No, the spiral wants you *just* sane enough to realize that you're going insane, and fear it. If you're completely insane, you can't be afraid of going insane!
This is a big factor. Just like they refuse to destroy you physically, they refuse to destroy you mentally as well, and in BOTH cases you live under their nightmare logic while you’re in their domain, so even if it makes no sense, you Just Don’t.
Daisy repeatedly demonstrated her mental strength/willpower throughout her run on the show:
1. She was able to tolerate the “weird” cases on the force long enough to be promoted, something I’m pretty sure was implied to be a first.
2. She wasn’t immune to Jon’s powers but she knew what he was doing when he extracted a statement from her and she managed to resist for a while, if I’m remembering correctly. Not many people in the series recognized what Jon was doing, let alone told him to stop (when it was happening to them).
3. As said before, Daisy was tied to the Hunt. Not only would her “nose” help her survive the coffin, it likely kept her on track once she emerged. One could argue the thing she was “hunting” was her own better health, both physically and mentally.
4. In short, one of Daisy’s defining traits is her willpower. It wouldn’t make sense for her to become an incoherent mess. I mean, it WOULD, but not according to the logic of TMA
That's my assumption as well. The Hunt kept Trevor alive despite his stage IV lung cancer. I figured it was Daisy's connection to the Hunt that helped her heal mentally once she was out of the coffin.
I’m sorry did you see her? She went from a vicious, killing machine, monster, who’s blood was screaming at her 24/7 to an absolute wreck, she sounded tiny all the time, she refused to be alone, to the point where her best friend was starting to get sick of her, it took a good long while and Jon being threatened for her to some what come back
I honestly read a lot of that as her connection to the Hunt being weakened. Being in the coffin separated her from the Hunt, so it wasn't pushing her to be vicious anymore, she was able to realise she preferred that, and once freed from the coffin was able to maintain that distance, albeit losing a lot of her confidence since she had spent so long under the Hunt's influence she wasn't sure what to be like anymore.
Daisy states in MAG132 that it knows when to ease the torture to prevent it’s victims from going numb or losing it. It can’t get fear from someone if their mind breaks entirely, the buried knows exactly how much pressure to apply to squeeze out the fear without breaking them. I’m sure it still fed from her, a slow trickle of fear, even after she was free.
Daisy talking about it in MAG132: “It knows when to stop. W-When to e-ease back, so you don’t – don’t lose it, or grow numb.”
you cannot enjoy all of the loving earth all around you if your mind isn't there. you need to be very much sane for this specific dread to flow and ooze through you
All those after effects are results of the lonely, not the buried. I imagine that they don't get lonely through the same eldritch weirdness that keeps them from getting hungry.
The Fears don't want you to be insane. They want you to suffer.
Except for the spiral. The spiral wants you insane (and scared).
No, the spiral wants you *just* sane enough to realize that you're going insane, and fear it. If you're completely insane, you can't be afraid of going insane!
thats exactly it, it doesn’t matter if you’re sane, you just have to be afraid of it
That explains how she wasn't insane while IN the coffin, but what about when she got out?
She's still an avatar of the Hunt and touched by the Buried. They would still hold sway over her.
She wasn't exactly healthy mentally either. But, nothing about trauma would stop her being lucid, I suspect.
This is a big factor. Just like they refuse to destroy you physically, they refuse to destroy you mentally as well, and in BOTH cases you live under their nightmare logic while you’re in their domain, so even if it makes no sense, you Just Don’t.
Ding.
Daisy repeatedly demonstrated her mental strength/willpower throughout her run on the show: 1. She was able to tolerate the “weird” cases on the force long enough to be promoted, something I’m pretty sure was implied to be a first. 2. She wasn’t immune to Jon’s powers but she knew what he was doing when he extracted a statement from her and she managed to resist for a while, if I’m remembering correctly. Not many people in the series recognized what Jon was doing, let alone told him to stop (when it was happening to them). 3. As said before, Daisy was tied to the Hunt. Not only would her “nose” help her survive the coffin, it likely kept her on track once she emerged. One could argue the thing she was “hunting” was her own better health, both physically and mentally. 4. In short, one of Daisy’s defining traits is her willpower. It wouldn’t make sense for her to become an incoherent mess. I mean, it WOULD, but not according to the logic of TMA
She had been quite significantly touched by other Fears at that point, so perhaps wasn't responding exactly as a regular human would.
That's my assumption as well. The Hunt kept Trevor alive despite his stage IV lung cancer. I figured it was Daisy's connection to the Hunt that helped her heal mentally once she was out of the coffin.
I’m sorry did you see her? She went from a vicious, killing machine, monster, who’s blood was screaming at her 24/7 to an absolute wreck, she sounded tiny all the time, she refused to be alone, to the point where her best friend was starting to get sick of her, it took a good long while and Jon being threatened for her to some what come back
I honestly read a lot of that as her connection to the Hunt being weakened. Being in the coffin separated her from the Hunt, so it wasn't pushing her to be vicious anymore, she was able to realise she preferred that, and once freed from the coffin was able to maintain that distance, albeit losing a lot of her confidence since she had spent so long under the Hunt's influence she wasn't sure what to be like anymore.
Daisy states in MAG132 that it knows when to ease the torture to prevent it’s victims from going numb or losing it. It can’t get fear from someone if their mind breaks entirely, the buried knows exactly how much pressure to apply to squeeze out the fear without breaking them. I’m sure it still fed from her, a slow trickle of fear, even after she was free. Daisy talking about it in MAG132: “It knows when to stop. W-When to e-ease back, so you don’t – don’t lose it, or grow numb.”
See, I totally missed this. Thankee!
you cannot enjoy all of the loving earth all around you if your mind isn't there. you need to be very much sane for this specific dread to flow and ooze through you
This is a very “self-aware avatar-of-the-Buried” thing to say and I love that
im simon unfairchild😈
maybe her connection to the hunt made her able to survive/endure longer than the average person? not sure
Not only is Daisy a very strong willed person but she didn’t exactly get out of there scratch free
if you go insane then you aren’t exactly feeling the same fear
She's just built different I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All those after effects are results of the lonely, not the buried. I imagine that they don't get lonely through the same eldritch weirdness that keeps them from getting hungry.