The Falling: Des' Recount

I hadn't told this to anyone for a long time because I didn't know what was going to happen to his and my friendship. Needless to say it's over with now. After all this time I think it's fair people know what happened since there's really nothing left. I would have kept it between him and me but it affected so many people. Well we open the board on to make something better than the old board where everyone had an appalling lack of talent. We were supposed to be equal partners on that just as we were equal partners when we were working on Gigan Species. Well I knew from the moment he and I met that our friendship would not last because we were too much alike. We were both too evil for each other. And we were. It was amazing how alike and dark we were. Well I noticed on Gigan Speicies that he always had problems. His computer would crap out, or he'd loose access or have some type of emergency arise constantly and he'd disappear on me. We were supposed to have put up one chapter a week taking turns. He'd write one and I'd write one. We'd play the games out in a chat like this then convert them to novels. And as you know it was a very popular site. We'd get a lot of emails. I would get more because he wouldn't answer his. I was considered the 'friendlier' of the two because I answered the fan mail. I was told this by several people. Well I also have the talent of which I'm very proud where I can mimic a style of art to the point that you can't tell it was me. It looks like the original artist. Well since everyone was emailing me people started thinking the characters were mine. I of course would tell them which were his and then I'd tell him what they told me in email. I always believe in honesty and openness even when the truth isn't good. He'd get so mad about it. At times I was tempted not to tell him about the emails but I always would because he had a right to know. I told him that he shouldn't get mad because I would ALWAYS set them straight. He said that should never even happen. I had to remind him that it WOULD happen because I'd learned his style and my art looked just like his. Well he'd end up disappearing on me all the time. His excuses were legit but still it was just crazy how life always managed to get in out way. It would be weeks to months. I have great patience but it was trying even for me. So I ended up getting all these emails, and they were a lot, asking when was the next update? When would new drawings be up? So I ended up taking up his slack and added chapters that were supposed to be his. We did become very close. He told me all his secrets and we met in real life and even spoke on the phone often. Then we got the board on which we were supposed to be equal partners as well. I wasn't so happy when he made me just a mod. I should have been full fledge admin. That's what equal partners means! But he was a kindred spirit and I knew how to get into him. I would finish his sentences and he was taken by that and how I told him what his stories were about before he'd even finished it. Who spent more time on that board, him or me? Who took on the flamers from the old board with no powers???? I confronted him on this and he was adamant that it was HIS board because I hadn't contributed. He was the one that took the space and saved the space. I quickly reminded him that I was the one that sent out emails to all 'his' fans and got everyone to come to the board. I was the one that fought the flame wars, kept the piece and I was the one that made the icons! If it weren't for me no one would be there. Guess what he said? He said it wasn't enough. It didn't matter. OH ok. I see. So then I figured I'd do something he COULDN'T do anything about and HAVE to see it my way. I DONATED a good sum of money to the board. I BOUGHT my modship! As a friend I shouldn't have had to have bought anything from him. For all he claimed to have done I laid the cash down! I got rid of the ads. He gave me the admin powers but now we were treading on thin ice. He refused to activate it and then started talking about closing down the board. Well then a flame war came around and I acted. I ban the jerk. So guess what? I get punished for that. I banned all the people that had given me a hard time as was my RIGHT from the start. As admin I'm basically police and I have to put the crooks in their place. It's like he was waiting for me to use my powers just so he could take them away.

Let's see at the time I think the big stories going were X of X, the Kaiju Kids and that other strange story with Thag loosing his memory. Those were the main ones. He considered X of X to be his main story but only Kitora and I were playing in that one. He wasn't even there so it was becoming our story. So after that is when I said I wanted to close all of MY stories. WELL Mr. Overlord didn't like that and he was the one that said he was just going to close everything anyway. All of us had to pull out anyway. Since I wasn't IN the stories anymore he reduced me to mod again. That's when I pulled out. I had too much junk going on in my life. I was creating the Square Board and I was fighting it out with the evil queen of my mother and in the process of moving out along with destroying the friendship I had with my best friend at the time, SpaceGhid. We fought it out through snail mail since he'd conveniently lost his puter again and phone line. He was NEVER there for anyone. I WAS the one that was always there. He sent me a letter full of swears which was highly uncharacteristic of him. He said he didn't need me, to which I responded that he DID because he had compared me all the time to his best guy friend, he had let me sign his secret book that only a select few people signed and the fact that he'd told me that it took a lot to get him to swear. So obviously he cared since suddenly he was Mr. Potty mouth. I never once let my English fall so low. He had no right to claim I'd never done anything or cared. I had called him and helped him through some family crisises, the death of his newborn niece and the death of his grandmother. So he couldn't give me that speach. And you know what? I KNEW from Day 1 this would happen because of the way we were. But I am still grateful to him because...it was through him that my writing improved and I got my confidence in that area. I became darker than I already was after meeting him. Because of him my coloring abilities vastly improved. And because of him I learned to lay the verbal smack down on boards and emails. But in the end the pupil surpassed the teacher. I'm still here. It's too bad it didn't work out. And now you know. Isn't that an amazing story? At least I have Gigan Species still after he closed everything else. It's too bad the stories had to be summarized, but if anyone wants to chat about the drawings or the stories all questions can be directed to me. He thinks I've hacked him. It's funny because it's not hacking when he gave me the password. And another good thing is my journal gets free publicity. -Des-