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[rebellions]

Ragna Edgson 6/20 near Tisse

so those shitty tasks we're all stuck doing aside question for y'all has anyone here remembered the same thing twice? or three times or four or fifty kinda like that deja whutever crap where you've seen a thing before except with memories asking for a actually screw it i'm asking for myself

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[maskreant]

like eating cereal in the morning?

[rebellions]

very funny
no you dumbass i mean more like
something that could only happen once
or is so specific it couldn't just happen every tuesday

[maskreant]

[ Let him think about this... ]

a time loop?

[rebellions]

what like in the movies and shit?
... ain't that a little too ridiculous even by our standards?

[Okay, he's never actually thought about that possibility and now that he mentions it, it would explain a lot... but seriously? Time loops? Psh. Clearly Akira needs to stop playing so many video games if that's the first thing he can think of.]

[maskreant]

i summon things out of my head and some people are fantasy sky pirates.

think about it.

[ IT'S PRETTY POSSIBLE? ]

[loudmouths]

uh not exactly but some of my memories feel... off?

it's hard to explain, but almost like they're not lined up right

[rebellions]

like what
out of order?
pretty sure that's always the case

[loudmouths]

no, that’s not what I mean… all of mine are out of order, but it’s something different
Like… one life versus another, almost… like there’s something that doesn’t line up, even when I try to put them all in order chronologically (which is super hard to do, just fyi!)
And it’s not like this life compared to the past one, it’s almost like there’s something inconsistent with my past life where certain memories feel like… something’s missing and it makes them feel uneven…
Like I said, it’s hard to explain

[rebellions]

yeah no shit

[Like he doesn't know figuring their order out is next to impossible.]

so it's not just regaining them that's tripping you out
memories themselves are fucked up

maybe your memory's been altered or some shit
since we're already dropping all the sci-fi tropes around here

[windowdressing]

I have the same obese cat in the background of a lot of mine, but I doubt that's the kind of thing you're talking about.

[rebellions]

do i REALLY need to put a "not counting every time you eat a burger go to work or take a shit" disclaimer on this
no genius that's not it

[windowdressing]

I'm just saying it's weird that this cat inexplicably shows up fucking everywhere, in bars and fields and corporate offices, when it's not even mine or my other self's.

I know it's not repeating the same scene but it's more of a weird deja vu thing than eating a burger.

[rebellions]

how do you know it's not yours
or it could belong to someone you know

ooor there's a cat stalking you
which tbh doesn't sound too bad to me

[floret]

Jamie Doh Not as such, but I have remembered a confusing number of prison-break-related things? Like, I guess I'm not sure how far apart any of these incidents actually happened, but it's starting to feel like all I did was break in and out of prisons. (Or, you know, be an accessory to others doing that)

[rebellions]

"professional prison-breaking" sounds like a cool career choice
maybe i should give it a shot too

[floret]

I can't imagine it comes with any benefits, though. Unless there's a union for it? United Prison Break Guild 145, or something like that?

[rebellions]

dude that's badass af
but i wouldn't expect a pension plan from it

alternatively you might've just been testing their security
or you and your pals weren't very smooth criminals

[eyestitch]

heeeeeey, you're learning! i'm so glad people are actually giving up on that old 'asking for a friend' crap! doesn't it feel better? way, way better?

[Marvel as she completely avoids addressing his question at all.]

[rebellions]

hell no
but if that keeps people like you from getting on my case then i might as well

[Gee, he's so thankful for that meaningful contribution.]

[selfloving]

Something that only could have happened once...

That doesn't make for a lot of options, does it? Even considering major catastrophic events, there isn't much that can't repeat.

[rebellions]

ikr graduating from high school is p much a catastrophe

[It's also not by any means what he was referring to, but hell if he's admitting that.]

you've got something to contribute or are you just gonna state the obvious?

[dulynoted]

How similar are the memories? Exactly the same? Or are you able to discern differences?

[rebellions]

not like
super super SAME
there's a person in one who wasn't there in the other
or things go a little bit differently
but the result is always the same

[dulynoted]

What is the result, if you don't mind me asking?

[rebellions]

i sure as hell do mind
just imagine it was an invasion of hun army riding rainbow farting unicorns or some shit like that
or something equally unlikely to happen twice

*unlikely in a world without retrospec i should add