Imagine being raised by a SEAL, airline pilot, and an ex- Secret Service member.
All three of those professions require rigorous mental programming, which changes thought patterns and interactions with those around you.
Mild PL - three years in the military, combat arms. Never deployed, never did anything of note. But, I came out a bit different in the way I saw the world. My new view is nothing earth shattering, nothing that has made me a less functional person. But imagining being raised this way gives me the shivers.
I don't think I need to tell you that SEAL training is fuckin' insane, and I imagine Secret Service training is no joke either. You come out of that mental blender different. You're still you, but there is a new program next to all of your OEM software that overrides just about everything. Obviously, this extends to child rearing in the case of Bella. Getting a complete goof to fuck his mom, plotting to get the same goof to kill himself, the sheer scale and mental fuckery that this crazy broad undertook to enact this plan gives me the shivers, because I saw it all the time in my brief time in the service.
Achieve dominance over all those around you.
Maintain dominance over all those around you.
Undermine threats, perceived and otherwise, around you.
Analyze weaknesses, strengths, benefits, of all those around you.
This is a familiar pattern in higher end oper8rs, as it is an excellent survival tool in the high stress world they occupy. Unfortunately for Mr. and Mrs. Janke, they raised their spawn that way, and here we are uncovering their parental mishaps. Incidentally, animal abuse was something that I encountered amongst guys that had seen too much on deployment(s). Not a psychologist, but my impression was that they wanted complete control and power over something, anything. Also, they wanted to win. Boiling hamsters seems like a good way to check both of those boxes.
Fascinating, and sickening. It's times like this that I miss Jerry Springer.