#*years* of feeling like I gave myself brain damage before I stabilised properly

[honestlyvan]

IDW Perceptor and Brainstorm for the headcanon meme?

Hrrrrrn so I don't really. Do IDW, like *gestures at Brainstorm* I haven't seen this man in my life, but I can try to take a crack at Perceptor. These are considerably more half-baked than my usual stuff, though, just bear that in mind.

Realistic: Definitely like quadruple educated, he keeps picking up new degrees but not, like, from studying, he just works on such broad projects he can just spend like a year to write them up for submission or however that works idk

Unrealistic but hilarious: This includes degrees in things he conceivably as a physicist would not have any use for. Like he has like a doctorate in landscaping because one of the power plants he worked on kept getting complaints that it was ugly as sin, so he just kept redesigning it and the environment around it to make it more pleasing and learned a bunch about urban design as a result. He also probably has a bachelors degree in public relations from the same debacle.

I’m taking you down with me: Kup dies before Percy has an opportunity to really apologise for... all of that... He never quite gets over it, even if it's a black mark in his personal history he doesn't really discuss with anyone -- a true moral failure on his part.

Fuck You It’s My House: His relationship to his improved frame is more complicated than "love it" or "hate it". By necessity combat prep dulls the senses a little bit, power rerouting changes the way his secondary processors respond, his memory mapping has significantly changed to be more stable... the overall effect is that everything is a little more delayed, a little more summarised. Nothing about his processor or core systems has changed, exactly, but the heavy stress penalty made it feel like he'd gotten stupider out of nowhere at first, and he's never been able to shake the feeling that he just thinks less well in this frame.