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So let's say that someone recently showed up in this place, but they're from a time where they remember you differently. How can you tell them about how things are in the future without ruining everything? And this isn't just a "oh I moved away" sort of difference, this is something a lot bigger...like memories.

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727 days. Nearly two years, and I still don't see any signs of me going home anytime soon. Should I consider that a good thing or a bad thing? For those of you who have been here that long, what do you think?

Oh, hey. Hayner! I'm thinking since you're new here ~~and your sense of direction stinks still~~, we should probably explore Luceti some more so you get familiar with it. What do you think? Later today?

[Filter to Xion]

Hey. I think we need to talk.

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Guess I'm not totally against it. Just the only part that has me worried is Xion and Riku living in the same place together.

Maybe stupid's the wrong word for it, but it's weird to think about, you know? I've seen a lot of people in love here, and I still don't exactly get it.

[You would get a hug if Roxas felt like that was necessary, just so you know. Instead, he's coddling his kitten and just listening.] He kind of does, maybe. It's not going to be easier for us though. Did you hear Sora's last announcement about the house?

He'd never believe me because it sounds unbelievable.

...what is yours anyway? If you don't mind me asking. It might be too personal, I get that, but...

Yeah, I thought about that, too. I don't want him around her for now.

Well, this place is pretty unbelievable, so you never know.

It's not really personal to me, but it might be a little confusing.

Yeah, you've got a point. I've been here for years and I still don't believe half of the stuff that happens here.

Confusing how?

... [ Xion presses her free hand to her chest, idly. ] You know... even now, I'm not sure I get it either. It's pretty confusing.

[ oof. that. nodnod. ] Yeah. I kind of like the idea, actually, but ... I'm not sure how well it would work out right now. [ a beat. ] And I still have to meet Hayner.

Maybe then you would just have to prove it's true?

Well the whole thing is just confusing..I still don't understand it all.

But do you want to get it? I don't know if I do.

I like the idea, but...["Axel and I both don't want you near jerkface Riku."] It might get complicated. [There's a pause though because fjkdsa Haynerrrr.] Hayner...it's complicated, too. He doesn't know about us being Nobodies.

Easier said than done. I'll have to figure out something though.

That's kind of where I am too. I understand most of it, but when I try explaining it it just because a giant mess. At least it's not just me.

Harder to prove it here than at home then?

Yeah. I guess the simplest way to explain it is just that my friend is following the wrong ideas, and a lot of bad things will happen if he keeps following them.

... I think I would, maybe. It sounds nice.

[ finishing off her ice cream now, one moment. ] ... I guess it could, but ... I think things would work out. At least, I hope they would. [ glances at him. ] ... how do you know him, anyway?

At home I didn't exactly have to prove it to him. That's the problem.

...sounds a lot like something else one of my friend's friends was dealing with. There's gotta be an easy way to at least explain that.

...let me know how that goes then.

[He shrugs a little, nodding in agreement. Sure, maybe things will work out. But FJDLSA PANIC A BIT. UH.] Um...well...it's kind of a funny story. A funny and long story about what happened after I left the Organization for good.

That would make it harder, yeah.

He doesn't really listen back home, and when he's from, it hasn't even happened yet. So I don't know how I could explain it here.

[ why so panicked, bff. Xion just blinks at him. ] Well ... I've got time.

[because it means telling you things, fffff] Okay...okay so, here's what happened. [Nea gets pettings while Roxas finishes his ice cream to start the story.] After everything that happened with you, I had this idea in mind...you know, to free Kingdom Hearts and stop all of the craziness. I guess I thought that if I freed it, you'd come back and everything could go back to the way it was. Just you, me, and Axel. I was going to head back but I ended up getting stopped by a bunch of the Neoshadows. They all just came out of nowhere and I had to fight them. By that point I had the two Keyblades. I wasn't entirely sure why at the time, but like I cared. There were just too many of them though.

...that's the first time I met Riku. He helped me fight off the Heartless but after that? We ended up fighting each other. He had Oblivion because I gave it to him, but I fought him and I beat him. Then Riku decided to be a dirty cheater and changed his appearance and then he disappeared but came back and then something happened and I blacked out.

...anyway. After that? I guess Riku brought me to this guy named DiZ. Or DiZ came after me after that, I don't remember that part well enough anymore. DiZ decided that he had to hide me because the Organization was looking for me, but he wanted to use me to make Sora wake up. So he created this virtual version of Twilight Town...and that's how I met Hayner, Pence, and Olette. I didn't know any better and so I just went on with my life. My memories had been rescrambled, I didn't remember anything about the Organization or anything. I thought I'd grown up in Twilight Town with those guys. I thought I was normal...sort of. When I was there? I started having these weird dreams. I didn't know it at the time, but they were Sora's memories as Naminé started to fix everything. The Nobodies started coming after me, and sometimes I could summon the Keyblade but I didn't know why.

Axel even came after me a few times, but I couldn't remember him either. It...was awful, now that I think about it. For him, I mean. We thought we'd always remember each other, but I didn't remember anything. All of this happened within one week. Axel and I fought a couple of times. I remember I tried talking to Naminé once? I ended up with Kairi instead. That's when I started to figure out what was going on.

Naminé's the one who eventually told me that I was Sora's Nobody. She's the one who told mewhat was happening to me, and I learned that everything was fake. Everything was a lie. I wasn't really friends with Hayner, Pence, and Olette. They were just...data. Nothing else. I started remembering everything, and I guess it just...hurt. I was mad. More than mad.

I fought Axel one more time before I found Sora, and I beat him. He seemed surprised I had two Keyblades, even though it wasn't weird to me anymore. I kind of wanted to follow him, but I couldn't. I had to find Sora. I found DiZ instead. [And here he pauses, visibly angry all over again. Man, even years later and knowing everything he knows, DiZ still pisses him off.]

DiZ...was just a hologram and eventually he left. I found Sora...and I rejoined him.

After I rejoined Sora's body, everything went back to normal for him, I guess. He went to Twilight Town and he met the real Hayner, Pence, and Olette. Kairi's met them too, but the Hayner that's here? He doesn't know them. He knows me. That means...it means he's not real. I don't know how to tell him that either. [Don't mind him, he's just going to stop talking now because wow that's a lot.]

It gets really confusing for that kind of thing.

That's kind of how things are for Hayner, too. And Riku I guess. Being stubborn seems to be a common trait around here.

The only thing is...is that if he knew more about the ideas he was following, he wouldn't follow them.

[ Xion is a good audience for this monologue. She just watches him and listens quietly, placing her ice cream stick down on the edge of the roof. She reacts to different things in the story -- her expression turning to shock and sadness, variably, as he describes how he fought Riku and then lost all his memories, even those of Axel. But she doesn't speak until a moment or two after he's gone quiet, taking some time to process that. ]

... I missed so many things ... I'm so sorry you went through all of that, Roxas. [ a sigh. ] But as for Hayner... it sounds like it's going to be pretty complicated, no matter what. Even the truth would probably sound unbelievable...

[Petting the kitten, ignoring mostly everything else because he kind of does not like telling that story.]

Not your fault...I know I have to tell him eventually, but what am I even supposed to say? I ran into the same problem when Olette was here, but I avoided the subject for a long time. Hayner's not going to take it easy at all.

There isn't any way to convince him that they're bad ideas?

Still don't get how you've been here that long when I've been with you every day since… forever. But yeah, sure—sounds great! Got nothing else to do, anyways.

Hasn't anybody told you how time works here yet? You never know I'm gone, but I get stuck here anyway. Anyway, whatever, just name a time and we'll get going.

I just don't get it, man—no matter how many times I'm told. And any time works—seriously, when I say I've got nothing to do, I mean absolutely nothing. You free right now?

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