slave_of_suzumiya | 38th sigh

38th sigh

[Kyon has been kicked up into a furore over this latest event, however having hit a wall almost immediately, you may find him sitting on a park bench musing to himself...]

... Man, I really am hopeless on my own, huh? I decide that I have to go and investigate this mess, yet I haven't the slightest clue where to start. It'd sure be useful if I had Haruhi... Or even Nagato or Koizumi... They'd probably find us at least a starting point, even if it turns out to be a dead end.

Oh well, maybe if I sit here a bit longer, something will come to me...

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It seems the town is getting better with creating dopplegangers then. Still, it cannot completely replicate the behavior of the replaced people. After all, the Tohsaka I know would...

[She trails off here. What would the real Tohsaka do and not do? She knows the Tohsaka from her world would have phoned the rest of the town to ask questions and then find some way to deal with the crisis, but what of the Tohsaka here? She was from another world, but she was still Tohsaka. She should have behaved like the Tohsaka she remembers, right? But still, she was from another world...]

She would...

[Try as she might, she cannot seem to remember how similar and how different the Tohsaka in Mayfield is to the Tohsaka from her universe.]

I don't know what the real Tohsaka would have done...

[Sigh...]

I still can't believe that Haruhi would've actually accepted the condition of that stupid dream.

She was too strong of a person?

[She stops trying to remember what the Tohsaka in this town had been like. Right now, she has to focus on finding out the details behinds the new dopplegangers.]

It seems all of Mayfield's creations have some sort of theme. Drones are obviously overly cheerful and mindless. The previous dopplegangers were more refined, but still passive agressive. What defect do these dopplegangers have besides feeling subtly wrong? What is their "theme?"

It's damn near impossible to tell her to do anything. Honestly, at this point I'm almost convinced that most of her decisions are specifically made in order to be a nuisance to others.

(And by others, I mean mostly myself.)

Their "theme", huh...? I haven't really picked up on anything like that from them yet.

You must be a very patient person then.

Perhaps if we observe enough of the constructs, we will be able to find their "theme" aside from their vehement insistence that they are the actual replaced people.

[Speaking of replacements, she notices another detail of the current situation.]

Were the previous replacements announced? Dronings are usually unannounced. What about the alien abductions?

Well, I was stuffed into one of those sticky pods, so I can't really say for sure... I don't recall hearing any announcements though.

So why did they announce it this time? If they really wanted to replace those people, like they do during dronings or the abductions, why would they warn us that the people have been replaced before actually performing the replacements? Would it not be more to its tastes to make us slowly come to realize that the dopplegangers are more of its constructs?

Maybe because they're already so noticeable, they didn't feel any need to hide it? Instead making it a bigger deal by actively drawing our attention.

Or it is to distract us from their actual goals? The constructs' defects are so subtle that had it not been the warning, we might not have noticed them.

[If that is the truth, then what are the "real" goals?]

Have you noticed anything else odd? The power outage and the drones' odd behavior, which we assumed to be the main event, only lasted for a short duration.

[There is also the issue of her memories. Why can she not remember Tohsaka's personality?]

Have you been experiencing any problems with your memory lately?

I dunno, even without the warning, something about them is just... unnatural.

Anyway, what kind of memory problems are we talking here?

Nothing this town makes ever feels natural.

...Personality. I can't remember what the real Tohsaka would have done, as opposed to her doppleganger.

Haruhi is a pretty hard personality to forget.

(Those words from her introduction that day "Haruhi Suzumiya. From..." Damn, which middle school was it again? No good... Anyway, she went on to mention not having interest in ordinary humans and asking about aliens, time travellers and stuff...)

Tohsaka should have been a hard personality to forget as well... Do you think these memory problems are from the town...or is something just happening to me?

Well, I can't seem to remember which middle school it was Haruhi went to?

(Which considering the fact I actually spoke to her there when I time travelled to a few years ago, should be something that should have stuck in my mind.)

So...besides replacing people, they have affected our memories as well. These actions certainly match with the town's previous activity. However, this brings me back to the original point--why would they warn us of the replacements then? Would it not be more devastating for us to realize that not only have our comrades been replaced, but we are also forgetting the originals? Is our memory the real target? Will we start forgetting more than just the "replaced" people?

[She is just speculating at this point. She does not know enough to draw any conclusions.]

So you're saying it's probable that we're going to forget more and more about the people who have disappeared?

It is a possibility. I made notes at home when I started forgetting about Tohsaka. However, I think I have forgotten many of the things that I have recorded in them. I will have to consult them when I return to my house.

Damn... Maybe I should consider taking notes myself in that case...

Well, writing down what you still know would be better than letting yourself eventually forget everything.

If my assumptions are correct, then both the power outage and the announcment of the people being replaced are distractions. The real target of the town is our memories. If so, then perhaps it seeking to further integrate us into this place by slowly removing our memories? They have already removed some of our physical attributes or personal items, so this seems to match with their previous behavior.

Then that makes getting to the bottom of things even more important!

Now that we have reiterated what we already know and proposed some hypotheses about the current events, we should start with investigations. I suggest observing these new constructs and finding what their major defect is. Perhaps we should compare notes of our observations.

Right, observation. I suppose that's as good a place to start as any...

Would meeting again in this spot after 24 hours of observing the various constructs sound reasonable to you?

Otherwise, I suppose we could meet in one of our houses. I am Bazett Fraga McRemitz and I live on 1130 Taylor Road.

Sure, sounds fine. I'm not really sure whether I'll find anything of worth.

(I mean, how long did I spend in that one day time loop aboard that cruise ship before we finally sorted that out?)

I'll see what I can learn though. Anyway, everyone just tends to call me Kyon. I'm at 915 Bilko Boulevard.

It depends. Insignificant details can be the key to solving a crime, and what seems to be damning evidence could just be a red herring.

I will contact you after 24 hours then, Kyon. Hopefully, by that time, we will have made some useful observations.

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