#hellscape but also... yay? healing ? healing for humanity ?

[ghostkittypog]

Imagining the way that people /have/ to know you're the only one with your memories wiped each night after years.... Imagining that there was once a time where they told you there's a time loop, nothing can progress, nothing can change anymore, they don't know how to get out. But your reaction eventually became another form of expectedness, so they let you go around believing everything was okay.

The other implications of this world... There's people stuck giving birth and cuddling their newborn, there's people with sick children who can never become UN-sick--even if the child is only sick with the common cold--people who just /are/ sick themselves stuck like that. Children who are never aging from 2, 7, 13, physically. You would keep encountering really eloquent toddlers because, if everyone remembers, so do the children. So do the elderly.

People stuck dying every day just from illness being revived each day. Other people who are Meant to die that day from happenstance being able to avoid it. And then nothing changes about their life because keeping themselves alive wasn't the key to getting out of the loop. The amount of grief and loneliness and horror put on hold for the situation because it's been years and nothing's changed.

If they ever broke out of the loop, all of humanity (except you) would get absolutely body-slammed by the amount of Everything that a loop can't let you process because of the sensation of inability to escape. People can reveal their true forms in the loop, their vulnerabilties, but they still need the reality of time moving forward. The only consolation is everyone else remembers, so nobody's so alone. Changes communicated by word, like self-expression, romantic flings, etc., those all remain even after a loop.

People in the hospitals getting really close with the medical staff because what else is there to do... The only people who keep working really just being those who work in the entertainment industry. Because anything else won't see much reward. Customer service workers still working, but kinda just...chilling and talking to the customers coming in and leaving the machine alone; maybe occasionally they scan an item and let the person pay, just for old time's sake.

Apparently, you are living in a time loop. Also apparently, you are the only person on Earth who DOESN'T remember the previous iterations. This is the first time you've experienced today; the rest of humanity has been stuck reliving today for years now.