Brooks File: Popeye The Sailor

== BROOKS FILE: POPEYE ==
(Writers note: This report was made during the Peninsula War. This is in the present tense due to him being alive as I wrote this)
==== Name: Popeye ====
==== Age: [REDACTED] ====
==== Gender: Male ====
===== Race: Human =====
===== Height: [REDACTED] =====
===== Weight: [REDACTED] =====
==== Birthplace: [REDACTED] ====
==== Identified Issues: Psychosis, violent tendencies, Mood swings, Hallucinations, Dissociation from Reality ====
REPORT: This may be one of the most terrifying and worrying cases I ever had to deal with. Ignoring the fact that this man has me hostage and is forcing me to do this, which is my job in the first place, I am profiling what is essentially a military cult leader of sorts. However, I did manage to get a clear understanding of his real life and not this made up fantasy he has made up for himself. He isn't the first patient I had to essentially decipher their words to get a true understanding and if my time being forced as his therapist is any indication, won't be the last.
From the reports of some of the more sane-by-comparison RUC members and scrubbing out all the insane ramblings he gave me, he was a troubled child. This is pretty much normal for some kids to be troublemaker but eventually one grows out of it. But it seems like his parents were either in denial of his issues, saw it as no big deal, or couldn't financially afford to get him the help he needed. It'd be too late now since the three were caught in an accident. I am still unsure how the accident changed him, if it did change him. In a timeline where that accident never occurred, would he still be insane? Would he actually have grown up to be a decent person or would he still be the cruel tyrant that he is? Dare-say, would he be a lot more competent at his jobs if the accident never occurred? These alternate scenarios both terrify and fascinate me.
He also looked up to his older brother, Patches. Goodness gracious, the moment I asked him if he had any siblings, he acted like a little kid talking about a superhero coming in to the save the day. It was clear Patches was highly important to his life and he wanted to be a sailor/admiral. What I gathered is he did at least try to fill out an application and do a test to see if he'd be qualified for the navy, which would be one of the only few times he tried to do something like a normal human being would. It'd end there quickly because either because he filled out the application wrong, failed the test, or bookings were full, he began to believe he got the position. This may be one of the first signs that his insanity has grown to unheard of levels. I did remember hearing about an incident of a raving lunatic hijacking a ship, calling himself an admiral at around the same time Popeye supposedly tried to get the job and crashing it into a bridge but if anyone who stumbles across this can confirm that was Popeye, please write it in the comment forms below.
Let's not forget his insistence on fighting "demons". It's very much obvious that he holds some form of bigotry towards other human races and races as a whole. Could this have been him being near the wrong people in his life? Or maybe he was consuming too much of the Republics news media, which is known to paint anything that isn't a specific kind of human as horrible monsters and thugs? Also there is where the word "demon" came from. He did go on to talk about his favorite shows when he was a child and one of them did involve a demon hunting priest. Has he built a fantasy world around him around all of these shows and cartoons he used to watch as a kid and got a skewered perception of the world because of it? Or maybe he was genuinely bigoted at first and either keeps the demon talk going to not make it seem bad or he now genuinely sees them as demons.
(Writers Note: Long after Popeye's death and after I did a profile on his son, I realized Popeye Jr. was most likely raised on TV as well. This gives me the impression that both father and son do create their own fantasy world from the shows they watch. A sane person would be able to differentiate between fiction and reality but from what I have gathered, they have that inability to do so. It may explain why Popeye Jr. plastered everything with "Gizmo Rex" related stuff, assuming Popeye or Eegore let the TV raise him. But this is a discussion on Jr's page, not Popeye's.)
What terrifies me the most is how common these delusions truly are. If the Radioactive Uber Clan was founded so easily, it does mean that Popeye isn't the only one who holds such delusions around here. This just means my job will likely continue until the day I die. I may not be able to cure RUC members since they are too far gone but I sure as hell can try to make sure we get a greater understanding of their psychology and probably prevent another Popeye.
The mere fact that his delusions and fantasy turned him into some messiah figure is also concerning. Not only is this making people devote their lives to him, it just further damages his already broken psyche, creating some level of delusion and ego I have never seen before. What I am worried about is if or when Popeye dies, how will the ones who worship him react? Some of them may not be able to function without him and others will likely continue on his legacy. That is a future I am scared of.
CONCLUSION: Even if I was forced to do this, at the very least I got a greater understanding of Popeye, even if I had difficulty at first understanding his ramblings. This is an individual who I question if he could have been saved before everything has happened or if he was always destined to be some genocidal tyrant from the day he was born. I can't even begin to diagnose his situation. We may need an entirely new term for problems of this calibur.
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