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► twelfth sketch [Video]

[The feed opens to the view of Olivine beach, held by its owner as she records the horizon and ocean for a while. It records silence for a few moments before the owner speaks up, sounding hesitant.]

... if you've done something wrong in the past that hurt a lot of people, and every one of them said that it was alright and that they didn't blame you...

... but... you still feel guilty over it...

... how do you go about forgiving yourself?

[There's more silence and then an audible sigh, before there's an elephant trumpet sound, and Namine giggles as a Phanpy clambers and obscures half the view of the camera.]

No, this isn't for playing. Come on.

[The feed cuts off.]

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If everyone already forgave you for it, there's nothing wrong, right?

... Uu-, then everyone can just be happy together.

I just do it again until they react the right way and instead of getting all hurt and stuff!

[...as soon as she sees the video, she's heading down to the beach, towards her.]

[he hasn't had this problem before, but... he'll just repeat a bit of advice he's heard from others, which he feels makes sense.] When you find it difficult to forgive yourself, the best thing to do is forget what happened yourself.

While it'll usually take quite some time, distract yourself. Do proactive things. Things that you like. Eventually, time will heal all wounds.

If you can't forgive yourself yet, then try to do something to make it up. Even if it was something bad enough that you can't really make up for it, trying to should make you feel better over time.

[Oh hey, this is something he's pretty versed in.]

Get on with life and make sure those who were hurt were hurt for a reason. Is nothing more pathetic than an false statistic.

[He gives his reply rather plainly going back to rummaging in his backpack after a few moments. The channel is still open, he's just, doing other things while he waits to see if he gets a reply.]

That's a tough one... do you think there's anything you can do for them now?

[Once she sees this, she goes out to find her. At the beach, she slowly walks to her side.]

Hello, Namine.

Perhaps you shouldn't.

...I wish I knew.

... That's a tough one.

What happened?

... I think there's a different answer for everybody.

What did you do?

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Take whatever you did then that you don't want to be, and work on becoming something else.

You tell yourself to fix it. After that.....it makes it a bit easier to forgive yourself.

[Shiho has so much experience in this.]

[He's thinking about what he should say but the phanpy distracts him]

New pokemon?

[ there's a long stretch of silence when the feed on Suzaku's end opens before he actually even says anything. heeee's thinking... and not coming up with anything, which makes him not want to respond at all, but then he realizes it's recording so he may as well be useless. ]

... I don't know.

Just tell them you're sorry. And if you still feel guilty, make it up to them in the future.

[He's given this kind of thing a bit of thought, really. Had nothing else to do, after all.]

...You have to come to terms with the idea that there's nothing you can do about it now and move on. No one can change the past.

Get a new job and give your best at that instead.

...I have no idea. [Ritz is looking thoughtful.] But if they're you're friends, and they care about you, they wouldn't want you to be upset with yourself.

Maybe it's less about forgiveness, and more about learning from it. Figuring out what you did wrong, and why, and never letting yourself do it again.

[China sighs deeply.]

Sometimes you feel as though you can never forgive yourself, aru. No matter how hard you try. Your guilt becomes another burden for you to carry.

However, you do not have to carry that burden alone, aru.

[He cracks a smile at that last part.]

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