♕ FIFTH COMMAND | TEXT / ACTION [ILEX FOREST]

[determinator]

[An anonymous text has been sent out to all of Johto. All replies will be anonymous as well unless he screws up and anonfails which is highly likely.]

How do you deal with the loss of a close friend?

[For those of you in Ilex Forest, Archer is currently busy training his Pokémon. Or at least, that's what he'd like you to think he's doing. Every so often he'll check the Gear to see if there's a response to that anonymous text.]

[Today really isn't a good day. Archer definitely seems more distracted and agitated than usual, and he's been snapping at his Pokémon all day. Why? It's January 28th. Kimbley would have been twenty-eight today.]

Comments

[derpsaboutfamily]

[ Strange anonymous text isn't weird at all... have an un-anonymous text back, Archer. ]

Remember that person and live your life in a way that would make them proud.

[ Except not, since it's Kimbley. ]

voice forever

[youfartknocker]

Uh- I get over it and stop, like, being a pussy. Uh, huh huh huh. [ He could actually read all those words! It's a miracle! ]

TEXT - NON ANON

[sculpted]

[[Armstrong has actually halted his mad rush so he can reply to the strange text; it's saddened him.]]

You mustn't be afraid to cry, my friend.

[text]

[suzakufeather]

You remember them with all your heart, as you'll always be together there.

[Anonymous Text]

[explosivecombat]

[As much as Kimblee does tend to ignore texts like this - sympathy isn't exactly his forte, after all - he's had a few...fairly recent conversations that have him feeling a bit more charitable toward matters like this for the time being. However, he isn't about to sign his name to it if the other won't do him the courtesy of making their own identity known; at the very least he's managed to mess with the filters enough to know how to post anonymously? Admittedly, he still hasn't figured out how to turn the Gear off entirely, but still...]

Not to be intrusive, but it depends on the nature of the loss; are they no longer in Johto, or was this someone who was removed from your life in some way back home?

[text]

[darkenedgales]

[Oh, the irony. For a text like this to pop up a week after Crow did, in fact, lose his best friend in Johto... not to mention he's lost a lot of close friends before.]

live on

never forget them

make them proud

[snapandscoot]

I'm afraid that's not the sort of puzzle I'm used to solving...

[[But Emmy will try to help anyway! This person sounds rather sad and that's no good.]]

Everyone needs a hint coin for that sort of thing. Were you close?

[text, THANKS ARCHER HE DISCOVERED ANON]

[notrueking]

You get over it, obviously.

[text]

[meatysoviet]

...

[He'll think on this.]

Get on with life. Is little can be done.

[text]

[exeggutorhead]

people leave or die all the time, so just move on.