Pandora's Box 8

Note: I write this so people can verbally break others without being an obvious douche.

It takes time to hurt someone mentally.  But one of the quicker ways to break someone is analyzing his or her favorite style of self-expression.  Their mind, when trying to express something, usually chooses to break free of its natural restraints, making the person use the form of expression that would fail them in typical communication.

*Express in this sense means to release inner emotions by communication.

*Communication means any sort of contact that causes a change in previously known information.

For example: Sound.

When people express themselves by talking or screaming or singing, they usually do so because their voice normally fails them.  By using sound in expression, one would try to compensate for the fact that one would otherwise fail to communicate.  In other words, a person who uses his or her voice to express him- or herself is constantly silenced.  Their environment is either hostile or apathetic towards their sounds.  But they hang on because they feel as if they have something important to say.

The weapon:  Let them know they don't have anything to say.  This removes their only hope.  Let them know their voice is unheard, insignificant, pointless drivel.  Also, sound is often linked to aggression.  Aggression makes them unstable.  You should already know their weaknesses through their expression, so it's a matter of pushing the button.