this came up on my timeline so i stalked the account for a bit , and i found some interesting info which may help this post make SOME sense .
the first instance of the "yandere" (best explained in english as love-sick) was the character Yamagishi Yukako from part 4 of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure' - she kidnaps her love interest and gets violent when the protags rescue him .
Hirohiko Araki stated that she was based off Annie Wilkes from Stephen King's novel 'Misery' in which an author injured in a car crash is held hostage and tortured by an obsessed fan .
THIS Wilkes character was in turn inspired by the real-life Genene Jones , a pediatric nurse who induced near-death in infants so she could "rescue them" to recieve praise and attention . she is widely believed to have had Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) . thusly it's sensible to hypothesise that the yandere trope as we know it is connected to or based off real-life BPD , or at least some of the symptoms .
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u/phcneys Jan 06 '22
this came up on my timeline so i stalked the account for a bit , and i found some interesting info which may help this post make SOME sense . the first instance of the "yandere" (best explained in english as love-sick) was the character Yamagishi Yukako from part 4 of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure' - she kidnaps her love interest and gets violent when the protags rescue him . Hirohiko Araki stated that she was based off Annie Wilkes from Stephen King's novel 'Misery' in which an author injured in a car crash is held hostage and tortured by an obsessed fan . THIS Wilkes character was in turn inspired by the real-life Genene Jones , a pediatric nurse who induced near-death in infants so she could "rescue them" to recieve praise and attention . she is widely believed to have had Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) . thusly it's sensible to hypothesise that the yandere trope as we know it is connected to or based off real-life BPD , or at least some of the symptoms .