[What is Riddick is tied deeply to the primitive parts of the brain-- consciousness rubbing elbows with instinct and reflex, shaped by breeding and generations-past engineering to combine the sleek mind of a predator with the thinking mind of a human-- mingled into a cohesive whole. There are the very rudiments of latent psychic ability, irritated and chafed by the barge's floods and breaches, and before that the brush of another psychic, who left an explosive pool of rage like an IED from his brain, the defiant scream of a brutal warrior race that was destroyed and scattered.
This is the brain of a pack-hunting animal who was orphaned, who has no pack and is deliberately wired to regard anyone not of his people with sociopathic indifference, but the pack instinct is too strong. He's made strange connections, formed an unnatural family unit of people who have become real to him. He is territorial; he is maternal; he is strong and canny.
Then there's the other thing, the other personality-- which is Riddick, with the best of him filtered out, the worst of him made huge. A hunted animal that has to hide or kill, that doesn't trust even the people the real one loves. There are the shreds of something like loyalty that made this personality attack Zane, dimly remembering that Ned is Family and entirely without a concept of proportional response. He is strong, he is too frightened and paranoid to be canny. The connections of this thing to the base instinct are flawed and misfired, and the real thing is sluggishly trying to reject this overlay like a mismatched organ.]
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This is the brain of a pack-hunting animal who was orphaned, who has no pack and is deliberately wired to regard anyone not of his people with sociopathic indifference, but the pack instinct is too strong. He's made strange connections, formed an unnatural family unit of people who have become real to him. He is territorial; he is maternal; he is strong and canny.
Then there's the other thing, the other personality-- which is Riddick, with the best of him filtered out, the worst of him made huge. A hunted animal that has to hide or kill, that doesn't trust even the people the real one loves. There are the shreds of something like loyalty that made this personality attack Zane, dimly remembering that Ned is Family and entirely without a concept of proportional response. He is strong, he is too frightened and paranoid to be canny. The connections of this thing to the base instinct are flawed and misfired, and the real thing is sluggishly trying to reject this overlay like a mismatched organ.]