Oct 28, 2025
Could someone use shadowplay/mnemosurgery for the opposite of a lobotomy though?? To psychologically add more and more and more to a bot's mind, false memories of events both major and insignificant, personality traits that did not develop naturally, artificial triggers and malicious code, emotions and senses tuned up to an unreasonable degree
We commonly associate it with removing offending memories and personality traits, but one can get creative in cruel ways there.
#transformers#maccadam#you know that obviously unethical proposed idea of a chemical that made prisoners feel like they've spent millennia being tortured???#a skilled enough mnemosurgeon could probably accomplish something scarily similar#godd mnemosurgery is fucking terrifying the more you think of it#tentatively oc tagging this as ->#brainfreeze#nitrous#<- because I had been severely considering that the more I think of their au#of Brainfreeze specializing in additions where most of his pre-war colleagues specialized in removals#Chromedome's one line about autobot mnemosurgeons interfering in AHC decisions haunts me
