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Rest in peace, Aledaroth.
4 days ago
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One of these days, I wish to post a positive journal... today is not that day.
I learned this morning that my longtime friend
Aledaroth lost his battle with cancer. He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer last summer and while I knew it was a possibility that he wouldn't make it... I didn't expect it to happen so soon. He said the doctors gave him three years to live, but were hopeful that he'd beat it. Just last month I asked him if he thought he was going to beat it, and he said that he didn't feel like he was going away anytime soon.
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Our first ever encounter was in some side room at a furry house party in 2010 or so... but we didn't meet properly until 2011, at yet another fur meet, when I asked if anyone was planning to go to the RMFC convention in Denver. Aledaroth spoke up, we talked, he visited my apartment not too long after that, and we became friends. I even visited his family and stayed a night at their house the day before RMFC started.
He even came over for new year's at the end of 2011... kept a pizza warm in the oven for him as he was late by over an hour. A nice late night of playing Terraria and just hanging out.
Then 2012 came and after much planning... me, him, my late chihuahua Princess, and my long since gone leopard gecko Oswald, set out on our journey for Washington state. It ended up not working out, of course, and we both had to move back home, but it was an adventure, and Aledaroth was there for it. Including that time Princess crawled and burrowed completely into his pillowcase, all the way into the far side of it... lol.
From 2014 onwards, he came over to my apartment many a time, good times playing warframe, browsing furry art, eating, just... y'know, hanging out.
The last time we saw each other irl? Gosh it's been about five years. He came over to retrieve a box of some of his belongings I had. We hung out, laid in bed, held hands, and chatted.
We didn't talk as much during these past five years, as before... but we still kept in touch, and even gamed once in a blue moon.
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And now, bam, just like that, he's gone.
Evan, you were one of, if not the single kindest person I've ever met. I'm nothing less than honored to have been considered one of your best friends. Thank you for giving a name to Oswald the leopard gecko... even though you meant it as a joke at first, the name ended up sticking. I still can't think back to that time we were playing Warframe without laughing, where we discovered that funny animation glitch with Oberon and were sliding and jumping around looking like weirdos. "Super Philly Adventure", all our stupid inside jokes. That time at my first apartment we were listening to that police stand off. Terraria, Starbound, Minecraft, all the games we played.
When Princess gobbled up the beef jerkey we bought on the way to Washington and then immediately threw it all up. That weird ghost gasoline we got. The funny scripts and sounds I added to your house in Secondlife.
Everything. All the memories.
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I will always be your friend, Evan, your premature departure be damned.
Goodbye, my friend.
I learned this morning that my longtime friend
Aledaroth lost his battle with cancer. He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer last summer and while I knew it was a possibility that he wouldn't make it... I didn't expect it to happen so soon. He said the doctors gave him three years to live, but were hopeful that he'd beat it. Just last month I asked him if he thought he was going to beat it, and he said that he didn't feel like he was going away anytime soon.=====
Our first ever encounter was in some side room at a furry house party in 2010 or so... but we didn't meet properly until 2011, at yet another fur meet, when I asked if anyone was planning to go to the RMFC convention in Denver. Aledaroth spoke up, we talked, he visited my apartment not too long after that, and we became friends. I even visited his family and stayed a night at their house the day before RMFC started.
He even came over for new year's at the end of 2011... kept a pizza warm in the oven for him as he was late by over an hour. A nice late night of playing Terraria and just hanging out.
Then 2012 came and after much planning... me, him, my late chihuahua Princess, and my long since gone leopard gecko Oswald, set out on our journey for Washington state. It ended up not working out, of course, and we both had to move back home, but it was an adventure, and Aledaroth was there for it. Including that time Princess crawled and burrowed completely into his pillowcase, all the way into the far side of it... lol.
From 2014 onwards, he came over to my apartment many a time, good times playing warframe, browsing furry art, eating, just... y'know, hanging out.
The last time we saw each other irl? Gosh it's been about five years. He came over to retrieve a box of some of his belongings I had. We hung out, laid in bed, held hands, and chatted.
We didn't talk as much during these past five years, as before... but we still kept in touch, and even gamed once in a blue moon.
---
And now, bam, just like that, he's gone.
Evan, you were one of, if not the single kindest person I've ever met. I'm nothing less than honored to have been considered one of your best friends. Thank you for giving a name to Oswald the leopard gecko... even though you meant it as a joke at first, the name ended up sticking. I still can't think back to that time we were playing Warframe without laughing, where we discovered that funny animation glitch with Oberon and were sliding and jumping around looking like weirdos. "Super Philly Adventure", all our stupid inside jokes. That time at my first apartment we were listening to that police stand off. Terraria, Starbound, Minecraft, all the games we played.
When Princess gobbled up the beef jerkey we bought on the way to Washington and then immediately threw it all up. That weird ghost gasoline we got. The funny scripts and sounds I added to your house in Secondlife.
Everything. All the memories.
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I will always be your friend, Evan, your premature departure be damned.
Goodbye, my friend.
We met on SL about 10 years ago as part of a great community. He was instantly a mainstay friend. We used to chat on TG daily, share stories, have fun. He brightened up my days for years. I know I'm not alone in the lives he touched. He was such a kind, fun soul.
Ever since he told me what was happening a few months back, my heart dropped. I could not get myself to believe it. Something so terrible shouldn't happen to such a good soul. I was so scared I even stopped messaging him for a while. I had thought he was going to beat it. I honestly did! I was just waiting for him to get better and be his old self - if anyone deserves to get better it's him. I'm kicking myself not giving him more support when he needed it most.
I'm sorry Ale, I promised I'd never share this, but I have to - In 2018 he was told he would lose his ability to walk; It had been degrading for a big chunk of his life. Gosh, he had broken down and had morbid thoughts. However that, he didn't let it control him, he continued being his old fun self and went on to enrich the lives of so many friends.
Thank you so much for sharing memories with him. I was never lucky enough to get the opportunity to chill and laugh with him in person (God he sounds awesome!), but I am lucky to have spent the time I did with him.
Though you've left us so soon, I won't stop being your friend. That's a promise.
Thank you Aledaroth... for everything. 🕊