[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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[burningblossoms]

Huh. That's certainly something, James. Maybe you're a time traveler in that other life?

That seems as plausible as anything else given what's been happening lately.

[With people's souls flying out of their bodies and all to fight monsters.]

[frostythehitman]

Another life where I went back in time to freeze my ass off in the middle of winter to fight Nazis?

Yeah, makes about as much sense as anything else.

[burningblossoms]

I mean, the Nazis did need to be stopped.

Who knows.  Maybe you're the Eradicator, like in those old movies with Arnold Schwarzenjaeger?

[frostythehitman]

Okay that would be really cool.

And mostly I meant why would I go back in time to walk dozens of miles through the freezing Russian winter. I could've killed Nazis in nicer weather, at least, if I'd had a choice.

[burningblossoms]

Maybe you didn't. Have you considered the possibility that as the Eradicator, you don't feel cold? :3

[frostythehitman]

Maybe that's why they had me wearing spandex instead of an actual winter uniform.

Nah, I wish. I remember freezing my ass off out there, on top of everything else.

[burningblossoms]

Spandex? Seriously?

[frostythehitman]

Yup. Spandex and tights and everything. Plus one of these eye mask things.

I don't know whose crazy idea it was to send someone wearing that into the middle of a Russian winter.

[burningblossoms]

Domino mask?

...Are you sure you're not a reincarnation of this guy? Because that sounds like a good way to freeze to death.

[frostythehitman]

Aren't reincarnations supposed to be born right when somebody dies?

Because I am definitely not the reincarnation of some guy who died in the 40s. I'm not that old.

[burningblossoms]

I dunno! I'm not a priest. I'm just throwing out ideas.

But this is all really wild.

[frostythehitman]

No kidding. And it's not like any of our fake memories are connected anyway.

Unless you can think of a tie between modern Japan and WW2 battlefields.

[burningblossoms]

Not without sounding like a conspiracy theorist.

My memories are connected to other people though, which is strange.  But all in modern Japan.

[Well, except for the whole 'we may also be a band that goes from place to place fighting monsters inside the TV' but...]

[frostythehitman]

Connected as in, actually remembering each other in modern Japan? Or you just all happen to remember Japan and assume you all knew each other?

[burningblossoms]

We remember one another. Though admittedly, not always at the same time. I've definitely seen at least Minako Arisato, the Narukami twins, Naoto Shirogane, and Yosuke Hanamura. There are others too, but they aren't students here. I've never met them in my life.

[frostythehitman]

Whoa. I haven't heard of people remembering each other through the Retrospec memories before.

What's different about them here versus what you remember?

[burningblossoms]

Well, we fought monsters there.

Also we were all in a Japanese high school, which definitely isn't the case here. But really the monsters stand out. Like in a video game.

[frostythehitman]

What kind of monsters are we talking here?

[burningblossoms]

Things in weird shapes. Like a minotaur or a bunch of butterflies that form a mask.

Strange things. Not like goblins or something from a video game. I don't know how else to describe them other than Picasso's nightmares I guess.

[frostythehitman]

Picasso's nightmares? Never heard that one before.

[ But damn if he isn't going to steal it for a song title or something. "Picasso's nightmares"--damn Yukiko, that's pure poetry right there. ]

How'd you fight them?

[burningblossoms]

Hah well, they're like cubes and strange shapes and I don't really know how else to describe them.

But I definitely used magic and this weird fan weapon to fight them. Like a folding fan made of metal.

[frostythehitman]

Magic, Picasso's nightmares, and a folding fan made of metal in modern Japan.

Yeah okay, that sounds like a pretty crazy mix. And all of you remember that same stuff?

[burningblossoms]

Well, yes. Though obviously we don't all use fans. That's mine.

[frostythehitman]

Alright, then what about the rest of you? Was someone fighting with an umbrella? Or a purse?

[burningblossoms]

I remember a sword, a gun, and knives. Don't be stupid, tessenjutsu is a martial art, but purses aren't weapons.