[text] there's so many generic pop punk angst lyrics i could use for this tbh

[frostythehitman]

I'm taking a poll here, because I have no idea what to make of all these hallucinomemories.

Is anyone else remembering stuff from actual history? As in, straight out of the textbooks. I wasn't sure of it until I got my history final back, but there's a few questions on there that I didn't know the answer to and had to guess on, based on what I remembered. And I got them all right.

And if anyone else is remembering real history: are all of your hallucinomemories real? Because I'm pretty sure mine are a mix of real history and a bunch of crap they threw in just to mess with me.

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[frostythehitman]

Ah, right. I've heard of a few people leaving Retrospec and forgetting all about it.

Which is messed up enough in itself. Like one day we're all going to forget each other and all these hallucinomemories like none of this ever mattered to start with.

[prometheanflame]

And if we forget about this, how would we talk to each other? As far as I know, there isn't anything I have in common with the people I met here apart from the visions. Tell me, would you still talk us if you didn't remember how and why we met?

[frostythehitman]

Easy. I wouldn't.

You're right, we have nothing in common except we're both getting jerked around by the same assholes. Plenty of relationships are forged through a common struggle, but if you get rid of the struggle, what's there left to forge anything with?

[ James is practicing the ancient art of "the simile" right now.

is it working ]

[prometheanflame]

[Give him a minute to figure out what he's saying.]

I'd think that after some point, our friendship has cemented that we don't care how we met, but your point still stands.

Compare now to how we spoke before I found the video.

[frostythehitman]

Sure. But we've only ever talked through Retrospec. I don't even know what you look like. If one of us was to just forget Retrospec one day, how would we remember to keep talking to people we only ever spoke to on an app that doesn't exist for us any more?

And what if both of us forgot Retrospec then? Would us talking to each other have ever existed at all?

[ If an app invades your privacy and no one's around to notice it, did it ever happen? DEEP PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS WITH JAMES BARNES ]

[prometheanflame]

This is a question for someone who had forgotten for a few months before returning, but my theory is that they would remember a person, but not how they met or other details.

It's like if after that vision, I would know the name "Joseph Joestar" and the fact we knew each other, but I had never met that person in Recolle.

[frostythehitman]

Yeah but you wouldn't remember the vision any more. So it wouldn't mean anything to you after all. It'd be like he never existed at all.

[prometheanflame]

...To be frank, I'm worried at the possibility.

I'd be guilty of depriving you of a history investigator.

[frostythehitman]

Aww, that close already?

Although you make a good point, Mr. History Investigator. Something tells me I'm going to need to be investigating a lot of history, if these memories keep up.

[prometheanflame]

I don't specialize in World War 2 (there's a lot of amateur historians interested in that, however) but I can provide some perspective if needed.

As far as I know, there's no sign of forgetting any of you just yet. I'm not that old.

[frostythehitman]

Perspective, huh? What's that supposed to mean?

[prometheanflame]

In short, it means I can interpret what's happening in your dreams and explain the context based on the clues you give me.

[frostythehitman]

Wait, for real?

...What do you know about Bastogne in Belgium?

[prometheanflame]

In context of World War 2? That is the location of the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, I believe. A German siege on the town was ultimately ended by American forces.

Do you remember experiencing the event?

[frostythehitman]

Not the battle. It was after, by a couple weeks I think. It's one of the only places I remember by name from the war.

It's also where we fought a bunch of Nazi vampires.

[prometheanflame]

[Isn't it great that Mohammed isn't from Part 2 and would not receive a bizarre memory from this conversation?]

I fought a sentient puddle, why am I confounded by this?

[frostythehitman]

A sentient puddle?

I can't tell if that's weirder than Nazi vampires or not.

[prometheanflame]

I could see something resembling vampirism through ethically dubious experiments (if it were even possible) but I can't think of any way the same could be true of water unless magic was involved.

To be fair, I also have memories of pyrokinesis.

[frostythehitman]

Pyrokinesis, huh?

Do you mean you remember throwing fire around yourself, or were you just watching someone else do it?

[prometheanflame]

I was setting things on fire, both as a child and in a fight. I'm certain that was all me.

[He was using fire in a fight against water, but that's dumb and he doesn't want to talk about it.]

[frostythehitman]

Alright, so how much did "all you" end up destroying with the flames?

[prometheanflame]

As a child, I set part of a stick on fire, but I could control how much. I'm not sure the extent of my abilities in the later memory, but those flames were far more powerful. I wonder how I manged to survive without serious burns.

[frostythehitman]

[ Boy this sure is sounding kind of familiar!

Oh, because he's just remembered something brand new again. Okay. ]

Sounds like it might've been part of the pyrokinesis.

Apparently two of the guys on my team in the war could set themselves on fire whenever they wanted and they never got hurt or burned from it.

[prometheanflame]

I believe there is clothing one can wear to reduce burns, but are you saying they set themselves on fire in a mundane matter or is this also pyrokinesis?

[frostythehitman]

Definitely pyrokinesis. One second they're just normal guys (except one was always in a speedo for some reason), and the next they're both engulfed in flames and flying around.