is it better that he didn't get this memory when he was 9, who can say

[belowaverage]

Who else remembers historical figures in their past lives, except they're weird?

I'm not talking 'oh I met Lincoln once and he was a little more casual than history books make him out to be' or whatever. I'm talking about 'Francis Drake was a woman with gigantic breasts' kind of weird.

That's not a hypothetical example.

Comments

[memoryshifter]

What's a bit of stabbing between friends? One of my exes used to get in knife fights all the time, and sometimes we would spar. I earned a few stabs.

I don't remember Francis Drake as a woman, though admittedly, it is nice seeing that such a pithy thing wouldn't change the course of her fate. Or his. Whichever.

_{[This memory thing is confusing.]}

[belowaverage]

I'm pretty sure I died from getting stabbed through my stomach, but sure.

[memoryshifter]

Well, that's not friendly stabbing, then. That's a whole different situation.

Sorry.

[belowaverage]

I'll forgive you as long as we go back to talking about Francis Drake now.

[memoryshifter]

Of course. What else did you want to say about them?

[belowaverage]

Just that it's weird. You think you know things about these people you've never met, like you think you know that magic isn't real and people don't have tails etc. etc.