IdealsUsername + User ID: Lemon Tea Rain + 935566
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LinkPrompt Response: Above all else, Wren values empathy for one another. There's nothing she thinks can be out there that is worth more than taking care of eachother; not fashion, not fame and certainly not wealth. If all the chicoons in the world were hateful and selfish, very few individuals would make it through life, and honestly that's not a very nice world to live in.
When Wren felt her absolute lowest in the world, her parasite, Igo, was there for her. Igo is a pessimistic individual, forever seeing the worst in everyone and able to pick out a poison berry in even the sweetest of sugar-coated punnets, but even so they set their own personal feelings aside to comfort Wren.
Wren had been deeply overwhelmed and hurt - so many people depended on her to be their shoulder to cry on, but not one person was willing to offer their shoulder to her. She reached out for support at one point, to request the help of her 'friend'... Only for them to immediately turn their back on her.
She was supposed to be the rock everyone turns to, they had said, harshly insisting that the only reason anyone bothered to interact with her anyway was because she would do things for them.
...Igo disagreed. Igo, the parasite who was consistently suspicious everyone who came into their general vicinity, Igo, who insisted trust couldn't be handed out like candy, Igo, who often believed Wren to be a gullible fool falling for trap after trap... Even they were willing to provide sweet words of comfort. To reassure her that she was a bright and bubbly person, that people interacted with her because they loved her and not just because she did something for them. That it was
okay to take a break from being the support and become the supported, because she
mattered.
That warm display of empathy, something that seemed impossible coming from Igo, was what truly drew the bond between the chicoon and her parasite, alongside what elevated empathy to such a worthy pedestal. Support and care for one another, and oneself... That is what the world needs.
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