shellphones | feeling homesick

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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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]

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)

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?

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

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