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yeah anybody who says that is working with such a bullshit definition of 'rules' that it doesn't even count.

...okay one last thing
and again, don't tell me any more than you oughta but....
this person agreed to all this, right?
i mean they know what you want to do and they're cool with it?
i know it sucks to ask but i gotta
for my own peace of mind

He knows. We had a nice long chat about it while we were trapped under a building.

yikes! 😱 are you okay??

cool. sorry to ask.
i know you wouldn't do anything sketchy on purpose
i've just used these goggles
things can get like SUPER intense
and the first time i used them it was kind of a messed up situation
just wanted to make extra sure history wasn't repeating itself

Of course I'm okay, I'm a superhero.

[Not that he'd had his armor at the time, but details.]

No, I get it. And like I said, I'm probably going to be modifying them a bunch. What I have is...sort of a way to project memories externally. Binarily-augmented retro-framing. Sort of designed it to help deal with trauma, but this is a little more intense than I expected.

i have never met a superhero who is not perpetually not okay in one way or another.

[ You can't kid a kidder, Tony. But he won't pry, beyond calling bullshit. ]

okay i see where you're going with this
so something that essentially reads memories and translates them into holograms or whatever
and it's used to play through traumatic events while the person's conscious?
recreate the scene, but with more control?

[ He can see how that would pair well with the tech already in place in the goggles, but he can't help asking: ]

does that even really work for anyone anyway?
isn't it just be horrible all over again?
i mean what's it supposed to solve anyway?

The point is to be able to alter it when it plays. Give you a sense of closure.

[How much does it actually help? ...jury's still out. But Tony himself may not be the best baseline for that.]

Haven't you ever wished you'd done something differently?

gotcha
so that's where the lucid dreaming comes in.

[ Would that be therapeutic? Or just confusing? Hard to say. It might not work on trauma of the kind Cisco has experience with, but for someone who had had their mind messed with, whatever that means, perhaps it would provide closure, and clarity. Who is Cisco to say? ]

please tell me you're kidding with that question

[ So many things he doesn't even know where to begin. ]

Yes and no. The original design was meant to make the memories...editable, for lack of a better term. The lucid dreaming comes in to make them actually interactive.

It was mostly rhetorical, yeah. My point is, it's supposed to let you make that different choice and watch it play out. Little things, sure, but still.

okay, i get the appeal of that for sure.
lemme know if you need a consult at any point?
and you know, if it works out and everything?

[ He's not saying that if it's successful he's half-thinking he might give it a try, but, well... there had been worse ideas. ]

Will keep you updated.

Thanks.

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