002. text // i say it is, then it's true

[manufactured]

This is another of those questions in which I'm not explicitly asking for details, if you don't care to share them; I've simply found that shouting into a void is useful, if not a productive use of my time. But now that the matter of our souls has been brought into question, I suppose this feels more relevant than it would normally.

As time goes on and you have more and more memories forcibly shoved into your head, do you find yourself having difficulty keeping your thoughts and reactions separate from those of the person whose memories you're recalling? Or to put it a different way, do you ever feel the lines blurring – do you understand things that you previously thought you never would, or do you find yourself relating to things that you suspect you shouldn't?

And if so, has that sort of shift in perception changed what you believe you deserve?

Comments

cw: suicide reference

[manufactured]

...I can't even begin to imagine. You have my condolences, though I'm not sure if that's the phrasing I'm looking for, exactly. Hopefully you get the idea, however.

[...]

It was a virus, in my case. Something that he deliberately infected himself with. I'm still not certain why; he knew it had an extremely high mortality rate.

[thesettingsun]

I get you. Thanks anyway.

Maybe it's one of those viruses where 99% of the time you die but 1% of the time you get cool superpowers?

[manufactured]

...I don't think that was exactly it. It was designed to do something, but I don't know if powers were involved.

[thesettingsun]

Mad science isn't my thing, so that's the best guess I've got, sorry.

[manufactured]

No, it makes about as much sense as mad science is capable of making. I just know what this particular virus was supposed to do to most people it came in contact with; if powers were involved for those that remain, I'm not aware of it, though apparently the survival rate was intended to be far lower than 1%.

[thesettingsun]

I have the strangest feeling that Past Wesker didn't like people much.

[manufactured]

It would certainly seem not, at any rate.

[thesettingsun]

Do you have any idea if any of your other memories happened after that one?

[manufactured]

They don't seem to.

That doesn't mean that none exist, but it doesn't seem particularly promising, either.

[thesettingsun]

On the bright side, if that was your past memory, we can say that Past Wesker died as he lived: doing extremely questionable things with science.

[manufactured]

[...you know

god bless you right now, shuji, holy shit.]

...I can't even argue that, nor do I particularly want to. Well-played.

[thesettingsun]

Thank you, I'm here all week to make terrible jokes in poor taste.