"I did ask directly whether I'm Clow's reincarnation." Next card, "the issue": the Silent, forethinking. "This keeps cropping up. How much did Clow plan?"

"He could see the future directly."

"Really? Hey, Clow!" Temple says then blowing a kiss and waving at a random wall.

"He might not be your boyfriend's past life, you know?"

External influences, the Jump, reversed: a challenge beyond one's reach.

"So... whatever the plan is was made because there was something Clow couldn't do?"

"Well, there was a lot he couldn't do - even with the cards - and he obviously wanted to."

"And creating the Cards itself was likely draining."

Internal influences, the Dash: surpassing yourself.

"So... seeing yourself on others, a challenge beyond reach and surpassing yourself."

Limitations, the Fight, reversed: lack of power.

"What's 'limitations'?"

"All the things that prevent the problem from being easily solvable, or anything that doesn't let you act as you would want to."

"Makes sense. And the last card, the outcome..." The Illusion: perfection. "That seems like a tentative yes-feeling to the question but it's annoying how vague this is. If I try a one-card spread..."

He does, and gets the Windy, reversed: incompleteness.

"Incompleteness in what sense? Because you are missing your memories? Missing your full power? Your plan is not yet come to completion?"

"As a direct answer to 'Am I Clow's reincarnation?' What would it mean for a reincarnation to be incomplete? Missing memories and full power make sense, but not the plan. ...also, Clow died, and he didn't really—need to, did he? He was already hundreds of years old, and if he's me, I wouldn't be content to just have my personality or whatever exist in another body while my memories disappeared."

"The plan is to capture all cards to unlock your full-power, which will also break the seal of some sort of great darkness in your soul, which I will have to defeat with the power of love."

"The anime references are getting a bit... much."

"Says the pretty white-haired boy."

"He does have a point. I'm not sure the darkness and love things are really the appropriate... style, though."

"I am not completely serious. But the notion of you being Clow reincarnated just feels right."

"But why does it feel right?"

"Mainly the personality description, but it's weird that he could do so much and simply didn't and then died. And once you look at the whole of his capabilities, this doesn't look that extreme."

"Yeah, that's a pretty good point. Still, I think it's weird that I'd just let my memories vanish like that, I'd have to be very sure there were no alternatives—which I suppose there might not have been, after hundreds of years looking."

"They might be suppressed?" Temple shrugs, "Or could be regained later?"

"This is becoming speculative on the level of 'Elvis was actually some sort of critter'. It doesn't sound productive to just speculate like that."

"Yeah, seems rather pointless."