001. Text // Kick it right out of frame - does it matter?

[drydrown]

You know, this may be a slightly inane question, but since apparently I'm being made to deal with the local social media conspiracy firsthand, this is hardly the stupidest thing I'm going to decide to do. At least, as far as the rest of you lot tend to tell it.

So! While we're all here and blundering our way through this holiday season – does anyone have any idea what the ratio is here for "people remembering reasonably normal lives" set against "people whose past lives were apparently some sort of weird genre-fiction mess"? If you want to describe your particular brand of genre-fiction mess, do feel free, but it's not required.

Asking for a friend, obviously. ♡

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[scythegun]

[The timing on this is perfect, he's been meaning to talk to Cumore about his memories and this makes it sound like he's remembered something. Maybe it'll be useful to Jaeger, who knows!!]

From the sound of it, most people remember bizarre things! I've spoken to a few people who have had some very strange memories, none of which sound even remotely normal!

So what sort of strange genre-fiction mess have you been remembering?

[drydrown]

What makes you think that I have? I could be remembering perfectly normal things and feeling like the odd one out, after all. ♡ As it stands, I'm not finding it anything to make a fuss over - it's strange having memories shoved into my head, but it's not nearly the unpleasant experience everyone's making it out to be.

How about you - where do you fall on this little spectrum we have going?

[scythegun]

As I've said, everyone's been remembering strange things! I think it'd be a little odd if your memories were perfectly normal!

My memories have all fallen on the "weird genre-fiction mess" side of things, unfortunately! Though thankfully I haven't recalled anything too unpleasant!

[drydrown]

And thank God for that much, I suppose. Several of the people I know have apparently been remembering things that are positively atrocious.

[prometheanflame]

Most of my friends recall worlds with superpowers or had plenty of adventures if they didn't. I myself was part of some sort of traveling band of men that fought monsters.

[drydrown]

Oh, how charming! ♡ What sort of monsters are we talking?

[...God, why are all of your worlds like this.]

[prometheanflame]

Shadows - manifestations of what people in general repressed. The one I recall fighting is a sentient puddle of water that can sink into sand to disappear, but I also recall confronting people that controlled Personas, like a man who could shoot bullets anywhere he wanted and a man who could create mass illusions.

[Jojo's is confusing enough when one isn't mislead into thinking you're from the same world the Personas are.]

[feistytrader]

I'm not actually sure what the ratio is. 5:1, weird to normal?

I befriend monsters, if that answers your genre question. Maybe you can get a better idea of our memory demographics through internet polling.

[drydrown]

Monsters really do seem to be a common theme around here, though most fight them instead of befriending them, from what I've seen.

[feistytrader]

I'm pretty sure most monsters won't chill out if you fight them until you come to an understanding, either. Or fit into weird little balls.

[He's more than made his peace with it, but there's no way he can't describe that and not have it sound absolutely baffling.]

Have you remembered any monsters?

[elevelvetor]

[ ...........you know what. she wants to know if he thinks she's joking or if he's actually going to believe her. ]

i suppose it depends on what you'd call "living in an elevator".

[drydrown]

Well, that likewise depends on the reason, don't you think? ♡

[elevelvetor]

it is her place of birth and work, alongside her residency.

[frostythehitman]

i haven't exactly been counting or anything but it's been like half and half for the people i've talked to

[ this is not actually true--James just thinks everyone's life is mundane compared to his garbage fire memories. That, or he's forgotten what other people have mentioned to him entirely, so therefore they must be pretty normal, right? ]

if you're counting them up yourself then i'm about half and half too
depending on what you count as "normal"

[drydrown]

I'd mostly count it as something that wouldn't be completely and hideously out of place before Retrospec...happened, for lack of a better term.

[frostythehitman]

oh
nvm then
i'm all-out on the weird genre fiction mess thing

[floret]

I don't know! I don't think I've remembered anything that unusual, but I can't really tell whether I'm actually "remembering" anything at all.

However, I did speak to one gentleman on this app who told me he thought there was a 90 percent chance I would end up with powers. Which is hard for me to imagine, but if it's true in the general sense, then I guess the ratio is about 9:1.

[drydrown]

[...Well, that's a lot of "not terribly promising, isn't it, but - ]

What do you mean, you can't tell? Is there just not a clear divide, or...?

[floret]

Well

I guess it's a little hard to explain.
Memories are malleable things, and there's still a lot we don't understand about the way they're constructed and recalled. In the right circumstances, it can be really easy to convince yourself you remember something that never happened. So if I've just become a member of some kind of strange social media platform, and everyone says they're remembering all kinds of strange things . . . and then later on, someone tells me something, and I suddenly get a feeling like 'Ah, it's just like that other time,' or someone says they used to do something, and suddenly I think, 'Oh, so did I' . . .

I don't know. It's strange. Is that really something I remembered, or is it just the power of suggestion? Especially if it's augmented by whatever kind of technology is involved in making an app other people can't retain memories of if they haven't been invited to it, or making things spontaneously lose and regain colors.

[explodosafe]

I'd say it's fifty-fifty, but I've noticed that most people end up knowing others who have similar weird or normal backgrounds.

Also, 'normal's become reeeeaaaaaallllyyyy relative in this city.

[drydrown]

I'd class it as something that wouldn't be completely out of place in our lives before all of this happened, personally, though if you've got another definition i'd like to hear it.

[explodosafe]

Not really. Guess I've just gotten pretty jaded with how being shrunk and having to fight for your life against giant bugs and squirrels has become nothing more than another tuesday in my life ever since I entered this city.

How's the poll going so far? More weird or more normal 'memories'?

[twostringsonebow]

[Oh, he is so going to pull Cumore's leg.]

If you were to ask the me in my memories who was more normal, he would say his world. It isn't globular like they claim our own is.

[drydrown]

You know, I was wondering if I would hear from you on this sort of again.

[twostringsonebow]

I'm flattered but woefully taken.
Though... there is evidence to that "theory", you know.
I experienced it this past August.