I mean I was planning on slowly revealing it over time in the form of distorted black space snapshots but hey, life goes on.
Ehem.
When Soul was about, I believe 5, he had to get surgery on his left radius, one of the two arm bones connected to the wrist. The reason for this was due in part to his power, and it was an emergency to say the least. The memories are fuzzy, and Soul's parents don't like to talk about it, but from what he and Tara remember it was an entire broken bone. So now for a quick lesson on how anesthetic works.
So basically when they put you under for anesthetic, they actually test you to make sure they have a correct amount determinate to each individual's body. The issue is, these measurements are very hard to read in young children, and also during an emergency there isn't much time, so sometimes surgeons simply have to guess. The issue is, Soul in that situation got too little anesthetic, and ended up somewhat conscious during the entire surgery of his left arm bone. Fair to say that could be scarring. Note that nobody *knows* this, and Soul doesn't link those sort of flashbacks to that time when he got surgery.
Basically, bright white circular lights trigger a sort of dissociative-amnesia like trigger within his brain, a calling-back stimuli to the trauma. He also hates hospitals, can't stand the sound of electronic beeping, hence why his alarm is bell chimes, and he also really hates medical cutting instruments. This is because his brain kind of blocked out any references to the incident, an amnesia of sorts, and now whenever he receives certain "triggers" be it bright lights, hospitals, or beeping in enough abundance, he may force himself to remember the exact things.
Of course, this is minor and can be treated compared to worse cases of DA, but either way Soul can't put two and two together involving his rather unsettling and sensory-overloading "blackouts" whenever he is shown too much of the "triggers," and the time he was hospitalized.
You know, just some minor fun stuff to throw in there. Listen, okay, all romantic relationships are just therapy but with kissing. I'm sure whoever Soul ends up with, and even his friends, could probably work through this, seeing as it is minor. Minor doesn't mean it can't manifest in some horrific ways though. I plan to write some really fucked up shit for these "blackouts" because I'm so fun and really just want this to be a fun rp with NO horrific trauma.
Oh and if you were wondering, as a suppressed memory, Nero or other mind readers could not access it, they probably wouldn't even be aware of any content involving the incident besides learning about the content and circumstances of his "blackouts"
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