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Cleo Ritter
5/24 near Recolle University
Good afternoon. For those who don't know me, my name is Cleo Ritter, and I am a rather recent addition to this Retrospec community. I have some questions, to those of you who have received the strange visions after being made a part of this. Specifically, if you're willing, I'd like to hear about those visions. I thought if we collaborate and make a list of what kinds of visions each person receives, we might be able to find a pattern as to who gets what, and perhaps piece together a more complete understanding of what is going on here. Thank you in advance for being willing to share this, and I hope this will prove useful.

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[Tatsuo shrugs. What can you do when a shadowy social media company is trying to ruin your life?]

Hopefully they won't all be like that from now on. But yeah, this guy whose memories I'm seeing was involved in something questionable.

I wonder if that's better or worse than monsters?

[she's seen some shit already.]

Monsters? Is that what you've been seeing?

[She nods.]

I've seen two visions. One, I was in a steel city floating above the ocean. I... No, the person the vision belonged to, wore armor and wielded a sword, and fought some kind of scaled monster, though the details remain fuzzy.

The second was sword training as well, against a man she called her grandfather.

[Tatsuo blinks in surprise]

Wow. That sounds really... intense.

[She shakes her head.]

More intense is that the owner of these memories seems to not be human.

[His brow crinkles slightly as he tries to consider the implications of that. He's seen a few posts about body modifications on the app, but those had mostly seemed like cosmetic alterations (with the exception of on kid's gnarly looking arm.]

Not human? Like, vampire or werewolf not-human or more like alien not-human? Or robot not-human?

[He can't help but think of Togusa's mini-tanks. Stop being such a dork Tatsuo.]

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... I am not entirely certain. But the body that held the sword... The hands were covered in fur, and had claws. And there was a tail.

The grandfather, though, did seem to be fully human.

Huh. So a place where humans and non-humans exist side by side. Have you heard of anyone else having similar memories yet?

[He wants to ask if she's worried she'll suddenly develop claws and a tail, but if she hasn't thought of it yet (though knowing Cleo she probably has) he doesn't want to be the first to bring it up.]

[She is, indeed, quite worried about it... And she doesn't know how to bring it up herself. Still, her expression is troubled as she talks.]

None yet. Though I've heard even stranger things. A "dog army", for example... And the visions I received were compared to video games.

[Tatsuo leans back and takes a long sip of his coffee.]

What do you make of all this? The completely different things people are seeing? Dog armies, fighting monsters, mini-tanks with AIs, zombies... and then those of us who seem to get more mundane memories.

[She sighs, leaning forward.]

... The visions tend to be triggered by similar things happening, right? Fighting a giant insect gave me a vision of fighting a monster. Your apartment burning gave you a vision of a fire.

At least for two out of the three I've had. Like you said, the fire. And the first one, I was talking to Yin about her dragon tattoo and then I got a memory about one. I can't seem to recall saying or doing anything in relation to the second one though.

But the similarities for the first and third are really hard to ignore.

[She nods.]

Do you think it's possible that we've been looking at it backwards? It's not that there's a memory, and similar events trigger it. Rather, there's an event, and then whatever Retrospec does makes something similar up in order to put it into our heads easier.

Sort of a make it up as you go along? Maybe. We'll have to see how consistent the memories we get are as we get more. They'd be more likely to contradict if things were being made up after the fact.

That's true... Keep a log of every vision you receive, and I'll do the same. If they're capable of editing our memories, such as with horses and chocobos, they can correct any inconsistencies in our minds, but perhaps not if we have it written down elsewhere.

Yeah, I'll do that. But who knows what level of surveillance Jim still has us under.

[Meaning, how do they protect their records from tampering if they can't be sure Retrospec isn't still spying on them and will see where they keep the journals in the first place.]

Redundant copies entrusted to others would be best, but that would involve far too much time for every vision, as well as how to update that which you have given a friend...

[she shakes her head.]

... No, that is not what I wished to speak of.

[Ah, so they've gotten a bit off topic.]

Are you worried the cosmetic changes some people have undergone could mean claws are in your future?

[There's a long pause, and then she nods.]

That's right. Whatever that was in my memory was inhuman, and... I know those visions involve monsters already.

Whatever this is that's happening to us, it's rather outside of our control. But that doesn't mean we have to take it lying down. These memories don't belong to us, so if we don't want them to change who we are, we don't have to let them. And as scary as it is that your outside form might change, it's not going to change the fact that you're you. You'll always be Cleo, a woman who likes cute cat things and wants to be a police officer.

[There's a brief pause, and then she relaxes, letting out a soft laugh under her breath.]

That's right. I should have thought of that myself. I'm sorry to make you state the obvious like that.

... Thank you, Tatsuo.

[Tatsuo just smiles at nods]

No, it's alright. I had to have someone tell me the same thing recently.

... You did? That's surprising.

[she thought you had your life together, tatsuo

... aside from the whole. fire. and cooking. and.

okay, maybe she shouldn't have thought that.]

It was right after I got my first memory. I was worrying over how weird it felt to have it in my brain.

[learning to adult is hard yo]