Quotes / Identity Amnesia

"I'm not sure if you'll allow me to know who I am, but...do you know who I am? Because I don't."

Malkuth, A Doll's Heart

"But where are my manners... I haven't even told you my name! I'm Cap'n Cuttlefish, leader of the legendary New Squidbeak Splatoon! And you are...?
...
......
*psst* This is the part where you tell me your name.

By kracken... You lost your memory when you hit the ground?! You can't remember anything about yourself? Anything at all?!"

— Cap'n Cuttlefish to Agent 8, Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

"The sphere wrinkles in your hands, the skin of the sphere peeling away into tears and turning into a rain of bronze that encircles you. Each droplet, each fragment that enters you, you feel a new memory stirring, a lost love, a forgotten pain, an ache of loss - and with it, comes the great pressure of regret, regret of careless actions, the regret of suffering, regret of war, regret of death, and you feel your mind begin buckling from the pressure - so MUCH, all at once, so much damage done to others... so much so an entire FORTRESS may be built from such pain. And suddenly, through the torrent of regrets, you feel the first incarnation again. His hand, invisible and weightless, is upon your shoulder, steadying you. He doesn't speak, but with his touch, you suddenly remember your name. ...and it is such a simple thing, not at all what you thought it might be, and you feel yourself suddenly comforted. In knowing your name, your true name, you know that you have gained back perhaps the most important part of yourself. In knowing your name, you know yourself, and you know, now, there is very little you cannot do."

— Planescape: Torment

"As Glissa searches for the truth about Memnarch, Bosh searches to unearth the secrets buried deep in his memory."

— Bosh, Iron Golem, Magic: The Gathering

A man came up to me and said
'I'd like to change your mind
by hitting it with a rock,' he said,
'though I am not unkind.'"

—They Might Be Giants, "Whistling In The Dark"

Woke up in a tin can, don't remember my name
Don't know how I got here or from where I came
My mind is an ocean, dark and clouded and deep
Under fathoms of blankness liquid secrets I keep

—Miracle of Sound, "Little Sister"

"The game doesn't harp on it, but Amy here is an amnesiac. That Gengar ate most of her memories. But it's okay, this is video game amnesia. So she doesn't have any of the actually debilitating side effects commonly associated with memory loss. Indeed, losing her memory has made her into the protagonist of a Pokémon game, leaving her the single most competent person in the region by a long shot."

—This playthrough of Pokémon Insurgence

"Sacrifice to the Great Twilight, driven so berserk he doesn't even remember his name, much less recognize his students."

— Enemy description of the berserk Rean, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV

"Let me make this abundantly clear: My name is Molly. That person is dead, and not me. It's just a person who had this body. They abandoned it. It's mine now."

— Mollymauk, Critical Role

Alfur: So, what's your name?
Raven: Um... I'm not sure.
Alfur: Uh huh, and how do you spend your time here in the city?
Raven: [beginning to panic] I don't know!
Alfur: Yeah, I hate to say this, but he's not a great interview.
Raven: Oh, no! I've lost my memory! This is bad. I think I'm important!
Alfur: Who doesn't?
Raven: No, I have to be somewhere! There's something I need to do! But I can't even remember who I is!
Alfur: "Who I am." "Am."
Raven: Now I've forgotten grammar! And I love grammar!
Hilda: You love grammar?
Raven: Maybe?

— Hilda, "The Bird Parade"

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