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** Alice is unbothered by the disturbing things she reads in Bob's mind, as she is aware from having a mind of her own that spontaneous morbid thoughts are common and natural in everybody. She rarely puts much stock in them...


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** The complete lack of thought and the implications thereof is itself disturbing to Alice.


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** ... Unless Alice begins to notice an escalating pattern of disturbing thoughts that carry a sense of intentionality.
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** "Inner Bob" is [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown caught in a compromising position with naughty pictures of Alice]]. Then upon being [[ADateWithRosiePalms "caught in the act"]], he {{screams like a little girl}}.

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** "Inner Bob" is [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown caught in a compromising position with naughty pictures of Alice]]. Then upon being [[ADateWithRosiePalms "caught in the act"]], act", he {{screams like a little girl}}.

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* '''Implied''': Alice ended up going misanthropic and isolating herself from humanity after she gained telepathy.

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Alice ended up going misanthropic and isolating herself from humanity after she gained telepathy.


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** After reading Bob's mind, Alice's slaps him and storms off without elaborating.


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** Alice reads Bob's mind and realises that he raped her while she was unconscious.
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** Alice finds mind reading an indispensable social crutch for her [[AmbiguousDisorder to cope with her issues and function]].

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** Alice finds mind reading an indispensable social crutch for her [[AmbiguousDisorder to cope with her issues and function]].function.
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** Alice is an inventor that made a mind reading device, but destroyed it after only using it once. She refuses to explain why.

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** Alice uses her psychic powers to resurface [[TheDragon General Bob's]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast deeply locked memories.]] In few seconds he goes from [[LightningBruiser hero-killing machine]] to [[BrokenTears terrified, crying mess of a man.]]



** Alice uses her psychic powers to resurface [[TheDragon General Bob's]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast deeply locked memories.]] In few seconds he goes from [[LightningBruiser hero-killing machine]] to [[BrokenTears terrified, crying mess of a man.]]


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** Seeing the fine details of how human brains really works leads to some major ExistentialHorror. It drives Alice to [[BoomerangBigot agree with]] [[AIIsACrapshoot Steelidan]] that [[HumansAreInsane humans are just dangerously erratic]] [[KillAllHumans defective machines]] following their own InsaneTrollLogic.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice discovers that Bob doesn't like her cooking.

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Alice discovers that Bob doesn't like her cooking.cooking.
** Alice discovers nasty nature of [[PragmaticHero Bob's]] [[DirtyBusiness line]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo of]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast work.]] She ends up deeply concerned about him and never looks the same on his [[NotSoStoic stoic expression...]]


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** Alice uses her psychic powers to resurface [[TheDragon General Bob's]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast deeply locked memories.]] In few seconds he goes from [[LightningBruiser hero-killing machine]] to [[BrokenTears terrified, crying mess of a man.]]
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** Alice and Bob [[EvilCannotComprehendGood are of such]][[GoodCannotComprehendEvil different moral alignments]][[BlueAndOrangeMorality that they find each other's morals incomprehensible and horrific]].

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** Alice and Bob [[EvilCannotComprehendGood are of such]][[GoodCannotComprehendEvil such]] [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil different moral alignments]][[BlueAndOrangeMorality alignments]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality that they find each other's morals incomprehensible and horrific]].
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** Bob (or Alice) is insane.
** Alice and Bob [[EvilCannotComprehendGood are of such]][[GoodCannotComprehendEvil different moral alignments]][[BlueAndOrangeMorality that they find each other's morals incomprehensible and horrific]].
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** Bob is a survivor of some kind of trauma. Alice reads Bob's mind to try to understand his trauma, and winds up experiencing it vicariously.
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** Bob wants to keep Alice from his head, period. So he starts to generate some very disturbing PsychicStatic made of his bad experiences from WorldWarIII, overlayed with a [[SoundtrackDissonance disturbingly cheery]] EarWorm. Alice {{faint|ingSeer}}s and never again tries to read Bob's mind.

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** Bob wants to keep Alice from his head, period. So he starts to generate some very disturbing PsychicStatic made of his bad experiences from WorldWarIII, overlayed with a [[SoundtrackDissonance disturbingly cheery]] EarWorm.tune. Alice {{faint|ingSeer}}s and never again tries to read Bob's mind.

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** Bob's secret is something relatively innocuous, like [[TheresNoBInMovie his fondness for campy low-budget sci-fi movies]]. Nevertheless, [[FelonyMisdemeanor Alice's faith in humanity is shattered after find out the "horrible" truth!]]

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** Bob's secret is something relatively innocuous, like [[TheresNoBInMovie [[UnabashedBMovieFan his fondness for campy low-budget sci-fi movies]]. Nevertheless, [[FelonyMisdemeanor Alice's faith in humanity is shattered after find out the "horrible" truth!]]
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c) [[FoeRomanceSubtext Both possibilities apply]]... And he's not the only one.\\

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c) [[FoeRomanceSubtext Both possibilities possibi]][[StupidSexyFlanders lities apply]]... And he's not the only one.\\
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** Alice finds out that Bob thinks homicidal thoughts about her. Cue the HeroicBSOD.

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** Alice finds out that Bob thinks has disturbingly detailed and graphic homicidal thoughts about her. Cue the HeroicBSOD.
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* '''Justified''': The mind is sometimes a very dark, scary place, particularly when it comes down to [[FreudWasRight the subconscious mind]].

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* '''Justified''': The mind is sometimes a very dark, scary place, particularly when it comes down to [[FreudWasRight the subconscious mind]].mind.
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Head back to oh my god using [[NoodleImplements seven toothbrushes and a bottle of soy sauce]] with JustForFun/TropeTan like? That is just sick! Go straight back to AMindIsATerribleThingToRead now!

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Head back to oh my god using [[NoodleImplements seven toothbrushes and a bottle of soy sauce]] with JustForFun/TropeTan like? That like that is just sick! Go straight back to AMindIsATerribleThingToRead now!

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice finds out that Bob thinks homicidal thoughts about her. Cue the HeroicBSOD.

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Alice finds out that Bob thinks homicidal thoughts about her. Cue the HeroicBSOD.
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