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[prometheanflame]

Mohammed Hefaz shared a photo. November 4, 2017 near VIEA VILLAGE

This is Iggy. He's five years old, and next week is the one year anniversary of the day I adopted him from the Recolle Animal Shelter. He's not a sociable dog, but he's a friend of mine. I just received a memory about him, or a dog that's similar to him. A Boston Terrier that I called "Iggy" had some sort of power undoubtedly similar to mine, and I saw him take down another man. This makes we wonder: do you our pets could gain superpowers if they have a counterpart in the other worlds?

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[thesettingsun]

I'm really relieved your Iggy doesn't have superpowers, or taking care of him would have been kind of difficult.

I guess there's no reason why they couldn't?

[prometheanflame]

He doesn't have superpowers *now*, obviously,
but I mean in the future. He'd be incredible to bring along if another "anomaly" comces along.

[thesettingsun]

What were memory-Iggy's powers?

[compendiem]

Counterpart Iggy attacked a person? Isn't that a problem...?

[prometheanflame]

To be fair, said person also had superpowers and was trying to hurt us.

[compendiem]

Oh. So it was self defense. Good dog.

[selfloving]

This will sound cruel, but I don't mean it to.

Do you think animals have souls? If they do, it's possible. If they don't, it isn't.

Alternatively, you may have named Iggy based on a buried memory, and he isn't the same, but just as special.

[prometheanflame]

I believe they do.

Animals have emotions. They form friendships and have personalities. Every dog is different, so if the connection to other worlds is explained with "souls", why is it only restricted to humans.

I think the other Iggy was a very smart dog to be able to have control of a spirit that fights for him. [As far as he knows, it's called a "Persona.] But I won't write it off as a buried memory. How do I become an archivist based on my previous life of traveling and adventure?

[selfloving]

Then you have your answer...until we have more evidence on this, there's no way of knowing. I'm not even sure where I stand on that question, myself.

I could see it, under some circumstances. Isn't adventuring just cataloging a series of events? Still, I'd rather not imagine that all of our choices in this life just come from a different one, though.

Has his behavior changed recently?

[smize]

wouldn't a pet with a superpower be a huge pain to take care of?

[prometheanflame]

The other me didn't mind.

[Maybe?]

He shouldn't have been too bad when I've looked after this Iggy for so long.

[smize]

you say that now, but when he starts tearing up the neighborhood?

[floret]

Jamie Doh Wow, a Boston terrier took down a man? That's really impressive! Do you think he had police dog training or something?

[prometheanflame]

Mohammed Hefaz I don't remember anything else about the other Iggy, unfortunately.
Mohammed Hefaz I know that I traveled with a group of men and fought other people with superpowers (and monsters,
I think) so he must have gotten some sort of training to be working with us.

[floret]

Jamie Doh I hope so. Otherwise, that's a really dangerous trip to take a dog on.

[saburai]

Has Iggy seemed to regain any memories as well, to your knowledge? I've never thought about whether animals might be involved in this before, but if so, I imagine they'd go through the same things we do.

[prometheanflame]

Not to what I can tell. It's not as if Iggy tells me what he remembers and why he feels confused.
Pet ownership would be hundreds of times easier if that were possible.

[saburai]

Yes, I imagine so...

I was thinking more along the lines of him suddenly being afraid of things he was afraid of in your memories, or liking new activities that he liked then as well.

[concasse]

what did he just headbutt the guy into submission?

ngl that's impressive

[prometheanflame]

No, he had his own set of superpowers.

I would be impressed if it were using his normal dog abilities, but the other Iggy was special.

[concasse]

like super strength or some shit?

[cornets]

What was the guy doing for your dog to take him down?

[prometheanflame]

I don't know his motivations for creating an illusion of the interior of this large building we were exploring, but context clues tell me that he wanted to kill us, or help someone else kill us.

[complementing]

anything's possible at this point

tangentially related: Koromaru, my puppy that I brought to our big group meeting last time? He has superpowers, but he was a present from Retrospec, not a pet that I had before all of this started

[prometheanflame]

Did he come with the superpowers or gain them over time?

[If the latter, he will be disappointed.]