🫐| Mentally ill |[RUS]|🏥

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— Canonically is attractive
—Social phobia

• mostly suppresses negative emotions
• grows hair
  —If he had a style, it wouldn't be close to anything (especially based on subcultures, but I can point out what he could possibly relate to: Goth/punk (?), downtown. As for clothes, he would be comfortable wearing sweaters, turtlenecks, flared pants, scarves)
• Aroeis
  — Before Chloride appeared, his psyche was fine. Aside from his paranoia.
• loves collecting different types of stones and reading books
  — is partly interested in marine life, the language of flowers and sign language
  — As for cosmetics, she only uses eyeshadow and nail polish.
  — Tends to be thin
  — isfj/isfp (?)

Character and personality of the Psychic
A mental patient is someone who was broken long before they learned to understand wholeness. Their psyche isn't a crumbling building, but a structure that was never finished. The foundation was laid by their mother's genes, the walls by a childhood in a mental hospital, and the roof was blown off by Chloride. He didn't "become" like that. He didn't become like that—he remained like that because he didn't have time to become different.
He's not clinically insane. He's traumatized. The difference is fundamental. A madman doesn't grasp reality. A mental patient grasps it all too well—and that's precisely why he can't return to it.

🧠 Key features
Depression
He doesn't express emotions openly. Not because he doesn't feel them—because he feels them too much and too intensely. Every emotion is a threat to him, because every emotion can become a trigger. Joy reminds him of what was taken away. Anger reminds him of his powerlessness. Fear reminds him of his always being right. So he suppresses everything. Drives it inside. And there, inside, it rots.

Social phobia
He doesn't avoid people because he doesn't like them. He avoids them because he's afraid. Not specific people, but the very act of contact. Every person is a potential source of pain. Every conversation is a potential trigger. Every touch is a potential repeat of what she did. He doesn't trust anyone. Not because he doesn't want to, but because he doesn't know how. Trust is a skill. It was taken from him.

Paranoia
She'd always been with him—even before Chloride. Quiet, in the background, almost unnoticeable. But after her, the paranoia became loud. He sees glances where there aren't any. He hears footsteps behind him. He senses a presence in empty rooms. He knows it could be a lie. But he can't tell the difference. And that's the worst part.

Closed-mindedness
He doesn't talk about himself. To anyone. Never. Not because he's secretive, but because he doesn't remember. Or he remembers in fragments that don't add up. His past, half of whose details have been washed away by the water. He can't talk about what happened to him and doesn't want to remember.

A young man of unknown gender, thin build, dressed in a death shirt and pants.
Dark, long hair, dark irises, pale skin and Asian appearance.