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Miles Edgeworth ([personal profile] bratworth) wrote in [community profile] prismatica2019-04-04 02:07 pm

CASE 001 ♞ [VIDEO]

( The feed flickers on to a young man sitting at a table in the apartments in all of his courtroom finery. While he very much looks as though he's done his best to make himself as presentable as possible, there's no disguising the bags under his eyes. This is very much a man who has not had very a good night's sleep in a long time. )

Good morning. For those who I've not met before, my name is Miles Edgeworth. I was a prosecuting attorney from Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America on the planet Earth.

( Truly, what has his life come to that he has to make that clarification! )

I have been reflecting on the events that have occurred since our arrival on this planet, particularly during the festival. ( The plants had been bizarre and all, but he hadn't overly involved himself with them, having found other people more suited to what he has decided to consider extreme weeding. )

While I understand that the natives of this world might be more accustomed to free intimate contact between strangers, I consider it downright criminal that our food and drink at the festival might have been laced with substances that affect our behaviour without our knowledge or consent. If anyone suspects they may have consumed some of the contaminated items, I would be most interested in talking with you further.
takingchances: (016)

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[personal profile] takingchances 2019-04-08 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[If she's got to explain this, she's doing it once. He's not familiar with it in the way a client's family might be simply through commercials on television or hearing others discuss relatives who have used the service.

That's a new question though and Eva can't help but quirk an amused smile.]


Weird. Sometimes, that is. A lot of what people may remember is made up of what was important to them at the time or the kind of mental world they lived in. It's completely possible to go from wandering in a forest to it suddenly merging with a school, things like that.
Edited 2019-04-08 20:25 (UTC)
takingchances: (013)

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[personal profile] takingchances 2019-04-12 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That's exactly what it is honestly. There are very few people out there who can boast a perfect memory after all. Eventually any memory is sort of tainted or changed with someone's desires or what have you and ends up more of a dream of what happened than an actual picture of it.

As my partner said once, memories are the fiction we tell ourselves. Or something like that anyhow.
takingchances: (012)

video; **TO THE MOON SPOILERS**

[personal profile] takingchances 2019-04-14 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[... Hm. How much should she talk about without ruining patient confidentiality? She rolls the story around in her mind, censoring it a little before she talks.]

Oh yeah. Most cases are pretty typical but several years ago we had a case where the patient couldn't remember why they wanted their wish. And once we got to they're earlier years, there was this huge gap of nothing. Visually the computer manifested it as broken streets - the patient's childhood was totally inaccessible until we found the right drugs to make a bridge for us.

[She pauses there. She still recalls the fear that had coursed through her when it all hooked up in her mind. What single kid slept in bunk beds? She had known what must come next and she had legitimately feared seeing it... or having Neil see it. He was always more touched by these sort of things than she was, she suspected.]

In childhood the patient had had a twin who died in an accident. The patient's mother apparently didn't want them to live with the pain of remembering their sibling and ended up giving them beta-blockers - they're usually given for people with hypertension. Beta-blockers have a side effect of inducing memory loss in some people.

Unfortunately they didn't just erase the memories of the patient's sibling, they erased a large chunk of their childhood memories. Including a promise they made to the person they eventually married. And that promise was the wish they had given us.

[Repeating it now, she's sort of struck by one thing.]

It's kind of amazing that even through the amnesia where they forgot literally everything else, including the person themselves, they still managed to remember that one promise.
takingchances: (064)

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[personal profile] takingchances 2019-04-15 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eva pauses a moment, then sighs out. She looks troubled over her inevitable answer.]

I imagine she had to. You don't give a child those sorts of doses without knowing that. I don't know whether she had a doctor help her or not but...

[Mmf. Is it too much to explain further?]

The accident. She's the one that caused it. It... wasn't pretty at all. And the patient witnessed the accident as well.

If I put myself in her shoes for a moment, I would say the reason she did it was because she didn't want her son to suffer or be afraid of her. A selfish reason, yes, and it's not something I personally would have done.
takingchances: (012)

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[personal profile] takingchances 2019-04-16 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem. If you're curious about anything else, feel free to ask. I can't go into detail about client specifics, of course, like names or anything like that. I'm sure you understand that however.