Talk:The Lawyer/@comment-97.125.178.46-20150604184906/@comment-1988716-20150902121306

Now that's a good point. If an asexual character were influenced by The Red Cap, what would happen? And hell, your suggestions are actually really fascinating. An asexual character probably would still be influenced by lust and sexual tension, but they wouldn't exhibit those traits. Instead the lust and sexual tension-- and shame and self-persecution-- would manifest in other ways. We're talking utter fever dreams, fragmentation of identity, the world rendered meaningless, all of this would be one of the scariest portrayals of The Red Cap I can imagine.

Because let's not forget: The Red Cap doesn't necessarily fixate on sexual themes; it's just that that's how it manifests in most of the victims that have been written. Maybe it fixates on something much deeper, much more universal, that each victim would react to differently? So some of them would react with a sexual nature, some of them wouldn't, but it'd always be rooted in shame. ..probably.

Very good points, Zack.