Fifty-Ninth Keychain - [Voice]

[perplexme]

Okay...since Axel seems to think it's a bad idea to try and teach the cat to ice skate, let me ask all of you a question. A friend and I are thinking about starting a business. It's something really good, promise.

Think about this. You have an important item but suddenly you can't find it. You think it might have even been stolen. So who would you call? The police, sure, but what about detectives?

[The camera's soon going to get a view of the front cover of a detective novel he picked up from the library.]

Even if it's not something a lot of people would use, I bet at least one person could use a few detectives around here, so I'm volunteering myself and Naoto Shirogane. Need a mystery to be solved? Call us. We all know weird stuff happens around here all the time...just look at last week.

[And with that being said, he's going to wander through KH house to see if Axel's home. He's had a few discussions with the older boy involving another certain bff and a certain redhead replica. And so there's a few minutes' pause before the next bit filters through.]

[Filtered to Luke]

Hey. Axel and I want to talk to you at Fourteen. Come over.

Comments

[voice]

[perplexme]

It's the name of--well it doesn't matter. They've pretty much disbanded anyway. [Kind of happens when all of the members are dead.] You sound surprised.

[voice]

[menial]

I suppose it may not be the single most distinctive name for a group in the various universes, but I thought you might be referring to some people that I know, also.

What were they?

[voice]

[perplexme]

Nobodies. [Well, you asked.]

[voice]

[menial]

...Is that a derogatory term, or what?

[voice]

[perplexme]

No, that's what we're actually called. Why would that be derogatory?

[voice]

[menial]

['"We," huh?']

Doesn't sound like a compliment, at any rate.

[voice]

[perplexme]

Well being called human isn't really a compliment either, but it's what you are, right?

[voice]

[menial]

Sure, but it doesn't actively sound like an insult.

[voice]

[perplexme]

The Organization was made up of Nobodies. That's all I was told...I don't know who came up with the name, but I can't exactly go back on it.

[voice]

[menial]

['How circular.']

...Right. Well, far be it from me to judge your nomenclature.

[voice]

[perplexme]

It's just...a good term. Nobodies aren't really people, so what else would you even call them?

[voice]

[menial]

...What are you if you aren't people?

[voice]

[perplexme]

...guess we're half of a person. Bodies without hearts.

[voice]

[menial]

['So why are they Nobodies? Shouldn't they be Nohearts?']

So if we cut you, you don't bleed.

[voice]

[perplexme]

You'd think that, but there's something about this place...[Which is what makes some of the Malnosso experiments even stranger, considering. He'd bled before, but maybe it's because he's a special nobody. But then again, Xion bled too when Vanitas attacked her...Axel, too.

When Axel died though...he just faded. He exploded but there was no blood, just fading into non-existence.

It's a loaded question.]

It's complicated.

[voice]

[menial]

...I see. Or I don't, I guess.

Then how do you... work?

[voice]

[perplexme]

When somebody with a strong heart loses it, a Heartless is born. Nobodies are created with what's left...y'know, like the body and soul and stuff. That's what I've figured out anyway.

[voice]

[menial]

Wait, a Heartless is the heart and a Nobody is the body?

['Is there any more confusing terminology you could use for this?!']

[voice]

[perplexme]

All thanks to the darkness. I know, it doesn't make sense, but that's how things are.

[voice]

[menial]

...Right.

Who came up with that one...?

[voice]

[perplexme]

Probably Xemnas. [It'd make the most sense.] He functioned as the leader, I guess.

[voice]

[menial]

['Not what I meant, but, right.

Seriously, Hearts of Darkness? Isn't that a novel? What's the deal with all these places?']

So you were a spy for these people.

[voice]

[perplexme]

I fulfilled missions. Sometimes they included spying, sometimes it was just killing Heartless.

[voice]

[menial]

...How's that work, anyway? What are the Heartless, just big floating hearts?

['Gross. Not to mention necessarily temporary.']

[voice]

[perplexme]

No...they're more like little creatures made from darkness. [He'll just be drawing the most basic type.] But they take a lot of different shapes and sizes. Depending on how powerful they are.