Day 31 part 1. Introspection

Jun 05, 2011 00:39

OOC: This is a small introspection piece, as it is officially a year today that Roxas was accepted into Route. It's just a chance for Roxas to reflect so it's not really meant to be responded to icly, and there will be a follow up entry. For those who want to take the action option for it, Roxas will be on the Olivine beach. I'll probably come back and edit this later, but that will be when I have a brain. Other than that, hard to believe that it's been a year, so I just want to take a quick moment here and say Thank You to everyone who has played with me and made this game a joy to be a part of it. Playing in Route has been a great experience, and I'm grateful to have been apart of it. Here's to another year!



It was early in the morning when Roxas stepped out onto the beach.

He’d never really been here before, even though he’d been in Olivine for a while now. There’d been other things to do, what with the storms and then the weird dream and training for the gym. Only now was he able to make it to the beach.

Roxas had been almost reluctant to go. Considering that this time last year, that was all he’d wanted to do. Or thought he’d wanted to do anyway. It was a way to celebrate the end of summer vacation. It seemed kind of weird, considering summer was just starting.

He stepped onto the sand, noticing it crunch beneath his shoes, and then paused for a moment to take them off and continue barefoot. It felt nice, the sand beneath his feet. The water was cold, and Roxas winced the first time it washed up on his feet. But he stood there at the meeting place between land and sea and stared out at the sky.

A lot had happened to get to this moment. He’d woken up this morning to the beeping of the pokegear and a message wishing him a happy birthday. Not that Roxas considered it his birthday, but it did have a different meaning. It meant that he’d been in a Johto a year.

It was kind of hard to believe, since a year ago today he had learned that his world was nothing but a sham and that he wasn’t supposed to exist and that his only purpose was to become part of Sora and instead, instead he’d wound up in a world full of pokemon and fun and adventure where he could become a champion and before he knew he’d been around for another year.

Two years, Roxas realized. He’d been around two years.

And what a year it had been. From meeting his first pokemon, who was now the closest friend he had and travelling from city to city to win his badges, with each one bringing him closer and closer to becoming the champion. All the pokemon had had caught and raised to become a true fighting force to be reckoned with. He’d achieved so much in this new life, and had every desire to continue. He would never go back, only forward. Roxas had promised himself that.

It filled him with a sense of pride, that he had managed all this in a year. He’d come a long way and he could tell that he had. It was amazing to think that a year ago, he didn’t think any of this was possible. That he was going to disappear and no longer be Roxas. He’d just be a part of Sora.

But that hadn’t happened. And instead, he’d gotten to meet Sora. And Namine, and Xion, and Lea, and Ventus, and Vanitas, and Minnie, and everyone else. He’d be able to prove to everyone that he was Roxas and he deserved a chance. And he’d met so many other people to, like Cecil and Smoker, and Kisa, and Watanuki. And those who had left, like Ash and Aerith. It made him happy, to know that he had friends again, and could trust them and at the same time it made him miss his other friends. Like Hayner and Pence and Olette, who he wished were here so that he could say that they’d finally made it to the beach. And Axel. There was so much Roxas wanted to say to Axel and tell him and show him this amazing world that he was living in now, and maybe things could go back to the way they were, before everything had happened.

He looked again at the sky, wiping away the tears that had started to form in his eyes, the tears he could not explain. Looking back on everything that he had done and experienced in the past year, everything that he had accomplished and achieved, and looking forward to all that was ahead of him, Roxas wondered, could he be happy?

For what felt like the first time he was proud of himself, and excited for the next part, and all the worries of the past seemed to be slipping away from him, leaving him free to enjoy this world to the fullest. Was that happiness? Was that peace?

He sat down, his feet still in the surf and his hands running through the soft sand of the beach, his eyes fixed on the sky. In a way, he was pretty sure it was.

mood: content, location: beach, to catch them is my real test, like no one ever was, rare happy roxas, location: olivine city, introspection, summer vacation is just beginning, to train them is my cause, let's see how far we've come, finally made it to the beach, i won't leave, one whole year, i wanna be the very best, mood: happy for once, happy birthday to me

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