33. If you could wipe certain memories from your head, would you? Why would you? What memories? 

teo would wipe the memory of how he became a blood mage. like, completely. he would rather have no recollection of how he got to the point hes at than remember the villagers hes killed or how drinking essence of hunger followed by essence of flesh made him physically very ill but then very inspired to make a sacrificial knife. hyssop really doesnt have to wipe anything. their memory is really bad but also incredibly sharp. if they want to forget something, theres an essence for that. they, realistically, could just drink the memory away, albeit magically.

35. Is every person in this world wholly unique or can they be categorized? Can they be grouped and mentally dissected? Are you just another sheep in another flock or are you the sole unique soul?

hyssop and teo both see themselves as unique beings in a flock of sheep. realistically, all members of the institute did. they created their own institute to do extremely dangerous and unstable magic because everyone else told them not to. and they all died. teo sees people in two categories: those who do things, and those who let things happen. verne and hyssop are people who do things. are they good things? probably not. but thats not stopping them, so teo respects them in that manner.

hyssop sees people in similar ways: those who will let them do what they want, and those who get in the way. for them, verne and teo fluctuate between these categories. hyssop is a confusing character for me bc their personality fluctuates constantly due to their mind being, like, super magically corrupted. one moment theyre threatening verne with a knife, the next theyre kissing him on the cheek and hopping through a portal back to the home dimension. one moment, theyre sitting on teos desk and generally being annoying, the next theyre threatening to tell verne how teo poisoned them, the moment after theyre knocking over a pot of ink onto teos notes, throwing a potion of blindness into his eyes, and running away.