#somewhere i belong: morello

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Remi regained consciousness inside of the house, with Morello sitting right beside her, a bandage wrapped around his leg.

"Oh, thank the Gods you're okay!" The Lycanroc said, gently grabbing her paw with his own. "Do you remember anything?"

Remi looked down, at her paws. The smell of blood was still clinging to her fur, and it assaulted her nose. "Y-Yeah..." She looked away meekly. "Knopps... Is he...?"

"Dead? Yeah..." Morello had looked away for a moment. "Avett is taking care of... The two pieces he's in."

The Floatzel looked away, tears brimming in her eyes. "Morello... I'm sorry... I lost control again..."

Morello lightly squeezed her paw. "You have nothing to be sorry about. Frankly... If I was in that position... I probably would have done the same thing." The Lycanroc smiled. "You did me a service... I don't have to watch over my back anymore... He's gone... And hopefully rotting away in hell."

Remi looked down, and rubbed her nose and eyes. "Yeah... Yeah, you're right. I just... I wish I didn't have to do that. It... It makes me feel sick..."

"That's a normal reaction. It isn't easy, and never gets easier, but we do what we have to. Killing him was the only way he was going to stop." Morello stopped, and wrapped Remi in a hug. "You did awesome out there. And I appreciate it."

Remi nodded, and tightened her hug. "Thanks... I'm... I'm happy he won't be bothering you or us anymore." She paused for a moment before continuing. "Can you... Can you stay here with me tonight?"

Morello nodded, and climbed behind Remi, wrapping his arms around her torso. "I'll be right next to you... The entire night." He said. He then began to hum a familiar tune. The same one he hummed years ago when she was little and having nightmares. The tune was calming, and it made her drift off to sleep, with the Lycanroc following suit.

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The next morning, Remi stretched her body as she woke up... And found herself to be completely splayed out over Morello. She giggled at poor Morello's situation. And he would respond... By shoving her off of the couch, her falling several inches and landing with a thud. She looked up, and smiled. "Good morning. I, uh... I apologize for the awkward position. How'd you sleep?"

"Good. How about you?" He asked, stretching and sitting up.

"That was probably the best sleep I had gotten in a while." Remi stood up, and helped Morello up due to his leg. "Let's get some food in us."

Pretty soon, Avett had walked down, along with Audie, Florence, and Kita, and the group began eating their breakfast. They would be interrupted shortly after by Arceus. "Florence, Avett, Morello, Remi, Audie... I need you all. There isn't much time."

"Zappa? What do you-" Audie started, before the house began to violently shake. Everyone began to get under the table, with Kiske running downstairs to grab hold of Kita. "Oh Gods, what's happening?" Kiske asked.

"There's no time! I'm teleporting you all out!" A silver light engulfed everyone except for Kita and Kiske. Audie would protest.

"Wait... Wait! Kita! Kiske!" He shouted, but his request fell on deaf ears. The last sight that Audie saw before being teleported out was the sight of the house crumbling behind Kiske and Kita.

TO BE CONTINUED IN ACT XII

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Adenosine - a neurotransmitter that has many functions, including controlling our heartbeats and depressing the central nervous system. Its main function is in controlling our sleep-wake schedule. Adenosine levels increase the longer we are awake, and an increase in Adenosine makes us tired. When we sleep, the Adenosine is then recycled, and the decrease in Adenosine makes us more alert. Caffeine is a known Adenosine inhibitor, as it suppresses the neurotransmitter and makes us feel more alert. The brain, after the effects of the caffeine wear off, may upregulate Adenosine production, and is why we feel the crash after drinking coffee or an energy drink. The upregulation is also known to decrease the effect of caffeine on us, leading us to drink more.

ACT X: ADENOSINE END

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Morello initially didn't respond to Karie's question, instead wanting to embrace his mate for a little bit. After a few moments he would eventually respond, "Well... The other guy got struck by lightning and isn't with us anymore, so... Probably not."

After another brief pause Morello sat up, leaning against the back of the couch. "Besides, he really only messed up my nose." He motioned in a circle around the right side of his chest. "This was self inflicted. Tore a muscle pretty bad. Probably shouldn't have gone out, but I felt a need to."

@unmeisenshi Morello would enter the house, bandages across the right side of his chest and midsection. His nose was still bruised from it being broken, and the Lycanroc would collapse into Karie's body, being careful to not flop too hard on his torn muscle.

Karie would grip onto Morello as he flopped into him, not gripping too hard to not hurt him anymore then the state he was already in. Karie would slowly move with Morello over to the couch, figuring it would help to get him off his feet. Sitting down, gently helping Morello to sit with him as well.

“Hun, should I be more worried about the state of the other guy who picked a fight with you?” Karie would ask. He honestly didn’t know how to react, but he wanted to try and be supportive despite Morello’s injuries.

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1-->50??

well this kept me occupied for a while, thanks honey bun ! First things first, did you have a good year? yeah i think i did How old did you turn this year? 27 Do you feel your age? i feel simultaneously older and younger than i am Did your appearance change in anyway? not really Post your favorite selfie. yeah i don’t know how to do that for an ask but i did the top selfies of 2017 here http://ohbutwebestmakepeacewithit.tumblr.com/post/168551598387/my-top-selfies-of-2017-im-a-bit-late-in-the-gameIf you traveled, where did you go? i just went interstate a couple of times to visit family Which fashion trends did you love? wide leg pants, loafers, clunky sneakers, puffy coats Which fashion trends did you hate? i’m not about the side stripe athletic pants or the crop tops as outer wear What was your favorite article of clothing this year? Post a pic if possible? i got some amazing shoes this year but i have no idea how to post a photo in an ask What song sums up this year for you? hm idk i’m not good at this particular type of question What album came out and has been on heavy rotation since then? cigarettes after sex title album has been one of my top played albums of the year What was your favorite movie of the year? get out Did an actor/actress catch your attention for the first time this year? stephanie beatriz and asia kate dillonFavorite new TV show? new out this year probably the handmaids tale…and mindhunter was pretty good too Which new ship/fandom has taken over a lot of your time, attention, and tears? it’s not new but the only ship i subscribe to is nicky nichols and lorna morelloWhat food did you try for the first time? chobani flips! Did you make any big permanent changes this year? i moved apartments so now i’m living with my best friend, i also got all my wisdom teeth out which is pretty permanent What was one nice thing you did for someone else? What was one nice thing you did for yourself? giving myself permission to leave some really painful things in the past where they belong Did you develop a new obsession? blistex Did you vote? yesDid you move? yes Did you get a job? yes Did you get a pet? i wish Do you regret not doing anything? no not really i took a lot of chances this year and they paid off Do you regret doing something? just all the times i’ve listened to my eating disorder Have you done anything that scared you? i do something that scares me literally every day…hello anxiety disorder Did anyone/thing make you so mad it stayed with you for days? i haven’t really had something like that this year thankfully Did you lose anyone close to you? no Did you fall in love? maybe, it’s still too early to tell Did you fall out of love? nahDid you start a new relationship? nope Did you go through a break up? nope Did you have to cut ties to someone? yeah i did but i hope we can reconnect again soon Who was important to you this year but wasn’t important last year? a new friend i made last year, we got a lot closer this year Who wasn’t as important to you this year as they were last year? the friend i had to cut ties with If you could have a do over on one thing you did, would you take it? nope i believe everything has a purpose eventually What was the best moment of the year for you? probably graduating or getting my job because i worked so hard to get to this point What was the worst? having to go back into hospital Did anything happen that you were sure would change you as a person but it really didn’t? realising some things about myself that i’ve been too afraid to acknowledge, i’m still the same person i was before Did anything happen to you that you were sure wouldn’t change you as a person but it did? taking a risk with a new career path and it paying off in ways i couldn’t have ever imagined for myself What are you most proud of accomplishing? finishing my course What have you learned about yourself this year that you didn’t know in the years prior? i can stick it out and complete things that are important to me even if they scare me Did your opinion of anyone change for the better? two of my closest friends really surprised me with how resilient they are Did your opinion of anyone change for worse? one of my best friends friends who i think uses her without giving a fuckIf you make resolutions, did you complete them this year? i don’t believe in resolutions but my goals for this year were to finish my course, move out and get paid employment and i achieved all of them If you make resolutions, what will your resolutions be for the coming year? my goals this year will be to put down my roots at my new workplace and allow myself to settle into a routine with that, as well as saving up enough to go overseas in the middle of the year with my best friend If you could go on an adventure during the remaining days of the year, where would you go and what would you do? somewhere it’s snowing so i could have a white christmas, i’m sick of australian summersWho would you do this with? my other half What do you wish for others for the coming year? better physical and mental health What do you wish for yourself? more trust

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Il suono di Numb era trascinante, Chester screamava disperato il bisogno di essere se stessi, di ripudiare quello che gli altri vorrebbero che fossimo, di ignorare i giudizi di chi pensa di esserci superiore. Crawling, dal precedente Hybrid Theory, ad uno sguardo superficiale ed abbastanza egoista quale quello di un’adolescente, sembra solo l’ennesima canzone nu metal orecchiabile con un testo che parla di flirt con la morte, di dismorfofobia e paura di essere sé stessi: ma ora mi pento di non aver mai compreso il dolore, sincero, che si celava dietro quelle parole. Come hai fatto a vivere e a creare così a lungo con un tale mostro dentro, Chester? There’s something inside me That pulls beneath the surface Consuming, confusing This lack of self control I fear Is never ending, controlling Chester Bennington aveva dentro di sé molte più ferite, mai rimarginate, di quanto l’ascoltatore comune possa anche solo concepire. Come tanti bambini che sono stati abusati, ha sviluppato una sensibilità differente dalla comune, una fragilità che permette di cogliere le sfumature più delicate dell’animo umano, ma che fa anche sì che si spezzi con tragica facilità. La depressione è un male difficile da riconoscere, da accettare, da processare mettendo da parte l’orgoglio: è una malattia atroce, un cancro che priva della voglia di vivere e di amare, che si insinua e cresce lentamente, ma è arduo da estirpare. Ed una tragedia appare la vita di Chester: abusi sessuali a neanche 10 anni e da lì le dipendenze per le droghe, da cui solamente la musica e l’amicizia dei componenti dei Linkin Park parevano dar periodicamente sollievo. Chester sente di essere un soldato con ali di libellula e vorrebbe volare via, ma deve lottare e lo fa con i testi e la musica del primo album della band, il leggendario Hybrid Theory del 2000: il successo è internazionale, 30 milioni di copie vendute e la produzione di RE-Animation, una raccolta di remix in chiave nippo e mecha, con un robottone di Gō Nagai che campeggia sulla copertina. L’anno dopo esce Meteora, da cui è estratta proprio quella Numb che ha fatto confondere i Linkin Park per un gruppo emo dai neonati emo stessi; album meno aggressivo e più melodico del precedente, più maturo e meno arrabbiato: ed in tale album è proprio contenuto un tentativo, da parte di Bennington, di gettarsi alle spalle quel passato oscuro e turbolento. La musica lo aiuta, lo salva, lo aiuta a distruggere abitudini autodistruttive (So I’m breaking the habit tonight) per quanto senta che tale distruzione fa parte di lui e che non sarà mai sulle stesse lunghezze d’onda del mondo: l’interferenza tra lui e l’umanità sarà (quasi) sempre distruttiva. Eppure, sulle note di Somewhere I belong, si vede un lumicino di ottimismo: I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real I wanna let go of the pain I’ve felt so long Chissà, forse gli anni dell’incredibile successo di Meteora per Chester sono stati i più felici. Il matrimonio con la ragazza del colpo di fulmine, Samantha Marie Olit, ed il figlio avuto da quest’ultima (precedentemente aveva avuto una relazione con Elka Brand da cui era nato Jaime Bennington), la bellissima sincronia che si era creata con gli altri membri della band, le tastiere ora aggressive ora dolcissime di Mike Shinoda forse hanno lenito quel dolore. L’hanno tenuto nascosto per un po’. Non è stato dimenticato, quello mai sarebbe possibile, ma forse Chester credeva di poterlo tenere a bada. Almeno per un po’. Per qualche anno di serenità. Ti prego mostro, lasciami vivere. Nel mentre nasceva la collaborazione con Jay-Z, quella Numb-Encore che ancora in tanti hanno come suoneria sul cellulare; Shinoda suonava frenetico tastiere nel particolarissimo Rising Tide dei Fort Minor, suo pseudonimo, dando una svolta più melodica anche al successivo sound della band. Da lì, 4 lunghi anni di attesa per i fan (me compresa, che scalpitavo sui vari forum in attesa di qualche info leakata, di qualche demo finito su internet per sbaglio): prima i tuffi al cuore per il rilascio della copertina dell’album, poi per il nome dei singoli. Ed, infine, ecco Minutes to Midnight, altra allegoria di distruzione, rimando all’orologio dell’apocalisse: quanti minuti mancano alla fine del mondo? E di nuovo, rileggendo il testo di Given up, “abbandonato”, nel senso di rinunciare di continuare ad impegnarsi in qualcosa, mi pento di come ho, al tempo, preso con sufficienza, come licenza poetica, le urla d’aiuto di un uomo che, nonostante fosse circondato d’affetto, si sentiva terribilmente solo: Take this all away I’m suffocating Tell me what the fuck is wrong With me Melanconico requiem a se stesso era già, e me ne rendo conto solo a posteriori, la bellissima Leave out all the Rest, straziante ballad distantissima delle urla disperate di Papercut : voi tutti, ricordatemi per ciò che sono stato, per ciò che ho dato al mondo, non per i miei peccati, quando non ci sarò più. Non sarò mai come voi e non potrò mai esserlo. Non biasimatemi per questo, non tutti sono fisicamente in grado di provare la felicità. Minutes to Midnight, al tempo, fu stroncato dalla critica: troppo melodico, dicevano. Shinoda non rappa, Bennington urla educatamente, il ritmo è lento. Eppure sono certa che ora vedranno l’opera per quello che è, cioè una sorta di accettazione della distruzione come parte della vita, come qualcosa che da significato ad essa. Passano altri 4 anni fino all’uscita di A Thousands Suns. Mille soli. Album, se vogliamo, meno caratteristico, meno corale: sembra essere di Shinoda solo. Lui la fa da padrone e soprattutto sul singolo più famoso, The Catalyst, la fa da padrone con effetti elettronici distorti alla Depeche Mode di Personal Jesus e col suo rap incalzante. È un concept album, l’apocalisse profetizzata in Minutes to Midnight si è avverata, la bomba atomica di Oppheneimer è esplosa, i cieli bruciano di funghi atomici. Chester è ancora più delicato e, sebbene non parli di sé, è forse l’album più intimo di tutti. In Burning Skies: The blame is mine alone For bridges I have burned So don’t apologize I’m losing what I don’t deserve Il filone della distruzione è sempre presente, il mostro è ancora là sotto. Ora la guerra si combatte con le bombe e con le armi da fuoco. In un mondo che brucia, a che serve avere ali da libellula? Chester, nel 2011, decide di allargare ulteriormente la famiglia: la seconda moglie, Talinda Bentley, da alla luce due gemelli e lui adotta il fratellastro del primogenito Jaime. È il 2012, anno dell’apocalisse maya, ed esce Living Things: l’album è un ritorno al passato ma con gli effetti elettronici di uno Shinoda adulto che appreso, da solo, ad aggiungere modulazioni differenti in ogni canzone, si combina a testi meravigliosi, melodie coinvolgenti ed immediate. Forse Living Things, dopo tanto peregrinare, è l’album della maturità anche per Chester: canta di religione, canta di ecologia, canta di vita, canta di morte, canta come Chester dei LP dovrebbe cantare. Ruvido, arrabbiato, delicato quando serve, sussurrante in Castle of Glass, e affonda bassi in I’ll be gone e pare di sentire la versione adulta di With you: When the lights go out and we open our eyes, out there in the silence, I’ll be gone, I’ll be gone. Let the sun fade out and another one rise Climbing through tomorrow, I’ll be gone, I’ll be gone. E la strofa acquista un significato così diverso, oggi. A Living Things si succede The Hunting Party, mentre Bennington cantava anche per gli Stone Temple Pilots: una caccia al migliorare se stessi ed a rendersi diversi, finalmente scrollarsi di dosso, dopo i tentativi falliti, l’etichetta di band nu metal. Sulla copertina dell’album torna il soldato alato, impegnato ora come un angelo metallico ad incoccare una freccia verso un bersaglio fuori campo, lasciato dal creatore James Jean, all’immaginazione. Collaborano con Rakim, collaborano con Daron Malakian, collaborano con Tom Morello, ma c’è collaborazione soprattutto fra i membri fissi: l’armonia creativa nella band c’è e si sente. The Hunting Party è un album esemplare, composto dal giusto equilibrio ballad e di pezzi energici, di grandi nomi e di interpretazioni strumentali perfette ma ci dice poco di Chester Bennington. Forse davvero sua è solo Final Masquerade: nei versi evocativi del refrain si riconosce il suo spirito malinconico, stanco di come sia difficile comunicare ed intessere solide relazioni in un mondo di maschere. The light on the horizon was brighter yesterday With shadows floating over, the scars begin to fade We said it was forever, but then it slipped away Standing at the end of the final masquerade The final masquerade Forse Chester Bennington in questo periodo si illudeva ed illudeva i suoi sei figli ed amici e compagni che il tempo potesse guarire tutte le ferite, che al tramonto della vita, ormai anziano, avrebbe dimenticato; che la depressione, con la saggezza dell’età adulta, l’avrebbe abbandonato. Prima di passare a parlare dell’ultimo album, One more light, va fatta nota dell’amicizia fraterna che legava due anime fragili e simili, cioè quella fra Chester Bennington e Chris Cornell. Cornell collaborò con i LP fin dal 2007, durante un tour in Australia. Cantò Crawling, forse perché sentiva anche un po’ sue quelle liriche strazianti. Chester, a sua volta, ricambiò il favore interpretando assieme a Chris il pezzo dei Temple of the Dog, Hunger Strike, cantando la parte scritta originariamente per Eddie Vedder. Chissà, forse i demoni che erano nascosti dentro ai loro cuori erano gli stessi; la spinta creativa si esprimeva in maniera diversa, ma sottesa ad essa c’era lo stesso dolore sordo e muto, incapace di far provare serenità. Il loro legame era così intimo che Cornell volle che Bennington fosse il padrino di suo figlio undicenne. Eppure il sole sembra sempre più brillante mentre si fa strada fra le nuvole. Ad inizio del corrente anno è stato rilasciato One more light, rivelatosi subito un gigantesco flop. L’artwork è grazioso, persone felici su una spiaggia al tramonto. Il suono è pop, ricorda i primi lavori degli Owl City, non fa rimpiangere i Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, ma il solo leggere i titoli e le liriche delle canzoni da i brividi. Vi farò una confessione: ascoltando l’album facendo attenzione ai testi, dopo aver appreso della morte di Chester, non sono riuscita a trattenere le lacrime. E, così, ho visto il lavoro sotto un punto di vista differente: e mi ha ricordato Funeral degli Arcade Fire, in cui la morte è trattata come fine di un ciclo, la morte è accettata e vista come fine della sofferenza sulla Terra. Come fine di tutte le illusioni di felicità che un’anima incapace di provarne si era fatto ed allora i motivetti banali di Nobody can save me, Good Goodbye, Battle Simphony, Sorry for Now, hanno acquisito un significato diverso. Quasi cantautoriale. Un addio annunciato, kafkiano, ma con grazia, di nascosto, quasi per non disturbare, per non fare proclami, per non attrarre l’attenzione: ed è ciò che chi è davvero sicuro delle proprie decisioni fa. Senza giustificazioni. Been searching somewhere out there For what’s been missing right here (I wanna fall wide awake now) I’ve been searching somewhere out there For what’s been missing right here (I wanna fall wide awake now) I wanna fall wide awake now So tell me it’s alright Tell me I’m forgiven, tonight [Ho cercato a lungo, là fuori, ciò che mancava qui (voglio svegliarmi, ora) Voglio svegliarmi ora! Dimmi che tutto va bene, dimmi che mi hai perdonato, stasera] E sulla copertina sono ritratti, immortali e senza tempo, i figli di un amico dei componenti della band, eppure, ora, si riesce a intravedere solo una dedica finale di Chester ai propri figli: pare voler dire che loro sono la cosa migliore che abbia mai fatto, il lascito più bello che possa dare a questa terra. Canzoni falsamente allegre come Heavy (che ricorda davvero tanto Rebellion degli Arcade Fire) conducono poi a One more light, l’unica che forse parla apertamente di morte. Dedicata ad un loro collaboratore venuto a mancare, ci si interroga su come e quando il lutto finirà e su quanto davvero conti una sola luce spenta in un tappeto di stelle illuminate. Sharp Edges chiude l’album e Chester si tuffa nel passato, rivivendolo e dedicando una canzone a tutte le sue cicatrici, a tutti i suoi errori e peccati, ai consigli che non ha mai ascoltato ma che l’hanno reso l’uomo che è ora. Percussioni leggere ed archi delicati. Ed è con la morte nel cuore che Chester Bennington canta Hallelujah di Leonard Cohen al funerale di Chris Cornell. Appreso della morte dell’amico, aveva twittato: Caro Chris, ho sognato i Beatles la notte scorsa. Mi sono svegliato con Rocky Raccon che suonava nella mia testa ed uno sguardo interessato alla faccia di mia moglie. Lei mi ha detto che un mio amico era appena venuto a mancare. Pensieri di te sono fluiti nella mia mente ed ho pianto. Sto ancora piangendo, a lutto, con tristezza, ma anche con gratitudine per aver condiviso alcuni momenti speciali con te e la tua meravigliosa famiglia. Mi hai ispirato in modi che non potrai mai sapere. Il tuo talento era puro e senza rivali. La tua voce era gioia e dolore, rabbia e perdono, amore e maldicuore tutti mescolati in uno solo. Suppongo che è un po’ quello che tutti siamo. Mi hai aiutato a capirlo. Ho appena guardato un video di te che cantavi A day in the life dei Beatles e ho pensato a quel mio sogno. Mi piace pensare che mi stessi dicendo addio a modo tuo. Non riesco ad immaginare un mondo senza di te. Prego che tu abbia pace nella prossima vita. Mando il mio amore a tua moglie e ai tuoi figli, famiglia ed amici. Grazie per avermi permesso di esser parte della tua vita. Col tutto il mio amore. I demoni nel cuore di Chris e di Chester erano gli stessi. Ora sono morti entrambi ed i loro mostri interiori con loro. Ed entrambi già sono leggenda, eppure mi ritrovo a scrivere questo articolo proprio per ricordare che, prima di tutto, Chester era un uomo. Con i propri difetti, con i propri pregi, ma soprattutto, con tutto l’amore che era in grado di provare per la musica, per i compagni di una vita, per la sua famiglia. Con One more light ha voluto dire addio a tutti, ai suoi fans, ai suoi compagni, alla sua famiglia. Non sapremo mai perché, profondamente, ha maturato un gesto così estremo: la depressione è un orrore indescrivibile, un abisso viscido da cui è difficile uscire, perché le unghie scivolano sul terreno viscido ed i demoni ti rispingono nel profondo. Ciò che è certo, ed è spaventoso allo stesso tempo, è che la morte di Chester Bennington è la cronaca di una morte annunciata, i cui sintomi erano nascosti sotto gli occhi di tutti e virtualmente invisibili. One more light è, il forse volontario, testamento di un uomo che ha vissuto sempre al massimo, 41 anni ma che sembrano cento per densità di avvenimenti e per i ricordi che ha lasciato a milioni di persone. Addio Chester, tutti speriamo che ora ti ritroverai in un mondo migliore di questo. Un mondo che risuoni alla tua stessa lunghezza d’onda.

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year’s Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! … a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life. – Jean Hersey • A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I’ve played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. – Edgar Guest • A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding… and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this. – C. J. Cherryh • All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives. – Steven Spielberg • An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. – Bill Vaughan • And New Year’s Eve is very, very important to me. – Debbie Harry • And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been – Rainer Maria Rilke • Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give – William Arthur Ward • Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. – Michael Josephson • As a standup comedian, I’ve worked almost every New Year’s Eve of my adult life. It’s the best-paying night of the year. – Elayne Boosler

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You got to let go your dignity t’ really enjoy ’em. – Edna Ferber • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey • Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. – Helen Fielding • Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy’s Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That’s their problem. – Chris Rose • Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. – Brooks Atkinson • Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott • Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. – Jean Paul • Every New Year’s Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I’d do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn’t think of doing. Don’t ever say no. – Carl Lewis • Every time the ball drop on New Year’s Eve, We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese. – Prodigy • Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. – Charles Kettering • Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. – Henry Ward Beecher • For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move! – Mehmet Murat Ildan • For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. – T. S. Eliot • For the millennium [New Year’s Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I’m choosing option B – Tom Morello • For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work. – Antonella Gambotto-Burke • From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. – Leonard Bernstein • Games were moved to New Year’s Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year’s Eve. – Audie Cornish • Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. – Martin Luther • God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. “You little fat-titted mediocre failure!” You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year’s Eve. – Jim Norton • Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. – Oscar Wilde • He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. – Farquhar McGillivray Knowles • Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • I always work on New Year’s Eve, no matter what. – Debbie Harry • I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver. – Kim Kardashian • I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’s very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year. – Debbie Harry • I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year’s Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left. – Robert Orben • I hate New Year’s Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven’t yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn’t matter. – Gregory Maguire • I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back. – Tucker Carlson • I have spent every New Year’s Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It’s a place with meaning for me. – Paulo Coelho • I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. – Neil Gaiman • I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. – Neil Gaiman • I like to work on New Year’s Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the ‘year-end’ thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year. – Paula Poundstone • I love watching ‘Twilight Zone.’ New Year’s Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year. – Gerard Way • I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. – Anais Nin • I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. – Rick Danko • I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’. – Henry Moore • I was a total nerd growing up. I’d rather sit home and read a novel on New Year’s Eve and say, ‘Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!’ That was my idea of a big time. – Beth Broderick • I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‘I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,’ and I actually meant it. – Dave Grohl • I won’t be going to any New Year’s Eve parties because I think they’re naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties. – Julie Burchill • i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year’s eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance – Leonard Cohen • I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year’s Eve. – Jen Lancaster • I would say happy new year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder. – Robert Clark • If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year’s Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates–the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes–have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. …After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival. – Janine Benyus • If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. – Cyril Cusack • If you feel compelled to give a New Year’s Eve party, don’t invite people to arrive too early or they’ll go off the boil before midnight. – Jilly Cooper • If you over plan New Year’s Eve it’s going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes. – Cate Blanchett • I’m usually at home and in bed by 10 o’clock. I do not want to be out at anybody’s New Year’s Eve party. – Andre Leon Talley • It goes Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day. Is that fair to anyone who’s alone? These are all days you gotta be with someone. And if you didn’t get around to killing yourself at Christmas or New Year’s, boom! There’s Valentine’s Day. I think there should be one more after Valentine’s Day just called, ‘Who could love you?’ – Laura Kightlinger • It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine’s Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year’s Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in. – Joan Bauer • It’s hard to say what I meant by “as we know it.” I’m not about to go up on a mountain on new year’s eve and wait for the lightening to strike. – Hunter S. Thompson • I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve. – Debbie Harry • Let each new year find you a better person. – Benjamin Franklin • Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. – Goran Persson • Let the dead Past bury its dead! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. – Ann Landers • Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time. – Ann Landers • Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it. – Neil Gaiman • Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come. – Melody Beattie • Make your mistakes, next year and forever. – Neil Gaiman • Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since. – Dave Beard • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. – Joey Lauren Adams • May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! – Aleister Crowley • May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! – Aleister Crowley • Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. – Ellen Goodman • My look is always glitzy for New Year’s Eve, even if I am at home. – Gloria Gaynor • My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year’s Eve, 1947) – Patricia Highsmith • My New Year’s Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That’s the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I’m just being realistic. – Tracey Emin • My New Year’s resolution was to stop saying ‘You go, girl’ to myself. – Zach Galifianakis • My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment. – Ben Stiller • Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. – John Selden • New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. – Charles Lamb • New Year’s Eve always terrifies me. – Charles Bukowski • New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. – Hamilton Wright Mabie • New Year’s Eve, we’re going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. – Barbara Cook • New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. – Jay Leno • New Year’s Eve. It’s a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we’re going–whether we know it or not, would deny it or not–by the kiss of a stranger. – Jardine Libaire • New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. – Mark Twain • New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. – James Agate • Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. – Mark Twain • Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. – Jay Leno • Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. – Charles Lamb • On New Year’s Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them – Nick Hornby • On New Year’s Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn’t the first friend I’ve lost to suicide, I sure hope he’s the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis. – Jared Padalecki • One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here – from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year’s Eve ball-drop on Times Square. – Marlo Thomas • One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. – John Burroughs • Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year’s Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They’re as bad as the people who need St. Patty’s Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know. – Julie Klausner • Ring out the false, ring in the true. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year’s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. – Joan Jett • So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party – Stephen Chbosky • So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. – Neil Gaiman • Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you’ll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off. – Susan Cain • St. Patrick’s Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It’s not the biggest. It’s right behind New Year’s Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party. – David Letterman • The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going. – Emily Giffin • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt • The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year’s Eve. And that was about 28 years ago. – Ronald Biggs • The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. – Hartley Coleridge • The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. – George William Curtis • The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. – Melody Beattie • the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. – W. H. Auden • The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. – P. J. O’Rourke • This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year’s Eve! Ladies…why don’t you all come visit the Big Valbowski between the holidays. – Val Venis • Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz �� To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. – Queen Latifah • To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon’t have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year’s Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life. – Maxine Hong Kingston • To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year’s Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class. – Sandra Cisneros • Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. – Brad Paisley • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential. – Ellen Goodman • We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest. – Barry Manilow • What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It’s a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It’s just a few Jews walking around going, “sup?” – Jon Stewart • When I go, I’ll take New Year’s Eve with me. – Guy Lombardo • When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He’s responsible for my favorite New Year’s memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying. – Elayne Boosler • When I stopped wanting my New Year’s Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, “Happy New Year.” – Hilary Swank • Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities. – Michael Josephson • Women get a little more excited about New Year’s Eve than men do. It’s like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you’re not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date. – Jay Leno • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey • You staying home all alone on New Year’s Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it’s just another set of numbers passing you by. – E. A. Bucchianeri • Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. – Goran Persson Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. -Steve Jobs • Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. – Bill Vaughan

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Morello gave a bit of a nervous chuckle. It didn’t take a genius to know what Jo was currently… Indulging in. Regardless, he cleared his throat and showed his old prosthetic to the Umbreon.

“Well… Since I transformed like Florence did, I’ll need a new limb. One that preferably isn’t how my old leg looked. Do you think you can help me get a new one that matches… The way I am now?”

Joseph gave a hum of thought as he looked at Morello. “It should be possible. I’ll ask my dad what he thinks. It’ll be painful for a moment, and he’ll do a good job. Don’t worry about that.” He said as he gave Morello a gentle reassuring nudge.

“Do you think you can bare it for a while?” He asked him. Wanting to be sure that he’d be okay for a day or two.

Morello nodded.  “I can.  I can live with using one hand for a bit.  Probably won’t do much until then.” He said, reattaching the limb to his arm.  It felt weird, the way it sat on him - especially since it was designed for a quadruped.  It almost felt like he broke an arm and it was in a sling.

He gave a bit of a smirk to Joseph, giving a playful nudge to the Umbreon.  “Before I let you go back to doing... What we both know you were doing... Is there any kind of prep I need to do beforehand?”

@unmeisenshi Morello, now anthro and wearing a tank top and cargo shorts, knocks on the garage door. He figured he'd at least show his mate the changes... And let him know they were permanent.

Bellum looked at Morello. Knowing it was him by his looks and scent.

"What happened to you?" He asked him as he looked at Morello in curiosity.

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year’s Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! … a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life. – Jean Hersey • A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I’ve played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. – Edgar Guest • A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding… and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this. – C. J. Cherryh • All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives. – Steven Spielberg • An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. – Bill Vaughan • And New Year’s Eve is very, very important to me. – Debbie Harry • And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been – Rainer Maria Rilke • Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give – William Arthur Ward • Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. – Michael Josephson • As a standup comedian, I’ve worked almost every New Year’s Eve of my adult life. It’s the best-paying night of the year. – Elayne Boosler

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You got to let go your dignity t’ really enjoy ’em. – Edna Ferber • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey • Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. – Helen Fielding • Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy’s Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That’s their problem. – Chris Rose • Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. – Brooks Atkinson • Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott • Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. – Jean Paul • Every New Year’s Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I’d do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn’t think of doing. Don’t ever say no. – Carl Lewis • Every time the ball drop on New Year’s Eve, We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese. – Prodigy • Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. – Charles Kettering • Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. – Henry Ward Beecher • For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move! – Mehmet Murat Ildan • For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. – T. S. Eliot • For the millennium [New Year’s Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I’m choosing option B – Tom Morello • For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work. – Antonella Gambotto-Burke • From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. – Leonard Bernstein • Games were moved to New Year’s Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year’s Eve. – Audie Cornish • Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. – Martin Luther • God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. “You little fat-titted mediocre failure!” You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year’s Eve. – Jim Norton • Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. – Oscar Wilde • He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. – Farquhar McGillivray Knowles • Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • I always work on New Year’s Eve, no matter what. – Debbie Harry • I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver. – Kim Kardashian • I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’s very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year. – Debbie Harry • I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year’s Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left. – Robert Orben • I hate New Year’s Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven’t yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn’t matter. – Gregory Maguire • I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back. – Tucker Carlson • I have spent every New Year’s Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It’s a place with meaning for me. – Paulo Coelho • I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. – Neil Gaiman • I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. – Neil Gaiman • I like to work on New Year’s Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the ‘year-end’ thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year. – Paula Poundstone • I love watching ‘Twilight Zone.’ New Year’s Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year. – Gerard Way • I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. – Anais Nin • I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. – Rick Danko • I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’. – Henry Moore • I was a total nerd growing up. I’d rather sit home and read a novel on New Year’s Eve and say, ‘Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!’ That was my idea of a big time. – Beth Broderick • I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‘I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,’ and I actually meant it. – Dave Grohl • I won’t be going to any New Year’s Eve parties because I think they’re naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties. – Julie Burchill • i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year’s eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance – Leonard Cohen • I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year’s Eve. – Jen Lancaster • I would say happy new year, but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder. – Robert Clark • If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year’s Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates–the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes–have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. …After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival. – Janine Benyus • If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. – Cyril Cusack • If you feel compelled to give a New Year’s Eve party, don’t invite people to arrive too early or they’ll go off the boil before midnight. – Jilly Cooper • If you over plan New Year’s Eve it’s going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes. – Cate Blanchett • I’m usually at home and in bed by 10 o’clock. I do not want to be out at anybody’s New Year’s Eve party. – Andre Leon Talley • It goes Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day. Is that fair to anyone who’s alone? These are all days you gotta be with someone. And if you didn’t get around to killing yourself at Christmas or New Year’s, boom! There’s Valentine’s Day. I think there should be one more after Valentine’s Day just called, ‘Who could love you?’ – Laura Kightlinger • It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine’s Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year’s Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in. – Joan Bauer • It’s hard to say what I meant by “as we know it.” I’m not about to go up on a mountain on new year’s eve and wait for the lightening to strike. – Hunter S. Thompson • I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve. – Debbie Harry • Let each new year find you a better person. – Benjamin Franklin • Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. – Goran Persson • Let the dead Past bury its dead! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. – Ann Landers • Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time. – Ann Landers • Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it. – Neil Gaiman • Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come. – Melody Beattie • Make your mistakes, next year and forever. – Neil Gaiman • Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since. – Dave Beard • May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. – Joey Lauren Adams • May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! – Aleister Crowley • May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! – Aleister Crowley • Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. – Ellen Goodman • My look is always glitzy for New Year’s Eve, even if I am at home. – Gloria Gaynor • My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year’s Eve, 1947) – Patricia Highsmith • My New Year’s Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That’s the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I’m just being realistic. – Tracey Emin • My New Year’s resolution was to stop saying ‘You go, girl’ to myself. – Zach Galifianakis • My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment. – Ben Stiller • Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. – John Selden • New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. – Charles Lamb • New Year’s Eve always terrifies me. – Charles Bukowski • New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. – Hamilton Wright Mabie • New Year’s Eve, we’re going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. – Barbara Cook • New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. – Jay Leno • New Year’s Eve. It’s a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we’re going–whether we know it or not, would deny it or not–by the kiss of a stranger. – Jardine Libaire • New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. – Mark Twain • New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. – James Agate • Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. – Mark Twain • Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. – Jay Leno • Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. – Charles Lamb • On New Year’s Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them – Nick Hornby • On New Year’s Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn’t the first friend I’ve lost to suicide, I sure hope he’s the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis. – Jared Padalecki • One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here – from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year’s Eve ball-drop on Times Square. – Marlo Thomas • One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. – John Burroughs • Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year’s Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They’re as bad as the people who need St. Patty’s Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know. – Julie Klausner • Ring out the false, ring in the true. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year’s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. – Joan Jett • So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party – Stephen Chbosky • So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. – Neil Gaiman • Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you’ll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off. – Susan Cain • St. Patrick’s Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It’s not the biggest. It’s right behind New Year’s Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party. – David Letterman • The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going. – Emily Giffin • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt • The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year’s Eve. And that was about 28 years ago. – Ronald Biggs • The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. – Hartley Coleridge • The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. – George William Curtis • The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. – Melody Beattie • the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. – W. H. Auden • The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. – P. J. O’Rourke • This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year’s Eve! Ladies…why don’t you all come visit the Big Valbowski between the holidays. – Val Venis • Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz • To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. – Queen Latifah • To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon’t have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year’s Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life. – Maxine Hong Kingston • To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year’s Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class. – Sandra Cisneros • Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. – Brad Paisley • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential. – Ellen Goodman • We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest. – Barry Manilow • What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It’s a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It’s just a few Jews walking around going, “sup?” – Jon Stewart • When I go, I’ll take New Year’s Eve with me. – Guy Lombardo • When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He’s responsible for my favorite New Year’s memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying. – Elayne Boosler • When I stopped wanting my New Year’s Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, “Happy New Year.” – Hilary Swank • Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities. – Michael Josephson • Women get a little more excited about New Year’s Eve than men do. It’s like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you’re not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date. – Jay Leno • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey • You staying home all alone on New Year’s Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it’s just another set of numbers passing you by. – E. A. Bucchianeri • Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. – Goran Persson Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. -Steve Jobs • Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. – Bill Vaughan

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Solaris was running the bar late with Morello, with a local band playing inside that night. The lead singer, an Inteleon, then addressed the bar before the band's final song.

"Thank you for coming to listen to us play; It's been our pleasure to. Normally, we'd have one more song to play for you all. But instead, we want to invite our gracious host up." A stage light shone onto Solaris, who looked a bit taken aback.

"M-Me? I-I don't..." Solaris stammered a bit. Morello would lightly tap the Charizard's shoulder.

"I know you've been singing a song, so I set this up. The band knows not to play music with it, so... Go and sing it for the first time in public." The Lycanroc smiled, giving a reassuring nod to Solaris as he went up to the microphone.

"Thanks, everyone..." Solaris wiped his sweaty claws off, attempting to steel his nerves. "This song... I dedicate to Zane... And to anyone who's lost someone close to them." Solaris took a deep breath, and grabbed the mic, and began.

SONG [FRIENDLY FIRE (A CAPELLA) - LINKIN PARK]

The crowd was silent as they listened, and Solaris' singing seemed to echo and reverberate through the bar. Morello, too, was entranced by the song, and smiled ear to ear finally hearing it in a professional setting.

Solaris didn't realize, but by the final chorus tears were running down his cheeks, and what felt like all of the emotion within him was being released. Morello would get the crowd to sing along to provide a bit of backing, and once the song was finished the Charizard had to wipe his eyes as he was applauded for the song.

Solaris gave thanks and waved goodbye to the other patrons as they left, leaving only Morello and him in the bar. Solaris silently walked over to the bar, still a bit overcome with emotion, and sat down with his head buried in his claws.

"That was beautiful, Sol. If Zane were here... I know they would have loved that song." Morello said, giving Solaris a firm hug.

"Thanks... It was... It was a song I had been working on... For Zane to play. They never got to hear the finished song..." Solaris sighed. "I only hope that they heard it... Wherever they are now."

Morello nodded. "I'm sure they did hear it. The way you sang it... It was powerful..." The Lycanroc gave Solaris one more firm hug. "Why don't you head home, and relax for the night? I'll take care of cleanup here."

Solaris looked up at Morello, then back at the bar. "Okay. I'll... I'll see you at home." The Charizard took a few more moments before standing up and exiting the bar. Solaris looked up at the night sky, seeing that Zane's nebula was directly overlooking the bar, and he smiled. "Yeah, Zane... You definitely heard the song."

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The wolf would blush slightly at the comments, but would nod. "I don't mind at all. I'm poly myself, and was raised that way. I guess I just... Never picked up on your signals that you liked me that way."

His tail would swish once Levi pat his belly. No words were said as he made his way over, laying down and then laying his head onto the Dragonite's gut. As soon as his head made contact, he would sigh contently. "Dang. Zane was right, your belly is comfortable." He'd roll over onto his back so he could face Levi proper. A sign among Rockruff and Lycanroc that they felt safe. Secure.

team-destiny-rp​:

@dragon-prince-behemoth tells Team Destiny:

Morello would blush even harder at the statement. Hearing it from the mouth of his crush made his heart skip a beat. He’d slowly make his way forward, letting his head rub against Levi’s side.

“I’d, uh… I’d like that a lot. That is… If you’ll have me…” Morello would realize his question was a bit of a moot one, considering what Levi just said. But he would blush a bit and look up at the Dragonite to await an answer.

“Heheh, gladly. Morello, I’ve never exactly been shy about expressing how I felt about you, y’know? You’re a good guy, a sweetheart, and I think you’re handsome. If you’re not bothered by my being poly, I would love to have you in my life like that.”

With that, the Dragonite sat back, his tail swishing in response to Morello’s head rubbing his side. He gave his stomach a playful pat, grinning at the Lycanroc. “Well? Go ahead and get comfy~”

[unmeisenshi]

All Typh's are big hornballs, pass it on!

Morello's mouth would open and close a few times.

"I, ah... Uh... Wh-What?"

[unmeisenshi]

Bellum would kill his sister. He would maul her!

The usually anthro and fiery Umbreon was no quadrapedal. He was the size of a wolf, bulky and currently angry. His clothes having mostly fallen off, he was snarling and ripping into a substitute doll.

Its stuffing guts was thrown every which way, littering the area with stuffing and fabric. A very cruel end for a nice Teddy bear.

Morello would walk into the room where Bellum was ripping into the doll, and took a good, long pause to make sure he was seeing things correctly.

"Bellum!?" The Lycanroc would run up to his mate, stopping a small distance away so the Umbreon wouldn't end up seriously hurting him. He held his prosthetic arm out. "What the heck happened to you?"

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@cerulean-volcano: A very tired Karie slumps down next to Morello. A paw coming over to grip his mates hand. The winter season meant hibernation was approaching. Hibernation meant one last big wave of orders for the Typhlosion.

Morello would bring Karie close, and would nuzzle him. He knew that the colder months meant a lot of Pokemon were going into hibernation, and knew how rough these months were on Karie. "You look worn out, hun. Do you need some help at the shop? I'm more than willing to help out, you know."

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Morello would sprint after Louis, eventually finding him in his room back at their house. The Cubone's door was shut, but not locked. Morello would take a few moments before knocking on the door.

"Louis... I'm coming in, okay?" The Lycanroc would wait for an answer, knowing that he wouldn't get one, and would slowly enter the room. Louis was laying on his bed, curled into a small ball. Morello would sit down on the floor, leaning against the wall.

"Is this how we're going to do this?" Morello asked, slight annoyance and hurt in his voice. When Louis didn't move or say anything, the Lycanroc sighed. "Okay... That's fine." Morello lapsed into a bout of silence, trying to find the words to say.

"I couldn't save Zane... Because I was injured. There were riots from a cult, and in trying to protect Phoebe I was trampled. I've been rehabbing my body ever since... But at the time I couldn't do anything." The Lycanroc went silent as he started crying. "I trusted their instinct to go on a mission... They got hurt protecting Phoebe... It's what made their core unstable."

Morello wiped his eyes and nose before continuing. "There isn't a day where I don't wish I could have done things differently... Wish that I wasn't in town that day with Phoebe and just stayed home with her. Maybe then I could have gone on that mission instead of them... And they'd still be here..." Morello would bury his head into his hands, silently crying.

Louis would turn his head slightly, seeing the state that his parent was in. He initially turned back around, but began feeling lots of emotions. He would get out of his bed, and would sit next to Morello, leaning against the Lycanroc's side. "Dad, I'm..." Louis would hug Morello's arm. "I'm sorry..."

"It's okay, Louis. You were feeling a lot of emotions... And I don't blame you for feeling them." Morello would hug Louis back, giving a soft chuckle.

"But... Why do I still have this urge to see Zane? It feels like I know them... But I've never met them... Why?"

Morello would take a deep breath. "That's because... Zane met with Arceus before they died... And asked for a part of their soul to be put into a Pokemon egg that I was given after they passed. That Pokemon... Is you, Louis."

Louis would look up at Morello with wide eyes. "Wait, so..."

"Yeah. You've been asking to see Zane... And to meet them to be closer to them... When they've been close to you this entire time." Morello would smile.

Louis would look down at his body, then back up at Morello. "Are you for real?"

"For real, for real." Morello said. "It's amazing just how similar you are to Zane."

"Can you tell me a little bit about them?"

Morello nodded, and the two would lay together in Louis' bed, the Lycanroc telling stories to the Cubone until the two fell soundly asleep.

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@cerulean-volcano: Karie would be resting at home after a long summer day of work at the forge. Gently playing with Eva in his arms as he wondered a bit where Morello and Louis were right now.

Louis opened and angrily slammed the door shut, his face a mess of tears. He didn't even stop to acknowledge Karie and rushed to his room, slamming his door shut and locking it behind him.

A few minutes would pass before Morello entered the house, his own face a mess of tears. All the Lycanroc could do in the moment was sit down and lean his head on the Typhlosion's shoulder, letting out a defeated sigh. "Well... I tried to tell Louis about Zane... You probably saw the result of that just now."

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What is your underlying motif?

the home

whether it’s your warm embrace, your unwavering reliability, your smile that says “welcome back”, your motif is the home. your the equivalent to coming out of the rain to the fire on and your slippers waiting by the door. your uncanny way of making people feel alright, you’re treasured in these trying times. i respectfully request you take care of yourself, the world will never been as kind to you as you are to it. anne lammott said “lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining” and though unconventional, lighthouses are inhabited and your cup runs over with generosity. because you probably don’t hear it enough, thank you.

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@cerulean-volcano: Morello will find himself getting somewhat tightly hugged by Karie. With everything that had happened with Florence, he couldn’t help but worry about the Lycanroc and wanted to hold him close

Morello would return Karie's hug just as tight. He looked rough, like he hadn't slept at all for the past few days. And truth be told he hadn't. Hearing Florence's panicked screams during the night would wake him up and keep him up.

"H-Hey..." Morello said, his sentence cut off by a long yawn. "Sorry, I'm a bit out of it..."