What would happen if a Kandra lost its memory?

[supersmith]

Like completely one hundred percent gone. And let’s say they were currently wearing a human form, would they forget they are a Kandra? Would they think they’re just a normal person? Perhaps it’s like filling an unkeyed metal mind, like they don’t know how to can change forms until they know they can. 

[+robardin]

You mean, lost its kandra memories but still retaining all the "back story" memories of the human they were imitating, as well as any accumulated while in that role.

I don't think kandra age naturally; if they play a role for that long, they'd have to adjust their bodies to look older, taller, heavier, balder, whatever was natural seeming for the person's progression over time. So unless an "amnesiac kandra" could do so unconsciously, that would be kind of a tell at some point.

But I think this would make for a very interesting short story type of thing. The kandra who had a talent of getting lost in the role, through some kind of hypnotic effect via meditation amplified by a unique Blessing spike, who wrote down a "safe word" to snap out of it with a helper kandra who was supposed to say it to them at the right time, but who had misplaced it.

Edited November 20, 2020 by robardin