Talk:Angel Fall/@comment-108.48.80.177-20131030000344/@comment-17714224-20131030201330

If you don't mind me butting in, about the memory question an easy way to understand it is, instead of "inside" and "outside"  use "Soul" and "Physical apearance." Aogami Pierce did not inhabit Index, his "physical apearance" switched with Index's "physical apearance", Index's "soul" remained the same. Think of it as Index wearing an Aogami "mask," Touma may think that he is talking to Aogami but it is just Index in a "mask" Index remembers everything not Aogami becouse he was never there.

Because the spell its self was geared around Touma as the center everyone's "Physical apperaance" switched with people Touma knew or recognized with that of the Soul's of people he was going to interact with during the events, that was why depite being close in the blood related sense no physical apearance of his real family was seen by him even the President when Touma saw him on television, presented himself as somone he recognized despite being on the other end of the world, the people he saw walking down the street were probably people he had once seen walking down a street, even if doesn't recognize them, and that random truck driver looked like Himagami, despite it being a 1 in a six billion chance that some random dude being randomly swithced out with "her." The more interaction Touma will have with people during the events and the more importance someone holds to his interaction to the events its self, the more likely the the person will be switched with someone he recognizes.The physical apperaance of everyone that he hasn't seen, sense he lost his memories, and was going to see within the events, were swithced out with th people he has. 'This second half is my Personal understanding, interpretation, and theory of the discrepancies that show up within the  side effects and the explainarions given about them. For that reason I don't have much evidence to back it up but I thought it might help.'