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[hyuuga]

So, um, this is the third time that people have returned remembering Paradisa, correct? Has anyone else noticed any patterns for it aside from...it occurring during the time of a world change, that they all think they have been living there...and the possibility of a second loss? It makes me wonder if...if every one of us does not actually get to go home when we leave. That we may all find ourselves simply in another world with the wrong memories. Or if it is even actually another world.

[She's finally giving voice to the questions she's had ever since she returned from Unova, having finally found the words she wanted. This last time, plus some recent events, helped her out in that.]

I am curious as to what others might think on this... Or, um, if anyone might have any of their own theories.

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[psych0p0mps]

yeah thats pretty much my theory word for word
the not going home part

[hyuuga]

It really does seem that way.. Though I do have to wonder if it's true for everyone, or if others have actually managed to return home.

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Oy, Hinata... that's too much to think about isn't it? The less he wanted was more stuff to worry about at the moment...

He's not sure of how to even tell you.]

[hyuuga]

[She can't know there's a problem unless you say something, Cloud. She'll take him out for food again if he does? Or, at the very least, she's a good listener?]

[payback]

It kind of seems like people might not go home after all, doesn't it?

[hyuuga]

It really does, unfortunately. I-I wonder just how many worlds other residents may be scattered across. [And if they will ever get a chance to actually go home.]

[payback]

It might not be that we don't get to go home. Maybe our actual selves never left in the first place.

[hyuuga]

That could be true, too. [But so depressing to think about.] But then, it begs the question of how some who have returned remembered new or different events that happened in their home?

[payback]

Maybe the castle just filled them in? When people here seem to go home, it doesn't seem like they usually disappear from the castle. They come back remembering new things instead.

[hyuuga]

Maybe, though...that isn't something I-I would really like to think about. But I have...noticed that too. That they usually don't. But some...they have been gone for months or years, they haven't had a room. Which...I-I guess does also make sense, given that the First Gens do not have rooms with their name on it.

[ex_stoically95]

...people return?

[ A very new one, right here. After watching and thinking on things awhile, he's taking this opportunity to speak up. ]

Could be stasis. Somewhere else.

[hyuuga]

Mm, yes. [Just from that question alone, she figures that he's either very new or very out of the loop.] People return to the castle quite often, it seems. Some remember, and some don't. And it...it is looking like it might be that the more this happens.

[ex_stoically95]

[ Bonus! It's both.

He grunts to himself, tossing that one over in his head. ]

Any pattern?

[hyuuga]

Those who have been remembering have only just started returning. It seems every couple of months, and always during...a time when the castle changes to a different world. [She pauses, trying to think if there's anything else she missed, but... Like with most castle things, nope.]

That...is really all there seems to be as to patterns.

[ex_stoically95]

[ Very interesting things to know. New as he is, it's all filed away to think about and piece together, a few answers already popping into his head-- but nothing he's sure about enough to tell this girl.

That 'different world' part piques him, but it's something for later. ]

...can you tell? If you forgot?

[deterrence]

It certainly casts a new light on previous assumptions. [she knows it is inevitable that she would leave the castle one day, but doesn't like thinking about what awaits at home because, last she remembers, things were pretty messed up (and she kinda contributed)]

What of people from the same world from different points in time? If we don't go home, then who is there in our place that others remember?

[hyuuga]

Before this, I...I always figured that it meant we would all return one day. And continue living our lives there. [She even has new memories from her home, which...doesn't quite fit in with her other thoughts about the castle now.]

But now...I almost wonder if it is someone else living our lives. Or if we are remembering someone else's..

[deterrence]

[there is a pause as she considers something from last year which she had always thought was a temporary loss. Other people with her name and face...and if she concentrates hard enough, she can come up with snippets of the lives they had, not like hers in the least, yet with certain people she is familiar with. With what they know now, she finds herself questioning her opinion regarding it]

Hopefully, that isn't the case. I'd say one of me is more than enough.

[hyuuga]

I think one of most people is enough. [She laughs, humorlessly.]

Though with all that has happened recently, it might be the case..

[deterrence]

Then I would not be mistaken in presuming that you wish to return to the world you remember -- the one before here, and Unova?

[it's a common sentiment, and in line with what she's seen and heard from Hinata. Still, she wants to be certain, in case she broaches topics she shouldn't]

dictated;

[amiable]

But last year, there were a couple of residents who didn't come back.

dictated;

[hyuuga]

Yes, there is that, too. During that time...on the ships and with the pirates and navy, correct?

dictated;

[amiable]

Right!

I guess they stayed there...

dictated;

[hyuuga]

Maybe they did... I-I never really thought of it before. It's sad if they did, and never got to return to their homes..

dictated;

[amiable]

I don't want to think of Paradisa as a bad place... but that seems... cruel.