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Who: Ventus and you!
What: A confused gander about the city, upon arrival.
Where: Twilight Town
When: Midday
Warnings: Worries and clones.

Ventus is lost...and slightly troubled by the going's on around him, the information he's been given, what he's seen and the holes that still remain. His whole life, a dream?

No, that wasn't quite right. He was stuck

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Even though he's been here numerous times, eaten the salty-sweet treat three times that, he can't seem to focus on either the view that he so admires nor the ice cream that he adores. Instead, after the initial lick, he's paying attention to what his best friend is saying, nothing else mattered at that moment than Axel's tale. He didn't notice that his is slowly melting, drips getting on his fingers.

Because what a tale it is.

He never knew how painful it is in turning into a Heartless, and if he ever regained his memories from his Organization days, he'll know that no one ever told him the process, just that he needed to destroy them in order to collect the hearts. So this is all news to him and he can't help but be shocked at what the older Nobody had to go through. Was this why Axel never spoke about it? It's understandable now why he didn't. And to keep the memories of the experience makes it even worse.

"Axel..." That single word spoken softly, sadness tinging it at the thought of his friend's pain and suffering. Funny, that Nobodies don't have feelings and yet-

Roxas' hand subconsciously rubs against his chest, wondering how it would feel to experience what Axel did. Or rather, did the same thing happen to Sora when he turned into a Heartless? A new feeling of something wells within him and he makes a mental note to ask his Somebody someday.

He looks over to Ventus, unsure of what to say to those words he barely heard. "Something.. must have happened. Something you didn't expect." What more could he say?

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"Your ice cream is melting," the older Nobody remarks to Roxas, trying to diffuse the situation a little.

Axel swallows a little, pushing the memories back into their little box, to forget the sadness of being left alone with nothing but monsters and the pain of those same monsters ripping him to shreds. How much it had hurt him to see his then best friend covered in darkness.

"Don't worry about me, Lea! Just go! Run--!"

How he'd run all the way home, kicking at the Darkness a he went, only to find the house ransacked... and completely empty. His parents, gone. He never knew what happened to them, but he could guess.

Axel then turns to Ventus, offering only a shrug. "I don't know. I didn't see any more keyblade wielders after you left. I don't know what happened, or even why those creatures appeared. All I know is that they did, and my homeworld became their base. But don't make those sad faces. It was a long time ago. In the past."

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Ventus puts his free hand to his chest, clutching it tightly. It's in the past. It hurts.

"It might be your past, but it's my future." And he can't imagine what else he could've been doing that was more important than saving a world-- and his friends.

But then-- Roxas has a point as well. What was the future like, if a world as light, peaceful, protected as Radiant Garden could fall? He was probably really busy with other things, trying to save other worlds-- maybe even the universe.

Maybe, in the far, far future, he even figured out how to save them all. Roxas, Axel, Radiant Gardens--

Sora.

...Huh. He shakes his head and takes a bite of his ice cream, brow furrowed. Sora...

[dualstance]

Axel's words doesn't register right away, the story still on his mind. But when he does he tries to finish what's left of it, which by this time isn't much but better than to have wasted the whole thing. Plus it gives him the chance to gather his thoughts, to really take everything in and then figure out the rest if possible.

Obviously something had to have happened if Ventus wasn't around for when this world fell, and something tells him it had to be something pretty major for the blond to just opt out of not helping Axel and the others. Because somehow, Ventus reminds him of Sora, someone who would do anything to help those around him, especially his friends. And if these two say they were (are?) friends in the past, then Ventus would have gone to help, right? He doesn't know the other well enough to be completely confident in that, but something tells him that it isn't so far off.

So then, what really happened?

There are still so many holes and they don't know who could possibly fill them in. It would have to be someone who's been alive since the start and with his limited memories, he doesn't know who that could be.

Roxas looks between Ventus and Axel, somewhat feeling like the odd one out. They have a past together and while he and Axel did too, theirs went much further than the past year or so. It goes back to a time when Axel wasn't even Axel, he had been whole then.

"It might be in the past, Axel, but. They're still your memories." And he, more than anyone, knows how precious memories can be.

[hellofashow]

Axel doesn't know. He isn't sure he wants to know, for someone like Ventus to forgo saving the worlds. Something must have happened. Something terrible.

The Nobody chews on the wooden stick, splintering it a bit in his mouth.

"I know. The past is important. But it's not a place to dwell in." He shakes his head, "I'm sorry, that I don't know what happened between when you left Radiant Garden and now, Ventus."

He reminded him so much of Sora... why WAS that? What was the connection? The more he thought about it, the more perplexed he became. A link between Sora, Roxas and Ven.... there had to be one. As for feeling like the odd one out, Axel was feeling that in spades. Two boys with the same face and some link that he can't place, but that certainly runs deep... Who was Axel in all this?

A bystander?