Derick Rumbolt's Links
Arceus, this is going to be hard... Zackary was, no, is an incredible human being from the beginning to the believed end. What can I even say that hasn’t been said a million times by the ones who still care about him? Of course he’s intelligent and was a great man with kindness, sure, but I honestly think he was more then that, he had a sense of maturity even when me and him went on our own Pokémon journey together so many years ago. He knew his limits, he knew when he no longer felt passionate in what he was doing, and was completely willing to go on and do what he wanted which I always really admired him for. Just at the age of ten he already was thinking like an adult, well of course he wasn’t as mature then but I hope you can get the point, and he was always so generous to me. Even with my poor living conditions he would go out of his to help me in whatever way I could, heck I’d have to convince him not to a lot of the time since I didn’t want him just giving it all up to me. He... Deserved to be happy, live that perfect life he strives for and I truthfully believed that he had gotten.
... And then that was all stripped away from him. I know just as little and everyone else as to what happened to him, but by Arceus you can be sure it hit me hard. It even happened at around the anniversary of Chad’s death, so to not only lose my youngest brother but eventually even my cousin who I had known my entire life and was basically my best friend? And then not even being able to do or know anything about what happened? God I just... It.. Took me a while to recover from that. Then little Cody going off the face of the earth as well? The one I had promised I’d try to help out on his own dreams? It was torture, sheer helpless torture.
I don’t want to have lost my bud, it’s... Not like him to just be gone out of no where. I can’t stand the thought of what could have happened to my travel companion, and I’ve refused to be convinced that he is gone forever. There’s not much that I can do... But from what I can, I’m making damn sure I’m doing it. It’ll get you back Zackary, don’t you worry.
Strange guy, ya know. I only got to meet him briefly but he just acted so, uh, dead inside I guess you could say. That’s awfully rude of me to say, but that’s the best way I can put it. Wonder how he is after the death of his sister.
oh, right, chad’s brother. only briefly spoke to him, seemed nice enough, don’t care much about him though.
Uncle Derick’s nice. Honestly, he reminds me a lot of my dad with how active they both are. I know he doesn’t have much, but he’s been getting better recently financially now that he’s become closer with that Pokémon Professor from Kanto. Hope his life gets better.
Ok whoever is making me have to do these things really needs to hold off on the touchy subjects for me, alright? But I guess it’s probably best to speak about them then just keep it all in, going to keep from having it flood all out though. Not many people even knew this, but Chad was actually my youngest sibling. I... Had a rather large family with 11 siblings, well 12 if you include me, and I’m the oldest. Arceus I hate acknowledging my age, but anyways I always looked after my brothers and sisters as best as I could, parents worked their hardest to get anything to provide for us so I took on the responsibility of looking over them when they couldn’t, which was most of the time. Almost all of us got along well, well, except for... One, but he don’t talk about him anymore, and I think I had a particular connection to Chad. He was always the more energetic one and his child like spirit never did die out until the end. He was always interested in the stories I’d tell and even though he didn’t exactly want to be a Pokémon trainer he did still seem interested i the journey and everything, guess that’s what lead him down the path of making video games so he could experience that without leaving the house, heh, but yeah. Chad was a really good kid, constantly did stupid things but it was all in for the purpose of humour. He really was quite funny too.
I’m glad he was able to get out of the cycle of poverty eventually like a lot of my other siblings were, though I... struggled with it, still do, probably because I had to be the first to leave. Still made sure to keep in contact with him and the others as best as I could, you know? God I need to stop avoiding it... Ah, let’s just get to the point. He was happy, he had a nice wife who I also quite liked, had a sweet daughter who was just as much of a ray of sunshine as him, and even had another baby boy... Then he was gone. No, I shouldn’t even try putting it like it’s soft, Chad... died. Something about... A... break in, little Selena was luck to have been visiting my parents when it happened. He and his wife were shot once and that was it for them both of them, he was already dead by the time police showed up, Morgen was still alive but... Yeah that didn’t last long. God I remember calling their daughter and seeing how utterly... broken, she looked. Not child should have that innocence stripped away from them that quickly, and... And no one should have their youngest brother taken away from them so early. Chad barely lived, he was successful and had a bright future, but of course the worst has to happen to the best people. I wasn’t even able to attend his funeral due to my lack of money, so to not even be able to see him one last time just makes everything even worst.
I question why we’re in a world where the ones who bring joy are the ones who die out, but the criminals ruining a once prosperous region held to such high regard is allowed to continue on and take away the lives of those who have done literally nothing to them. Who do they think they are? Going away and killing to “assert dominance” and using the corruption as a work around. There is no justification to it, Chad didn’t deserve that, Morgen didn’t, Selena didn’t, and where ever the little one may be now, Kyle didn’t deserve it. I just hope he may be in a better place now, one away from the hatred and cruelty of this world.
Oh. Him. Derick… The one who refuses to leave me alone. NEVER have I had to put on this much of a facade, I normally can just cast all of these “family members” off to the side, but of course it can’t be easy here. And of course I have to put up with it or else end up like last time. He tests my patience. This entire family tests my patience, but PARTICULARLY him. He reminds me too much of… Eugh, nevermind.