Cliffton Fanfiction: Intractable - Chapter 5

[alien_writings]

If you want to read the previous chapters in this fanfic about Devin's mental instability, they are linked below.
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---------I glare at the NutrioStick in my hand. Brian, the fucking Nutrition Counselor, says I have to eat it. I’m “malnourished” and “haven’t been eating enough.” It’s not my fucking fault -- all the food tastes like

Comments

[n3m3sis43]

I feel so bad for Devin in this fic. The Home for the Intractably Insane does not seem like a place of healing. They never even let people rest during the designated rest periods. :\

The scene with the "therapy" was so freaky. It fits well with my canon and also with my headcanon of how the "treatment" might go down. And that would be so terrifying for Devin.

I wonder if they would have eventually put fake memories in Eric's place, if Devin had stayed there long enough. And I wonder if it just takes one session to permanently erase Eric or if he has to keep being erased repeatedly until it "takes", because that would extra suck.

[alien_writings]

I'm glad I made the "therapy" scene effectively freaky. The Home for the Intractably Insane is definitely muuuuuch more a "freaky" place than an actually helpful one. I am so not being nice to Devin in this fic. At least he doesn't die in this one (since he lives in canon and this is attempting canon compatibility and all)? Heh, if I weren't going for canon compatibility, things would probably end up a whole lot worse!

You know, they really might have put fake memories in place if Devin had stayed longer. I wonder if the reason he remembers Eric later on is because the therapy didn't "take" completely due to his escaping the Home before it could. They probably do make their unfortunate patients do multiple courses of mind manipulation. Then again, I can't imagine a full course of freaky therapy working quite right, either.