Freeze-play - where a trigger causes the subject to suddenly become unable to move - is commonly used in genuine erotic hypnosis, often as a convincer, and also as a "stage", allowing you to build other effects on top of a frozen subject. The Mesmerizer's freeze command is probably poorly named, as it doesn't actually stop the sub's avatar from moving, but merely disables the movement controls. So while they won't be able to go anywhere, their AO will still continue to animate them in-place.
If you're using the Mesmerizer for RP, a suddenly motionless avatar is a lot more visually effective than one that continues to move, but just isn't covering any horizontal distance. And if you're using the Mesmerizer as an adjunct to genuine hypnosis, having the subject see their avatar frozen in response to your freeze trigger can be a powerful reinforcement of their own trigger.
So rather than use the freeze command, it's better to have your freeze trigger fire a static animation with the play command. Since play already disconnects the subject's movement controls, there's no need for an additional freeze. I like to use the built-in "Attention" animation for this, so a typical freeze trigger would be:
freeze $rpname = play "Attention"
You may want to define a second trigger that fires the stop command to release them from a frozen state.
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