feeling homesick

[sylreha]

Type: Text (with drawing)

Sender ID: sylreha (Rikku)

To: General public!

Subject: Just talking about home

Warnings: Potential talk of sadness, loss. Nothing else anticipated.


Hey everybody, Rikku here. Coming to you live-ish from the secret pirate base! No spoilers. But it's really not as scary as you might think.

I guess...I was just thinking about home today. Life here's not so different from what I'm used to, just a lot more seas. It's still been weird for me settling in, so I was thinking. Maybe if anybody else is homesick, we could talk about it?

I grew up on an island that was pretty much all desert. The people on the mainland mostly hated us, so we had to build our home somewhere safe that was hard to get to. We're still working on rebuilding it, actually, but...it really wasn't a bad place to grow up. The sands felt like it were hiding all kinds of treasures. And it was so hot that getting to swim was really special!

Here's a picture of my favorite swimming hole. I know I'm not real great at art, but...just looking at this makes me smile, you know?

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[sylreha]

Yeah. My cousin Yuna was the one to beat Sin for good, and I helped get her there! I really thought she was going to die, like Yevon wanted her to...but we got her out alive. We did lose some really good friends along the way, though.

But I've been taught since I was little to try to live every day like it's the last one, because you never know.

[moremystyle]

[Urgh. Faris is glad this is over text so that Rikku doesn't get to see the expression on her face at the mention of losing good friends.]

Might be your last on your own home planet, at least. Let's hope it's not quite so grim out here, eh? [y'know, on a ravaged planet full of pirates.] Well done to you and your cousin. That's quite a tale.

[sylreha]

Yeah! I don't think it's so bad out here. Could be kind of fun?

We're all proud of her, but I'd be happy to be done saving the world, you know? I didn't even mention the time she dragged me into it again after that!

SORRY THIS IS LATE the week got busy on me

[moremystyle]

Aye, I think this is my kind of place.

I'll drink to that. Saving the world is a tiresome business. And you say you got dragged into it twice in a row?

[this cousin is starting to sound like Faris' own sister: kind, selfless, WORRISOME.]

[sylreha]

Yup! Turns out an old world-destroying weapon from a war a thousand years ago still worked! They really built machina to last back then. So we had to blast it apart to keep an unsent soul from blowing the planet teo smithereens.

He finally went to the Farplane, though. All he needed was to see his girlfriend again.