The Vesmier considers that, hand moving automatically to activate the holographic display. Not that it will mean anything to her, not that it will be anything but colors and movement, but...
"I can tell you a great deal," he says. "How much of it will be helpful, I can't say.
"Thane's mind is damaged." And oh, if that isn't an understatement. "It was damaged before he came through the Rift. Rational exposure to a temporal paradox – a brute physical and mental trauma which was never addressed, simply buried. This is, so far as I can tell, the originating point for a great deal of his current violence, though by no means all of it.
"That trauma was buried with enough memory, at a high enough level of consciousness, that it formed a relatively cohesive whole – interconnections, internalized reasonings, without the actual impulse consciousness to grant it will. Because it was so clearly partitioned, it formed an exclusion against other data – while its separated history and the personality which developed in its absence are not foreign psychic material, it reacts as though they are. Thane, as he exists now, cannot easily process information which comes from outside of that structure. This makes him both inaccessible and vulnerable."
He paused, tweaking the display, re-reading, re-interpreting the patterns there.
"Thane's mind, the last I had any mental contact with him, had been..." He spends a moment looking for a polite term. He doesn't find one. "Severely and irrationally damaged. This damaged the mechanism by which the formerly dominant personality was being kept suppressed, though I still can't say how, precisely, this will manifest. I do know it would be much harder for me to trigger a reversal the likes of which brought him to the fore in the first place.
"More important is the effect it likely had on his rationality... if one can call it that," he appends at a mutter. "Thane is capricious. This will have made him more so. I do not believe he has any form of unified plan, or the capacity to create or enact one. ...I do believe, however, that he is aware of the damage done to his mind, and likely of strategies to work past it."
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"I can tell you a great deal," he says. "How much of it will be helpful, I can't say.
"Thane's mind is damaged." And oh, if that isn't an understatement. "It was damaged before he came through the Rift. Rational exposure to a temporal paradox – a brute physical and mental trauma which was never addressed, simply buried. This is, so far as I can tell, the originating point for a great deal of his current violence, though by no means all of it.
"That trauma was buried with enough memory, at a high enough level of consciousness, that it formed a relatively cohesive whole – interconnections, internalized reasonings, without the actual impulse consciousness to grant it will. Because it was so clearly partitioned, it formed an exclusion against other data – while its separated history and the personality which developed in its absence are not foreign psychic material, it reacts as though they are. Thane, as he exists now, cannot easily process information which comes from outside of that structure. This makes him both inaccessible and vulnerable."
He paused, tweaking the display, re-reading, re-interpreting the patterns there.
"Thane's mind, the last I had any mental contact with him, had been..." He spends a moment looking for a polite term. He doesn't find one. "Severely and irrationally damaged. This damaged the mechanism by which the formerly dominant personality was being kept suppressed, though I still can't say how, precisely, this will manifest. I do know it would be much harder for me to trigger a reversal the likes of which brought him to the fore in the first place.
"More important is the effect it likely had on his rationality... if one can call it that," he appends at a mutter. "Thane is capricious. This will have made him more so. I do not believe he has any form of unified plan, or the capacity to create or enact one. ...I do believe, however, that he is aware of the damage done to his mind, and likely of strategies to work past it."