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]

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

[Well.] He's dead.

1/2

[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.

[perplexme]

A heart. It's not exactly something you can see.

[doubleppk]

Then what pumps your blood?

Wait, but there are plenty of people in my world with mechanical hearts.

[perplexme]

...we don't have that either. [Yeah it. Gets complicated.]

[doubleppk]

I see. But that doesn't mean you're not supposed to be... just that you're heartless zombies.

[She is... the kindest.]

[perplexme]

It's a long story. We're different than zombies...[Sort of. That's tricky too, considering how he behaved when he was first born.] Just trust me.

[doubleppk]

[Trust... hah... hard word for Fujiko, but she's not going to point it out.] If you say so sugar.

But you're too sweet to "heartless" as you say. Are you sure it's not just hiding somewhere?

[perplexme]

...no, I'm pretty sure. Sora's got it anyway.

[doubleppk]

Someone you're in love with?

[perplexme]

Not quite. He's my Other. I was kind of born from him.

[doubleppk]

I'm confused.

Wait! Is it like a yin and yang separating, but with one with a heart, and the other missing like a brain or something?

[perplexme]

...sorta, but we both have our brains. [Even though according to Roxas he's smarter than Sora.] We separated, and he got to keep the heart and I didn't.

[doubleppk]

What did he lose... other than you, I mean?