Fake 20 [Action/Written]

[personafalsify]

[ Action for House 39 ]

[ The first thing that Repliku notices, once he realizes he's not with the Malnosso any longer, is that it's cramped wherever he is. He notices this by flailing rolling over and hitting his shoulder against the top of... whatever space he's wedged in. The second thing that he notices is that it's dark. Not particularly dark

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[Voice]

[hazelrink]

Um... not really, actually!

[Written]

[personafalsify]

[ Well there's at least one person. Now he at least doesn't feel like he just asked a stupid question a stupid way. ]

What's [ ... ] it like?

[Voice]

[hazelrink]

I don't really know how to answer that... I don't really know what it's like to want to forget things.

[Written]

[personafalsify]

It's

Every time I think about it, it hurts. There's no use to remembering any of it, but I can't stop. I just want the memories gone. I think.

[Voice]

[no_use_running]

No. Even if it's painful, if I forget, I'll lose a part of myself.

[Like the things she's already forgotten, that she knows are dark and terrible but doesn't know what they are.]

[Written]

[personafalsify]

There's nothing you think you'd feel better forgetting?

[Written]

[no_use_running]

No. I know there are things I don't know about that would be painful. But they still happened. I don't want to be ignorant of them. I want to understand them, and stop them from happening ever again.

[Written]

[personafalsify]

You don't remember them?

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[semper_cogitans]

There is nothing that I would wish to forget.

[Robert fears nothing more than the loss of knowledge. Forgetting anything - even the most horrible things - would be losing knowledge.

... Even if he still has recurring nightmares about Giles dying in front of him... he certainly doesn't want to forget that it happened.]

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[personafalsify]

What if it's something you think you'd be better without?

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[semper_cogitans]

[For a moment, Robert almost lets himself wonder if this does, in fact, exist. If there is something he thinks he'd be better without. Finally:] Everything that I know helps contribute to whom I am right now - many valuable insights would be lost if I were to lose those things.

[Pain is worth it, to understand.]

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[personafalsify]

What do you do when there's nothing to gain from having those memories, then?

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[soreplaceable]

[Considering their last conversation, it isn't hard for Ion to connect the dots as to what this is about. He puts up a quick filter for some added privacy.]

This is about your memories, isn't it?

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[personafalsify]

Yeah. I think I [ He pauses for a moment. ] asked them to erase them. [ While he was kidnapped. He was kidnapped, by the way. ]

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[soreplaceable]

[Ion hadn't known he was kidnapped, unfortunately, so he wasn't sure which "them" Riku was referring to, but...]

Erase them? Is that really what you would want?

[Real or not, people were shaped by their memories, weren't they? That's why replicas on Auldrant were considered to be born as blank slates.]

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[personafalsify]

I don't know. I think. maybe

[Written]

[fierybluebird]

Even the bad things need remembering so that you can make the future better.

[Written]

[personafalsify]

What if they're not bad? just wrong.

[Written]

[fierybluebird]

Wrong? How do you have a wrong memory?

[Written]

[personafalsify]

it's something that happened before I came here