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☾ and вy god ιт'll мaĸe yoυ ғall ☽
☾ ιғ yoυ leт ιт тaĸe a parт oғ yoυr ѕoυl ☽
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My name is Valiant! I am a 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 twenty year old Kia who's got the best brother ever!
I'm a girl Kia but I don't really care if anyone thinks I'm a girl or boy. I'm just Val!
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☾ ι've ѕeen тнe love ιn yoυr вroтнer'ѕ eyeѕ ☽
☾ and тнe love ιn yoυr мoтнer'ѕ crιeѕ ☽
☾ ѕιѕтer don'т тeѕт тнe oneѕ yoυ love ☽
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Journal Entry1:
9/21/08
'I'm sorry about that last page. I didn't mean to rip it, I...
I guess it got too waterlogged.
Some of the old pages got stuck together too,
I think I've pretty much lost that entry about the play.
We've been dividing things up the past few days. They...
Mom and dad.
They finally split.
Jean got out a couple years ago when they were their worst,
sometimes I'd go stay with him when it got too bad. Those... well,
I've been reading those entries a lot lately, ha.
Stay up all night playing video games (best thing that's
happened all week: Jean caught me a shiny Furret, how
cool is that?! He even named it Val before he traded it.)
or listening to stories of dumb junk he's done and said...
it's really fun. I feel like I can actually relax some around him.
I mean, I know I've said that a ton lately, but it's really
important, you know?
I've been sick for weeks. There, okay, I said it. A...
and past couple days I've been shedding like crazy,
it feels like half my mane ends up in my hairbrush every day,
and I'm getting all... skinny. I only really eat any more when
I'm at Jean's, and that's all... 'junk' food, y'know? Eating at home
is just painful now. Usually dad's just quiet or still at work and...
well, I don't hang around mom's enough for dinner often.
She tries to make it like everything's okay, I hat it. e
Jean left home early cause he couldn't take it, dad's falling
into a wreck. I've tried telling them about how I've... been, but...
well, dad's busy. I don't want to bug him with it.
And mom just says I need to calm down and not
stress. That I'm not the one going through
all the documents and legal stuff and
actually ending it all, I can do fine.
Can you believe she actually said that?!
Yeah it's been hard on her, does she really
think I haven't noticed that? But she always
gets like this, all she sees is how it hurts her,
she doesn't see that it's been hurting dad.
That Jean got pretty hurt (why does she think he left
so early?!). No duh it's been hard, but you'd think
she'd have a little sympathy for her kids at least!
I... and all I told her was that I'm feeling sick.
I really think I need... therapy or something,
all I've been feeling lately is just...
angry. Angry when I'm not crying
or just feeling like I want to...
just go to sleep and not wake up I guess.
I just don't want to be in this any more,
I... I think we're all just being
selfish and dumb in this, and I'm trying to
not get too bad, I know they're having trouble
and even if I think mom's being dumb she's
under a lot of stress but is
is it really too much to ask that maybe I
can just... say I'm scared and sick and
miserable and get some...
..........
where was I be-- right, we're splitting things up.
Dad's moving in a couple weeks, and they're
getting joint custody, so I've got to...
to figure out what I'm keeping and what's
going to storage, neither... neither room
has a lot of space. And mom'd toss my
games and music anyway,
she keeps saying she wants one of us
kids to turn out right.
Jean got out.
But he was already pretty much an adult,
he could do it fine but I'm... look at me.
I'm fourteen.
I don't know. Maybe I could run away.
Maybe I could live with Jean, he'd hide me.
Maybe I could just go live in a park or... or out in the forest.
I've got fangs, I've got claws.
Ha, me living in the wild... no way I could get out of sight
long enough.
I guess I can dream though, living out in the woods would be
less stressful than living like this, I could just... let go? Jean's
the only one I think I really... really care about any more at
this point, and he'd probably get it. I could just get out and be somewhere
and not have to worry about moving or... or anything like that...
I'm... I'm tired now. Maybe I'll try making myself eat,
it's been... wow. Ha. Checked the last page,
guess it's been over a day. I think I've got
some of that big cookie I bought when
I was with Jean, I'll try some of that.
I'll talk to you soon.'
~Val
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Journal Entry2:
4/04/14
'Geez... it's been a while since I've written anything
in here, huh? Last entry looks like it was from '08,
dang. I... I don't really know what to say.
There's about six years missing. K... it's kinda hard.
I mean, I knew it all along when I figured out when it
was when I 'got back', but... wow. Seeing... daily entries
then it just stops like that...
Wow.
What do I say? Where do I start? I... I guess...
I mean, okay, you got chucked into storage, there's a
place to start. I... you know that last entry? I... well.
Dad said he... I was going to have to live with mom
for a while, he just wasn't able to support the two of
us without it getting bad for one of us. Which would
definitely mean him. So I guess... I kind of lost it. I
didn't mean to, but... I was only going to spend a few
nights away, maybe go to Jean's, but then...
I was so angry. I was even angry at Jean,
thought that he could've gotten me out of it,
that was how a big brother was supposed to be but
he was just being stupid Jean and couldn't, and...
I just ran. I didn't care where I'd end up,
I just needed to be away, it... I didn't have a family
any more, as far as I was concerned. I know, that's
kind of over-dramatic and all, but I was
fourteen at the time... ... nah. No. It was just
petty and overdramatic, but it was too late to go back.
I kind of just... went feral I guess, that's a good word--
I got seriously lost, okay? I'm not sure exactly how long
I was out there, a couple years? I think I was... sixteen,
seventeen when I started going back near cities again.
Mostly just to scrounge around and find somewhere out
of the rain, I still... I didn't feel comfortable around
anyone else yet. And it was kind of creepy
seeing some ripped old poster with half your
face on it on a telephone pole.
I still remember that, it's way too clear. And I remember...
just hiding in a park after that. I'd been so cool for so long,
not caring at all, I was just... I wasn't really Val any more, just
the pink long toothed predator who didn't have any kind of attachment.
So that was the first time in... in a while that I really realized it.
That I was Val, and I did have attachments. Even if
our family was breaking up, we were a family and I... just left.
Let them go like they were nothing, and it... god, how bad had
I hurt them? How scared were they? There's still no justification
for it, n... no matter how bad I might've hurt...
Geez, I'm crying again, I'll try not to let you get ripped though.
But yeah. It took three years living in the wild to realize I'd
done something so... horrible. And you'd think that'd be
when I went home, all lesson learned and stuff, but I...
come on. I'm not brave.
All I did was keep moving around another few years,
except this time I wasfeeling sick again.
Crying when I wasn't feeling like some
lifeless husk of a Kia, and I... I was in a bad place. About
as bad as when I'd left in the first place, but... hey. When
you hit that hard a rock bottom, it just means you can only
go up.
I found Jean, first. It was an accident weirdly enough, he'd
wound up moving to one of the cities I was bumming around
for a while, and just... in a crowd, can you believe it? It didn't
seem real at first, but there's only one other Kia out there with
hair and teeth like that. And I, in all my infinite wisdom...
just followed him around like a creepy weirdo for a few hours
before I got the guts to actually go talk to him. And he...
was incredibly angry. Just at first, and then he-- both of us,
really-- started sobbing like mad. He told me... god, I still
feel sick thinking about this, they'd thought I was dead.
Kidnapped or... something else awful like that, and there I was
going in and saying I'd just run off. But I was alive, and...
Yeah. He let me stay with him, get cleaned up some because
it had been a while and... well, I... I had to own up to
mom and dad.
I'll write that story down tomorrow, but short version?
Take how Jean reacted, magnify it by ten. (And mom re-married.
A couple times.) And I can't say mom and I got off to the best start,
I kind of... might've really laid into her about how I felt when I
ran, and that it might've been selfish but there was way more
behind that. ... we... still aren't really talking, but the effort's being made.
Dad and I are on fine now. Same with Jean, I actually just put my first
payment down on the apartment next to his! And I booked an appointment
with a therapist, I mean... look, you don't react to a divorce by spending most
of a decade in the wild without there being something else going on, right?
I put... myself through hell. And my family. But I've got them again, and
I won't let them go again, not like that, I'm finding better ways.
Art and junk. Turns out there's a whole form dedicated to
smashing things up and making something pretty out of the
pieces... sounds kinda familiar, huh?
Anyway. I'll talk to you soon-- I mean it this time.
~Val
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☾ don'т тeѕт тнe oneѕ yoυ love ☽
☾ ιт'll only тear υѕ down ☽
☾ ιғ yoυ wanт тo ғeel alιve ☽
☾ тнen learn тo love yoυr groυnd ☽
☀ love yoυr groυnd ☀
Lyrics from 'Sister', by Mumford and Sons; which inspired a great deal of Valiant's character/these entries.