Brainchild

An adult awakens to find his consciousness in a twelve-year-old boy's body at a boys' home, surrounded by well-meaning staff who insist he accept his new identity and play along; he struggles with diminished strength and unfamiliar limbs while memories of his previous life and expertise with personal flyers make him at once skilled and out of place. Under gentle pressure from a physician and caretakers to conceal his disorientation, he joins the boys in a competitive aerial game using PFs, navigating physical limitations, social dynamics, and the unsettling possibility that his situation may be part of a larger scheme. The tale examines identity, bodily dislocation, and the uneasy balance between self-knowledge and performed roles.