"a chemical trigger that induces coma"
Coma? Comatose = Non-functioning.
Shouldnt it have induced an anxiety to return to the Little Sister ???
- Perhaps anxiety is too hard? Hate to say it, but I can see an overreaction like "coma" being easier than incimental anxiety. How do you trigger anxiety to return to someone?
- Maybe the point of the coma is that if the Big Daddies try to wander away, they can easily be recaptured and reprogrammed.
- Unownshipper (talk) 01:22, March 10, 2014 (UTC)
- The whole point is having a negative feedback to keep BD with their assigned LS.
- Comatose is becoming unconscious, and makes the BD vulnurable and unable to act - including moving closer back towards the LS who might not stick around or might be being dragged off. Complications would be what happens when the LS goes back into the vent (if they even did if there was a solid one-for-one pair-bond)
- Anxiety can be induced similarly to 'coma' (its a brain chemical thing and even can be learned/trained response) but would induce a still conscious BD to strive to return to its LS and can be a bit more incremental than 'coma'.
- Originally Big Daddies became insane and violent when separated from the Little Sisters, perhaps the only option was induced come, creating anxiety in a violent crazed BD might have made things worse?
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- Then you condition the BD not to be crazed (anxiety has a wide spectrum of possible reactions to select from) but to simply get back to the LS and to defend of course (which includes interposing between LS and the threat or even herding her if the threat moves or are multiple). A coma more an on/off thing. Of course you also have to have the BD let the LS go into the vent, so their is more complex reasoning involved. The BD has to assume the vent is a safe place.