Emo chocobos beat the living snot out of goth chocobos. It's true.
Skaw said:
Two because of incurability and inability to raise affection during illnesses! SE, you guys rock!
I know I've told said this already, Skaw, and I really wasn't just pulling it out of my ass. The idea that you can't raise (or maintain) affection with lovesickness, or any illness, is a misconception. It's just not true.
I'm entering perhaps my tenth or eleventh day with that status ailment, and I've had literally no trouble keeping a "regards you as parent" up ... I mean, today it dropped to "wants to be with you all the time," and two
gysahl greens took it back up.
If you're really making an effort to keep the affection up, it should be hanging in there just fine. I've noticed that while the stat-raising food is kind of piss-poor for raising the "normal" stats, greens are extremely effective in keeping affection up. As long as you're not dwelling too heavily on carrots, it should be fine.
So, either your chocobo has had something else wrong with it all along (other than today, of course, with all those negative effects), you're neglecting affection altogether because of the misconception that you can't raise it, or you're just plain beating the little wuss into the dirt.
Stop forcing it to drag its feathery ass across Vanadiel to deliver messages for just a single day, and turn to a diet of greens for a couple of days. It should recover very rapidly. The fact that stat-raising is gimped with low affection to begin with should more than justify losing out on the boosts from the other care plans and food for a while.