Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-24859393-20180221172235/@comment-1705775-20180221191043

Mentally Ill is easy.. characters who are "complete insane" can NEVER be Complete Monsters.. they must understand reality, be able to manipulate reality and understand what they are doing is wrong.

put it this way, an insane character who doesn't know they are doing wrong will act like Leatherface, kills in plain view, has no real care about hiding their crime (because they don't see what they are doing as wrong) and live in their own world.. if they do understand reality it is brief at best.

characters who commit crimes and go to great lengths to hide the crimes are not insane, by trying to hide a crime one has proven that one understands what one has done is wrong - so if one kills someone and hides the body, then goes out and kills again they are no longer insane.. they know what they are doing is wrong, yet they do so anyway.

Joker is not insane, either, in most versions he knows what hes doing is wrong and glorifies it.