Well... [and now his voice picks up a little] Classmates. We could all be classmates. You and Neku and all sorts of people. Winry slept in class all day just like Minato, but unlike him no one woke her up because they knew her job too a lot out of her! Sokka and Katara were there too, they were some of the stars in the gym and magic classes, respectively. The SOS-Brigade was the biggest and most influential group on campus. You were my neighbor on one side... on the other side there was Usagi. Usagi... and some other people - she lived with a couple of girls, he little Skirt Brigade. Leon transferred in late - he's an alien, after all. He was coming for fellpool-human relations, but we made fast friends. And Mitsuru was there too, of course. Class president. Minato didn't have to die, Tokyo never got in trouble, but Yoohoo came down anyway. She joined the Brigade pretty quickly. There was a bar down at the end of our street; Guy worked there and I made fast friends with him.

[He takes a breath now, trailing off for a moment before pressing on with-]

Luka too. Luka. Adell had her as his own Vocaloid. Adell was in the other class, but we saw each other a lot... oh! And Rena! Rena, Rika, Hanyuu, even Shion and Keiichi - they were all older then. They got to grow up, you know! Man, older Rika was attractive for being close to middle-aged... and Rena too. [He smiles a little, of all things, nostalgically at this.

Which should make two alarming points clear: he's talking about this in past tense and he has way too much detail in it to be a passing fantasy]