So there’s a ton of flexibility for how different authors could interpret Eroflu. They will still feel the resulting joy as an afterglow, without knowing what it means. x video Not exactly mind control
The viral network can’t directly control anyone’s actions. It may use some other strategy to try to avoid something like Jim’s breakdown in chapter 7 so that it doesn’t have to give that same gift of self-control to others. Obviously the virus would know this and could simply make him not enthrall her, or make his thralls not even try to recruit her, which they would assume is because of something unspecified about her that makes her not quite attractive enough. The virus knows that these children might be studied, and it patiently waits to activate in them.
