If we forget... what? Forget everything? Everything we have been through, everything we are...?
I know this to be true: you, my Doppio, would be the same as you have always been, even lacking a past to guide you forward. At your core, you are... unshakable. I know you, and I know your soul, and I know that you have never been anything but your most genuine self. Even with every memory stripped away from you, with time, you would piece yourself back together — precisely as you should be.
It has happened before. It could happen again. But there is nothing—
["To fear", but the words die in his throat, his confident speech fizzling away to a noncommittal murmur. How miserable the past truly is. Memories that should have been theirs to share are now only his, and the thought of pushing through the same loss again fills him with an aching loneliness.
If Doppio alone were to forget himself, then Diavolo could mold himself into someone new to match, share only the pertinent details of their history and leave the rest of the wretched past behind where it belongs. But he would still remember the version of himself that suffered alone, that was a coward, weak and worse in every conceivable way. And he would still remember every victory, every joy, and he would be unable to share any of them with Doppio — not the same, never the same again.
But that wasn't the point, was it? The question was not about Doppio alone. If they both forgot, then—]
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I know this to be true: you, my Doppio, would be the same as you have always been, even lacking a past to guide you forward. At your core, you are... unshakable. I know you, and I know your soul, and I know that you have never been anything but your most genuine self. Even with every memory stripped away from you, with time, you would piece yourself back together — precisely as you should be.
It has happened before. It could happen again. But there is nothing—
["To fear", but the words die in his throat, his confident speech fizzling away to a noncommittal murmur. How miserable the past truly is. Memories that should have been theirs to share are now only his, and the thought of pushing through the same loss again fills him with an aching loneliness.
If Doppio alone were to forget himself, then Diavolo could mold himself into someone new to match, share only the pertinent details of their history and leave the rest of the wretched past behind where it belongs. But he would still remember the version of himself that suffered alone, that was a coward, weak and worse in every conceivable way. And he would still remember every victory, every joy, and he would be unable to share any of them with Doppio — not the same, never the same again.
But that wasn't the point, was it? The question was not about Doppio alone. If they both forgot, then—]
You would be fine.