A New Player in the Force (SW/Lite Gamer)

[Idovelicus]

Yeah, this portrayal of Eidetic Memory doesn't sound like what it's named. It sounds more like PTSD but for literally every moment of your life, with more weight the more intense the emotions attached to any given moment.

 

[Warlord D Thorin]

there was quite a large tone shift in this chapter at the point when he started training with the shapers

 

[Idovelicus]

there was quite a large tone shift in this chapter at the point when he started training with the shapers

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That part makes sense, time skips will do that. Cam is in a very different headspace after months training in different circumstances.

 

[USSExplorer]

Honestly a lot of the recent chapters kinda feel like Cam is slipping to the dark side more and more. He's not balanced in the slightest, he's just rage and hate that he keeps bottled up inside. I don't like this. To be clear I don't care for the Jedi much either, but both Jedi and Sith are extremes at the opposite ends of a scale, and extremes tend to not be good. Really not liking cams thought processes since... I suppose since he started just bottling everything inside. Eidedic Memory shouldn't make him unable to let got of emotion. That's not how memory works. Time dulls the emotions related to memories after all. Even if he can't forget, over time the rage would lessen. Someone else said this, and I agree, Eidedic Memory is sounding more like it forces him to relive moments again and again, which is not what Eidedic Memory is IRL.

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This isn't IRL, and for ANP, Eidetic Memory has been that way since the very start of the story. The name was intentionally chosen to, in many ways, mislead Cam. Then, with the Interface filtering his connection to the Force, it dulled the emotional feedback of his memories. With that gone, he has to endure what that Player Power causes. At no point in the story, even waaayyyy back when I started this, were TPTB ever seen as 'good'. They gave Cam the option of where to be reborn for their amusement and even made bets on what he would do.
Consider them a little like Q from Star Trek, but with a meaner streak.

Add in that he's only had a few years to find something he would consider balance, and has turned to Adas for help, and it was only a matter of time until Cam began to fall. Adas knew this from the get go and has been subtly manipulating Cam towards the Dark Side. Not to become a Sith ala Sidious or Plagueis, but one able to 'break free' of his chains, and those imposed upon him by the Jedi and galaxy at large. (Think, if the reference works for you, Malgus later on in SWTOR).

Yeah, this portrayal of Eidetic Memory doesn't sound like what it's named. It sounds more like PTSD but for literally every moment of your life, with more weight the more intense the emotions attached to any given moment.

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In many ways it is, but even before being reborn, Cam was one who let his emotions get in the way at times. As seen by the mistake that led to his initial death. Eidetic Memory just makes it nearly impossible for him ever recover from everything he's endured.