[ not that that's surprising nahida is so smart! there's a thin note of approval but it may only be thin because fei du's emotions feel like they come from another room sometimes. ]
When we take into account personality traits, we also take into account what their past or their lives might have been like to inform their behaviors. For example, recently, we ran into a rash of murders of young girls in flower print dresses. It turned out that the murders were being commited by a young girl herself, the daughter of a woman who may have done exactly the same thirty years before hand. The police apprehended her just during a violent episode in which she caught another girl.
But, I suggested she couldn't do it without an accomplice, and the accomplice had to be someone who might have been in love with her, or at least had a deep connection to her mother, because each kill was done not only to the orders of the young daughter to a T, but they mirrored the kills of the mother beforehand perfectly, enough that people thought it was the same killer from thirty years before. Almost as if the person who arranged the scenes adored the killer, or was trying to copycat her.
From that, we were able to collar her next door neighbor, who had grown up with the mother and had been in love with her his entire life. He started to reflect those feelings, unfortunately, onto the young daughter, and thus began to act for her the way he couldn't act for the murderous mother who had died beforehand.
That man is now in jail, and the young daughter was taken to a mental facility to receive therapy and treatment.
[it's a gruesome tale, but a fascinating one; nahida is well aware of the sorts of atrocities that humans can commit, and though it's hurt her to witness them here, hearing about it is...
well, not fine. but there's not really any sort of distressed dip in her feelings like one might have expected, given her emotional reactions to the deaths they've experienced here so far. there's sympathy for the victims and for the daughter who is receiving treatment, and a bit of "oh, good" vibes when she hears that the neighbor was caught, along with the sort of fascination one might have when reading about or hearing about a particularly interesting case in school.
academic curiosity, maybe.]
I see... applied properly, profiling seems like it would be an extremely useful tool, then.
[ yeah! it was pretty awful! the case named humbert humbert!
it's more or less how fei du looks at the cases, too. like research. academic curiosity, with a sense of sympathy and relief for the capture of the killers. for the safety of the young girl chenchen, too, for many reasons. ]
Exactly. Profiling and criminal psychology are relatively new fields, and I only just started studying them officially myself, but now that profiling evidence is admissible in court, the postgraduate program I'm attending is working on research projects like this in close tandem with the police bureau. I'm there a few days a week now.
[ bothering luo wenzhou and also working. ] But, it's been an interest of mine for some time. It's not infallible, and here, I feel like I'm still learning the ropes, but I hope it will continue to be of use.
I think the way people behave is just as important as physical evidence in cases like like these. Especially when all of us are in close quarters with each other like this, there's a wealth of information to gather by observation. That you've been taught how to process it all and apply it will be incredibly helpful.
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[ not that that's surprising nahida is so smart! there's a thin note of approval but it may only be thin because fei du's emotions feel like they come from another room sometimes. ]
When we take into account personality traits, we also take into account what their past or their lives might have been like to inform their behaviors. For example, recently, we ran into a rash of murders of young girls in flower print dresses. It turned out that the murders were being commited by a young girl herself, the daughter of a woman who may have done exactly the same thirty years before hand. The police apprehended her just during a violent episode in which she caught another girl.
But, I suggested she couldn't do it without an accomplice, and the accomplice had to be someone who might have been in love with her, or at least had a deep connection to her mother, because each kill was done not only to the orders of the young daughter to a T, but they mirrored the kills of the mother beforehand perfectly, enough that people thought it was the same killer from thirty years before. Almost as if the person who arranged the scenes adored the killer, or was trying to copycat her.
From that, we were able to collar her next door neighbor, who had grown up with the mother and had been in love with her his entire life. He started to reflect those feelings, unfortunately, onto the young daughter, and thus began to act for her the way he couldn't act for the murderous mother who had died beforehand.
That man is now in jail, and the young daughter was taken to a mental facility to receive therapy and treatment.
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well, not fine. but there's not really any sort of distressed dip in her feelings like one might have expected, given her emotional reactions to the deaths they've experienced here so far. there's sympathy for the victims and for the daughter who is receiving treatment, and a bit of "oh, good" vibes when she hears that the neighbor was caught, along with the sort of fascination one might have when reading about or hearing about a particularly interesting case in school.
academic curiosity, maybe.]
I see... applied properly, profiling seems like it would be an extremely useful tool, then.
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it's more or less how fei du looks at the cases, too. like research. academic curiosity, with a sense of sympathy and relief for the capture of the killers. for the safety of the young girl chenchen, too, for many reasons. ]
Exactly. Profiling and criminal psychology are relatively new fields, and I only just started studying them officially myself, but now that profiling evidence is admissible in court, the postgraduate program I'm attending is working on research projects like this in close tandem with the police bureau. I'm there a few days a week now.
[ bothering luo wenzhou and also working. ] But, it's been an interest of mine for some time. It's not infallible, and here, I feel like I'm still learning the ropes, but I hope it will continue to be of use.
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[she smiles at him.]
I think the way people behave is just as important as physical evidence in cases like like these. Especially when all of us are in close quarters with each other like this, there's a wealth of information to gather by observation. That you've been taught how to process it all and apply it will be incredibly helpful.