The Lingering Darkness Planning/Discussion Thread

[piosenniel]

Read-along fan here . . .

The picture that's formed for me of Naiore is of someone who is empty of fear. Fear or the ability to fear isn't suppressed in her - it's missing; a blank space.

I've wondered all along how that happened to her . . . or was it always part of her make-up . . . And if the latter were so, did that fuel her sadistic streak even more?

A person who has never experienced fear, I would think, would also have no basis for empathy, sympathy, compassion for others . . . or real love.

If she were always this way, without the ability to fear, was she at first simply curious about the fear she saw in others? Did she at first grow jealous and or hateful of those who could experience the range of fear emotions? Did she invert her jealousy and begin to see those others then as inferior to herself because of their fears? And seeing herself as superior to them, learn early to use their fears to control/manipulate them?

I've always wondered if, when she was younger, she tried to 'fit in' - and being a keen observer of others, was able to put on a reasonable show of positive emotions. But since her time with Sauron she's thrown off all pretense of such and simply opted for the power her own lack of fear and her ability to ferret out where another's fear lies brings.

Or maybe she would have naturally evolved into such a creature as she is at present.

She creeps me out . . . reminds me of those true sociopaths (in modern parlance) that I've had the misfortune to encounter in my nursing career . . .