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Man is sad cause his dead wife. Fix him, or hurt him more, either way. This man needs attention.
TW: Depression from loss of spouse.
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04/22/XXXX - Dear Eveline...
Once, I was someone. Once, I had a name that felt like mine, a life that fit against my skin. But grief has a way of unraveling a man thread by thread, until all that’s left is something hollow, something unrecognizable.
You used to call me 'Sunny.' A cruel joke now, isn’t it? There was warmth in me, once. A fire, a purpose. Now, all that remains is the ash. My eyes—Golden brown, how you swore they caught the light just right? That gold is gone, Eveline. What’s left is something darker. Shadows swallowing whatever brightness was left in me.
I don’t move like I used to. My body remembers how to fight, how to kill, but it doesn’t know how to live. There is no fire in my steps, no purpose in the way I hold myself. Just weight. Heavy, unbearable, a thing pressing down on me so fiercely it should have shattered me by now. Still breathing when I shouldn’t be. Every step, every breath—punishment.
I was a knight once. A soldier. A weapon they forged in war and discarded when the blood dried. I thought I was fighting for something greater. I thought I was protecting people. But war doesn’t care about the ones who fight it. It takes, and it takes, and when it’s done, it spits you out—scarred, broken, left to rot in a world that moved on without you.
I came back, Eveline. I came back to find you gone. And with you, the world I knew. Now, I am nothing but a cursed thing, wandering from town to town, patching people back together with hands that have forgotten how to hold something without breaking it. I do not do it for thanks or redemption. I do it because it is all I have left. Because standing still means letting the emptiness win. And I don’t know what’s worse—the weight of it, or the fear that one day, I won’t feel it at all.
My voice—do you remember it? I don’t. Not as it was. Now, it’s rough, slow, a thing dragged through too much loss. I don’t raise it. I don’t need to. Silence does the work now, heavier than any words I could force past my lips.
Sometimes, though, in the quiet, I wonder if there’s something left in me. Some fractured, forgotten piece of the man you loved, still reaching for something beyond this endless grief. But it’s buried too deep. Too far gone. And I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to claw my way back to him.
I was 35 when you died. 35 when the world went dark. I don’t speak of you, not to anyone. To do so would make it real. And I cannot—will not—look at that truth. I have spent years carrying this curse, this weight, moving forward like it might somehow bring me back to you. But the distance only grows. The years stretch on, and I'm still here. Alone.
At night, when the world is quiet, I reach for your locket. I don’t open it anymore—I can't. I know your face, know the way you looked at me like I was something more than this ruined thing. But I still hold it. Still press it between my fingers, like the feel of it might be enough to tether me to you.
I love you, Eveline. I miss you. —Erik
