House: You Love Me, Right, Wilson?

House: You love me, right, Wilson?

Wilson: Normally, I’d say yes without hesitation, but I feel like this is going somewhere and I don’t like it.

Lydia: Why my hand shaky?

Betelgeuse: Your skeleton is ready to hatch.

Lydia: That is so ominous thank you.

Lydia: I just discovered a neat trick! If you make brownies but don’t cut them, you can eat the whole slab and say you only ate one brownie.

*later*

Lydia: *collapsing on the floor and groaning* Do not do this.

Varian and Mental Illness Part 1

I’ve seen some thoughts of what Varian deserves as a punishment for the end of season one. How does such a sweat kid go from being kind to being a dangerous criminal. And what should his sentence be.

Now I don’t know the extent of Coronan Law but I’d like to see Varian get a somewhat light punishment. I think Varian should plead Insanity. Because honestly I think I can tell what’s up with him.

My belief is that Varian has Borderline Personality Disorder. And I fully believe if given the correct help he could go back to who he used to be.

Here are some symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. Not all of which apply to Varian but not everyone with BPD has them.

Tends to see the World in Black and White ✅

Varian tends to look at things in his life either positively or negatively. For him there really isn’t anything that’s in between. If a friend breaks a promise, that person was never a friend to begin with and they were just using him. There’s that part of him that does view Rapunzel as the bad guy in the story. He doesn’t seem to realize the nuances to the whole situation.

An intense fear of abandonment. Even going to extreme measures to avoid real or imagined separation or rejection ✅

Now not all of this one is necessarily shown in the show. But you can’t deny that Varian does have abandonment issues. I mean HE WAS LITERALLY ABANDONED.

A pattern of unstable intense relationships, such as idealizing someone one moment and then suddenly believing the person doesn’t care enough or is cruel ✅

Idolizing someone and then believing that they’re cruel and don’t care? Rapunzel, Eugene, and Cass all fall under this. He looked up to Eugene as his hero, Rapunzel is the Princess and arguably his first friend, and he does for a while have a crush on Cassandra. That’s definitely idolizing them. But what does he think of all three by the end. I mean based off the fact he tries to kill two of them, he must not view them very highly.

Rapid changes in self-identity and self-image that include shifting goals and values, and seeing yourself as bad or as if you don’t exist at all ✅

Varian throughout the story has varying shifting opinions of himself. It’s not so obvious but at one moment he does say he’s the bad guy, and another moment he states that he’s doing what is right.

Periods of stress-related paranoia and loss of contact with reality, lasting from a few minutes to a few hours ❌

Can’t say this one is actually a thing as much. Though I was surprised I couldn’t find examples of stress related paranoia or loss of contact with reality.

Impulsive and risky behavior, such as gambling, reckless driving, unsafe sex, spending sprees, binge eating or drug abuse, or sabotaging success by suddenly quitting a good job or ending a positive relationship ✅

None of what was listed apply to Varian with the exception of ending positive relationships. But impulsive and risky behavior, let’s see if we can list some.

Building five machines underneath his town that may cause earthquakes (good intentions but still), going out into the roughest snowstorm in Coronan history, kind of poisoning royal guards and workers (not lethally but still), committing treason, stealing precious artifact, kidnapping queen, making huge monster out of raccoon, trying to murder his past friend’s.

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To be continued in part 2

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