An Amazing Use for Copperminds

[Raven Wilder]

Remember how you felt after you finished reading your favorite book, or after seeing your favorite movie, or your favorite episode of your favorite TV show. Remember what an exhilarating, emotional experience it was. Remember how you reread or rewatched it so you can experience at least a little of that magic again.

Now imagine you're a Feruchemist. You can store all your memories of having read that book or seen that movie in a coppermind. Until you tap that metalmind again, you'll have no memory of having read or seen it before; you'll know nothing about the story or the characters, have no idea what to expect. So when you flip open the pages or fire up the DVD, you get to experience your favorite story for the first time all over again. And you can repeat that experience as many times as you want, and it will never get old.

A lot of us have thought about which abilities are most useful in a fight, and which would be most practical for day-to-day life. But now that this use for copperminds has occurred to me, I think being an Archivist Ferring might be the Metallic Art I'd want the most.

[Knight of Iron she/they]

16 minutes ago, Raven Wilder said:

Remember how you felt after you finished reading your favorite book, or after seeing your favorite movie, or your favorite episode of your favorite TV show. Remember what an exhilarating, emotional experience it was. Remember how you reread or rewatched it so you can experience at least a little of that magic again.

Now imagine you're a Feruchemist. You can store all your memories of having read that book or seen that movie in a coppermind. Until you tap that metalmind again, you'll have no memory of having read or seen it before; you'll know nothing about the story or the characters, have no idea what to expect. So when you flip open the pages or fire up the DVD, you get to experience your favorite story for the first time all over again. And you can repeat that experience as many times as you want, and it will never get old.

A lot of us have thought about which abilities are most useful in a fight, and which would be most practical for day-to-day life. But now that this use for copperminds has occurred to me, I think being an Archivist Ferring might be the Metallic Art I'd want the most.

I don't know if I'd do this, as I like to think back and just know these things--it would be useful as a Feruchemist if I could memorize every bit of information from the Coppermind website and access any of it at any time.

And would you have the memory of how you felt when you read it--but not know the contents?

[Raven Wilder]

Oh, I'm not suggesting you leave the memory of your first experience stored in the metalmind long term. Just long enough to create a new, fresh experience from a second reading/viewing, then you can take the old memory back and have both experiences in your head.