Oh, right, haha, so "the first time I met [Reimu], I was my past self" refers to Alice first appearing in the PC-98 games, and her design and backstory has changed since then? And the stuff about becoming a different person and being a substitute and getting forgotten is the idea that her character could be changed again and that would feel sort of like death, in-universe? But nobody else would really care because it'd still be "Alice"? That's kind of funny. Incorporating that kind of meta-narrative always makes it hard to take things seriously, for me, but I still enjoy it as a cute story trick.
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_doll_of_alice It is kind of similar to this. There are a lot of things about Alice but If I remember correctly she was a speical character.
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