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[viktorymaker]

Note: Viktor has been dropped from Recollé.
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Viktor Nikiforov

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[daemonized]

A K-pop act? I don't know, I'd call that fairly exciting.

[But... of course he's interested in hearing about Retrospec memories.]

But if you like, I'll not say no. Tell me about a memory that Retrospec has granted you.

[viktorymaker]

It was a fairly exciting time, I have to admit. [ So exciting he became a spy as a result and eventually had to quit dancing... But he's not going to say that to a complete stranger just like that! So he laughs instead. ]

OK. I'll start with a bit of backstory. I'm a choreographer now, currently on hiatus. I came to Recollé more or less one year and a half ago to take over and hire teachers for the new Dance!!! Studio... I forget what it was called before. My boss, a friend from years ago, bought it. Have you heard of the place?

[daemonized]

[Well, knowing that he was a spy would definitely add even more to this growing first impression. But for now, Ardyn will remain understandably oblivious.]

I haven't, but now you've managed to erase a bit of my ignorance by enlightening me. Do continue.

[He will continue to listen!]

[viktorymaker]

[ Good, IC!oblivious is good.

Viktor laughs at that comment. ] So now you have!

I'll be honest, I'm not sure I can make any of my Retrospec memories interesting. They didn't get too creative with my story, if they really did make it up.

I remember going on hiatus just as I did here, moving to a different country and choreographing as well... Except instead of being a dancer, I used to be a figure skater. I also have shared memories with a teacher at the studio and with one of the students in my advanced classes, since they were the skaters I choreographed for.

[ He pauses and smiles fondly here... If Ardyn's paying attention, it should be audible. ]

In the end, the most exciting Retrospec memory I have is of this teacher buying the wedding rings we now wear. If you'd told me I'd find something like that exciting half a year ago, I would have laughed.

[daemonized]

[Ardyn listens, not interrupting. It's impossible to convince him that any Retrospec-related memory would not be interesting to him, simply because of the mystery that each one is surrounded by; a narrative, incomplete, for the lot of them. How is there no mystique in that?

He does hear that smile in his tone, as well. The words are laced with a sense of faraway fondness.]

How very romantic. [There's nothing condescending about that; ah, his (not-so) secretly romantic, bleeding heart.] What do you make of the parallels of these memories, versus those of reality? Mine unfortunately do not line up so nicely with my current occupation.

[viktorymaker]

[ Wow, hearing this called romantic feels strange. A good kind of strange! But strange nonetheless... Ardyn is the first person he tells about that, after all. ]

I'm not sure what to make of them. I remember a point of my life where I could have pursued figure skating instead of ballet, so it feels like a realistic alternate version of reality. Something that could have happened.

[ A happier version of his life-- that's is what he doesn't say. Anyway! ]

What was your occupation in that other life?

[daemonized]

Who's to say that it cannot happen now? If even not as a career, perhaps you should consider it as a hobby that needs picking up? If you're interested in triggering new memories, it may be an avenue worth exploring.

[At the question, though, he chuckles lightly.]

Ah... not a usual kind of occupation, I must admit. From what I have gathered so far, I was some sort of traveling healer.