psychology.

Psychology:

Standard psychology focuses on healing and reassurance—patching the machine so it fits back into the production line. I have zero interest in that. I’m drawn to the blueprints of the malfunctions. I study the behaviors society agrees to ignore: calculating manipulation, pathological obsession, emotional detachment, and the utility of antisocial traits in competitive environments.

I prefer clinical detachment over moral judgment. When you strip away terms like "good" or "evil" and look at behavior simply as adaptive or maladaptive strategies, the world makes significantly more sense. It turns human interaction from a confusing emotional mess into a predictable system of inputs and outputs.

This isn't just academic. It’s pattern recognition. I’ve always noticed these undercurrents instictively, the way hierarchies form in silence, or how power is actually exchanged versus how it's spoken about. Studying the darker frameworks just gave me the syntax to debug what I was already seeing.

Archetypes // Dark Characters:

I’ve always gravitated toward villains and morally dark characters. Not because I want to be like them, but because they tend to be more honest. They act without pretending to be good. Their motivations are often clearer, more consistent, and less compromised by the need for approval.

Heroes often feel sanitized or performative by comparison. Dark characters expose how people behave when stripped of social expectations, and that feels closer to reality.

Genre // Horror:

I’m drawn to horror that’s psychological and atmospheric rather than explicit. Isolation, dread, subtle wrongness. Liminal horror, existential horror, things that feel off without explaining why.

I’m not interested in jump scares or gore for shock value. The horror that stays with me mirrors internal states that i often feel. Boredom, dissociation, being stuck, being watched by systems rather than entities.