Never seen a plot like this one for love live, wasn't sure how they'd tie in maki meeting nico so regularly at a hospital.

yay new nicomaki

THE FEELS in the the middle. I wish there was a bit more at the end but I still love it

I have trouble coming up with a fatal-if-not-done surgery that would a) result in memory loss but b) not have at least part of Nico's little head shaved. Presumably some kind of benign brain tumor — non-cancerous, so she wouldn't be all chemo'd up, but still large and pressing enough to demand action, and some kind of robot/laparoscopic procedure so she kept most of her hair?

Anyway, very cute story. It's all plot device disease, so I shouldn't overthink it.

Shit
I'm not crying

Nice.

I have trouble coming up with a fatal-if-not-done surgery that would a) result in memory loss but b) not have at least part of Nico's little head shaved.

lol didnt even think of this

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I actually ended up going back and doing some research because I'm really bad at not overthinking these things, and came to the conclusion that the most likely diagnosis was a ependymoma — a nonaggressive primary tumor, and the most common glioma among young children — in the brainstem/upper spinal cord. Ependymomas don't really respond to chemotherapy, so she wouldn't lose her hair that way, and the position would let the surgeons go in from the back; she might have a bald spot low in back, but one that's easily covered.

(Nico probably was having offstage headaches, vision problems, incontinence, and seizures; staying all Nico-Nico-Ni through it is impressive.)

The couple of months of post-surgical retrograde amnesia would then be a result not of the surgery itself, but sort of due to the brain's rebound after the cranial pressure was released; probably the whole period while she had the tumor is fuzzy at best.

thank you for your service