Ok, sure, so, this has been, until today, a stream exclusive anecdote but might as well tell it here.
Some years ago, I was super extra burned out while doing my magister’s degree, and when I finally got done with everything for the year, I decided “ok, this year sucked, I’m going to treat myself, gonna go on a small trip with some buds and we’re gonna live the shit out of our summer”, so I closed and powered off everything internet-connected, hit up my chums, and we hung out like two months.
During this time, we did all sorts of things, for example, I wanted to go skydiving, but the prospects didn’t look good, so we went bungee jumping instead, which is super cool when you’re afraid of heights like I am but also immensely terrifying but in a fun way. Another thing we did was go to this convention, it was super chill, and we’re a sociable bunch by default so we hung out with other cool nerds and we did a bunch of stuff together. One of these people in this other group we befriended was this really cute Lucina Fire Emblem cosplayer, right, and we got along really really well, she had a sense of humor very alike mine, was really fun to talk to, the works.
So the mood gets pretty good between us, no doubt from the bounty of Support Points we built up by ending so many turns next to each other, and we sneak out by ourselves without telling the Neo-Group, we walk down a few blocks to the less packed side of town, and in the parking lot behind a Cruz Verde pharmacy, she gives me that Fire Emblem Awakening minmaxed endgame head in costume.
And it’s going really well until I start getting texts from my crew like “DRIMO WHERE ARE YOU ARE YOU OK?” cause my chums are good eggs so they are naturally concerned when their boy just does like Houdini, they are making sure I’m fine, yeah? So I’m like “yeah man no worries” “BUT WHERE ARE YOU? EVERYTHING OK?” “no yeah I’m good I’ll explain later” “WE CAN PICK YOU UP” “my MAN I’m good trust me” so I’m there fighting for my FUCKING life doing QTEs to assuage the party that I am not in any danger while Lucina crits my meat with Aether for 70+ damage and I have to use every single last synapse in my head (the one atop my shoulders) to formulate even basic thoughts and coordinate my hands.
And I’ll spare the damage report but that was a Mission SUCCess, but then, later on, when we were done with our little adventure and I came back, I was like “oh shit, yeah, I never told Tumblr I was gonna do this, huh?”, the last post I had left on Tumblr at that point was “oh boy I’m finally done with academia for the year! I’m gonna go drink myself silly and then I’ll hang out with y’all :)” and then I proceeded to disappear for Two Whole Fucking Months, so I open Tumblr and naturally I have messages in my inbox asking me if I’m fucking alive or not, like, as far as some people were concerned, I had died in a gas leak explosion the moment after I hit Publish on that post. So I’m like “HEY FELLAS WHAT’S UP” and my good friends here at Tumblr Dot Com were like “Drimo! You’re alive! Good to see you! You disappeared for Two Whole Fucking Months! Are you alright?” and I felt so SO SO bad and awkward because I just… Didn’t have the strength, the vim, the vigor, the panache to say “oh yeah I’m fine lol I got turbo cyclone head from a cute Lucina cosplayer ex dee” after hardline disappearing for two whole months in which some people thought I could’ve been a corpse in some back alley, so I just said “oh yeah I just went and did some stuff haha” and refrained from ever telling anyone about how my weasel got shoved into the blue haired washing machine and got touch of death Tekken 7 Geese Howard 100 to 0 combo’d.
And that’s the story of how that particular year sucked but Lucina sucked harder and with less mercy so it fixed the year for me overall.
