memories of the future

[cursedlikeyoko]

*Sara hasn't heard of her brother's latest bout of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder yet. She went for a synch test with Emily this morning and passed out after the readings broke the measuring chart. She's now in the infirmary with said doll, just waking up.*

...that wasn't a dream, was it?

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[messiahfist]

*A few beds over, and a certain someone's pulling themselves back onto their feet after their latest "training session" with Nia's cookies happened to be a bit too much for them*

... Why do I keep-

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[messiahfist]

Oh, hey Sara! Didn't see you there when I stumbled in here before. What's the occasion for the visit?

[cursedlikeyoko]

*blink* I... I'm not sure. I guess I must have passed out when I started seeing visions during the synch test.

[messiahfist]

... Weird.

What kind of visions were they?

[cursedlikeyoko]

It was... about Emily. Both of them. And about Brother.

[messiahfist]

And considering you blacked out, I'm going to hazard a guess and they weren't happy ones.

[cursedlikeyoko]

...It wasn't a dream. I'm sure that all of it happened.

It started a long time ago. Hundreds of years. Before Strains were invented, at least, although other groups had machines like them, as you know.

[messiahfist]

Actually I'm kinda-sorta in the dark about Strains. But I don't think that's really important right now.

So if it was real, then... how did you see it? Was that Emily's doing?

[cursedlikeyoko]

*nods* She... they... they share the same mind. The doll is one. The engineers opened her up and she isn't a normal MIMIC. There was a brain inside instead. Another one is the little girl with Brother. There used to be more. Most of them are gone, and it's because of a group of scientists from the Union who lived back then.

[messiahfist]

... You're... you're kidding...

I just thought they were like B'ts; artificial life forms. But this is sounding more and more like someone did more than a few human rights violations along the way!

[cursedlikeyoko]

Nobody in the Union even knows about this. They only gave over the finished plans, when they figured out how to create a MIMIC from a person's own brain cells. Like my old MIMIC, and the ones the other students at Basion use. Emily was one of the first ones that they made in the original experiment.

I told you how MIMICs were made to compensate for non-psychics... it turns out that's why. *sigh* That wasn't the only thing they used them for. They also wanted to see how their brains worked so they could try and establish instant interstellar communication.

[messiahfist]

Sounds to me like you have the dirt needed to knock some very powerful people down a peg or two.

[cursedlikeyoko]

Like I said, it was a long time ago, and nobody else ever knew.

...nobody except Brother.

[messiahfist]

And let me take another wild stab and say this is one of his big motivations, isn't it?

[cursedlikeyoko]

...*nod*

[messiahfist]

And now I'm starting to think we have even more in common.