I feel like it bugs me, either as a backstory point or a current plot device, when it's researched badly. I just can't disengage the part of my brain that's saying "it doesn't work like that! Nothing works like that! The plot device you are trying to use doesn't exist! This storyline has no verisimilitude!" for long enough to enjoy it. Unfortunately, this issue encompasses 90% of pop culture representations of amnesia, and as a knock-on effect... a good portion of RPers' amnesia storylines, too.
I guess it's kind of difficult when the world doesn't make first-hand stories from people with different types of amnesia very easy to access, but I feel like the amnesia storylines I've touched on in the past in RP have all been the same "they lost their memory and can't remember their name and have to rebuild from the bottom up and reclaim their old life!" storyline that... well, there's only so many variations you can make on it. Especially when similar RL examples are very difficult to come by for inspiration... because that type of amnesia doesn't really... exist. At least, not in significant numbers.
I think it kind of rings of disrespect in a way? Like people forget that amnesia is a real thing, that affects real people, and not just a thing that happens in fiction (like truth serums, or mind control spells, or werewolf/vampire transformations). So they treat it like a prop or a trope that you can just make stuff up about because there's no real life equivalent, so you may as well just do whatever, right? Except there is a real life equivalent this time.
tl;dr Do your research, make your storyline ring true, and resist the temptation to just copy other works of fiction.
I guess it's kind of difficult when the world doesn't make first-hand stories from people with different types of amnesia very easy to access, but I feel like the amnesia storylines I've touched on in the past in RP have all been the same "they lost their memory and can't remember their name and have to rebuild from the bottom up and reclaim their old life!" storyline that... well, there's only so many variations you can make on it. Especially when similar RL examples are very difficult to come by for inspiration... because that type of amnesia doesn't really... exist. At least, not in significant numbers.
I think it kind of rings of disrespect in a way? Like people forget that amnesia is a real thing, that affects real people, and not just a thing that happens in fiction (like truth serums, or mind control spells, or werewolf/vampire transformations). So they treat it like a prop or a trope that you can just make stuff up about because there's no real life equivalent, so you may as well just do whatever, right? Except there is a real life equivalent this time.
tl;dr Do your research, make your storyline ring true, and resist the temptation to just copy other works of fiction.
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