Hi Everyone,

I just finished all five books in James Dashner's Maze Runner Series;
the original trilogy and both prequels. Overall, I prefer them much
better than the Hunger Games. Maze Runner at least pays lip service
to a higher ideal, and the sense that the near constant manipulation
the protagonist and the supporting characters ultimately did serve
some grand purpose. Even when that purpose was hijacked by
personal ambition.

But what the Maze Runner stories really brought back for me, is the
concept of memory, and how a person is shaped by them. Its been
an established part of Chris Mouse's backstory for years that much
like Thomas, Chris Mouse woke up one day, with no idea who he
was. The difference being my fursona was in intensive care in a
hospital at the time, after having been turned into a mouse-morph.

The thing I've never known, is if Chris' lack of memory was
accidental or deliberate. Memory loss, including partial or total
amnesia is a rare but known side-effect of the Human-to-Furry
Transition Retrovirus. On the other hand, Dave has hinted from
time to time that something went very wrong, in the days leading
up to Chris' Transition. In many ways, its the most fascinating
question in my entire character collection. Who was Chris, before
he was a mouse; and like Thomas feared, if he got his original
memories back, would it fundamentally change who Chris is, at
his very core?