People change a lot over time. If you lose track of them you may not even recognize the person they've become.

A... friend of mine just learned this the hard way, I guess. It's kind of sad. Her friend changed a lot, and the relationship ended... badly.

I'm not sure why I'm writing this all here. It was weird to see, I guess, and really sad for my friend.

Anyone else have a similar experience?


((OOC: In reference to Darker than Black episodes 9&10. A reminder, this is Hei posting as Lee, under the username leeshenshun36. Thanks.))

[Jezebel is sitting on a bench outdoors in a small courtyard, and on his shoulders are a series of cooing pigeons, either sitting on his shoulders are shuffling about. One or two are perched on his knees as well, and two squirrels sit near his feet.

Rather than irritated, he seems rather amused.]

I seem to be quite popular today. And was yesterday, as well.

I can only assume this is your work, Eris?

[He adjusts his glasses, causing one pigeon to flutter off his shoulder and perch on his head instead. Jezebel seems unperturbed.]

Also: I know at least a few of you have seen that my assistant has arrived here at the community.

[His expression gets a little more ominous.] I rather expect to be ignored, but I would highly suggest that he be left out of any -- what's the phrase? "Trolling" by members of the community. He isn't harmless, despite any first impressions, and I doubt I need to mention that neither am I.

[The video starts up with Tails in his room, who appears to be waking up in bed. At first things seem normal. However, when he reaches to turn off his alarm, it suddenly starts floating in the air for a few seconds before launching itself into a wall. This wakes Tails up and he looks in confusion.]

What the heck?

[He gets up from bed and looks up to where the alarm is embedded in the wall. He makes a curious face as if he's trying to figure something out. It then somehow removes itself out of the wall, but then it suddenly heads towards Tails. He barely moves out of the way.]

...Okay, either the community has brought my alarm to life or I have developed telekinesis or something like that.

[He walks over to his desk and grabs a pen. He sets it down somewhere on the floor and then he walks to the opposite side of the room. He sits down and looks at the pen. He raises his hand towards it. He manages to make it lift into the air, but instead of going into his hand, it instead smacks him in the face. He then sighs and shakes his head.] I really should have seen this coming. I've been here for a year now, so I should know better by now.

[He shakes his head and the video ends.]


(OOC: I'm still on slowtus, but I figured I put this post up beforehand, as I'll be busy after today.)

[The video looks like it's coming from a webcam off to one side, profiling a tied-up John and, next to him, an equally bound woman. The view is stationary the whole time. Looks like the villain intended this for an audience - but it likely wasn't the community, which seems to have tapped into the feed.]

[click to view feed.]


((OOC: All replies will dated as two hours after the post. Pretend the view is stationary from the profile and... there aren't random flashbacks to points earlier in the episode. :X))

Have you ever wondered about something so often, it becomes difficult to focus on the present?  

Is this .. recording me? Cool. Um. So, I kind of had a couple questions... I know, I ask a lot of them. If I get annoying or whatever just scroll past me. I just thought you know, anonymous internet forum is a good place for weird questions. Do you guys ever feel like you're doing, I don't know, the wrong thing? I know that everyone makes mistakes, but I mean consciously making the wrong choice over and over because the right choice isn't really an option anymore. Okay, let me change the question so it's a little less convoluted; if you were forced to do something you didn't feel was right, but you had no choice. And don't say like, there's always a choice. Trust me, there isn't. So--would you keep fighting it or would you, find a way to live with it? Yeah, [lets out a breath] something like that.

[He scratches his eyebrow, looking a little sheepish.] Sorry for being longwinded or whatever, I really appreciate anyone taking the time to hear me out.