Daily Entertainment: Memory Fail Edition!

[damncompass]

OH CRAP IT IS THURSDAY.

Thus, I bring you the emergency holy !@#$ I forgot edition:

Memory! How's your character's memory? Are there comparisons with steel traps or elephants? Maybe it's closer to Swiss Cheese.

Are there some things that are easier to remember than others for your character?

Comments

[never_shall_yield]

All of mine have really good memories, on the whole.

The Bruces are both mega-smart, though in the case of Banner I suspect this did used to mean he'd sometimes forget to eat and sleep when he was working.

Gene pretends he's an idiot, and does forget things like birthdays and anniversaries, but can remember practically every scumbag he's put away, ever. And what for, and their family members, and how long they got in jail, etc.

Javert remembers everything pertaining to police work, and seeing as he has nothing in life beyond that it pretty much equates to him remembering everything. Except how hot stoves can be. His memory is less perfect in Milliways because his psyche is basically Swiss cheese at this point.

Valjean probably has the weirdest memory issues. He's a smart guy, but emotion and trauma fuck him up when recalling things from his past. His whole nineteen years in prison were unreal to him while he was enduring them, and are possibly more real now that they're in the past and the physical agony is dimmed in the memory. Also, his hatred and rage at the world has gone since he left the galleys, so when he remembers it's with a whole new perspective. Memory is weird for him in that sense. On a practical, day-to-day level, he's fine. He's really smart, and always thinking. He doesn't neglect details, so not many things slip his mind. Apart from the need for self-preservation. He's good at forgetting that.