Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150822000535/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150822200209

Consider all of the other HER/Malice infectees in the series. All of them were triggered by murders. Irina went full blown after killing Elluka, Lemy started falling after he killed Ton Corpa. Keel, on the flip side, allegedy has HER but never exhibits symptoms and never commits a murder. It's possible that Malice only really takes hold in someone after giving in to the desire to kill. Levia did not--thus she overcame it. Perhaps, if we think of it like a real disease, Malice is the HIV stage, whereas HER is AIDS. One is the stage of infection where the immune system attempts to fight it off, and the other is where the person has been irrevocably infected. Levia may have been initially infected, but she may have realized how to avoid retaining the disease by not comitting murder.

There's also no confirmation that the line about the doll(s) legitimately featured Behemo murdering anyone, and I would rather we not discuss the matter as though it did. There could be many reasons why the dolls were scattered about and warm the way they were. Even if the "dolls" were people, we don't know necessarily it was Behemo that did it.