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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 22:27:29 GMT
Mnemosurgery has played a significant role in the More Than Meets The Eye Transformers comic, with main character Chromedome being the Lost Light's resident mnemosurgeon. We've seen characters from as popular as Overlord to as forgettable as Chromedome's many past conjunx endura included in surgery-related story arcs- whether long, short, or somewhere in between- and through the IDW continuity we've seen a grand total of three mnemosurgeons make appearances in comics: the aforementioned Chromedome, the Decepticon Trepan, and Sunder.
What we've yet to see here, on these forums, is a mnemosurgeon OC.
The TFG forums have had dealings with the cortical psychic patch, which is a TF: Prime continuity device that functions very similarly to MTMTE's mnemosurgery, but with a much bigger hassle of needing the space for a physical console, whereas mnemosurgery comes in the compact form of a mnemosurgeon's finger needles. So with that being said, my plans are to introduce the forum's first actively played mnemosurgeon OC.
Of course one of the stipulations to an OC belonging to such a profession is that injection can only be performed with the character's role player's consent. That opens up a lot of potential for plotting: mnemosurgery has a variety of uses for accessing and/or altering another character's memory. If the mnemosurgeon has the know how, they could even dabble a bit in shadow play, or "personality adjustment." How would you like to see mnemosurgery used? Do you have any plot ideas or suggestions you'd like to propose? Any head canons you'd like to offer to the forum's users?
Please feel free to discuss mnemosurgery here. That's what this thread is for, after all.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 22:49:34 GMT
Yeah. About that whole first played mnemosurgeon OC thing. Hi.
But hey, you got the whole activeness going for ya (since I'm too lazy to do anything for this character).
Anyway, onto more seriousness stuff. I think it should be important to point out how life threatening mnemosurgery is when plugged in. It is also a two-way connection as pointed out by Overlord in mtmte 14.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 23:25:50 GMT
Yeah. About that whole first played mnemosurgeon OC thing. Hi. But hey, you got the whole activeness going for ya (since I'm too lazy to do anything for this character). Anyway, onto more seriousness stuff. I think it should be important to point out how life threatening mnemosurgery is when plugged in. It is also a two-way connection as pointed out by Overlord in mtmte 14. Hence why I did say "actively" played mnemosurgeon. While mnemosurgery is a dangerous profession, I think you're emphasizing the wrong reasons. Sharing memories isn't much of a concern- the comic itself establishes that the reason why Overlord was able to essentially 'hijack' Chromedome's injection was because he himself had studied mnemosurgery (with Trepan's help) before, so he knew the basics of mnemosurgery. Under any other circumstances, therefore, I think we can rightly assume that someone with little or no knowledge of how to perform mnemosurgery wouldn't be able to turn the procedure around like Overlord was able to. Though it can't be argued that it isn't a dangerous profession- it is- I just think it'd be important to point out other reasons for the perils of injection. As it says in tfwiki (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mnemosurgery), "Entering traumatic memories could be traumatic in turn for the surgeon, and those who performed too many operations ran the risk of inheriting memories from their subjects and suffering painful flashbacks." What's more, the link provided mentions that it has a high mortality rate, and that most mnemosurgeons died young. If our mnemosurgeon OCs are slightly older, we know they're skilled enough to have survived this long, which says a lot about them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 23:52:58 GMT
What's more, the link provided mentions that it has a high mortality rate, and that most mnemosurgeons died young. If our mnemosurgeon OCs are slightly older, we know they're skilled enough to have survived this long, which says a lot about them. That last paragraph really bugs me (not sure how but i does) as it has been stated by Rewind's recorded message in mtmte 16 that injecting kills the surgeon. There is no way to avoid it. If they inject, they are slowly killing themselves. The mnemosurgeons that died young had clearly been injecting every other day if no everyday. It is also backed up by this panel in mtmte 53. Spoilers for mtmte 51 btw.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 0:38:11 GMT
What's more, the link provided mentions that it has a high mortality rate, and that most mnemosurgeons died young. If our mnemosurgeon OCs are slightly older, we know they're skilled enough to have survived this long, which says a lot about them. That last paragraph really bugs me (not sure how but i does) as it has been stated by Rewind's recorded message in mtmte 16 that injecting kills the surgeon. There is no way to avoid it. If they inject, they are slowly killing themselves. The mnemosurgeons that died young had clearly been injecting every other day if no everyday. It is also backed up by this panel in mtmte 53. Spoilers for mtmte 51 btw. Can't say I agree with your interpretation. Firstly, the message Rewind left Chromedome in issue sixteen wasn't a fact, and could have merely been nothing more than Rewind's concern for his conjunx. It hasn't been canonically established that injecting has any kind of collective ill effects on the surgeon beyond the inherited memories they get from patients. And in issue fifty-three, Chromedome was already severely injured and weak, which only made injection that much more dangerous.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 11:33:08 GMT
Here's a screen shot of Rewind's final message. There is an emphasis on the word will. It should also be noted that Rewind is an archivist and is able to look up anything that is saved in databanks. He has clips of people dying and what's not to say that one of those clips is of a mnemosurgeon dying during an operation. Chromedome even says it himself in issue 14 during a flashback with Prowl, Chromdome says that could doing a deep reading on a live subject. Hence why most mnemosurgeons die young. But if you are going to say that Prowl goes on to say that Chromedome is not like most mnemosurgeons then stop. That is Prowl trying to manipulate Chromedome into working on Overlord. So, allow me to now shortly talk about a skilled mnemosurgeon who has been working a lot longer than Chromedome, Trepan. In issue 34 during the past on Messatine we have Trepan trying to change Megatron. I think it should be noted Trepan winched in pain as soon as he injected his needles into Metgatron's brain module, and I don't think Trepan was in pain because of sore finger needles. Sorry if any of this came out rude or anything like that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 2:06:26 GMT
@strike
You're not coming off as rude. At least, I don't think so, and you've brought out some thought provoking points. Perhaps we could take our part of this discussion to private messages to open this thread to others?
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