But Carol didn’t. The woman turned and left the doorway, Amy meekly following.
Carol, internally: “Maybe she didn’t take it? What if I just misplaced it? If I bring it up and she didn’t know about it after all, then she will if I say something, and that opens a whole can of worms…”
They don’t understand.
…
Oh.
I might’ve been reading this situation all wrong. Carol might not be aware of the letter being gone at all.
She’s tense with Amy because she believes Amy could fix Mark’s disability.
Is it in the brain? Is that why Amy won’t do it?
Mark was in the living room, sitting on the couch. No longer able to don his costume and be Flashbang, Mark could barely move.
Flashbang, right. Manpower was the other guy. Uncle Neil, I guess.
He had a form of brain damage. It was technically amnesia, but it wasn’t the kind that afflicted someone in the movies and TV.
And I was right about the brain thing.
So if it’s not the kind you usually see in movies and TV, does that mean it’s anterograde amnesia – the kind where you stop properly moving memories from short term to long term memory, effectively meaning you barely remember anything after the onset of the amnesia?
Honestly, out of all the media I consume, Worm is the one where I’d be least surprised to actually see this arguably more heartbreaking, but lesser known and typically less narratively useful form of amnesia depicted.
What Mark had lost were the skills he’d learned over the course of his life.
Ohh. That’s a third form of amnesia I’m not familiar with, but the existence of which makes total sense. Retrograde and anterograde amnesia don’t usually affect the skills, and I’m aware of other contexts where memory of skills, knowledge and events are noticeably separate.
You don’t forget how to ride a bike, they say. That’s because of this, and that’s the sort of thing Mark actually has forgotten.
And so many more crucial skills. For one thing, Carol might’ve been reading the letter to him because he forgot how to read. And then there’s walking, eating with utensils, getting dressed, etc.
Yeeeah, I can see how this would prevent him from being Flashbang.
He’d lost the ability to walk, to speak full sentences, hold a pen and drive a car. He’d lost more – almost everything that let him function.
At least it’s probably possible to relearn, unless there’s such a thing as an anterograde version of this type of amnesia, but it’s gonna take a lot of time, effort and guidance.
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