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IMPORTANT OUT OF CHARACTER!
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Welcome to We Are Wild! In the sea of Hoenn a well known city sits within the crater of a volcano, the eastern portion of the volcano underwater, allowing boats to come and go as they please. Sootopolis City has for a long time been known as a peaceful place where people enjoy visiting for vacations. However what they don't about is the wild factor. In the large city is a world few know about where you need to steal food to survive and, on most occasions, you'll need to fight someone who has an advantage over you. Your adventures will be different no matter who you are, a human or a pokémon. Sootopolis City may be a place where legends slumber but the elements of Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Light, and Darkness aren't going to go to sleep any time soon!
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Where most Pokémon sites feature trainers traveling across a region We Are Wild shows us a different side of Pokémon! Where many things can happen, the wild life of Pokémon is where we're at. In particular the wild life of Sootopolis City where the many Pokémon groups tend to get into magor skirmishes. You can play either a Pokémon or a Human here in We Are Wild. In the Out Of Character realm many more things are there for you to do such as play games, compete in contest, and even buy caves (houses) for your wild pokémon. In Doom Den many plots are being thought up while in the General Board you can talk about things that don't have something to do with any other (sub-)board. Remember: in the wild no one tells you what to do; do what you want! Information | Register | Create Character | Member Profiles
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Deep in the snowy regions of Hoenn evil is rising, icy hearts rising deep from underground. A whole new group of pokémon who aren't picked by their type. They are simply a group because of their similar hearts; colder than snow and more dangerous than and toxin.
Weather
After many days of intense hail apon the city, the Castform Covenant decided that their reasons had been long fulfilled, and the hail has stopped, the clouds vapourised to let the sun shine once more. Or at least, until natural circumstances returned, leaving snow to cover the city instead, as well as the rest of the island. Time for the wild pokémon to stock up the food, and the humans to keep inside where it's warm...and repair the smashed windows if you need to. ^^;;
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Gonna Get Psycho
Joined: Mar 2007 Gender: Female Posts: 385 Karma: 17
{Dark...}Love: Fool's Folly {Story...} « Thread Started on Jan 23, 2008, 10:05pm »
Mai entry to the Scholastic Writing Competition- Where I got a Silver Key award on it! ^^ (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Nuthin'.) I'm really proud at the fact I won, since only 3 ninthgraders ( =3 Myself included!) managed to get any awards. Seniors are tough competition, appearantly. {{All the ones I've met are iiiiiiiiiiidiots. X-X I must've been lucky this year's class was moronic.}}
Anyway, hope you enjoy it! =3 If you can... D:
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Love: Fool’s Ignorance
It is said love is a fool’s enterprise.
There will always be room to fail. Always a misstep, always a roadblock, always a variable -- always failure. It is never a smooth, steady course, and, inevitably, heartbreak is the final destination. There is no way love could be real.
I had always scoffed at these pessimists. Their grim outlook was never appealing, and if there was indeed no love, what else was there? Every action had a meaning, every twist of fate a puppeteer, so why would love be any different?
I had it all.
I was born into a rich family, well provided for, and received the finest schooling anyone could ever hope for. I followed my father in his footsteps, establishing a related company that would help expand his into a timeless legacy. I was rich and sheltered. I never knew the wants of food, clothing, hardships, nothing others struggle with daily. I had never known pain.
Then she walked into my life.
I knew I had everything, but there was always a part of me that denied it. A small voice buried deep within my heart that dreamed, dared hope, that there was something else that would give meaning to all my efforts.
She was my light.
She liberated my heart from its sheltered prison, giving me the love and meaning I had always longed for. She was warm, kind, everything wonderful a man could ever hope for in a woman. I was very happy, and the overwhelming feelings of loneliness and despair didn’t haunt me in my dreams.
It seemed the only thing left to do was to tie the knot. I proposed at her favorite restaurant, in the middle of dessert, and much to my euphoric heart’s delight, she accepted. The ceremony was quiet, with only a few close friends and family, and I assumed life would continue to keep getting better and better.
Joy is a fool’s ignorance.
I should’ve known my happiness was to be short lived. I had to wake up from my dream sometime… I just never expected it to be so sudden and painful. I curse my inexperienced youth. She was older than I was, and despite that oddity, I assumed it didn’t affect us in any way. In the end… 10 years does make a difference.
I could never keep her happy.
I noticed that shortly after our honeymoon, her complaints started. She always made that pitiful face, the one that always melted my heart, and said piteously, in that melodic voice of hers, her silky brown hair pinned behind her ear, a glass of wine in her hand, how I ignored her and always chose work over her.
I always tried to put in as much time with her as I could. Being CEO of a large, ever- growing company, it was difficult finding loopholes in a very busy schedule. Skipping unnecessary events and parties, meetings that could be postponed, everything within my power to delay or avoid, I did. I brought her to all the parties I could, because she was always fond of them, but… it was never enough… I was never enough.
It happened at one such party, when she met my Chief Operating Officer or COO. The evening was young; the stars twinkled in the heavens as the thin wisps of clouds floated over the half moon, viewed best from the veranda on the roof. She looked beautiful, wearing a black shawl over her velvet red dress to keep out the sharp winds. Her hair was pinned up in a bun, one strand following the curve of her smooth jaw as her clear blue eyes, the brightest I’ve seen to this day, scanned the sky. I was with her, at the time, admiring the quiet beauty of the night, my fair maiden, as other company VIP’s squabbled pointlessly over policies. I was spared for the time being, but my COO, also being idle at the time, waltzed up to us both.
I don’t know what it was about him that caught her eye.
He looked quite plain to me, to be honest. His jet-black suit wasn’t particularly stylish, his black hair swept into a ponytail that made me cringe… his looks about average. He didn’t have a terribly agreeable nature either. I was talking to him about frivolities, company small talk no one really likes, but I noticed his attention wasn’t on me. It was on my wife. Taking this as an advantage to switch the conversation onto something more agreeable to both our tastes, I introduced him to her.
This was to be my greatest folly.
Shortly after their introduction, I was called away to settle a heated dispute between two essential board directors, and finding myself void of alternate options, reluctantly excused myself to help them. It was a good half hour before I was able to duck away, and on my way back, was stalled further by good-natured conversationalists in the mood for a good talk.
When I finally returned, I was oblivious to their obvious attraction. I simply assumed they became friends, since they got along with a closeness acquaintances couldn’t muster on a first meeting. But… their friendship wasn’t innocent. As we left the hotel that day, after many more hours of their ‘bonding’, I heard her comment, wistfully to herself as the bright lights of city night whizzed past, how much she liked my COO- nicknamed, apparently, Scorpio.
This was not the last time they met.
Every event she came to, Scorpio and my darling seemed to drift together and talk for hours. I felt a little jealousy at their closeness, because the idea of sharing wasn’t appealing, but I brushed this off as the silliness of a schoolboy’s affections. Life went on, and my COO and wife became closer and closer.
I remember the night of February 14 the most. The searing, unhealed pain, tormenting me every hour, be it asleep or awake, began the fateful night of Valentine’s Day.
I had been working late, as was usual in the aftermath of the Christmas Frenzy most companies suffer year after year, and was finally on my way home. Traffic was unusually mild that day, and I arrived at home far earlier than either of us had anticipated. I remember I was thinking of tomorrow’s calculations, fiddling with the key and inserting it into the keyhole. Turning it in the lock, I pushed open the door and beheld the sight that would scar me forever.
My wife, my sweet darling, was in my COO’s arms, kissing him underneath the bright moonlight that streamed through the half open glass doors.
I don’t know if they ever noticed my entrance or exit, I was blinded with tears; but I do know that was the end of my blissful ignorance. I was tainted with the truth, and my heart burned in its misery.
Since that night, February 14, things have changed dramatically. I tried to make things work, but every attempt failed. My only option was the one I was most reluctant to consider: divorce. There was no alternative, her heart was no longer mine and it would be senseless to pretend otherwise.
She was my first, my last, and my only love.
False lover as she was, her charms entranced me in a way I could not break free of, as hard as I tried. The harder I struggled, the deeper I fell. I had lost my meaning. I had lost my Light. As soon as all legal matters were settled, she and the venomous Scorpio wed. Their union lasted a good 10 years, but I expect it’s only a matter of time until another piece of candy catches her flirtatious eye.
To add more tragedy to my tale, I’m still forced to be close to them. I had no grounds on which to fire Scorpio with, and he continues to be my COO… Much more contact with that viper than I’d like. Since then, my company has expanded to such a degree that string pulling will no longer save me from those tedious parties… and my ever-present torment.
I always see her there, looking luminous and beautiful as ever, holding onto his arm and looking so happy… The shattered heart in me beats with a twisted memory of a former shadow of such joy, and almost always, her blue gaze flits to me.
I have never been able to meet it.
Fortunately for us all, I won’t ever have to. Love is a fool’s dream, a madman’s hope, and an irrational mistake. Everyone falls victim to its poison at some point, and some live happily with it. Some do not, and become stronger because of it. Then there are the broken.
Each broken beat of a warped heart labors on every second of every minute of every hour of every day to the sad song of misery, suffering from torment it can never be freed of. Hard and hard as it may try, there is never an effective solace.
I’ll never feel it again. I’ll end this, tonight, on February 14, ten agonizing years of torment. Ten years of their marriage. Ten years she’s lived longer than I have. Ten years since I lost my light.
Love was my greatest folly, but death will be its glorious deliverance.
Goodbye forever, my dear.
~(c) 2007, Rook ===================
Oh, he commits suicide at the end and kills Scorpio and his Dearest too. ^^;
I do believe in love, by the way. =3;
I need some sort of mental medication, I think. I'm Schizo like Quill! XD;;;;;;; I hope not. >->
Hope this hasn't killed all your belief in me as the luffable Rook. ;-; I dun wanna be the Dark one! ...I guess I kinda already am, but still!
I'm lonely and abandoned Washed up, left for dead I'm lost inside the desert Of every word you said Like a nuclear reactor Or tnt I'm thinking about the times When you lied to me
All the innuendo Caught up on your hook I was just a name In your little black book
Ah, I'll get even with you
I'm bitter and I'm twisted I haven't slept in days I'm lonely and I'm angry I can't make it go away
I'm like a bomb thats ticking, I got voices in my head I got a doll with needles in Wishing you were dead
I'll get you back somehow Thats what I'm gonna do I'll get you back somehow Your nightmare coming true
Ah, I'll get even with you Ah, thats what I'm gonna do Gonna get even with you
You better look behind you cause there I'm gonna be I'll be standing in the shadows With who I used to be
He's slightly schizophrenic Me and me and me and me agree That you are gonna pay For what you did to me
Ah, I'll get even with you Gonna get even with you Ah, thats what I'm gonna do I'm gonna... Ah, I'll get even with you.
(( I didn't find this until last week, by the way. XD; It's kinda creepy how well it fits together... o-o; ))