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#could result in a trauma related disorder 👀
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Oh dear. Shippet from Chapter 14 in the works.
Money was meant to be spent, not in an irresponsible way, but at least to reward oneself for the hard earned efforts to obtain it, to apply some comfort when one clearly could, at least more than this...
What purpose was having it to begin with if one settled to live barely supplying their own needs?
Perhaps it was going back to repressed, psychological trauma he first detected from the man that rank so pungent around him during their first meeting...
Frugality was a curious form of obsessive compulsive personality disorder often caused by painful or distressing life events that related to money being used as a weapon, or the lack of it was weaponized. Through detailed list making and workaholic tendacies to supress their thoughts, the subject may develop a distorted belief about money after the event and adopt a miserly spending style to both self and others. They will barely spend money even to meet their basic needs because they obsessively fear it being used against them or becoming penniless the next day.
Well, Ebenezer did say he grew up very poor, but he felt like it went deeper than that...
For a person with this disorder, money is viewed as something to be hoarded for a future catastrophe created in their mind. As a result of other manic tendencies manifested, the subject begins to almost worship money in a way. They put it in such a reverent regard they won't sqander a penny unless out of requirement because doing so shrinks their supply bringing the catastrophe in their mind closer to reality, even by just a little, causing an agitated stage of mania to set in. Depression. Anxiety... and they start to spiral.
Francis hummed to that deconstructed assessment curiously intrigued. He would mentally file that observation to note in his journal later and add more research once it was available...
Now breaking from his analysis, he began his tour through the house.
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Scrooge: *Is thrifty and dosent want to spend money*
Francis: The man has a mental psychosis!
Reflecting on that, it does make alot of sense though... 👀
Even if he's not, Francis wants to diagnose Scrooge as mentally unfit because it makes him feel better about himself and his obsessive draw to him. He's here to 'help' in that case.
Plus making Ebenezer believe it means he's more pliable and open to manipulation because his own self uncertainty. It would make him even more insecure, dependant and clingy. (He already is enough!!!)
Scrooge is already vulnerable to manipulation because he's so lonely and socially inexperienced. He's just happy to have affection, grateful the man wants him even with his flaws, not understanding what's truly going on.
Because at that point Scrooge thinks he 'needs' him to take care of him.
He'd be more tolerant to Francis behavior because he's less secure about his own mental fitness and scared of being alone to deal with it.
Its a hypothetical of course and relies on if Francis tells Scrooge at all or just makes a journal of it Ebenezer would find later, but good lord. What a disaster if Scrooge actually falls for it.
Alot of that is factual, I believe trauma did make him that way and he's scramble brained because of it, but the way Francis might go about manipulating that to his benefit ehhh.
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