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bratworth) wrote in prismatica2019-04-04 02:07 pm
Entry tags:
- ace attorney: miles edgeworth,
- axis powers hetalia: north italy,
- cardfight!! vanguard: ren suzugamori,
- destiny 2: commander zavala,
- elfen lied: lucy/nyuu,
- fate/: kiritsugu emiya,
- fire emblem: keaton,
- fullmetal alchemist: edward elric,
- kingdom hearts: xigbar,
- persona 5: hifumi togo,
- snotgirl: lottie person,
- steam prison: cyrus tistella,
- the legend of zelda: midna,
- to the moon: eva rosalene
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.
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.
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Do they have entry requirements?
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Not really. Anyone can join it seems but you can't really lay hands on anything confidential or even that interesting until you take an aptitude test.
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What do these aptitude tests entail?
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I do know they start you out at something like an intern level as far as I can understand. Fellow is the basic rank, then Docents.
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( How else would one be able to study? Which also reminds him to ask... )
What was your career back home, anyway?
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[And without missing a beat.]
I work as a senior memory traversal agent for the Sigmund Corporation.
[... Ah.]
Have you heard of the Sigmund Corporation?
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No, I can't say that I have.
( A beat, and he's not sure if he's going to regret asking this, but he must know... )
What does a senior memory transversal agent do?
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In my world -- I guess you could call it that -- we have technology that allows others to see and interact with a person's memories through the use of a machine. The memories are rendered in an interactive simulation that can be fully programmable and changeable. Sight, touch, taste, sound and smell are all rendered if those options are enabled anyhow.
In this way memories can be changed. Or rather the digital versions the machine renders can be changed. These changed memories can then be implanted into the person the memories originate from. The machine can even generate new memories completely with assistance and guidance from the person themselves.
[Those are the bare bones basics. She pauses a moment considering how far she needs to go. Might as well dive right in, even if she can pretty well predict what problems he's going to have with all of this.]
Unfortunately the technology is flawed. If a person regains consciousness for a significant amount of time after receiving these memories, the conflict between their original memories and these newly created ones will cause brain damage. However it's proven very useful in assisting dying patients by allowing them the chance to fulfill a final wish they may have before their death.
I work alongside my partner in fulfilling these wishes. My role as a traversal agent is to work backward from the most recent memory to the patient's oldest memory that can be accessed through the process of following memory links - items, sighs or sounds that connect one memory to another. From there we find what changes need to be made to help the client fulfill their wish, send the impulse through and then let the patient and the machine create the patient's new memories.
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Sorry, that's a bit of an information dump.
[She feels like some NPC in a game now.]
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I suppose such technology can support the dying to have a peaceful passing, so long as it doesn't fall in the wrong hands.
( That works as a response, he supposes! )
That being said, being able to explore people's memories like that must have been quite fascinating. What was it like?
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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.
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It certainly sounds like a most interesting opportunity. Almost like traversing a dreamscape.
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As my partner said once, memories are the fiction we tell ourselves. Or something like that anyhow.
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He finds himself wishing that memories were more concrete, somehow, that if they were more accurate, then perhaps he could make more sense of his childhood...
... but that's not the case and it won't ever be the case, so it would be foolish to dwell upon. )
Do you ever find something ... surprising in these memories? Something you're not expecting to be there?
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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.
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He only wishes his own was more reliable.
Deciding to focus on his most prominent question, he asks: )
Did his mother know he would lose so many of his childhood memories?
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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.
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He wants to ask what sort of accident it was, but perhaps that would be insensitive. It's not like there's anything he can do about the situation, even if something about it does rub him the wrong way. )
I see.
( A beat. )
Thank you for sating my curiosity.
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I cannot think of anything else I would like to ask at this point in time. I will certainly let you know if I think of any further questions, however.