User blog comment:Fearless Diva/Endless Summer Theory/@comment-3452092-20180115231758/@comment-3452092-20180116005235

Huh. That's an interesting theory. I do think that, even if the MC was born on the island and grew up there and had memories erased, the MC has been gone for at least a little while, because it seems like Rourke was looking for him/her for quite a while. Maybe the MC only just joined the college at the beginning of that semester and just really hit it off with Diego. Maybe they are super close, legitimately, but have only known each other for a few months.

If his memories are fake, then I would guess that the MC implanted them somehow as some sort of defense mechanism. Maybe the MC was losing grip on his/her memories and since he/she soon wouldn't be able to protect himself/herself or even know he/she needed protecting, he/she implanted memories of friendship on the first friendly person he/she met so that person (Diego as the case turns out to be) would have their back when they didn't know what was going on.