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Younger Than You Think/Iriña Blake

2025-10-17T23:30:57Z

Drdrew86: /* Abduction */

Iriña is the main character of the [[Plot Babies]] idea [[Plot Babies/Maybe I Am That Young But That Doesn’t Mean You Can Abduct Me!|Maybe I Am That Young But That Doesn’t Mean You Can Abduct Me!]], later written under the title [[Younger Than You Think]].

She's young, but has the mind of an adult; and gets abducted by people who were hoping for a "forever baby".

==Medical==

She has a medical condition, Cullen-Wellerman Syndrome, which means that she is physically incapable of sleep. Most children with this condition die young. Any kind of sedatives would result in vomiting, seizures, brain damage, and eventually death; while if she doesn't sleep, the accumulated chemical imbalances would have killed her eventually. But she was given an experimental drug by [[../Uncle Chad/]], her next door neighbour, who used to work for a major pharmaceutical company. The drug was designed as an antidepressant, but was never released because it can have side effects quite similar to CWS, causing patients to die if they fall asleep during the withdrawal period. Chad realised that for someone who already had CWS, the drug would allow her to keep on functioning without sleep as well as significantly boosting her learning ability.

==Intelligence==

During the story [[../]], Iriña is coming up to her sixth birthday, but still looks about three or four because her growth was inhibited by some of the other drugs doctors tried her on as a baby. The doctors are unsure whether she will always be small, will grow up two years 'behind' normal development, or will catch up with the average ageing process some time during her teens.

Because of her enhanced intelligence, combined with the ability to study with Chad and/or read books while her parents were sleeping, she became incredibly intelligent. She has an adult mental age and the emotional development of a late teen; and has recently been accepted for a scholarship to Harvard Law School starting later this year. If she keeps on doing self-study overnight, some of the professors expect that she could pass the bar exam at the age of eight, becoming the youngest lawyer ever.

===Turtle Mode===
Because of Iriña's lack of sleep, the memory centre of her brain works slightly unusually. She has near perfect recall, being able to remember any scene in her past exactly, as long as she can reach it by following her memories backwards from the present. Her memory is only limited when she has to remember something more distant, and has to bring it back without having time to think backwards over everything that has happened since then. The way she treats all her memories as a continuous chain also means that she has panic attacks if she finds that she can't remember something. In the story, this is triggered both by the gap in her memory when she was sedated (and was lucky to survive), and when she was shocked by her sober recollection of her thoughts and perceptions under the effect of hallucinogens.

==Abduction==

Iriña was kidnapped by company [[../Forever Baby/]], who initially believed her to be an older teen with a growth disorder which would make her look like a toddler for the next twenty years. Such children are highly prized by certain rich clients, who want the experience of caring for a baby or toddler without the child growing up. They were disappointed when they found that Iriña's apparent and real ages are so close, because this means that she is likely to grow up normally even if mentally regressed to match her apparent age. But they did regress her anyway, finding that her enhanced learning ability makes her incredibly susceptible to hypnosis. She is conditioned to see [[Younger Than You Think/Seamus Hārden|Seamus]] and [[../Sylvie Hārden/]] as her "Mommy" and "Daddy"; and not to think back beyond the present day or attempt to remember anything that they tell her to forget. Her memories are still there, but [[../Lyle/]] realised that she could be given effective amnesia by encouraging her to not think of those memories.

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Titansville

2025-10-17T23:26:14Z

Drdrew86:

A gated community had grown into a small town, where people of below average height could walk around in a world that felt more comfortable. Everything was in reach for a change, and it meant that dressmakers and tailors who were willing to work outside the constraints of the human median didn’t have to limit themselves to selling online. And when customers came to be measured and fitted, a lot of them would decide to come back and live here one day.

Scouting location of the acquisitions team of [[Younger Than You Think/Forever Baby|Forever Baby]]

Featured in [[Younger Than You Think]]

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Titansville

2025-10-17T23:25:34Z

Drdrew86:

Titansville

2025-10-17T23:10:59Z

Drdrew86:

Titansville

2025-10-17T23:00:05Z

Drdrew86:

A small town created for people of shorter stature than most so they have a place they can feel more normal.
5 foot high ceilings, smaller furniture, (Page incomplete)

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Titansville

2025-10-17T22:56:55Z

Drdrew86: Created page with "A small town created for people of shorter stature than most so they have a place they can feel more normal. 5 foot high ceilings, smaller furniture, (Page incomplete)"

A small town created for people of shorter stature than most so they have a place they can feel more normal.
5 foot high ceilings, smaller furniture, (Page incomplete)

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:22:28Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[Younger Than You Think/Iriña Blake|Iriña Blake]] is abducted during [[Younger Than You Think]]

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Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:19:46Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[Younger Than You Think/Iriña Blake/]] is abducted during [[Younger Than You Think]]

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:17:45Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[Younger Than You Think/Iriña Blake]] is abducted during [[Younger Than You Think]]

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:17:20Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[Younger Than You Think/Iriña Blake]Iriña Blake] is abducted during [[Younger Than You Think]]

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:16:36Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[Younger Than You Think/Iriña Blake]] is abducted during [[Younger Than You Think]]

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:10:25Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where is abducted during [[Younger Than You Think]]

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:09:01Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[Younger than you think/Iriña Blake]] is abducted during

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:06:21Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[Iriña Blake]] is abducted during

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T23:05:21Z

Drdrew86:

A rest stop and nature reserve containing: Washroom facilities, A trailer with a galley kitchen, and some picnic tables assembled from fallen wood annually by the Gresham and Migeley scout troop.

A favourite stop for the Bernstein's during their annual summer trip to their beach house in [[My Sister's Problem]]
*Supposed to be just a washroom break but they can never resist the smell of the fried breakfast foods so they always end up eating here anyway.

The location where [[/Iriña Blake/]] is abducted during

[[Category: Places]]

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T22:57:17Z

Drdrew86:

Gresham Wold Woods

2025-10-10T22:56:11Z

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