Ryslig IC INBOX

[noasark]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, GREATFLOOD. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 950.04.933.05 *** GREATFLOOD has joined 950.04.933.05 <GREATFLOOD>This is the inbox of Noa Kaiba. <GREATFLOOD>Leave a message, and I should reply shortly. <GREATFLOOD>Undesirables will be banned.

Comments

[noasark]

You're traumatized.

There's baggage and you're traumatized. And I'm not surprised that's the case- if you've ever argued with the Fog, you'll find the mental path is the same. It doesn't justify it, but at the very least there's a beacon of hope that now that he's sorely human he'll figure out that he needs to stop rationalizing certain behaviors.

More to the point of what's important though- of course they would. Especially at that age.

...

Ugh, I wish we had a proper therapist here.

[softspokenlandlord]

I've never actually gone to a therapist.

Actually I've never spoken to anyone about this really, and I wouldn't have known about it if not for Aigami showing it to me. I pushed it away pretty completely, but...

Demons have a way of crawling out of the closet, I suppose.

[He's...not sure how to respond to the assertion that he's traumatized. It doesn't feel as if that term is for him. As many times as he'd reclaimed the Ring, for whatever foolish reason...did he deserve to feel as if he was "traumatized" at all?]

But traumatized is a bit too strong a term for it, don't you think?

[noasark]

Likewise. Honestly I have no idea how a therapist in your world would have taken it. Professionalism would say 'seriously', but bad therapists still exist.

[.......................

ryou,]

I'll pose a short question to answer yours. If anyone else described to you, the things the spirit did to you, in full, and explained they had troubles with their emotions and so on, so forth, regarding the topic of said spirit, would you say they weren't?

[softspokenlandlord]

I

I guess that's true.

[Noa stop being right.]

[noasark]

Exactly.

In any case, eventually this will...hopefully be something you can resolve. At the very least I'll do what I can on my end I suppose.

[softspokenlandlord]

I appreciate it.

I appreciate all of this, Noa. Thank you for listening to me, you didn't need to do that. But I think I've taken up more than enough of your time. Perhaps we can shelve this discussion for a while.

[He's feeling a little drained over the whole conversation, because talking this much about himself and his problems felt extremely unfair. And honestly, it was very unfair to Noa.

But he wouldn't lie to himself that it felt better airing it out.

Actually...he should make sure Noa knows that Ryou's not attempting to run away from this, huh?]

Not that I find your help unwelcome, but I've spoken of a great many things in this one chat that I don't usually discuss in any kind of detail, and I think I need to decompress after this.

[noasark]

Considering how the conversation started, I'm surprised we managed to keep on this topic for this long as it is.

Still, if you want to talk more later, the laptop is generally going to let me know when I have messages.

For that matter my house is available, though that could be tricky to get to.