canon:Enzai

[ghost_soldier]

While your effort flatters me, I'm pretty sure my canon is all but forgotten. It may actually be for the best. It was a dark story. Though I suppose you're right: I got out and my name was cleared. So maybe it was worth telling after all. Sometimes I still can't believe I escaped that place.

If you should send me somewhere, just don't let it be another prison. Even you wouldn't be that cruel.

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[failsafegod]

Not entirely forgotten. Although my mun still only understands a bit since her friends decided to use the raw footage to try and freak her out,

[ghost_soldier]

My apologies. I don't know what you saw, but it can't have been pleasant. Very little that went on in that place was.

[failsafegod]

It's alright. I have seen many unpleasant things. I am sorry for all your pains, however.

[ghost_soldier]

It's fine. I made a friend there and he helped me get justice. And I helped him get his. Those people that abused us are locked away.

[failsafegod]

Which is how it should be.

[ghost_soldier]

Yes. Wherever I go, if I'm sent somewhere, I can be someone of my own choosing at last.

[failsafegod]

Just be careful. I haven't been anywhere in a time, but some of these places are... Breaking is the only way I can think to describe it.

[ghost_soldier]

[Receive a sharp but concerned look.] Breaking?

[failsafegod]

The last place I was for a long period of time, liked to mess with the mind. After that, well, you shouldn't have this issue, but I was relegated to no power. Still, it was the first that was difficult.

[ghost_soldier]

[If there's one thing he understands, it's mental abuse. He knows he can handle it though the idea of losing his memory again or going into one of his other personalities scares him. There's no place that could be worse than Durer.] I see. But you survived. [He smiles gently.] That means you're strong.

[failsafegod]

[There is a faint laugh he can't seem to help. Amused, but not for a good reason. Still it doesn't seem as if the intent is cruel.]

I have no other option. My life is unusual, and failure to be strong not an option without losing everything I am.

[lifewithnoconsequence]

Older genres and fiction do always seem to have their own, cult-like, followings.

[He paused and considered the person in front of himself for a moment.]

But whose to say that you're not being imprisoned right now?

[ghost_soldier]

[He gives a rueful smile.] This might be a servitude of a sort, but it's not prison. Freedom is best of course but once you've had to live there for years, you know the difference. It would be hard for me to experience worse than I have.

[ghost_soldier]

I understand. [And actually, he does.] Your sense of self always has to be protected.

[lifewithnoconsequence]

Being a prisoner doesn't always mean that you're behind bars. Servitude can prove just as worse a prison as any other.

[ghost_soldier]

There is nothing worse than that place I was in. [His voice is quiet, but sure.]

[powerofvoice]

It was that bad? Even if it was dark, if it's about you, it shouldn't be forgotten.

[failsafegod]

Yes. [Smiles] I suppose it's why I do like to be near people. It reminds me of many things.

[disorder_heaven]

Dude, my mun was talkin' about your canon only yesterday. Trust me, you and your old inmates ain't so easily brushed off.

[ghost_soldier]

Our friends do keep us grounded, don't they?

[ghost_soldier]

I don't wish to inflict that horror on others. However, as long as I never forget I am satisfied. It's horrible not to have your memories. Even if they are painful.

[ghost_soldier]

Have you seen some of the others? [His own mun squints hard. 'The Devil is a Part-timer?']

[powerofvoice]

...You really think so? Is the past really that important? [Fellow missing memory here.] I mean, the future's pretty important.

[failsafegod]

Indeed. Humans are social creatures, for good or ill.

[lifewithnoconsequence]

I'm certain there's quite a few places that are far worse.