Thread:WillTheArthurandBusterFan5050/@comment-24200891-20161227050212/@comment-24669562-20170105151330

Thanks for clearing up the meaning of "Emo." One of the only other places I learned about Emos was that Fairly Odd Parents episode "Finding Emo" where Timmy, one of my other top favorite cartoon characters, wishes he was an emo after seeing another kid who was an emo, in an attempt to get with a girl named Missy. You probably saw it already, and at least he wasn't a goth. I know one other cartoon show that features a gothic character, ever seen "Carl 2," actually refered to as "Carl Squared." The main character, Carl, now his sister is a goth and scarier and meaner than Lucy! At least I think she is.

This is the cartoon http://9cartoon.me/Cartoon/3203/carl2-2005/ (can also be seen on Kiss Cartoon if you want) http://kisscartoon.se/Cartoon/Carl2 and this is the info on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%C2%B2 I'm on Season 2 of this show now.

I'm not a goth and so do not want to be one! I'm okay being an emo but a goth, no way (no offense meant to those who are!)

Anyway, answering your question, I would deny that Lincoln would be a jerk, at least I'd like to, but after reading that he tries to make others feel worse, that sounds like a jerk to me, if that's his intent, otherwise he doesn't seem like a jerk to me, but he is if he tries to make others feel worse. I am glad that he doesn't physically hurt anyone else though. And I'm not against him expressing his feelings and his sadness, or depression. Everyone should express their feelings, though I understand it isn't always easy to do but it's what we all should do.

And I know how it feels to be in what feels like a foreign place or be taken out of where you were comfortable and taken somewhere less attractive. And not just the home you live in, but a city you think you like, or a school you think you like, or even within the school but you're taken from a class you like and are put in a different class that seems less comfortable and less desirable. And you want to go back to where you were, but that's not always an option. And believe me I did not take change very well and I can still have trouble with it unless it's what I really want.

And I know what it's like to give up hope or give up on being happy and let a lot of time go by. This kind of makes me think of that song "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking heads, this is the chorus to the song, or one of them:

''Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground ''

I'm guilty of doing this myself, letting the days go by and letting, maybe not water, at least not literal water, holding me down and I had times in my life I refused to do things and just let my life pass me by, even missing opportunities. Sometimes I have a negative view of life myself, I don't know if you have that problem too.

But I think I understand what you're saying, at least I hope I do. So looking back on my life, I think I was an emo too and more than once. And I didn't make it easy for other people to deal with me, including those who tried to help me.

And I too felt like an alien in my family and felt like my younger sister was better and more successful than me and that I was a failure and even later felt like a waste of skin and bones or a waste of flesh and blood and felt useless. I can still feel useless now that I'm getting older and less healthier.

To make a long story short, I know what it's like to be an emo, depressed, being taken out of my comfort zone or being uprooted from a place you think you liked and replanted somewhere else you don't know, (my stepfather was in the army, a career I honestly wouldn't choose, and we moved around a lot so I had no friends to grow up with,) feeling different from others, even within the family, feeling like you/I cannot do anything or much right, and being depressed to the point where I felt almost no hope, sadly even wanting to die. (Though I shared this about myself, you don't have to share that much more of yourself than you're comfortable.But you see my point?) So I may know some of what you have felt, maybe in some similar ways, maybe in some different ways.

But aren't we all in a sense emos? If we are, some of us are more that way than others. I don't know if you're more of an emo than me or if I'm more of an emo than you (don't answer that, those are just possibilities, don't even take what I just said to heart, some things are better left unknown!)

May read your story when it comes out. And I saw your picture of Lincoln, he seems to have touches of green in his hair!

I say make him an emo! By the way he's living, he'd make a great emo!