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This game has, without a doubt, had the BIGGEST impact on my life compared to any other game I treasure. In 2019, I was introduced to the game by discovering the main FE2 youtuber at the time, Gentleberry16. I had some ups and downs during my short time in the community then, mostly contained within Gentleberry's circle, which eventually led to me basically exiling myself sometime in 2021(?). I mean, a lot of the trouble I had was my own fault X_@ if my old friends ever see this, sorry I was annoying and weird and an ASSHOLE!!! But I was also 13, hopefully you get it, Lol.
I honestly don't really know what I was doing during the 4 years I spent away from the game and community. It wasn't anything good, I can guarantee that, and I honestly felt myself missing the community and my friends a lot. They were a safe place for me at one of the worst times of my life, and things only got worse at that point. That was until my senior year of high school, when I took a Digital Media class and had access to a computer, a good computer, and the first thought that popped into my head was: "Hey, can I finally play FE2 and be... good at it?"

I WAS DOGSHIT AT THE GAME. I genuinely felt my heart go cold with fear because I HONESTLY thought that I missed the opportunity to get good at WASD 3D player controls. Fuuuck I never had access to a good computer and only played on a shitty ipad and now I'm forever ass at the game!!!

BUT NO! I, slowly but surely, did finally learn WASD player controls for the first time in my life. I later got a laptop (I think they banned Roblox on the school computers because of me... worth it) and continued playing again, but now I had a new fear, really.

For some reason, I thought if I entered the community again, I would be instantly recognized. I would be shamed. And honestly this is probably a result of anxiety and paranoia caused during the 4 years WITHOUT FE2. I did draw and post some art, but it was genuinely nerve-wracking.

But, I came to realize in the end... no one cared. No one knew who I was, no one recognized my name and instead... people just liked my art? And even when some people did finally recognize me from my time before, they didn't say anything about it. Maybe they don't even know or care, maybe they held their tongue, but either way I think it healed a part of me. I finally felt free, like I returned home after 4 years without ever knowing I was homesick in the first place, and I had a second chance to be better, be nicer, and do so much more.

I think the first major moment was when I got invited to draw for small little project... a UST. This was the beginning of FEHOAX/4jacetik, and I'm SO SO grateful for my two friends there, we genuinely make some cool shit that I'm proud of and love showing to people. This led to some actual work on other Roblox games and OSTs, contributing to Crazyblox 1x1x1x1, but most importantly, the Flood Escape Series Wiki.

It was 4jacetik and 4 other friends, banding together to try making a new unofficial wiki for ALL 3 games. Barely any of us had done wiki work before, I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD MINIMAL KNOWLEDGE ON HTML AND CSS. That shit was held together by sticks I swear. But eventually, we had to pause our work to contact a developer for permission to continue. Gyulp. We realized we could have been interfering with existing plans to make an official wiki, and we'd rather just stop then than continue working on it and having it inevitably taken down later.

I don't know if it seemed like I kept cool when I went to ask, I mean I went to go ask someone to ask FOR me, so yeah, I was actually super nervous. "What if he says to stop? What if it sucks and looks dumb?" But to my surprise, it was sent over and they said they liked it, and we could continue! We were all ecstatic when I came back with the news, and we continued to work hard on it... until eventually I got a new message to give him access to the site so he could look around. Then bam! We were told they wanted to make it official, and that went full circle to... making my website, lol! I learned more html and css from my first time trying to make a neocities website to make the wiki, then I came back and started learning even more from my experience with the wiki! And now I have to go back to the wiki again to recode things... ughh. But it's okay. I love this series so much and I'm glad to contribute in any way I can. Keep up with the Flood!