Raina (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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maskormenace2017-06-06 09:52 pm
flowerette) wrote in maskormenace2017-06-06 09:52 pm
Entry tags:
- abigail hobbs | n/a,
- † aerith gainsborough | the ancient,
- † cad bane | n/a,
- † chato santana | el diablo,
- † duo maxwell | shinigami,
- † frederick chilton | chief of staff!!,
- † gwen wynne-york | n/a,
- † kara zor-el | supergirl,
- † lapis lazuli | n/a,
- † mitchell hundred | the great machine,
- † raina | n/a,
- † riku | darkeater,
- † rincewind | n/a,
- † twice | the untouchable
008 ✿ Video
I'm curious.
[ Raina is seated in her living room, legs tucked up beneath her on the couch. It's a relaxed and casual position, best suited for a relaxed and casual conversation. ]
So many people come and go here. There are very few of us who have been static for years. Even fewer who have been here since the beginning. But the longer you're here, the more losses you tend to face. And the more time that passes, the more everyone else forgets about some of those people who were once here. So I'd like to hear stories of friends who have gone, lovers who have vanished, and people you'll never forget. The only way we can keep memories alive is to share them. I mean, who knows when you or I could become nothing more than a memory...and the least we can do is honor those memories by talking about them.
[ She sits up slowly, draping her arm over her knees. ]
But more than all of that, and perhaps a more relevant question to the newer arrivals -- if you had the opportunity to visit a lost friend's world just to see them again, would you? Even knowing that there's a chance they might not remember you? It is a painful thing to be forgotten, but perhaps there could be a comfort in seeing them alive and happy once again -- a sense of closure that we so seldom receive in this world. Or as always, perhaps it's best to leave well enough alone. I'm just interested to hear where everyone falls in their opinions on the matter.
[ Raina is seated in her living room, legs tucked up beneath her on the couch. It's a relaxed and casual position, best suited for a relaxed and casual conversation. ]
So many people come and go here. There are very few of us who have been static for years. Even fewer who have been here since the beginning. But the longer you're here, the more losses you tend to face. And the more time that passes, the more everyone else forgets about some of those people who were once here. So I'd like to hear stories of friends who have gone, lovers who have vanished, and people you'll never forget. The only way we can keep memories alive is to share them. I mean, who knows when you or I could become nothing more than a memory...and the least we can do is honor those memories by talking about them.
[ She sits up slowly, draping her arm over her knees. ]
But more than all of that, and perhaps a more relevant question to the newer arrivals -- if you had the opportunity to visit a lost friend's world just to see them again, would you? Even knowing that there's a chance they might not remember you? It is a painful thing to be forgotten, but perhaps there could be a comfort in seeing them alive and happy once again -- a sense of closure that we so seldom receive in this world. Or as always, perhaps it's best to leave well enough alone. I'm just interested to hear where everyone falls in their opinions on the matter.
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It bothers me to be without the people I grew up with. But then, I got here when I was seventeen, and my best friends would have been sixteen. But they've stayed sixteen. In a way, I'm growing apart from what I was. So I'm not sure that... even if they came here, that we'd have the same relationship.
But also, the islands I grew up on were cut off from everything else. I know what it feels like to be stuck in one place -- being trapped here for two years, as opposed to fifteen, isn't hard.
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I am curious, and perhaps this is a strange question. But when you returned home and came back here, did you reflect your seventeen year old self once again? Or did you return to how it is you look now? Most of the people I've known who have gone home are older so you wouldn't really notice the differences upon their return.
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[Here, he left it grow long. Coming back after having it be short had been jarring.]
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