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So... I just gave away my least used AE. But I honestly thing I may legit cry. Why? She wasn’t real, she was a figment of my imagination.  I guess it’s just the feeling of not drawing her in group pictures, not calling her name, not pretending to be annoyed with her. Anyways, any suggestions?

submitted by Anonymous
(April 29, 2021 - 9:12 pm)

Is this Niiteskies?

I just got a confirmation I could have Starr from Niiteskies. If this is you, you can have her back!! 

submitted by Sara M, age Pi, near a banana
(April 29, 2021 - 10:44 pm)

*keep her please, she will have a better home with you.* Thank you for caring enough to ask :)

submitted by NiteSkiies
(May 1, 2021 - 6:53 am)

You could always ask for her back. I'm sure the CBer wouldn't mind. 

submitted by top
(April 30, 2021 - 8:25 am)

oh my gosh, anon, it's okay. i'd cry if i gave away any of my aes, this may be strange but i think of them as family. if you want her back, i know whoever you gave her to will understand <3 *hugs*

submitted by Luminescence, age 12, Atlantis
(April 30, 2021 - 9:04 am)

If it makes you feel better don't want my AE anymore, Logan. He's very annoying and talks in italics, no capitalism and no punctuation. I was going to give him away anyway but if you want hm HAVE.HIM!

submitted by Kitty Cat, PLUS ULTRA!
(April 30, 2021 - 9:23 am)

Hmm, I honestly don't really even understand how one would give away their AE. Like, not necessarily as a form of criticism, like "How could you do this??" But more like, they're a distillation of part of your personality, right? If that's the case, then I guess you could "give away" the character and name, but isn't the base personality still, you know, part of you?

Maybe you just want to scrape of the earlier stories or details associated with an AE by starting over, perhaps because you've changed so they don't match you anymore or you don't like the direction it's going in? But it seems like you really are attached to them (which completely makes sense), and I saw where you basically said "keep them, they're better off with you" too. Not to sound too harsh, but they're not a pet you can just decide whether you like or not so you can leave or keep them, right? And as far as I can tell, there's not really a way to shield you from yourself by separating the sections, especially when it hurts when you try to do so.

Okay, so maybe I'm overreacting or just misunderstanding or something like that, and I'm sorry if I'm coming across as not that helpful. I know that for me though, there's no way I'd lose an AE. Even when I'm miserable or hate them, or don't want to have them, there's still there anyway, even if I change the name or character.

I know just the other day I was absolutely livid with one of my AEs, Evelyn. Basically and waaay oversimplified, she's the personification of my shyness. Sometimes I genuinely wish she could just disappear or I could just hand her off to someone else. I thoroughly DEPISE how shy I am. I've always hated when I would act like that and used to tear myself up, both figuratively and literally, about it, and really hated myself. However, since I now have a "character" that represents part of me to pin it on, and I can sort of work it out in a more healthy way that doesn't involve so much physical or mental harm. Like, I definitely still hate myself when I act like that, but I've tried literally everything, and can't just scrub her out of my personality, no matter how darn hard I try.

I don't know if you have a similar relationship with you AEs, or maybe I'm totally weird and it makes absolutely no sense to you, but it seems like trying to "give away" or erase parts of your personality, and the characters associated with them, would completely mess with your psyche and self-image. Maybe create a new set that feel more like they do represent you and your personality more honestly? But you don't have to listen to me.

Y'I don't know. And again, I'm not trying to attack you or your decisions, I'm just trying to talk them out. Hope this helped.

submitted by Jaybells, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(May 3, 2021 - 10:09 pm)