Have you seen this keychain?
my pathetic, self centered, simpering, angsty, and very, very, desperate search.
you see the keychain duo is holding? well, there is a bit of story, and a part of my life behind it.
i owned this keychain. after searching for a year, i found it. i actually bought it on ebay from yaoicon, who i guess was selling stuff to raise money. it was the second time it was ever on ebay, and, as i write this, the last. [trust me, if it shows up on ebay again, there won't be a need for this page].
i had it for a few months before it was stolen from me.
i carried it on a heero bag to school everyday [which was my mistake]. in this bag i had art supplies, and normally lots of gundam wing toys people like to play with. [you should have seen the seniors go at them]. the keychain would clank every time i set my bag down, making people jump. god, i loved it. everyone admired it. maybe if i had just found a place for it on my desk, i would have never taken it to school, and this would have never happened.
now, here is the bad part. i take the bag to lunch. set it down. someone down the row takes it to look at the keychain. i don't care - this is normal. people do that all the time, take the bag to look at the keychain or play with whatever's inside or borrow money.
lalala. lunch ends, i look at my bag.
i see this.
well, in case you can't tell, it had been ripped off. i looked around, but it was gone. and so was everyone who had been sitting at the table.
i'll make a long story short. everyone sitting there claimed to have not seen who stole it. the primary suspect, to this day, claims to not have it, although his friend claimed he saw him with it. i've taken it to the police. nothing. authorities are a joke around here. i took it to everyone possible. no luck. i hoped they might try to sell it on ebay. but why would they? they stole it because it was awesome, and who, other than i, would buy a keychain missing the chain and links?
it didn't "fall off". it was ripped off. whoever ripped it off was strong - this was thick metal.
this caused me to lose my faith in everyone in my school. i stopped trusting people. i no longer bring toys to school, or the bag. i chance to bring in my duo plush on days when i am so depressed i need him. i've been sinking slowly into a gothic, depressed state ever since this happened. as of new years, i no longer trust anyone, not even my friends. i CAN'T. they all hurt me. people i used to trust have stolen everything from me. friends, happiness. and it all started with this keychain.
big deal, right? its just a keychain.
not to me. i guess nobody but a collector would understand, so i won't go into it. it IS important to me, though. it cost me a lot, it took me a long time to find, and it was my favourite thing in my collection.
just get another, yamato.
well, easier said than done. since then, after i gave up hope finding the original, i set to ebay and those good ol' japanese folks to help me find another. i emailed hundreds of people in california, japan, china, plus anyone who ran an anime store. no luck as of yet. most never replied, some said they couldn't help, some looked once, i think two are actually giving it a try. i know of someone online who owns it, and in my course of emailing hundreds of people, i ended up emailing their partner, who told me they knew someone who owned it. after a week i discovered it was the same person. how desperate does that make me? it looks like only ONE PERSON owns this thing! how rare can it be? it was cheap when it first sold!
you wouldn't be able to tell otherwise, but i am suffering severe depression at the moment from things other than this keychain. then add the missing keychain on top of it all, and i've turned into a suicidal maniac. i need to find this keychain. it would help me cope, and i just... its so frustrating.
at this point, i have given up hope. posting this will probably just alert people to it's presence, and whoever finds it will just keep it. i am hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, sad, pathetic, and at a loss. all i can offer to the one who finds me this keychain, or sells me this keychain, is up to a hundred dollars in payment for it, artwork, a date, a free gundam wing plushie of ANYONE from the show, doujinshi, manga, anything... anything...
this is my last chance. help me. please. i am going to katsucon this february. if you find it there, find me. help me find this keychain. please.
i beg on my knees.
i do not know what else to do. please, if you own it, know someone who owns it, or think you can find it... anything. i'll give you anything. if you need to contact me, please do so at i_am@heeros_ferret.zzn.com. i aplogize to all the mailing lists i'm sending this URL too. i might not see all your replies, so email me here if you have ANY info.
thanks for reading.
Additional Info and Photos:
Produced by: Movic
When was it produced: November
1995
How much did it sell for: 1200
yen [i bought it for about 40 dollars.]
Size: 2 inches by 2 3/4 inches
this
is the actual size. [photo from Mind
Education]
this
is the box it came in. [also actual size. i scanned this, as i do still
have the box].
i chanced to find this photo. i took
it at lunch one day, before the keychain was stolen, when i still trusted
people and when i still sat at the table. everyone inside the red are the
people who could have it... the guy circled is the one who took the bag
in the first place, and who is our primary suspect.
please. if you have any idea where to get this, let me know. i will pay anything for it.
heero and the other gundam wing stuff here aren't MINE, dammit. they're [c] someone else. toast is also not mine. ><. moron.
but the art and the layout ARE mine. all mine. no takee. no takee and all will be toastee.