diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/brain_item.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/brain_item.dm
index 5ad58df488f..18b440e538a 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/brain_item.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/brain_item.dm
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 /obj/item/organ/brain/New()
 	..()
 	spawn(5)
-		for(var/mob/living/carbon/brain/bmob in src) //I'm going to hell for this, but there's no other way to stop these runtimes.
-			bmob.client.screen.len = null //clear the hud
+		if(brainmob && brainmob.client)
+			brainmob.client.screen.len = null //clear the hud
 
 /obj/item/organ/brain/proc/transfer_identity(var/mob/living/carbon/H)
 	name = "\the [H]'s [initial(src.name)]"
diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/posibrain.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/posibrain.dm
index 8540507d057..15e71c98abc 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/posibrain.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/brain/posibrain.dm
@@ -169,17 +169,16 @@
 	..()
 
 /obj/item/device/mmi/posibrain/New()
-	for(var/mob/living/carbon/brain/bmob in src) //Also going to hell for this, but this should fix the runtimes.
-		bmob = new /mob/living/carbon/brain(src)
-		bmob.name = "[pick(list("PBU","HIU","SINA","ARMA","OSI"))]-[rand(100, 999)]"
-		bmob.real_name = src.brainmob.name
-		bmob.loc = src
-		bmob.container = src
-		bmob.robot_talk_understand = 1
-		bmob.stat = 0
-		bmob.silent = 0
-		bmob.brain_op_stage = 4.0
-		dead_mob_list -= bmob
+	src.brainmob = new(src)
+	src.brainmob.name = "[pick(list("PBU","HIU","SINA","ARMA","OSI"))]-[rand(100, 999)]"
+	src.brainmob.real_name = src.brainmob.name
+	src.brainmob.loc = src
+	src.brainmob.container = src
+	src.brainmob.robot_talk_understand = 1
+	src.brainmob.stat = 0
+	src.brainmob.silent = 0
+	src.brainmob.brain_op_stage = 4.0
+	dead_mob_list -= src.brainmob
 
 	..()