Video 04 → No, Really, I'm Just Curious.

[irregular]

[Filtered from Weiss]

[Ken, wearing a blue apron, is standing in what appears to be the stockroom of Nectar.]

So...

[He hesitates for a moment, gazing around himself apprehensively, clearly worried he might be overheard. When he turns back to the screen, he closes his eyes briefly and takes a deep breath, as if steeling himself for something.]

What would it take to make you decide you couldn't be yourself any more?

Comments

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

If you can't remember who you were it doesn't really mean it has anything to do with who you are now.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

No, I guess not.

Well. Unless someone decides they gotta be the person they were before. Even though they don't know who that is.

[HYPOTHETICAL.]

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

That's stupid.

[BLUNT.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

I know it is. But people do that.

I just wish I knew why.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make any sense. If you can't remember, they're not your memories anymore. That doesn't mean they're part of you.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either.If you don't remember who you were, can't you just be whoever you want to now?

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

Why are you asking all these questions if you think it doesn't matter?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... damn. Maybe he should just have gone into this saying 'my friend's acting weird help'. Clearly nobody's buying he was just curious. Are people like Ken not supposed to get curious or something?]

... well, I guess maybe it does matter to me. A little. Sorry.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

What's the point of asking a question when you already have the answer you want?

[hey dude it's a weird thing to be randomly curious about]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Thought it might help some but it didn't. It was a mistake, okay?

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

[have a snort of derision]

...you can't be someone if you don't have the memories to be that person.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[That doesn't sound quite like a hypothetical answer either.]

I'm not trying to be. This wasn't about me.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

[thaaat's because it isn't]

Who's it about, then?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... well, Ken brought that one on himself.]

A friend of mine's been acting kinda off lately and I wondered if there was anything I could do to help. That's all.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

[he's also sort of referring to himself, but won't tell you that]

What did you tell them?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

I got no idea what to tell them. That's why I'm asking.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

Just tell them what you think.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Could work if I get him when he's actually acting like himself. The guy he's acting like wouldn't listen.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

So beat him up and make him listen.

[this is a perfectly logical solution, he thinks.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

But I can't do that! He's... no matter how weird he's acting he's still my friend!

I don't wanna hurt him.

[notyourdouble.livejournal.com]

If he's acting like someone else, how is he still your friend?

[what's this, circular logic?]