In Case You Weren't Aware...

[Lydair]

I'm back

[Shakó]

Ilu Lydair! <3 lol welcome back!

[Lydair]

Dear Ge-Rad: I feel the need to warn you all ahead of time that I haven’t RP’d in about…a year. Not to say I haven’t been doing any writing…but my writing style has definitely changed and became much more minimalistic. I used to use colorful language to describe each and every thing, and while I’m guessing it was very irritating to read, I really miss doing that. So, at least for the first few weeks back, my writing is going to be very choppy, very plain, and very…un-Lydair. People used to complement me on my writing abilities, but now…ick. I’m going to slowly, SLOWLY, attempt to work my way back into RP writing mode.

Also, I have fashioned some sort of a story for Lydair’s disappearance: After hardly any deliberation at all, and on a total whim, she decided to go after either her old pack or her father. After some time, something happened- a heavy rain, perhaps, or a blizzard, depending on the season- and she ended up falling into a river and being carried downstream. There was a bit of a fall (ten to fourteen feet, maybe.), and when she landed, she hit her head pretty hard and woke up not remembering much of anything. It only took a few days for her to remember her early memories as an adolescent, her first year and a half or so…i.e., her old pack, her father, her brothers. She has also retained her knowledge of medicinal herbs, which has helped her survive in her time away. Slowly her brain is healing itself, and as of right now she’s back to remembering other wolves (She has strong memories of her pups, although she can’t really “remember”…it’s hard to explain. Like, she knows she’s had them, and their names, but not much more. Afterall, they weren’t that old when she left.), and necessary things like the basic layout of Ge-Rad. Koan, Shako, and Draeg are all relatively familiar (she’s linking memories to faces), and other wolves like Uskiya and Yelae and Shunke and Alkiera are there, but very vague. Her short term memory is the most damaged, it’s hard for her remember things that happened yesterday, and she has no recollection of her fall, or even the reason why she was gone in the first place. She feels very ambivalent about everything, because she isn’t quite 100% back to reality yet. Only very, very memorable events that are semi-recent are still there, and basically her character is just going to be very confused and tired and overwhelmed for a while.

You might not have linked the two, but I sort of forgot everything I learned about other characters in my absence so it makes it a lot easier for me if Lydair essentially has to be re-told her semi-recent life by other wolves. Certain things and places and smells will spark her memory, and hopefully, eventually, I’ll be a pretty good RP’er again

Thanks for reading all of that.

<3

Oh, BTW- if you have any ideas to put towards a reason why she's been gone, that would be FANTASTIC.