03: Written

[ghostly_heiress]

I have a few questions for the Network in general about echoes, if people would be so kind to answer them.

What do you think the echoes are?

What usually prompts your echoes?

What is the strangest incident that produced an echo? What is the most mundane? If you don't want to give specifics on an incident for either of these, some generalizations would still be appreciated.

Do you get echoes from the strange incidents that is usually associated with the alien things, Re: Wise Snake, the lights in Vegas, etc?

How many people remember other people on the Network in their echoes?

Thank you for anyone who answers.

Filtered to Danny Fenton

By the way, I have something for you.

Comments

[ghostly_heiress]

I may have some reassurance for you then. I've spoken to someone whose been on here for about a year, around the beginning of this whole Network business. Admittedly, they say they are very similar to how they were when it came to personality, but there was one aspect they were rejecting completely. They didn't like it and refused to let themselves be like that.

So it does seem that we do have something of a choice in what affects us. Perhaps he will be overwhelmed by what he remembers, perhaps he will like it, perhaps a great many things. But at the very least, it's not an inevitability.

It can be hard to reach family that's pulling away, but it's not hopeless. If he cares now, at least you have a place to start with, and convince him even if he wants to change, he doesn't have to pick all of one life over the other.

[She is so taking cues from comic books and manga, and maybe a little bit of what she tells herself about family, but gosh she's gonna try to be comforting!]

sorry for the slow tag!

[ex_extraordinary330]

[ She's trying so hard and it's actually really kind of appreciated! ]

It's nice to hear that someone who's been around that long actually still believes they've got some level of control over who they become. You'd think that anyone who's been on the network for this long would've given in to all of it eventually. Or at least started to- it'd be easier.

Not that the easy way's always the right one.

It's just hard to imagine someone wanting to struggle against the kind of person they maybe should've been to start with. Maybe we aren't meant to be the people we are now. It's all just so... hypothetical, it's hard to tell what we're supposed to be when we don't even know what it is we're seeing every time we get another echo.

That's all right! o/

[ghostly_heiress]

[Try hard is something she's good at. And hilariously, she's the one clone character ever to never actually have a crisis of identity. (On screen, anyway.)]

I guess the question is, is there ever a supposed to be? That would say when we're born, we are destined to be a certain way no matter what. Like there's someone writing out and everything is meant to happen a certain way.

I suppose some people do believe that.

Though I've never understood that personally. I know you can't just decide everything to do with what you like or don't like. If you hate the taste of mushrooms, you can't decide to like them. But I think you can decide on whether or not to be happy.

If you're not happy with this 'supposed to be' person, then I'm not sure that's who you're supposed to be.