🌍 anonymous text; ( filtered away from the sailor senshi )

[tuxedosmask]

[ Mamoru hasn't been here as long as many of the others he's come across and seen and yet, this has been something that has been on his mind ever since learning certain... things. Rather than bring any sort of concern or worry to anyone, yet needing to get this off his chest at the same time, he decides to reach out with this amulet... but keeps it anonymous. For now. ]

For any of you who have wound up here and found others from wherever it is you might be from... people that you know and care about... but find yourself to be from a different point in time than they are... how exactly did you handle that?

(( Mamoru's replies will all be considered anonymous unless otherwise stated. ♥ ))

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[tuxedosmask]

[ It's not exactly comforting to hear but to know that it's something someone else has felt, even to a certain point... it's something. ]

They're from my future... I'm from their past. But the thing is... someone here is someone I care for very much and cares for me in return. But I can't help but wonder if it's somehow... wrong, maybe, considering there's another version of me from their point in time while there's another version of them from mine.

[justpastdawn]

It feels like you're a puzzle piece that doesn't quite fit in the hole they might like to put you in, isn't that so?

[On Kevin's end, this is probably the most compassionate he's felt in a long time. It troubled him for months on end, when he was in this situation himself. Probably, sooner or later, it will trouble him again. You never know who'll show up.

It'll be nice if he can help someone solve this kind of thing right away, instead of dwelling on it like he did.]

In my case, after a while, I put my foot down and told everybody that I couldn't accept being treated as a "version" of the man that they knew. My situation here is very different from the situation at home, and I've been here a very long time. Because of that, the "me" who has come to exist in this world is only able to exist here. My friends understood and supported me, and so, we've been able to make a brand new friendship that's only for "us" as we are here and now. I can't fill the hole the future "me" has left behind for them, but I can be a part of their picture here all the same.

I imagine that you'll have to have the same sort of conversation, if you hope to get rid of that "wrong" feeling.

[tuxedosmask]

[ Only able to exist here... a new friendship that's only for them-- for the here and now. It gives Mamoru pause as he looks those words over. ]

You're probably right, even if there's part of me that hopes it can just disappear on its own... getting used to everything here.

[ But it's obviously more than that. ]

We don't remember our time here when we leave, do we?

[justpastdawn]

So I've been told. I've never been home to check, myself, but that seems to be the general consensus.

[He's sure he won't remember, because some of the secrets from home that he's learned in this place would save everyone a lot of pain if they'd been figured out earlier.]

[tuxedosmask]

Maybe that's a good thing then. But it also makes you wonder what the point of all of this is then if we're unable to change anything with the knowledge that we learn here from whatever point in time we or others may be from.

[ It sounds like things are destined to go a certain way regardless. ]

[justpastdawn]

[There's a stutter of what feels like static over the connection, and a long pause before a careful, deliberate image of words slowly comes through again.]

Even if such a thing were possible, I can't ever recommend changing timelines that have already been written. You never know but that the alteration may only make things much, much worse.

[Don't ask him how he knows.]

In any case, we're here because THIS world needs help. I imagine it doesn't look it to the new arrivals these days, but it has been dying for a very long time. If that's not enough of a point for you, perhaps finding chances you never would at home might be.