I can understand you not wanting to share specific details and that’s fine, in fact I apologize if I seemed intrusive on that front… yet, with so little of their back story to go on (from the first post) it’s difficult to surmise how things took such a turn for the worst…And I know you don’t want the thread to just be about Subject-X, and would prefer comparisons with other people’s experiences of the same occurrences but again… It’s hard for someone to make an assessment of situations they have witnessed with people changing dramatically… without being able to string together the series of unfortunate events leading up to that.
But ok then, lets atleast try and explore it more esoterically;
Just let me switch character for a moment;
(Removes Strawberry Blonde wig )
(“Walk’s in” to the Psi-Division of the Bureau where Dr Spencer Reid has been assigned while he is not busy profiling serial killers… lol)
Subject-X suffered severe trauma in her past, perhaps much of which was never healed and only repressed; And with the religious affiliations of such you could also place a marker of this being an almost “Part Astral” attack… in that the concept of God or a God being involved (or an otherworldly entity) in Subject-X’s abusive situation was a factor. A factor perhaps from “Subject-X’s” own POV…
At this point she now develops an association and fear with regards to Sex, yet what really disturbs Subject-X is that such was possibly “God’s will”… In other words, her direct contact to her version of God/Astral was fashioned through this abuse…
Layer on top of this situation… how she views the scenario of bearing children, and with this being a path to salvation for female Christians and you now have got yourself a recipe for disaster.
^^From a hacking POV… such could all be considered a massive “exploit”;
Going to RAW for a moment, the concept of just how much we log and develop modes of thinking from a very early age in our brain chemistry, which is often incredibly difficult to change once the pattern is locked in… The Astral connections, the abuse, and the trauma Subject-X suffered is all laying in wait like a Trojan Virus waiting for the right download…
Now, what does Subject-X do to counter this??
She changes into something completely different, a Powerful/Witch (Asexual), because she knows subconsciously she is carrying a deadly virus and so attempts to firewall everything off to ever prevent this situation from triggering alive again.
Great, this works just fine… with one serious problem, she was never able to delete the virus because she associates it with “God”, which she absolutely cannot EVER delete from Subject-X’s POV… What she wants to do IS to delete the virus… but in order for her to do this she knows… Oh crap, I’ll have to open myself up to “exploring” this virus…
I don’t know her age, and you could add in Astrological data/transits but basically her repression is triggered, perhaps to do with the concept of bearing children… coupled with the fact that she was feeling lonely, and no matter how strong her mind was, how powerful a “Witch” she was… her body chemistry just overrides reason even if only momentarily…
The firewall drops, for the first time in a long while she makes contact with her own repressed Virus, (this could all have happened either before she meets Subject-Y, or during contact… it kinda doesn’t matter) because what happens will be Subject-X choosing to explore this virus in an attempt at deletion.
We know little of Subject-Y, yet we can surmise that perhaps she spoke of her abuse with him… he himself could have had similar experiences to Subject-X, OR was some kind of a Psi-Vampire and “Port Scanning” for people who were flagging “exploits”… (Lets assume he IS a Psi-Vampire… as such does not require the personality of “Christian Grey”).
^^Now… not only did your friend flag as vulnerable but she was also carrying a virus that Subject-Y may have been unaware of…
Yet from Subject-Y’s POV… the “virus” is more akin to a “backdoor” into Subject-X’s psyche even if he himself has to traverse the precipice of the trauma stemming from her earlier abuse… but depending on his skill level and the strength of his own firewalls such can still be exploited quite easily….
And given how he gained control over Subject-X’s actions thereafter it’s reasonable to assume he succeeded (Or an Entity pigging backing on him did… but that’s going into some even crazier POV’s).
But it’s what happened before she changed that is boggling my mind, like how did this guy do this to Subject-X … or what did she do to let this happen???
I expect though, that some of the first times they were intimate (actual sex is not required… yet such is basically a straight up hack (sex)) would have been the major turning point… for Subject-X could have literally reverted back to her old memories during the “act”… in an attempt to delete the virus and was basically using this Psi-Vampire to buffer the trauma or even Retroject it into him as means of getting rid of that same trauma… In her mind, momentarily HE/Subject-Y becomes “God” (even if Subject-Y is not aware of what your friend was doing)…
^^Subject-Y is NOW the virus “incarnate”, a physical representation of Subject-X’s own trauma… it’s been copied/duplicated into Subject-Y… and who knows what was duplicated copied into her from him… because during Sex (especially under such conditions… we are talking MAJOR energy/data transfer… and again such will flag in the realms of As Above so Below)…
Now Subject-X is literally… screwed, because she enjoyed it… So much in fact that she believes Subject-Y will save her, grant her that “repressed” need for salvation that was cruelly implanted in her when she was younger. And so she proceeds to recreate her reality around what Subject-Y demands of her…
The true virus… was that which was inflicted upon Subject-X via her religious experiences/abuse, you can call that an “Astral Retro Virus” and I feel such would be accurate since it’s a belief in something “outside” of oneself in some other realm of reality… be that God, Angels, Demons or Lizard Men… which can just gather enough collective energy to become a concept that gains control over a persons faculties.
For she had already been hacked into when she was younger… and Subject-Y perhaps even accidentally or maliciously Kiddie_Scripted Subject-X… (You can say he had help from perhaps his own dealings with “outside entities” but such is not always necessary)
It’s unfortunate, because had Subject-Y been of a healing mindset, there would have been a moment during the first time they had sex for him to delete the virus wholesale if he knew what he was doing (which is actually what she wanted/hoped would happen) but the stupid ******* decided to take control of her instead by allowing it to be copied onto himself so he could hack Subject-X indefinitely.
You really have no chance of turning/deprogramming your friend as long as that guy remains in proximity to her.
As regards to you yourself wanting to explore what happened to your friend in how her personality changed (regardless of the process of how such occurred) and then be “deprogrammed” just to gain a better understanding…
^^The safer bet would be taking the position of a Subject-Y (Hacker) so you can actually observe a Subject-X (just saying… lol), Programmers/Hackers make the best firewalls… because they see exactly how to get around them.
Though I’d be especially wary of exploring either option in an attempt to better understand this scenario, though one interesting aspect might be to hack into someone, then deprogram them afterwards and observe both the “Hack/Virus” and what was required to un-hack/reboot them. (I’m curious about such myself actually… My Pisces Mercury / Trine Pluto lol…)
Makes me think of the movie “Inception” which was essentially what they were doing to people… but in a much subtler even more subversive way…! Where an idea itself becomes a self activating hack that reprograms a persons entire mindset!
Though the tragedy of what happens to Cobb/DiCaprio’s wife as a result… is the true dangers of such things…
So… perhaps you should stick to exploring this via fiction is my advice;
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