✉ - teensrool ( steve in the distance possibly laughing)
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1. Elvis (Unsent)
I hate you.
2. Elvis (Unsent)
I`m not kidding I really hate ya my Daddy`s talking non stop about Anime.
3. Elvis (Unsent)
Don`t come near me in public again or ill chop your junky head.
4.Elvis (Unsent)
Good thing about being thirteen is this: Fuck you.
5.Elvis (Unsent)
I know I don`t say it much, and that I won`t ever do it out loud but..ya really are one of my favorite people in the world Steve. Take care man, Happy birthday. Love you.
Perhaps even coming off as overenthusiastic, but she was elated to be in the presence of the Supreme Leader. Despite working on Moonbase, she was merely another medic in the medic unit, but a chance to talk to the Supreme Leader meant a chance to get noticed and possibly even promoted. Standing straight and as tall as possible, she looked upwards towards the other with anticipation.
@iamaratfan replied to your post:@teensrool replied to your post:oKAY but decom is...
Ok so you mentioned unlocking/locking memories. From what i understand, memories are formed and lost through the firing of a specific pattern of synapses. The more they fire, the stronger the connection and therefore memory, they less they fire the weaker the memory. I think that could more easily explain the recommissioning part, in which they just rapid fire synapses to the old memories. Im having trouble with the decom part though.
Like there needs to be a way to speed up the process of lessening the synapses??? Idk.
Thank you for this addition half way through writing it I went wait I don’t know anything about psych does any of this make sense??? I guess the main problem with that being the recom part being firing of synapes is wouldn’t the memories just be lost during the time before recom? Because they’re not used anymore, so wouldn’t the synapes just end up completely gone? Again I don’t know much about psych, and it’s too dark to read the bio textbook so I’m going off what I remember. But yeah I guess decom could be lessening the synapses, that makes sense to me, recom is firing them again, assuming the synapes remained weakly connected? I got the impression that unused synapes end up completely gone, and I don’t think the recom module would store which synapes to restrengthen. Besides if the synapes were still there but weak, wouldn’t that mean decommed operatives may also occationally remember something? Especially if something reminds them of it? And does this only work for declaritive memory or all memory? Since it seems only declaritive memory is erased in decom.
The whole locking/unlocking makes little/no scientific sense from what I’ve read, I just found it easier to explain decom/recom and the results, like an analogy. Maybe it can also be linked the the strength of synapes or something, like possibly recom is a combination of ‘unlocking’ the memories then strengthening the synapes, idk.
@teensrool replied to your post:oKAY but decom is seriously horrible like let’s...
// wh isper s talk to me about decom/recom jazz
I was talking about this with marelapis once actually, but we came up with the idea that (even non skewed) decommissioning isn’t perfect, and things like muscle memory isn’t erased. Nor certain reflexes or training. Like ex-KND operatives may kind of just fight out of instinct if attacked, but wouldn’t really know why or where they learned it. There’s two types of memory: declarative memory and procedural memory. Declarative memory is things like events and facts, which are definitely erased by decommissioning. But given how well Sector V still does their jobs in Op. END, I think procedural memroy (ie. knowing how to do things, like how to ride a bike) isn’t erased. On the other hand I do think most conditioned reflexes are erased (quote my bio textbook ‘Reflex conditioning involves forming new associations by establishing new neural pathways in the brain’) so any association learned (eg. teenagers are bad) gets erased in decom.
I have literally zero idea what’s with the plungers and tv screens, especially the tv screens. How many tv screens do they go through each month I really don’t understand why they would do that, they don’t even seem to matter since in Op. FORGET the decommissioning didn’t seem to take a screen. Actually I think decom is based off radio waves or some sort of waves to erase memories, or whatever the scientific basis behind mind reading is, except it manipulates memories instead of just reading them, and the plungers make a decent funnel for concentrating the waves?? It makes little/no scientific sense but anyway.
And decom probably more of ‘locks up’ memories rather than completely remove it, seeing how operatives can get recommissioned and I really doubt their computers hold the memories of literally every single decommissioned operative without any data loss whatsoever. Plus temporary decommissioning doesn’t require a recommissioning model, so decom does not take away memories and puts it elsewhere, as under certain circumstances the memories can still return naturally. Which makes me wonder if it’s possible to recommission by some other method. I get the impression that it’s not, given that Father had to steal the decommissioning module, so I think with the whole ‘locking up’ it also somehow inserts some encryption, like only a specific pattern of wavelengths would get the memories unlocked. Probably more of sci-fi than actual scientific basis, but anyway that’s what I headcanon.
There’d also have to be something done in decommissioning which makes the memories not forgotten. Like when a memory is recalled there’s chemical markers making the connection between nerve cells stronger as they leave some chemical marker, and if someone’s decommed then they wouldn’t be recalling the memory anymore. So maybe decommissioning also does something to make sure the chemical markers stay, so the connections wouldn’t be removed.
The other thing about decommissioning is personality changes. Op. END there doesn’t seem to be much personality change, but I think Sector V’s more or less always been like that. Op. MAURICE....I mean he just changes into a steorotypical teen right after the decommissioning. I kinda headcanon it’s because he’s undercover and over-did the acting, but yeah that one’s a pretty major personality change both from the Maurice in the ‘3 years ago’ part and right before decommissioning.
However Op. FORGET, well Fanny’s always been agressive and seemingly unaware of other’s boundries (eg. getting right up to people to yell at them), but getting decommissioned just takes it waaay up. And actually quite honestly I don’t think she acted like that as a cadet/nurse/before joining the KND, so decommissioning kinda erased her memory, and the association between boys=idiots, but not her abrasive personality. At the same time though it was a partial decom so maybe it didn’t go the way a normal decom should.
The other is how completely different Nigel’s dad is before and after decommissioning. Like decommed he’s kinda ignorant(?), goes along with whatever happens, and just wanting to spend time with his son, but after recom he knows exactly what’s going on, is able to take charge, etc. And honestly I gave up figuring this out, since it’s a pretty big personality change...maybe it’s alluding to an idea that so much of his childhood was the KND that after decom he’s kinda clueless (like in Gravity Falls the citizen’s obliviousness is explained by they’ve had their memories wiped so many times), or maybe decom does erase personality changes from the KND. But at the same time I feel if decom does erase personality changes, it’s kinda unfair to revert a 13 year old back to their 5 year old personality. Like I said, I gave up figuring this out.
In terms of the actual job of decommissioning, yeah I’d imagine having medic knowledge helps Fanny with a better understanding of the process, and trouble shoot what/if anything goes wrong ie. if the reaction after decommissioning isn’t right, such as when 19th Century reacts pretty strongly to ‘the alamondes’ despite being decommissioned. Like you can see Fanny’s shocked/worried behind him, and I think such a reaction may be something that happens once per couple of months (like it’s not uncommon for newly decommissioned operatives to react strongly to enemy names but it’s a problem if a couple of minutes later said operative still reacts). But doing the actual decommissioning is really easy, it’s literally just pull the lever, so really anyone in the decommissioning squad could do it without much problem (eg. Nigel in Op. END).
Alright recommissioning. As mentioned above, memories are locked and you need sort of key to access them. And again more of sci-fi but I headcanon that that’s why there’s the flash of light, it’s the combination of all the different frequencies of electromagnetic waves needed to unlock said memories. Again, random sci-fi headcanon.
So I was thinking that during the time between decommissioning and recommission, the memories don’t degrade. Like in addition to something preventing the connections from getting removed, a memory changes a bit each time we recall it, leading to possibly radically different memory than what actually happened after multiple recalls. Except thanks do decommissioning, one can’t access the memory during that time so it stays perfectly the same.
Another thing is, with decom it seems that operatives emerge kind of dazed and unsure what just happened, while with recom they just immediately they know what’s going on. In Op. ZERO when Nigel recommissions his dad, immediately after the smoke cleared his dad looked like he knew that he was recommissioned, that there was important KND business. And again I don’t know if there’s a psychological basis for it, but in addition to unlocking the memories it also forces the person to go through the important memories really fast (like the images flashing in Monty’s eye when he was recommed), and the less important memories kind of gets stored the way they were before being decommed, waiting for them to be recalled. And similar with Grandfather and the Delightfuls, they’re immediately reverted back to how they were (assuming before decom/delightfulization) Since while decom just erases memories and it’s expected that someone will help the poor person, recom is usually done in times great need, which means they need to know everything fast.
So I guess if recom forces one to go through the recommissioned memories, I think maybe being recommissioned would just feel like remembering some event you haven’t thought aout in a really long time, but also with this feeling of ‘it just happened yesterday’ since the memories are so fresh and clear.
However one thing recom probably doesn’t revert is any conditioned reflexes learned before getting decommed, I think those are just gone. Especially given how Monty was so willing to work with Father. His memories were back, but not the associated hate of adults. Like he’d still know what he believed during the KND, but would realize (with his adult experience) that he was wrong. And in Fanny’s case, she already had a personality that made it more likely to hate people based on compentence, and remembering everything she had to put up with on the decom squad and the idiotic things boys did, the connection of boys=idiots was formed again.
The recommissioning module itself though....so it was operated by Numbuh 0, ‘destroyed’ during the junior high rebellion of ‘99, but also used by Fanny in Op. END. I really don’t understand, like I’m pretty sure Op. END took place at least a few years after 1999, so did Fanny know that it was supposidly broken? She did say that she wasn’t supposed to recommission Sector V, but I wonder if it’s because of a regulation thing, or because she wasn’t supposed to let anyone else know the recommissioning module was operational. The fact that even Rachel didn’t know...I mean she’s not part of decom but if the module was operational it would be a secret she should know. Which kinda makes me headcanon that she got it in a broken state, not having expected it to be broken. But since she had to recommission Sector V, she got it fixed with some scientists, then returned it saying that she couldn’t get it fixed.
And maybe I missed a detail in Op. ZERO but I kinda didn’t understand...was it powered by Numbuh 0′s boogers, or just contained it? Why wouldn’t Father just use that? Again maybe I missed a detail. The recom module just bleh really confuses me
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1.Main
Abby gets along with Steve, and she keeps it hidden from everyone. How can she not? He might be a teen but he`s a complete kid. He`s always watching anime and making stupid jokes, his always around to play air guitar or just play games.
He`s just a giant kid with plenty of hair spray.
2. Teens Next Door with Recommissioned Steve.
Abby almost dies of embarrassment when she realized The Steve was Numbuh 100. Literally a scroll of all the insults she ever told him and just apologize every damn time she can.
Working in the TND with Steve is actually stressing. Since he`s just recom and still has to pretend the be the teen leader its basically babysitting whenever she`s around him.
Bless Chad has to suffer the same thing.
3. Teens Next Door.
After Abby joins the teens she has to pretend that nothings wrong, that she doesnt remember anything related to the KND, and Steve and Cree like to make fun of that. They take her to the old places she used to hang out with the others, specially food related areas.
In battle they make her face her friends, most specifically Wally since that kid and here were really close.
4. GKND with Recommissioned Steve
After finding Rachel and getting convinced by both her and Chad, Abby agrees to recom Steve. Of course after doing so they waste a good two hours explaining everything that`s happening.
She avoids Cree`s mention, considering she also has no idea of where or who took her sister.
It`s a weird complicate relationship while Chad and Rachel love Steve (call him “Dad” as a joke) Abby isn`t that close to the guy.
Running around in circles freaking out wasn’t something Numbuh 86 liked to make a habit of, but having crashed her personal ship who-knows-where, what else could she do?? Her house could be miles away, and Moonbase was even further. There was no one nearb-- oh, the leader of the Teen. Even better. Immediately stopping, she glared.
