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for a long time myself and people around me having believed that i suffer from a personality disorder, more specifically bpd, because we have out of getting help and treatment for so long. my lack of control over my emotions and relationships have caused me a great deal of loss. i was in a long term relationship with someone, and because of my problems with my mental health being untreated it often got the best of me and i would have many outburst or rage or sadness. she was the only person who could help me. many people know that people who suffer with bpd often develop one or two people known as favourite people (fp). my parents and friends and myself all believe that she was mine. she left recently because she could no longer take the treatment i gave her, and i could not be more sorry for it. i know i was awful and i regret not getting help sooner she might have stayed with me if i did. since she has left i feel i can no longer function. i have made in total 6 attempts to end my l1fe and have picked up on some rather unpleasant habits to help me cope. i am in a great deal of pain, my days consist of complete breakdowns multiple times a day, breakdowns that include screaming, crying, anger, thr0wing up, shaking, se1f h@rm, substance@buse, su1c1de attempts, and agonising pains. i have these breakdowns multiple times a day. and every song, every objects, every movie or tv show reminds me of her in some way. often causing these breakdowns. i would do anything to have her back, my pain and suffering without her is excruciating. but unfortunate she has moved on, and my family worry that i can no longer continue in this world without treatment. today is the day i start getting help. my parents are hopeful that cahms will help me, but honestly i am not so sure. i need my person back, i believe that is the only way i can truly heal. but i know she will never come back.
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Firstlife chapter 13
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Chapter 13
“Reality exists within the scope of your senses. If you feel it, it’s real.” —Myriad
I don’t mean to rain on the author’s parade, but some people feel that they’re George Washington. It doesn’t mean that they’re right.
Again, I feel like there’s a missed opportunity for an entire “You aren’t an angel/devil; you are mentally ill” subplot here. But that would probably require way more self-awareness than this author is capable of.
“Your contract will last your Second-death. We will ensure your Firstlife is filled with fame and riches that far surpass anything your parents ever achieved, and in your Everlife, you’ll be given a place of honor inside the palace, as well as any other home you desire. If you want it, you get it, even if it’s occupied. You will never lack for anything. You will have servants, and you will answer only to our King.”
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“But...how do you even know I’m an Abrogate?”
“For starters, you’re Fused with a General.”
He drops the news as if I’m supposed to coo with excitement. Thing is, I’m not even slightly startled. I should have guessed this was always about the spirit I’m supposedly Fused with, not me.
Again, without any basis of comparison, I can only assume that they offer this shit to pretty much everybody.
I think the only person we’ve seen is Clay, who was offered the job as messenger. But zero details on anything else he might have been offered.
“Abrogates are Generals, and Generals are decisive, right? They make battle plans.”
I think the biggest mistake that the spirits are making is expecting for an indecisive 17 year old girl to lead the charge into battle.
There’s a reason why the military’s current structure is based on experience. No more can you simply buy your way into a good military title.
“You don’t know what Generals are. You’ve never spoken to one.”
I’ve personally never spoken to a military general, this is true. But that doesn’t magically stop me from knowing what they are.
“I like listening to your onesided conversations.”
He’s heard my sleep talking? Great! “What have I said?”
“Ten’s tears fall...”
“No. Ten tears fall. The number ten.”
“No. You clearly said Ten’s tears. Your name.”
Wow, it’s almost like her name is a fucking number or something. How weird is that?
“Your parents haven’t been told of your escape...yet.” That’s something, at least.
“Why the reprieve?”
“Prynne has only informed parents of the deceased, and I requested Myriad keep quiet about you. Your parents...annoy me. Your mother is hiding something, and your father is an adulterous prick.”
Finally, some good news.
I won’t think about my dad’s infidelity and the mental hatchet job it must be doing on my mom.
Jeez, no wonder her mom’s a basket case. She left everything she knew behind when she was 18 for a boy. This boy grew up to be an emotionally abusive jerkwad who shipped their only child off to be waterboarded the second she thought about being rebellious. And then the man has the audacity to cheat on her? And then he has the goddamned gumption to say that it’s HER who is ruining the family?
Buddy, you ever look in a mirror recently?
The plane jiggles again, but at first, I don’t really care. Not anymore. When it continues, growing increasingly more violent, I freaking care. I freaking care a lot. The bin above us pops open and my backpack spills out as the nose of plane dips at a more acute angle. If not for our seat belts, we would have pitched forward.
This isn’t normal.
I’m nearing full-blown panic when the pilot steps from the cockpit, a bag slung over his shoulders. He moves swiftly, avoiding our gazes.
That’s 100% normal and a perfectly good sign!
He didn’t want me to wind up in Many Ends. And he might have lost his Secondlife for it.
Chapter 13 summary: As you can imagine, the plane is one of those shitty little puddlejumpers; meant for short trips. I can’t even imagine that it would make it to anywhere in the continental USA; the entire thing seems like a joke. Anyway, Ten hates how it shakes and bounces. She sleeps some, but when she wakes up, she asks Killian to sell her on Myriad.
He promises her riches beyond her wildest dreams, and power to go with it. She’s like “You putting me in charge of anything seems like the set-up for a shitshow.” However, they’re all so convinced that she’s the reincarnation of some general. He tells her that the generals all died in a big attack right before she was born. That normal people’s spirits don’t glow like that. She’s like “Sounds like you’re selling me some real baloney, you know.”
The plane starts to shake real bad. Which is concerning enough. But then the pilot comes out and he’s like “Hasta la vista, baby.” and then jumps out with a parachute. Killian goes to the front to try and land it, but then comes back and says that he can’t. He begs the girls to sign. Ten begs him to leave his shell, or else he’ll have his seconddeath.
Ten wakes up in a strange place and wanders around without reason for 2 whole pages. Then she wakes up again. Turns out that she’d died a little, and ended up in Many Ends, the purgatory. But Archer (who she and Sloan called when the plane was crashing) showed up and brought her back to life. Sloan is okay, and is being tended to by a friend of Archer’s. He doesn’t know what happened to Killian.
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honestly, looking at izaya's life from a third person pov, it's just... sad? like.
here's this guy who touts himself as something akin to a god and a master manipulator and someone to be feared, and he IS very good at what he does, except... when you take a look at the rest of his life, you see a mid-20s man who has no friends, nobody who really likes him- his clients fear him, his secretary isn't fond of him, and the one friend he DOES have is honestly kind of a garbage friend. and when people draw attention to this, izaya goes on this spiel about how this friendship is so intricrate it can't possibly be understood by an outsider, but what's REALLY happening is that shinra routinely doesn't care for izaya on a personal level via ignoring and ostracizing him, and izaya kind of just. takes it up the ass
he sees everyone around him as an object and the sad thing is everyone, in turn, sees HIM as an object- less an actual living being and more an abstract concept, or at least something that only exists for others to gain something from. it's this vicious cycle of izaya keeping everyone at arm's length and denying his own humanity, which in turn leads to people also denying his humanity, unknowingly feeding into this fucked up cycle of self depracation that most likely started when he was a child- his parents didnt see him as a person, just a mouth to feed and later, a way to have the life they wanted while still appearing respectable- they had kids, just like society said they should, but theyre not obligated to care for them.
and the one person who DOES notice there is something unhealthy going on can't be assed to do anything about it- in volume 9, shinra explicitly says that he doubts izaya expects to live long enough to die of old age- celty actually agrees with him! celty not being assed about it i'd expect, she already hates izaya and doesn't actually know all that much about him, but shinra at least should realize that there's something off about the whole situation. wether thats out of apathy or he just genuinley doesnt believe izaya is being unhealthy, i don't know.
but as it stands, here's a man who insists he can't be manipulated and that he's in control, who's... routinely mistreated by his only friend whom he still talks to and expects some sort of closeness from, and who ultimatley not only loses control, but loses it so spectacularly that he ends up disabled, possibly permanently. i KNOW the spinoff novels said he couldve walked if he went to physical therapy, but "ability to walk" does NOT equal "not disabled anymore."
like... it's just. a sad life! it's a horribly sad existence of a perpetual misery cycle that izaya not only doesn't pull himself out from but actively perpetuates via constantly giving in to his worst impulses and keeping everyone away from him via said impulses, ensuring nobody will notice anything wrong, and that people who DO notice and DO realize its unhealthy, won't give enough of a shit about him to help
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