[video] I did the calculations. This was the best route for maximum feels.

[gogoghostpowers]

Getting hit by that train isn't exactly my idea of fun, but if I remember something because of it, then I guess I can't complain too much. Or, uh, mostly, anyway.

Well...the good news is, I remember that Booster and I are from the same place. Sort of explains why we're both in the JLS, heh. I guess Metropolis and Amity Park aren't that far from each other!

[He lets the 'bad news' portion of the post hang uncomfortably.]

((OOC: 1% on what AF so eloquently describes as "Booster punches himself in the face and then blows himself up with a nuclear sub." The other 2% to come later.))

Comments

[trustycrowbar]

...

[He blinks. Blinks again, and then goes through an elaborate series of colorful expressions as he attempts to piece this exquisite nonsensicality together.]

Booster? [He murmurs very very quietly and thumbjerks to the side as though the guy's in the next room.] As in... my ROOMMATE, Booster?

[gogoghostpowers]

O-oh man, he's your roommate?! Aw, jeez... Seriously, don't tell him!

[trustycrowbar]

[asdfjionkl--]

Danny, the guy's not even dead! I've seen him eat! He drinks more coffee than I do! I'm not an expert, but I think those are sufficient criteria to determine that the guy's alive!

[gogoghostpowers]

[this is the most judgemental deadpan line-face you will ever see in your life, Gordon.]

I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but I'm dead. And if I can eat and drink while being dead, I don't see why Booster couldn't too.

[trustycrowbar]

You CAN? [Gordon hadn't been around Danny long enough to actually see this. He unburies his face from his hand, blinking again, and looks over his shoulder, checking his volume again.] ...Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure he's no ghost, kiddo.

[Although, if they really come from the same world, it IS remotely possible that...]

Look, what kind of proof would you have to have to determine for sure?

[gogoghostpowers]

Don't know. I can sense ghosts, but Booster doesn't feel like one. Still...I guess just check his pulse. I don't know what else.

But if he's not dead, then what the heck am I remembering?

[trustycrowbar]

Well... okay, I've no clue! A false memory, maybe?

[He hates to even suggest it. The infallibility of their regained memories was really the only thing they could rely on in this town...]

[gogoghostpowers]

False memories? You can get those?

[trustycrowbar]

It's not out of the realm of possibility. I'd like to say that they're valid somehow, in that they still refer to real events. If they were completely made up, then... then any of their real memories could be manufactured too. That's a road we don't really want to go down yet, not until we've exhausted other possibilities.

[gogoghostpowers]

No kidding.

But all of my memories match up with what I know about myself--I remember what ghosts are like back home, and I remember dying and everything. There's nothing in my memories that doesn't match up!

[Except, y'know, for this.]

[trustycrowbar]

Which is why these have to have to be real... for someone. But... whose actual memories would these be? Who else shares a world with Booster?

[gogoghostpowers]

You mean aside from me?

No one, I think.