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TheJagged on March 30, 2025
It's true, Nikki never looked at any other man. He had girlfriends and everything (some of the girls from the agency's psychic department in fact, hard to find dating outside Agency circles when you're an agent), he's not even a virgin. It's just Jimmy that puts this spell on him. Literally, i guess.
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marcorossi at 9:07AM, March 30, 2025
This poses a question: if a feeling was "planted" in someone many years before, but remained and so to speak put out roots in time, is that still a foreign feeling or is that really part of personality? Nikki doesn't have a different personality with no attraction for Jimmy hidden somewhere.
TheJagged at 11:24AM, March 30, 2025
To Nikki it certainly feels real, planted or not. He can't just rip out his emotions.
PaulEberhardt at 6:24AM, March 30, 2025
That's what people used to be afraid of could be possible many decades ago. Once, I actually found a 1960s psychologist's manual for "rectification" on a university library's table of junk to retire from service. Clearly written by a hardcore behaviourist, it proposes among other things to use therapeutic exposure to straight porn in a manner all too reminiscent of "A Clockwork Orange". Pity I didn't keep it, as it's kind of hard to believe these days that academics of the past seriously considered such things, isn't it? Anyone, people like that writer really believed you could make people gay and straight again just through the power of suggestion or whatever. Guess Jimmy must be the man of their dreams. 😉
TheJagged at 11:15AM, March 30, 2025
Jimmy can't plant stuff in people from zero though. A core affection was there, he just twisted it into something more intense. Nikita was a traumatized boy, didn't take much for psycho psychic Jimmy to plant stuff in a confused young mind. IRL that sort of re-conditioning behavior is bullshit, because psychology doesn't work that way. That's like reshaping glass with a sledgehammer. Attraction and sexuality are not carved in stone, but very much dependent on their environment. You can't force someone to be gay, but things like "prison gay" still exist. If you're desperate and lonely, then that inmate next to you will start to look more attractive than he would be if you had a choice of company to pick from. This is the case for a lot of human behavior, it's far more influenced by our immediate surrounding than we realize. Or want to admit. Do you really love your partner cause he/she's your ideal mate, or did you settle for someone who's good enough?