meme: questions

[defenderofdesmoines]

It has been since March since we did this one, and we have a whole bunch of new characters to interrogate interrogate!

Pose a question (or as many as you'd like, and they don't all have to be in one comment, so you can come back later and add more if you want) to your fellow students, teachers, townies, alumni and expatriates, and they will answer them. These are IC questions and IC answers and should be truthful! They can be personal or silly. You don't have to answer all of them! Nothing counts in game, of course.

So, for example, I'd ping in with a question like 'Are you in love? If so, with who? If not, why not?' And people ping in under me and answer that question. There's no latesies on this, because of the format, so people can ping in at their leisure. And ANYONE can ask questions!

Comments

[defenderofdesmoines]

Have you ever lost someone close to you? How did you handle it?

[pocketpretzels]

I've lost nearly everyone I've been close to. To death or because they tired of me and left.

At some point you just start waiting for the other shoe to drop.

[not_of_the_nora]

Rost. And Varl.

I kept going. It’s what they would have wanted. For me to thrive, to succeed.

I mourned them quietly, after the doing was done. But with hope in my heart.

[justalittlerepressed]

My wife, Shannon. I handled it like I handle everything by just... not.

[alwaysonguard]

Lizzie. Others but none will hurt like losing Lizzie. I'm not sure I will ever fully be over that loss. Tough, I think I have gotten better at accepting it and trying to live my life around and with that pain rather than fighting it.

[knife_bender]

My brother Ben, twice over. My mom, twice over. Grief that you get used to, but don't really get rid of.

[thatwaslucky]

So the timing of this question is terrible...

[scarlet_chaos]

*takes in breath* My parents, my brother, Vision, Natasha, my Steve, Vision again, Billy, Tommy, and I have no idea where the hell Bucky is.

I don't handle it well.

[cassandras_sister]

My parents vanished and I had to jump into helping the town.

My sister died and I was a mess and then I took the town over from her. Therapy wasn't an option.

[solo_sword]

Losing the first brother was the thing that finally turned me towards the dark side, so I didn't handle that great.

With the second brother it was straight months of depression. So... better?

[okteiviakom]

...

[defenderofdesmoines]

Two weeks ago, I lost one of my oldest friends to murder, and I had to sit on a rooftop with his mutilated body until I could get a ride to my apartment, where I had nothing short of a complete fucking panicked breakdown.

Yesterday, I said goodbye forever to my mentor and someone who, frankly, felt a lot like a sister by the end. I'm doing a little better with saying goodbye to Maggie than I did to Alex -- it helps that she isn't actually dead -- but it's still not easy.

I miss them both so much, already.

[doctorgingerspice]

Well, I mean, when my mom died I basically buried myself in my studies rather than come home and grieve with my family. In retrospect I'd say I handled it pretty damn poorly.

When my dad died I did a favor for a friend of his that turned into me spying on said friend and nearly getting killed for it. So... probably also poorly.

[begmetwice]

I'm the one who was lost.

I handle it by pretending I never even had parents, or friends, or a career, or a life in a city that miss with every second of every day.

[hasaknightjob]

Steven: I lost someone. Recently. I... don't know how close we really were.

[itsananomaly]

Not well.

Second time I chose to take a high school teaching job in another country.