Problematic notion about Zone 5 & 6 story bits.

[Lurina]

EDIT: Also, I think it's interesting that you bring up people who 'fall through the cracks' of society, because I have the same questions but about Living Memory. Like, let's take your example of the lonely people; someone who didn't make connections, whose family died, or perhaps someone whose family even rejected them and never found a new one. We know that Living Memory prioritizes reconnections, lost loves and family, stuff like that, so... what does happen to someone who didn't have them? Are they dropped into Canal Town completely alone, surrounded by people who already know each other, like turning up to a reunion you aren't invited to? Or are they never brought back, eternally at the bottom of Living Memory's priority list because it's always going to be more important to reunite siblings, spouses and best friends?

They touch on this in the story. People who never found happiness or connection as adults end up as their child selves in Yesterland, since kids can be made happy even through simple pleasures and companionship. You see a lot of them on their own or only with other kids there.

[Cleretic]

They touch on this in the story. People who never found happiness or connection as adults end up as their child selves in Yesterland, since kids can be made happy even through simple pleasures and companionship. You see a lot of them on their own or only with other kids there.

Oh, I had that earmarked as a separate quietly depressing thing about Living Memory. When we're getting people for Otis' play in the MSQ, we see a kid who's playing at being a royal knight; I hate to say it, there is literally no positive reason for the happiest time in that person's life being when they were pretending to be a knight. Every possible explanation there gets really sad, really quickly.