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[This obnoxious message is sent with an even more obnoxious ascii smiley face. I'm so sorry.]

"Why do you like smiles so much?" "What's with you and smiling?" "How can you keep smiling like that?" These are questions I hear a lot!

It's very simple. Smiles are important to me! And I want to see one on the face of everyone I meet. real ones - no fake smile is going to make you feel good. You can't tell me they're not important.

Why am I bringing this up again? Because today would have been World Mile Day back where I'm from! Well, if this calendar and that one lined up, they would. Close enough! It was a very new thing instituted where I was from. Not a major holiday by any means, but that's okay. It was made in honor of the man who designed the smiley face logo. A pretty good guy in my book! (*ﾟ∀ﾟ*)

What this means is: today you should try to make at least one person smile. Do something nice, tell someone a joke, give them a compliment! They'll enjoy it, and you'll feel good too. Maybe even smile in return! ;D

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At least that one looks more like a face.

I can only use mender magic, but that's my favorite. Someone I looked up to a lot was the only other mender where I came from. She taught me some things when I was young.

I'm guessing that's just like it sounds, mender magic? Or is it something different?

Nope, the name's on the tin with that one.

So can you mend anything? Even esoteric things, like broken hearts??

No.

[Just that, and after a longer pause than he took writing his other texts.]

Oh, too bad. I guess it would be a lot harder to mend something that isn't tangible. Something tells me you've tried, though?

Where I'm from, it's not so metaphorical.

What? You mean a broken heart is something that can physically happen?

Yes.

That's pretty scary! （ΟΔΟ；；） What happens if someone's heart actually breaks? Do they die, or is it something else?

You're doing a really terrible job of trying to get me to smile, you know.

Ha! You got me there!

[Elmer might like to get people to smile, but he also is selfish and has zero tact. Smile mileage may vary.

This is a very compelling topic, is all. And I'm guessing one close to you. Okay, okay, that'll be enough interrogation from me, then. In return you can ask me whatever terrible personal thing you like, and I'll answer it! (ノ*゜▽゜*))

Edited 2016-10-26 02:25 (UTC)

[He could bite back and ask how many deaths this guy is responsible for, but that feels like pulling back the curtain on his own issues too much. He'd know that breaking a heart does kill a person, and that Warrick ~~didn't~~ no, couldn't, couldn't do anything about it. So. Backing off from that.]

What makes smiles so important to you?

A very fair question. Smiles are important to me because seeing them on the face of others helps put one on my own. Helping others smile might help me find my own. It's pretty simple, really!

So you're actually horrifically depressed and desperate?

Not in the slightest!

[He's not... anything.]

I'm on a journey, I guess you can say. I also promised a friend that I'd stay on my mission of smiles, and I'm a man of my word. /o/

Hm.

And this friend is...?

His name is Huey Laforet. We met as kids a very long time ago. I guess you could call him my best friend, even if I haven't seen him in quite some time. It's a long story. Not very suited for the medium of texting. :D

The way you text is already so nauseatingly cheery I nearly get sick imagining what you must be like in person.

Now now, no need to be that way. It's a small city anyway, so we're probably bound to run into one another at some point anyway, right?

I don't know, I've done a pretty good job of finding solitude most days. There's that, even if there's no peace.

that sounds like a challenge! !(•̀ᴗ•́)و" But you do have a point. I manage to live in a 4-bedroom home by myself. I should put out an ad for some flatmates sometimes.

Trust me, it isn't. And I don't know why you'd want to bother living with the people here, either.

The people here are fascinating! I consider myself very lucky to live among people from all over the universe, who I'd never get to meet back home.

Normally I would be inclined to agree with you but I'd much rather be reading about these worlds instead of having to listen to everyone whine when they happen to disagree with me.