Talk:The Fear of Control/@comment-28939893-20160801030933/@comment-1988716-20160816091311

we decided-- that is, alliterator and i a few years ago-- that the vanilla system would not have subtypes. we started out wanting those, but then a bit of logical debates later we came to the mutual conclusion that literally all fears would be subtypes of the Fear of Loss. so we scrapped that. addiction and commitment, people had made convincing cases to me that those should be separate, so we made them separate. i think. maybe i vouched for them, i don't remember.

note, though, the most important part: the vanilla fears are purely for categorizing fear mythos concepts. they're very niche, very specialized, and incredibly obtuse for what they literally are. the very fact that they have any prominence on this wiki at all is a testament to some odd fundamental quality about our mythos-- namely, that we are obscure. what i'm trying to say here is the vanilla list is purely a way of documenting and categorizing existing fear mythos tropes that i personally think applies for that specific context. the fear of addiction and the fear of commitment are most definitely related, psychologically, to a fear of control-- it all depends on how you interpret the words. in such cases, feel free to write stories exploring such relationships and dynamics. feel free to categorize the fear under whichever vanilla labels you want, multiple if you want. we will not challenge the authors. we merely document and occasionally try to categorize to the best of our abilities.