If you want your character to be knocked unconscious for 12 hours, that's going to be major brain trauma and cause permanent brain damage. If he's unconscious for any length of time, he's going to be concussed and that will give all sorts of fun nasty side-effects - disorientation, dizziness, confusion, nausea
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Better to only have him unconscious from the blast for a couple of minutes, but then he can be very drowsy and fade in and out of sleep until he's found. I doubt he'd be terribly coherent when they find him, even if he is conscious.
i do have a very rough scene where they find him...in fact they aren't even sure he is alive at first. but since i don't want brain damage, i'll go your suggested route. (if i'm reading it right, he can still have a concussion, just not be unconscious the whole time, right?)
As for the amnesia, in his confusion after the concussion, perhaps the only thing he really remembers when he first wakes up is that he has to protect someone and that 'no one can know about him' - well, there you go,there's your psychological reason for him not to remember anything. His brain will wall off the memories because they're 'too dangerous' for him.i like that idea too. i do intend for him to never remember the bombing even when he fully recovers, as was suggested by others. when he gets told he was at ground zero of
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i do have a very rough scene where they find him...in fact they aren't even sure he is alive at first. but since i don't want brain damage, i'll go your suggested route. (if i'm reading it right, he can still have a concussion, just not be unconscious the whole time, right?)
As for the amnesia, in his confusion after the concussion, perhaps the only thing he really remembers when he first wakes up is that he has to protect someone and that 'no one can know about him' - well, there you go,there's your psychological reason for him not to remember anything. His brain will wall off the memories because they're 'too dangerous' for him.i like that idea too. i do intend for him to never remember the bombing even when he fully recovers, as was suggested by others. when he gets told he was at ground zero of ( ... )
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It wouldn't strain credulity at all if he could never remember the blast; that sort of thing has happened to lots of people.
Good luck with the story!
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