Zoey Tompkins, but also others.

One night, I took a long, long look at my life, while staring at the ever moving shadows on the wall from the window. It’s been one long ride, and I have many regrets. Yet, I would do it all again in a heartbeat. For them. For my family. For Lily and Vera. They are all that matters to me now.
I remember rolling over in bed, and watching Lily. Making sure she’s okay. Making sure every second of that moment was cherished. Lily has, and always will, bring me comfort. Comfort in knowing that regardless of who I am, or what I do, she’ll always be there. It makes me proud to have her as a wife.
Everything that had happened in my life took a full 180 after me and her got married. Sure, there were still things happening, but overall it corrected itself. All that pain and stress and false hope just gone, as though my entire life story was meant to end there. Perhaps it has, and now I’m just going through the motions of some sort of boring sequel.
I guess that’s why I’m making this video, huh? So that when Vera grows up, and when I die, she’ll have this video to look back on as an example of what to do. Scratch that, what not to do. I’m not that smart. Oh, and I guess just to sort of have copies of incase I lose one. Something I can sort through my own mind with.
Thinking back, I haven’t lived this life to its fullest. Although, when you’re born into a family of psychos who wanted you dead since before you were even born, what else can you do?
Oh, right. I forgot the point of this.
Before I was born, my brother Desmond was born. About five years before me. Somewhere between him and me however my father’s sanity began to disappear. When I was conceived, my father did everything in him to get rid of me. Eventually, he decided he’d drop every ounce of his psionic energy into me. He forced my mother to do the same. It’s a miracle I survived up until labor, and it’s something I still turn over in my head to this day. How did I survive that? How did I live past a month old?
I lived the next twelve years with him, with my brother being the only thing I could rely on. However time came that my father had enough. He had Desmond teleport me to another planet, Earth, and had him wipe my memories. Fortunately, Desmond still learned what compassion is, despite everything that was going on around us. He instead put up a mental barrier inside my head- the wall- and locked everything behind it. He left only the memory of Red Sun Inn. From here, I was left on Earth. Lost, and confused.
I ended up in an orphanage there. I lived most of my life there. I was put into school, and met Lily. We came close, and when disaster hit later on down the road, she was there for me. She was the one I discovered my power with. She was the one who accepted me for me.
Over time, I managed my way back. Teleportation became a skill I figured out on my own, and I did crawl back. Lily came with me, obviously. She didn’t want to see me suddenly go off to some random planet away from home.

After some time, about a week maybe, we decided to stay. We stuck ourselves in Consequence and lived there for a while. Desmond also began to reach out to me. He had sensed I had arrived on Hellifyno, and wanted to know why. Although, his way of doing it resulted in the death of my father, a woman that was posed to be my mother, and a lead pipe being stuck through my kidneys. This also made me deathly afraid of plumbing. So if you ever wanted to know why I never go under the sink for anything, there’s your reason. Now get the windex yourself you lazy bum..
Shortly after recovering, Augustus Giovanni had begun a siege of Hellifyno. Consequence was the first one to get hit. Me and Lily had to escape to Blue Moon, where we had to fight to keep everything going there. It was tough, and resulted in me exploiting power I didn’t even know I had. But I had it, and it worked like a charm. We were named heroes after that. A title I didn’t agree with- still don’t. Even when making a speech to encourage a rebellion, I still didn’t.
During some meeting somewhere, I can’t remember where, I was pulled aside to meet a man named Damantin. He taught me a good portion of what I know, and trained me for the next two or three months or so.
Then we made Vietnow. I was only into doing that because of the name. It was a fun little project I could do, and do some good in the world. That really rose the rebellion, and while yeah I didn’t want to be a hero, I was proud of that one. So much so I even decided to participate in a few battles against Giovanni. Sadly though, Lily died during one of these battles. After that incident, I was broken. Given how, you know, she had proposed to me a mere two weeks before hand.
As the battles raged on, me and Desmond had a few interactions along the sidelines. Each time my power had grown far more than the last, with each encounter resulting in him nearly dying. Save for the last one. He stuck a knife in me when we were supposed to be working together. My body and mind reacted to the shock in such a way that it put me in a coma, where my own mind began to torture me. It was hell.
Meanwhile, on the outside, Giovanni’s army had been pushed back. The last battle resulted in his death, and from there, released the void into the world. The void.. I don’t know how to describe it. It was strange, and going from a coma to waking up in limbo alongside some world leaders and some other people who were considered heros was odd to me. However I went through with the motions and helped as I could.
After Twine was saved and everything was fixed, we were all given one wish of our own desire. Me, I wished for Lily back. What else would I wish for?
We spent the next few weeks together, and had that marriage. No footage I can attach onto this one, sadly. We just skipped straight to the paperwork.
Those few weeks we spent only ended after some demon that went by The Servant attacked. To give him a brief explanation, he wanted my soul to bring to his masters as some form of god-like power so they can try and take over Hellifyno. He’s also the reason why most of the forest around the house is uh.. erm.. Burned down.
The Servant had attacked multiple times. Each time he had failed. Although, Desmond had warned on multiple occasions that he might gain more power. A warning I thought he was too insane to be giving me.
Then I found Vera, a girl who I am yet to understand. I took her in because… I guess I saw a lot of my younger self in her. I didn’t want her to have the same life as me. She held no memories, didn’t belong to anyone, just simply appeared in my lil’ piece of forest near the bottom half of Persistence.
It didn’t take The Servant long to exploit this connection. He used Vera and Lily against me. Had them held by knives and threatened to kill them if I didn’t give myself to him. So, I did. I gave up. Let go of my power, and gave up. He stuck the knife in. Then made the mistake of telling me he was going to go back on his word of letting them live- and then some.
Some sort of split happened in my mind, and the wall shattered. All that power I possess, all those memories… Everything flooded in all at once. It was too much for me to handle, and gave me some sort of split personality of sorts. I quickly overpowered him, and somewhere in there I saved Lily and Vera. I couldn’t and still can’t remember much about what I did exactly. I just know that it destroyed The Servant.
Then his masters came, only two weeks later. They attacked all at once, and I nearly died to each of them. That drive, though… The drive to protect my family drug me forward. Rinse, wash, repeat, I defeated them, but they had me just inches from my own life. I came out scared and burned. As my abilities had advanced though, I recovered within the next few months.
Everything after this was relatively peaceful, and while I would go into detail about all of time fucking it’s self, I’m afraid I wasn’t concious for most of that.
I would give a summary, although given how bad I am at summarizing things I’ll just leave this how it is.
You know, it might be a good idea to make several copies of this video. Just to save me time with getting people to the point of which they can get to know me. Obviously I’d only share this with people I trust. There are things I don’t want everyone to know, and obviously I did leave out some details. Details that just didn’t come to my tired mind.

Some additional things that weren’t added to Zoey’s personal summarization..

• She had shut down Vietnow Radio after Giovanni’s army had been defeated. It became, in her eyes, useless in quite a few ways.
• Desmond had only begun to attack Zoey due to his own psychic power dragging him down. However, after dying and coming back through what was left of his psychic energy, he had not only regained his sanity but also developed an odd boost in his powers. Zoey can do the same thing.
•  During a small period of time when the void was released into the world, Zoey had went to Jude to try and get Vera cured. As of such, Zoey then had to do Jude a favor. She gave Jude some information regarding her goal of killing a god, however Jude took and inch and went a mile by killing a group of innocents in order to find said god. After this, Zoey and Jude had a falling out which resulted in Zoey sticking a hole in Jude’s leg, and later, Jude coming back after Zoey in an attempt to kill her