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So I suppose I should really try to be a little more open about what I'm remembering from my past after all that stuff with the Onis.. Not that there's really anything exciting, though. Just some stuff from a village I used to live in before moving to a bigger town and meeting my friends. I'm sure a lot of you probably have similar memories.

*He is, of course, only telling a half-truth. The early stuff is the easy stuff. The memories that came back recently about his life AFTER the mansion are too painful to deal with in public -- and, honestly, unlike the Onis, not really anybody's business.*

[FILTERED TO REX]

Hey. I'm sorry to impose, but I don't suppose you could tell me any more about these EVOs you were talking about, could you? Only you're the first person I've run into besides myself who's met monsters they knew from where they came from, and it could be really important to keep some data about them in case more show up.

[FILTERED TO RUDY]

*Hiroshi's sitting with his pile of notes from the last expedition.*

The last expedition yielded a lot of results. Should I start from the beginning then, sir?

((OOC: Hiroshi didn't really bother with the post green gunk grab, so he only has about 4% to spread around. Part of that is from his early childhood in a more superstitious village, and part of it is from the social aftermath of the mansion incident. He's going to be more inclined to talk about the former than the latter unless you're close, and even then it'll be like squeezing blood from a stone.))

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I would have preferred a trivial memory. The first memory I got back was one of those things' ugly mugs.

The first thing?

[Ugh. Poor kid. He runs a hand over his hair, and then puts on a smile.]

...Hey, don't worry. We got them, remember? You've got plenty of time now, in which you can get back plenty of good old boring memories! The worst is behind you.

*Not entirely. The most recent memories hadn't been much better -- the looks of distrust from the other students, the PTSD, the need to move to a whole new town because the pressure and his own trauma made his grades start dropping. The look on his father's face when they finally wheedled him down that maybe Hiroshi needed therapy, like he was broken goods. And... the unfortunate theories he formed to deny the blue things' existence...*

...I suppose so.

Edited 2012-03-12 04:56 (UTC)

[Gordon can't read his mind. But he CAN read the look his face.]

Hey, for what it's worth, you're not alone when it comes to freaky creatures. I thought I was losing my mind out there in the ruins when we met up with those sonic-attacking eyeball creatures. Part of me could SWEAR I'd seen the damn things before! But at the same time I can't figure out how or where...

Wait, you think you recognized those things? Why didn't you say anything?

I thought I did! Wait-- [He facepalms.] Oh jeez, now I remember. They'd set off that sonic shock wave already. I tried to say something, but no one could HEAR me.

...Oh for --

Right. So you say they seem familiar, but you don't remember where or how?

[He nods.]

Yeah, it's a big help, I know. I'll supplement that with whatever else I figure out... but I don't get it. Why THOSE things? Hell, they look like aliens! Even to me!

I couldn't tell you for sure. I wish I could say that bodes well for where you come from, though. When I first saw the blue monster's face again, I thought it was just a dream until I saw it in the flesh.

I don't know. I hate to say it, but there might even be more where they came from. Yeah, those little bastards were kind of dangerous, but considering the shape I was in when I first came around at the Labs...

[He plucks off his glasses long enough to briefly run a hand over his face.] Ngh, whatever. At this point either I remember it all eventually or I don't. I'll call you or Doctor Van Richden if I do.

We'd appreciate it, thanks. So would everybody else in Sirocco, I'd imagine.