Thread:Fearless Diva/@comment-28690119-20180125141450/@comment-3452092-20180125155723

Yeah, and I'm a little confused on that. When you see the "Ms. Red" (to use a term a friend on here uses for her) form of Jane, she definitely seems insane, but when you see the little girl form of her as you take her place, she seems perfectly sane, just totally scared and unable to really control what's going on. I'm thinking, the latter form of Jane is kind of like those stories where they use science or magic to go into someone's mind who is being possessed by something and they find that they are essentially two different beings with the one in control being someone other than who you think they should be and if you can get to them there and talk them down there, you can actually get through to them, because that part of them isn't really in control or the other part of them isn't even them and they have to reassert control of the whole over what ever is controling them.

Or maybe not possession. Maybe a parasite is a better analogy? I don't know if you know anything about Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine but Dax is a symbiont. Curzon, Jadzia, and Ezri were Dax's seventh, eighth, and ninth hosts. (Actually, I think they were eighth, ninth, and tenth because it seems like there was a host that got hidden, but maybe that host is in the count). The personalities, experiences, and sometimes straight out influences of the previous hosts, sometimes had them do things that were different than what they would have done without Dax and in some cases even things that were counter to what they would have chosen to do. Seems like I recall something about Jadzia going on a killing spree due to the influence of the hidden host.

We know that this did indeed drive Redfield insane, at least I think we do. Do we know that? Or do we just assume that based off his actions once he got consumed with the powers. I didn't do any of the diamonds related to the journal entires, so I don't know much about what they reveal. I'm not sure if we know for sure if he was insane or if the power was controling him. Although Cora did seem to indicate that the power wasn't evil. I suppose the power could have tricked her if the power does have a personality and been looking for a host.

I kind of wonder if the power drives people insane or the realization of what they did while under the power drives them insane once they are no longer under its control.