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[comparative_insanity]

 So, pretty sure people have probably discussed this before, but I'm curious.

[Fenn is playing absentmindedly with his nails, which... admittedly looks a bit messed-up, with them growing and shrinking over and over. But he's looking chirpy enough, even with perhaps a little bit more edge in his smile than before.]

I'm sure I ain't the only one by now who has met someone that they remember knowing.... you know, before. In those memories, or whatever they are. [He grimaces faintly, because thinking of them as memories feels a bit too personal for comfort.]

So, how many knew these people before these strange things started happening to them? Do you actually remember knowing them, or have you just got memories that are scarily alike?

Or maybe you're like me, and just kind of... bumped into a stranger and you both suddenly knew that you knew each other somehow, and even though you didn't actually know who they were, they were important....

[He blushes faintly.] Sounds pretty sappy when you say it like that, but there it is. And I'm interested in knowing, 'cause to me it seems like we're all connected somehow, and it'd be interesting to know just how much. I ain't saying everyone is from the same place, obviously, but... well. [A one-shoulder shrug.] I'm just wondering, is all.

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[searchforpeace]

There's only one other person here who has shown up in my memories. We barely knew each other before the first one unfortunately.

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[comparative_insanity]

[Fay nods, chewing his lower lip.] So kind of like me and Youou, then. This seems like a weird question, but... did they turn up in your memories and you figured you must've known them, or did you just suddenly feel like you did? [He laughs helplessly.] I ain't sure how much sense that just made.

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[searchforpeace]

Ah, well... my first memory of him was during the first time I met him. At the art exhibit, if you remember when that happened.

I didn't react very well to it, I'm afraid.

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[comparative_insanity]

Ah, I see. [He tilts his head a bit.] Was it a bad memory? I mean... that sounds a bit personal, I'm sorry, but was it just the shock or the memory itself?

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[siesinddasessen]

Are you talking about mister "too muscular to be British"?

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[comparative_insanity]

[Fay has a rather nice laugh, which is just as well because it goes on for a while.]

Yeah, that would be him. We met at my job and... well, we just both knew at the same time that we knew each other from somewhere.

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[siesinddasessen]

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pressing her finger over the speaker of her phone with force, so she barely hears the answer. WHY CAN PEOPLE NOT REPLY IN KIND

She'll get back to this later, after having gotten off the bus and sitting in the empty kitchen of the apartment that she lives in, all flatmates out for the moment, waiting for the pasta water to boil.]

Has it ever occurred to you that people might be using text for a reason?

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[ladyofluminosity]

I've only met one person other me knew, but I'm not closing myself off to the idea that I've met others without realizing it.

[She looks intrigued.]

Important, how so?

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[comparative_insanity]

...You know, that sounds like a plan. Ain't like we can tell who we knew or didn't until the memories come back, after all.

[He seems to turn the question over for a while.] I don't really know. I got the feeling I knew him somehow and that if I didn't talk to him and he left... I would've lost something. He got the same, basically, but also this like... urge to protect me, and a feeling he could die doing it. [A slightly embarrassed pause, and then he adds, in the tone of someone who feels he's been too serious and wants to lighten the mood:] Oh, and we were really attracted to each other, but I ain't sure that was anything paranormal.

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[ladyofluminosity]

Exactly. It's good to keep your options open.

Lost something? [She sits on that idea for a moment, as well as the other thing he said. Then he unloads that little nugget of info and she kind of laughs.] Oh, okay I understand now. Well, kind of. It wasn't really like that for me.

[Yeah, except for the fact that he did act kind of cool the night of the attack. And stayed with her for most of the time afterward. And that she couldn't really seem to STOP thinking about that. But that was irrelevant.]

Well, not exactly.

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[paradiseshrinemaiden]

I only just arrived here about a month ago and have never been to America before and I've met at least two people who I knew in my 'past life' already. The first one on my first day of school even.

[She just looks kinda annoyed at that.]

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[comparative_insanity]

Oh wow, that's one hell of a thing to deal with on your first day of school, especially if you're new to the country. [All the sympathy here. He remembers school as being hard enough to deal with on its own.] But maybe that'll make it easier to make friends? [Ever the optimist when it comes to others, this one.]

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[paradiseshrinemaiden]

I guess, so...

[She frowns. It is true that she did invite Sanae to play video games with her, so she guessed she was sorta making friends?]

I wouldn't say they were anyone special or important, or at least I don't know enough yet to know if they were. Both of the memories I got were of my other self fighting them. I'm not sure whether or not that makes them enemies or something though. It didn't exactly feel like it...

[Her other self didn't seem to dislike them at least, she just seemed very annoyed with them. Sanae more than Marisa, even though she actually remembered why the other her had fought Marisa, sorta.]

[wonk]

i had @ least 1 friend who i remembered

but he dropped

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[comparative_insanity]

D- Oh, he forgot all about numbers and all that? [His voice softens a bit in sympathy.] My little sis forgot all about it too, though I'm not sure if she was remembering things from the same place.

Are you still friends with him, though?

[wonk]

yeah were still cool

its just weird bc i cant tell hima bout this stuff

i opened this last night and promptly forgot about it...

[counterclock]

bumped into a stranger and knew 'em sounds like some romance novel fantasy shit
did you kiss in the rain

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[comparative_insanity]

That's basically what it was. [No point in denying it.] Apart from how it was at my job and I'm a stripper and that's not the most romantic environment, but yeah. Oh, and it wasn't raining, and we kissed in the cab.

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[counterclock]

i guess the stripper part makes it a little less conventional yeah
so is this your current boyfriend or

[not_good_not_wicked]

I've met a couple people like that, actually. Not that they were super Important-with-a-capital-I, but that I knew before. As far as I can tell, though, all I did in my past life was have elaborate magic duels.

Oh, and I had a party at some kinda asian temple. Shinto, I think?

[comparative_insanity]

Huh, that's... interesting. I mean, that some people find others that seem to have been extremely important to them, while some find people they just happened to know. [A small head tilt.] Magical battles and parties don't seem so bad, though.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Better magical duels than, like, actually murdering each other. And parties even more so!

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

No, I can't say I've found that. Yet.

[comparative_insanity]

Well, it might still happen. [He hesitates, and then adds:] Strangely, you look a lot like a person I remember from one of those... pulses, echoes, whatever you call them. Like, I don't think you're her, but it's kind of uncanny. Green eyes, brown hair, slight build.

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

But I don't in turn think of a match for you, which is odder still.

[... The closest match would be Flynn and he had a different hairstyle.]