shellphones | feeling homesick

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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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Thrilled as I am at the prospect of a new world to explore, new treasures to seek and the like— I confess, there are things I do miss about home. The company, for one, though mostly I think certain parties would enjoy being here and it seems a terrible shame for them to miss it. I wouldn't go so far as to call myself homesick, but I'd quite like to see my airship again— sooner rather than later.

What'd they hate you all for?

[just COMPLETELY SKIPPING the part of the entry that asks about emotions]

Neat! I'm from a family of airship pilots, actually. I'm more into the field work side of treasure hunting, but...yeah. I bet my friends from home could find some cool stuff here.

...well, for the last thousand years, there was this enormous monster called Sin that would come out of nowhere and attack towns if they got too big. The people were scared, so they turned to a religion called Yevon. Yevon taught that Sin attacked because people were arrogant and used machina---machines, so everyone gave up on technology.

Except my tribe, the Al Bhed. We always thought something else was going on, and we kept on using machina to dig up old treasures and find the truth. So people hated us because they thought Sin constantly coming back was our fault. Turns out...Yevon itself had made Sin to keep people scared, and we had to use magic and machina together to beat it.

You show a great mastery of color in your art.

[ He means it!! He means everything he says. ]

I myself am not accustomed to the sea and ocean travel, so I find I miss traveling my land. I've grown accustomed to the many roads and forests in my world, but are something we have far less of here.

I am sorry to hear that your people were not treated well, in your home. I have some experience with this as well, and it is difficult indeed when one holds no control over others' preconceptions.

Edited 2023-10-06 00:50 (UTC)

It's okay, it got better! People don't really have a reason to hate us anymore. Yeah, forests are nice. You never know when you'll find a neat critter in there, right? I mean...I like the sea, but it feels a lot more. Samey, I guess?

That is good to hear. Had they truly reason before?

[ That's pretty messed up if so! ]

Indeed! The fauna is varied, as are the sights. The blue of the sea is quite enthralling, but... I must agree that it can become somewhat monotonous after long.

...They thought they did. But they were being lied to by the people in power, who told them most of the suffering in the world was our fault. It actually wasn't. But it's all over now.

Maybe we'll get to walk some different islands? I've heard about a couple of neat places...

I am sorry to hear your people were treated so unjustly. It gladdens me to know that the truth was set to rights.

That would be most enjoyable. I understand that the world here exists on the backs of the large creatures known as leviathans, but I would much enjoy finding one with a varied clime.

Interesting— the family business, eh? Treasure hunting included?

[That sounds like a family business he could get behind.]

I'm sure you'll find plenty to occupy you here, in that case.

Yup! I really like it here.

I've just gotta find a place on a ship...there are so many little islands out there. I'm sure that's where all the best stuff is hiding.

Leviathan...

That's still really neat, though! I can't wait to see it all. Maybe find some stories to tell my family.

Does the name carry an additional meaning for you?

Indeed, if nothing else, we shall have a great many tales to return home with, whensoever the opportunity arises.

I left my home back in my world a long time ago so being away from it isn't anything new. That said, the feeling of longing for the days back when you were home doesn't ever fully go away.

Your island must be one special place for you to want to return to it even though the mainlanders hated you, though.

I'm really not sure what I'm looking at there.

Honestly, there's some things I miss, but a lot of things I don't. It seems like there's a lot less people hovering over you around here which is kind of a perk, I think.

Have you found anything that you enjoy here?

Hell's bells, that's a lot. [Not that a thousand years of history wouldn't be.] So you showed them what's what. How did they all take it, knowing that they'd been lied to for a thousand years?

I've always found the greatest finds are in places few others dare to touch, myself.

[Which is to say that he very much agrees with her.]

I'm rather used to being captain of my own ship, however. That doesn't seem to be an option just yet.

who's that little green guy? or is it a little guy I just assumed bc it has a face

but yeah I kind of know what you mean? it's weird because I was already traveling away from home and then I was barely home and bad stuff happened and then I got taken here and like. it doesn't really feel like I *actually* got to go home at all iykwim

Ever thought of just snagging one? Could be fun...

I could try to help build one, but I'm not the best at big-scale stuff. I'm more of a small parts kind of gal.

It's a Cactuar! They're really fast and hard to catch, and they can stick you with a thousand needles if you aren't careful. But they always have great loot.

Oh, I'm sorry. That sounds really tough. So close...and yet you're far away again before you can blink, yeah?

It's a little pond! A desert oasis where us kids used to go to swim when were done working.

I like most of the people, and there's all kinds of treasure to go hunting for! That's neat. But...yeah, I know what it's like when people won't leave you alone to work/

It was. The whole tribe's family.

But I guess there's always something new to look forward to, yeah?

No, I just thought it sounded neat. Almost like the fayths that summoners used to call.

My family will think it's hilarious that I'm out here swabbing decks. Can't ever escape that one, I used to be stuck doing it on Pops' airship.

It's actually not as bad as it could be? Mostly people were relieved that all the deadly attacks were finally over. And people mostly let go of how they judged us before, so things are going good.

They formed new groups to replace what they lost, and there was a bit of tension for a while, but we've smoothed it over. Now it's just boring politics.

That is how I got my first ship, in point of fact.

I'm more acquainted with the inner workings of airships, myself, but a sea-faring one shouldn't be so difficult to manage in the interim. It seems to me we may have a great deal to talk about.

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