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He also apparently decided to steal my parasites, while he was at it; he died at some point, while he was on that mission. I recovered his body and found that he had infected himself with them - again, for some reason.

[...]

I had a rather unfortunate habit of stealing bodies and dissecting them, I've remembered doing that three different times now. But in the end I did get what I wanted, so obviously that's fine.

[what the fuck]

Why. Why would he infect himself with parasites. Why were you stealing corpses. Why did any of this happen.

[He is so done. Your world was absolutely ridiculous.]

I was stealing corpses for the sake of retrieving samples of the viruses that they had in them, usually. I did it to Birkin and someone that I don't recognize for that reason. Krauser, I suspect, was similar; I wanted to verify his death for myself and once I had done that, I took the parasite from his body.

...I'm not entirely sure what I was doing with them, granted - whether I wanted them for myself or to sell them to other people. Seeing as I was running a fairly large operation at one point, I must have had contacts that I could sell bioweapons and viruses to; I also wasn't unfamiliar with using them on myself, if my actions with Uroboros and whateve I'm infected with now are any indication. Las Plagas in particular could be used to do terrible things; I know for a fact that I did use them to do a few things that were rather horrific.

I assume Krauser infected himself for the same reason any of us did. The power.

I can't really say I understand that, but I suppose I can see it.

[Wesker's abilities are incredible, after all. If Plagas works similarly, maybe that would be explanation enough.]

Your world sounds crazy. Almost everyone you've told me about sounds crazy too.

...In fairness, I think that was almost a prerequisite for survival back then.

[Like. Look at literally everything his world decided to be.]

I suppose it must have been! Your world was a very strange place...

[y i k e s]

A lot of things were done for power, as best I can tell. Either for the sake of personal power, or the sort of thing that could be held over others. It led to a fair amount of insane things.

I see... It certainly doesn't sound pleasant.

[But Wesker's memories have almost never been pleasant, anyway.]

You aren't finding all of this too troubling, are you?

No. It's alarming, of course, and I've remembered doing some highly disturbing things. But it's manageable.

I'm glad that it's manageable. Sometimes I wonder if your memories are too difficult to handle, but you always seem fine. You'll come to me if you aren't, ja?

[He might not tell Jaeger, but he can at least rely on Wesker coming to him.]

Yes, of course.

[...]

The more disturbing things I've remembered lately have been terrible on a personal level, as opposed to anything catastrophic. Things like what I did to Jill, or shooting Rebecca simply to prove to Chris that I was willing to. I've remembered doing some hideous things to someone I don't know with Plagas, using the parasites to mutate them in horrible ways.

They're terrible, and in some ways they're more disturbing than what I was trying to do overall because they feel much more personal. But I can rationalize it as only having been one person instead of many. That's repulsive and I know it, but it helps with managing it.

[Jaeger rests a hand on Wesker's arm at that.]

I think I can understand. It sounds incredibly difficult to deal with, so you have to do what you can in order to manage it. Thinking about it like that is certainly not great, but at least it helps.

[...That's. Fair, he supposes.]

It's never too much for me to handle, however. I'm doing well most of the time; I'm content with what I have. So you don't have to concern yourself too much with things like that.

I'll try not to, but you know how I am. I'm always going to worry at least a little bit!

[It's light, though; he really does believe that Wesker's doing okay.]

I'm glad that it's not too much, at least.

Spending time with you has been helping; work has been helping as well. I like staying late sometimes; it gives me something to do that's repetitive, as well as some time to myself to just consider things.

Things have been working out well, overall.

I'm glad that I can help! And of course, I don't have any problems with you staying late!

It's good that things have been working out!

[He doesn't answer immediately; for a long moment he's gone kind of weird and still, the sort of thing that implies he's...not precisely all there, but eventually it passes easily enough, leaving him seeming a little out of it but not troubled.

Memory again, from the look of it.]

I... Sorry. It wasn't anything terrible, but that's been happening a bit more frequently lately. Picking up again.

[Jaeger pats Wesker's arm at that.]

What did you remember?

Some person that I used to know. One of my contacts on the black market; his name was Ricardo Irving. He spoke like he was from...New Jersey? Boston, perhaps... Somewhere with one of those very heavy, distinctive accents, though I can't place exactly where.

I don't recall much else about him. We dealt in Plagas for a while, however.

Ah, so that must be why you remembered him... Did you just remember his name and how you knew him?

I have a vague idea of what he looked like, but it's nothing I can draw well - it was exactly what you would expect, really.

Haha, I can't say I'm surprised...

I'll let you know if I remember anything else. Or if any more pictures show up, as the case may be.

Of course! It's nice that you're getting pictures; I like seeing the people from your memories.

[Ah...]

Do you?

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