{5th Demon; Text} Backdated to Christmas Day

[dejerate]

Hope everyone else is enjoying the holidays. Mika and I are gonna go give out presents at the orphanage later on.

But ah, in light of that sort of thing. Regarding memories from this other life? How do you deal with those, when there are awful memories on happier times of the year like this? It's just such a difference in trying to juggle it? At least, for me with what I remember. Because it's kinda hard to get into things while remembering the apocalypse. Not that I'm not trying. But it doesn't make this easy.

[Okay. So he remembered that a while back now, but still. It's. Rough. Even if he's trying to do what he can to distract himself from dwelling on it, from joining in to try keep himself busy. Hence helping out at the orphanage. Even if he would be the least convincing Santa.]

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[maidofmistakes]

You saw a world with no people, too? It's kinda creepy that way, isn't it? But also... yeah, kinda safe.

[dejerate]

Well, Mika was with me but. That might be because he was with me when we were about to decorate the tree and all? I dunno.

It was weird. But probably a good thing, since I didn't have Ashuramaru with me at the time.

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah. The same thing happened to me -- I went into Mr. Tsushima's ornament world, too.

I guess it's to remind us of something, but I don't know what. Maybe that we still have each other over the holidays? Or that we're supposed to save those worlds?

[dejerate]

So it wasn't just us then.

You think that might be it? About reminding us of the worlds we have to save. To remember? Part of me isn't sure if I want to, almost.

[maidofmistakes]

I guess so. I don't know. There were some bad parts, but I still want to be a hero. I still want to save everyone I can. ...Sorry. I guess I'm not helping with the Christmas thing.

[dejerate]

It's not that I was asking about Christmas specifically. But yeah, it's...hard, sometimes. To keep being optimistic with this stuff. With what I remember.

[maidofmistakes]

I don't know if I'd be the right person for that. I remember things getting better for me. But I still wonder. If that planet could've been saved, or if anyone else survived besides us.

[dejerate]

You remember things getting better? Hm. Maybe I kind of do and don't remember that at the same time. It's. Complicated.

[maidofmistakes]

You mean, better than nothing, but still pretty bad?

[dejerate]

I mean, I got away from the vampires. I escaped their underground city, but that cost me our family. I mean, not biologically, but we were a group of orphans from the same orphanage. Found out I'd been experimented on. Made myself a new family.

[maidofmistakes]

A new family, huh? In a new place without the people you knew before...

[dejerate]

Yeah. My Squad I worked with when I joined the military. And Guren, the guy that took me in after I escaped the vampires.

[maidofmistakes]

It sounds pretty nice. I know you'd still miss your family and your friends, and nothing can really step into that, but...

[dejerate]

Right. It's not like I was trying to replace the others. But, I dunno, once I found out Mika was still alive, that...that changed things. Helped me be able to open myself up to the squad more.

[maidofmistakes]

Someone else from your past, you mean?

[dejerate]

Yeah. Mika is here too!

[maidofmistakes]

That's pretty nice. My sister remembers a lot of the same stuff I do. We must have been sisters then, too. It's weird that I still don't remember her.

[dejerate]

I hadn't thought of that. People still being family or something, even in their memories. I mean, I guess that's kind of the same thing with Mika and I. We were both still at the same orphanage together, that's how we met, here and in our memories.

Maybe you will remember her later? Or you had a different sister in your memories? I dunno.

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah, but we remember having the same family, being sent to Earth, everything. We even got our dog back. I just don't remember her.

[dejerate]

Weird. You sure it isn't just, I don't know, different dimensions or something that you were sisters? Kind of weird if you don't remember her yet at all.

[maidofmistakes]

I mean, I remember an alternate timeline where there was someone named Power Girl instead of me. Something like that?

[dejerate]

I dunno how it works. I just remember reading about the idea somewhere. Probably one of my comics or something. So probably something like that? I guess?