#adhd loba

I am pretty sure that if Loba is AuDHD, then she has PDA. She will straight up not do something if you ask her to the wrong way. Perfectly illustrated by her decision not to kill Rev after he specifically asked her WHEN SHE WAS ALREADY GOING TO. The fact that she basically rejected her own original plan when she no longer felt in control of it is perfectly PDA. Why this scene works so well to illustrate PDA is that Revenant, of all people, legitimately works with Loba's PDA to get her to finally agree to kill him. Not by shaming her like Kairi was doing (enough to get her to meltdown and cry), but by asking Loba what she wants. By doing so, Rev sets everything up so that Loba can feel in control again. Aside from everything that happens after that

- aggressive when pressed

the reason why I'm convinced of this now is how set she is in the stories she tells herself. namely, obsessing is just a form of hyper storytelling, and she's created a dreaded paranoid narrative from childhood about this demon who was coming to get her (even when it's clear that he didn't give a shit about her until she showed up in the Games) based on trauma maybe, but that's still a valid trigger as I have come to find

After, I looked back over all of the fic I had written for Loba. As far as I knew, I was trying to get her as canon as possible and had a few guesses as to why she felt the way she does. It wasn't intentional for me to write her with a PDA AuDHD sensibility, but I had to due my own. She's fictional, and ultimately it's my headcanon, but I can't unsee it now. Loba is PDA AuDHD (Pathological Demand Avoidance Autistic + ADHD).