020 - action + audio

[tapestodiane]

[Audio recordings to Diane; not on the network]

_{(August 14th)}
Am starting to feel overcome by a familiar, dark, oppressive feeling. Fairly certain it is the onset of a depression, but at this time I am reluctant to label it as such. For the most part I feel haunted by a perpetual hopelessness. Feeling emotionally numb. Am not sure what to do.

_{(August 17th)}
Diane, I never thought I would say this without hesitation, but at this point in time I would like to go home. While my life there is significantly grayer and I would greatly miss my both pokémon and some of the people I have met in this world, I can't help but feel like I would have a lot less to lose. It is a much rarer event back home for people to disappear without warning.

Believe the last thing I said to Applejack was "talk to you later."

_{(August 18th)}
Diane ... I am finding it increasingly difficult to find some kind of peace in Johto. Ecruteak is doing little to distract me from these thoughts. Think I will try to find France.

[Private audio to France:] France, it's Cooper. Are you still in Ecruteak?
_{[He sounds sort of tired, but otherwise carefully neutral.]}

[Action:] _{[You can run into him anywhere in Ecruteak, where he'll be spending time walking practically every street, looking a little closed off. Unless you find him by night - he'll be near the lake, looking at the half moon.]}

[Audio, broadcasted to the network; nighttime:] All things considered, it wasn't too long ago people believed you would go crazy if the moon shone on you while you slept.
<sub>[Enjoy that little bit of information, Johto.]



(ooc: BACKDATED to thursday the 18th.)</sub>

Comments

[Audio]

[tapestodiane]

I know.

<sub>[Losing people period is painful. It would be less painful here, actually, but there is just that - they could come back. Which would be fine (except for how it might just be painful to go around wishing for that if it doesn't happen), but the main thing is that if they do come back ... there's quite a big risk that they won't remember. Which, in all fairness, is pretty damn terrible.]

[So ... it's okay the way it is, really.]</sub>

I'm not getting any hopes up.

_{[And he prefers it like that.]}

[Audio]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[It's true. It's very true.]

[... But some people DO remember...]</sub>

... I'm sorry.

That part of this place really, really sucks.

[Audio]

[tapestodiane]

That's one way of putting it. I just call it cruel.

_{[It's not too different from life altogether in that aspect.]}

[Audio]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[... Johto could be very cruel sometimes.]

[But...]</sub>

... It can be kind, too.

Sometimes.

Kinda like the world back home.

[Audio]

[tapestodiane]

_{[Yeah, kinda like the world back home indeed.]}

If it wasn't every now and then I highly doubt anyone would stick around for the ride.

[Audio]

[foolishwren]

_{[We were put here on this earth to feel joy, Cooper.]}

Are you gonna be okay?

[Audio]

[tapestodiane]

<sub>[... he tries. But as you know, it's not always that easy.]

[And this is the part where he'd say something like just give him a couple of days for meditation and sugar and he'll be back on his feet, but he's still feeling sort of sad and honestly, a little homesick...]</sub>

Most likely.

[Audio]

[foolishwren]

_{[Yeah, it's not...]}

... All right.

_{[... What else is there to say? Not much... he probably doesn't even want to talk.]}

... I guess we'll talk later...

[Audio]

[tapestodiane]

Don't fall asleep in the moonlight.

_{[With that as a good-bye, he ends the feed.]}

[Audio]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[... Cooper, you are such a weirdo.]

[That cryptic statement will come back to bite her when she's camping on her way to Ecruteak...]</sub>