Edym (Pre-Demyx) / Kingdom Hearts 2-ish / Bar place

[mm_kels]

The figure that comes through is both familiar and not. His clothes are worn from travel and covered with dust, and instead of the SoCal sun-bleached blonde coloring he's middle-eastern dark

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[bluespells]

That gets a raised eyebrow from Billy.

He's met Dilan, several times. He knows what bleaching is.

So, yeah, that's why he's staring.

[mm_kels]

Edym on the other hand isn't used to all the staring.

"What is it?" he asks, voice blunt and cold - a far cry from Demyx's normal tone, even when he didn't have a heart.

[bluespells]

"...nothing. Maybe."

[mm_kels]

"'Nothing, maybe'." Edym repeated, annoyance tinging his voice. "You know, some people might take offense at staring. You're going to need a better reason than that."

[bluespells]

"Some people should learn to deal," he replies, rolling his eyes. "You look a lot like someone I know."

[mm_kels]

"I've heard that one before, kid."

[bluespells]

"Around here? Probably. I'm not a kid."

Certainly not compared to Dem-- er, Edym.

[mm_kels]

"You sound like one." Edym comments, voice flat, before turning away to take his sitar off his back and tune it. A clear dismissal he just expects to be followed.

[bluespells]

"Because you can judge a person's maturity and life experiences from five seconds of conversation."

[mm_kels]

"Are you still talking?" Edym didn't even look up as he treated the strings of his instrument with the same love and care one would their own child. "Deal with it."

[bluespells]

"Fuck you."

[mm_kels]

"You should watch what comes out of that mouth," he comments, glancing up to Billy with -

It looks like he has even less emotion than Demyx did.

Even faking it, Demyx never looked so cold, so simply uncaring, like Billy could be a coat rack.

"If you don't want someone to break it."

[bluespells]

"I would really, really like to see you try."

After watching Demyx try so hard, and pretend, and be so broken after he got his heart? Edym pisses him off.

[mm_kels]

Edym snorts, and goes back to his sitar, strumming out a few notes to make sure everything is as it should be. Again, a complete dismissal.

[bluespells]

ARG.

Completely annoying.

Really, Billy kind of wants to kick him.

[mm_kels]

Billy is welcome to try. Edym is completely ignoring him in favor of his music, which he slowly begins to play. And it's ... beautiful. Not even 'beautiful if you're into that kind of thing', it is, hands down, no questions asked, might even bring a tear to your eye - beautiful.