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[1st Day / Day 358] VIDEO

[the camera shows -- the road. a lazy voice pipes] No... Roxas, that's the wrong way.

I don't need your help. [somewhat sullenly. Roxas turns the D-terminal around so that it focuses on his face, but he's not looking at it, now focused on the Digimon offscreen] You won't go away?

Of course not. I'm your partner.

Fine. Then... you may as well remember something for me. A name. It's-- [Roxas pauses. it's a long pause, and then his eyes widen] What was it?

Well... what did it start with?

Give me a minute, I'm trying to think-- Sh... Something with... [blankly, and increasingly frustrated] I can't believe I forgot again. Sh... She...

[you should probably interrupt him because he is really distracted and has forgotten what he was doing and that this thing is still on. feel free to stumble across him in person, too; he's just hanging out, sleepy evil koala on a low wall next to him]

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[ ha ha. short attention spans. nope. have NO IDEA what those are or how they work. ]

Um. [ he scratches his cheek. how does he... explain this. because it's kinda obvious that this Roxas doesn't know. ]

Roxas... Before I can really answer that, you're not the same person as your Other. You are your own person - with your own heart and everything. Basically, you and your Other are two separate people with two different hearts.

What are you talking about? I-- If you know what I am, you know I don't have a heart. [a little edgy]

Roxas--

And that's fine. [definitively] I don't need one.

...I was doing just fine. [he was happy, he'd have said, but Axel always felt the need to remind him that he couldn't be happy without a heart, and so it feels like he'd be opening himself up to a debate he doesn't feel like having] I don't care about that stuff. All I want is for people to stop trying to keep me from the truth.

[it's a slightly touchy subject]

[ kinda doesn't want everyone to be hearing this. SOME TACT. TERRA SHOULD BE PROUD. ]

Roxas... [ takes a breath! ] I'm not keeping you from the truth. I'm trying to tell you the truth. Xemnas lied to all of you and part of that lie was that you guys needed to make that Kingdom Hearts to get a heart.

And it's important for you to know that you have one all your own. I might be your Other and you might be my Nobody, but we're not the same people. We're completely different people.

[private filters are for people who....... know how things work]

[his expression stiffens a little at those first words, flattening into something cold and angry. there's a large part of him that can't understand it, that doesn't want to believe it; it's such a huge statement with such immense repercussions that he wants to deny it instinctively. so much of his life, all their lives, has been tied up in that one fundamental assumption: that they need hearts to be whole, and they need Kingdom Hearts to get them]

[but Roxas knows all too well that Xemnas is a liar and a manipulative jerk, and so on some level, he can't even really be surprised]

[until Sora says the rest of it]

Wait-- Back up. [he shakes his head] You're saying you-- were my Other? [but that's not quite what he said] ...You're still whole. [was that a lie, too...?]

[he studies Sora, his brows drawn together. he can't... say it doesn't make sense to him on some level. maybe more than just one level]

Yeah. [ a nod. ] I am. Whole, that is. I didn't exactly stay a Heartless for very long, you know. Kairi brought me back as me.

And I'm thinking that you were still around. You have so many memories of time spend with your friends - Axel and that other girl - that there's no way you and I didn't exist at the same time.

I'd like to think that it's because you got a heart.

[ now that he doesn't really know, but he's hopeful, okay. ]

[there's a long beat before he says] Yeah, I didn't know that. [didn't even know there was someone else with a keyblade around, aside from vague dreams of a boy with brown hair. he doesn't know how to interpret the heart statement... honestly, he never understood it, even right from the beginning. everyone told him over and over that he needed a heart to be happy, or needed a heart to understand, but he felt things]

I'm... 358 days old. [if Sora wasn't a Heartless for long, they certainly existed together. is that why he couldn't remember? because Sora came back? and...]

So -- how long would I have had left? [what you're telling him is that he doesn't exist now, right? he can put things together]

[ oh... oh. the whole left makes his expression fall. just a little. Roxas asking him how much time he had before... and that's not something that Sora can answer. ]

I don't really know. For a long time, I was sleeping. It probably happened sometime then.

[ Sora looks like he's about to say more, but there's a digimon coming into view. ]

You don't disappear from existence, Roxas. It should have been possible for you and Sora to be just as you were, but something happened. I couldn't tell you what, but it made it so that Sora couldn't wake up again without you.

[ for a moment, Sora crosses his arms. ] You know... You don't tell me anything.

[ the digimon shrugs in return. ]

It's not important for you to know and you've never thought to ask me. But this isn't about you right now, it's about Roxas, right?

[ the teen sighs, nodding. of course his partner is right. beaming, she turns her attention back to Roxas and the screen. ]

Roxas... You still exist, even in Sora's time. You just exist in his heart.

But we're going to change that. Somehow.

[his attention focuses on the digimon, at first curious and then frowning. something happened that made it so that Sora couldn't wake up without him... it feels right, it fits with what he knows. the Organization did this to us both, because they wanted the power of the keyblade. Xemnas did this]

[the idea that Roxas is somehow inside -- Sora's heart, right now, still alive but some passenger inside someone else's body (his body?), is a little jarring, but... "we're going to fix that"]

[he should probably be upset about this, but he just -- can't. maybe it'll sink in later. for now, asking the digimon]

...How do you know all that?

Yeah... How do you know all that?

[ 8T Vixie how could you. at least she has the decency to look a little sheepish and apologetic. ruffling her Chosen's hair, she explains the best that she can. ]

Know that we have been waiting a very long time for you, our Chosen. Some of us are more "in tune" with our partners than others. I have been watching Sora his entire life. There's not much I don't know about him.

[oh, wow] [pausing right here to give a skeptical look at phascomon, apparently having nodded off on the sunny stone wall]

[ see, okay right there. it's making Sora laugh a little. ]

He might know something. Or he might not. Ryu doesn't know all the stuff that I guess Vixie he does.

Oh, he doesn't.

He knows about as much as I do. [sounds like a joke, slightly laced with bitter. but it's gone in a heartbeat. turning his attention back to Sora now] Who's Ryu?

Don't be too hard on him. This whole thing is pretty confusing. I know I didn't get it at first.

[ a little laugh. Yeeeeah. Sora doesn't get all the tech talk. ]

But, ah, Ryu is our other partner. He was the one the greeted me. Vixie didn't come around until a lot later.

He doesn't seem too worried about it, either. [hmph. even though he had been concerned earlier; Roxas is mostly still just -- struggling to reconcile the whole concept]

[which is why that information startles him]

You mean there might be more of them that I haven't met yet?

It just takes time.

[ some need more time than others. ]

At most you might have one more out there. It's kinda complicated.

I can't say I'm excited at the idea that anyone might've been spying on me my whole life. [like his life wasn't messed up as it is]

[but as frustrating as it's been, he's getting answers now. he finally knows who Sora is. and even if he's been lied to and tricked his whole life, things might finally start to change]

--Hey... Where are you? I don't really know where anything here is, but I can't just keep talking to some piece of metal.

I dunno. Could be worse.

[ it hadn't been THAT bad. Then again Sora is ever the optimist. Having friends around makes everything worth it. Can endure anything with good friends close by. ]

I'm pretty easy to find. Find the river and just follow it outside of town.

[ a pause. ]

How do you feel about flying!

[Sora why would you even] [okay, fine, watch him light up a bit] What-- Flying? Have you been flying too--? [no, that's right] I think I had a dream about that! [oh man it's all coming together, this is so cool]

[okay, Roxas, get it together, answer the question, even though he's not sure where you're going with this!!]

Flying is amazing. That little fairy in Never Land helped me do it.

Tinkerbell.

[ it's okay Roxas. Sora is grinning wide too, like the dork that he is. ]

Flying is one of the best things ever. And maybe we can't do it ourselves like we usually can... But!~

Ryu CAN fly as Ginryumon. And he's big enough to carry us.

[ he's offering you a ride, man. ]

That's right. [the pirates said that, didn't they]

[he was going to say that gliding just isn't the same, but you've successfully distracted him] One of your digimon can fly?

Yeah, okay! Let's do it. [were there other things going on that he should worry about? whatever. flying, bonding, good times]

Just stay where you're at. It's faster if we hunt you down. Probably won't take that long. Ryu has some great eyes.

[ and that snort in the background would be said Ryudamon. ]

Nothing escapes my sight.

Edited (WRONG HEX) 2014-02-13 00:04 (UTC)

Okay. I'll be counting on you guys, then.

[but he isn't entirely sure if someone could recognize him from the sky, so he tries to make himself obvious, the guy in the black coat standing in the middle of the plaza, Phascomon clinging to his arm like he's a tree, and scanning the sky for Sora and his partner, who will be -- big enough for them both to ride?]

[ Ryu really is a pro at finding people from up high. and even if the dragon doesn't know what Roxas could look like, Sora does. they aren't even super high in the sky - more like just enough to get a more bird's eye view.

and really? seeing Roxas just makes Sora happier. he knows that they really have a lot to talk about... and Sora will answer anything Roxas asks to the best of his abilities. while Vixie, who had elected not to join them ( space concerns she claims ), may know more Sora isn't going to force the issue.

so, instead, Roxas will be seeing a samurai dragon in the sky before Ryu starts his descent to the ground. ]

[in his imagination, he's concerned they might not find him; in reality, it's a little hard to miss the armored dragon-like Digimon, and Roxas is very much trained to notice when giant monstrous creatures come swooping down at him. he tenses for a heartbeat before he realizes, and then shifts to face them, marveling for a beat. Ginryumon is big enough for the both of them -- and the prospect of flying again fills him with a rush of eagerness. he's missed that innocent rush of excitement these last few weeks since things began to fall apart]

[but his chest is still tight. talking over the strange device just isn't the same. he's been waiting to meet Sora for a while, who has the answers he's been looking for all this time; who is a part of him that's been missing for as long as he's existed. Roxas never really felt like he was incomplete without a heart; he rarely argued, but he knew that he felt things like happiness and sadness. but that much is simple fact]

Thanks. [to Ryu, as they touch down]

soon :>

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untz untz action time

Awww yiss