Charles watches intently as Barnes' face goes slack and the last of the fight bleeds out of him. A disquieting silence follows, the sounds of struggle replaced with the cool back and forth of scientists at work. His own contribution done for now, he lingers by the table long enough to press a reassuring hand to Barnes' shoulder before getting out of the way. While he can't argue against the results, Charles would have hoped for a smoother procedure. He moves over towards Steve.
"The programming appears to have been built over James' own architecture rather than from the ground up, as we might have expected. His foundations remain intact," he explains as he reaches for the datapadd, pulling up the brain scan from the moment Barnes had first seen Steve. "See this here? His prefrontal cortex and amygdala -- that is, the parts of the brain that store long-term memory and process emotion -- lit up when you spoke to him. He recognized you, not from today, but from before... I believe the severity of his reaction was the programming trying to overcompensate for an emotional response."
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Date: 2012-05-24 02:07 pm (UTC)"The programming appears to have been built over James' own architecture rather than from the ground up, as we might have expected. His foundations remain intact," he explains as he reaches for the datapadd, pulling up the brain scan from the moment Barnes had first seen Steve. "See this here? His prefrontal cortex and amygdala -- that is, the parts of the brain that store long-term memory and process emotion -- lit up when you spoke to him. He recognized you, not from today, but from before... I believe the severity of his reaction was the programming trying to overcompensate for an emotional response."