squelching | catch-all: [zia, gritting her teeth] ace d. portgas

I heard.

[what the fuck happened on the animal crossing cyoa!!]

Another city, I think. It felt like we lived there...

[ that's a gREAT question ]

... Like it was familiar, or...?

It felt like it. Sigrun and I had jobs, and Tama and Axel were students.

That's... weird. [ messed up. ] What kind of job?

[ he says job like working is a curse. and it is ]

Hmm...

[she hums, trying to find the right words to describe.]

We... enforced things. Things that needed to happen to avoid a bad future. Like keeping two teachers from killing each other, and making sure a mall was blown up by a bomb.

[ hm. yikes? ]

How did you know those things had to happen in the first place?

My boss had precognition. He could see all potential versions of the future... Or something like that. Tama and Axel could see the future, too, but just one version of it.

Yeah, Tama said they tried to prevent a lot of the future... things. [ this is stupid. ] You guys didn't get hurt doing all of that, at least.

Mhmm... We were supposed to kill Axel for our last job so Tama would save a lot more people in the future. But Sigrun didn't want to do it and Axel didn't want to die. So we didn't kill him.

... Yeah, Tama mentioned that, but... She couldn't remember seeing you guys around at all?

We were separated at the start, and then... It was weird, Ace.

I didn't realize we were dealing with them until we got back and saw what they were wearing.

... So they didn't just mess with your memories. They messed with your perception of things, too?

[she nods.]

Yeah... We really didn't recognize each other at all.

... That's not great for what it implies this place can do to us. [ like. it's lucky? they didn't go ahead and kill axel? damn ]

[... thinking about something.]

Did you hear about the letters Whisper and Jolyne's groups got last week?

... Yeah. You guys get some, too?

... Yeah. Here, look.

[she pulls out her phone to show him a picture of a scrap of paper with something written on it:

If any one of these teams would be entirely wiped, those teams will become part of this world. Every member will believe they have always lived in this world, forgetting where they hail from. They'll become citizens who will be powerless and clueless during the next cycle.]

[ i have seen this by now but i cant remember if this would ic be before or after so now it's schrodinger's ace reacts twice to a message like it's the first time ]

... Forget the cycle and brainwashing stuff--wouldn't that mean that the dead can come back? And just... become part of the city?

[ A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH? ]

[he got that ryuki amnesia for this note and this note only.]

That's what it sounds like... But only the dead from teams that are completely killed off.

Sort of a fate worse than death, in this case.

... Yeah.

Do you think the citizens we see now are like that?

[she is. assuming they are, so.]

... They have to be, don't they? But then the question is-- is it all of them?

It probably is. I don't think this world is... natural. Not like ours.

... It'd explain a lot, but then... why? What's even the point?

We're someone's entertainment.

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