I am the son of Dagarud,
He who died sealing away the beast of the moon.
A monstrosity with a million claws and a million wings,
The Queen of Monsters and of all other things.
She watches us all from her shattered palace,
Spiting Mankind with all her malice.
Her ancient blood has poisoned my veins,
And within lays the key to breaking her chains...
—Aristotle William, Ancient pre Dawn War Era poet of the long lost and fallen kingdom, Eceerg.
Blake had many things to think about when she came back with team RWBY, like how thankful she was to have friends like that of team RWBY. However, there was one nagging feeling at the back of her mind during the fight with Roman and the Assimilator Semblance user.
It was the fact she swore with her own sharp senses that Resh had called her Mama. She knows that she did not just imagine that. There was horror and shock when Resh called her that, and there was no trace of confusion. Resh, despite his cocky attitude, was rather down to earth and almost a sociable as Yang, just somewhat in the opposite spectrum. He could be deep and reflective like her at times, and could act well mannered and reserved like Weiss. When it came to fighting, despite having no weapon, Blake swore that she saw some of Ruby's moves that Resh was putting into his movements.
And with all these things in mind, why on Remnant did Resh scream that instead of her name in that one moment? Even if his mind was supposedly tainted by a Pandora Grimm, Resh always seemed very lucid.
She thought about it a bit more, Resh was rather tight lipped about his past. He has stated several times that he is not comfortable with mentioning it. She of all people should understand what respecting other people's privacy should be like. However, there was one unique difference between her and Resh in keeping their secrets.
Blake never let hints of her past slip out. Until now, Blake has essentially avoided any indication or hint towards her past. With Resh, he made hints to his own family with his weapon, and his mysterious brother, but refused to say anything else about the topic.
These little bits of information got Blake rather curious—and this didn't have anything to do with her being a Cat Faunus; anyone would be interested in what Resh's life before Beacon with the way he's been hiding it and asking everyone not to talk about it. Maybe like a reverse psychology: the more he tries to hide it, the more everyone is starting to get curious at what he is hiding.
Blake liked to think that she trusts Resh, after all, he trusted her when it came down to the docks. But there was just something off about the way he said that. She admitted she had some dark secrets, but looking back at Resh, his secrets… don't actually seem dark. When he conversed about his brother, there was annoyance and frustration in his tone as well as confusion. She didn't know much about the last one, but the first two feelings do usually come with siblings. Next was his father, there was a much more palpable feeling of admiration coming from the boy, but why was he hiding so much about him?
She decided she would ask later tomorrow.
"Alright girls! Today we're doing team bonding!" Ruby cried out the next morning. "Since Blake's back, we are gonna hang out and strengthen our friendship and nothing will stop us!"
Yang spoke out with her signature mischievous grin. "Plus! Ruby let me do all the planning for today for Blake wasting our other free time!"
On second thought, Blake thought to herself, it looked like she would have to put this on hold.
Ah well, what's the wors—
… Has she been spending too much time with Jaune?
"Wow what is this equipment?" Resh looked at the highly advance looking hair salon machine in front of him.
"It's basically a super high memory scanner. It was coined as a 'Dream Snatcher'. Back during the war, the military used this to forcibly remove memories from captured spies." Doctor Helsing said as he ate some jelly babies from a bag.
Resh gave the doctor a very concerned but deadpanned look. "I'm having a machine that forcibly rips information from my brain as my therapy? Don't tell me Beacon is that desperate for money."
"That is information that I am supposed withhold to the public and students." Dr Helsing answered back as he rubbed his messy afro. "Any who, it's been re modeled to help better soothe traumatic events for Hunters by viewing their most traumatic moments on screens for doctors to get a better idea how to help their patients. The plus side is that if you don't resist the machine, the memories will become easier to access."
Jared looked at the giant machine as he walked around it. Now that he took a better look around it, he was sure it wasn't a hair salon machine, but some kind of sleeping pod you would see in Sci fi movies.
He sighed before looking to the doctor.
"You sure that no one else will see my memories?" Resh asked.
"I am vowed to secrecy. Also, I won't exactly be watching your memories here. The machine will record them and then give me a video feed of the memory through your eyes. Besides, I may not look it, but I have a few dark secrets myself."
Resh raised his brow. "And can I ask how dark they are?"
Dr. Helsing just smiled. "Even Ozpin himself doesn't have a clue to what I'm hiding from him."
"Huh?" Resh turned back to the scraggily doctor.
"Don't get me wrong, I trust the man with my life, and I'm grateful for what's he's done to me. But just like he's obviously keeping secrets from me, I'm keeping some from him." The doctor said strangely as he stood up. "I mean he is easily one of the most influential and powerful hunters in Remnant, I'd be surprised if he doesn't have a few skeletons in the closet."
Resh looked back at the pod he would be sleeping in and would have his mind hooked up to. "Well that sounds like a lovely working environment."
The boy felt a hand placed calmly on his shoulder. "The extra sarcasm means you're nervous. Don't worry, I'll be gentle." Dr. Helsing joked with a smile.
"At least take me out to dinner first. Gosh!" Resh retorted back before sighing. "Fine. Let's get this over with. The sooner the better."
"Wait, you might want to message your friends." The doctor spoke out.
Resh turned again back towards the doctor. "Why?"
"While the process itself is simple… that's only on my side. It's why I gave you a doctor's note and set this up on the weekend. You'll be technically here the whole day for the machine to process a lifetime of data as I try to trace back to the moment where you met a Pandora. You'll be in somewhat of a healing coma when I link you up to that machine, so you should probably make a call to your friends now and just tell them where you'll be."
"Oh," Resh spoke out as he took out his scroll. "Well, looks like I'm going to have to make some calls."
"Wow that bad huh?" Jaune asked as he kept walking down the halls.
"Yeah," Resh answered from a video feed on Jaune's scroll. "So I'm pretty much going to be absent the whole day, so try not to get yourself in to another crazy death defying adventure while I'm out cold."
"Are you kidding me!? This will be the best day off ever since I won't have to deal with you!" Jaune smiled merrily, ignoring his previous day off without Resh, before he wondered something. "But have you told the others?"
Resh seemed pretty calm over the video. "Oh yeah. You're actually the last one I called. Team RWBY is super bonding under Ruby's iron fist as she is forcing her team to do more team bonding since she made that vow like… two days ago? Nora is going to a Pancake convention center and Ren is going after her for damage control. Which just leaves you and Pyrrha alone you lucky dog."
Jaune flushed at the implication. "I-I don't know what you're talking about! Pyrrha is my best friend and partner!" He stated to him.
"True and I guess you just don't want to break the Harem route."
"What did you say?" Jaune asked in confusion since he didn't quite hear what Resh just said.
"Nothing." Resh gave a huge, fake, and crap eating grin towards Jaune.
Jaune scoffed. "Oh go into coma already, jerk." He said lightly.
"Alas, I must now go. Try to enjoy your day off Sir. I know you actually need one." Resh said kindly before signing off.
Jaune sighed as he put off his scroll. "Of course he actually says something a good friend would say in the last second."
He entered into their team dorm room and noticed something right away near Resh's bed.
It was his Armaments of Raijin. The thing still looked broken, but Resh had cleaned it up a bit so it would all fit into one piece.
Jaune still felt guilty about it breaking, but then he thought of an idea. Maybe now he could go and try to get what Resh wanted as a substitute weapon down in Vale, or maybe, if he was lucky, get a weapons expert to look at the weapon and fix it. I mean, Resh actually hasn't tried to really fix it or find someone who could.
After all, Resh was a jerk, but he was still a good friend.
And hopefully this will convince him to lessen up the time pranks. Jaune swears Resh is literally stopping time to put dead flies in his soup just so he could make the stupid "Fly doing backstroke" joke!
Jaune decided as he took the buckle and placed it on his person.
He was about to send a message to Pyrrha about him being gone for a while until the door opened revealing Pyrrha… with Hemera and Thalassa?
"Pyrrha? Hemera? Thalassa? What are you girls doing here?" Jaune asked in surprise.
The blue haired girl, Thalassa, walked up to Jaune and gave him a hug, much to the boy's surprise and pleasure. "Oh we're just here to pick you up!"
Jaune briefly snapped out of his momentary bliss and noticed something with what she said. "Pick me up? Uhh, sorry if you girls are planning something, but there's something I wanted to do today."
Then he noticed Thalassa was not letting go of him.
"… Sorry Jaune." The blonde boy looked at Hemera who had somewhat of a sad smile before his world went dark.
When Resh woke up, he found himself on a park field that seemed close to the outdoors or maybe even city outskirts of a place.
"Wow, I had no idea I would be active in my own dream world. I wonder if I can interact with things here." Resh spoke up as he walked towards a tree and saw his hand phase through it as he moved his hand around it. "Figures. Can't mess with what happened unless I physically go there myself. … Wait a sec. Didn't my semblance…?"
Before he pondered any further, Resh heard a very small and squeaky and hyper active voice screaming about.
"Whee! Open air! I have been told by society that it is good for the lungs and not poisoned with smog burning at the ozone layer at all!"
Resh turned around to see a very young five year old Jared frolicking around the grassy plains and running around in circles like a maniac.
"Dang, Sir was right. I was a hyperactive knuckle head." Resh chuckled in amusement as he saw his younger self do many strange antics as a kid.
"Jared!" A voice called out from behind him as both Resh and Jared turned to the sound of the voice.
"****!" Jared shrieked with joy as he ran up to his family. However, for Resh he felt pain in his mind before it settled down quickly.
"What was… huh? Mother?" Resh looked over as he saw a much older version of Weiss and his younger sister Snow to where Jared was running up to.
Winter, who seemed to be only two at the time, was still moving about in their mother's arms as she sat down in a very fancy looking chair with Sebastion pouring tea into her cup.
"Jared, don't stray too far!" Weiss Schnee (Arc) called out as she cuddled closely with her newest daughter.
"Yes, Ma!" Jared called out, making Resh look back at the kid staring at a butterfly standing on top of a flower. Resh was surprised. He never called Weiss 'Ma' because he was conditioned to call her Mother.
"I'll have my eye on you kiddo." Resh snapped his head back again. That wasn't Weiss' voice. Yang, Yin, and Zwei were now in the spot where Weiss, Sebastion, and Snow were, but instead of fancy lawn chairs, they were all on the ground preparing a humble picnic.
"What the?" Resh closed and rubbed his eyes. However, this proved to be a mistake as the next time he opened his eyes, Pyrrha and his older brother Percy were setting up soccer and track equipment.
Resh stared for a second before testing something. He looked back to his young Jared before looking back at the family.
Now it was Blake along with the twins, Siam and Mese who just like Yang and Yin were preparing a picnic.
Resh closed his eyes for a few seconds and opened them again. Going by who was next, he was glad to see Ruby, Autumn, and Lanny all actually preparing tents and a fire place as if they would be camping here for the night.
It appears that whenever Resh looks away, the families change. However, there didn't seem to be much of a major difference in all five different memories. Which was weird now that he thought about it. In five different timelines, this was still a constant?
Come to think of it, where exactly was Jared and his family at? He didn't really remember this park growing up.
The silent watcher just looked at the young version of himself picking up a yellow flower among the fields before there was a strange sound that both Resh and Young Jared heard. They both looked over to the very end of the field, where the trees became much thicker. As he squinted his eyes, Resh swore he saw a strange glowing light in the distance.
Resh looked towards Young Jared who tilted his head as he held the flower in his hands.
"No. Aww no." Resh spoke out as he was starting to put two and two together.
Young Jared silently looked back at his family, which Resh noticed it was Ruby's family all pitching in to patch up a tent, and then he started walking towards the edge of the forest.
Resh looked at his young self with panic as he saw the smaller boy waddle into the woods without any of his families looking. He quickly glanced back at them briefly, seeing Pyrrha and Percy talk things out in planning where the goals would go before sighing and going after his young and foolish self.
Until he hit an invisible force.
"Oof!" Resh grunted as he backed off after almost tripping. When he tried to jump in after his younger self, something had just stopped him from following him into the woods. "What the?"
"Jared?" Resh, turned back, hearing different voices calling out the same name. However, as he looked back at the family, he saw it was back to Ruby's cycle.
"Mommy, where's Jay?" Autumn asked sweetly and with a hint of worry.
Ruby gave a small smile. "He must have strayed away. He's got adventure in his blood!" She swung her arm, as if impressed with her son's mischievous ways. Afterall, she was like a big kid herself. "But Let me go get him, watch over your other brother for me! I'll be right back." Ruby said as she walked fast into the woods.
Resh just stared as Ruby—then Blake walked into the woods. He tried again to enter, but this time found out there was nothing stopping him from entering. This was odd; he thought he was seeing this through his memory, why was it showing him the point of view of his mothers?
He shook his head and followed after Blake, who passed between behind a tree and the vision turned back to Pyrrha.
"Jared!? Jared!?" Pyrrha shouted as she cupped her hands, but what came out was not only her voice, but everyone else's as well. Pyrrha started to look very worried and hurried her pace. Resh honestly felt bad he did this to all of his mothers before he realized that in order to find out where he went, he had to follow his moms.
Pyrrha broke off from Resh's view as she raced behind a boulder and the watcher now saw a very worried looking Yang. "Jared! Come on out! This isn't funny anymore! If you don't come out right now, you're grounded from watching that Dinosaur cartoon! … Jared!?" She shrieked again this time it was more panicked.
Resh noticed that the time when Yang spoke, it was only her voice. They all must have said their different versions of calling out to him, but in all five memories, Jared didn't respond.
Then his eyes and his Ma's both saw something standing out on the ground. It was one of the flowers Jared was frolicking in, the one he had picked up before entering into the woods.
Then they both heard it.
"The stars are blind my love…"
The look of dread on his Ma's face was almost heart breaking as it was horrifying to all five of them.
"No, no, no, no, no, no! JARED!" When Yang shrieked out his name, four other horrified voices called out as well. Then the blonde mother bolted as fast as she could towards the sound of the voice, no longer caring for the forest around her and smashing and breaking through whatever looked to be in her path.
As debris, flew around, the areas started to change a bit. Instead of gunfire, blasting through trees, wood was frozen solid by the most efficient dust and smashed away through glyphs; then instead of glyphs, a furry of slashes either by ribbon, steel, or with roses on the background decimated everything in the path in front of them with almost desperate fury.
All five different people, doing the same exact thing, feeling the same exact feeling, and hearing same exact eerie song all in the same exact time and place.
Resh could only follow glimpses of his fast changing mothers as it stopped at Ruby sliding to a halt and her eyes widening as she looked down below.
There was a low ditch where in the center was a singing Pandora Grimm.
"Fear is a device, so quiet and precise…" It continued to sing in a cold, raspy voice that sent chills to both Ruby and Resh.
However, it was nothing compared to the horror of seeing Jared walk closer and closer towards it. They couldn't see his face, was the child simply curious or was he hypnotized by the dark song?
"Jared!"Ruby, with the voice of the other four shrieked again, but realized her error as the Pandora stopped singing and started looking towards her. She quickly placed her hand over her eyes as she felt a light glance towards her.
Resh saw what happened: The Pandora was attracted by the sound of his Mommy's voice and looked towards her, but Jared had done the same thing without noticing the Grimm moving behind him. So the instant the Pandora's eyes were shinning on his Mommy, Jared's eyes widened in joy—much to the horror of Resh as he saw his younger self open his mouth.
"Mom!" He cried out as he waved his arms out.
Resh noticed that it was now Pyrrha, and probably by extension everyone else, almost dropped their arms to look back at their son, but were still trained enough not to release their arm and be exposed to the glare of the Pandora. "No, sweetie! Close your eyes!"
Once more, many things happened within a few seconds. As soon as she said this, The Pandora's eyes started trailing down, and all five mothers sensed the light off them, but they all knew it was trailing towards the one other person here. And unfortunately for them, Jared was starting to turn around.
There weren't any second chances, Pyrrha, and by shadow everyone else, aimed their weapons to where the light was shinning from and blasted it as fast as they could with either bullets, or Dust, or even Dust bullets.
That was the instant Resh saw it.
In all five different memories, the shot had hit.
However, all shots hit one of the Pandora's eyes as both Jared and the Pandora locked sights together. Jared was exposed to only half of the Pandora's gaze for a split second before the impact of the attack whipped the Pandora back like a doll.
Resh stared as the Grimm started to fade away as he then noticed Blake running frantically to Jared.
"Jared! Jared!" She cried as she knelt and hugged the boy close to her. "Please say something!" She asked, in horror that her own son would be lost forever in a fate worse than death.
The little boy stared back at her with unblinking, big red eyes…
"Something!" The little boy spoke out in what felt to be the longest moment of his mother's life.
Blake released a breath she was holding and hugged her son hard. "You are grounded Jared!"
"Aww why!?" The little boy whined.
"I told you not to stray so far!" Blake sniffed as she rubbed her misty eyes before kissing her son's forehead in utter relief. "You're father is going to hear about this."
"I doughnut understand this injustice trusted upon me!" The young boy said in his tiny voice as he threw up his hands in some form of protest, and yes, he did say doughnut.
However, while they were making up, Resh saw the body of the Grimm fade away. As it faded into nothing but its eyes, he noticed something off. The last good eye was not looking at the child or his mother.
It was looking at him specifically.
Resh gulped, somehow, despite his inability to interact within this memory, the eye was staring at him as if he was there.
"It has been done." The Grimm had somehow whispered into Resh's mind before vanishing into the air.
"Now, when we get back I expect you to remain in your seat for the rest of the afternoon!" Resh looked back to see Weiss, carrying her son and walking back towards camp.
The little boy pouted, but then smiled and giggled. Making Weiss smile kindly and thankfully at what had happened here.
"The stars are blind my love!~"
Resh and Weiss just stared. Young Jared started singing the same exact song as the Grimm.
"Jared."
"Yes mother?" The boy spoke out.
"Never. Never sing those words again." She told him solemnly.
The young boy looked confused and tilted his head. "Sing what?" He asked his mother innocently.
Weiss hugged her son closely before starting to make her way back towards camp.
Resh just looked on as his Mother and younger self walked out of the ditch an back up towards the path they all had made. "That was it huh? That was how I got infected by a Pandora? I only saw one of its eyes?"
"There is something more."
Resh quickly turned around. He was horrified to see that the Eye of the Pandora had returned! Not only that, it was floating and looking at him directly. This wasn't a part of his memory, he was sure of it!
"W-What? Wait, I know you're not part of this memory!" Resh pointed out to the floating object.
However, the eye started to transform! Its size grew and the color faded meanwhile seemingly extending out limbs and slowly forming into a more humanoid shape.
Resh took a step back. "Wha-What's going on? How are you here?"
It was the cloaked figure from the docks. What was he doing in his dreamscape? Resh panicked if among all the semblances the Assimilator stole, one of them was a Dream Manipulation semblance.
"No," The cloaked figure spoke as he removed his hood and his marble mask that was no longer attached to his face. "You know that I never accessed a Dream Manipulator's semblance." He spoke as if being able to read minds.
"Right… wait, what? How do I… ?" Resh automatically said before realizing his mouth moved faster than his mind.
The purple clad boy looked over to the figure with growing unease. "Who are you?" He asked, but inside he was starting to think he already knew the answer.
Silence passed as the figure stayed still for a moment. Then he moved his hands slowly towards his mask.
"We are in your mind. And here, all your memories have gathered together." He said as he froze his hands on his mask, pausing slightly before removing it. "That includes the one you wanted to get rid of your whole life… brother."
Resh's red eyes widened. He was faced to face with himself! The same black ash hair and the same blood red eyes! Yet unlike in him, there was a layer of madness behind the boy with the same exact face as Resh.
"J-J-Ja…" The word fought hard to come out of Resh's mouth, a familiar and bittersweet word, but even when he was at the brink of remembering, he could completely say it.
It was then that the world around him shattered like glass all around him, the thick unknown forests was replaced with a vast empty white area that stretched on for miles.
However, the doppelganger of Resh stepped forward, with an excited and twisted smile on his face. The world darkened as the person stepped forward, inching and closing in faster and faster down into Resh. It then caught Resh's legs and started to go over his entire body! The purple clad boy tried to move, but the darkness was constricting his movements, preventing him from getting away. It absorbed his body to the point where he only felt his face free.
The darkness seemed to slow down as the Doppelganger stood closer to Resh's face, like staring at a very twisted fun house mirror.
Then as the last of the darkness was swallowing Resh whole, he finally said. "Jason Fall, your twin brother. Come now, JJ… let's take a walk down memory lane."
And like his father, Resh's world turned to darkness.
{Author Notes.}
Before I begin, there is something I want to address that's caught my attention in recent RWBY episodes, specifically episode 6. Cool, lore! I am a huge fan of any lore from any world. And since Magic is technically introduced to the world of RWBY… I might have some… ideas…
The second thing was the ending. I'm not going to spoil—well I might hint at spoiling actually, so if you don't want to see, just skip this little paragraph, but I really don't touch the story. Something that caught my attention in a slightly bad way: For a group of people who have been living in a world of Grimm, I was surprised to see that the amount of negative emotion that came from a booing crowd was enough to catch their attention.
It just doesn't sit right to me. If that's all it would take to get Grimm attracted, then even sports should be banned because compared to football, humans get overly emotional very easy. And I've seen some nasty sports team rivalry. Granted those people probably think they are protected, but seriously? Nothing like that has ever happened before in the previous tournaments where they would boo or dislike someone that it hasn't attracted Grimm before now?
Also, this might be some food for thought, but the "Four Maidens/Seasons" story got me thinking of something: The Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. The 'sorcerer' in the story was bitter and holed up in his home, so with these two facts, what if… the Grimm were hunting down these specific beings?
I know a huge shot in the dark, but curious for my brain to link those together, thought it might make you guys think a bit, since some of you like to wonder about this story.
Now! To the story!
I apologize for another Cliffhanger and a shorter chapter, but I felt like the pacing of the story should end here and that going any further would have problems.
This Arc—haha—is going to be very different from the other mini arcs. Jaune has a lot going on for him while Resh/Jared is getting trapped within his own mind.
A lot of things are going to happen, but the timing of said things will be radically different. While Resh is still trapped in his mind, time outside isn't quite the same.
Now if some people may have been paying attention to the state of things, you will notice something off with this... 'Jason' character. It's obvious, and may contradict... some things... (I'm going to be very vague about it until the next chapter! That's where things really get strange!)
So if by some chance I contradict myself in this story, it's more than likely on purpose if it is around the main plot. And it will be explained later. Because this is where-while I will try to stay true to the series- things are going to diverge quite a bit from cannon with a story like this.
Also there is one thing I need to address. Do any of you recall, how some ten ish chapters back I said I was going to do something very crazy with this story that may or may not cause most of my readers to abandon this story because of how crazy and convoluted it was?
… Heheheheh…
Well Review Response before I get to work on the next chapter. Thank you for reading.
{Review Response}
dracohalo117 (Ch 23): Yes, Time manipulation is one of the more OP semblances, as joked about in the story itself. But while it is powerful, I do have plans to balance around it. Do you recall Episode 4 of volume 3 when Weiss said that her semblance was capable of Time Dilation? If Team RWBY and JNPR do spar, Weiss will be their answer to Resh's semblance. Also, let's just say that while powerful, the Grimm are still a factor in to all of this.
Lightsbane1905 (Ch 23): A catch phrase? I honestly never thought of that. The last time Resh had a catch phrase was when he was fifteen after the last time he stopped shouting "TRANSFORM" in the top of his lungs whenever he used his Armaments. Though I wouldn't put it past Ruby, Nora, and maybe Jaune.
dark habit (Ch 23): Blake learning about that Freudian slip is going to really keep her mind boggling for a bit. But yeah, things are starting to diverge, but not necessarily stray from the time line. After all, season 3 looks like things are starting to go downhill.
SMxABULM (Ch 23): It's honestly not that rare. I have seen this power in some animes and the television series, Heroes—which reminds me to go check out the reborn series if it isn't like the final two seasons. But the thing about the Sponge power is that so far, I've mostly seen it being used by good guys. Here, the bad guy gets access to some of the most powerful semblances.
HJSDGCE (Ch 23): It kind of came from Code Geass anime really. For Rolo, he could freeze people, not time, but his heart would stop as well. In essence, it's similar to Resh with him stopping time; however, he freezes oxygen and technically the process of Oxygen being absorbed in his lungs.
Yes things will be interesting when Blake starts questioning Resh. And the timing of it…
almost stupid(Ch 23): Well thank you for that, and I'm sorry I was boring you. Though now I feel just a little pressured and anxious…
Haseoblade-Skyking01 (Ch 23): What? Did someone say cannon? *cracks knuckles* Well I guess it's time to sink ships. (Pun intended.)
Shadowknight49 Productions (Ch 23): Who are you? And I for one am offended! I hate it when my sockets get wet. *Sniffs sadly* I especially dislike it when I have to keep walking with wet socks and it ruins them by making a huge hole in them and I never get to use them again! *Gets misty-eyed* It's not funny! *Breaks into furious sobs* I miss you googly eyed socks! BWAAAAA!