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●●●●○ THESA

Roxas
@XIII (16), Twilight Town

CONTACT

IGNORE

I WAS A: useful tool

I'M SKILLED IN: fighting, skateboarding

I'M LOOKING FOR: answers about my existence

ALSO, I'M: nobody

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text | c.fraser

[nineteenfortyfive]

Hello, Roxas. This is Claire. We met in Nadril. How are you doing?

[pullsheavendown]

Oh hi Claire. I'm doing all right. How are you?

[nineteenfortyfive]

Good. Just about settled back in.

I was curious. Do you know someone named Terra?

[pullsheavendown]

[She can't see it, but his smile vanishes.]

What did he tell you?

[nineteenfortyfive]

He seems to think you're his friend named Ven. Does that sound absurd to you?

[pullsheavendown]

It sounds annoying that he's saying that to other people now. I'm not Ventus.

[nineteenfortyfive]

He's a friend of mine and I offered to help him with something that was weighing on him. He's not the type to gossip.

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[happylocksmith]

Message Sent: 02:47

Hey. R u awake?

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[pullsheavendown]

Yeah actually

Your keyboard broken?

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[happylocksmith]

No, it's just quicker this way!

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[pullsheavendown]

In a hurry?

What's up?

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[happylocksmith]

Not really! I just wanted to see if you were awake.

I didn't wake you did I?

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[pullsheavendown]

No. I woke up a little while ago after a dream. Haven't been able to get back to sleep yet.

voice; un: souleater

[dreamprotector]

[A day or two after Riku got warped into his past self, he's back to normal… and unfortunately the memories of that particular time and one particular encounter remain. The memory leaves him groaning faintly into his hands – of course Roxas had to run into himself from the one time that Riku would really like to… well, not pretend that didn't happen, because it had to happen, and he is better off for it, he knows that, but.

But, well, he's still embarrassed as hell by his younger self.

Anyway, drawing out the inevitable is never helpful, so here, have a call, Roxas.

Ring, ring?]

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[pullsheavendown]

[He's pretty sure he knows the person behind this username, and while it's not exactly a pleasure to see it, it's also not surprising. Roxas takes a moment to settle himself (on a rooftop in Olympia, because where else would he want to just hang out and chill by himself?) before answering.]</small? Hi?

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[dreamprotector]

Hey, it's me. Riku.

[Well, isn't that a fantastically awkward start, Riku thinks to himself and almost wants to burry his face in his hands again. 10/10 for good intention, 1/10 for execution.]

I just wanted to apologize for the other day. I was an idiot at that age.

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[Well, yeah. He noticed that. Maybe Riku thinks Roxas would be petty enough to not pick up if he knew it was him.]

Why are you apologizing? You lost.

[And Roxas can't even feel smug about it, because with Riku that age, the fight didn't mean anything. Maybe Riku should apologize for that.]

[dreamprotector]

[Riku has honestly no idea what to think, and figures he'll just go with the flow or something like that. He'll figure out how to talk to Roxas and not make an fool of himself at some point. Maybe.]

Doesn't mean I shouldn't apologize for starting that fight in first place.

[Because fighting Roxas is. A complicated thing, given how their last face-off had ended, and Riku really would have preferred doing it under very different circumstances himself. So yea, maybe he should be apologizing for that indeed.]

[pullsheavendown]

[Roxas pauses for a moment, then shrugs, remembering half a second later that Riku can't actually see him.]

Sure. I'm not going to hold that against you.

[Not when there are other, better options, ones he doesn't actually know how much he's going to hold against Riku in the end.]

Why did you start it? What was going on when you thought you were from?

[happylocksmith]

[Shortly after this happens:]

Hey.

[Does Sora sound slightly crestfallen on the other end of the line? Yes. Yes he does.]

I found her.

[pullsheavendown]

You did? That's great!

[He knew how worried Sora was before he'd gone looking. He's got to be relieved to have found her...except, he doesn't sound all that happy about it.]

Is it not great?

[happylocksmith]

Not really...

[Except no, that doesn't sound right. It is great. She's okay. She's not hurt or anything.]

Something's not right, she doesn't remember anything. And she's got bunny ears!

[pullsheavendown]

[Roxas barely even hears that last part. His blood's turned to ice.]

What do you mean, she doesn't remember anything? What did she forget?

[happylocksmith]

Everything! She doesn't remember the islands or how she got there, or anything that happened with the Darkness-

[He's trying not to sound panicky about this, he's not. There has to be an explanation for this.

Except there's not, and it's driving him nuts.]

She knows that she's Kairi. She thinks she's always been here, she doesn't remember anything else.

[Or anyone else.]

[pullsheavendown]

[Roxas swallows hard. This is all too familiar, horribly so, except it's flipped around from what he remembers. For a moment he thinks, this must be how Axel felt.

Except it's not the same, he's not as close to Kairi as Axel had been to him. But Sora is.]

Someone must have made her forget. Messed with her memories.

[There's a faint edge to his voice, a hint of anger. This is wrong.]