[Early December]

[ghostharasser]

If I had a nickel for every time I've woken up at the end of the month with a full set of memories from another version of me that's just a little to the left


I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, I guess, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

Comments

[leggierissimo]

[ Here, Joshua draws a face: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ]

It's still called the Ship of Theseus, isn't it? They didn't rename the ship just because it was made from new materials.

Our real selves were masked by those alternate selves for a time. But, when our real selves rose back to the surface, it didn't push away the memories of those alternate selves. I'd say in this case it was less "swapped" and more "suppressed", considering we still hold on to those alternate memories. If it was a true swap, we would have lost those memories when we returned to our true selves.

[ghostharasser]

Yeah, that's a pretty solid theory, I think, because that also falls in line with the situation where I got the first set of Alternate memories. The details of the "swap" were different, but it definitely felt like once I was back, there was a sort of assimilation situation happening.

[Putting it that way actually reminds him of something deeply unpleasant so he thinks maybe they shouldn't dig too far into that statement.]

Anyway, I think the weirdest part of this particular instance was how the Forest managed to completely suppress my entire physiology. Other Me was totally human, so ...where the heck did all my weird squid blood go? It's a mystery that will haunt me.