Fifty-Seventh Keychain - [Voice/Action]

[perplexme]

[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!]]

Comments

[perplexme]

Then this was probably a huge disappointment. There's...not really a whole lot to see here, even if they always keep us on our toes.

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[doubleppk]

Disappointment...

[Distant tone.] Hah... no. I would have to be expecting something, ne? Having a whole planet to explore would have been nicer, but as far as mad scientists go, the Malnosso could be a lot worse than just caging this much room.

[doubleppk]

Besides, whenever I get sent back or whatever, it's just more room again. And in the meantime, everything's free and I can't possibly age.

Not that I'm looking for upsides, but disappointment isn't really the word I'd use. It's more frustrating than anything else.

[perplexme]

Okay, so frustrating is a good word to use. And those are good upsides to have, and trust me I have my own upsides, but I still get bored. But maybe that just comes from being here so long. I'm not used to it. I kind of miss going to all sorts of worlds.

...is aging really a bad thing?

[doubleppk]

Yeah, exactly. I think that's really what I miss most. Just traveling.

I wouldn't know. I'm not that aged yet! [.... Suuuure. *cough cough.*] I'd just rather make sure I never will be!

[perplexme]

Maybe someday they'll actually open a path to another part of Luceti. This can't be the only place.

...okay, sure. I guess that's fair enough. [He's not sure he believes her, but whatever, whatever.] You really think we don't age here though? [Because that pops a hole in his own little bubble.]

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[doubleppk]

WHOA! You think so?! That would be amazing! The ocean is not enough to explore. I mean, it's a total improvement and all, but I'd love to go elsewhere.

[doubleppk]

I guess we age, but don't we just get sent back to whatever time we came from? So it's moot either way.

[perplexme]

Why not? They eventually brought us the ocean...that means they have to be hiding more from us. They just have to.

Yeah, supposedly. The problem is that I haven't met anybody that's been able to confirm or deny that, so I'm not sure if I believe it all.

[doubleppk]

Well yeah, I mean right? Where else would the draftees go? But what kind of prison walls would these be if we could roam wherever? It'd be hard for them to do their experiments, I'd think.

Really? No one??

[perplexme]

Every wall has a corner so it meets the next wall. We just have to find the corner and break through it. Now if only it were that easy.

Well...my friend Axel left and came back once with his memories in tact. But I don't know if he counts because of how things are at home.

[doubleppk]

But corners are the hardest parts of rooms to break through. That's where the mortar is strongest. It's like the seams of clothes. So maybe just trying to find a sort of "stud" in the in

How are things at home?

[perplexme]

...maybe. I guess I never thought of it that way. [Aw, way to pop his bubble, Fujiko.]

[Well.] He's dead.

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[doubleppk]

No no, I mean it's good thinking! We should just look for weak points, right? Maybe there's a reverse corner! No one just ever tries all along the way. It could be a secret door! Like in video games!

[doubleppk]

Ah... Dead?? I'm sorry... but... he's alive here?? How?

[perplexme]

A secret door's a good theory, but it must be hidden really well if nobody has a clue where to look.

...how does anything in Luceti work? [He kind of just shrugs with a funny little grin.] He's alive, my other best friend's alive, I'm separated from my original...none of it makes sense but it's kind of one of those things you can't question much.

[doubleppk]

Well, we always figured their droids must be using similar technology to that they use to kidnap us from our world, but what if they just know where the trap door is and have a key to get in and out of it?

Ahh... but... even so... Hum.... Does that make Luceti a better thing then? Since it almost is an afterlife for him?

[perplexme]

Then I bet a lot of us are going to feel really dumb after this.

Kind of. I don't know if he feels that way since he doesn't really believe in an afterlife for himself, but I like it a lot more.

[doubleppk]

Maybe. I'd feel more dumb trying to find a door in every little nook of the barrier only to turn up empty handed personally.

Heh. I guess that's kind of nice... in a way. You can't change it or anything?

[perplexme]

That's not really dumb in my opinion...just failure. [Actually there really isn't a difference, Roxas, but thanks for that.]

No. What's done is done there. We're not exactly real people anyway so it's not really possible to bring him back to life at home again.

[doubleppk]

Still sounds like a waste of time.

"Real people?" What are you then?

[perplexme]

Probably, but it's not like we don't have a lot of that here anyway.

We're Nobodies.

[doubleppk]

Good point. Someone else can try it though. If the Malnosso got wise to people trying, they might make the barrier painful.

That... but you have a name and identity. You exist. Not "nobody."

[perplexme]

Painful how? Like an electric forcefield or something?

Not quite. We're...not exactly whole people. So we're not really supposed to exist.

[doubleppk]

Exactly.

What's missing? You seem whole to me.