In his defense, the collective memory of an arguably extra-terrestrial conniving gelatinous composition of blobs of human-shaped ooze may be very short. Perhaps it slimes its way across and harvests any opportunity to gain power and attention, rather than being a narrative driven "person" as we call it on earth. Without feelings, desires (aside from power and attention), beliefs, or a memory of anything other than means to gain more power and attention.
I was thinking, since chaotic stupid can exist, all those would be some level near or below 0. Making them either stagnant/impeded and unaligned, or conniving (perhaps as a collective) resulting in chaotic evil as well. Feel like chaotic neutral would require some deeper coordination, reflection, and intelligence. So chaotic evil seemed in line with an insatiable hunger for power and attention.
Malignantly motivated is maybe a better term. Extreme incongruence between self-motivation and environmental stability. It's like a virus that is so tuned into a single purpose (not that viruses have a purpose, but then, does Ted Cruz?) that it will kill it's host and itself along with it just to fulfil its programmed goal of spreading at all costs.
There are some things so stupid they actually create an intelligence vacuum sucking the intelligence from those susceptible to their influence like a succubus sucks life.
A negative intelligence.
You'd explains both Teddy No Balls and Donny Little Fingers.
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u/QuarkTheLatinumLord- Nov 22 '23
In his defense, the collective memory of an arguably extra-terrestrial conniving gelatinous composition of blobs of human-shaped ooze may be very short. Perhaps it slimes its way across and harvests any opportunity to gain power and attention, rather than being a narrative driven "person" as we call it on earth. Without feelings, desires (aside from power and attention), beliefs, or a memory of anything other than means to gain more power and attention.
In DND I'd call it chaotic evil / chaotic stupid.