007 | Voice

[clickclickbang]

Name: Prompto Argentum
Date: 6/1
Format: Voice

[It is a somewhat sad and bummed out Prompto who speaks on the network today, around lunch time.]

Uh, if...Caren's gone, if anyone's looking for her. I thought maybe she was just out doing an errand but...yeah.

[A sigh, and for a moment it sounds like Prompto may just let the post end there but then he sighs again.]

How do you, like, deal with losing people? In any way, here or back home or wherever. Just in general? I'm starting to think I'm not so good at it.

[He laughs, but it's a weak and forced sort of thing. He's trying, okay.]

Comments

[ voice ]

[darkestbefore]

[ Oh. She recognizes that voice. She doesn't know who Caren is, but that doesn't mean she doesn't feel for him.

Her voice is soft and sad when she reaches out to answer. ]

I'm not sure anyone is good at losing people, and if they are... I think that's an even sadder thing.

I think... I think everyone handles it differently - not to mention differently depending on who it is we lose. I think we'd have to. Each person means a different thing to us, fills a different space in our hearts. Losing that... it's unique to what - and who - we lost.

Let yourself grieve. Let yourself remember them. Let yourself miss them. But don't let that overshadow the precious memories you had with them, either. Or what they would have wished for you.

[ voice ]

[clickclickbang]

Easier said than done. Way easier said that done.

voice/ un: Caster

[futhark]

[ That's no kind of news Cu expected to hear ]

She's... [ He's stunned there. Confused, and ah– yeah, that's loss again. When he speaks he doesn't bother hiding sadness ]

Thanks for letting us know. She was a good friend. [ A sigh ] Don't beat yourself for missing her— or anyone else.

voice

[clickclickbang]

Not a problem.

[He tries.]

You think she'll be okay back home?

[Voice]

[fiddlestick]

[Well this is a bad day]

Oh no, not her too...

[Voice]

[clickclickbang]

"Too"?

[Oh no.]

Who else?

voice;

[oathkeeper]

[Oh, no... Poor Prompto.]

I'm sorry your friend is gone, Prompto... I know how much that can really suck. Sometimes when I'm missing someone I'll talk about something we used to do together. Sometimes it helps.

voice;

[clickclickbang]

Un? Fortunately? All I really did with Caren was help her cook and let her harass me.

un: wangxian | voice

[taciturnly]

( lan wangji might not be well-versed as far as pep talk goes, or as far as TALK goes at all, but loss is definitely an old friend. )

Prompto. ( hi >: ) There is no wrong way to grieve, only yours. Mourning alters and remolds. Live well and honor their memory.

[clickclickbang]

Lan Wanji. Hey.

[He's going with that and not whatever Wei Wuxian suggested last time they talked okay. Way less likely to end terribly.]

Remolds?

voice

[plasticasshole]

Caren is gone?

[Don't mind Connor, he's just a bit devastated by this news.]

I'm sorry, I can't help much... I don't cope very well with losing people, either. I suppose keeping busy helps some, but...

[There's always time spent sulking at the bottom of his pool, too. He can't say it helps much, though.]

voice

[clickclickbang]

Yeah, she vanished. And I'm pretty sure she just went home this time.

[Instead of kidnapped.]

...maybe you're right about keeping busy, though. I was gonna close my delivery service for the day, but maybe I need to run it anyway.

voice;

[silentsavant]

[the soft, level voice of a serious young man comes through.]

A shame to have lost Caren. She may have had a knack for being irksome, but she was good to have around all the same.
Would you say that making this post has helped you?

voice;

[clickclickbang]

A little. If nothing else, everyone else knows now and that's, I dunno. Helpful?

[voice]

[spirialink]

[Caren... That was a name he recognized. Someone he met here at some point, maybe? Not that it mattered much now if they were gone. But what did matter is that he was hearing someone struggling with losing that person.

Struggling with having the strength of the connection they shared tested.]

I don't... think it's something you're supposed to be good at. If losing someone hurts, that means they mattered to you.

But... You just eventually learn... to move forward from it. It might take a while; hours, days, maybe even weeks or longer, but... You learn to make those memories you had together a part of you, and live for the both of you.

[voice]

[clickclickbang]

You just think that after a while it'd get easier, y'know?

voice;

[arturiarex]

I'm not sure it's ever something one gets used to. Losing someone, that is. But the pain stops being quite as bad over time. Eventually.

I knew Caren as well. I'm sorry.

voice;

[clickclickbang]

Any idea how long until "eventually"?

voice

[overworker]

[Ah-- Caren too.]

If it's any consolation I'm... not very good at it either. Not really anyway. And... it never really gets any easier.

[Spoken from Lots and Lots of Experience.]

It's one thing to go through the motions... stay busy so you don't have to think about it... Because it's easier not to face it.

But that's not a good way to handle your feelings.

voice

[clickclickbang]

Unfortunately, not thinking about it sounds really good right now. But--hey, Elliot told me about Crow. I'm sorry.

voice, un: noctgar

[eluci]

Dibs on the master bedroom.

Dunno if I can help with the other bit.

[His attempts at dealing with loss get him lectures.]

[clickclickbang]

Dude, no way I already claimed it.

Voice

[inlikethebrume]

My apologies for this. Everyone else has already expressed how to handle with loss [Which is pretty much keep walking forward and all she knows.] and I have to agree with it.

But, if there is anything I can do to help you, let me know.

Voice

[clickclickbang]

Just talking's helped, honestly. How're things going with you though, Mira?

voice;

[fordola]

[ ...She's quiet, as she replies. Almost about to admit something, but nah. ]

Real talk? 'm not good at it. Loss fuckin' hurts.

But I don't think my coping method would help ya.

voice;

[clickclickbang]

Is it violent?

[Look, it's Fordola. It's a safe assumption.]

text; anonymous

[getting_better]

I wish I could tell you 'you never really get used to it' and 'deal with it however you can' but it's not always true and that's poor advice in my opinion. If it hurts, feel the hurt, feel the sorrow, cry if you want there's no shame in. Letting it out is the best way to eventually feel better without numbing a part of yourself but if you want a distraction, do something that makes you happy. If you can't do that or if what made you happy before does't make you smile, then pick up something new, something small.

I literally used to watch paint dry and grass grow. What you shouldn't do is do something that would harm you or make the memory of the person frown on you.

voice;

[partnerinheels]

[Well this hits home.]

If I'm being honest? Not well. At home, it's the next mission. Here it was drinking, training, sex... Basically distracting myself to avoid dealing with the losses directly.

Eventually, I chose to focus on opportunities that were distracting by means of helping others.

voice;

[clickclickbang]

Yeah, seems the general consensus is "feel it", but, y'know...that sucks. A lot.

voice; late, if that's ok!

[judgementor]

I am over two hundred years old. [He opens with that, and his voice is a soft thing compared to the usual sharp tones it takes.

Losing Caren hurts... in ways he would be hesitant to explain to anyone.]

And loss does not get easier. It doesn't sting less each time. But... I suppose... you get used to it, in a strange way. I might have some advice, if you're open to it.

♥

[clickclickbang]

[Two hundred years? Yikes.]

I'll take it. Anything that might make this suck less, y'know?

[voice]

[wordsinthesoul]

…I'm sorry to hear that. She… she seemed quite a pleasant person.

[Ah… there's a familiar pain. He makes a considering sound, leaning back for a moment.]

I suppose- the best thing is to remember them. To do deeds they might be proud of.