Your character is suddenly compelled to announce exactly why their life sucks. Other characters respond with sympathy, shock, pointing and laughing, whatever works.
[Nah, Junpei's always been kinda bad about personal space... Leaans. Not too much, but... it's good to know someone else kinda gets it.]
Y-yeah, exactly. The waiting is the worst... well, it's all the worst, but all you can do is just, hope the pieces are still even there to be picked up...
Before my mom disappeared, [and his expression immediately does a thing because he was doing so well at keeping the words at bay, too,] she - had to work herself past her limits all the time just to keep the two of us alive, and whenever it got really bad, I would just - try to be whatever I had to be to keep her going. I didn't know back then that was what I was doing. It was just scary. So it's - I know that kind of thing takes it out of you.
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Y-yeah, exactly. The waiting is the worst... well, it's all the worst, but all you can do is just, hope the pieces are still even there to be picked up...
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