perplexme | Fiftieth Keychain

Entry tags:

axel,
potential bbs spoilers in kh cast thread,
roxas means srs business,
sora,
vanitas,
ven,
xion

Fiftieth Keychain - [Written]

[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.

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So Luceti...what exactly makes a person real or not? What qualities and characteristics mean that a person exists instead of just being a weird figment? Trust me, it's important.

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[Wait. Wait, what the fuck?]

You...saw that boy with his mask. Vanitas.

Vanitas? That's his name? He wouldn't tell me... but yes, I saw him. We spoke for a while.

...I need to talk to you about him. Not here, it's dangerous here. Axel thinks I'm being paranoid but...I'm not. [He lets go of her face and he's grabbing his journal to pack it up, grabbing Xion by the arm and pulling her toward the exit of the library] Come on, we need to go somewhere they can't hear us.

What? But--! [ she's very startled, but in the end she doesn't protest, allowing Roxas to drag her along. unless he speaks again, she won't say anything the whole way to ... wherever it is they're going. ]

[Sorry Xion, Roxas is Very Concerned. And he ends up dragging her down to Seventh Heaven and into the back corner where they can't be heard, sitting her across from him.]

So. You only saw him with the mask? That's it?

[ Xion sort of instinctively looks around for Sanji, wondering if he's here tonight and if that would even make any sort of difference, but doesn't spot him regardless. She's silent for a moment after Roxas sits him down, trying to figure out what's got him so worked up. ]

No, I saw him with the mask off. I just... I know he looks like Sora, but... he's not like Sora. And since I didn't have his name, I thought it'd be easier to describe him by... [ she makes a vague hand gesture obviously meaning "the helmet." ]

You know what I think? [He doesn't even really stop to give her time to answer.] It's weird that both he and Ventus showed up right after Sora left. What if Vanitas took over Sora's body and is really controlling him? And what about Ventus? What the heck is that all about? What if they're both here just to destroy both of us since they already got Sora?

[ what.

for a loooooong moment, Xion says nothing, but she's staring at him rather blankly. truth be told, she thinks these theories are rather insane -- and while she could be convinced, she doesn't buy them right now. ]

... You know, at first, I wondered if they were both Replicas. But Vexen only ever mentioned two, and Ventus didn't even know what a Replica was. [ a beat ] I don't think Ventus would do anything to hurt us. He seemed really confused, but not ... bad. Vanitas... I don't know. He acted nice, but... Anyway, that's not the point. I asked him if he'd ever met Sora, and he said no. If he really had taken over Sora's body... what point would there be to lying about it now? Since he looks just like Sora and everything... it'd be a stupid thing to lie about. It must be something else. I just don't know what...

[Well he's already had Axel say he's freaking out too much, but after the things that he's heard from both Ventus and Vanitas, well, he can't help but be a little freaked.]

Maybe it's not something that Vexen would know about. I think Ventus is from even further in the past than we know. That's what he made it sound like anyway. [He just gawks at her though.] Nice? Vanitas? Are you kidding?!

Well... people can come from pretty different points in time, here... I guess it could be years. I wonder if it's the same for Vanitas... it still doesn't explain why either of them look so familiar, tho-- [ she blinks when he cuts her off ... though doesn't seem terribly surprised, her mouth settling into a line. ]

Tell me what he said to you.

It doesn't matter, though Vanitas and Ventus are very well-aware of each other, so that makes it more likely. [His face mirrors hers then.]

Tell me what he said to you first.

... he didn't say much. He mostly asked me questions. I don't know how, but he figured out that I'm a Replica. Maybe because I looked like Ven to him... The only thing I really remember that might be important was that... he said he was part of something greater. I don't know what he meant, though.

[ a pause, wringing her hands a little bit. ] He wasn't ... mean or anything. He was ... I guess he was polite. But there was just something about him... He's not trustworthy, is he? [ she sounds a little more uncertain than her words might indicate, though. is he really bad...? ]

[He's not happy with that, shaking his head at her last question.]

No. No way. ...he wanted to know why I looked like Ventus. He knew that you and I don't have hearts. He wants something of Ventus, but he kept dodging the questions. You know a guy like that's up to no good when he won't give you direct answers.

... it's too bad ... [ but she sighs, and puts Vanitas on her mental list of Bad People Who Are Bad. better now and to possibly be proven wrong, than later and to suffer for her mistake. ]

I just ... what are we going to do? About him and Ventus.

[It's okay Xion bb, Roxas has your back and is able to tell you who's bad news and who's not.]

...I don't know. Right now all we can do is keep a close watch on them. See what they're up to. I'm not as worried about Ventus harming people as I am Vanitas, but the fact that we both look like him? It's too weird...it makes me want to know why.

I don't! [ she slams her hands down on the table without thinking, eyes a bit wild around the edges, but just as abruptly the panic goes out of her. ] ... I don't want to look like anyone but me. I thought all of that was over...

That's why I want to find out. To fix it. We're our own people now, this has to stop.

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