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ARDYN IZUNIA

Ardyn Izunia. Professor of law. Lord of law. Liege of law. The one grading your papers. Leave a message.

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[mercurio]

oh okay i was right
i've seen that other people are having the same thing happen to them too??

[daemonized]

Yes. I've spoken to several, all of which have one thing in common: Retrospec.

We're all well on the road to a existential crisis, Prompto. Consider yourself lucky that all you have to deal with is a song. You've no baffling emotions to deal with in your own memories.

[Which implies that, yes, Ardyn definitely felt like a different sort of person in one of his own.]

[mercurio]

sorry if i sounded like i was taking it lightly... i'm already a bit confused about the song
so a whole track of memories that don't seem to fit in anywhere? can't even think to imagine what that's like
uh..mm...is it fair to say you're not too okay about it?

[daemonized]

They fit nowhere at all. For instance, I never rode a train with a blizzard swirling through it. I'm not even certain how that would happen; and yet, I /know/ I was there. But it was like an experience unlike any I had ever felt before.

[There's a small delay before the next message.]

I think I can deal with the conflict of dreams/memories versus reality. It's merely what I had felt at the time that doesn't sit well with me. I was quite unsettled, you know, but in a way I can't quite put into words.

There's more to that dream than I initially let on. Would you like to hear the other half of it?

[mercurio]

[maybe we're all on drugs]

[is what prompto wants to type out but stops himself from doing so, because he doesn't want to interrupt and say something unkind, when clearly ardyn's unsettled and opening up about this dream bullshit]

if you don't mind me knowing, i would

[daemonized]

[And so, after a moment:]

There was another person on the train with me. A man, I think, though I couldn't make out his face in all the snow. He was yelling something at me, he was angry and maybe even in pain from the cold.

I took pleasure in knowing that.

[mercurio]

that... doesn't sound quite like you
but i guess some people deserve punishment, however minimal? would be great to know what was going on though

[daemonized]

Nor did it /feel/ much like myself, either. I don't know how to explain it, Prompto. That sort of anger, a strange bitterness that I've never felt before. As if it was something belonging to a stranger.

Others have said what you've just told me, though. That maybe he deserved it. Still, that hardly makes it any less worrying.

[mercurio]

do you feel it changes who you are as a person, or who you thought you were?

[daemonized]

No. It lacks context, and while disconcerting, it isn't prevalent enough to change who I am.

But if this happens more often, and the entire narrative unfolds... Well. Who is to say? The best I can do is have faith in my personality as it is now, and hope that it remains unwavering.

Perhaps it's all a bit of a silly thing to worry about?

[mercurio]

it can't be silly if so many people are going through something similar out of nowhere??
so it's important to pay attention to whatever it is
except we shouldn't let it dictate how we feel or how we are if that makes sense

[daemonized]

Tell me that when you experience something similar of your own. (I joke, of course. I'd rather you not have to.)

[mercurio]

okay you're going to either laugh or judge or both but
has anyone considered drugs

[mercurio]

not that i've heard of OR EXPERIENCED!!! any drug with these kinda effects but
it's an active market

[daemonized]

Anything is possible at this point. You're not the first to have suggested this to me.

[Obviously not judging very much. If at all.]

I'll not rule anything out at this rate. But there is the issue of me feeling that I /know/ what I experienced is real. Odd as it may sound. And also the problem of some people going through tangible physical changes as well.

[mercurio]

maybe that aliens theory isn't so farfetched after all...
but, i guess it's all becoming a bigger mystery
do you think uh retrospec might be involved?

[daemonized]

Is there any doubt? None of this started happening until that rather mysterious app appeared on our phones. It's difficult not to make the connection, though how deep it runs is still up for debate.

[mercurio]

more investigation required
check your homes for bugs
don't trust the authorities
always have an alibi

[daemonized]

And a place to hide the body.

[Morbid humor ahoy.]

[mercurio]

maybe keep a murder cache with all you'll need spread all over different cities
no one would suspect a thing

[mercurio]

for the record i listen to a podcast focusing on different murders
i am not really doing any of these things

[daemonized]

I don't know, Prompto, I'm already beginning to grow suspicious. Who would have known you had this side to you?

[mercurio]

sometimes a gut feeling is just a gut feeling!
you never really know who your next door neighbour really is

[daemonized]

Sometimes a considerate person, sometimes a serial killer. Is that what you mean?

[mercurio]

you can never be super certain nowadays