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one_long_mission2013-07-01 08:51 pm
skeren) wrote in one_long_mission2013-07-01 08:51 pm
Entry tags:
Week 34 Event
Alternative Roads
What makes someone the kind of person they are? Is it the people they know? The people they loved? The people who died or didn't die for them, around them? Is that what makes each person who they are, and changes what sort of world someone has found themselves in?
Memories are fickle, delicate things, and sometimes there are those who change what had been a concrete belief through jutsu, seals, hypnosis, or even simple repetition of words that make one forget. In this case, it was a delicate tampering with a seal that someone found in the village, unintentional, unknowing, that sent a ripple across the citizens of the city, and left things very, very different in their wake.
The Seal was one that would fix itself with time, but in the meantime... people's memories were going to be changed, and what would change about the people who housed them in the ripple effect it caused?
What would it be like if someone who you had thought dead suddenly wasn't in your memories? And what if someone who lived had died instead? What would it be like to suddenly remember being an orphan when you'd grown up with parents? What if your teammate hadn't survived that event that you all came away from unscathed? What if you believed you died? What if is the name of the game. Rearrange deaths in the lives of your characters or take them all away so they never lost anyone at all, and see how they change.
The memories will fade back into what is normal for those within the village in days to come... but the memories of those memories will surely linger for a very long time.
What makes someone the kind of person they are? Is it the people they know? The people they loved? The people who died or didn't die for them, around them? Is that what makes each person who they are, and changes what sort of world someone has found themselves in?
Memories are fickle, delicate things, and sometimes there are those who change what had been a concrete belief through jutsu, seals, hypnosis, or even simple repetition of words that make one forget. In this case, it was a delicate tampering with a seal that someone found in the village, unintentional, unknowing, that sent a ripple across the citizens of the city, and left things very, very different in their wake.
The Seal was one that would fix itself with time, but in the meantime... people's memories were going to be changed, and what would change about the people who housed them in the ripple effect it caused?
What would it be like if someone who you had thought dead suddenly wasn't in your memories? And what if someone who lived had died instead? What would it be like to suddenly remember being an orphan when you'd grown up with parents? What if your teammate hadn't survived that event that you all came away from unscathed? What if you believed you died? What if is the name of the game. Rearrange deaths in the lives of your characters or take them all away so they never lost anyone at all, and see how they change.
The memories will fade back into what is normal for those within the village in days to come... but the memories of those memories will surely linger for a very long time.