Thread:Valkerone/@comment-35050701-20181113210720/@comment-14660436-20181113213158

RedWizard98 wrote: I do very well understand what psychosis and psychopathy are as psychiatric conditions. The Joker is undeniably insane, but is calculating, intelligent and self-aware enough to be a psychopath. He has no remorse, is unrelentessly sadistic, is ridicously egotisitcal, and is fully aware of his henious criminal acts upon committing them. That makes him a psychopath; he is widely seen as one in pop culture, and is probably the best known psychopath in fiction. Exactly, he's insane, while Psychopaths to a certain extent, aren't so much. The Joker's sanity has gone too far off the deep end and his bizarre, uncontrollable mood swings hammer that point in. The Joker's case has been discussed several times now.

And while we're on the topic of Psychopathy and Psychotic, why on earth did you add the Psychopath category to Aerys II Targaryen? Because that's an even more ridiculous case: it is established several times that Aerys is a complete madman who got off on using wildfire, experienced hallucinations and was rabidly paranoid of everything and anyone. That is Psychotic and he wouldn't even be called "the Mad King" in the first place if he hadn't been.