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[ This is a hard post to make. Even as he turns the MID camera on, he's still wondering if he should really do this. It's close to being too late to back out, but not quite there yet. He can still shut the camera back off and pretend like he never even tried to talk to the network.

But he could really use some help. That's something he can't deny. And in a place like this, with people from all sorts of very different places, it's possible that someone might be able to do something for him, even if it's just to give him some tips. Considering the mess that Epsilon left behind in his head has been stressing him out beyond belief and affecting his daily life in a number of awful ways... Wash figures it's worth a shot. Maybe.

There's a long pause at the beginning of the broadcast, Wash just sitting there in frame, eyes darting back and forth from the camera to some place off to the side. He looks unnerved, uncomfortable, and exhausted. There are bags under his eyes that have been there for weeks now, his hair a bit ruffled, and his uniform just a little askew. ]

Hi. Uh. [ Shuffling in his seat. ] I have a question that might be a little...weird. And I thought it might be useful to get responses from various sources.

[ Different people might have different thoughts, and some might even have some advice so... Here goes... ]

Does anyone know a way to forget something? Or several things? Like, if you have some awful memory that you want to stop looking back on or one that's affecting your mental health? Even if there's some way to just suppress it if you can't get rid of it entirely...

I know it's not a healthy option. You're supposed to learn how to deal with them over time and eventually be at peace with it. But maybe sometimes that's not really an option.

[ He has no intention of adding more detail than that, not even any actual context. Talking about this is difficult and personal as it is, he really doesn't have any interest in talking about his bizarre problems in public, over the network. ]

It's probably not possible, and I get that. But I thought that with some of the things that are possible in some universes, it might be useful to check.

[ Hastily: ] --I'm asking for a friend.

[ YEAH, TOTALLY FOR A FRIEND... So maybe he chickened out a bit at the end there, whatever...!! ]

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[rey hasn't spent much time in non-backwater planets, but she knows that "for a friend" is usually code for "me but i'm too embarrassed to admit it"]

i don't know
i know i have memories that aren't there but should be
so i guess i'd want to remember those instead of forget more

[ Okay yeah, it's a pretty obvious cover... It's a good thing he's given it up. ]

I'm talking more like...
Memories that belong to someone else, not you.
They shouldn't be there and they're making things difficult for you
And they sort of just keep haunting you.

oh
i don't know honestly
but i guess i probably wouldn't want to have memories that aren't mine

Yeah. It's not exactly a good time.
I mean, even if they were nice, happy memories, I still wouldn't want them.
That's why I'm looking for help.

sorry i don't have any better advice then

It's okay. I didn't really expect much advice from anyone.
Thanks for talking to me, all the same.
Some of the concussion stuff made me laugh, and I needed that.