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SkyPotatoFire In reply to Telkian [2022-04-28 18:37:32 +0000 UTC]

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tron1112 In reply to JustinGedak [2019-05-28 19:56:49 +0000 UTC]

“Ev’nin”

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TheMichaelMacRae In reply to WolfLucifeMclain [2017-11-24 21:56:14 +0000 UTC]

I don't know It was just a simple moment I'd thought of with some characters. Creepy guy is fishing, she is washing up.

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P-E-A-N-U-T-S In reply to TheMichaelMacRae [2019-07-24 16:03:31 +0000 UTC]

Have you conjured more to this story? I sense an entire book in that one image!

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TheMichaelMacRae In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2017-11-12 08:10:30 +0000 UTC]

Yeah

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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to TheMichaelMacRae [2017-11-12 08:33:48 +0000 UTC]

Did he come to Canada with the Arcadian colonials? I have some roots there, so I got to thinking.

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TheMichaelMacRae In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2017-11-12 20:13:18 +0000 UTC]

I've put almost no thought into it. Though I realize the name Flechette has some obvious French association

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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to TheMichaelMacRae [2017-11-13 05:57:13 +0000 UTC]

Well, I since he would have been born at around the dawn of when trade names were being standardized in Europe as surnames for non-nobility, I figured his first career, or his father's, must have been producing hand made arrows. That could contribute to the origins of his hunting skills. I bet he could make a crossbow from scratch, with good materials.
Poor fellow Is probably starting to suffer from saturation dementia by now, an unfortunate side effect of the extremely long lived, which could be contributing to his peculiar behavior.

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TheMichaelMacRae In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2017-11-13 09:52:25 +0000 UTC]

I like this idea of a basis for his origins

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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to TheMichaelMacRae [2017-11-13 11:01:41 +0000 UTC]

Incidentally, Saturation dementia would be the last, and ultimately, insurmountable challenge to a purely biological immortality. The only author to address it in sci-fi or fantasy is Howard Taylor in his "Schlock Mercenary" Sci-Fi Dramedy, which is an excellent comic style daily strip.
There is an absolute limit to how many dendritic connections a perpetually healthy brain could form. The side effects of this limit is a theoretical condition called Saturation Dementia. Based on estimated average yearly dendritic connections per square nano meter, a human brain kept in a state of condition somewhere equivalent of between 20-50 years old would simply run out of room at some point between the age of 450-500, varying from person to person.
This would manifest in one of two ways, depending on the brain's adaptability: full stop and full past retention. One day, the subject would wake up, say, at around 487, and have a routine day, then go to sleep...then wake up the next day with the previous day wholly unremembered. He could remember the day before and his whole life before like always, but not yesterday. The same happens the next day and the next, each new day after that point forgotten and all before remembered, kind of like the girl from "50 First Dates".
That preserves your past, but sacrifices your future, at the cost of not knowing where you are day to day, likely at the cost of your survival eventually, especially with no one to look after you.
The second possibility, which I think more likely applies to our Gaulish Methuselah, is that neurons compensate by overwriting old, seldom used connections, like a random boring day of Guild Schooling when He was 12, or the time he was grabbed on the streets of Geneva and tortured by Calvinist activists on paranoid suspicion of being a Catholic spy, which he has TRIED hard to forget about, and now permanently gets his wish.
It would take 50 years or so, but eventually he runs out of disposable memories, and his brain is forced to start erasing random, important memories like the wedding day to his first wife. He has no trouble remembering recent memories, and living alone without context from his past means he could lose as much as 100 years of random days before he really notices. If he has not spoken to anyone in a really long time, his dementia may have simply overwritten his disused speech skills with more recent, day to day events. He could have perfect recollection of a hundred languages, but now can only understand them.
I can offer some insight into this, having cared for my aunt who has Alzheimer's.

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