|| First Strike ||

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Whoa, okay! This is... ah. Not quite where I wanted to end up, to be honest. In fact, this doesn't look like the Lifestream at all. If I didn't know any better, I'd say I popped up on a spaceship or somethin'!

Imagine that.

Me.

In space.

[He pauses, slowly looking into the camera with bright blue eyes.]

...oh, don't even tell me!

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[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

[SORA WHY ARE YOU MAKING THINGS SO SAD FOR HIM.]

They never even talked about me...?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

[BECAUSE ALTERNATE UNIVERSES ARE SAD?!]

Not that I remember...

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

[YOUR WORLD ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SAD. IT'S FUGGIN' DISNEY.]

Okay, something's gotta be wrong when Aerith doesn't even mention me!

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah...Aerith's definitely not the kind to do something like that.

Did you end up on another world when Radiant Garden fell?

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

But I don't even remember Radiant Garden... I just remember growin' up in Gongaga with my mom and dad.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Not at all?

That doesn't make much sense...

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

And now someone else is sayin' I'm from Olympus Colosseum!

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been there! And I remember seeing Cloud there first, too.

...But you don't remember that either?

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

No... I remember Cloud, but I also remember we met in Modeoheim, not a Colosseum.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Maybe...you lost some of your memories? [After all, Sora had that happen to him...]

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

But I know where I live, where I grew up!

I was born in Gongaga, on the Western Continent. I moved to Midgar when I was thirteen an' I worked at ShinRa for half my life. I lived with Angeal an' Sephiroth there, an' I grew up with 'em. Aerith's from Midgar, too, and Cloud lived with me at HQ.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make any sense at all. Aerith and Cloud were both from Radiant Garden, only Cloud left after that world fell and he was at the Coliseum for awhile. None of them ever mentioned a Midgar or Gongaga.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Wait, you mentioned somethin' about losin' memories...

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah...that's why I was wondering if that happened to you. [Sora can't imagine it being related to Castle Oblivion...at least, nothing that Riku mentioned.]

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

You're not sayin' my memory's... fake, are you?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

[That's definitely not good news to hear, and Sora doesn't really want to suggest that yet.] I dunno...if Aerith or Cloud were here, maybe they could help.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

I'd rather go with the whole 'other world' dealio.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Maybe...but then how would you know an Aerith, Cloud and Sephiroth?

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

I've known Sephiroth ever since we met in Wutai! Cloud an' Aerith came after, but Seph's been the longest. Some... things happened back home, an' we don't really see each other anymore.

But Sephiroth's also lived at HQ all his life.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

[Not that Sora knows that much about Sephiroth, but he was under the impression that he came from the darkness in Cloud's heart. So none of that still makes any sense.]

Maybe it's not memories...but more of a time weirdness thing. That's also been happening around here.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Time weirdness?

[Here we go - maybe we're getting somewhere now.] Care to explain more?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. There's some people here from way in the past for me and Riku...people who I don't remember, but they remember me.

And there's also...versions of people different from how I knew them. Like we're from the same place, but different years.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

So... what, you think I'm from the future, or the past? 'Cause if you know everyone an' I know everyone, it's not that far apart, right?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't know whether that'd be the future or the past. And it still doesn't explain a few things.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Are any of 'em here? Is there someone else I can ask?