...The problem is we have no idea if it's possible to safely remove a Yeerk that way, and even if it was, I think I'd rather be tied up for 3 days than go through dangerous brain surgery!
Yeah, good point.
I don't think it is; in books where you get a Yeerk's POV, something along these lines is commonly stated, "...I felt my neurons attaching to the host's neurons..."
So, unless you plan to sever ties between billions of individual neurons, which are cells, you cannot really do this. I don't even think this is possible. Even if you could, it would not be "natural" and the ties may not reconnect to the functions of the host's brain, which could cause disability or death.
I'd wait three days. If I had the oatmeal problem, well, I guess I'd just have to deal with randomly spazzing out every so often.
I agree with this.
The reason I don't think it's possible is because from the information we have of how a Yeerk's biology is that they are able to cling on and leech onto literally everything the host has, effectively BECOMING THAT HOST. To a point that it seems to go BEYOND a physical brain connection, for it can experience e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g (including sensations and feelings and memories) that the host feels.
Not only that, but the Yeerk also seeps some of its feelings across to the host, as we've seen. Unlike the host, the Yeerk is able to control what the other can sense, but in the moments of the
Fugue the Yeerk loses this control.
This suggests a reciprocal exchange of neurons at work.
I think the Yeerk BECOMES an extension of the host's brain. Letting go ONLY when it wants to.
With the
Yeerkbane, we don't know if it did its Yeerk-preying thing without damaging or killing the helpless host.
But I imagine, that much like with the surgery idea, it would involve brain damage.