Character Sketch - Amnesiac

Jason C. McMicheals had lived a pretty average life before his memories were taken away from him. He was a successful psychologist before the incident. He primarily dealt with children dealing with traumatic experiences. Even before the incident, he was able to alter the memories of his patients, essentially making them forget the trauma that these patients suffered. In his mind, this helped his patients, letting go of the past so that they could learn to lead healthy, productive lives.

Apparently, this was not beneficial for one of the Dr. McMicheal's patients. Due to a lack of a memory of the trauma, his young patient fell again into a cycle of abuse that brought him to Dr. McMicheal's in the first place. This patient, Anderson Joyce, was kidnapped at a young age along with his toddler brother. While in the kidnapper's hands, a choice was given to Anderson - would he chooose to save his brother life while sacrificing his own, or allow the kidnapper to murder his younger brother. Anderson chose the former, and watched the kidnapper savage molest and then kill his brother. Before any further harm could be done to him, the police managed to save Joyce where he was put under McMicheal's care. McMicheal then used his powers to alter the memories of Anderson, making him forget the incident. McMicheal advised Anderson's parents to destroy any memory of Anerderson's younger brother from the household, so that he may have a chance to have a normal life.

Unfortunately, a few years later, Anderson found some old family pictures while rummaging through family photos. Unable to remember the young boy by his side, he confronted his parents of the identity of the boy. His parents, thinking that he was well, confessed the doings of McMicheal's and revealed what had happened to Anderson. Anderson, who had been shouldering guilt all these years, but inexplicably not knowing why, flew into a rage. He began to obsessively search for past evidence on the case, and devised a plan to seek revenge on McMicheal.

Anderson then snuck into McMicheal's house bound his daughter and wife. As soon as McMicheal entered the establishment, Anderson presented him a choice- his wife's life or his daughters. McMicheal pleaded for Anderson to take his own life, but Anderson stated that his death would simply not just; McMicheal would have to have the memories that Anderson was robbed of. Unwilling to choose, Anderson took the choice from McMicheal and shot his daughter in front of McMicheal. Anderson then moved McMicheal and his wife to the scene of the kidnapping that had taken place years earlier. There, Anderson place a gun to his head and asked McMicheal one last question: would he sacrifice his life or his wife's. Anderson answered his wife's. Anderson obliged and shot his wife. He then whispered in Jason's ear, "now you will remember my memories," where then Anderson shot Jason in the stomach and left him to bleed to death.

McMicheal, unable to bear the guilt of his choice, choose to use his power to erase his own memories to at least die with a clean conscience. He then awoke, bleeding from the gut, absolved of a lifetime of memories but haunting by the now lifeless women that laid on the ground, unable to recognize her. He managed to undue his binds and make it to the street, where he was found a taken to the hospital. Without any memory or identification, he was labeled a John Doe.

He is tortured by the memories he keeps. Although his memory is wiped, he is still guilt ridden by his past, although he cannot explain why. At first, he became like a leech, stealing people's memories in order feel the void for his own. But he grew more and more frustrated as he realized that none of these stolen memories were his own or would explain his past. He then tried to steal the identity of people, live their lives. This fraudulent activity eventually caught the eyes of the authorities, which in turn the Group was notified of paranormal activity. He was eventually detained and imprisoned.