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Ten Things to Ten People

[An anonymous post appears on the Folkmore network:]

Welcome to Folkmore's Ten Things to Ten People meme!

Sometimes we all have trouble saying things we really want to say to people, or feel like there are reasons we shouldn't. But getting it off your chest can be good.

- Pick ten people (or however many you want, I'm not your boss) to write brief messages to them specifically. Negative or Positive. Post them, anon, or you're really brave, attached to a screen name.
- Do not say who they are meant for.
- Everyone is free to respond, or even guess for whom the message is intended.

[[OOC: This meme is IC. Ten messages not required, that's just the traditional meme name. And, as always, memes can be game canon, if you decide you them want it to be!]]

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1. I’m still not sure that you understand that to me, you’re family. All of you are. An ongoing lesson on attachment, for me, I guess.

2. That includes you, too, and you don’t have a clue. I don’t know how to tell you nothing could ever change that~~before you find out about the rest~~.

3. I want that to be the basis for our vows, too. I know it’s far too soon. I hope we have time.

4. I’m glad you’re doing better, but I don’t think you’ve truly examined what you were taught nearly enough. And I really wish you’d stop spouting certain things like they’re fact.

5. I like you a lot, but we might fall under ‘too much alike to actually be friends’. Hmmm.

6. Thank you so much for offering to teaching me, and following through, without the slightest hesitation, ever. I’ve had some great teachers, but you’re the only one I didn’t worry I’d let down.

7. You have no idea how relieved I was, when you turned up here. No pressure, right?

8. You always ask the right questions, even when I don’t know how to answer. Keep ‘em coming.

9. Have you figured out how much tearing yourself down can hurt the people around you, as much as what you think of as your failings, yet?

10. You’re my friend, and I love you, and I miss you.

1. You make me want to love even the worst parts of myself.

2. It's okay that you're happy. You deserve to be.

3. Some of the shit you say makes me want to scream. I wonder if we're just too different...

4. You hate yourself, don't you? You mask it pretty well.

5. Never gonna say it to your face but I hate your family. I know they had their reasons but... Yeah.

6. Sorry.

7. Sometimes I think she brought you here because she knew you'd be miserable. Other times, I think you want to be that way.

8. Thanks for always having my back

9. I'm just glad you're here.

10. This won't end how we want it to. I see that now. That doesn't mean I won't try, don't worry.

11. You'll see it coming and I'll still win.

12.I hate that you're not here. I'd ask Thirteen but I don't think she gives a fuck if I'm less likely to commit mass murder if she just dragged in a couple more people for me. Not that I'd commit mass murder here. I mean, I might if it brought you here but... Whatever.

Vows, huh?

I said what I said.

Marriage vows?

Whatever she wants to call it. Like I said, we're not there yet.

The fact you're even discussing it seems like a huge deal to me.

Then again, I don't really know what the usual time frame on shit like that is.

It is a big deal, and I sure don't know what usual time frames are.

But we're also both so serious about commitment - it's both like, no vows until we're *pretty damn sure* but also - we probably wouldn't even be an item of any kind unless we both thought it was a *possibility*. Does that make sense?

Hello, Ezra. I don't believe any of these are about me, but number 1 made me think.

You should know that you and the other Jedi here are second only to my actual kin when it comes to claiming my loyalty. Cal is my person, and Cere Junda was like an elder sister to me. I keep most people at a distance for reasons that are difficult to explain, but I owe the Jedi more than I can express.

No, that makes perfect sense. Maybe it's just because it took me a pretty long time to be comfortable with the idea of marriage. I mean, commitment is one thing, marriage feels like another, you know?

Does it scare you at all?

I don't know if any of these are for me. I'll admit I didn't write any specifically for you - but I'll co-sign your 8&9, back at you.

Wooowww, Ezra, I'm fucking hurt. I should've been the first person you thought of!

I might've been thinking about you for 8 and 9, along with a few other people. I'm glad you showed up, Ezra.

Number 1 could apply to a few people, honestly.

Thank you for telling me, Merrin. It means a lot to me. We can be family-in-law. Ish, if you want some wiggle room. How does that sound?

I mean, I'd *hope* you'd know, already.

But still important to say, anyway.

1. I really, really like you. Like, a lot. I'm pretty sure I know what I feel but it feels too soon to say it and I don't want to scare you away. But you make my heart race in ways I never knew it could before.

2. I think about how I wish I could have done more for you every day. I owe you so much for all that you've done for me over the years. All I want is to see you happy and to help make you happy.

3. I've really enjoyed getting to know you since arriving here! You're one of the coolest people I've ever met. (Sorry I had to.) Also genuinely so kind and supportive! You inspire me to keep trying.

4. We definitely still need to get drinks and bond over being A Lot sometime.

5. I've really enjoyed our conversations. I'd love to grab a drink with you sometime!

6. I'm learning so much just from talking with you! You make me want to learn more.

7. I really enjoy your wit and sense of humor! I definitely want to meet your pets some time.

Well, I mean... I try not to assume how someone else feels about me.

But, yeah, I knew.

Family-in-law-ish sounds as good a descriptor as any for this strange fellowship.

I know it means a lot to Cal to have other Jedi here, even if he also keeps to himself more often than not. It has been difficult for him since a friend betrayed him back home.

1) I take family very seriously, so know I will always be there for you. I'm not going anywhere.

2) Sometimes, I gravitate towards optimists with good hearts, and I feel that's the case with you.

3) Half the time I think you expect too much from me. And the other half I think I'm not doing enough to show I've changed.

4) You and I have been through so much together. I trust you implicitly and we both know how rare that is for either of us to feel.

5) The only reason you're not dead yet is because you'd just come back to life. I hate that you seem to see me so clearly.

6) There's something about being around you that calms me down. I'm not sure why.

7) I'm more pleased to have you back in my life than you can possibly know.

8) We haven't talked in a while but I want to get to know you better. We seem to have similar mindsets.

9) You've always believed in me more than anyone else. I can never say thank you enough.

10) You remind me of some of my best friends. That's a compliment because it means I think you're a good person.

11) You two know loss and pain all too well. You have my sympathies because I understand what you've gone through more than you know.

I don't know that it's too soon. My parents weren't any younger than us when they were married, and they had only just met. But I like your world's way of doing things, and I trust you.

I only wish that things in my realm didn't make it so difficult.

Exactly what things are you referring to?

[He was just gonna ignore the rest of that for the moment.]

I feel the same way.

Feel free to come over anytime. I have a Nightsister staying with me now! That means she's of the clan I was part of back home before most were wiped out. I think you'll like her.

I'd love to! And this Nightsister sounds really cool! She's from your clan back home? That's so awesome!

1. Everything about this is awkward and strange. I feel unsteady and uncertain of how to proceed; you do not seem to have the same struggles, simply because you are not letting anything concern you at the moment. But I am worried.

9. You have not walked beside or behind me in long enough that it is also worrisome ... but a very different worry.

18. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, and true plain hearts do in the faces rest; where can we find two better hemispheres? Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally: if our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

27. Your friendship continues to be more than I could ever deserve to have, and you continue to press it most insistently regardless. I shall continue to accept it with grudging difficulty, but day to day it grows easier.

36. I think you are fond of my cavalier, but not of me; I am sorry for my inability to be as she is or to be most of the time as she would even like me to be. Often it is not really worth it to me to try quite so hard.

45. You are curious, and I should like to speak to you properly. You are something. (You are and are not someone.) Like calls to like in many ways.

54. As always, a letdown. A disappointing mistake not worth the space or time. Why do you continue to breathe easier. Why are you slipping. Do not pity, do not falter, you linger in madness: you must stand up and try again.

[Welp, there goes that little rant flying under the radar. Ezra sighs to himself. ]

Things like you're the only person, ever, who's tried to tell me anger is unbecoming of a Jedi.

I was never taught to meditate get rid of emotion. I let feelings pass, if I don't want to hold onto them, but if I want to indentify and examine them, I must bring them to the surface and feel them.

You say stuff on the network - and elsewhere, I imagine - about Jedi beliefs and practices that barely resemble or outright contradict what I have been taught. Am I supposed to turn up and argue, every time?

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