Posts tagged "mind-control"
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The Laundry Files series describes a setting where enough computation and the wrong algorithms produce magic, where humanity is inevitably doomed by the impending Lovecraftian apocalypse from Moore's Law and population growth. Secret occult intelligence agencies try and forestall this as best they can, with their signature equipment including smartphones with apps installed for warding, exorcism, disguise, and geases.
One fic idea that came to mind from reading the series was of somebody else, like a date rapist or phone repair tech who routinely clones phones for blackmail material, getting their hands on one of those devices and kicking off a hypno app story.
The first part would cover them getting the device and their initial experiments with it, and an amoral pursuit of sex and money…
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This root post is just a single scene + some context.
There’s a magical race whose most powerful members are capable of mind control, and its leader – who is afraid of raising an heir in the normal way, due to risk of assassination and values drift – is secretly training up an heir to replace him and Unite The Factions and so on.
He’s raising her almost entirely among humans, and he sends her to a new school every six months and tells her to rule the pack by the end of those six months. At the end, he brings in all the key members of her peer cohort and mind controls them into saying their honest opinion of her – explaining why they don’t like her if they don’t like her, what they think she could have done to make them her followers in truth, what life circumstances and psychological…