Forty-Fifth Keychain-[Written/Potentially Action for Axel and Xion]

[perplexme]

If you can't trust your friends, who can you trust?
What do you do when...no.
If something's based on life and de--

So...if people you know are keeping secrets from you, should you bother asking them about it until they cave in, or just believe them when they say it's for your own good? How would you know it's for your own good...actually, how would they know? It's your good, not theirs, right?

I can't settle for waiting and doing nothing until it's over.

[He left this unfiltered from certain people on purpose, mostly hoping he could draw out the answers he wanted. The strikes aren't too legible, but if a person squinted enough and tilted their head, they could probably make them out.]

Comments

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

Too bad it's not that simple, huh?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

I guess not everything can be. Kind of stupid that it can't.

I'm Usopp, by the way.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

Exactly.

I'm Roxas. Nice to meet you.

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

You, too.

So have you been in Luceti for a while?

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

Almost two years. It doesn't feel that long sometimes, but other days it feels a lot longer. What about you?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

Only about seven months, I think. It definitely feels like it's been longer.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

Seven months is still a lot longer than anybody thought they'd be here.

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

...yeah. Kind of get used to not getting what you want here, too.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

What more could you want than getting out of here?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

It's the stuff you want while you are here. Like it not raining trees and not getting kidnapped and people not getting drafted.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

At least you missed the war where they actually were really close to the village, right?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did. [ His inner pessimist says it's probably a matter of time before he gets to see a close-to-the-village war for himself, but why spread that little gem around? ]

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

And the mass amount of deaths thanks to an experiment gone wrong. This place just doesn't give up.

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

[ ;; ]

I-it really doesn't.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

...that...sounded bad, huh?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

Most of the stuff in this place sounds bad.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

Not all of it is bad though, really.

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. Like just one person here alone.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

One person from their own world? Or one person without any of the rest of us?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

One person without any of us. Even if someone here is the only person from their world, at least there are still people they can make friends with.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

That's true. I've ended up making a lot of friends from other worlds here...dunno what I'd do without them.

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

Exactly. [ Alone is not a word that Usopp ever enjoys. ]

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

That's the only thing wrong with leaving this place though. You lose a lot of friends. Is it worth it?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

It's definitely worth it. It's really great to have friends here, but there are still things everyone has to do back home.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

What about those of us who don't?