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[forgetyourusedtobe]

Who: Elena Gilbert + you!
Broadcast: Video
Action: Starstruck if you want
When: now!!!

I was told that these augments [she gestures to her own and feels a little stupid for doing so because everybody knows what she's talking about (hopefully)] can alter memories. Does anybody have any more specific information on that?

Like how far back in your memory can it reach? How much can it change? How long does it last?

[...You know. Asking for a friend.]

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[takeabow]

[ that elicits a smile from her ]

It's like you've smelled their laundry piles. Eesh.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

[Elena laughs.]

Moral of the story: it could probably be a lot worse.

[takeabow]

Yeah, it really could be.

Why are you asking about memories, anyway?

[forgetyourusedtobe]

There's someone here who remembers me, but I don't remember them.

[takeabow]

...Oh. Yeah.

That's hard.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

I don't have any frame of reference for them in my life.

[takeabow]

What do you mean?

[forgetyourusedtobe]

They're not from my world at all.

[takeabow]

Where do they know you from?

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Somewhere else. Like this place. I didn't...really ask too many specifics.

[takeabow]

That happened with me, here. A girl here, Ino, said she met me somewhere else. It's weird. I don't really like it, but I guess there are a lot of possibilities. It doesn't necessarily mean your memories got screwed up.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Wait, how did she meet you somewhere else but your memories are fine?

[takeabow]

I didn't say they were fine. But I just... I don't know.

She met someone who died, too.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

You mean like a ghost or...?

[Because "ghost or..." is actually viable where Elena is from. It's the whole not being super dead thing that's new.]

[takeabow]

No. These sorts of places... do things. I can't explain it, but people who died come and are still alive.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

[That... Okay, Elena should not get her hopes up that high. She licks her lips.]

But if they ever leave here...?

[takeabow]

I don't know.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

[She's doesn't like the idea that someone could just...blip back out of existence like that. But what other alternative is there? It's not like there's anywhere for them to go. They're dead and gone in their own worlds, so it's either back to...wherever people actually go when they die or to another place like this. She doesn't honestly know which would hurt more for the people who were left behind.]

[...Which is probably an incredibly selfish way of thinking about it because um, what about the people who died? But it's hard to see it from that perspective as quickly.]

That seems really unfair, [she says after a moment.]

[takeabow]

Yeah... but any extra time is still extra time.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

That's true. Just another one of those grey areas, I guess.

[takeabow]

There are a lot of those.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

So I'm definitely starting to learn.