Talk:Gammon Octo/@comment-8638112-20130425100133/@comment-6192846-20130508112549

HER is a medical condition based on a collection of symptoms that include, but not necesarilly must have, to be considered suffering the syndrome. The only actual requirement is that the HER gene in your DNA manifests into the disorder, of which we know little to nothing about that besides some of the "obvious symptoms". Also, I will reiterate: We don't know if the HER gene spreading to the children is due to the Duke actually being born with it or because of the powers of the Venom Sword itself, which may have inherently had it.

Leapfrogging off of that, we can't say for certain that HER is "just a split personality" as we only have had one case. For all intents and purposes, it may just be a hereditary inclination to do evil (likes it's name), with a split personality developing as a certain stage or only in rare cases. Since no signs of split personality have been made obvious for either the Duke or Conchita, it is difficult to make safe assumptions with their relationship to HER.

When the Venomania novel is translated, we can make more definite speculations on the matter.