Random Things

Well, guess who came back today!

Sonic came back one day earlier than he had announced, which was a pleasant surprise to us all.

From what I could tell he seems a lot more, shall we say, encouraged compared to when I last saw him. He was even smiling again. Looks like his efforts in Adabat have really paid off. Quite unthinkable, huh? Just a few weeks ago, there seemed to be so little hope for the country, but Sonic has managed to turn that perception around completely. According to him, Rojas has said he'll think about a political career, but it's not set in stone yet. He's more likely to leave that job to some of his superiors instead.

Not to mention, Sonic told me the UN peacekeepers there were so impressed by his actions that they have asked him whether he'd be interested in doing similar things like this elsewhere.

I think you can guess his answer.

He told me about how he might be going off again sometime soon, though he doesn't know when, to help even more people, do more relief work. He's admitted that he isn't quite sure he can duplicate the results in Adabat in other places so easily. But he's definitely going to try, and, well, I'm not one to doubt him, but I guess that was pretty obvious already.

All in all, I'm just happy to see that he's happy again. I've never seen him so…driven before. It's really kinda amazing.

Other than that, Sonic was also glad that he could actually finally hug me again because of my recovery, and well, me too. You know, it's a bit funny, he said something quite a lot of you have said too, that I seem pretty cheerful for a kid with two broken ankles. If it were him, he said, he'd gone crazy a long time ago, for obvious reasons.

Heh, well, it's not like I don't like my legs or anything, I mean, I definitely can't wait to walk again, but I guess it just makes more sense that I can adapt to not using them a lot more easily compared to Sonic. I actually think my life would be a lot worse now if I had a broken arm or worse, a broken tail. Or broken tail base. *shudders* I remember reading about how mobian species with long tails like dogs, cats or foxes (derp) found it really difficult if their tail was fractured, since it's really difficult to heal from that compared to broken arms or legs, most of the time it's permanent. I'm really glad I only got off with some cuts and bruises to mine.

Okay, that was kinda morbid, so let's move on. As for the wheelchair project, I actually learned that some all-terrain ones really do exist if I changed my Google search terms to 'mountain wheelchair' or 'all terrain wheelchair', the results are really interesting. I still think there's room for improvement though, so I'm still going to try my hand at it, but the list of features I want to put in has grown a lot longer since, meaning it's probably gonna have to come later. In a way it's too bad, since I originally wanted to get some prototype going before I've even recovered. But if it means a better product for all, it's worth it.

One more thing I should mention which is also really interesting. I've noticed that at least a full 40% of the emails I've been receiving come from Japanese people, or otakus (is that the correct word to use?) from around the world, all of whom are really fascinated with who I am, in a different way from others, sort of. I was confused at first, actually even a bit freaked out, since I thought these were the creepy stalker fan types Alan said exists for any public figure. But then I learned the reason for their fascination, and it stunned me.

Apparently, I'm a kitsune. To summarize, it's a specific type of fox that exists in Japanese culture and folklore, and from what I've read so far, they can either be good, evil or just mischievous, but generally the traits common to them are intelligence, magic, and, yep, multiple tails. So my very existence strikes a chord with them. Wow!

The reason I'm so blown away by this is that, well, there's actually a myth called a 'kitsune' back where I came from too, albeit of different linguistic and cultural origin…only it was almost entirely negative there, something demon-like. It's the reason my life was miserable before I met Sonic, because they believed that's what I was.

So, you know, the same myth that's considered bad on Mobius being more or less good on Earth, well, I don't know what to say. I just…I feel more welcome than ever. Yeah, maybe that's it.

You know, I suddenly feel like going outside. I've been indoors long enough. Not really sure where I'm headed, maybe I'll just go for a simple…I wanted to say 'walk', but, heh, you know. =P Go for a roll, maybe? XD But yeah, I'm not letting my injury prevent me from enjoying the outside. Just thought I'd give a heads up to any of you living here. See you tomorrow!