bakerstreet | The Stockholm Syndrome Meme

THE STOCKHOLM MEME

WARNING: Meme will contain TRIGGERS, including kidnapping, dubious consent, and general uncomfortable content. Please do not click if you don't want to see, and please respect your fellow role-players.

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings for their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.

Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."

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PROMPTS:
1. KIDNAPPED. You've been taken, either for ransom money or just because you've pissed the wrong people off. Or maybe your kidnapper just wants company. Maybe they need someone to be their companion, to be their confidante, and they chose you.

2. CAPTURED. Maybe you were a soldier, fighting in a battle. Maybe a spy, or a political dissident. Either way, the military has caught up with you.

3. IN CUSTODY. It's a law enforcement agent that has you locked up. Maybe you're a criminal and you're in prison, or on house arrest so that agent can keep an eye on you. Maybe the agent doesn't have enough evidence, so they took matters into their own hands.

4. ASYLUM. This person isn't keeping you here against your will. It's for safety. Maybe you're in the Witness Protection Program. Maybe you sought asylum from your own country. Maybe your criminal life got a little too heated and you had to go underground somewhere.

5. HOSTAGE EXCHANGE. A war, between countries or gangs or even planets, and the two sides have decided to exchange important hostages as a gesture of trust. You're one of them. It might even involve arranged marriage -- a way to unite your two peoples. Hope you enjoy staying with your enemy.

6. HIRED. Someone's being paid to keep you. Maybe a new parent or guardian keeping you at home, or perhaps an evil uncle has had you tossed into a discreet asylum in order to claim your inheritance.

7. SLAVERY. Through birth or misfortune, you've become the property of another. But they're not such a bad master. You might even grow to love them, if enough time passes. If they treat you with the right combination of cruelty and kindness.

8. WILD CARD. For anything not covered by the other options!

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[ No 7. Otherwise, anything goes. ]

Tony Stark's eyes are not usually this particular color. The milky blue looks so wrong on his face. He sits backwards in a chair, leaning forward, balancing on his toes. He's been watching Thor for some time now. Just watching.

The bonds Loki had given him to subdue the Thunderer seems to be working pretty well.

Tony's impressed.

"Come to the darkside, Thor," he purrs. "We've got cookies."

In his head, he's bellowing his brother's name. A clever trick Loki has played- one of a thousand that Thor has been too dim to avoid. The shackles on his arms drain him of his Asgardian essence whilst zapping him with electricity should he struggle. His own weapon used against him... What could be more humiliating?

Ah, yes, the man of iron without his suit offering him a child's treat.

"You know not what you say, Stark," Thor mutters. As he stares into those glassy blue eyes, all the fury he's tried to contain comes to the surface. "Hel take your cookies! I do not bow to the likes of the Silvertongue, be him my brother or not! And neither do you!"

He's got to admit, it's always pretty funny when Thor doesn't understand something. Tony just laughs and leans forward in the chair again, arms crossed over the back. He looks amused, and that's probably not a good thing, not when he's been given tools to deal with urges the darker parts of himself might hold.

In a way, Thor is just another power source. He might have Loki's whispers in his head, directing his actions or staying his hand, but he's been given free reign for the moment to do whatever it is he'd like.

"This coming from a guy that keeps on forgiving someone that wants him dead? Man, you're sort of like a puppy. A kicked puppy. You'll never learn."

The Stockholm Syndrome Meme

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