What factors may lead a person into the yandere condition?

[HorsesandMOARGaloar 300]

What might have caused our illustrated fellow to end up destroying anyone in his/her path for romantic love?

[SilverStarApple 849]

What might have caused our illustrated fellow to end up destroying anyone in his/her path for romantic love?

Losing the love of their life to someone vastly inferior and obviously evil, yet the lover doesn't seem to notice how EEEEVIL the rival is. Or at least, that's how the Yandere sees it.

[HorsesandMOARGaloar 300]

But before the love of his/her life?

What can create the condition, to someone who has not even experienced it yet?

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Are you asking how Yandere works?

Yandere is very similar to a western Stalker save for the fact that they can hide it alot better. There is actually a light (not extreme) yandere character in mlp, Fluttershy.

 

Outside they put up a front and try to be pleasent as possible. They get close to their objects of their affections (Fluttershys animals) but its when they feel rejected that their inner crazy comes out.

[HorsesandMOARGaloar 300]

@Buck Testa

 

No. I am only asking about what causes yandere to begin occuring in someone's life.

[child of the night 271]

how about a love poison potion?

[Durandal 623]

Yandere is a result of obsession and immaturity. The object of their interest is not so much a human as a thing, to which the yandere obsesses over. Either the person is considered their prize that belongs to them and them alone, or they are idolized and take a centerpiece in the yandere's life. With either, you can develop the mindset that what you love can only belong to you, and therefore any opposition must be stamped out, or in the case that your love is unrequited, that if you can't be happy, they can't be either.

 

The obsession is itself a result of the inability to mature. Yandere do not consider that there are multiple parties in a relationship. The person they fall in love with does not exist outside of the relationship as far as the yandere is concerned, and anyone in their way loses their status as human, instead being simply competition. In many ways, this parallels the intensely self-centered view of children - to them the world is there to provide for them, the concept of someone else like them has still not fully developed.

Edited August 9, 2014 by Durandal

[Shift 4,272]

I have seen many 'yandre' fictional characters, most of them who are my favorite characters in its series, but in real life I believe that yandre mostl stems out of the fact that this person wants and/or feels the need to be in love, and once they finally find that love, they don't want to revert back to being loveless.

[SFyr 1,982]

I was basically going to say that it seems to deal with desperation and delusion, in that they have the absolute inability to move on from this thing/person they're fixated on. Simply, they can't accept unattainability as an option, so it always falls into denial--instead, they justify why it's not attainable yet, and looking for obstacles that they can be made to make sense of being in the way rather than breaking the delusion.

 

However, I feel @Durandal's argument is a lot more solid than mine, and deals with actual mental frameworks and origin, so I recommend her take over mine.   

[Luna 831 466]

The thought of the person that was rejected has trust issues. The relationship then does not work out.