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[awakenerd]

Who: anyone
When: day 57, afternoon
Where: anywhere it's a mingle

[This is a mingle but there is a comment in a Chain Chat to the whole train!]

Rean: A while ago some of us were discussing a festival where every team puts on a production, game, booth, whatever, maybe based around team bonds or interests.

What do people think? Maybe it's a good time to to talk about it again?

[Feel free to discuss with each other! Or just mingle as usual.]

Comments

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

That's one thing you don't need to thank me for. But you're welcome.

Do you want to talk? Or just think?

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

I may not need to but I definitely want to.

[ So just accept the gratitude, Rean! ]

I'm... not sure where to start.

[ Which doesn't mean he doesn't want to talk so much as, well, exactly what it says on the tin. ]

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

[He won't argue with it.]

Maybe with how you feel?

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

[ How does he feel? He knows it's a lot all at once but putting words to it is something else entirely. He takes his time to consider before answering. ]

...Confused... and definitely not happy about it.

[ That's the tip of the iceberg but it's a start. ]

That memory... I didn't feel like "Crow" at all. Everything that makes me... me... it felt like it was gone. Or maybe buried so deep down I couldn't touch it.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

.... That's not... Great. Even with amnesia you're pretty "you".

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah, that's the thing. I've got a lot of questions about my past but I've never doubted who I am. But that... I didn't recognize anyone, I didn't even care. Nothing even mattered to me past what I was there for.

[ It was really freaky. Unsettling. ]

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

There are... Ways to suppress a personality. But the stronger the personality the more unreliable the method.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

And I'd imagine anyone trying to use those methods would know it, too. So to use it anyway... There had to be a reason.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

Yeah. Well. You being a a pilot might have factored. I can say with confidence Awakener and Knight bonds don't exactly grow on trees.

Or maybe they wanted you for something else. But using you as an observer seems odd.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

Right... if someone wanted to use me, it'd have to be either for my status as an Awakener or to fight something. I can't imagine anything else, not if they're going to strip away everything else about me.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

I'm sure you'll remember more but... I'm not sure how much you'll like it.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow shakes his head slightly. ]

Doesn't matter if I like it or not. Obviously I want to know what happened, but... it's already done and I haven't lost sight of that. I can't change the past, only what I do with that information moving forward.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

Yeah. What do you want to do with it?

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

I haven't figured that part out yet. But I figure I've still got time to work it out.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

Yeah, you've definitely got time.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah.

[ Crow takes in a deep breath, lets it out slowly. ]

You know... talking about it was more helpful than I thought it'd be.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

I'm glad. If you need to talk more...?

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow's still a little wigged out internally but like, that's not going away any time soon and he really has managed to calm down a bit. ]

Nah, I think I'm good right now.

[ He considers that for a moment, then leans in and gives him a brief but perhaps surprisingly chaste kiss. ]

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

[Oh. He blushes and kisses back.]

Good.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

I won't forget you offered if I need it, though.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[awakenerd]

Good... You'd better not.

Re: Spoilers for Chapter 2 of Trails of Cold Steel 3

[bad_crowmance]

Wouldn't dream of it. I'd hate to worry you.

[ He grins at Rean. ]