boy are his issues developing!! hearty chortle

[frostythehitman]

James Barnes shared a photo. 7/26 near Recolle

Welcome to the latest development in Retrospec's weirdness. They sent me these comics about myself a few months ago and most of them were really messed up. Damaged covers, missing pages, all sorts of rips and tears, you name it. But I just took another look at them today and a bunch of the damage is fixed now. Most of the covers on the Young Allies ones are mostly restored, and a lot of pages that were ripped out earlier are now back in the books like they were never gone. I don't know what it means, but it's creepy. Now here's where I ask the obligatory questions: has anyone else had anything similar happen, what's Retrospec playing at here, are they crawling into my windows when I'm asleep to glue new pages in, etc. etc.

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Comments

[gnasher]

actually this is pretty long

**is this a situation where the comics and you are weirdly connected? like they're taking or losing damage as things change with you?

[frostythehitman]

[ Well. That Wiki article is going to haunt him forever now, so thanks for that. ]

If they are, then it's not like Dorian Gray.

But everything about Toro and the Red Skull are new. Those weren't in there before, and I did get memories about them over the past few weeks before I looked at the comics again.

[ He's only just now noticing the pattern between what got filled in--both in the comics and in his head. ]

[gnasher]

[sharks aren't natural nurturers sorry]

that sounds pretty damn connected to me.

and puts more evidence in the "you're a boy wonder" column or whatever?

[frostythehitman]

Well I haven't started aging in the comics yet, so at least it's not full-on Dorian Gray just yet.

But if that's what counts for a "boy wonder" then whoever made these comics had really low standards. The biggest wonder is how no one ever figured out that Bucky the random army brat was also Bucky the identical-looking kid in shorts.

[gnasher]

seriously. shorts aren't a costume?? and not changing the name is kind of lazy, oi

[gnasher]

hold on, are you the same age as the shortsboy?

[frostythehitman]

I hope not, he looks like he's 9. The comics never say how old he's supposed to be, though.

Might be around my age, though, because the shorts fit me just fine right now.

[gnasher]

i'm sorry: "the" shorts

retrospec sent you a 9 year olds shorts?

[frostythehitman]

Actually they sent me the whole outfit. But yeah, they did. I've been wearing them nonstop for like a month and a half now. It'd have to be a pretty big 9 year old to fit into these things.

[gnasher]

can i ask why?

[he hopes that washes are happening and "nonstop" is not literal]

[frostythehitman]

Because they're one of the only things left in the world that are blue and it's all I've got to rub in Retrospec's face.

[gnasher]

[...]

that's the best response i've seen to this stupid ass crazy retrospec bullshit. and i did a literal "screw you" magazine shoot with my cousin.

[frostythehitman]

[ Text makes it hard to tell if this is sarcasm or not, but he has a feeling it's sarcasm. Don't you sass him, Rin. ]

Well it's better than just sitting around and just letting Retrospec trample all over my life with dumb comics and stupid uniforms and getting rid of colors!

[ and sending him weapons and body parts, but, y'know. He's not gonna just admit that in public. ]

[gnasher]

[usually, it's sarcasm. that was actual senpai respect, tho]

hey, i said i thought it was the best! i'd say don't get worked up, but you seem to be a pretty common target for this stuff.

[frostythehitman]

[ Oh, apparently he wasn't being an ass. Okay, then. ]

Yeah, go figure. All of my packages from them have ranged on the scale from "creepy" to "literally stalking me."

[ Technically they've ranged all the way to "could have me arrested for murder", but he's not gonna just say that outright. ]

How much stuff have you gotten from them?

[gnasher]

nothing. zero things.

[...]

one hallucimemory, or whatever the stupid word we're using, is.

[frostythehitman]

...Seriously? That's it?

[ Holy crap. He can't believe it's that little. This is the most uneven distribution ever. ]

If I could give you some of mine, I would. I'm starting to lose track of how many packages they've sent me and how many memories they've packed into my head so far.

[gnasher]

seriously?

[he was joking before, but now he's a little -- concerned. you b-baka]

are you doing alright with it all, really...?

[frostythehitman]

As okay as you can be with remembering a bunch of bloody battlefields in a warzone.

So, no, not really.

[ Especially not with the deliveries of a gun and a dismembered arm still fresh in his mind. But he's definitely not going to mention that anywhere on the app. ]

[gnasher]

you talking to anybody about it?

[frostythehitman]

What do you think I'm doing right now?

[gnasher]

i'm not a psych major.

i'm not an anything major, i'm undeclared.

[frostythehitman]

You didn't say anything about talking to somebody qualified. You just said talking to somebody.

That's what I'm doing now.