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[devilsadvocato]

Heard some friends and family remember a different version of our shared history than I do. Anybody else out there have different memories from people who are close to you?

It's weird! Between us all we have a crap load of photos and videos of events one side or the other doesn't remember. Like a close family friend who was my husband's best man at our wedding- he doesn't remember the wedding but he's there in the photo album. There are gifts that friends don't remember giving. Letters sent to relatives years ago that disappeared because they weren't sent in their memories. Yet all of us have our jobs and our homes from our personal version of history.

Does this mean paradoxes can exist without the universe exploding or something the way it does in sci-fi movies?

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[maidofmistakes]

Yeah, a couple months ago. Mr. Tsushima and a few other people remember a whole other me, who was a foster kid and didn't have a sister.

[devilsadvocato]

Family members were different for you too? My family is the same but my in-laws are a different story. Supposedly my nieces and nephews still existed but they weren't siblings and their dad didn't even exist. How do people jump families between timelines?

[maidofmistakes]

I guess it's like whoever at Retrospec controls new lives or whatever hit the randomizer button. If they have that. I don't know.

[devilsadvocato]

It sure feels like it. I thought people would only disappear because something prevented their birth in whatever timeline like that movie Return to the Future when the protag is trying to get his parents together so he and his siblings still exist. This is more like a reality tv show where people swap lives and hang out with a different family.

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah. I think I'm happier this way, but sometimes I wonder. I mean, do you think that's what this whole thing is about? Or what if there were a whole other world with another Recollé, where things were the same as always?

[devilsadvocato]

Like different dimensions? Like this situation needs to get any more complicated.
Seriously hoping Retrospec has zero control over the specifics. Messed up how this has messed with our lives. Even worse if they can pick and choose the set up.

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah... I don't think they can, though. Wouldn't they have undone the killer's life, then? Made him someone else?

[devilsadvocato]

Maybe? If his way of killing was something he gets back from his previous life it would be a matter of how likely he is to kill in another life right?

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah. Oh, man... I guess timelines are pretty fragile things, too. I just remembered something about that.