retrospec | 002 - TM (TW- Death Mention)

Terra Mason
06/11/17
near Recollé University

blue and green no longer exist outside of a few select cases.

somehow, retrospec had the power to do that, along with everything else
what don't they have the power to do? i wonder what else they've done that we may have just not noticed...
the other day, someone got me thinking about patterns, and i started to realize something...

let me conduct a bit of a morbid social experiment, okay?

but in the interest of fairness, i'll go first

when i was little my mother died. it was fast and sudden--a case of severe pneumonia. she was taken so fast. thief in the night, yeah? the first thing i can remember in my entire life is the look in my dad's eyes as he tried explaining it to me. i was too young to understand at the time...but even as i got older, i still didnt. how can she get that sick, out of nowhere? and just die. i know there's tons of rational reasons for it, but it doesn't sit well, it never has. i realize that this sounds like im refusing to accept the truth but...i can't help wondering.
the pneumonia was like a switch. she just died. the universe didn't find her fit to exist anymore
or maybe something else

i think its obvious what im getting at

so, show of hands, everyone.
who has one or more dead parents?

and if you know i already know the answer to that question...i'm sorry for bringing this back up. really.

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[He hates admitting this. Hates it with a passion. But the fact is it's relevant, and something that he's been thinking about himself.]

My father's dead.

My mother
There's something wrong with her. Something happened to her brain, early onset demensia. She doesn't remember me half the time. The other half she only remembers me as a kid.

Imagine all these people getting fake memories, and she can't even have her real ones. [So he hates Retrospec for wasting that ability (as far as he can tell, that's what they're doing).]

But I think the one guy is right. Death just happens. These people can only be considered guilty by inaction.

Edited (forgot to add more on) 2017-06-11 07:00 (UTC)

i'm sorry to hear that. honestly. i'm not talking about this for kicks or anything.

that's really, truly awful.

I don't know. it just seems

like too big of a coincidence

Even if they're not our parents, I think we all have dead people.

A co-worker that didn't show up one day. A great-aunt. That guy that delivered your mail.

Sometimes it just happens to be someone you love.

It feels like hell, and you'd be a monster to not feel like they got yanked out of your universe, but it just happens. I hate doubting reality as much as the next person, but I don't think they just ripped her out of existence. Not unless they changed some weather pattern that made her happen to catch pneumonia, and even that's death by indifference.

am i crazy for wondering about this, then?

or just a messed up boy who misses him mom?

i don't think it's out of the question that they can kill people
and if i can prove that they can do that...well,

ugh

i don't know. i just want to connect the dots. Shrinking, fruit, colors...it's hard not to wonder if it's all the same agenda.

I don't think killing people is part of the agenda. That's less people for them to fuck with and watch.

And you are probably a messed up boy who misses his mom.

But like I said, if someone isn't messed up by death at least a little, they don't got much of a heart.

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