Gustave Flaubert said that "One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us." In this case, people who find a very strong aversion to someone or something will slowly become desensitized to it and may even eventually develop an interest in it. Note that this trope is a sliding scale that does not always include a literal, sexual fetish Nightmare Fetishism can range from a harmless fondness for morbid stories to a literal sexual fascination with the life-threatening (either may, at times, apply to Trashy True Crime). This kind of person is very difficult to coerce or break through the usual methods as they can be Too Kinky to Torture or Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth. Possibly as a good version of Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad (though evil characters can be Nightmare Fetishists as well). In wackier portrayals, a Nightmare Fetishist might also be repulsed and horrified by things most people would consider wholesome and tame. For example, a Nightmare Fetishist may consider Halloween their favorite holiday, harbor an obscure or oddly specific kink, think that the monsters they're supposed to be fighting are cute, or simply be born with this trait as part of their species or family. Indeed, what's Nightmare Fuel or Squick to other characters could very well be a fetish or Squee to this character. If this character is "part of The Team", their fellows may regard them oddly. This character is happily intrigued by whatever is strange, dangerous, disturbing, and/or frightening.
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