Okay so we know that at some point during Harrow the Ninth, 500 people directly from the resurrection are sent to rejuvenate the Ninth.
Based on Jod’s pop culture references and apparent age, we can assume he is a millennial and the apocalypse happened sometime between appx. 2019 - 2029, CE. So the people waking up on the Ninth would be our peers. They could be us.
Obviously there is the whole concept of losing all your memories because of resurrection, but consider: your personality, your habits, your muscle memory and similarly brain-muscle memory would hypothetically all be intact, even if you don’t understand why you hate going to church, or find certain things funny, or
flinch at loud noises.
I am now going to take this fascinating idea and use it in the cringiest way possible. All references from our society would be lost, but the urge to create shitty memes would still be intact. Imagine this: you wake up o a lifeless, cold planet with no sky and it’s full of skeletons, incredibly goth elderly people, and catholicism. I can only imagine the memes that would arise.
