady who is very obviously insane. And of course, Johnny is the only one who can actually talk to her because he has the potential to be just as insane.

...And he got a note from the school therapist saying he was disturbed.

Alex Drake sees things.

The world she comes to the Island from is either an extremely odd and comprehensive post-traumatic hallucination or a genuine alternate universe; it's a little hard to tell, and absolutely impossible to figure out whether or not we're ever going to get any definite canonical answer.

She has recurring nightmares and hallucinations about the David Bowie clown (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/hakubaikou-chan/a2a/vlcsnap-106226.png) from the "Ashes to Ashes" video, who she sees as the embodiment of her own death; she also sees and talks to a hallucinatory version of her daughter Molly, and has intense, cryptic flashbacks to the day of her parents' death.

Basically? HEADCASE.

Cam isn't crazy, but he's very close, and fully has the potential to snap at any time. As such, he may or may not be familiar to Del. I'll leave it up to Del to decide.

While calm, cool, and indomitably happy on the surface, directly beneath it is an ever churning, ever compacting veritable sea of guilt, misplaced responsibility, self-doubt, and even a goodly amount of self-loathing. He's insecure and indecisive, and channels hopelessness into anger, rather than despair. He has been known before to have breakdowns, both in an alternate universe, and in the 50 years that were later undone.

He blames himself for pretty much everything he is remotely involved with that goes wrong, especially when it deals with friends, family, and team (Which he might just have a bit of an obsessive devotion to). This contributes to him doing crazy things for their benefit, which might call into question his stability.

His desire to be a role model, and a hero, clashes with his darker nature, and often leaves him tormented, but his propensity for repressing everything leaves him dealing with it privately--which is probably the only reason he's not the base psychologist's favorite subject.

Still, I would hesitate to say he's crazy, but he's definitely borderline enough that Del just might have had a hand in it.

You can take a peek here, (http://www.the-blank-slate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scott_Landon) esp. under the headline darkness loves him.

Scott and his older brother Paul were raised by their dad. Scott's mom died when during childbirth, and Sparky Landon liked to joke with his son that he killed her by getting too big. He hid his sons from the census and home-schooled them, supposedly keeping them safe from rampant Nazis in backwoods Pennsylvania, but really, it was so no one questioned the deep cuts in their skin. Scott's father, never terribly stable, was prone to violent bouts of madness where he would inflict deep cuts on his boys to let out the "bad-gunky", Landonese for the violent insanity that apparently runs in the family. Luckily, something else that runs in the family is the ability to teleport, and Scott often does as a kid to get away from his dad, spending time in a place of his own creation called Boo'ya Moon (a vibrant-scary jungle paradise that Del would probably love).

Years and years after his father's death, Scott is still terrified of Sparky Landon, and of the "bad-gunky". He fears letting it out as much as he fears not letting it out, and though he still visits Boo'ya Moon, it gets harder to leave behind, and some of the monsters follow him home. As a result, he has some rules other people would likely think nuts: he won't eat fruit after dark, or any food after midnight as it's considered poisonous: nightfood. If he looks in a reflective surface after the sun goes down, he risks seeing (and thereby inviting) some of the alien monsters from that world.

Jeez, sorry for the novel. But I've been dying for a pup to interact with Del and Scotty's the ticket. He's great at shoving all of this under the rug; on the surface he's easygoing and just eccentric enough to be interesting. But underneath it, he's a scared basketcase little kid who's probably been holding onto Del's hand for dear life for a long time. Endless <3.

I just bought the book and seriously i'm like forty pgs in...FREAKING AWESOME and seriously. Nxt time he has a post, Im tagging it.

Elizabeth is a very stable person. However, twice now she has had replicator nanites induce psychotic hallucinations. The first time she spent what she perceived at the time as nearly a year trapped in her own mind, living out a false reality without Stargates--living in and out of asylums, and suffering twisted hallucinations of what was occurring in reality.

The second, just before she arrived on the island, was much more brutal--like the worst fever nightmares imaginable. Twisting, ever-shifting cascades of false realities and terrors that would severely strain the sanity of anyone subjected to it.

She's fairly stable on the island, but she did spend a week denying its reality--and occasionally doubts it even now. The experience did take a toll on her psyche, but it's up to Del as to whether mechanically induced hallucinations are under Delirium's domain or not.

Pacey has never suffered from any of the above. However, his first girlfriend, Andie McPhee, and her mother both had a psychotic breaks. Her mother stepped away from reality after her eldest child, Tim, died. She had her good days and very, very bad days.

Andie spent a summer in an institute (it was a nice Massachusetts one) trying to recover from her mental breakdown brought on by the combination of Tim's death, her mother's psychosis, her father walking out on the family leaving Andie as head of the household, her younger brother, Jack, coming out of the closet, and pressures of keeping her school grades up while being a teenager. While she was in there, she cheated on Pacey.

I don't know if he'd ever mention Andie, but there it is just in case.

Figured I should get around to this. XD

The occasional drug-use aside, Del would probably know Lloyd mostly from his stay in the Phoenix prison, where he nearly starved to death. He was delirious and pretty close to crazy before he got rescued by Flagg. I've got an excerpt of that here (http://kingshit-lloyd.livejournal.com/1246.html#cutid3).

Other than that, she would know him by association, because he's been around plenty of crazy. There's Poke who dragged him along on a kill-spree, there's Trashcan Man with his pyro-schizo ways, Nadine Cross and of course, the one and only Randall Flagg (some info on them here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand#Las_Vegas) if you're interested -- not sure if you're familiar with the canon). But weirdly, Lloyd has this way of holding on to sanity no matter how much crazy goes on around him. He managed it in Vegas too, at least up until shooting Glen... which was a meltdown of sorts.

Patrick Jane is fd'up.

Currently, he suffers from an obsession of the serial killer Red John, locked in a battle between life and death. His last goal in life is to hunt Red John down, and kill him as brutally as Red John killed his family.

He still has unresolved grief from his wife and daughter's death as well, which comes out whenever someone brings them up inadvertently or on purpose. His sorrow is obvious.

He also thinks he's currently more insane than usual, suffering from PSTD from killing his first man.

I love him and I love you for bringing him :D