Fiftieth Keychain - [Written]

[perplex_me]

[Filtered from Vanitas and Ven to the rest of the KH cast]

Okay. How many of you guys think this wasn't just some weird kind of coincidence?

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[Filtered to Xion]

I think I need to talk to you soon...it's important.

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[Filtered to Axel]

I learned something really interesting about you.

[/Filter]So Luceti...what exactly

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[soreplaceable]

If a person exists, I guess that would mean they're real, but... [A pause.] That's a rather unspecific answer. What do you mean by a "figment"?

[perplex_me]

It's hard to explain, I think. I guess I'm asking what makes a person their own person even if they're created from somebody else or something. A figment like that, a fake.

[soreplaceable]

[That definitely sounds familiar.]

...you mean like a replica?

[perplex_me]

...yeah. Yeah, exactly like a replica. Familiar with those?

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[soreplaceable]

[A small filter goes up. Not so much because this is a secret; rather, it's not the sort of thing he'd want just anyone to browse by and see.]

Yes. Actually, I'm a replica myself.

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[perplex_me]

[And that surprises him enough to stop talking for a minute.]

How did you find out? What are you a replica of?

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[soreplaceable]

I didn't really "find out", since it was never exactly a secret to me. I'm a replica of the original Fon Master Ion. I was made to... replace him after he died, so no one would know that he died. There were other replicas as well, but they... [His voice trails off. Not a pleasant topic.]

...but even though I'm a replica, I'm still a real person. We look the same, but I'm nothing alike to the other replicas, or even the original. I'm still my own self. [A small smile.] Does that help answer your question?

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[perplex_me]

[...huh. At least Ion had it easier than the Riku Replica, or even Xion.] Right, I got it.

...I guess it does, in a way. It's a good way to look at it at least. So as a replica, the only thing you share with the replicas and the original Fon Master are your looks? That's it?

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[soreplaceable]

Yes. The only thing that can't be replicated in Auldrant are memories. Replicas are crea- born without any of the memories or knowledge from their original. Although I was trained how to act like him and I have the same powers he did, from what I've gathered about the sort of person he was, we're nothing alike in personality.

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[perplex_me]

And nobody's mentioned that you act nothing like the other guy? [Then again, when he was first born he didn't remember anything about his origin or about Sora, but that changed. That's the important part here.]

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[soreplaceable]

The only people who knew him well enough to notice were the ones responsible for my creation. He wasn't close with a lot of people and... well, for the first year or so of my life, neither was I.

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[perplex_me]

That probably made it a lot easier. What happened after the first year of your life though?

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[soreplaceable]

It's a rather long story, but sometime after I had been alive for two years, certain events happened in my world that eventually led me on a journey with a group of others. They became my closest friends, and that didn't change even after they learned I was a replica. [A small smile.] Many of them are even here in Luceti.

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[perplex_me]

You got really lucky then. That's great...and you're going to be around for a long time, right?

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[soreplaceable]

[There's a bit of a long pause after that before he answers, quietly. Roxas may notice the filter boosting up a bit higher.]

...as long as I remain in Luceti, yes.

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[perplex_me]

...that means...