[On average Marco loses his body about three times a day, twenty-one times a week, eighty-four times a month, and one thousand and eight times a year. (Though sometimes he has days when he has to morph five times a day.) He's used to have his bones mesh up and disappear and have his heart turn smaller or even non-existent. The faint popping sound of hair growing, the imprint of feathers emerging in three dimensions. He's used to it, he doesn't blink at the process
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[ Tabula rasa. It sounds like something he should know, whispers at the back of his mind, a tickle of something familiar, something that is there but Peter can't seem to reach. Just beyond his ability to touch or see. He's a little annoyed that this device decided to broadcast one of his dreams, but at least it wasn't something too private, and at least this question isn't too probing. ]
I looked it up in an encyclopedia once. It means blank slate. People are born with a completely wiped brain, and then learns what it needs to learn on its own.
Your dream just reminds of that. And I kinda know how it feels, too. Being wiped, I mean.
[Oh hoy, and then Marco realizes that morphing into a new animal is not quite the same as amnesia, or whatever it is the guy has. Time for some backtracking.]
Not exactly like it, but it's close. When I get a new morph, you know? [Surely this guy didn't forget Marco's little dragon episode during that week of hell.] Instincts take over, and I forget who I am. When I do remember, like something triggers me, it's like being slapped in the face. But in your head.
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[It's okay. Marco does it so much to throw people of his trail when incognito was important back in the day he does it by habit now. Now that he has no reason too, he just confuses people by accident.]
The point is, dude?
Tabula rasa is the biggest lie that has ever been lied. There's no such thing. If you can't remember food but you still feel hungry, what are you going to do?
[ Peter didn't remember food, after all, and that's pretty much what he did -- starve. His stomach gnawed at him, ached so much he thought at times he might just die from the pain, until the pain disappeared and suddenly he was okay again. Until it started all over. ]
That too. But does that stop you from trying to get anything that might resemble food?
[Marco shrugs. He remembers hunger, the maddening hunger of all animals he has been in. The worse he has encountered was the hunger of a shark: heavy, sharp, and with one goal in mind, and that is killing everything.]
Even if you don't recall what counts as food, you still got that instinct to put something in your mouth. It's the same thing with people - I had to turn into people, but I never got their memories. Only instincts, just basics of personality. I'll never know why a guy is laid-back, but I know that's how he is as a person.
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Why?
[ A question for a question. ]
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I looked it up in an encyclopedia once. It means blank slate. People are born with a completely wiped brain, and then learns what it needs to learn on its own.
Your dream just reminds of that. And I kinda know how it feels, too. Being wiped, I mean.
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Something like that happened to you?
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Not exactly like it, but it's close. When I get a new morph, you know? [Surely this guy didn't forget Marco's little dragon episode during that week of hell.] Instincts take over, and I forget who I am. When I do remember, like something triggers me, it's like being slapped in the face. But in your head.
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[ No, Peter doesn't get any of what you just said. ]
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The point is, dude?
Tabula rasa is the biggest lie that has ever been lied. There's no such thing. If you can't remember food but you still feel hungry, what are you going to do?
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[ Peter didn't remember food, after all, and that's pretty much what he did -- starve. His stomach gnawed at him, ached so much he thought at times he might just die from the pain, until the pain disappeared and suddenly he was okay again. Until it started all over. ]
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[Marco shrugs. He remembers hunger, the maddening hunger of all animals he has been in. The worse he has encountered was the hunger of a shark: heavy, sharp, and with one goal in mind, and that is killing everything.]
Even if you don't recall what counts as food, you still got that instinct to put something in your mouth. It's the same thing with people - I had to turn into people, but I never got their memories. Only instincts, just basics of personality. I'll never know why a guy is laid-back, but I know that's how he is as a person.
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