Sixth Capsule

[lights_legacy]

[Despite all them pesky "PRIVATE + UNHACKABLE" tags, an out-and-about X has seen enough strangeness and marriage complaints to put two and two together. The final case-cracker for this conclusion was Tear's entry on the subject. HA. CHRIS AND ETHAN, YOU GUYS CAN EAT IT. EAT IT. I WASN'T THE DICK THIS TIME. =D Or rather, I didn't manipulate X

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[lights_legacy]

[I wouldn't say so. The idea was brought up in chat before now, and the general consensus was, ironically, the same as X's -- the IC suggestion that the event's faking our people is plausible, but there's nothing to prove it one way or the other. They can debate all they want, but they're not finding out until the event's over anyway.]

I'm...not suggesting we have to become romantic. Earlier, I told someone else there's no reason why this should affect us outside the memories. The island's only claiming that we married previously; it said nothing about the way we're supposed to act now.

If you want my opinion, I think it depends on how you feel about it. Let's argue for a minute that the memories are real, and you and your life partner loved each other beefore. Even if that's true, if you've gotten used to having a certain dichotomy, you don't have to change that for the sake of new memories. A spouse who loved you wouldn't force you to behave in a way that felt unnatural or uncomfortable. The best response seems to be working out a mutually agreeable arrangement for our situations.

That being said, it's probably not a bad idea for those who can handle it to start acting like couples. We don't know what's going on here, and we don't know how the gods will respond to us if they are playing matchmaker and we decide we're not going to cooperate. Would you put it past them to institute other measures?

[Usually I have to struggle to get X to say something, but he's talkative today. D=]

[Filtered to X; I'm abusing these today.]

[a_severed_fate]

[Ah. ^^; I was a little worried when you said that, but Tear always tries to be rational, so I felt her trying to deny it was IC. She'll warm up to the idea, though. Poor thing.]

To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about it. That's the problem.

Any conclusions I may draw are certain to be influenced by these "memories", real or no. So in the end, there's little way of knowing if the feelings are genuine or merely the result of suggestion. If the memories are real, then whatever occurred represents a potential that could be reached again in the future. If they're fake... they're fake.

Aside from instances where the apartments were damaged, I haven't noticed anything that I'd consider "punishment", although there have been cases where people were rewarded for playing along during one event or another. Still, I don't approve of acting the part merely in hopes of being rewarded.

[That's probably a good thing.]

[Filtered!]

[lights_legacy]

[Being suspicious of a setup like this when you've seen a portion of what M_E likes to do is, in my view, a perfectly justified response. I'm not for thinkin' there's anythin' to worry about here. Meanwhile, this face!]

Mm. Good point. I failed to take the memory effects into consideration. They're...making this tougher than I want to admit.

I suppose the only thing we can do now is find out how to deal with this in ways we can live with. It's easier said than done.