[Try it. It worked well the last time.]

Brainwashed?

No. They simply remembered their history. Mankind longs for a simpler and better world, and who deserves a good world if not them?

[As for you...]

If you cannot accept it, you'll just be a story they can't follow anymore.

[Oooh. Tempting. I wonder how they'd interact, since Ichigo's at an early FB-arc canon point. Let me check the game out and think of a manga chapter to take him from.]