Its been a long time. Really, it has. I found it fitting to start a totally relevant post with a quote from Portal 2, which is completely irrelevant. But the fact is, it has been a long time. I joined serebii over a year ago, looking for friends to fill the gap I was missing in my everyday life. You see, I wasn't very good at making friends. I personally contribute a lot of that to being shy, and never being able to get a good start. Anyway, I was in the middle of my white game, mistralton city I think it was, and I wanted to see how good my team was. I scrolled down to the in-game rmt, and posted it. My thread was closed for not following the rules of needing to be posted after beating the E4. I worked extra hard to beat the E4, and when I did, I posted my team again. A guy with the username of something similar to SazandorraMaster rated my team, and at the time I thought nothing of it. I just read over the post, and where he told me to improve. Later, when I checked the thread again, I saw he had a userbar, saying TSS. I decided to figure out what a clan was, and check out this "Team SeaSoul." Going into TSS thread, I saw the link to the xat, so I tried going to the chatting site. It was populated by 2 people, who I happened to become good friends with. Now, I was a noob at the time, and I had no idea what the xat was. The owner of the chat, as I now realize he was owner (clueless at the time) made me a mod, to ban another guy who had come on. I didn't know how to ban him, and so then I ended up getting banned. Both of us were accused as trolls. Confused, I stayed on. I just watched as the two people chatted away, talking about how they were surprised I was still on. I won't bother you with the details, but in retrospect, I admit. I acted like a troll. But I made my biggest mistake when I got onto the owner, yelling at him, telling him I would tell ChelseaStar. A minute later, I realize the other guy was ChelseaStar. The owner at the time was named Giggitty (sorry I spelled it wrong), and I became good friends with both Gig and Chels. Gig introduced me to competitive battling, yet I was hesitant to join tss because I only had 1 lvl 100. Khy ended up convincing me to join. After that, I got PO, learned how to battle competitively, and even got 2 badges from the OSL.
Around October of 2011, I decided it was time for me to move on from TSS and create my own clan. Very few people knew about it, and those who did told me I shouldn't attempt it. Everybody but one, at least. Chels was with me the whole way. Anyway, apparently, I just wasn't supposed to create my own clan. Twi wanted to own tss no longer, and Kai only would restart it if everybody promised to help out. Naturally, I had to do something. TSS was like my parents. You can move away from your parents, but if they get deathly ill, and you can help them, most people would do it (I hope). Anyway, I was one of those "most people." The only problem was that I couldn't think of how to help. Then, one day, Kai pmed me a very odd question. "Can you tell your friends no?" My answer was yes. If they can't respect a simple wish like that, they most likely aren't really my friends. That was the answer that got me to be the co-leader. But then Chels came back to take over tss along with Ginji and one other person who was to be decided upon. I volunteered to be that one person, and you all voted me in. I felt honored, and obliged to do all I could to help this clan prosper. In fact I promised Khy, that's what I would do, when he figured out a couple months ago that I was originally planning a new clan before I became co-owner. I would do everything in my power to keep TSS from falling. Now we are at present day.
Most people don't like the way I am managing the xat. I am too strict. The think is, if everybody followed the rules, I wouldn't have to be strict at all. They are there for a reason. To keep everybody happy. When rules are broken, at least one person is unhappy with the outcome. This has caused most of the people who left recently, to leave. Because the chat is disfunctional, and people are getting away with breaking rules that would get a perma-ban without question here on serebii. I tried fixing it by resetting the chat and choosing new mods and owners who would make things better. But as soon as an owner unbans a guy who has posted **** twice, giving him not even 30 seconds of being banned, I know something is wrong. When people aren't arguing on the chat, but are instead ignoring each other, I know something's wrong. I'd much prefer arguing than giving the silent treatment. When you're arguing, you're talking it out. When you're giving the silent treatment, nothing is being fixed. It's when the arguing becomes the act of throwing around hurtful words that I start getting a problem with it. You all obviously want or need a different person. I see 3 possiblities happening. A) I'm not working and somebody else would be better in my place with this group of people. B) You all are impossible, and will never learn to be nice to everybody. C) Most of you hate me and are purposefully trying to make my life miserable. This is my last attempt to help this clan. Don't think this is my only reason though. My mom has also set a limit to the time I can be on the computer a day. 2 hours. I could easily spend more time on the chat than that, yet I have other games I like to play as well. This will help me keep my life from being so stretched.
The last thing is that I will also be leaving serebii for a month. I don't want people pointlessly coming to me and telling me that I shouldn't do this. Most people that would say they want me back would most likely be lying, just to make me feel better. The fact is, when you're without true friends who will listen to anything you want to talk about (within reason), you learn to observe how humans act. And I know that if you really respected me, then you would have gone directly up to me and told me all the problems you had with me. The worst part is that most people probably won't take time to read this post upon seeing it for the first time. But I don't care. They can do what they want, and I'll do what I want. I will not be turned into somebody I'm not.
Somebody told me to keep this post mild. But I don't want to lie to you all, even through omission. I'm just giving you the cold, hard facts. I also have my idea of who should become the new leader to take my spot and take over the chat. But in my opinion, I find it would be a bit cliché or ironic to resign in the hopes of making things better, and just put my own person back up there. I will let you as a clan decide how to overcome this obstacle. So long TSS. I'm sure I forgot to add a lot of stuff I meant to mention in this post, which is undoubtedly the longest one I've ever made, save for the one I had at the beginning of this thread. I wish for the best for all of you, and maybe someday we will meet again.
