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The yellow emotion had been absent since the death of Riley’s parents. A few hours after they had gotten news of the accident, Joy had found it way too difficult to stay together in a physical form.
When Joy had caught news, she was lost and left panicked. She wasn’t needed. She couldn’t do anything for Riley in this situation -- but everyone else could. Everyone but her. Before her disappearance, she was coughing, wheezing and becoming faint at random moments.
Due to all the commotion, the emotions had no time to pay attention to Joy, and only to their current downwards spiraling life. And when they did pay attention to her, she decided it was best to go to her room as if not to distract them from what they needed to do. Her number one priority was Riley.
But she never came back out. While in her room, Joy’s coughing fits only got worse. She had gotten too dizzy while pacing back and forth to calm herself down, and ended up falling. Upon falling, she became a dust cloud of yellow particles that quickly settled to the ground.
While Joy was still there, she wasn’t a powerful enough influence on Riley right now to maintain a physical form and personality; and so she ceased to exist as anything but a bunch of particles that lay barley visible on the ground.
But it had been a few months now, and Riley’s want to feel happy had been rising dramatically. She hadn’t felt happiness in what felt like forever, and this want was what allowed Joy enough strength to reform.
When she woke up, she automatically gasped for air and looked around her room. She seemed to be aware that she was gone for a weak at least; but for how long exactly she was unsure. All she did know was that something bad had happened in headquarters. While she was in that form, she was aware of some things that happened, but only vaguely and if it had happened around her room.
She stood up quickly and automatically opened the door. Her body was fuzzy and had visible holes in it; she found that it was rather difficult to hold herself together -- but she didn’t care.
When she got outside to the main room with the console, the first thing she noticed was the other emotions staying far away from Sadness. The second thing she noticed was that the console was entirely blue. She had a suspicion that Sadness would be the main to take control in this time, but she also knew what Sadness had tried to make Riley do. She had heard Fear muttering to himself in front of her door one night when he couldn’t sleep.
❝ Sadness, what are you doing? ❞
That was all she could really make herself say without sounding scathing.
