Twelfth Flake [video]

[defyingfrigidity]

I looked at the date today, and I thought it would be fitting to bring up something I've been wondering for a while.

[It's been a while since Elsa got contemplative over the network. Thankfully, Elsa doesn't look all that upset or nervous, so it's nothing serious!]

Years pass here, and we all age. This is my second birthday in Johto; according to the calendar, I should be twenty-three today.

But that's only compared to how time passes here. What about back home? If we return home after spending years here, do we return as we were when we were first brought here? Or do we just... return to our land older, as we are now? I can't imagine how that might change things in our worlds, even if we have no memories of this place when we go home.

[... Okay yeah it did get kind of deep.]

It's curious, isn't it? Especially when one's taken from a date that doesn't match the date here when they first arrive.

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[doitrockapella]

That's what makes it so difficult. Are the memories attached to your presence in this world, or do you carry them with you when you leave? There's almost no way to say.

The most I have to offer is that someone important to me said he remembered me in the place he went after this. But he was the sentimental type, so it's anecdotal evidence at best and a sweet fib at worst.

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[defyingfrigidity]

Perhaps it's the former. I think it's the things you feel when you dwell on those memories that you carry with you, not the memories themselves. That's why memories are such tricky things to tamper with.

"The place he went to after this"... you make it sound like he didn't go home when this place eventually released him.

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[doitrockapella]

I suppose it was a little of both and a little of neither. He went back from whence he came, but what happened afterward left him someplace that wasn't home.

I know that sounds overly vague and complicated, but it was a vague and complex situation.

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[defyingfrigidity]

To be fair, everything involving how we were brought here and how time works in our worlds is complicated.

But... I hope your friend was happy, at least. Wherever he was sent to after here.

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[doitrockapella]

I think that's part of where my inclination to believe that he was able to take his memories with him stems from, frankly. His memories of Johto were largely good ones, as far as I know, so it's easier to be confident that he's happy if I believe that he remembers being happy here.

That sounds overly dismal, though, doesn't it? You're kind to offer the good wishes for his sake. So I hope he's happy right now, too.