perplexme | Fifty-Seventh Keychain

[Private, 90% Locked only because it's not that secretive.]

1,095 days. Maybe I should stop counting, but I can't stop. It's weird...it's like nothing's changed, but everything has. In the last three years, I've seen my best friends come and go, I've seen Sora come and go, and I've met someone who looks just like me and a psychopath who kept hurting my friends. But in the last three years, Axel's still as goofy as ever, Xion's learning just as much as I am, and the two of them have stuck with me even with all of my strange thoughts and patterns. I guess that's really what friendship is.

It took three or four tries, but I think I finally understand Sora. I'm still not sure what it all means to me, but I can at least say I feel better about things.

I guess...I've grown. We all have. But what happens after that? Do we all keep growing, or are we going to run out of places to grow? Maybe I'll have an answer to that next year.

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...what's the longest amount of time any of you ever thought you'd be here? And were you guys disappointed when that amount of time passed? [Not if. When.] Not to scare the New Feathers or anything, but I know a lot of you out there have been here for a while.

Maybe I should say welcome to the new people anyway. I'm Roxas. I'm not sure how I can, but let me know if I can help somehow.

...oh,Axel and Xion? I know you guys are probably busy but I've got something for you. You know where to find me...and anyway I have something to ask you two. [On the roof, specifically.]

Sora you can come, too. And Ven. And...whoever. [He's got enough to share with everybody really.]

[[ooc: as a side note, currently at work and tags may be slow but I wanted to get this post up. Thanks guys!]]

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Sure. A lot of people around here know how to cook, right? It'll be a piece of cake.

Oh, maybe I should bring a cake.

[Blinking in surprise a bit.] I thought we already agreed on that, remember?

Did we?

Roxas...?

I wanted to see the world. All of it. As much of it as I could. A little bit of everything, you know? Oceans, jungles, treasure.

Life is short, might as well live it.

[Sora... just outright stares at Roxas for several long, agonizing minutes. most of what Roxas described seems to make enough sense, but... him and Kairi? really? for that long?]

[and then Sora turns vaguely pink.]

[and then he shakes his head, tries to shake it off. no, he can't think too long on it, he can't... Kairi's happiness is more important, no matter what. always. that crush will be there for a long time, if not forever, but at this point, Sora knows better than to act on it.]

[he nods after a minute, his expression finally clearing up. peaceful.]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm getting a pretty good picture.

...I'll take that at face value, then. [No he won't. He will stalk the hell out of everyone from your world until someone slips up and gives him a better idea about this.]

We did. I should start writing stuff down for you.

Good plan. [Yeah good luck with that.]

That's just as good a reason as any. How much did you get to see before they pulled you into here?

...so what's that look for? [Nothing gets past your not-twin, dude. Just accept it.]

Yeah?

Just about anything, when you really think about it.

[Granted, it's not a pleasant thing to think about. Ven glances down at the ground below as he thinks this over again.]

He could lose the use of his arms or legs, which means he'd have trouble fighting and moving. That'd be pretty harsh.

That'd basically render him useless. Okay fine...just make sure he doesn't get into a situation where that might happen then.

Nothing, it's just... you seemed kind of sad for a moment.

[NO YOU CAN'T READ MY POKER FACE.]

Nothing. That just kinda surprised me, I guess. [see? poker. face.]

Oh, that would be very nice. [Pause.] Why?

I'll do my best. Vanitas is my responsibility now, so I'll keep him in line.

[Now, another bite of the ice cream.]

Anyway, let's not worry about him for now. Not on a day like this.

It's nothing. Don't worry.

...yeah, okay. I'd be kind of surprised too. [Roxas can't read anything :|] So what else do you want to know about it all?

You know, so that you don't forget it. Wouldn't that be better?

Yeah, I'd rather not. Talk about a way to ruin a birthday. You pick a subject then.

1950? That is quite the time gap. [Give her a second to think this over]

By then the world war had ceased so you must've read about that and the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [Gathering what she remembers...] After the war, Japan was reverted back to it's original small islands off the coast of Asia. Even though Japan had just been defeated by the United States, in 1951 they formed a treaty with them and other countries in order to gain sovereignty. By terms of the treaty, they were to allow the United States to use naval bases so they could fight against the Koreans in the cold war.

Of course, as you can imagine, this didn't please many people. In 1960, when the United States was proclaimed the military protection of Japan, it caused an uproar. It was only in the 1970's that the United States was able to gain some of the control over the islands through the city of Okinawa and began to calm down the citizens due to it's positive impact on the country.

After the cold war, Japan then began the Heisei era, in which time they went through a very rapid economic incline and the people lead prosperous lives for years. It was only in 1995 when an earthquake ruined said prosperity, killing and injuring thousands of people and homes, in turn costing the government trillions of yen to rebuild and recover from the incident.

So for years they slowly recovered and advanced their studies in technology and medicine. Though after the prime minister resigned in 2010, nothing significant happened. That is, unless you wish to hear about what I had gone through in 2011 with Souji and the others though that technically wouldn't be considered Japanese history since the only people who knew were a group of teenagers and a few adults. [ ... ] I apologize, am I rambling?

[Naoto. You have the most intrigued student right now. He's absolutely thrilled by all of this new knowledge, but he shakes his head rapidly when she asks that question.] No, no way. I didn't realize that it had more wars and ups and downs after all of that. What I read made it sound like the bombing was just how it all ended. Thanks for the recap.

...but you know I want to know about you and everyone else. Does this have to do with the Personas?

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