3rd Course - Necessary Ingredients [Video]

[starofpleiades]

[Kazumi's expression is worried; not surprising after how the last few weeks have been. She wasn't really affected much, but she saw people who were...]

Is everyone alright now? Back to normal...?

[She sighs, looking a bit forlorn.]

Things making people act unlike themselves... what's "like yourself" though, other than how you acted before? I mean... what makes up a person? Our bodies? Our actions? Our memories?

[Memories...]

...hey, what do memories mean to you? How important are your memories? If you had something painful in your past... do you think it'd be better not to remember it?

[She's taking the video just outside the apartment complex, so anyone is free to run into her there or respond over the vine]

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[Video]

[starofpleiades]

Different people? Like, how people can change over time, you mean?

That's what I'm wondering about. What makes you "you"?

Um, well... [She thinks about it, but in the end decides to be candid] I used to not have any memories! But I met some friends from before, and little by little they've been helping me remember everything. Eheh, well, some things they tried to hide from me... but that was because our past was... really, really painful. That's why I was wondering if people thought it might be better not to know...

[mother_of_god]

If the soul started over somewhere else.

I'm not sure if I'm me. Because I have two people's memories now.

I thought it was better for someone I loved not to remember, but I couldn't stop her from remembering. It was really sad, because then she couldn't be around anymore.

It's hard because you can't keep people from hurting.

[starofpleiades]

A soul starting over somewhere else? That sounds strange...

Eh, really? How did that happen?

I'm sorry to hear that... some of my friends thought it would be better if I didn't remember, since it would hurt me. I guess that's how they must feel then? Like you did...

[mother_of_god]

I had to split my soul, so it couldn't be used. Daddy found me and took me home with him and Mommy. [A pause.] The Mommy he was married to, not my real Mommy. So I grew up with them, while I was in the hospital in Silent Hill.

But I wanted to go back to Silent Hill, and I found me and turned into one person again.

Daddy was really sad.

[starofpleiades]

Oohhh... so do you think becoming one person again made you a different person? Since you had different memories combined together.

argh sorry I lost the notif on this orz

[mother_of_god]

I think [a pause as she does think] I am the same person, with someone else there, too. But she's a part of me now.

I started remembering some other people's memories, but I don't think I am them like I am Cheryl. Because she was my soul and they aren't.

[starofpleiades]

So she's a part of you, then...

[It sounds like a weird case... but Kazumi's case is kind of weird too.]

Oh, you mean with the body-switching a little while ago?

[mother_of_god]

Did it happen to lots of people?

[starofpleiades]

Yeah, it seems like. People switched bodies, and lost memories... and other people could see other memories. I think most people were affected, directly or indirectly.

[mother_of_god]

I was worried I was doing something bad.

I hope you can remember things that're good. I'm glad I got Cheryl's happy memories.

[starofpleiades]

Mm. Not all my memories are happy... but I'm really glad I have the ones that are. They're about my precious friends.

[mother_of_god]

Memories are the only thing you can really keep.

I have a lot of sad and painful memories, but I don't want to get rid of them if it'd mean losing the happy ones.

[starofpleiades]

Mm, same here. Even if I could get rid of just the sad ones... I don't want to forget what we've been through. I don't want my friends to bear that burden alone.