[More Demon Inspired Craziness]

[cowardwithoutfear]

Takes place immediately after {this thread}

1) // NETWORK VIDEO //

[Aidan is talking incredibly fast and looks quite hyper, perhaps even manic to an unhealthy degree.]

Billy is in jail because he went nuts and I am looking for strength for him because he wanted to find it. I'm not sure exactly what he's looking for but he can't find it right now.

He said he wanted the strength to leave. Does anyone know where I could find this? Is it in the city? I'd rather not leave the city, but if I have to I will. Any help finding the strength to leave I'd be really appreciative. And I'm sure Billy would be too.

2) // ACTION //

[And after he posts to the network he can be found skating and swinging around the city, ignoring most people, but approaching random people he deems likely to help him find his goal of "The Strength to Leave" which he seems to be choosing without rhyme or reason.]

[Anyone who is looking for the signs of the weird shadowy influences, might notice a telltale shadow around him every so often, and as time goes on his manic behavior only intensifies. He's likely to injure himself if he keeps this up, and he doesn't seem to show any care in the world to that effect.]

((Feel free to be a person he randomly asks, or to stop him to try and figure out what's wrong, or even join him on his quest! Anything really. This post was pretty spur of the moment, so I don't have any particular plans for it.))

Comments

[cowardwithoutfear]

While we pity him for a reason other than the reason he thinks we pity him. The fact is that his inability to see himself as worthwhile is pitiable, and that is largely the motivation for helping him.

It's only a prideful man who sees pity thrown his way as a bad thing. I've always seen the pity of others as a boon rather than a bane.

[curiousredsoul]

That is true indeed, self-worth is something that he has struggled with in all the time that I have known him, despite his situation and the trials he has overcome.

Quite so, though it is likely that any pity turned to him at the current moment will be turned and twisted by the influence.

[cowardwithoutfear]

Doing nothing at this point is probably the best option, but I just don't feel right doing nothing. I'm crazy after all, crazy people don't do nothing. Unless that's what makes them crazy, but that's not how I'm crazy so I should be doing something... [He keeps talking along the same lines.]

[Great, back to this again.]

[curiousredsoul]

[Celena raises an eyebrow at his logic.]

'Crazy' as you say, is merely a label, nothing more, it does not mean you have or don't have to do something.

[She ponders a long moment, he was right in that doing nothing didn't feel right and leaving Aidan to run around at the shadow's mercy did not seem like a good idea.]

There may be little we can do for Billy directly, but perhaps make sure everything is all in order for when this immediate influence is over. No doubt he'll be under the weather from the ordeal assuming he remembers it after the fact. Whether simply having everything when he returns or even a small gift or the like might help cheer him up.

What might you think to that?

[cowardwithoutfear]

That's a good idea, but I don't know what to get him aside of computer stuff.

[He starts to fidget again.]