A Nice Necromancer/ Ghosted

Which title should I use?

Summary: Mathew can talk to the dead but the more he interacts with them the more like a ghost he seems to everyone else, but he's fine with that as he likes spending time with the departed.

I knew that it had been too soon for me to go back to the graveyard, even before the meeting where the others pretty much ignored me.

I knew the consequences of talking to the ghosts that it seems only I, and sometimes my brother America can see.

Even by just spending time around them, while I cannot see it myself in the mirror or just looking down at myself, I know that when others take pictures of me after these times with the dead that I look almost translucent and people gradually start to see me in the same way that most see the ghosts that I like to spend time with: invisible and unheard.

But, that's fine.

And really, if that's the only price I have to pay to make their afterlife even just a bit better…then I'll do it, and keep doing it for as long as I am a Nation and alive and able to do so.

So, I keep going back to the graveyard closest to my house. Hidden under the soil with no markers to show where it is and forgotten by all but me, and possibly others over the years who could also see the ghosts that are there and are sad that they cannot move too far from their resting place and want to see the world and long for each of my visits where I come and tell them about what has happened in the thousands of years since their death.

I go to other gravesites too. As many as I can.

Perhaps it is a weird pastime to have. Perhaps my other hobby of playing hockey is more normal. But this is something that makes not just myself, but also others feel better. Even if they are dead, they deserve this, and I am happy that I can help them even just this little bit.

That is why I smile. It amuses me in meetings with my fellow Nations that they cannot see or hear me at times. It gives me confirmation of sorts that I'm not crazy or imagining things when I see the ghosts, hear them, and talk to them. it gives me the confirmation I need when I sometimes cannot believe that I am actually talking to the dead. It helps in the days when I wonder if I am dead…but then reassured when the other Nations see me normally and I talk to my Prime Minister and other government officials and my neighbours say hello. It helps me on the days after I visit when everyone else has trouble seeing me.

There are sayings about how you cannot understand others until you have walked in their shoes, and the reminder on those days where I too become invisible helps, even if it sometimes hurts. At least it convinces me time and again that I am not crazy.

And so I keep going back, and finding more places to go. Because, truly, no one deserves to be alone…not the dead, not anyone.

Inspiration: A Tumblr post with what it said below:

post/ 171918125714/ frennzysocial-punlich-imagine-a-necromancer

frennzysocial:

punlich:

Imagine: A necromancer who goes to haunted houses, graveyards and other places just to shoot the shit with ghosts and take messages to their loved ones and catch them up on what's happening in the world

a Niceromancer

Also, sorry about the break I took there from writing. Nothing got typed up or written down for a good two months there...which is really not cool to just leave you all hanging so I'm sorry about that. I just wasn't doing any projects at all and trying to rearrange my life.

Anywho, I've taken on more club roles and am still struggling to do my current clubs and university classes and work schedule soooo I'll do my best to type up my stuff and post it but just so you know, unfortunately, my update schedule will not get faster likely.