mental link, day...36? sure.

[headinjuries]

[ Technically, it came up a few days ago, but Sam's been letting something bounce around in his head to see if the possibility gets less troublesome after he sleeps on it. And sleeps on it a couple more times.

or he's just saying it late so the newbies can hear it too, w/e

It's not getting any less freaky. So, out of left field: ]

( So if aliens can hack our emotions, do we...actually know they can't mess with everything else? Memories? Are we actually who we think we are?

What if there is no spoon? )

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[greentech]

( It's interesting to think about. How do we know we are who we think we are? )

[headinjuries]

( It's making my head hurt. )

[sizeofyourbaggage]

( Man, do you not think I got enough of a headache going on without you getting all philosophical and creepy? )

[ He's teasing, but also what the hell why - and there's maybe an undercurrent of goddamn don't let Barnes hear this. ]

[headinjuries]

( But is it your own headache, or is it the one I've been getting thinking about this for the past week?

Wait. Is that one even my headache? )

[greentech]

( What about this situation ISN'T creepy? )

[decommission]

[ Look, he's already been concerned that Bucky's brain is tripping on symbiote hiccups. ]

( Then it's got a hell of a sense of humor. )

[headinjuries]

( And I guess I'm not in on the joke. )

[cur]

( I'd assume that they're capable of it. But if they've altered our memories significantly, I'd also assume we'd have some evidence of it. )

[headinjuries]

( Evidence like what? )

[adamance]

[Sam ... Sam, no.]

( You recall the Flame that is in my body, yes? )

[headinjuries]

( The thing with all the dead people? Yeah. )

[quivers]

( Nah. Too many holes. The human mind is waaaay complicated. They'd have to fabricate a mass amount of heads and make all the alignments correctly. You know, all that crazy psychological science. )

[headinjuries]

( Psychological science is crazy and that's exactly why this question is important. )

[snaphiss]

( If they can change our memories, they're probably not monitoring our thoughts. Either's equally likely. )

[Mara 'Optimism' Jade.]

[headinjuries]

( Either's equally suck. )

[bracchium]

[What's bouncing around Sam's head will, inevitably, come around to his own head, if just by the brood link tying them together.]

( Hack our... memories? )

[The scratching of grass against his heels, the Brooklyn asphalt warm and wet on a humid summer day... were those real?]

[headinjuries]

( Did you ever see The Matrix? Like that. )

[batmotif]

[As paranoid suspicious as Bruce is when it comes to matters of the mind and how it's being affected during their time as Hosts, this is perhaps one of many avenues he's mentally explored on his own time. He is definitely taking note of everyone's response to this, even if he doesn't admit to that much.]

(If that was the case, everyone's "false" set of memories are wildly asynchronous. That's too much effort for sloppy results.)

[headinjuries]

( But what if that's what we're supposed to assume? )

[ What if it's all some totally wheels-within-wheels Xanatos gambit kind of thing. "Aha, I knew you'd know that I know you know, so I did the opposite!" ]

[cognitived]

( Wouldn't that just be wasted effort, though? It'd be more convenient to just control us from the get go. )

[ Not like...he has....experience with that or something........... ]

[headinjuries]

( I've never seen a big group mind-controlled that didn't backfire horribly.

...well, okay, I've only really seen the one to start with, but still. )

[deployed]

( Why would they? We're already doing what they want. )

[ Though Bellamy at least has the benefit of Lexa and Murphy fact-checking everything for him. It's useful. ]

[headinjuries]

( I dunno, but I've met a lot of aliens and some of them have waaaay out there thinking. )

[narcissithstic]

We aren't who we think we are. [Thanks, Ren.] Not entirely.

[headinjuries]

( What do you mean? )

[shiro2hero]

(... That's. Really not an idea I ever wanted to have in my head.)

(Thanks.)

[headinjuries]

( If I can't get it out of my head, somebody has to suffer with me. )

[whowhatnow]

(By all means, I'd be happy if they messed with my memories. I have like forty Earth years of memories I'd like to get rid of for good. So, like, I don't see what the fuss is about. Plus, isn't there that whole philosophical idea or something like...what's the guy's name? Theseus? Something about replacing parts of his ship but it's still the same ship or something. It's weird. Honestly, I don't know where I was going with that.)

[headinjuries]

( Where'd they come from? You don't look forty. )