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First of the friend posts. I hope it's good.
Well...I have no clue exactly when I met Saber, or how. I just...Remember. I remember Behemothing with him at one point. I remember hanging out in Kaipo with him, Lulu, CTG, and a number of other oldbies. I remember him being there when I made an attempt at a new FF game on Byond. Saber has never needed explanation. He just has been, for now and evermore and ever before.
I do, however, often think back on the first full memory of a conversation with him. It was during that short attempt at game making. I’d wanted Saber to help. He’d been a good friend for some time, though I don’t think I really realized it at the time.
I’d just completed an addition of GM and Admin powers to my game, much like FFL. I must admit, I did rely heavily on my time at FFL to shape the beginnings of that attempt, but mainly because FFL was what I wanted back. It had been down, and I wanted a place where familiar faces could congregate, where at the time we were split and broken.
So, I was giving friends that I could trust GM powers. Mainly I wanted them tested, but the game wasn’t really anything more than a house without an inside at the time, so we ended up amusing ourselves with them. Then, I invited Saber.
I don’t know if I actually thought before doing it, but just moments after he got on, I GM’d him. XD That was the most disturbing moment in our early friendship. He went hopping crazy. He didn’t want the responsibility. I tried to convince him otherwise, because he seemed like an uber guy to have on the team. But he was completely against it. I now know why, and respect it greatly, but it just gives a picture to me about how much Saber has changed.
Saber, I later found out, has always fought a battle against his darker sides. The legacy of his father, the legacy of the side of him known as Seven... Both have been major issues throughout the time I’ve known him. He’s battled to stay above the hole his father dug, battled to be better. He’s also become confident. He can handle power. He can handle his father. He can handle anything and everything he's come up against, somehow.
I suppose that’s one of the highest of reasons I respect him, as friend and as a leader. He’s like me, if I had more guts or put myself out in the open more. He commented last night that about how good I could be. My potential. Saber’s potential is still there, yet his reality has already surpassed mine and several people our age that I know.
It seems Saber can always handle anything in the world. I know somewhere in my logical side he can’t, but my emotional side then counters with a, “Well, what can’t he, then?”
“Well, what about a nuclear missile? Can he handle that?” my logical side replies, over-extending his examples as usual.
“Pfft. You know he’s got TSE on his side. He’d just grin at the bomb and it would suddenly find something easier to attempt to destroy, such as the Sun, or Jupiter.”
Then they get into an argument about TSE and if it exists or not, and it all goes downhill from there. For some reason, the emotional side always wins on that argument, however.
The point I’m trying to make...Saber loses. He gets knocked down. But, just like his SC weed mode, in which he takes roots at the speed of an invited vampire, he survives. He wins. Sooner or later, it happens. In the subtlest ways, he wins out over anything. With Nadrew, I just theorized earlier, Saber and all of FFL won. Nadrew used to react like a rock when humor was leveled at him. He would over-react, in my opinion, to even small things. He doesn’t seem nearly like that anymore. FFL contaminated him, and Saber was right there along with them both, helping FFL get a clear shot at the blood stream.
In the end, Saber just rocks. He knows when to do what, why to do what, how to do what. There are situations, yes, that Saber can’t handle, just like there are for the rest of the world.
God save us all when he surpasses those, too.
P.S. ~ In Saberia, the man doesn't make the music, the music makes the man.
Well...I have no clue exactly when I met Saber, or how. I just...Remember. I remember Behemothing with him at one point. I remember hanging out in Kaipo with him, Lulu, CTG, and a number of other oldbies. I remember him being there when I made an attempt at a new FF game on Byond. Saber has never needed explanation. He just has been, for now and evermore and ever before.
I do, however, often think back on the first full memory of a conversation with him. It was during that short attempt at game making. I’d wanted Saber to help. He’d been a good friend for some time, though I don’t think I really realized it at the time.
I’d just completed an addition of GM and Admin powers to my game, much like FFL. I must admit, I did rely heavily on my time at FFL to shape the beginnings of that attempt, but mainly because FFL was what I wanted back. It had been down, and I wanted a place where familiar faces could congregate, where at the time we were split and broken.
So, I was giving friends that I could trust GM powers. Mainly I wanted them tested, but the game wasn’t really anything more than a house without an inside at the time, so we ended up amusing ourselves with them. Then, I invited Saber.
I don’t know if I actually thought before doing it, but just moments after he got on, I GM’d him. XD That was the most disturbing moment in our early friendship. He went hopping crazy. He didn’t want the responsibility. I tried to convince him otherwise, because he seemed like an uber guy to have on the team. But he was completely against it. I now know why, and respect it greatly, but it just gives a picture to me about how much Saber has changed.
Saber, I later found out, has always fought a battle against his darker sides. The legacy of his father, the legacy of the side of him known as Seven... Both have been major issues throughout the time I’ve known him. He’s battled to stay above the hole his father dug, battled to be better. He’s also become confident. He can handle power. He can handle his father. He can handle anything and everything he's come up against, somehow.
I suppose that’s one of the highest of reasons I respect him, as friend and as a leader. He’s like me, if I had more guts or put myself out in the open more. He commented last night that about how good I could be. My potential. Saber’s potential is still there, yet his reality has already surpassed mine and several people our age that I know.
It seems Saber can always handle anything in the world. I know somewhere in my logical side he can’t, but my emotional side then counters with a, “Well, what can’t he, then?”
“Well, what about a nuclear missile? Can he handle that?” my logical side replies, over-extending his examples as usual.
“Pfft. You know he’s got TSE on his side. He’d just grin at the bomb and it would suddenly find something easier to attempt to destroy, such as the Sun, or Jupiter.”
Then they get into an argument about TSE and if it exists or not, and it all goes downhill from there. For some reason, the emotional side always wins on that argument, however.
The point I’m trying to make...Saber loses. He gets knocked down. But, just like his SC weed mode, in which he takes roots at the speed of an invited vampire, he survives. He wins. Sooner or later, it happens. In the subtlest ways, he wins out over anything. With Nadrew, I just theorized earlier, Saber and all of FFL won. Nadrew used to react like a rock when humor was leveled at him. He would over-react, in my opinion, to even small things. He doesn’t seem nearly like that anymore. FFL contaminated him, and Saber was right there along with them both, helping FFL get a clear shot at the blood stream.
In the end, Saber just rocks. He knows when to do what, why to do what, how to do what. There are situations, yes, that Saber can’t handle, just like there are for the rest of the world.
God save us all when he surpasses those, too.
P.S. ~ In Saberia, the man doesn't make the music, the music makes the man.