tapestodiane | 020 - action + audio

[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.
_{[Enjoy that little bit of information, Johto.]

(ooc: BACKDATED to thursday the 18th.)}

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Not at all.

_{[He pauses briefly, as if collecting his thoughts.]}

I had an internship at a county hospital when I was younger as part of my studies. To assist in a study on average people who had gone mad. I can't say we reached any conclusions -- I always felt no one knew exactly what they were dealing with.

[a hum, contemplative]

Maybe some conclusions don't need to be drawn to be seen.

Maybe not.

_{[A little absent, sure, but he does agree.]}

Mm, penny for your thoughts?

_{[He'd say something about pennies in Johto and the improbability that you'd have any pennies to give, but he doesn't really have the energy.]}

My father found and named a crater in the moon when I was a kid. I guess I'm a little homesick.

[... ah. he pauses here, contemplative. that echo, he supposes, is something that he can relate to.]

Is the moon out tonight?

Half of it.

Suppose you're both watching the same moon, under the same skies?

I would, but I'm fairly certain that's not the case.

_{[Sounds a little like he's smiling, though.]}

It's the slightest chances that we live for.

[but he, too, sounds like he's smiling.]

They do say hope is the last thing do die in a man.

Not at all. There are some who die without ever having hoped at all.

That's a depressing thought.

No less depressing compared to yours.

_{[Pause on his end. He's thinking that over.]}

[he let's the silence reign for a few moments. then--]

If you had the chance, would you like to see the moon with your father?

_{[The answer is a little slow, but certain.]}

I would like that. It's something we never really did.

[a pause, again. there's warmth in his tone when he speaks again.]

Maybe it's something worth looking forward to.

_{[There's the small, small smile in his voice again.]}

Yeah ... I'd say it is.

Was that a satisfactory penny?

[for your thoughts]

About as satisfactory as it gets.

_{[With some warmth there, too.]}

Thank you, Fuji.

It's a nice moon out tonight.

[a mild chuckle, here.]

I'd be thanked enough if you could enjoy it.

I'll give it my best.

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