CliveRosfield | Text

[herofhopeless]

I haven’t been able to find my brother, Joshua, since the fog came. Has anyone seen a man, a little over 6 feet tall, light brown hair that’s a big longer, blue-green eyes, wears a lot of black and red, has a very formal and convoluted way of speaking? He’s kind, curious, intelligent. He would have done his best to help anyone who may have needed it during the mission.

Please, if anyone has seen him, call me, text me, yell my name from the top of a building, I don’t care. I just need to know that he’s okay.

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UN: FleurDeParis - Text

[repaintress]

Where have you looked? We should focus our efforts on locations that are isolated or where someone might be trapped. Presumably if he were somewhere ordinary, you would have seen him. Do we have a list of such locations and of people you could send to look?

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[herofhopeless]

I started with common locations for him. Every bookstore, library, and cafe. The apartments, the hospital.
All of Garreg Mach and as much of both Abysses that I can get to.The rest of Bramble Valley and the parts of Purple Windy I can get to.
I haven’t asked anyone yet. Dion would help. So would Yuri and An Zhe. Sleipnir might if I asked. Maybe Cid. Alex and Sophie maybe?

UN: Peintre

[betenoir]

You should establish a protocol in case this happens again. Though now is not the time. How good is your hound at following a scent?

[herofhopeless]

Very good. He's with me now, but no luck so far.

UN: definecat | Video

[definecat]

How do you misplace your brother? I may not always know where mine is, but he's chill.

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[herofhopeless]

We got separated at the beginning of the mission and I haven't been able to find him since.

[He does not want you to see that he hasn't since the 3rd and that he is on the verge of his third panic attack, so text it stays.]

text || un: gaia

[hammerbearer]

I'll be sure to look for him. Have you by chance seen Popp? Seems he's been missing a while. And he isn't responding to his device.

Popp's about my age. He has short, dark hair, fairly simple clothes and generally wears a headband. Oh, and he'd have a bracelet like this.

[ After a moment, a picture of her own wrist is shown. Leather chords are braided around multicolored scales of a very dark green, a light green, and a blue-grey. ]

[herofhopeless]

He was one of the people who was going with you to watch Barnabas and Dion spar, right? I haven't seen him, but if I do, I'll tell him that you are looking for him. Where are the places he likes going? I can stop and check while I look for Joshua.

[Clive saves the picture, just in case.]

text | un: bahamut

[oblige]

You will be the first to hear of anything I may find.

[ He'd still like to hope, though this may well be the second time the Phoenix has vanished since he was first summoned into all of this.

[herofhopeless]

Likewise. Can you look up high? I thought it might be obvious if he had Primed and flown somewhere, but Clea made a good point about people being distracted with the end of the mission.

[Clive distinctly does not want to think about the fact that there is no way Joshua wouldn't have come to him or Dion after the mission first thing.]

Text; un: hound

[cantilevers]

[He understands that loss himself fairly recently. He knows what has to be done.]

Where do you need help searching still? We should form groups and sweep all of Etraya to determine his location.

[herofhopeless]

[The spike of relief he feels just as seeing the username is short-lived but very much appreciated.]

I've checked the library, every bookstore and cafe, the apartments, the hospital, all of Garreg Mach, as much of both Abysses that I could manage, the rest of Bramble Valley, and the parts of Purple Windy that I can get to. I've had Torgal with me searching, too. Neither of us have found anything. Not even a trace of him.

Clea is stationed by the library in case he shows up. She says she can't move around well and I don't want her pushing herself. I asked Dion to look in high places, I'm getting ahold of Sophie to ask her to look for him telepathically.

[And Clive is flagging. He hasn't slept for going on three days, has barely eaten. A couple of minutes pass before Vander gets a second text.]

I don't know what else to do.

[un: SleepNear // Text -> Voice]

[quibblingfunctionary]

[The text message only contains A Link

A moment later Clive will get a voice call.]

…Clive?

Voice

[herofhopeless]

[Clive stares at the messages in the link Sleipnir sent him for probably too long. He nearly misses the call, catching it on the last ring. He sounds tired. So, so tired.]

Sleipnir.

un: champion (text)

[twin_blade]

Shit. I'll keep an eye out for him. Do you think he might have gone home?

[herofhopeless]

Possibly. I just want him safe.

[Which is the truth, but only part of his conflict. He feels selfish to want Joshua to stay with him, but if he isn’t responding and he is still in Etraya, it means he’s been hurt and badly. The guilt gnaws at him.]

[herofhopeless]

He got sent home either during or right after the mission

text; un: shades

[laserguy]

yeah sure, i'll keep an eye out for him.

[Even if it's hard for him to see the right colors on people, but it's fine.]

he really hasn't been responding to any of your messages huh?

[herofhopeless]

Thank you Scott.

He hasn’t. Not since the mission started.

Re: text; un: shades

[herofhopeless]

A friend confirmed with Aurora and another gave me his own confirmation. Joshua isn’t in Etraya anymore.

un: Odin | text

[odinpusrex]

This mummery is needless. The Phoenix's presence is gone.

[herofhopeless]

[His heart had been denying what his mind had been telling him, but for Barnabas to speak it so plainly hurt. All the same, he knew the man wouldn’t lie to him.]

when did you know

[He wants to scream, throw his earpiece, find Barnabas and punch him, cry, rage, hide, fight. It was so much.

Again. Joshua was gone again.]

text | un: strife

[nimbuster]

[Wait, Cloud knows who that is, that's Dion's ...friend. Or whatever they are. Cloud didn't realize he was Clive's brother, too. Shit.]

Haven't seen him, but I'll look. If you've got something with his scent, I can send out some of the chocobos, too. I know you've got Torgal but more noses make lighter work, right?

[herofhopeless]

Thanks Cloud, but there’s no need. Two sources confirmed he’s not in Etraya anymore. He’s gone.

un: vivi

[ornitiers]

i can let you know? you mean dion's friend. um, the phoenix, right?

[herofhopeless]

Yes. His name is Joshua.

But he’s gone. Aurora and Barnabas confirmed it.

text; un: blake

[plangona]

i can keep a lookout but if you want to know for sure, aurora would be able to confirm. [ because she is talking from experience on that front ]

[herofhopeless]

He's gone. A friend of mine asked on my behalf. Another confirmed it by not being able to feel what is essentially his magical energy. Thank you for offering, though.

[Does he sound put together? Because he really, really is not.]