four reconnections ➱ text post (ic: 11/07; un: h. inaba)

[dereban]

I already know I'm going to regret posting this, but I suppose you know what they say: "curiosity killed the cat".

So, let's talk about a hypothetical scenario here. Something to debate on, I suppose.

[Stating 'hypothetical' because she's trying her best to act like a "normal" student, and doesn't want to be seen as too crazy on a public forum that can be seen by everyone.]

Let's say you have a significant other. Doesn't matter who it is or anything like that.
Now then, you end up dying and get sent to the afterlife.

You don't remember how you died, unfortunately.

But you don't see your significant other here. Presumably, because they're alive, or perhaps something happened so that they're not in the same afterlife as you for whatever reason.

You're told that you have the potential to reincarnate. Of course, you don't know how reincarnation works. Will you be reincarnated as a human? An animal? A robot? Something different? You're not told any of that. You aren't even told if you'll keep memories of your past life, either.

So, with that being said. In this scenario, would you consider yourself still a taken person? Or would you say that you're single now that you're dead? I'd like to hear a second opinion.

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un: m.shirogane

[taketori]

[ He'll be a bit late to reading this all things considered, but. The topic's a bit interesting to him on multiple levels. Hypothetical, huh. ]

Hypothetically, if you still like them, it would be hard to think of yourself as taken. Isn't the marriage line "Until death do us part"?

[dereban]

Hah.

That definitely is true. After all, you can't cling to a living person, nor can you wish to have someone alive cling onto a dead person. That'd be too heartbreaking.

[taketori]

Exactly! So, you'd be justified if you dated someone else! After all, there's a good chance they may move on after you've passed away.

[ Which, wow, the idea of that he realizes really, really sucks! ]

[dereban]

"A good chance", huh.

I don't think that's something that anyone can really predict.

[taketori]

I hate to counter a hypothetical with another, but on that note.

If you were presumed dead but you made it back to the world of the living, then it would be worse if you'd decided to move on. It's like cheating on a vacation.

[dereban]

Problem is that... what is defined as 'the world of the living'? Do you make it back to the world you returned to? Do you end up in the same world? Are you reincarnated as a baby? Or as the self you are now? There's too many uncertainties.

[taketori]

Then, it's about the one that you believe in the most. If you want to live based on what life you had before, or preparing yourself for the life you may or may not have after that.

Me, I'd define it as making it back to my normal life.

[dereban]

What you believe in may not necessarily be the truth. And I'm not the type of person who would be optimistic to believe that there's a guarantee to return to any sort of normalcy in this sort of situation.

Even if I'd wish for it.

[taketori]

This sort of situation's a huge outlier though. Keep that in mind.

[ As he vehemently stays in pure denial of his current life's status. ]

If, hypothetically, I had died but was still conscious... I don't know if I'd be able to handle it if someone I had feelings for had moved on. Even though it'd be selfish of me to expect them to hold onto those feelings for as long as they live too.

[dereban]

It's a pretty out there scenario.

Maybe it's selfish, but it's not necessarily bad to be so in that situation.

[taketori]

I guess so. But we're still young. She'd have her whole life ahead of her. I'm sure if time went on, she'd find someone more suited to being at her side if I'm not around.

[dereban]

I'm adding more hypotheticals here, but in this scenario: how are we so sure that we're the age that we currently perceive ourselves as?

There's no memory of the death, after all. When, where, how, why.

[taketori]

I don't know. In that case, I would think that missing a large chunk of my memories from after high school is alarming.

[dereban]

Honestly I'm inclined to agree with you there.

That possibility isn't a very good one, though.

[taketori]

Seriously. Being stuck in purgatory, and not having the freedoms of adulthood? Either it means the memories have been completely wiped or I peaked in high school.

[ both VERY bad possibilities! ]

Anyway. Ultimately, it depends on how you would feel about that person if you saw them again. That and, how they feel when they see you.

[dereban]

Living only seventeen or eighteen years of your life is honestly kind of sad.

Ahaha. I already know how I would feel if I saw them again. Although I'd be better of never seeing them again, if possible. They don't deserve this awful place.

[taketori]

They don't, it's true.

[ Even if it's lonely. He's not prepared to not see the rest of the student council again. ]

This question's a lot more complicated than I thought it'd be.

[dereban]

Hence why I asked it.

[taketori]

So then, just hypothetically speaking, provided that that person is stuck in purgatory... do you think there's any way for them to get back in touch, just to say goodbye? Even if it's as a wayward spirit.

[ It just feels... wrong to leave things unresolved like this. ]