• ekZepp@lemmy.worldM
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    Nice argument. But bacteria can infect organisms, even kill them. Can an Old One be “humanized”?

    This reminds me of a character from the book series Laundry Files by Charles Stross. Basically they have this alien entity called “the souls eater” (guess what it can do) which a secret british govern agency evoke in the 60s and bind to a human body with some kind of binding ritual, after that they pass almost 10 years brainwashing him in human value, honor ecc. up to the point where he became one of the best secret agent of that organization, with a key role to save the world from eldrich horrors.

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      Don’t they feed off our psychic energy?

      Humans are the powerhouse a great old one.

      Sometimes we’re a positive but most of the time we’re not noticed unless we’re a problem. A surplus of the wrong kind of psychic energy or not enough of the right kind could warrant a reaction just like taking antibiotics or eating a probiotic yogurt.

      Like. It ain’t going to be a direct one to one comparison, it’s an analogy about hypothetical charecters…

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        So our psychic energy can be toxic for them? Another nice idea. So what human perceive as hostile incomprehensible behavior of cosmic entities may just be some poor inter-dimensional fella with the psychic equivalent of a food poisoning or even an allergy reaction. (he’s choking on our mind🤣)

        Neat 😁👍

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          Head Canon: There are few Modern Setting Old One horrors because the Internet is akin to food so rotten, just entering the house the food is in can make them pass out

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      Yes, but in the same book you learn that

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      the brainwashing didn’t take. He’s just playing along because he’s afraid of bigger eldritch horrors, and the Laundry is his best resource for protecting himself.

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        Well, this is true but his first body SE+Algernon do care for people in his own way. As for what the SE+Bob do, well either is Bob at the controls or the SE is hallucinating to be him