frank morrison of liquidmantis

“The first person who's mind I dove into was my father's. I saw nothing but disgust and hatred for me in his heart. My mother died in childbirth... and he despised me for it... I thought my father was going to kill me.”

My personal hc has always been that his mother was raped and died in childbirth due to inadequate care and unwanted pregnancy, a very real risk in very real life. Maybe he even came from a very repressed religious type background. I beleive what he saw play out in his fathers mind was that. I think he felt it all as if it were happening to him. Seeing his own forced conception and his mother’s death.

“He also held nihilistic views, feeling disgust towards humanity's ultimate lust to simply reproduce, and the "selfish" passing on of one's genes. He even implied that this desire was ultimately the reason why war existed.”

rape is a form of colonization and rape is justified by religion and women are the spoils of war…

“During his travels throughout the world, he read thousands of people's thoughts, and became disgusted with humanity for, as he called it, their "selfish and atavistic lust to pass on one's seed".”

Psycho Mantis Dave and Liquid Snake James uhhmm

Thinking about this again now too maybe I am being too deep about it but shallow is no fun.. I love how in one of mantis’s sort of first demonstrations of free will… he stops someone from putting a gun to their head and taking their own life…

And then later on, as his ability to exert his will upon others becomes even stronger, he would make them do that very thing 💭

I’m coming to some point like.. maybe seeing someone lose it all and sit there in utter hopelessness is something he internalized, if someone could do that to themselves willingly, it would be even more delightful to make them do it unwillingly, to influence those destitute feelings upon them, to drive their hand… it would be more satisfying than hurting them directly…