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Joker: keep personal ones to yourself
Joker: but do get me any public ones

Water Lily: Will do. Actually, I remembered I had one more.

[attached is a photo of Mars doing a peace sign with an otherwise straight face in front of a hospital wall with NERD written in red, spooky letters]

Water Lily: Hey... can I bother you for one more thing, though? Unrelatedly?

[snerks at the image.

one day, there will be a smile.]

Joker: sure? I don't mind

Water Lily: People were getting more memories last night, which...
Water Lily: I guess I'm wondering, how do people keep going for more memories when they remember horrible things, or know there's horrible things yet for them to remember?

[like getting shot by your boyfriend...]

[... i mean.

good question. since he hasn't gotten another memory since then.]

Joker: curiosity, mostly?
Joker: wanting to know the people they were
Joker: or the people they knew
Joker: important things like that
Joker: like for me... I want to know how things went so wrong
Joker: and i want to remember my friends who were with me the whole way through
Joker: 2 of them are here... and I want to remember them, too

[he likes you Joker, so he's gonna be a bit real]

Water Lily: I guess I'm just kind of scared.
Water Lily: Remembering a lifetime of abandonment wasn't what I expected from trying to get memories.
Water Lily: I'm curious about that weird thing I remembered first, but... I don't know how much I care to know about who I was?
Water Lily: I like who I am now. I don't want that to change, especially since it felt like I'd grown so jaded by the time I caught up.
Water Lily: Though...
Water Lily: You saying that weird thing reminded you of that cognitive place you knew makes me wonder if I might be connected to you, or to Mars, and that makes me curious.
Water Lily: But the curiosity is being curbed by fear... I don't want to hurt more like I did.

[he likes Lily, too. so... also gonna be real]

Joker: you're going to change in this place one way or another
Joker: games aren't kind
Joker: they're getting worse
Joker: violence is spilling out of games, also
Joker: which is what they want us to do to keep this place running
Joker: but things are already different here compared to where you came from originally
Joker: you have friends
Joker: you have Mars, too

[you have... Joker... but he is. not bold enough currently.]

Joker: and if it is the same kind of thing that Mars and I remember...
Joker: chances are likely, you'll remember some useful skills or abilities or maybe even... other people
Joker: I dunno
Joker: fear is... hard. but. I think if you really want to know, you can
Joker: and you have friends to help you through it.

[Water Lily is typing...

pause.

this repeats a few times.]

Water Lily: You're right.
Water Lily: I want to know.
Water Lily: Things are going to get painful either way.
Water Lily: Maybe... the chance of nice things are worth the chance of bad things.