Sublator

The second of the three types of predator, distinguished from the others by what is taken control of. A parasite drains energy by exhausting open anima conduits between two other sources, taking from what passes rather than from anyone directly. A violator attacks an animus to extract anima by force. A sublator takes the will, and the shared animus that follows is what makes the arrangement efficient, since once the animus is shared the sublator accesses the other person's energy freely rather than having to extract it each time. That is the difference in cost between the three. Violation requires an attack per unit taken and sublation requires one act of domination followed by open access, which is why Marsh treats sublation as the basis of durable power arrangements and violation as the cruder instrument. The shared animus is also what makes it hard to identify from inside, since a pooled animus is what a bond feels like, and the framework's account of love involves a shared animus created through balanced interaction. What distinguishes the two is balance rather than the pooling, so the same structure supports connection and predation depending on which way the energy moves. Marsh's observation about the first move of a predator applies here directly, since removing or restricting all anima conduits but those they control is what establishes the monopoly that sublation depends on.

Coercive control, Evan Stark's framework, describes domination achieved through isolation, regulation and micro-management rather than assault, and is now criminalized in several jurisdictions. Research on high demand groups documents the surrender of judgement to a leader. Trauma bonding and Stockholm syndrome describe attachment forming under domination. Marsh's three-way split of predator types is what her framework adds, since distinguishing the sublator from the violator by whether the will or the animus is attacked predicts different signatures, with the sublated person defending the arrangement and the violated person not.