I'm beginning to suspect I will never find a bar containing the ingredients to make a Merry Widow.

[rayemars]

This is what I did AGAIN at work today! Except that I didn't find them this time, another person did, and then summoned me to help (have I gotten a reputation somehow? how would I describe this on my resume), and then because the teenagers were lacking some key articles of clothing I had to escort them out of the building, pretend that I didn't

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[edmondia]

Whichever one you want!

[rayemars]

THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF SPECIFYING

so not edited

[rayemars]

But pure spite still has a place in evolutionary practice. Anything I can do to help my brother is good, and anything I can do to hinder competing strangers could be beneficial to both of us.

Riku's still pulling shadows away, loosely, a flicker here and there and a lot less than earlier that evening now that Sora's heart isn't as overwhelmed by that memory. Roxas is doing his best to ignore it, to ignore them both--he just told Sora he didn't want to be there when they were making out, you'd think he could take the hint and hold off for a while, geez--but it still creeps him out a little, to feel Riku stripping away pieces of things that used to be what he considered a part of himself

[rayemars]

But Sora can't be a hero all the time. Maybe that's the way that Roxas will still exist, still be himself; by not always being the hero, by being the one that isn't a moron sometimes.

By being the one that refuses to save something that could destroy Sora's heart, and takes it out before it can do the same to them.

He knows he can pull Sora away from his body and into this inner world if he tries hard enough, and he's a Nobody. He has the will. And he can take over their body if Sora lets him.

Roxas doesn't know if he has the ability to do it if Sora doesn't want to let him, but he guesses--if Sora tries to be a hero about this again--that they'll find out when it comes down to it.

He's still alive, even if it isn't the way he wanted to exist. He isn't going to lose that, too.

Rule Number Two [of genes] requires us to be nice to insiders, so we frown on deceit where these are concerned. But Rule Number One demands that we be nasty to outsiders, so lying to them is perfectly acceptable. They are fair game. Everybody knows that.

[edmondia]

SQUEE SO MUCH.