[voice] Everyone I Know Goes Away in the End

[booyaka_boom]

 *If she'd thought about it she would have put this anonymously, or written maybe. As it is, she's just a sad voice who wants someone to talk to. She sounds lost, her voice tight and choked*

First Aya... now Riku...and Kairi...

They're all gone. Just disappeared.

This is stupid! A couple days ago it was my birthday and Kairi had made me a friendship bracelet - and Riku.. Riku made me feel better about Aya disappearing.

There's no point... Everyone here is going home, somehow, someway. What's the point in loving people and caring about people if they just...disappear?

*Her breath hitches a moment before she gives a heavy sigh*

But I don't wanna... I don't wanna be a girl with no friends round here. I just - I wanna keep my friends. I want them to stay. But that's... so selfish...

At least Kairi and Riku have gone home together...

*Selphie sighs shakily again*

I just - don't wanna be left alone...

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[voice]

[letteropener]

[Celestia inhales, because what she's about to say is something she rarely talks about.]

At home, in Equestria, I have lived over one thousand years, and for the most part, I have had nopony to share that time with. My sister was... not able to be with me, and so I passed the years without anypony to share the greater length of time with.

I have watched generation after generation of ponies be born, grown old, and die.

Sometimes, especially closer to the beginning, I felt I ought to give up trying, that I should distance myself from other ponies so losing them would no longer hurt. But, as Princess, I did not really have that luxury. I had to constantly get involved. Get to know ponies, smile for them, ease their suffering and know their joy...

What I learned is what I am going to share with you now, and I hope you can take it to heart. What I learned is this: that there is no joy without pain, and no pain without joy. You are sad now because you were happy then, but that does not change the fact that you were happy, and nothing can take or poison that memory if you do not let it.

Making a friend is to know that someday that friendship will come to an end, and welcoming it anyway, because that friend brings happiness and light into your life that are worth the pain. We all come into each other's lives only to leave again, but what we build while we are together is stronger and greater than what we lose when we separate.

And we are never truly apart, so long as we remember each other.

[voice]

[booyaka_boom]

*Excuse Selphie for a moment. She sniffs once or twice before she seems to be trying to stop herself from crying. Selphie doesn't cry in front of anyone*

It's just - it's hard, and so horrible. And it - it happens here more than anywhere else. People just always leaving.

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[letteropener]

Yes, it is hard. Saying goodbye to a friend is always hard.

But to say that goodbye, you had to say a hello, and smile a welcome. And receive a hello and a smile in return.

[Voice]

[alovingheart]

[She hasn't met Selphie yet, but what she says hits home. Anna knows this feeling, she had it many years ago when her parents died and she'd had to deal with it basically all on her own. But she had to remain optimistic then, had to keep hope, and she's willing to share that with this girl now.]

I know that it hurts, when people leave. I know what that's like, but... It's worth the risk, isn't it? Isn't the happiness the friendships bring you worth having to feel the sadness in the end? At least, that's always been my view on it, I guess... The memories you get to keep, too. That's another nice thing.

And you'll never be alone. Even when you lose friends, there are always going to be other people around you, people who know how you feel and are willing to help. Everything's going to be alright in the end, okay?

[Voice]

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie doesn't recognise this voice, but whoever it is, she seems to be making a lot of sense. That, and it does sound like she really does know how she feels*

You're...you're right. I still have friends. And I am so happy and grateful for them.

And - and there's always new friends too...right?

[Voice]

[alovingheart]

Right!

Oh, I'm Anna by the way, I don't think I've talked to you before. I just felt like I should say that, since, uhm. I know what that's like.

[Voice]

[om_nom_namur]

The hell y' think that mark on yer wrist's all 'bout Sel? Where y' at? Gonna bring y' somethin'.

[Voice]

[booyaka_boom]

Huh? I'm in my room. Well, not really my room. Just, where I'm staying on the Moon.

*All curled up in bed and tightly hugging a pillow*

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[wheremygillsat]

Y e a h I'm... gonna need a bit more'n that. Can't smell for shit 'til I'm back t' normal. Oh hell, jus' meet me in the crow's nest. I'll swing over.

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[arcadiasailor]

I firmly believe that a friendship once made doesn't end if people are separated.
Even time and space can't erase that.

[A vow of friendship was a powerful thing. No matter how long ago that chance encounter had been, every time a Harlock ran into a Oyama they instantly seemed to just hit it off.]

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[booyaka_boom]

You really think so? I mean...we're not even...not even in the same world anymore.

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[arcadiasailor]

It think that makes not forgetting that friendship even more important. Just because Tochrio isn't here doesn't mean hes not my friend. There's a few people here I'd say the same. [Even if a few are people he's currently annoyed with]

[Voice]

[misteriletainn]

[Selphie's talking to him as much as she had when he first arrived on the island, especially with her upbeat nature, at least at the time, had really helped Owain when he first ended up on Port Chance, so hearing her like this-well, it was time to try and repay the favor.]

I know it's not easy, Selphie, but they'll be thinking of you, and you'll be thinking of them! That's what matters, really-and, like everyone else has said, you still have friends here. I know it's not easy to have people disappear on you-I've done my fair share of disappearing on people, after all-but we'll be here to help you.

[Voice]

[booyaka_boom]

*It was really nice of Owain to reply to her journal entry, Selphie thought. After all, they'd never actually met, but he was being supportive, and the thought allowed her to smile for a moment*

Thank you, Owain. That's really kind of you to say...

[Voice]

[misteriletainn]

Well, it's true! I know I'll be here, at least-you did a lot for me, even if it was just trying to more or less keep me sane and feeling from too lonely, when I first got here, and I consider you a friend. Or at least a soon-to-be friend, assuming we keep talking.

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[hiken]

[Ace kept calm for most of the disappearances. For some reason, it didn't seem like he could keep quiet and relaxed forever.]

...Selphie. Don't count your losses. Just your gains.

[At that moment, he was trying to do the same. It would be easier, he thought, if he could be around--]

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[booyaka_boom]

Hmm...

*She seems to think about this for a moment, not liking what she says next but nonetheless...*

But the gains - they just keep turning in losses...

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[hiken]

[He couldn't have agreed more.]

This day could be our last. Who knows what's gonna happen in the next minute or hour or day? If we spend time thinking about that stuff, we won't be happy.

[Voice]

[song_princess]

Selphie?

[Okay, she was gonna spend more time with Luffy but no. This was far more important then Luffy and his crew and.... Army. She goes at once to start cooing the warmest and gentle coo that she can come up with.]

Where are you? Will you be able to hold on till I get there?

[Voice]

[booyaka_boom]

Hi Leanne...

I'm on the Moon. Just sitting around. I don't think I'm going anywhere.

[Voice]

[song_princess]

I will be right over....

You shouldn't be alone in this.

[And true enough, she goes to first try and pick up Selphie's scent before following it to the young beorc.]

Do you need a hug?

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[feetarestrange]

I think they'd want you to think about all the happy memories you had with each other.

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[booyaka_boom]

I think so too...

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[fierybluebird]

[Not bothering with the journal, Marco just gives her a hug.] We're not going anywhere Sunshine. [Taps his Spade tattoo roughly.] This means you won't have to be alone, yoi.

[booyaka_boom]

*Selphie seems more than happy to accept that hug, and holds on tightly*

But Marco...you don't know that. You might disappear tomorrow and then -

*Her voice gets tighter and she squeezes him harder at the thought, because she hates the idea of Marco just suddenly not being around*