Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-28428152-20181027080659/@comment-28428152-20181027221100

BloodySpghetti wrote: All is well, I like how we get along with our ideas and visions, it's pretty nice to have that someone who just gets you. Anyway, If you look at the Joker from a bare perspective, yeah The Nameless has this sort of "random yet driven" insanity to his tricks and ploys however, looking deeper The Joker has a plan and a philosophy he follows, they just happen to coenside with his way of having fun. That's why he is probably the scariest villain ever - he makes sense and a point with everything he does, mad as it may be.

Where does the brain damage come into play? Did she get hurt in the head or was there an explosion or something to her? Cause it wasn't shown. Also, I do use PTSD in my stories, probably because I have some myself or some other overstressing issue due to my background. I did use my friend's rape for a story, with her approval, added some supernatural details to the whole thing and I ended up being nicknamed after the driving force in my own story. Shame it wasn't written in English... Oh well. Also used PTSD for Sascha in "Sleep Walking Monster" and to a certain degree in "Between The Birches" but these are none rape induced PTSD cases.

The condition doesn't get enough attention on here.

It's really life altering, to say the least. There is a driving force for The Nameless, though not based in philosophy. It's much more simple than that, though Volume III is where the nature of The Nameless starts to be unveiled a bit more, so I'll save that for then. Volume III is gonna be weird. Especially the end.

The brain damage will come into play later in Volume II, around the climax of it. (Each volume has its own 3-act structure)

And I really don't get why more people don't include PTSD into CreepyPasta. Because if anybody were to go through about 90% of the stories people write here, they would be fucked up for life. And as someone who has it myself, I try to include it, even if it's not always explicitly stated, since not everyone is going to seek help and get diagnosed. Like with Mike, he avoided help, and having already established a habit as a teenager of using alcohol to push his pre-existing mental illness down, I made it so that later he would escalate to drugs like pot and cocaine to "cope" with it. i would like to say, though, that this story isn't anti-weed. Smoked plenty myself, Mike just uses it for the wrong reasons. In many ways, the Nameless is symbolic of PTSD among other things, especially in this volume.