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Carmen Sandiego Crack AU based on the events of S4 (spoilers, obv)

TW for kidnapping, brainwashing, and implied drugging

The faculty erased/rewrote a lot of Carmen's memories, but they had no reason to touch the early memories of her and Player. Since they met just before she went and joined the academy for the first time, but the faculty didnt know that, they have no reason to erase that far back.

My point is: Carmen remembers the early memories of her and Player.

She remembers him as a hacker and her best friend. So, now that she's faculty, why not bring him into the fold?

Of course... she doesnt really give him a choice. She nabs him with the cleaners in the middle of the night, then proudly shows him around his 'new home' when the sedatives wear off, happily proclaiming that he's now a VILE operative and she gave him a special fast-track to it.

(She doesn't really get the fact that maybe Player didnt appreciate being kidnapped from his home and basically forced to become a VILE operative)

The other faculty members are confused. Bellum guesses that maybe Carmen met Player after she left the island and he just slipped through the cracks. They want to bring him in (and maybe use the Truth Extracter on him) to question him and/or comb through Carmen's memories again, but are kept from doing so for several reasons:

A) Carmen would become suspicious if he suddenly disappeared or said something bad about them to her.

B) They cant bring Carmen in, because trying to fix this supposed error could destroy their carefully crafted web of lies.

C) Player is still shaken up from his... unorthodox recruitment, any further aggressive actions could make him attempt to escape from VILE entirely. (Which leads back to point A)

D) Despite everything, Player is, undeniably, a good hacker and an asset to VILE.

Player, meanwhile, sees this as an opportunity to get his best friend back, even if it means bring surrounded by VILE operatives for who knows how long.

The rest of TR is panicking, though. They've lost two of their strongest members and best friends. (Player does find a way to tell them he's okay, but it takes awhile)

(Credit to the people on CS 2.0 for letting me bounce this off then)