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[glaciers]

Shouto Todoroki

This is Shouto. What do you need?

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Neither do I. But...

If we're both remembering these worlds that were real, then at least I know that, if nothing else, everyone on this app is real, since they're remembering their own "realities" which are just as real as the one I'm remembering is.

[glaciers]

That's a start.
I've seen some people in those memories that I know here.
It's weird.

[storytelleroftime]

So have I. So, that definitely confirms they are real.

But, are the Retrospec employees real, then?

[glaciers]

Whatever they're doing feels real. It's hard to argue that it isn't.

[storytelleroftime]

Yes. So perhaps...

They are dispelling the "false" reality we're in and restoring us to our "true" reality of ourselves? If we're just constructs, and we're literally gaining abilities and changing physically to resemble our other selves.

[glaciers]

I don't want that. The hair is fine, whatever, I can work with it.
But I don't want to be him.

[storytelleroftime]

I don't think any of us want to just become someone else. That sounds terrifying.

[glaciers]

But that's what it feels like, doesn't it?

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah... that's exactly what it feels like. and that's exactly why it's so terrifying.

[glaciers]

It's impossible to ignore it.
And trying to do something like that is stupid anyway.
When reality is changing, it's stupid to hide from it.
But I still hate it.

[storytelleroftime]

Exactly. If we're going to be changing, then we just have to accept it. Not deny that it's a part of our "real self", not try and live as if it's not occurring, not blame Retrospec as some being entirely evil(though they're still shady af). But, I'm not saying to over-embrace it either, and lose ourselves in the process. I guess we should just, deal with it like normal human beings.

That's what we're supposed to do in all this, I think.

[Take your own advice Maggie.]

[glaciers]

That's much easier said than done. Also I'm pretty sure normal human beings don't need to deal with this kind of thing.

[storytelleroftime]

...Okay, I phrased that badly.

What I'm saying is we need to accept that this is happening, the memories we're receiving are just as, if not more, real than our own, and that things are never going back to normal.

Which, still easier said than done, but still.