For the past few years, I’ve been feeling so lonely and detached from the rest of the world. Even when I’m in places with lots of people, like the train station or school, I feel like a ghost. I lost a lot of my social skills during quarantine in 2020 and 2021, and I’ve just generally grown up a lot during that time as well, so I’m not as outgoing and extroverted as I used to be. Nowadays, I’m always tired, and I mumble way too much when I talk to other people. Thinking about that makes me feel sad because it makes me feel like a shell of my former self.

This picture is from April 2024. It is the seventh piece in my sustained investigation and features my fursona, Phoenix D., and two of my characters, Abigail and Cassidy.