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Happy New Years, users.

I'll cut to the chase; the barrier we instilled a few months ago is decaying quickly and we're sorting through the new data as fast as we can. This barrier was originally designed to contain a rogue error. There are several of you who have taken care of this issue and from here we will handle the rest...thank you. The influx of data will help us decode our next steps.

As mentioned, we've spent December tracing several magical sources that are coming up in our readings. We're doing the best we can to trace Clarence--Mr. Vanderweele, and corral the effects he's altering in the city. I believe we're ready to tear down the firewall and begin exploring further. If our information is correct, we're really breaking the boundaries of the layers we've discovered lately! It's exciting, don't you think?

The only information I can offer is that we will need you to be strong no matter what happens. We believe things have changed outside of security measures we've set in place, though we will need more data to understand the best way to stabilize the city from his control. We understand if you cannot and do not wish to help, but please know we're doing everything we can.

Please take care.

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retr

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Did something new happen?

I remembered enough to change.

Me and Elliot argued a few weeks ago but things haven’t been the same since . . . A while. I don’t know what to do to turn things around before I can’t.

Edited 2019-01-28 02:05 (UTC)

What did you argue about?

What is it that you need to turn around? If you feel that something has turned and should be turned back, pinpointing that may lead somewhere.

That I understood my past self, what I did, and I don’t feel like there’s a big difference between us. In the same situation I’d do it all again.

It was that or let humanity drop dead.

[ ... ]

Eren. You want to be a paramedic now.

Before I say anything more, why do you think you two are that similar?

I haven’t even been thinking about Paramedicine lately.

[ . . . ]

Because I’d do the same thing. I’d make the same choices under the same circumstance. Especially when there was no other choice I agreed with.

Edited 2019-01-30 11:16 (UTC)

[ ... ]

I think you should think about paramedicine more.

Even if you would make the same choices in those same circumstances, that doesn't mean you're in that situation now.

Please remember that.

I don’t know if that’s the safest thing to do.

Not rejecting the idea, I’m just really not sure.

Why do you have to paint yourself in the same shade as your past self? Why do you have to think of it as, "If I were in that position, would I do the same thing?"

Are you so deep into your new memories that's all you can think of?

Is it really moving forward if you're thinking backwards?

I’m not
I’m not
I’m not thinking backwards

[ when you get served by your sister

honestly, it takes a while for him to reply. ]

no

[ because how could he tell her that she’s wrong, there, when she wasn’t? ]

If you'll remember something else, remember you once told me you wanted a choice outside of what the past Eren had. If you were so similar to the other Eren, you would still have a short life expectancy.

You no longer have that. You are beyond that.

You are no longer him.

[ She may be serving him, but she is also projecting. To see Eren thinking he was so like the person in his memories is something she can't accept. She can't stand it for herself, and she won't let Eren think it, no matter how true it is or not.

They are words she has tried to tell herself. They are words she is trying to tell him.

It's selfish. ]