yeah there's a lot of suspension of disbelief going on here lmao, i figured that wasn't a thing that was possible nowadays but i needed to get my idea across somehow.
tysm for leaving a comment! it really means a lot to me to hear from readers, especially when it's specifically noted what you like as i don't get a lot of feedback in general ^^;
One possible way to establish the same information with existing technology would be to have all of the masters (including Riku) get scans. We can probably assume that there are scans of at least Tsubasa from before she became a master (she's clumsy enough that she has to have ended up with a concussion at some point right?) so that establishes that the changes are actually changes and it's not that those different structures are what make people able to become a master, Riku wouldn't have the changes associated with the Lord Souls, and no one but Itsuki would have the hippocampus changes.
oh yeah for sure! tsubasa's almost definitely had at least A scan for a concussion at some point and considering where I take touma's character in the next chapter he'll surely have had a couple in his lifetime pre-becoming a Master as well. Takemi's base knowledge of how the brains of the thieves have changed and where is pretty much based only off of Futaba's brain scans pre-awakening, since she readily had her hands on those; i'm pretty sure she mentioned in-game that futaba was taken to her for checkups trying to see what was wrong as she continued to deteriorate/hallucinate in the two years after Wakaba's death, and maybe a scan would have been somewhere in that process (that's why she mentioned she only got a before-and-after scan set once, and by complete accident). actually now that i think of it, i wouldn't put it past kamoshida to have inflicted a possible concussion on ryuji before as part of his abuse, passing it off as him taking a nasty spill on the track and hitting his head. it'd give him a pre-awakening scan that takemi could feasibly get her hands on, if only for the sake of having more than one. i might add that idk
i actually was looking at some of my later plans earlier and realizing that i'll have a good reason to come back to takemi later on for something else similarly related, so it would be easy to come back to this topic and fix the technology hiccups here/elaborate more there. i assume everyone will provide a scan at some point as they rejoin the team and start seeing her as a doctor familiar with their power-related quirks, since takemi mentioned wanting more of them to itsuki.
tl;dr i'll add it to the ever-growing list of edits for sure! at this rate i'll have to sweep back through the whole thing with another edit bomb like i did in June lmao. and lastly, i can't thank you enough for your insight and help. i've had trouble finding a second pair of eyes to look things over for a while (finding people who like tms AND fates is hard enough, not even considering the niche tropes i have thrown in here as well like hanahaki, and then i forget that it contains p5r spoilers whether i revise chapter 5 or not due to the existence of Sumire and those people have to stop reading bc they haven't played or finished p5/p5r). i've lowkey never wished more that ao3 had a private messaging system so we might find a more convenient point of contact than the fic comments lol. i'd of course never ask you to put your discord and/or other media in a public ao3 comment, and while i'm fine editing mine out of a comment quickly there's no way to know if you'd see it before I removed it ^^; tysm for your input though!!
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