IC Contact - Snowblind

[phaseshifter]

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[bywolves]

No, I wasn't here. [ Ahhh, he does not like the idea of his memories being altered. Especially not of Gwen. He panics, though he does enough to keep it out of his voice. ] Tell me more. What was altered? You obviously recognize that they were altered. How?

[phaseshifter]

I don't know what exactly was altered. Someone else figured out what happened - I... don't remember who, suitably enough. It's been a while.

Whatever the alteration was, it can't have been that important. Maybe not even connected to the person who followed me at all...? This is kinda hard to think about.

[bywolves]

[ Another pause, and then a little more tense: ] So it didn't take away the memory of the person.

[phaseshifter]

No. Her name was Gaige. A vault hunter. Gifted in matters of robotics. Originally from Eden-5, outcast after accidentally causing the death of a fellow student at her school. Came to Pandora at the age of eighteen.

[ She's reciting that more to reassure herself that she still knows it more than anything. She remembers Gaige. She remember's Gaige's history, her appearance, and her travels with other vault hunters. Nothing seems to be missing? ]

But it still pays to be ready for the worst. This time the anomalies are - they couldn't speak last time. Maybe more drastic adjustments to our memories will be needed?

[bywolves]

[ THAT'S NOT HELPING, ANGEL ]

They're speaking, this time. Are they asking you for something? [ Just confirming as he barely holds down the internal shrieking from becoming external. ]

[phaseshifter]

Yes. But regular anomalies have made it known that they're looking for something within us before. It's just the way they're expressing it that's new.

[ Read: "HOLY SHIT THEM TALKING OUT LOUD IS SUPER FUCKED UP AND I WOULD LIKE IT TO STOP." ]

All the more reason to keep them at arm's length, I suppose. In case more motivation was necessary.

[bywolves]

They want the lights. That's what I wanted, when I was a monster.

They've gotten hold of people before. What's stopping them from taking the lights? I was able to do it. Why can't they?

[phaseshifter]

Iunno. I don't have many theories about what the lights even represent, honestly. Some of the others have lost them and they still seem fine, right? Not soulless zombies or anything. So people can still be people after losing their lights, but anomalies seem to think they can't become people without one...?

[ The shrug is pretty much audible. ]

The first anomaly I ever encountered killed someone and then kinda spoke inside my head. It was repeatedly asking where the thing it was looking for was, so maybe they can't see the lights the way we could when we were monsters?

[bywolves]

Could be a slow process. You lose your light and over time you become an anomaly. Maybe the lights are all that's keeping us from turning into them permanently.

Doesn't explain getting turned into them recently, though. [ Sigh. ] Too many pieces and not enough slots to put them in.