I already made quite clear I am not interested in that, if there is any way to keep them as distortions while still having them happy and non-psychotic, I am taking it.
That doesn't really matter.
I don't care about the form they take so much as being happy.
However, this discussion needs not repeat itself as all is already said and done. Their happiness comes first, whatever form said happiness takes on isn't up to you or me to decide.
We are discussing ways to quickly give them therapy via physical actions instead of usual talking therapy. To me the distortion is a state of mental instability, I don't really care what form they take, whether it's human, a dragon, a printing machine, a chicken mascot, or a giant pile of corpses.
I'm undistorting them. They can be whatever form they want afterward with their now no longer either self-harming or harmful mindset.
On the subject of fighting DISTORTIONS, beating a person into submission isn't a fast track to solving their mental issues. Most of the Distortions we've seen just die when they're defeated.
A tiny mistake there. Distortions not Abnormalities.
Of course, however, during Meltdown/Realizations/The Recent Limbus Distortion, the process of a Meltdown Suppression/Realizations/Distortion Resolvation, can give us a much much greater insight into how to undistort someone.
Outis wouldn't have been able to talk sense into the chicken store owner had the Door combat sequence not occurred for example. Angela and Roland venting out their anger allowed the patron librarians to understand their pain much much better and allowed them to empathize and explain things to them clearer, Ayin resolving the anger/doubts/tests the Sephiroth had at him allowed both him and them to learn important lessons and moved on.
It is much less a process of solving it through physical violence and more of letting the Distortion vent their emotions out in a physical way. Because negative emotions come into physical form, one can mistake them for violence to resolve mental trauma.
I am not talking about fighting them in combat. Because that's just stupid.
I am talking about
'fighting' them in a Meltdown/Realization/Resolvation way. Where we confront them in a moment of emotional distress or their own mental scape (like the Chicken Restaurant owner), and help them resolve their troubles through close mental interactions.
Using the chicken example again. We didn't kill the Chickenman. We just held him down and did a more in-depth therapy through a variety of factors:
1. Feed him food that resonated with him. (Outis' cooking while lesser than Meursault, resonated with the chickenman because Outis cooked with a desire to please someone, like the chickenman once did with his mother)
2. Enter his mental scape and confront his memories to better understand him.
3. Beat him again.
4. Therapy power.
This closely followed the pattern X have more experience with through her own journey and Angela's:
1. Dig up emotional responses so the subject resonates with the therapist/their environment (From the Sephiroth's grudge, trauma, and desire [Asiyah, Briah, and Atziluth], to Angela and Roland's grudge, trauma, and doubts).
2. Engage in a physical manifestation of their mind (The Meltdown of the Facility, the Realizations of the Library, and the Spicy Restaurant Dungeon).
3. Defeat them in order to subdue their aggressive feelings (The Sephiroth's anger, demand, and needs against Ayin, Angela, and Roland's frustrations, The restaurant owner's hatred of his recipe being ruined)
4. Therapy power (An understanding was reached between Ayin and the Sephiroth coming out better afterward, Angela and co. understand each other better, and again, coming out with a wider insight, the restaurant owner understanding what was important, and the reason why he needed to keep going).
That is what I was referring to when talking about a so-called "Realizations/Meltdown" method.
In every single one, there was some kind of catalyst to connect with the Distorted target. Whether it's the Facility of Ayin, the Library of Angela, or the speculated Golden Boughs of Dante.
So the question is, whether or not it should be something to be pursued to resolve problematic distortions. And whether or not DoSaM can serve as the same catalyst as the Facility did for Ayin, and the Library did for Angela n Co.
For example, for Argalia and other foreign distortions, we got 0 ideas about their trauma, or at least X herself doesn't have any idea (The option of strapping them into a table a Lobotomying them to understand them better is still there), so the process of distorting them through talk is going to be difficult.
We are aware of what Homura, and Kyoko went through, X can understand them, but she has yet to
really get involved personally to the point of a Meltdown/Realization where both side basically project their emotions through a catalyst (The abnormalities assist both the Librarians and Angela/Roland for example, the Sinners encountering the other [?] events in the dungeon, etc).
This is a method to diagnose and help those who would be impossible to help otherwise. We aren't gonna be able to sit Argalia down (or any other future aggressive Distortion) and undistort them without butting heads.
We are lucky so far that Homura is
extremely passive as a distortion (i.e she isn't super harmful to herself and she isn't harmful at all to the people around her), Kyoko is on the nicer side since X managed to get some talk through to her, so she's more of an inverse Philip being an incomplete Distortion instead.
But we should start contemplating other options going forward, given that the Adult herself has more allies under her commands and we will need to help them too.
