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[asteionknight]

Who: idols
Where: where you are taking your memories. probably the park but maybe it's the lobby.
When: day 69

[ hey, who else is trying to forget everything that just happened by remembering? its memory time. ]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. And as far as I can tell we just get into card game death matches.

[we_meet_again]

So I guess things are pretty much the same, then?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs at that]

Right.

So that means probably a different arc for you. Otherwise it would be boring.

[we_meet_again]

I have no idea what the connection might be between Thorn and I. Maybe nothing? For all I know, that was the only time we met.

So I guess our arc -- if we have one -- is an exciting mystery for the future!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm going to go with friends or lovers torn apart by an unfortunate misunderstanding.

A mysterious meeting seems like a good opener for that kind of thing.

[we_meet_again]

[laughs]

That sounds a lot better than being enemies! Fingers crossed, I guess!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Please. Then they would have front loaded the awful memories in their desperate pull for ratings.

This has to be something more... subtle.

[we_meet_again]

Is that how the memories get selected? Drama potential?

If that's the case, surely they could have done better than all the mundane ones I've gotten so far. Tsk tsk!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Lulling you into a false sense of security that you're just a normal boy, Cobalt.

[we_meet_again]

Well, that ship probably sailed before I took any memories at all. Better luck next time, Producers.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

You don't think you're normal?

1/2

[we_meet_again]

[laughs]

Do you remember what I looked like when I got here?

[Gets out his phone and opens up the photo album (wow this is just becoming a Thing now) and scrolls all the way to the beginning. He offers the phone to Intensity.]

These were taken on my second day.

[If Intensity scrolls, he'll see photos from pep!pep!'s first field trip to the onsen. There are lots of pictures of Cobalt mixed in, both selfies and photos from others, and he looks completely run into the ground. He's desperately lean, sickly, with twenty dark bags under each eye and skin so pale it's almost translucent. He looks almost like a corpse. There are photos of him in the bath areas where he's wearing a towel around his waist and one can see large scars on his arms, legs, back, and (of course) face, which are bright against his splotchy white skin.

By comparison, Cobalt of today is still thin, but he's already started putting on a lot of healthy weight. His hair is glossy, eyes are bright, his skin is full of color, and he looks well-rested. It's a big difference.]

[we_meet_again]

They can't lure me into a false sense of security when I came in here looking like that.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looks at the photos. Then at Cobalt. Then back at the photos]

Ah.

So you might be one of the ones who don't have anything worth going back for.

[we_meet_again]

If Heaven's wish isn't a good deal for me, I'll need to find a different goal.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You shouldn't even humor taking the wish. There's no fucking way there isn't strings attached.

[we_meet_again]

...Yeah, good call. Guess I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looking at the screen even though it is no longer displaying a memory]

Do you want to go back to that someday?

[we_meet_again]

...Maybe.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You sound so sure of yourself.

[we_meet_again]

Heh!

I mean, it seemed pretty nice? But taken out of context, some of my days here in hell are pretty good, too.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not because it's hell. It's because what we do in spite of being in hell.

[we_meet_again]

True. There are a surprising number of good people in hell.

Do you already know where you want to go, after this?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I thought that was obvious. I'm staying here.

You don't overthrow a fucking empire just to leave it unattended so some asshole lesser demon can carry out their retribution arc.

[we_meet_again]

I guess it depends on how thoroughly you crush it. No point ruling a domain of ashes and salted earth, and no need to worry about retribution if there are no demons left to wage it.

Anyway. That's a good goal.