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palestshadow

Small corner of the roof, Tuesday Afternoon

Mar 04, 2008 19:19

Naminé was sitting on the roof with her sketchpad. It was safer there. She didn't want to start singing today.

( Which wasn't really an option, today, was it? )

jamie, sora, time is running out, sketching, oddities of fandom

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multi_madrox March 5 2008, 03:56:44 UTC

Jamie was looking for a quiet place to clear his head and stay away from any gathering music so he headed for the roof and found a familiar face.

"Naminé," Jamie said with a wave and a grin. "How's my favorite former Art TA?"

palestshadow March 5 2008, 04:00:52 UTC

"Jamie," she smiled. "I'm well. How are you? Did you go to Mexico?"

multi_madrox March 5 2008, 04:02:41 UTC

"Nah," Jamie said grabbing a seat on the edge of the roof. "Stayed here. Never know if I'm going to run into myself. It tends to be an awkward thing."

palestshadow March 5 2008, 04:06:11 UTC

"Are there that many of you around?" she laughed. "You could pass yourself off for twins, perhaps. I didn't go either, but for different reasons. Far too pale. I would have returned as a large tomato."

multi_madrox March 5 2008, 04:08:08 UTC

Jamie's face went to a happy place at the mention of "twins" because that led to thoughts of a certain girl and...

Jamie then shook himself out of it. "Not as many of me per se, but more along the lines of a lot of the other guy who is the original me and I'm not up running into him. And I'm thinking you would have made a great tomato."

palestshadow March 5 2008, 04:10:26 UTC

"The ... original you?" She glanced at him curiously, struck by his words. "Are you ... like me? Someone else's echo?"

multi_madrox March 5 2008, 04:12:39 UTC

"Echo?" Jamie asked. "Um... kind of. I'm a duplicate of the original that got... altered. The other me is in his 30's and kind of absorbed the other version of me that was here before I got caught up in-"

Jamie paused. "Okay, the short answer to that question is: What the heck is an echo? You don't look like a canyon."

palestshadow March 5 2008, 04:18:00 UTC

"That sounds ... complicated," she admitted. "So you have another you, who's much older? Is that part of Fandom's timeline oddities at work? And are you ... all right?"

"Mine's not much simpler. A girl lost her heart and most of herself and I'm mostly the leftover bits. It's all right, she's fine now. The world was saved and all of that. I'm just a coda, perhaps."

multi_madrox March 5 2008, 04:22:40 UTC

"It's a long story," Jamie said trying to wave off the part about himself. "But I'm fine. I just really can't leave the island very often."

He shifted a bit so he was looking at her. "I seem to remember talking to you before about this back last semester. For someone who is supposed to be someone else... well I'm sorry but I don't think I could think of you as just a bunch of pieces."

palestshadow March 5 2008, 04:28:07 UTC

"That doesn't quite sound the same as fine," Naminé said softly. "I'm not really ... I'm not sure what I am, to be honest. I exist in the space between what is and what isn't. That's why I can do this."

She held a hand out, and in the air before her, a large purplish-black portal rippled into place.

multi_madrox March 5 2008, 04:32:32 UTC

"Neeeat..." Jamie said poking the portal thing with his finger. "And I'm not sure what you're getting at what your are because you are what you are. You're Naminé. And you're not in some space. You're with me here on a roof. Doesn't get more realer than that."

palestshadow March 5 2008, 04:38:52 UTC

"It's safe to use," she said quickly. "That just leads back to the fifth floor, I couldn't think of where to link it to. It's an amusing parlor trick, and it makes travel convenient, but ... I can move through darkness because I'm a Nobody. It's something we share. I'm not real, not the way you are. You have parents, you were born, you've always been you."

She frowned slightly. "I suppose not, on that last one, if there's another you out there absorbing people."

multi_madrox March 5 2008, 04:46:30 UTC

Curiosity got the better of Jamie and he rapped his knuckles on the roof sending one of his duplicates into the portal as he continued to talk with his friend.

"Just because you weren't born traditionally doesn't mean you're not a person," Jamie argued. "You're an artist. You create. You have thoughts and beliefs. You think therefore you is."

palestshadow March 5 2008, 04:53:57 UTC

"I'm not sure about that," she said, shaking her head. "I create, but I've used art to destroy. I think, but I don't know if I feel. I feel as though I can, but that's not the same thing, is it? I've never studied what I am. Next week I'll be sixteen, and I've only existed for two years."

multi_madrox March 5 2008, 05:00:09 UTC

"Creativity and destruction are just two sides of the same coin," Jamie replied. "And are you telling me you don't have a thing with Valentine?"

palestshadow March 5 2008, 05:05:42 UTC

Naminé flushed at that. "I do," she said. "I worry, sometimes. What will happen to him. But he was the one that convinced me I could feel. Myabe if you think you can feel, that's close enough. I'm not sure. It's far too abstract for my mind to wrap around properly."

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