Mind Rape/Literature: Difference between revisions

* In Robert Jordan's [[The Wheel of Time]] series, the three steps of the Aes Sedai test do this to whomever is taking them.

** The Aes Sedai also consider bonding a Warder without said Warder's permission the equivalent of rape.

* This is step one of making a new vampire in ''Thirteen Bullets'' and its sequels. The vampire enters the victim's head and tears them apart mentally, hammering away until the victim is [[Driven to Suicide]]. That suicide turns the victim into a vampire. Arkley suffered this for a moment and is not sure if killing himself would cause him to come back as a vampire now; {{spoiler|Caxton is brutalized for days this way, to the point it's a guarantee she'll turn if she ever does herself in, and then a piece of the vampire's mind got ''stuck in her head'' after she killed him}}.

* Occurs with surprising frequency in Scott Westerfeld's [[Midnighters]] series, starting in the backstory when {{spoiler|the 12-year-old Rex and Melissa shatter Rex's abusive father's mind}}, and going on through {{spoiler|Madeline's meddling that enabled several of the midnighters to even be born}}, Melissa's forcible ripping-open of Dess's mind, and ending up with what Melissa, Rex and {{spoiler|the darklings in Rex's head}} finally do to Madeline in ''Blue Noon''. Fortunately, as the series goes on it's increasingly lampshaded that mindcasters are ''not nice people'' at all.