ORIGINALLY WRITTEN: January 2024
DISCLAIMER: I am not a medical professional, this post is just based off of research I have personally done in the past.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mentions of Forced Intoxication/Drug Intake, Medical Abuse
Was talking with Vendetta (a close partner who is much smarter than I am with medical sciences) because Bell’s on the brain (and I drag xem kicking and screaming into my fixations, just as they do to me-) and realized that after the events of Cold War, Bell has near-monocular vision.
The TLDR is that Adler is not a doctor. He shoved a straight syringe into Bell’s eye repeatedly (not a curved one usually used for intraocular injections).
Park and Sims are equally inexperienced and equally accountable, since there are at minimum 6 times Adler explicitly mentions either himself or one of them giving Bell another injection.
If we count each time a memory is “affirmed” in Adler’s favor (because the screen yellows just as it does when the injection is given)… it’s well over 10.
We can also assume they’re continuing intraocular delivery, because they need an instantaneous result. Likewise, we can also assume the same eye was used, simply because it would be more convenient than playing hot potato with the syringe.
So, what does this do to Bell’s vision?
We see it briefly in-game, but what it could lead to (as told by Vendetta) is:
[He’s] Probably legally blind due to optic nerve damage. Just permanent floaters and black spots and trouble focusing if he can see at all.
And the fact it would have went unaddressed? That Adler et al. just shoved Bell back into action? Oh yeah, he’s lucky to have any vision in his left eye.
Here are a visual example of what Bell’s vision is likely to look like, altered by me to account for focal adjustments and the “grey cast” that often comes with severe vision loss: