[Creating a Sociopath]
manga † X (X/1999) ; Tokyo Babylon by CLAMP
genre † Psychological, horror, childhood, theory, tragedy, history
warnings † Extreme violence and gore
spoilers † All of Tokyo Babylon manga
completed † July 2005 as part of "A Perfect Circle" (released as separate story December 19, 2005)
"What happens to you here is forever… We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship... You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty."
--George Orwell, 1984
The process for creating a Sakurazukamori has been refined since the line's origin, but its objective remains the same: complete and irreversible transformation, programming so engrained it creates an effect more akin to nature than nurture.
In 1965, the 13th Sakurazuka Clan head was born. This is a story of the programming that made Sakurazuka Seishirou a monster.
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