Fallout: Equestria - The Ranger of Seamane · 11:48pm May 9th, 2014
The past month and a half or so has been very rough on me. A good chunk of my social circle got ripped away from me and I am still reeling from the loss. With that social group was my Girlfriend. It was caused by someone I considered a very close friend turning traitor on me and, well, things didn't go well and people wanted to stay neutral in all of it fed things getting worse for me.
As it stands, I have cut my connections to them, quietly and subtly for now. With time I hope people will come to see what happened for what actually happened or calm down and actually want to talk to me about what happened instead of swallowing that horrid person's lurid lies. It still stings, deeply, I spend a month and a half fighting it, trying to mend the rift between him and myself, and then trying to talk to my Girlfriend to show her what was really happening. That all broke down and failed, horribly. As things are, I am going and throwing myself into my studies, hopefully writing, and getting other hobbies of mine back on track.
So, hopefully this month I will get a chapter done for everyone. As it is, I don't know what the future holds, everything has been thrown heavily into chaos due to these turn of events. I still am fighting my habits that I had formed with that social group that I had fostered for over four years. It hurts deeply, but, I will endure, I will push on, I will be patient with my friends and hopefully get them back. Sometimes you have to retreat from a battlefield, then, come back after raiding a few warehouses of equipment and crush your foe with overwhelming firepower out of nowhere.
A Ranger knows when to fight, and when to run. They also know you can't always win with force and sometimes you have to use other methods to solve your problems. Be it talking, traps, poison, stealing, or simply good old fashion catching your foe in a compromising position and discrediting them to their allies.
I'm sorry you're going through that kind of trouble. Losing friends is never nice.
Generally speaking, as I don't really know you beyond a pen-name and the title of your fic:
If someone's girlfriend trusts the lies of their boyfriend's friend over the words of that boyfriend, then is that girlfriend even worth having?
If the boyfriend already asked why the girlfriend trusted the third party's opinion over theirs and got an answer that indicates a core lack of faith, what does it imply about the future?
Well, it is more of a issue of grand manipulation on his part against all of my friends. He has done it in the past. As for her not trusting me, it was because he talked to her first, he made her think that we needed a break so I could calm down. So until she thinks I am calm she believes his poisoned words.
Basically, she is loyal, but, she thought me to be in the wrong due to dishonest words. What it says about the future? That when stuff starts happening with my friends involving me, I need to talk to her ASAP so I don't let others manipulate her opinion and thoughts. It is a tall order, but, it is worth a try in my book for someone I have been with for a year and a half.
She is smart, but, she is naive, I can't hold it against her that someone abused her friendship with them to hurt me. I can't hold it against her that she didn't know he was a snake because I was trying to fix things individually with this person, and I didn't know they were a snake until it was too late.
In the end, she is worth it if she comes back to me in a while to talk. Because then, she didn't have a lack of faith, she just was frightened by a sudden and frightening turn in the actions of her boyfriend that seemed to not mesh with what she was seeing. Honestly, it is my fault for not communicating with her earlier that things got so bad as they did.