Oh, only because for the last three decades or so (barring the years she was dead) she was fairly vicious about reminding me and everyone else she was my ex-wife.
[locked] Back on the topic of your chat with my wife... Thank you for being the catalyst to warn me that she... hasn't dealt with some leftover trauma.
Oh, this is going to be fun to deal with, God damn it to hell and back.
You're the one she spent a while trying to convince not to trust her because of the period of time she spent where no-one could, despite that she's not insane anymore. If anyone ought to have the explanation of why, it's you.
...Good point. *wry look* Wish me luck?
OOC: you're going to be getting the default icon for a while b/c I'm posting from yahoo. Just imagine it's one of the unmasked ones?
Once we manage to double-check why she still won't trust herself, let alone want anyone else to trust her, I'll let you know. *is not a happy man, at all, but at least it's something they can deal with*
After you get drove insane you're never alright again even after it gets better. Twenty years and I'm still not alright with it. Might be easier for her to change since it was a chemical did it to her.
Recovering from insanity seems to be a goddamned survival skill in the part of the world I run in.
Between my temporary bouts with post-resurrection madness, Joe's... Joe is doing fine, even if he is doubting himself too much after what he was used to do.
Rose seems to be coming back from her bout with it well. Now I just have to work on Addie.
...And keep my eye on some of the Titans. Those kids are broken in ways that make me very uneasy, right now, from the originals down to the newest ones.
I live where 2/3rds of the entire population is insane from poison gas let alone the people who've seen people eaten alive, had family hauled off by the government or went through the war.
You don't recover because it just keeps getting forced on you day in and day out. When the hospitals are run by the government and mental illness is punishable by imprisonment or worse. No one gets help. You just give up on getting better if it ever does happen.
There are days that the damned crazy telepaths, random Wednesday alien invasions, extra-dimensional evil entities, and swarms of random ninja and yakuza don't seem so bad in comparison to what might be.
At least the enemy is known. I'd prefer it over shooting friends in the head when they come awake and try to take a bite out of you or seeing people dragged down and eaten alive like some bad 50's horror film.
One false move on the street, huff too much of that odorless, colorless gas and you lose all bets. I'll take something I can see coming any day over that bullshit.
i>Snake smiled rather cynically. Days I wonder if it's hell instead of being alive. Glad I don't have to always be there now. Probably be out of my mind if my kids were there.
Some things that make me regret trying to stop that bomb going off in the Capitol, more like.
Nor here.
Wry smile Joe was always an angel. Grant on the other hand, was a bit of a holy terror. Too much my kid. Though where Joe gets the sweetness I have no idea, it surely wasn't from Addie.
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Date: 2008-08-10 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-10 03:56 pm (UTC)Oh, only because for the last three decades or so (barring the years she was dead) she was fairly vicious about reminding me and everyone else she was my ex-wife.
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Date: 2008-08-10 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-10 04:11 pm (UTC)Things have been better since she came back--much better.
But that... that was new.
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Date: 2008-08-10 04:37 pm (UTC)There had to be a reason for her to come back.
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Date: 2008-08-10 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-10 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-11 12:52 pm (UTC)[locked]
Back on the topic of your chat with my wife... Thank you for being the catalyst to warn me that she... hasn't dealt with some leftover trauma.
Oh, this is going to be fun to deal with, God damn it to hell and back.
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Date: 2008-08-11 12:54 pm (UTC)[Locked]
Think we're all right there with her on that shit.
Always is.
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Date: 2008-08-11 12:59 pm (UTC)She spent quite a while both insane and knowing that she was. Among the things she did specifically to hurt me is torturing my lover.
She was still insane when she died, and obviously, she really hasn't had time to deal with the fact that she's not insane anymore.
Convincing my psy-ops wife that she needs to talk to someone... *sigh*
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Date: 2008-08-11 01:01 pm (UTC)Hell, if they can convince me to "talk to someone" anything is possible.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 01:07 pm (UTC)...Good point. *wry look* Wish me luck?
OOC: you're going to be getting the default icon for a while b/c I'm posting from yahoo. Just imagine it's one of the unmasked ones?
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 01:15 pm (UTC)If you think it'll help.
OOC: NP. I have a good imagination.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 01:20 pm (UTC)Thanks.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 01:22 pm (UTC)Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 01:40 pm (UTC)But I trust my wife, despite what she said.
I also know why she's not trusting herself, and
it's my faultit's not something that's there anymore.She got dosed with a chemical cocktail that drove her mad. It's not in her blood anymore, and... I thought she was all right.
But we didn't have time to deal with anything before we went after the HIVE, and--
Obviously she's not.
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Date: 2008-08-11 01:44 pm (UTC)Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 01:58 pm (UTC)Recovering from insanity seems to be a goddamned survival skill in the part of the world I run in.
Between my temporary bouts with post-resurrection madness, Joe's... Joe is doing fine, even if he is doubting himself too much after what he was used to do.
Rose seems to be coming back from her bout with it well. Now I just have to work on Addie.
...And keep my eye on some of the Titans. Those kids are broken in ways that make me very uneasy, right now, from the originals down to the newest ones.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 03:50 pm (UTC)You don't recover because it just keeps getting forced on you day in and day out. When the hospitals are run by the government and mental illness is punishable by imprisonment or worse. No one gets help. You just give up on getting better if it ever does happen.
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Date: 2008-08-11 04:00 pm (UTC)There are days that the damned crazy telepaths, random Wednesday alien invasions, extra-dimensional evil entities, and swarms of random ninja and yakuza don't seem so bad in comparison to what might be.
Today's one of them.
Come take a vacation over here.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 04:05 pm (UTC)One false move on the street, huff too much of that odorless, colorless gas and you lose all bets. I'll take something I can see coming any day over that bullshit.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 04:22 pm (UTC)*wonders if odorless and colorless applies to his senses of taste and sight and smell, but doesn't voice the question--also, never wants to find out.*
I would too. No doubt on it.
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Date: 2008-08-11 04:29 pm (UTC)Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 04:40 pm (UTC)And I'm glad you don't as well.
I can't imagine having kids in a world like that one, it'd drive me crazier than most people think I am.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 06:11 pm (UTC)Drives me crazy enough now without the gas. Somehow my record was nice enough to follow me along with some of the more annoying bastards from home.
Re: LOCKED
Date: 2008-08-11 06:21 pm (UTC)Hm. Wonder if an ally of mine might be able to help you with that... *thoughtful*
And don't kids drive everyone crazy?
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-11 06:30 pm (UTC)I've got a pouch to stop nightmares made by some vouldun priest or something. Helps when I sleep but not the ones I get awake.
Was talking more about the cops shooting at them. The kids are the least of my hassle most days.
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:37 pm (UTC)Huh. That would come in useful, but no, nothing stops what you see when you blink wrong and you're back somewhere you never wanted to see again.
Aaah. *nods*
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:42 pm (UTC)No, nothing does unfortunately. My mind doesn't help that much either.
Smiles proudly. My kids are angels.
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:45 pm (UTC)Nor here.
Wry smile Joe was always an angel. Grant on the other hand, was a bit of a holy terror. Too much my kid. Though where Joe gets the sweetness I have no idea, it surely wasn't from Addie.
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:49 pm (UTC)Think the boy is going to be like that when he starts walking. Swear the women cursed him by giving him my name.
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-08-11 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-11 07:12 pm (UTC)My stepmother's second husband, though, was a good man, and taught me a lot.
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