ok so, a kid keeps showing up at my apartment saying theyre my daughter? i dont have a daughter.
im fairly certain theyre some kind of doppelganger or shapeshifter, ive been counting fingers, but they know about me. like, things that you cant just find on the internet.
they dont seem sad like ive forgotten them, or even that i dont let them into my house, but they keep showing up.
i cant figure out their intentions at all, any advice?
Interesting. So, some possibilities.
It could be that there’s some aspect of lost or obscured memories. I say it a lot, but reality is perception. You may know for certain that you don’t have a daughter. You know that very certainly, but a month ago you were a single parent, and you knew that very certainly too. It’s tricky - with close relations like that, there’s often something that bypasses actual conscious memories, a sort of deep-brain subconscious association that’s much much harder to erase or obscure. That’s often the way we rehabilitate folks who have had irreversible extranormal amnestic experiences, leaning on those subconscious connections. It’s not possible every time, and they’re much harder to access, but it’s an option.
However, the child’s reaction is concerning. If they had been, in their memory, associated with you, they’d be understandably distraught…unless this happens often. Infovore, maybe. Those are hard to pin down, but I know a few tricks.
…hm. You’d have probably mentioned this if it were the case, but this kid doesn’t have black eyes, right? Like totally black. The behavior pattern here would line up….
█████ ██████ that’s what this is.
The important thing is not to panic. Well, no, the important thing is not to let them in. Second to that, don’t panic. Panic might make you open the door. Which again, is the high priority decision here. Don’t let them in, don’t agree with anything they say. They aren’t fae, we know that, but fae rules apply.
We’ll send someone out asap. We’ve had an uptick in these cases and we’ve been having trouble sourcing the machinery needed to expunge the local timespace.
That is not a child. Do not open the door.