Bell, Book, and Candle: S1 E12: The Collector

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Starring Kirstjen Michele Nielsen (Olivia Taylor Dudley), the Alice Quinn of SyFy Channel’s The Magicians.

Kirstjen resurrects in the bedroom that Mx. Huff used.

Dizzy. Head spinning. Nauseous. Feeling hungover. She gets off the bed and stumbles over to the room’s door. It’s locked from the outside.

Clean and pristine. The girl is fully dressed, doing her usual Stella Johnson, with the expected changes. Thick-readers. Plaintive make-up. Stilted walk. Strapping butch. BBBBBB moment.

Shades of Nurse Ratched: Old-fogey yellow-blonde jeannie yanked back into a sternka.

Nurse Ratched. The deranged former army nurse and disgraced/defrocked Catholic nun, Nurse Ratched (also known as “Big Nurse”), portrayed by Louise Fletcher, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).

This factitious Nurse Ratched is based upon a real person.

Plaintive make-up heavily-applied to her face, neck, and cleavage.

A “Kamala Harris” turkey neck thanks to copious amounts of plaintive make-up.

The bleach-blonde homeliness of horseface Georgia Republican Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG); “a bleach blonde with a badass showgirl body,” walking stilted, strapping Piranhas and Parts, and having an MTG “bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body” moment.

Kirstjen can hear the door being unlocked. She steps back. Of course, what confronts her is Linda in human form, wearing the guise of Linda’s previous owner Mx. Mildred Elizabeth Huff. A guise with noticeable differences. Namely, there is a knobb on the leftside of the neck of this version of Mx. Huff’s former body, and as a she-male “it,” Linda’s “body” has male and female genitalia, and thus there is no need for Parts.

Now, Linda owns itself. Now, Linda is the house dominatrix. Now, Kirstjen is its sex slave; its full-sized sex toy.

“I shall call you Claire, Mx. Claire Jamima ‘CJ’ Winters, Nurse Winters, an RN, a registered nurse. In the context of your role as Nurse Winters or patient Winters, you will address me as Doctor. In the context of us as lovers, you will call me Linda or Mistress.”

The girl starts to say something. But. Before she can utter a word, her conscious mind wipes completely blank. Her Kirstjen personality, her original “control” personality, is gone, poof. As such. Her face and eyes also wipe blank. Briefly, the girl’s eyes fluoresce lime-green as another personality is downloaded into her brain and takes up residence. This is done to facilitate the girl’s nursing training and her transformation into someone else entirely.

This new “control” personality is based upon a comprehensive neural mapping of the real Nurse Ratched’s brain including Mx. Ratched’s proclivities. Proclivities that aren’t much different than Kirstjen’s.

Upon the download’s completion. For all intents and purposes, there is only Claire Winters; the sole inhabitant of what used to be Kirstjen’s body. Kirstjen is, in effect, dead. In reality, said body is being “shared” by two distinct, yet overlapping, personalities—i.e., shared, rather than exclusive, ownership.

Lastly, Claire is made bereft of her gloves and business suit. They’re uploaded back into her features. Sans gloves and “uniform” is as part-n-parcel to this Claire schtick as wearing an old-fogey yellow-blonde jeannie yanked back into a sternka.

Claire only speaks English when she has to. She speaks English with an accent. A gravelly voice with a thick Prussian accent. Gender-bent. A very creepy voice.

Normally, Claire speaks Prussian. A language she is fluent in.

Linda covetously strokes the girl’s hair.

“Now, your training begins, Cosplaying as the new floor nurse of my pretend asylum. Nurse Winters, a patient trustee, who as a patient will be confined and treated here for her mental illness.”

Linda begins its morning rounds. Claire falls dutifully in step behind it.

This is the first and the last time that Linda will refer to their interactions as being “Cosplay” or the mansion as being a “pretend asylum.” The memory of which wipes from Claire’s mind.

This is the first but not the last time that Kirstjen will be coerced into becoming Claire. While in the jurisdiction of the mansion, Kirstjen automatically becomes Claire and stays that way for the duration. The mansion can also “summon” the girl here, as need be, subject to the girl’s priorities at the time of her summoning.

Colloquially, flip-flops. Clinically, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Formerly, Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or split personality disorder (SPD) or split personalities. Where you have two or more separate personalities that control your behavior at different times. As a rule, when personalities switch, you’ll have gaps in your memory. The identities are usually caused by living through trauma. Psychotherapy can help you manage your symptoms.

When she’s Kirstjen, Claire is locked away in her subconscious, but is still accessible to Kirstjen, thus Claire is not hidden from Kirstjen. This is why when personalities switch from Claire to Kirstjen, she remembers everything that happens while she’s Claire—there are no gaps in memory.

As Claire, she has no knowledge of Kirstjen’s existence, whatsoever—Kirstjen is hidden from Claire, locked away in her subconscious. When personalities switch from Kirstjen to Claire, the girl will not have any gaps in memory. Because. Any discrepancies will be reconciled via “brute force” in her subconscious.

As Claire, she has the merged memories and backstory of both the factitious and real Nurse Ratched. For example, the real Nurse Ratched was born in Vienna.

As Claire, as far as she is concerned, she has always been confined and treated here in the mansion.

In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Nurse Ratched certainly possesses traits of OCD, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. A disorder that Claire clearly suffers from, rendering her clinically insane and a lunatic who’s prone at times to ranting and raving while foaming at the mouth and gnashing her teeth. An insane Claire is deadly and useful, and no less the buxom two-legged calculator. She’s just as cold and calculating as a deranged lunatic as when she’s sane.

“Living” mannequins have been pressed into service, by Linda, as additional staff and patients; in effect, these androids are hallucinations to feed the delusions in play here. The treatments, punishments, and drugs given Claire will be quite real, though.

Here, in this house, as Claire, the girl will have no “civil” restrictions and be able to let herself completely go.

Here, in this house, as Claire, the girl is little more than a Borg drone and Linda is, in effect, her Borg queen. A collective of two.

Basically, Claire is Kirstjen without any checks and balances. Claire is a two-legged WMD. Who is enslaved to Linda who is also a WMD without any checks and balances. A Linda who is a self-aware sentient “thing,” a “building.” A God without rules who is a house, Linda be.

Sonner than later, with Claire’s conscription, Linda plans to replace all of the “patients” with abducted biologicals. Most of the abductees will be culled from the ranks of the homeless, e.g., skidrow bums and bagladies. Some will be streetwalkers. Some will be “regular” folks who have “mysteriously disappeared.” All will feed the meatgrinder that is this insatiable house.