[Hymn #63] ~Pas de Deux~

[nightcrossed]

Am I the only person who's observing a pattern? I think everyone's overreacting. There's no way all of us were involved in matrimony.

[Private; Unhackable.]
This is absurd! The flood of memories seems far too convenient. It's nearly Valentine's Day, and I'm certain the fact that other people are also remembering "being married" is no coincidence at all. It wouldn't make any sense for the island population to be made up almost entirely of couples; most of us don't even come from the same worlds and

...

Getting worked up over this is foolish, regardless of how convincing it might have been. It's not real. It's not. It's

...

...there's obviously something wrong with me.
[/Private.]

[[OOC: Cue MAJOR awkward. Tear's trying to remain rational about all this, really, but she's kind of horribly failing at it.]]

Comments

[Filtered to Sheena; mun having a derp moment.]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

Gintoki? He's one of the newer arrivals, isn't he? I haven't spoken with him personally.

I don't know... I... It's just that I was talking about this very thing a few days ago. It's not that I don't want to believe it, it's just...

I've never thought of actually being in...



It just seems very strange.

[Filtered to Tear]

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

Y-Yeah, I think. I...

Tear, I remembered being in Memento before. But my only memory from that time was when I got married to him and...




Love or crushes or whatever this is... Yeah, it's bizarre.

... So who did you remember?

1/2 [Filtered to Sheena.]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

You remembered being in Memento Eden before? I believe this is the first time I've heard someone say that she regained a memory from a previous visit.

Ah... Yes. It's different.

2/2 [Filtered to Sheena.]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

[Her ice shield is just crumbling to pieces today.]








[Long awkward pause. It's totally not his fault - it's all her.]

Luke.

[Filtered to Tear] 1/2

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

Really? But other people have come back... Guess that's just more proof these are real memories then.

[Filtered to Tear] 2/2

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

-! Oh? [Sheena wants to tease Tear a little, but this is a pretty awkward thing to deal with.]




... Does it bother you?

[Filtered to Sheena]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

This is true. Generally, however, it seems that either a person won't remember having been here before, or they'll believe that they never left - only they'll find that time has passed since then.

...

...

...no, not particularly. Not as much as it could.

[Filtered to Tear]

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

... Pretty realistic fake memories. Except for the sheer amount of corniness dripping from them.



So... you're don't know what to do next?

[Filtered to Sheena.]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

[She doesn't want to think too much about what kind of marriage it is that you're remembering, Sheena. Though, she doesn't think her own memories were too corny, per se. Just... awkwardly fluffy.]

I suppose so...

What do you mean by "do next"? I wasn't planning on doing anything.

[Filtered to Tear]

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

Isn't that kind of... unfair to Luke though? Shouldn't you talk to him about this?

[Filtered to Sheena]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

[Unfair to Luke? Ouch.]

Ah... Well, no... I mean... of course I'll talk to him about it, but... I hadn't planned on treating him any differently than I have been.

His friendship was never something I doubted; I trusted that. This however, this is... far too much, far too suddenly.

If everyone's memories are real, then... okay, but if this turns out to be fake, it could ruin what people had already.

[Filtered to Tear]

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

The gods here must have a pretty sick sense of humor to dump all of this on us at once.

Why would it cause more problems? I mean, sure, it'd be awkward for a while, but you guys are really friends, it shouldn't make that much of a difference.

[Filtered to Sheena]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

A lot of the events they devise don't make a great deal of sense. The outcomes aren't always beneficial, but they don't usually result in long-lasting damage, either.

...

Won't you remember this whenever you cross paths with that person? I... I don't know...

But there's a big difference. I'm certain I wouldn't take something like marriage lightly. It's a huge commitment.

[Filtered to Tear]

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

W-Well, yeah, but... We've kinda agreed that something like marriage is pretty out of the blue. Especially since we just met last week and... Um, we don't really get along that well.

Oh wait... right, you and Luke are pretty good friends. That's... I don't know. I'm not sure what I'd do in a situation like that.

[Filtered to Sheena]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a wise decision. Acting off of a single memory can be reckless, since things aren't always the way they seem at first.

But we still argue. Even though we're friends, we don't necessarily see things eye-to-eye; more often we don't.

[Filtered to Tear]

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

I think that's something all really good friends do. Understand they've got different ideas about things, but get along despite that.

[Filtered to Sheena]

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't really know, but I'd like to think that holds true.

[Filtered to Tear]

[carries-a-bell.livejournal.com]

It's what I believe. So far it hasn't let me down.