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Leevi "thelewa" Juusela 1995-2018

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nyathil
lepää rauhassa
Zarraicka
Leevi was one of my first friends when i moved to Kokkola and he welcomed me with open arms... i always admired him because he could dedicate every cell on his body to the thing he wanted to do... he thought me lots about pc stuff and helped me with school work... we had so many laughs watching anime and just talking about random shit... i still can't comprehend this and in my mind i want to believe he is just playing osu in some cave alone like he used to... rest peace dear friend... i will never forget you or our time together... it's your time to conquer the scene of osu in heave... thank you for everything...
yashirox3
Rest in peace.
Remonwater
One of the most interesting players ever to be in the community. Thanks for being an inspiration to so many. Rest in peace, lewa
Dankke
Rest in peace
ErroTheCube
Won't be forgotten
NHarmonia
Rest in peace, thelewa, we'll never forget you.
Hettica
I am not sure who he was but he seems to have affected a great amount of people in this community, and for that I say I hope he rests in peace. Rip thelewa
Vonshlovens
Rest in peace Leevi thelewa
Hinorim
I hope he's resting in peace, everyone miss him since he quit from this game hoping for he someday comeback and now this...
The worse part is know he isnt never comeback . . . everyone is going to miss him so much more than now.
Rest in peace, Thelewa..
Zanik
I remember joining this game and being so amazed by his accuracy plays. I won't remember him as a "player". I will remember him as a kind, well-spoken, and very funny individual with a great sense of humor. Knew how to cheer up anybody. He was overall an outstanding person from what I saw.

May you rest in peace.
Eismis
May he rest in peace. Community lost a dear member, and his friends lost someone close. To me, he was a star in nights sky, lighting the dark road up and showing what could be achieved in my early days of osu.

Thelewa, wherever may you be, rest easy and may your soul rest in peace.
mukkelis
Lepää rauhassa.
Mikka96
I can't believe this really happened...

Hearing about this yesterday was really a shocking moment. Leevi and I used to hang out quite a lot during our school years at the same school.
He also introduced me to Osu! and that too made a huge impact to my life.
I spent pretty much all of yesterday evenning/night just looking back to all of the good memories we've had. All those LAN-parties, nights out, fooling around at school..
I was really worried when he started to lose contact to me and other people as well and when I've heard about him doing the life choises he had, it was just heartbreaking seeing someone so loveable and nice person to fade away like that. I can't even imagine what he must've been going through that led him into the decision he made.

I really miss him and truly hope that he's in a better place now and may his soul rest in peace.

Here's some pictures I found:





arbusion
I find this so hard to believe, he was such a happy and entertaining person.

RIP
[Av] Pr0h3
Rest In Peace, May be gone but i will never forget him.
just 2 pictures i found idk who made them
https://puu.sh/B9Uzk/dac7ed33d5.PNG
https://puu.sh/B9UzG/9ae062ef99.PNG
Yyddddllllyy

Depator wrote:

Unfortunately as in duty of a closest friend of Leevi i have to inform you that he is no longer with us. May you rest in peace my brother.

This took some time to write but i want to clear things out and tell the story properly and honestly, so that someone else might learn something and maybe even saved. There might be some spelling mistakes etc. but forgive me for that. And i will warn you this might be really shocking to read for some people

I have known Leevi since elementary school's first grade, there was some times between the years when we were apart but the friendship was always there. in our teenage years we hanged around and played a lot together and one day Leevi found osu! Half a year later i joined the game too and i couldn't have imagined what the following years would have for us. Many many new friends and amazing memories. During the last couple years Leevi's life downshifted a lot and i am pretty sure his breakup with his girlfriend (Yes, he had one) had more of an impact than he said, because at that time his self-harming habits came to the daylight. Some time after that (end of 2014) he moved away on his own and got some new friends who introduced him to all sorts of psychoactive substances which "made his life better". He just became more and more distant for us, old friends of him. There was little to nothing we could do to get him back on the right rails. I was pretty much the only one he made some contact time to time. But i knew that the old Leevi is still there, behind the chemical curtain which he used to protect himself from the sadness of the cold world. Last winter was a turning point when he had a major mental breakdown and was in mental rehabilition for some time. After he got out of there he moved out of the hippie commune, back to Tampere to his own apartment. He started to contact us old friends and he activated again on our IRC-server. Him living almost in neighbour we even met couple times IRL and chatted even more online and played some Path of Exile. In start of may we went to hang out and take couple beers in a park, he said something about his current mental health that it feels like its starting to get bit worse again and we talked about it with him. When i left the park it was the last time i saw him alive. Four days after that he went offline and nobody got worried at that point because he had done similar disappearings before. Almost 2 weeks later one of his hippie friends called me and asked if i had heard anything about Leevi, at that point i really got worried because i thought he had disappeared to with them to somewhere. One of them went to his apartment and all knocking on his door without answer, with horrid smell coming from his mailbox, at that point the hippie friends werent really bothered so they didn't do anything else. I almost passed out because i could only quess what had happened so i immediately called the police to go there. Police called me back and only asked things about Leevi, but told me nothing they have no right to. After that to this point, we lived in a blackout, no one knew if he was alive or not and we could only hope that it was just rotting food there and he had gone to mental hospital. Even as close as i was with him, i had no contact to his parents. During the summer we noticed that he had been online in telegram, i tried to text him couple times and the messages were read but no answer, in the last message i told who i was and that for the fucks sake can someone answer.

I got the answer yesterday and it was Leevi's mother who now told the news. When i called the cops, Leevi was found dead from his apartment. Date of death is 12.52018. Cause of death is somewhat unclear, but there is a reason to believe that he did what he did on purpose. But there was no message. Leevi's fate is so fucking sad that i have no words for it. I just hope that no one else, ever, would have it end the same way.
Help your friends if they have troubles in life and if their life siderails, try to get them back because there is always hope and it is worth it. I did my best but i failed, im not blaming myself because people decide about their own life but i just didn't succeed.

Leevi is not here anymore to hear all the kind words people have said about him. He was a star on the sky who burned brightly but too fast. I will thank everyone who have made their condolences and for the memory of Leevi and the sake of his mother, i will make a collaboration of all the nice words and list of all of the people all around the world who have memorised him in this thread(and in other places along with his IRL friends). When finished the collaboration/adress will be given to his mother, so that she will know that Leevi had more people who care and remember him than just me, that his memory will live on to eternity. Thank you, everyone.


See you Space cowboy (Me, Kriers and thelewa in a bar while on our trip in Dreamhack 2014)


I apologise for quoting the whole thing but I've lost my best friend before and I know that you spend a lot of time blaming yourself for it. I want you to know that no matter what, you have no reason to blame yourself for anything. From what I've read, you did your best as a friend, there's nothing more you could have done. Please, whatever you do, don't blame yourself.
Aleksi-
Heartbreaking news ;(
Lepää rauhassa Leevi.

What an unfair world we're living in...
BRIKZ
:( rest in peace <3 <3 We will always love y
Dashie
Lewa was a huge inspiration for me. His style of play and his understanding of the game helped shape my view of the game and how i approach it. Will miss him so much.

Gone, but not for forgotten.

See you space cowboy...rest in peace
-Arche
rest in peace the lawa :(
Nanachii
shocking and heartbreaking news...

rest in peace thelewa, hope you are never forgotten

see you space cowboy
Kotori-Chan
Man i remember watching his streams back then. They were always so entertaining and funny...and lewa himself also looked pretty happy, having a fun time ~
He was also my (and probably many other players too) Inspiration to learn HR/HDHR.
I'll definitely never gonna forget him...

May he rest in Peace :(
xAntu
Rest in peace...
coa
It's heartbreaking that things have turned out this way. Though it was hinted that he had been struggling with life and mental health in the past, I had hoped that he would be okay and make a serious comeback one day. I had never expected things to take a turn for the worst.

lewa will not be forgotten. The years that he's been around have made some of my best memories playing this game.
In terms of skill, he was one of the best players who was years ahead of his time.
In terms of personality, he is without a doubt my favourite osu player.

Rest in peace, lewa.

I think most of the players that were into osu as a community in the west before mid-2015 had or at least browsed ask.fm because almost every relevant player/mapper was on it and for whatever reason there was no other alternative place to gather (osugame blew up later).

lewa's ask page was the number 1 go-to page out of everyone playing the game. It was unbelievably influential. Pretty much everyone who was around at the time read it at some point. It was almost the osugame of its time for me. It was something I had to check daily during its peak period in 2013-2014 when he was still playing actively and competitively, and when I was just starting to get into the community.

I think this page was how most people got to know him. It was simply too interesting to stay away from. His quirky yet almost lovable personality just permeated through all of the stuff he wrote. Whether it was banter or about more serious life questions, the way he wrote and thought always had something compelling to it. I was genuinely fascinated by this Finnish guy writing perfect, eloquent English, and before I knew it I became an avid follower. Over the years I had anonymously asked him many questions and send him random memey stuff from time to time. I often asked for his opinions and reactions on things that were happening in the game and the community. The anonymity allowed me to be direct in just about anything I wanted to ask. Whether it was to congratulate him on FCing some map, or gaining/losing ranks, or his thoughts about other players, or something completely random, his answers never failed to disappoint. Some of these questions would go on to spark other interesting "conversations" to occur on his timeline. This was the way I interacted with him. Though it was all behind a mask, it felt meaningful to me and I feel like I got to know him a little better with each answer he gave.

I'll always miss those good old times.
azurau
rest in peace
Nerowo
Rest in peace, you'll be always in our heart.
Yuyui Moe
RIP Thelewa. I started playing when he was still active, now... it's only in my memories.
-Kazuki-
lepää rauhassa.
Liiraye
I always looked up to you and appreciated the feedback you gave when trying my shitty maps way back lol, It really meant a lot to me.

Funny, provocative, and clever is what I can recall from the various encounters we had, even though it has been quite a few years now.

I'm very sad to find out about your passing. It's surreal in a sense, that THE thelewa isn't here anymore. It's like a chunk of osu as I knew it has been cemented and sealed away forever in history. You had a real impact on this community, as evident by the massive amounts of people paying their respects here.

You'll definitely be missed and remembered by many.

RIP.
-Hanatan
lepää rauhassa leevi, much respect.
[ Scarlet Red ]
Even though I didn't know him personally I was a huge fucking fan... ugh it's so so hard not to cry... rest in peace man... You're off in a better world. Let's hope you're still clicking circles like a mad man... haha. This is hard...
Iliekwaffles
nononno not like this ;(
Alisson
I can't count how many times I watched his replays, thelewa was one of the players I most admired, not only because of his skills, but because he was really kind and always helped newbies.

Rest in piece, my sincere condolences to your family and friends.
RememberTheTime
Rest in peace. If anybody reading this is having problems of their own please get help , there is ALWAYS hope and better days ahead.
Stellanova_
Oh boy, that Hit me like a truck. I really liked him, and He was one hell of a good player. May you Rest in peace love.
Kassadin
rest in peace.
Nyaruko-san
I am heartbroken to hear this. I know I've never talked to thelewa but he was an inspiration and a funny jokester. To hear what happened to him at this young age is absolutely hard dropping and makes my mouth bitter. I'm in utter disbelief but. There is nothing we can do other than remember him for who he was. Thank you for this post.
Hanss
Before my great journey on mania, this guy was one of the eye openers back in the day to what gods this game can produce and how great osu!standard and just osu! in general can be. Unfortunate to hear about his passing. Prayers out to his friends and family. Rest in peace Leevi :/
Masomi
Rest in piece.
SweetRain
cant believe it!!! rest in peace.
gilmour59
Rest in Peace :(
_blacknebula
Rip, the community will never forget
Fabrian
Rest in peace man, i hope you're doing well wherever you are
Super Creek
May you be in the better place now , RIP the hdhr god thelewa.
force-a-nature
goodnight
Snans
Amazing player with a great sense of humor. What a terrible loss...
Einhart Stratos
RIP
-Garrick
I remember when I first started, one of the first replays I watched was of thelewa. I think this was even before I had an account (someone introduced it to me and i played at his house). Amazing player, his talent will always be remembered on the leaderboards.
Wachininko
This is so sad, rest in peace... :(
skyllzhogo
May your soul rest in peace indefinitely, Leevi.

I'll never forget how much he meant to me, despite being just an odd fangirl. The streams and his ask.fm gave me such enjoyment. Creating "thelewaism" was one of the weirdest times in my life. I hope that we were able to give him some amusement with the shenanigans.
LSXPH
RIP
See you Space Cowboy...
RareNest
Rest in peace you beautiful man
You were such a kind person
Prophecy
Rest in peace :(
Maxus
I'm so surprised hearing this news suddenly, Rest in Piece Thelewa.
trans rights
one of the most inspirational players i ever had the pleasure of chatting with briefly when i started playing.
here i am, almost 4 years later, still playing this game due to lewa and a few others keeping me interested, watching him play and have fun with the game really taught me a lot about it, and it hurts to see him go, especially in this way...
rest in peace, friend, we'll always remember and love you.
_xyliac
:( may lewa rest in peace
cip
See you space cowboy

RIP lewa
Zchted
Rest in peace Lewa.
Yuki Kaizuka
:(
Torzhevin
Rest in peace, lewa, you'll always be missed.
SkullJC
rest in piece lewa
Zeus
Even though I have never interacted with him physically or virtually, it's so sad to hearing bad news about someone only 5 years older than me. He was one of those beautiful people who had a very large influence to the osu!community. Rest in peace Leevi.
Yuki Kaizuka
When i find out how much someone has impacted the community it's always too late. And his impact to this community was great. I've never watched his streams. According to other players' words, he was such a kind and funny person. I wish i had known him better.

My deepest condolences to you and your family. Rest in peace, thelewa.
Depths
rest in peace
Luminowa
Rest in peace.
tourou
Sleep tight, space cowboy
k1tku
Rest in Peace lewa. he was my inspiration when i started playing back in 2015. his ask fm was the first thing what i read after school.
JonQuy
Rest in peace
Chalwa
lewa, I'll never forget your plays and also your charisma... You had something magic in yourself...
I hope in heaven we will sing Elpis together...
[*]
kymotsujason
Rest in peace. A legendary player permanently offline.
Enkidu
i didn't know you, but i respected you deeply. you were one of my biggest inspirations to take this game just a bit more seriously and to get into it, and i was always in awe at your achievements.

nobody deserves a fate like yours, lewa, and i hope you've found peace. sweet dreams.
179
Rip Leevi :(
d4m0
the only contact i had with lewa was reading his old forum posts but his improvement mentality was incredible and shaped my own. His attitude towards talent (there is none, only hard work and practice) is an inspiration to me as I pursue my overwatch 'career', currently being on the cusp of tier 3.

I couldn't believe that he was gone for sure when the first reddit post came up but I have to now, one of my dreams was to explain to lewa how important his posts were to me and that will never happen now so this will have to do. Rest in peace.
k0h
to my favorite osu! player of all time, may you find happiness in the clouds above us.
i'll never forget your hddt gate of steiner liveplay on twitch, that was a fun stream, at least for me.

you will be missed by many but your impact on the osu! community has inspired many and your legacy will never be forgotten.

rest in peace, lewa.
Dinoswarleafs
o7 rip
Skill
rest in peace. thank you for everything you've done.
[ Kosuna ]
Rest in Peace thelewa.
You were one of my inspirations when started this game 4 years ago and a very funny person.
The "weird" thing is that I was stalking your profile these days thinking about "and if you come back?"... :(
Not Hiaylindom
Rest in peace, Leevi
arui
You will always be in my memories as one of the biggest inspirations.
Rest in peace, friend. Rest in peace, Leevi "thelewa" Juusela.
[ Schwi ]
Rest in Peace our good oll friend that made had happy also.. Hope your having the happiest day in heaven..
azumi
Rest in peace, thelewa. You were a great player and will not be forgotten.
Ayame-
Rest in peace one of my favorite players, my inspiration to continue in this wonderful community of people like you who always brought positive things, you had bad luck and we can not all choose our life, but wherever you are, remember that part of you has stay with us and that this community will never forget you, for your family my most sincere condolences.


Adiós lewa siempre formaras parte de mis recuerdos!

sólo se mueren los que se olvidan!

descansa en paz amigo :)
Tiisa
This makes me sad beyond words. I will always remember Lewa because in a way he was the one who introduced me to the Finnish osu! community back in late 2013 by inviting me to a Skype Group. I didn't know him at all but I will always remember how he blocked me on ask.fm because I sent him an ask saying that mutti (a traditional Finnish food) was disgusting. Rest i n peace Lewa, may your soul find the peace it so desperately needed.
Ttobas
Trully hope you'll be in peace thelewa
Goldey
Rest In Peace

Even though i didn't even know he existed until now, this makes me sad.
Suyong_
rest in peace...
Elise_Haname
Rest in peace, Leevi. You were a great human being and even more extraordinary player.
I didn't know you personally, but still, thank you for everything <3

We'll miss you.
tagorin
rest in piece up there
TheKingHenry
Lepää rauhassa. Kaikkea hyvää läheisille ja voimia surun keskellä
TeeArctic1
Always sad to hear about stuff like this

rip, and may we never have to experience something as tragic as this again
Qweps_
Rest in peace, my thoughts and condolences go out to his family.
bibilicu
Rest in peace thelewa :(
Tsurumaki82
Rest in peace
_kaiwen
Rest In Peace thelewa. I hope you are right on a better place. You changed the community in various ways. Thank You for everything.
lighttoheaven
rip the legend
DeletedUser_910779
Come to pay my respects. When I was hanging around the forums years ago, he struck me as a really smart guy with a somewhat cynical sense of humor. People like that usually think very deeply, about life and other things.. this is unbelievably tragic.

If you know anyone similar, try to drag them out of their own heads, check up every now and again and bring them along to things, events, places outside. It could make a huge difference.

Sleep peacefully..
Osjux
Rest in peace thelewa
Aergwyn
Oh no this is really sad. Rest in peace. :(
choke enough
Rest in peace, legend.

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