#;spirits

Okay, so when I think about being susceptible to spirits/ghosts/etc. - I think how easy your emotions can be tampered with or your will influenced to THEIR will. 

Which, yes, Sam has quite the strong will. However, it’d be easy for something that got inside her to rile up her anger and then once she’s mad they could pretty much do anything with her. 

I mean just get her mad and then keeping her mad is no problem, all they’d have to do is keep her mad at the stuff they want her to be mad at. From there, just putting suggestions in her head is enough. Like-

“I’m fUCKING PISSED OFF!!!”

“Hey, that person has done a lot of bad stuff. Just think about it.”

“THAT PERSON SUCKS!!!”

“Yeah, they do. They deserve to get punished for what they’ve done.”

“I’LL PUNCH THEM INTO NEXT TUESDAY!”

“Or burn down their house.”

“OR BURN DO- well, that’s a little extreme, hold on-”

“They did that bad stuff- they should definitely have their house burnt down.”

“yOU KNOW WHAT- YEAH! FUCK THEM! THEIR HOUSE IS ASHES!!!”

Like- that’s all they’d have to do. Granted this is purposefully for spirits that already have some ability to manipulate someone’s mind. If it’s just a general spirit with no real powers like that, then yeah- they’d have the same effect as any person.

For actual possession, where they completely TAKE OVER the body and mind- now that would be an issue, but if it’s just one of those where it has a strong influence rather than a replacement- oh yeah.

The only thing about keeping her anger going- like if someone completely innocent gets in the way or something- that’s going to be a struggle to keep that anger stoked at the innocent. 

As for the others

Since, Sam is the most susceptible then I’ll just go all the way from most susceptible to least.

Sam- for all the reasoning already listed.

Danny- while Danny is always on the goal of improvement and making a positive impact, all the spirits would have to do would convince him it’d be for the best. Which, along with his wanting a clear direction to go, this would make him a relatively easy target.

May- Now, she changes a lot over the course of the story, but at this current stage she is still rather self-centric so if she’s got these feelings from the spirit of wanting to do something- then she’ll likely do it. The issue that’d get run into is if it was something uncharacteristic for her- like hurting someone for a minor offense.

Vincent- He’s kind of got a middle ground here. While he wouldn’t be able to shake a spirit out of him- he’d be very resistant to suggestions. He’s still at a stage where he’ll push down feelings and whatnot, he keeps a lot of stuff contained within himself. So, it’s likely that any spirit would move out of Vincent and into anybody else nearby simply because while they have him feel a certain way they want him to- he’ll still not DO anything.

Balder- while not that emotionally strong or anything, he’s very questioning and introspective so he it’d be hard for spirits to make him do stuff- simply bc he’d stop to think “why am I doing this? why do I feel this way?” Although, he may soon get distracted so if they could keep him unfocused it’d work.

Ann- She has a very strong will, and her emotions are well-covered so that one of them can not get manipulated so far into her going along to the spirit if it’s with something she wouldn’t do under normal circumstances. She is insecure about her femininity and looks at times, but at this stage she has dealt with it a fair bit to where it’s decreasing as she goes along.

SO LET’S HAVE A “POSSESSABILITY SCALE” RANKING!!!!

Ann = 2 = Rather unlikely

Balder = 4 = You can do it, but it’ll be some effort.

Vincent = 5 = Yes, you’ll get it, but your goal will take ten times longer than normal.

May = 7 = Just keep your suggestions mild or build them up, and you can get away with it.

Danny = 8 = You’ll get it, oh yeah, just work quick before someone makes him stop to think because then you’ll run into a stop.