Life is too short...

I usually don't talk about this because it's too sad. As some of you may have known, we lost a wonderful person. Albeit I never talked to him, he was good friends with some of my friends and even left a nice comment on a story a friend of mine wrote for me: <da:thumb id="569146560"/>

There's someone else. Her name is Janni McHholdt Pedersen, her dA user name is and and out of curiosity I was digging around her Facebook when I found out that she, too, passed away. This hurt me badly, because I was a year late to hear the news. Does that make me a bad friend for waiting over a year to hear about a friend's death? Also, Janni was very sweet to me. We chatted online many times. First time I met her was when she wrote a Sonic Underground fanfiction back in 2000, and I included her character in my first completed fanfic called "Mission-X" many years ago. She even drew me several pictures of my characters:



And she even started drawing a romantic picture of me (my fursona) and Sonia since she was a Sonic Underground fan. I think the reason she was nice to me was because she was also a martial arts/military/aviation-fanatic and liked my characters. We used to chat online about such things. I once even drew two of her old characters many, many years ago (it was considered my first "cute" picture) but I can't find it. And the worst part is that I can't remember their names, I'm guessing they were named Nick and June. Janni and I had a lot to talk about. She was caring, funny, wasn't shy to talk to me about things, never judged me for who I was or the things I liked, and was kind enough to give me wonderful works. We loved talking about our characters and roleplaying with them, we even roleplayed with the Sonic Underground. The LAST time we talked on Skype was January 20th, 2014 because I told her about my job interview that day and I was going to my first day of work the next day. After that, we pretty much chatted via deviantART comments. Sad.

I'm sorry for going on like this, but life is short. I'm always deeply saddened by young people my age who pass away, including the wonderful It's going to be sad knowing I'll never get to talk to her again or show her my wonderful works of art. I know she would've loved my counter-terrorist pictures series.

Janni Pederson, I've known you since before 2000, you were a wonderful person to me, we laughed, we cried, we talked about the things we loved and we learned from each other. I'm glad you loved my characters as much as I loved your art and writing. I'll miss you so badly. I still have all those wonderful pieces of art you made for me over the years including that inked image you drew of me and Sonia, and I'll never let them go.

Thank you, Janni, and good-bye, and I'm sorry I was a year late to notice, I hope you forgive me.