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Forty || My Name is Tide

YO SO CAN Y'ALL READ THIS PLEASE THANKS GUYS

So first of all hey, how are you doing?

This is just an announcement that messages posted to my profile are probably going to be forgotten. I like working on my computer mainly, so my message board is hard to get to and I usually forget to check it. The best place to reach me if PMing. I don't bite guys, literally or figuratively. I might take up to a week or so to respond, but that's just because I'm a forgetful, procrastinating, socially awkward teenager, so that's not on you, don't worry about it.

Alright. Talk time. Actually, more like rant time, I gotta let it out of my system, you feel?

So, I'm gonna share a little story with y'all. You know the Elementals, that story that comes before this one? That long little mofo that almost never ended? Yeah, okay. So I wrote the beginning of that when I was in third and fourth grade. That was when I was like, seven or eight. I kinda revised it in seventh grade when I posted it, but not much because I'm lazy and I thought I was a genius at the time. So yeah, the water elemental's name is Tide, like the magical thing with the moon and gravity and water and crap. The fire elemental's name is Coal, like the freaking black rock in ground that you burn. Earth is Terra, because I thought I was the shiz using Latin, and Breeze is for the wind one because I wasn't intelligent enough to come up with anything better. Okay? And yeah, Tide was found in a tsunami, Coal in a volcano, Terra = earthquake, Breeze = tornado, etc. Is it cheesy, classic, cliche and overall obvious? Hell yeah. But I was seven, okay? A seven year old isn't gonna be like, "Hm, let's see, I'm going to name this character after Julius Caesar, because it will reflect the character arc of the tyrannical leader who is yet still innocent, stabbed to death in his prime by betrayal of his best friend. It will be the perfect foreshadowing, aha!" No. I don't even do that now, guys, come on. I'm not that cool. This isn't particularly targeting anyone - who am I kidding, it's totally targeting those guys who have been getting all sarcastic in the comments about my naming abilities. Sarcasm is my job, okay, guys? Back off. Also (and I'm purely ranting here, feel free to skip) what is the problem with Coal? Like, it's black, it's burnable or whatever. You put in the grill to cook stuff, alright? F I R E R E L A T E D. Stop trying to tell me what to name my characters. If you wanted a pyromaniac named Ash go write him yourself. I'm sure he'll be the perfect little fictional guy.

Okay, I'm sorry, I just really needed to rant. Like, don't feel bad, just understand that I write because writing makes me happy, and if you have a problem with a character that I can't possibly change (for instance, THEIR NAME after I've already written a BOOK WITH SEVENTY SOMETHING PARTS), then don't complain about it.

So thanks for listening, er, reading, if you did, you're fabulous and amazing.

Dedication goes to Mitch Kid, also known as Mitch Child or even perhaps the very fleeting name of "that sarcastic dude with the sick dragon as a profile pic," but to you all he's probably just mitch1375. Anyway, he's pretty cool, and I'm sorry to say but he didn't get Nella fluff this chapter but there WILL BE IN THE FUTURE I PROMISE okay that's it. But anyway, be nice to him.

So that's it (I'm on time guys, high five!), you're all fantastic human beings, or perhaps aliens, I don't know your life, and I hope you enjoy the chapter! (it's kinda unedited so sorry to you guys who hate mistakes)

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I wake up when Coal doesn't come back to switch shifts. Magnanimous idiot.

The night isn't that dark, being so close to the city. The mix of sounds is odd, the twittering of night animals combined with the distant rushing of cars and howling of sirens.