00. Dear Ocean

[pinksidekicking]

Type: Text
Sender ID: Anon
To: Everyone
Subject: Dear Ocean
Warnings: People are going to be talking about their problems, so please put appropriate CW/TWs

Hello everyone! I'm going to be starting up a "Dear Ocean" post. This is where you can reach out to your fellow Riftfairers if you're in need of advice or help, and you can do it Anonymously. Other people can respond to your anon posts to try and help you figure out a tricky situation, or offer up advice on all sorts of things.

If this one goes well, I may do another in the future.

I'll even start us off.

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Dear Ocean,

Last month I saw someone that had hurt me, but he didn't stick around. We sort of got to talk a little, but I still feel like we left a lot unresolved. I don't know if I should still be angry and hurt by what he did, or if I should try to accept that he just doesn't understand me, but he was the first person who tried in a very long time.

Signed, Not-A-Monster

Comments

[pinksidekicking]

Wasting What Time,

Okay, I'm not going to tell you not to worry about your world, or that you shouldn't carry the weight of it. I don't know your situation and how you can change it there, but I do know that this is an opportunity for you. This is a time of rest before you go back to that particular fight. You can't help your world if you burn yourself out before the climax happens.

And I will say this, as the original poster, the person I met arrived two months after I did - and he was from basically the same point in time as me. So you are probably going to go right back to the moment you left, with your world no worse off than it was before you got here. Maybe it won't ease all of your worries and concerns about what you'll have to face, but hopefully that at least helps you not to carry the idea that time is moving on without you there.

Not-A-Monster

[voxt]

Fair enough.

[ Oh he was so tempted to only answer with that, but it's anonymous so he doesn't have to hide all his feelings. ]

I have a thought exercise for you. What if I was dead before I arrived here? Or dying, at least. What if the world I'm returning to is dying as well? I'm afraid my situation may be hopeless.

[pinksidekicking]

Hm, if I was someone who'd fought so hard to save the world, and I was dying... I think I'd want to die with my world. I'd want to keep trying, until the very last breath.

[ Is Nimona happy in her world? Not entirely. She's hunted and feared, has no friends, and has been betrayed. But she couldn't leave it to die without trying to save it. ]

[voxt]

Good answer. That's what I'm looking forward to.

[ Home is home. Even if it sucks. You have to try and save it. ]

[pinksidekicking]

But that just means you have to make the most of what time you have here. You aren't dying - other than aging and whatever - here, so why not enjoy it while you can? It might take time to adjust to doing things for yourself, but if this is the only chance you get, you may as well use it.

[ Her situation is different from his, the people of her world hates her no matter how hard she's tried to change that. So she has no problem enjoying it, even if she can still find it hard to trust people. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. ]