Basic knowledge of games-"excessive love" and its expression

In games, animation, movies, novels and other works, we can see that some characters have "excessive love", which is so strong that such characters are easy to commit violent acts that other characters can't understand. Japan ACG's "sick jiao" is one of them.

Too strong a love like this is hard to make a positive result, and there is a great chance that it will be used or hurt others. The admired person may be seriously frightened and stand on the opposite side of the pursuer. In this case, the pursuer's spirit will be further stimulated, leading to more crazy behavior, or after being hit, "excessive love" will turn into "excessive hatred", and the pursued will begin to take horrible revenge.

Just as too much force will bite the caster, too much emphasis on firepower and protective ability may lead to a serious lack of mobility and overconfidence will become headstrong. Anything that exceeds a certain threshold may lead to disaster, and so does love, whether it is the love of men and women, the love of parents for their children or the love of idolatry.

What I want to introduce to you today is how to show "excessive love" in the game.

Excessive love can cause people to have excessive emotions that others can't understand, and use this as a driving force to make extreme behaviors, such as objectifying the object they love and producing a "xenophobic" reaction. Not only do you not allow others to get close to the object you love, but you also don't allow yourself to give love to people other than the object.

There is an Islamic story from Persia. Satan has the deepest love for God. When God created angels, he told them to bow to themselves. But God created man. He regards human beings as a life form higher than angels and asks angels to serve human beings, but Satan is unwilling to worship human beings. In the teaching of traditional Christianity, this episode is interpreted as Satan's egoism, because he is unwilling to worship mankind. But in this Persian story, Satan does not bow to mankind because of his love for God. He can only bow to God. Although God changed the information, Satan was so obedient to the previous information that he could not violate the original principle. In his mind, he could not serve anyone except God, because he only loved God, and he felt that he could only love God. God said to him, "Don't let me see you again!" " "So Satan went to hell, because there is no God in that part of hell. But Satan loves God so much, how can he endure the environment in hell? He can only rely on the voice of God in his memory to seek comfort, even if God says, "Go to hell!" " "This is also a manifestation of love for Satan. In this story, Satan's love for God is exclusive, so he can't love human beings, so he disobeys God's instructions and becomes a resident of hell.

In the game, we can also see this design. Because of our excessive love for someone or something, we have a very serious "exclusivity" in our hearts. We don't allow other people and things to influence or even get close to the object we love. In order to achieve this goal, we may kill and destroy people and things. The Diablo series has a typical example. Inarius, the archangel of higher heaven, was tired of the endless war between heaven and hell, so he retired and created a new world, where he accepted all angels and demons who shared his thoughts and lived in peace. This world is the main place where all kinds of things happen in the game-"refuge". The world was hidden by Inarius with the power of the world stone. Neither heaven nor hell knows about it. Angels and demons who gave up the war gave birth to the first generation of human beings here, and Inarius also had his own companion. She is the daughter of the devil Memphis, and her name is Lilith.

Although Inarius and Lilith love each other deeply, Lilith has gone to extremes because she is a demon. Later, she killed all the angels and demons in the refuge, leaving only humans and Inarius. Obviously, all these practices of Lilith are an exclusive behavior based on excessive love. She not only laid hands on her former enemy angel, but also showed no mercy to her compatriot demon, leaving her lover Inarius behind, and also showed mercy to human beings and the environment of the whole sanctuary, without destroying or hurting human beings. Because human beings are descendants of angels and demons, including herself and Inarius, "human beings" symbolizes the result of their feelings in this context, and the whole sanctuary was directly created by Inarius, so Lilith took them. But those angels and demons who live here are irrelevant "outsiders" to her, and they are uncertain factors that may lead Inarius to "eternal war" again. This uncertainty will make her lover leave her in her eyes, so Lilith needs to completely remove all these uncertainties (the first generation of human beings is very powerful, and Lilith wants to use this generation of human beings to end the eternal war). This is an exclusive expression of Lilith's excessive love for Inarius.

It is also because of Lilith's extreme and excessive love that the whole Diablo series has a well-known story.

Because of "excessive love", some pursuers will make a lot of efforts beyond the imagination of ordinary people for their admirers, and these efforts will even violate the ethics of human relations. In order to get what they love, they will do whatever it takes to become a horror event in the game. These unscrupulous people often become villains and are knocked down by the protagonist, leaving embarrassing stories.

In the series of Destiny, Jill de Ray (calling herself Bluebeard) is such a person. In terms of setting, he fought side by side with Joan of Arc before his death and was once praised as a national hero. At the same time, he loves Joan of Arc, who is extremely pious in faith. Unfortunately, this love is "excessive", and Joan of Arc has even become a proof that "God is true" for him. After Joan was captured and executed, Jill de Ray questioned God. He didn't understand why such a pious saint would die tragically without the protection of God. He thought that God had made Joan die, so he went to the other extreme-he began to blaspheme God with his own actions-all human beings in the world were God's creations, so he began to kill people cruelly. The treasure used by Jill de Ray in the game is "Luo Yancheng Textbook", which is a magic book made of human skin, which records all kinds of knowledge about ancient evil spirits. The front cover and back cover depict the scenes when human beings are tortured.

I have an excessive and crazy love for Joan of Arc, and I have been paying for her. After her death, this kind of giving behavior was distorted by negative emotions, so I began to retaliate with cruel killing. This is the expression of "excessive love" for Jill de Ray in the series of Destiny.

On the other hand, there will also be cases where admirers use the excessive love of others to achieve their goals. Lydia, the "Princess of Death" who starred in Heroes 5 and Heroes 7, is a good player in this field. Lucretia was originally the Duchess of the Bull Principality (she also became a formal mistress, and started the initial competition). Later, when the Duke was assassinated, the Bull Principality began to fight. The son of the duke (the original son) suspected that Lucretia had ordered the assassination, so he exiled her. Later, Sandro made a deal with her. She told Sandro about the secret passage of the hidden treasure house of the Bull Principality, and Sandro helped her clean up the son of the Duke's original wife. Later, under the influence of Sandro, Lydia began to study the immortal magic, and after gaining immortality, she constantly improved her seduction and incitement skills.

If Lucretia used the "excessive love" of others for the first time to get the Duke of Bull Principality to kick off his original wife and straighten his mistress, then she later became an immortal wizard. After learning the immortality method, Lucretia's ambition further expanded. She wants to use not just one person, but enough strength to form an entire army. She is now a spiritual idol that many vampires are crazy about and willing to go through fire and water for her. The performance in the game is dominated by her.

Sometimes too much love can make people kill. Not because of impulse, nor because of anger and hatred, even after killing each other, you can't get material benefits. It's hard to understand the idea of killing each other just because of love.

The origin of this "murder" can be traced back to an ancient Persian story. In this story, there was no human at first, only one kind of plant. Later, the plant was divided into two people, a man and a woman, and then they began to have children of their own. At first, they loved their children very much, which is the kind of "excessive love" mentioned in this article, so they kept eating children, because they felt that only letting children melt into their own flesh and blood was the best way to express their love. When God saw all this, he felt that it could not go on like this, so he reduced his parents' love for their children a little. After that, parents will never eat their children again. In this story, the power that drives parents to eat their children is the power of love. If the intensity of love is too high, it will lead to "love" becoming "murder" and even killing one's own children.

In works of art such as games, murders caused by love can be subdivided into the following categories. One is to keep the object of admiration in the most perfect state forever. Once it is not perfect, kill him and keep the perfect impression of the object of admiration in your mind. The other is that the object of admiration has been materialized, thinking that he is completely his own "thing" and must be killed, and then his clothes or remains can be preserved, so as to be 100% sure that this object will not be taken away by anyone else and stay with him forever; More extreme, only after killing the object of admiration can you "decorate" his body completely according to your own preferences.

In order to keep the perfect impression on his admirers, a famous example is the feud between Woody and Genkai. Before their duel, Hu Yulu said to Gen Kai, "I can't stand you any more. It can be said that I don't want to see you again. " The interpretation here is that Lu Di, a fool, refers to Genkai's old face on the one hand, and resents the decline of strength caused by the aging of phantom Maine on the other. Once life and death and * * *, two people depend on each other. In the story, the silly Lu Di wants to keep himself and Genkai at the top forever, so his own wish after winning the martial arts championship is to become a monster, but Genkai did not make the same choice as him, but chose to accept the natural law that human beings will age. In the end, because of his strong love for Genkai, Huyu Rudi could only accept a young Genkai, so he proposed a duel with Lao Genkai and killed her.

Julie in Street Fighter is a very special character. She has a strong desire to destroy and likes to torture others, but she has no interest in ordinary weak people. She has been looking for someone who can make her really "love". That person must have a beautiful appearance and strong strength at the same time, and his personality should also make her feel "interesting". In the story of Street Fighter 4, when Julie destroyed an amusement park, Chun-Li stood in front of her and stopped it. Through the geomantic eye, Zhu Li saw that Chun-Li's fighting capacity was good, and she also found her looks charming. So Zhu Li fell in love with Chun-Li at first sight and had a very extreme love for her.

Because of his strong desire for destruction, Zhu Li thinks that it is the most beautiful thing when things are broken, so Zhu Li wants to kill Chun-Li on the spot. Only by personally killing such a powerful and beautiful figure will her heart be satisfied to a great extent.

In Zhu Li's mind, there is no doubt that most people, including Chun-Li, have been materialized and become props that bring her pleasure. The more she loves this prop, the happier she is to kill it. This excessive love is accompanied by a morbid style, and Julie's own role music also reflects her madness well. The fast-paced music is interspersed with sharp tones that appear from time to time, representing Julie's favorite screams.

Later, Jamie and Jill arrived in time to save Chun-Li, but Julie was always looking for a chance to kill Chun-Li. In Street Fighter 4, Julie and Chun-Li are also a group of opponents who are regarded as "old enemies". In the scene where they appear in the game at the same time, we can see Julie's crazy and twisted love for Chun-Li between the lines.

In the game, whether it is exclusivity, murder or extreme sacrifice caused by love, we can find the * * * in these characters from a scientific point of view.

According to Jung's psychological theory, such love can be explained by the projection of Armani and animus. "Anima" refers to the feminine side of women in men's hearts, and it is also the standard of ideal female image in men's hearts; "animus" is the masculine face in women's minds and the standard of ideal male image in women's minds.

Healthy love, normal love, in addition to the projection of "Anima" or "animus", also need to accept the reality, that is to say, in the object of admiration, in addition to the projection of your ideal partner, you also need to accept the other person's true face in addition to the essence of the ideal partner. At this time, you need to take back the projection of the ideal image, accept the reality and give each other enough respect and understanding.

And people who embrace "excessive love" will basically not accept reality. In essence, they only love to project their inner "Anima" or "animus" and will never take it back under any circumstances. Therefore, their "excessive love" seems to love someone or something, but in fact it is a projection of loving themselves and their hearts (even they are eager to be completely worshipped), so in this case, extreme, blind and crazy emotions will naturally breed.

Lilith in Diablo killed the angels and demons living in the sanctuary without Inarius's knowledge, just because she thought her lover was as willing to spend her life with her as she thought, without any interference from "external creatures"; Jill de Ray projected all her love and faith on Joan of Arc in Destiny. As mentioned earlier, he regarded Joan of Arc as evidence of the existence of God, and after the death of the person who carried all this, Jill de Ray's inner world completely collapsed, forming a great reversal of 180, and the devout knight became a horrible murderer. Julie in Street Fighter is a sadist. In her mind, all people and things are the projection of the object of her violence, not the fresh life.

In all the game works, we can find the inner projection corresponding to the love object from the characters who have "excessive love". The extreme expression of love is their pursuit of internal projection, and the difference of internal projection is the fundamental reason for the different performance of pursuit behavior.

This is the introduction of the expression of "excessive love" in this game. See you next time ~