Talk:Rezkin/@comment-97.84.73.39-20201116193240/@comment-46270482-20201118150651

I disagree, even in your definition there's no proof of a sociopath taking pleasure in murder, Rezkin doesn't and sociopathy as is doesn't make the person have an inherent desire for killing just to satisfy a lust for it. He does lack the conscience, there's scenarios where he avoids killing but he does so because of the rules, not because of his own values, if he does have them at all. If the masters would've made him serve under the King at the time instead of the "friends" rule he would've killed and massacred and ruined people and cities or even kingdoms without having a care for it, he maybe, just maybe would've felt that slight "pain" in his chest, but I doubt it. He doesn't adapt to any social interaction because of his self or his personality but simply acts the part of how someone with a specific set personality would act, be it a merchant, a king, a vagrant or an arrogant but well read noble. He's developing his own values, personality and even feelings for stuff he does but it's still a long way off from being healthy. One could argue that he's mastered so many personalities acts and he's so cultured about everything that all of those personalities are him, but I don't know about that yet. As of right now he's a less of a sociopath than he was, but he still needs to find within himself the feelings and thoughts he's so deeply buried as a consequence of his training (torture might be a better word). It's just as simple as looking at how he has lived until he got out of the fort, you can't go through that and not come out totally fucked up in the mind, especially since his training was way harder than any of the other Rez's before him. He has died dozens of times or even more, been tortured mentally and physically by the people closest to him, forced to kill and kill until he even killed his own teachers and he has endured that being told to not even complain about it. He's guided by rules that he didn't make for himself and instinct developed in unhealthy ways. He's nothing short of a sociopath and the author has made it very clear.