Synelyse

I’d like to think that I don’t speak much about other people on this blog. I will certainly talk about what I do with people — perhaps 70% of my first year of blogging was about the fun things I did with Leafie. But when it comes time to actually talk about the feelings I have for those people, as I did in this early post on close friendships, I leave it anonymous. It’s true that one of the people who I was talking about it recognized herself immediately and “outed” herself in a comment, but that was her choice, not mine. I suppose that’s the underlying basis for trying to retain anonymity; I’m not sure I would want to name people without their consent.

I’m going to break from that pattern to talk about a close friend of mine.

Synelyse is the person whose character I drew in my previous post, and in an earlier post as well. She is my guild leader.  She is also much more than that to me. We met back when I was on Thorium Brotherhood, and back then she played a warlock named Aleiah. When we met, it seemed like she was a gift from angels. I was having a horrible time with some RP gone wrong in the game. I had recently been kicked from a guild I had enjoyed being in for some time. And out of game I was, to put it bluntly, depressed. We met, got to know each other, enjoyed things, and became friends, not only in the game but also outside of the game as well. Over time, she became my best friend, not just within the game, but outside the game as well. It seemed that every time I felt I needed someone to talk to, to play a game with, or for anything, she was there for me. In the parlance of my earlier post, she was “The One”.

After a while, my RP began to pick up. I joined a new guild and found my way into raiding. I met some new people. I began to have fun again with other things, and in the game her character and mine drifted apart a little bit. I would speak with her often enough, I suppose, but our interests had diverged.  She was a friend, no longer “The One”.

Her focus was on her role playing guild (as opposed to a raiding guild), and my focus turned toward raiding. At some point she left Thorium Brotherhood for the more RP-friendly scene at Moon Guard, but that was after RealID had come out so I was able to keep in touch with her. Then I moved from Thorium Brotherhood to Medivh, and raided my way to a Shadowmourne. At some point, though, I rolled a duplicate of Traxy (“Baby Traxy”, as I sometimes call her) on Moon Guard so I could keep in touch with her.

When Cataclysm came out, I rolled Saxsy. I loved the character, and I loved to RP with her as well. But even more so, I loved being around my good friend. She had created a guild of people that were fun to be with and fun to talk to, in a more casual and RP-friendly way than my raid guild was. I have no doubt that played a large part in my decision to abandon raiding and become a full time RPer on Moon Guard.

Synelyse has also shown a great deal of faith in me by making me an officer of the guild. In fact, I am now the most senior officer in the guild, with all the responsibility and stature that comes with that. She entrusts me with bringing people into the guild, monitoring guild chat, organizing and distributing items from the guild vault, as well as helping to organize RP events.

She’s had a bit of a rough time lately, which is what sort of prompted this post, but I don’t want to get into it too much, as others have dealt with the subject thoroughly and thoughtfully. Instead, I felt the need to express my feelings for a wonderful person.

Syn, when you read this, know that I love you dearly. You are a great friend, and I am grateful for knowing you. I hope to RP with you more, but more so I hope to be your friend for the rest of my life.