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And I still see your reflection inside of my eyes [ closed ]

May 15, 2011 08:06

Who: Castle residents! (You know who you are!)
What: Ven's been unconscious for way too long. Time to fix this heart problem.
Where: The Castle That Never Was
When: TBA (sometime soon!)
Warnings: Spoilers for BBS? And KH in general.
Notes: Post order will prooobably get sort of weird. :|; Hit it where you feel it's appropriate; we can work out ( Read more... )

† roxas, demyx, sora, † ventus, † terra (kh), axel

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[MAIN THREAD IS HERE] journeybroken May 15 2011, 16:10:47 UTC

Roxas hadn't slept as much as he should have. He knew how these things went at times, so he tried not to worry too much... But he couldn't help it. Ven was his friend--almost like a sibling of his, he couldn't deny that--and seeing him like this was painful. It was like watching himself, asleep and detached from those he loved. He would hate himself, if he woke up to find he'd been out as long as Ven had been, worrying his friends this way.

... And yet, Ven didn't even know that his own friend was here now... It wasn't just the residents of the Castle anymore. It was this man, from their world, who claimed to be Ven's friend. Maybe one of the ones he'd mentioned before... They would find out for sure who he was if when Ven woke up, though... Until then, the man was harmless, having just arrived and lost all powers he'd possessed back in their world.

Axel's voice broke the silence of the crowded room. It wasn't an unheard of thing; Roxas actually found comfort in hearing the redhead speak in times of uncertainty. Even though he was merely reiterating the fact that they had almost no idea what in the universe was going on, he was still speaking. He was checking in. He was there.

The blond (conscious) Keybearer looked up at his friend, then stole a glance at the surrounding crowd. Then he looked back at the mirrored image of his very self laying in the bed without motion.

Roxas shook his head. "No... Not yet," He replied, taking in a deep breath.

Staring into Ven's face, he felt himself get lost in what was almost thought; an abstract state of self and... something else.

unlockingsmiles May 16 2011, 03:35:06 UTC

Sora didn't knock on the door or say anything as he walked in - he didn't need to. The Keyblade Master just took a place by the wall, slipping in as if he had never left at all. Really, with the amount of time he had spent there, it was almost as if he hadn't. Every day, he had been coming in to check on Ven - sometimes, he would stay for hours, and sometimes just for a little while, but he always came.

Every day, he kept hoping he would come in and see some sort of change for the better. But, so far, there was still nothing. Ven was on the bed, still just as asleep as he had been all the days before.

Sora sighed, still keeping quiet. The worst part about it was that the more time he spent there, the more that he felt as if there was something he should know. Something that could help, but that he couldn't remember. That feeling had been growing, and, as he stood there, he tried his hardest to think. Was it something he had forgotten, or something that he was being reminded of? Or both?

But there had to be a way to fix this. Ven couldn't just stay like this forever. The way he was sleeping, it was as if he would never wake up. It was almost like...

"...you know, it's a lot like when Kairi lost her heart. No matter what, she just laid there and slept - she wouldn't wake up." That was it! That was what he was thinking of!

flame_flurry May 26 2011, 11:00:32 UTC

Speaking to fill the silence was generally something that Axel was good at, provided it wasn't a silence that he himself was enforcing. It was better to say something -- anything -- in this situation, he thought. If they didn't talk, how would Ven hear them? If they didn't speak, how was this any different than standing at the bedside of someone on the verge of death?

His own concern over this whole thing was ... oddly muted. It was strange: he should have been feeling more about this. It wasn't as though his friends weren't nearby, after all. But for some reason, he simply wasn't as concerned as he should have been. It was as though there were something missing, but it was ... faint. Just enough of a nagging annoyance to be a distraction.

Sora's statement pulled Axel from his thoughts, and he looked over at the brunette, a frown crossing his features.

"But she was a pretty unique case, wasn't she?" he asked. "Something about being a Princess? Ven's definitely not that."

unlockingsmiles June 15 2011, 04:24:49 UTC

Sora nodded in response to the question, taking another look at Ven before turning his attention back to Axel.

"That's right. Her Heart doesn't have any Darkness. That's what makes the Princesses of Heart so special. But...that's all I can think of."

He wasn't sure what he meant by that, exactly. He tried to think, absentmindedly staring off to the side and scratching the back of his head as he did so. Ven couldn't be the same as Kairi, right? But, then, what could be wrong with him? If he had just been hurt in a fight or something back home, he would've woken up right now.

So then...what?

"Maybe it's not exactly the same, but what if there really is something wrong with his heart?"

Joining this so, so very late. I hope you don't mind? orz powerforfriends June 16 2011, 21:53:58 UTC

Terra had been standing just about to enter the room, stopping outside when he hears that last exchange. A Princess of Heart... like Aurora, Cinderella and Snow White, huh? But Ven wasn't like them, not really... at least not if there was any truth at all in what Xehanort had told them at their first encounter in the badlands. he couldn't tell if there was... but would the old Master really have resorted to spinning such a complicated lie? Terra wasn't sure what to believe anymore. Finally he steps through the door, hands clenching into fists as he speaks up, eyes lingering on Ven's sleeping form.

"I suppose the only person, who'd know that for sure, is Xehanort."

i am the latest ever! melodyofwater June 22 2011, 22:12:48 UTC

Demyx had mostly been hanging back, listening to the exchange and... not having much to add the conversation. Hey, it wasn't like he knew a lot of this stuff, after all. Still, Sora's point sort of made sense. If something went wrong in their world, after all, it usually had something to do with hearts.

"Is there a way we could figure out if that's it?" he asked. There was probably something, at least with Bending...

LATE IS OKAY unlockingsmiles June 23 2011, 03:23:49 UTC

Sora looked over immediately when Terra stepped into the room, paying close attention to his words. He couldn't help but be shocked when he heard that name. He wasn't expecting it...but maybe he should have been. After all, a lot of the bad stuff that had happened in their world was connected to him, wasn't it?

Then what did Xehanort have to do with all of this? And which Xehanort was it - the Keyblade Master Ven told him about...or the one whose Heartless and Nobody he had fought? Over this mess of thinking, Demyx's question barely even registered.

He just didn't know. It was all so confusing.

"Xehanort?" he asked, hoping that Terra would explain. From the tone of Sora's voice, it was more than clear that the name meant something to him.

flame_flurry June 23 2011, 04:46:28 UTC

Xehanort. Unlike Sora, Axel associated the name with only one man: the man that Xemnas had once been, before losing his heart. The man who, Axel had only recently discovered, was responsible for Lea losing his heart in the first place.

In short, not Axel's favorite topic of conversation.

"Always comes back to him, doesn't it," he muttered, abbreviated eyebrows furrowing while he tried to bite back the anger thinking about that revelation still brought forth. Even if he and Xemnas had gotten along ... well, well enough during Axel's recent memory-lapse, that anger was far from gone. He doubted it ever would be.

His eyes turned from Terra to Demyx. "Could always ask the next best thing," he suggested, "if Xehanort would know."

The next best thing, of course, being Xemnas.

powerforfriends June 25 2011, 22:25:06 UTC

He nodded at Sora's question, frowning himself - how could the kid know Xehanort? Did that mean he had failed at every point along the line, hadn't even been able to defeat the old master?

"Xehanort. An old Keyblade Master, that probably should have lost the right to that title a long time ago." Because if anyone was even more unworthy of it than Terra, it's Xehanort. "I... We were fighting him just before I was brought here."

His head turned sharply towards Axel, eyes narrowing. If Xehanort was here, shouldn't have sensed it by now? "What do you mean by 'next best thing'?"

melodyofwater June 28 2011, 02:09:55 UTC

It took Demyx a moment to make the connection, before he realized what Axel was suggesting. "That... might work, I guess," he said, voice clearly betraying his hesitance. He'd been avoiding Xemnas for a reason, after all. Mostly the fact that his former superior still scared him. But... this was important.

Then what Terra said sunk in, and Demyx looked at him, clearly confused. "He was a Keyblade Master?" he asked, not sure if he could fully believe that.

flame_flurry July 1 2011, 10:07:21 UTC

Terra's look was met with confusion so extreme, it was nearly comical. Whatever Axel had been expecting to hear, it certainly wasn't that. If the man was expecting an answer to his question, he'd have to give Axel a few moments; his mind was very much stuck on one thing:

"Keyblade Master?" he repeated, his words unconsciously joining Demyx's in perfect sync. No way. There was no way that Xemnas had been a Keyblade Master. It just wasn't possible.

... Was it?

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