Mind Control

[death2Uall]

Wow, it's been a dead week on this forum . . . time to see if we can't liven things up a bit.

Okay, so one of my biggest kinks, at least from a fantasy POV, is mind control.  I'm not certain what it is about them, but I just can't resist a good mind control story.  I never, ever want to roleplay a mind control scenario (it would feel . . . more than a little ridiculous), and I'm not sure I would ever want the power to control another person's thoughts or actions IRL.  If power corrupts, well, I already know I'm eminently corruptible.  So thanks, but no thanks.

But from a strictly "let's find something to read that'll get me hot" standpoint . . . www.mcstories.com has been one of my go-to sites for years. 

Let's face it, though . . . it's not the quality of the stories.  Though I have managed to find a few exceptions, you can pretty much tell where a MC story is going to end from the first paragraph.  Any concept of "struggle" or "change" or especially "conflict" pretty much gets thrown out the window when you know from the beginning where the story's going to end.

I think part of the attraction may be the level of control a MC'er can achieve.  Let's face it, if you can control a person's very thoughts and emotions, there isn't much left to control.  At least not above the cellular level.  And I KNOW I'm a control freak.

Then again, it may just be the idea of raping a victim's mind as well as body.  Let's face it, the "nc" category at mcstories should (it doesn't, but it should) include nearly every story on the site.  Or it should be removed as redundant.  If you begin the game by denying your victim the ability to provide informed consent, it doesn't matter if he/she/whatever ends up "enjoying" your attentions or not . . . it's still rape.

And that DOES excite me.

Comments? 

[Dr Verloc]

Mind control can be hot, but it needs to be done a particular way. I'm not interested in stories about a magic locket that magically gives mind control powers, or some such. I see mind control as something that can be worked into a  rape/torture story, since once she is a captive, the captor has a lot of scope to employ heavy psychological methods, and to seriously fuck with her mind in a deep, profound way. I think that some MC elements are present in a good RPP story, since one goal of the rapist/torturer/interrogator is that at the end of the process, she will never look at herself the same way again.

If brainwashing is part of the story, then there needs to be a visible struggle on her part, and horror at what is happening.

Dr Verloc

[death2Uall]

*grins evilly*

Then you will enjoy the hell out of a new story I'm working on.  It uses brainwashing techniques straight from the mind of L. Ron Hubbard.

For all that L. Ron was a suspicious, paranoid, delusional freak, he was also one hell of a talented amateur in the fields of psychiatry and brainwashing.  Or maybe he had good teachers ... which is a really scary thought, now that I consider it.

As far as the rationale behind the mind control goes, I have mixed feelings about many of the more fantastic elements.  The "You Find/Inherit/Buy/Whatever A Magic Locket" idea is usually indicative of a lazy writer whose story is not going to be very good, but I've seen it used effectively, if only occasionally.   On the other hand, I do enjoy supernatural elements such as vampiric control and demonic or alien possession (imagine Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Puppet Masters if the creatures came from a society of evil perverts).

But you're right, there has to be some kind of struggle, even if what's going to happen to the victim is a foregone conclusion.  Without struggle there's no story, just a series of scenes which, though they may have the kind of visceral attraction of a roadside car wreck, go nowhere and ultimately can't hold my attention.

Then again, I don't slow down to gawk at roadside accidents, either.  ;)

[Quixote]

I read a lovely story about a magical locket once.  I wouldn't have thought it was possible.  It wasn't so much actual mind-control, although it was certainly in that area.  You put the locket on someone and they became either perfectly submissive or perfectly dominant.  There were a bunch of parts, lots of humour, and lots of weird be-careful-what-you-wish-for twists.

Sometimes I can be a sucker for the simplest premises.  It's all about the execution.

[death2Uall]

Title and website, please.

;)

[Quixote]

I think it was called "The Locket" and it was on bdsmlibrary.com/stories

Hope you like.

[Dr Verloc]

This has some mind control elements to it, but it's more than just MC. The story is called "Rest and Relaxation", and it's some seriously twisted shit. (It's also a LONG story, close to novel length.) I have provided the link to the author's story page. A lot of this material involves fetishes I don't happen to share. But. R & R is a pretty amazing tale, with some VERY heavy psychological elements, bordering at times on horror. Not for everyone, perhaps, but I think it's an amaizing piece of work.

Dr Verloc

http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html

[death2Uall]

"Bordering on" horror??  Are you out of your mind?  "Rest And Relaxation" (I'm about halfway through) is more horror than Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft combined ever came up with.  *shudders*  It's awesome!!  Exceedingly well written, amazingly cruel and with a concept that is scary as hell.

I also read "The Baby" last night, which was bizarre and strange and also very well written.  I'm a big fan of prisoner stories as well as MC, so you'll see where I liked (am liking?) both of these. 

[Quixote]

I'm a little scared to look now.  :-)

[Dr Verloc]

death2uall wrote:

"Bordering on" horror??  Are you out of your mind?  "Rest And Relaxation" (I'm about halfway through) is more horror than Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft combined ever came up with.  *shudders*  It's awesome!!  Exceedingly well written, amazingly cruel and with a concept that is scary as hell.

Yes, I am in fact out of my mind, but what's that got to do with anything. Do tell me what you think when you're done.

I think this author is some sort of dark genius.

Dr Verloc

[death2Uall]

Enh.  The horror was good . . . for about the first fifty pages.   Then the incredibly monotonous repetition of the threats and Evelyn's treatment of Katherine got boring as hell.

Also, I wasn't convinced by the brainwashing.  That may very well be because I don't have a submissive bone in my body, and would have broken that mirror LONG before, and hidden the sliver of glass up a sleeve or between the mattresses, and slit the old bitch's throat in her sleep if I'd had to, but a lot of Kathy's "conversion" just rang false to me.

And the ending was so sickly-sweet, if I wasn't already diabetic it would have given me that disease.

Finally, pornography authors have a responsibility to make sex scenes sexy.  If it comes to a choice of a story featuring sex between a fat old bag and a drooling, misshapen feeb or a story with no sex in it at all, I'll take the latter.

In summation, it was an okay story, though it could have been HALF its length and actually improved, but as pornography it gets a huge fail.  And as a mind control story?  Again . . . enh.

 

[Dr Verloc]

I think I liked this better than you did. I'll admit that it's a bit different from mosr porno, and a lot of people may not think it has enough "good parts". Actually, the length didn't bother me. Yeah, it goes on a long time and develops very slowly, but considering that it's written from katherine's point of view, that makes a kind of sense. She's stuck in this existence, and it becomes her life.

I said it has some MC elements, but I guess it's really not traditonal MC erotica either. In fact, the story is difficult to categorize, really. It's way different, and maybe that's why I liked it.

Dr Verloc