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THE STOCKHOLM MEME

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings for their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.

Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."

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PROMPTS:
1. KIDNAPPED. You've been taken, either for ransom money or just because you've pissed the wrong people off. Or maybe your kidnapper just wants company. Maybe they need someone to be their companion, to be their confidante, and they chose you.

2. CAPTURED. Maybe you were a soldier, fighting in a battle. Maybe a spy, or a political dissident. Either way, the military has caught up with you.

3. IN CUSTODY. It's a law enforcement agent that has you locked up. Maybe you're a criminal and you're in prison, or on house arrest so that agent can keep an eye on you. Maybe the agent doesn't have enough evidence, so they took matters into their own hands.

4. ASYLUM. This person isn't keeping you here against your will. It's for safety. Maybe you're in the Witness Protection Program. Maybe you sought asylum from your own country. Maybe your criminal life got a little too heated and you had to go underground somewhere.

5. HOSTAGE EXCHANGE. A war, between countries or gangs or even planets, and the two sides have decided to exchange important hostages as a gesture of trust. You're one of them. It might even involve arranged marriage -- a way to unite your two peoples. Hope you enjoy staying with your enemy.

6. HIRED. Someone's being paid to keep you. Maybe a new parent or guardian keeping you at home, or perhaps an evil uncle has had you tossed into a discreet asylum in order to claim your inheritance.

7. SLAVERY. Through birth or misfortune, you've become the property of another. But they're not such a bad master. You might even grow to love them, if enough time passes. If they treat you with the right combination of cruelty and kindness.

8. WILD CARD. For anything not covered by the other options!

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[Any could apply in canon to him although I'm up for an AU version. Constantine tends to fight Hell and sometimes Heaven when he needs to. Can play either side of this although Hell has a bounty on him. If Master, John will be distant. As the prisoner, the first few months of captivity would have been hard with him slowly coming around.]

[[Rich family, rare magical potential, pretty ripe for kidnap bait and/or slavery.]]

[Obviously his dual roles as a mutant and a (brief) Brotherhood member open up a shitload of reasons for him to take or be taken, through both canon and AU.]

[He could hold someone for information if he thought they had anything to do with the virus, wrongly or justifiably, or be held because he tends to pop up in random times and places where he can't be IDed and doesn't explain himself all that well.]

[Probably held as a result of her gift, with some tweaking to her backstory, but some weirdo could grab her for the lulz with the same sort of tweaking. No real reason to be kidnapping anyone.]

(OOC: Either the one being Stockholmed, if he's investigating something and got his sorry self caught or his cover blown, or the one doing the Stockholming, if he's got someone in custody and he's using his Bad Cop, Worse Cop shtick. I'm flexible like that.)

[ Most likely the one doing the manipulating/kidnapping, no 7. ]

The Stockholm Meme

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