[text] username: justanadventurer

[aetherweaver]

[He debates for a while if he wants to post this anonymously or not. He very nearly does, for fear of making people worried.]

[But he's trying to be better about his mental health, and if he can put his face to this then others can feel more comfortable talking about their problems, too.]

I was just wondering...

A lot of us are 'heroes' in our home worlds, or maybe 'chosen ones' or... basically we're expected to save the world or do something amazing.

How do you change from that to going to an everyday life? I've been trying to for months, but I can't shake the habit if expecting to solve every problem by myself - or nearly by myself, at least. ... It's nice to be regarded as a 'normal' person, but it's difficult to stop trying to be a 'hero'.

It's getting to be a problem, not knowing how to not take on too much. Does anyone have any tips?

[Now to hope Gaia misses this post...]

Comments

[faceblocks]

aww yeah thats some of the best part about cooking is making stuff for your ppl

ohhhhhhh yeah well food spices are great too
i never tried the other stuff or the weird mushrooms
we grow the food mushrooms in the garden

thats probably a pretty solid way to do it
im not playing it THAT safe but im not planning to get on the bad side of a bottle for a long time if you know what i mean

shit sorry
thats not cool

it is. i have trouble every day with knock it off
it doesnt work as often as it should
im real good at saying it tho

oh wow thats
different
sounds kind of like a pthumerian only more powerful
the elder ones or w/e

WAIT WAIT thats how you saved the world isnt it
you solved some crazy riddle or test or you fought it with spells?!1

[aetherweaver]

Yeah I like making food for other people. Seeing them happy makes me happy.

We have a lot of food mushrooms if you ever run low. One of the benefits of living all the way out in Feed.

And it's okay? It's not like... you or anything, just... I've been poisoned and seen people be poisoned? I guess it wouldn't be that much of a worry here where I'm not the big hero or something. And it's been years, but it still makes me twitchy.

I'm sure you are. :)

Kind of? I guess. It was kind of sad since he really didn't understand how people worked. Like how their determination and bonds allow them to push past awful things even when it's not to their benefit. And that's a real defining feature of how people work, especially in extreme situations. It couldn't handle that some things couldn't be quantified.

That's one of the times? There's stuff like a giant time-traveling mechanical robot, or a world of eternal daytime... or something literally called the Final Days, just to name a few.

[faceblocks]

we got that part in common
shhh dont let that get out tho itll ruin my rep

[it's already out since day one.]

awwww sweet. gonna get the recipe for those pies too. something to shoot for. youre out where the chickens are too.

i figured it wasnt me so like no taking it personally
tell u what
if we get drinks at the feed itll be from sealed containers only
or when i bring hot choc to the outpost ill let you make ur own

haha thats the entertainment feed btw im not inviting myself over for drinks
bc who would even do that

well i would but thats not what im doing here

weve all got our twitches.

that sounds tough. its hard enough to get people being one of them (and sometimes nope) but i cant imagine what that would look like from the outside
we probably make even less sense

ok so this world saving thing wasnt a one time deal its like a hobby or a career
like in one of those movies where everyone gets suits and names and stuff
hand over that autograph
might have to get a selfie

u got posters?

Minor Endwalker spoilers/6.1 spoilers

[aetherweaver]

Haha, got it.

I appreciate it. I don't think you're gonna try to poison me - anyway you're a vileblood, you could poison me without putting it in a drink probably. So I trust you.

Yeah, we're all a little messed up. If you aren't before you come here, you will be.

We don't make sense, though strength of will is an actual thing that can sort of be measured? It's weird and doesn't show up in the same way as aether and we don't really have any devices that can measure it. It's the power of emotions and it's a real thing. So yeah the power of friendship and everything is a real thing.

It's a job yeah. I get called the Warrior of Light (or Warrior of Darkness on Gaia's world) and people come to me to save the world from all sorts of things. It's a little easier now that other people can fight the big godlike things - we cracked the problem of their weird mind control. Honestly I was looking forward to some time off but then we got involved in another thing and at home we were trying to figure out a way to open a portal into another world to go save a dragon.

(Dragons came to our world after being chased by the big alien machine. So dragons are aliens too.)

I don't have posters - photography doesn't exist in my world so it's all drawn stuff. I'm sure Alphinaud has a drawing of me somewhere but he's never shown it to me.

[faceblocks]

true true
i could but i wont unless well if im trying to poison you maybe drag my ass to the sanctuary

it sounds so silly but youre right
i mean all that shit in july with the ocean being pissed and people tossing themselves in?
what fixed it half the time: talkin
the other half it was tackling but still

so youre the warrior of chiaroscuro kinda
gaias here in trench right
well duh bc u said they likes biscuits and itd be hard to feed em to a squid
or a memory
theyre from ur world too?

so u went from saving worlds to saving dragons
cool cool got it
ur a complete badass package

i saw a dragon here when i first got here
still here i think
not a pthumerian
maybe its an alien too

well if one happens to show up i guess i gotta get u to sign it and put it on the back of my door or smth

like hero goals

[aetherweaver]

Yeah I'd probably do that. Put you over my shoulder like a sack of popotos.

Oh yeah no July was kind of awful. It was one of the times where I got yelled at for not taking care of myself before I took care of others. ... Not that the yelling was bad, the not taking care of myself was bad. It's one of the things that clued me on on the fact that all of this might not be healthy.

She is yeah. She's from a world that's a reflection of mine. I kind of got dragged there by someone and it's a kind of complicated story. Maybe I'll tell you some time.

Most dragons are pretty nice actually. Nidhogg wasn't but he had his reasons for starting a thousand year war that were valid enough but he had to be put down anyway. Twice. But his broodmates are nice enough if you don't intentionally piss them off.

Really? I haven't seen one but for all I know the dragons here are really different than the ones I know.

Maybe it will? Might get ruined by the sea water though.

[faceblocks]

if u do take a picture bc i want to see evidence

if u cant take care of urself u end up being shit at taking care of other ppl
learned that one the hard way
still learning it

yyyy totally do
over non poison drinks like i said

hold up

[incoming sketch of seasmoke, the grey/silvery dragon that dwells near the rocks]

that would be something mariana would do
just gonna put it out there that i want that poster in a protective cover
if shes listening
(shes not lol)

[aetherweaver]

Absolutely. What's the fun of having a thing that can take pictures if you don't use it?

Yes, I'm learning that as well. I've got a lot of bad habits, I know. But I'm working on it.

You've got a deal. Plenty of stories I could tell you. Especially the more I get drunk.

Huh. I haven't seen that one yet. Maybe I should go try to see this dragon. But I'd like it in a cover too. Or if I could just get his notebook. Though it's probably full of pictures of his old classmates. Apparently he picked up the skill to pick up girls in school.

[faceblocks]

thanks for the remind
i need to take way more pics

ur ahead of the curve then
were all working on smth
well those of us who arent perfect
or total assholes

u might get drunk before i do
but ill have ur back on that
not letting anyone get to where i got before
well anyone i like that is

u know allen
from the sanctuary
hes friends with the dragon
im only an acquaintance

maybe i shoulda gone to school

[aetherweaver]

I do too. I took a bunch when I first got here and learned how to use the omni just for the novelty.

I don't think anyone's perfect? Even the people who think they are really aren't. Hells, the gods aren't perfect.

I appreciate that. You're a very good friend, Vi.

Oh, I do know him! Not very well... I'll have to ask him about it the next time I see him.

I didn't get any formal education until I was 20 and moved to Ul'dah and even then it was mostly in magic and aetherial theory. I learned how to read and write from my mother and sisters and I learned how to do math so I could negotiate with traders.