kingdomdressing | Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

[sitting on the arm of a couch, slouching and looking around the room - wearing a black hoodie, jeans and untied sneakers]

Well this is a new place. Yeep. Definitely new. Not too weirder than usual, but I wonder why I've never been here before. Doesn't seem like I can leeeave...

Maybe I finally went nuts. [kicks a foot] ...Nah.

...Mom would be mad.

And Dad's gonna get pissed, it's almost peak season and I still have to set up the torture chamber.

[pulls an orange flier out of the pocket of his hoodie - it reads THE CASTLE THAT NEVER WAS, advertising a haunted house] God, only 59 days till the 31st... Why am I talking to myself. [rubs an eye]

[folds the flier and puts it back in his pocket - oh well, might as well continue with the self-talking] Maybe I'm dead. If I am, then I'll find a way home and become the theme for next year. [sighs]
If I do make it home, I can at least bring some ideas. A million clones of yourself, oh the horrors.

...I bet Axel would know what to do. Or at least cheer me up with some lame joke.

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Um.

[you're on the couch she frequents, judging by the pile of books in her arms and the fact that she's heading in your direction.]

Do you normally talk to yourself?

Oh, hey.

Yeah, usually. Is it bothering you? I can move.

No, just wondering. I take it by your uh... monologue there, that you're new here?

[will just stand a little ways away.]

[laughs] Gotta befriend yourself to deal with yourself, y'know?

And yeah, I'm new. You look a lot like a girl I go to school with.

Not surprising, there's a lot of me's wandering around here.

[smiles and moves a little closer, if only to dump her books on a nearby coffee table.]

Welcome to the dressing room, I guess.

A lot of me's too, apparently.

[returns the smile] Dressing room, huh? Deeefinitely not like the one we have back home.

Yeah. A lot of you's and me's and Sora's and Riku's and Axel's and Namine's...

[shakes her head after a moment.]

I don't know why it's called the dressing room; it seems more like some sort of impossible hotel to me. But apparently it's some sort of... crossroads between worlds, and pulls people from a bunch of different worlds. Hence the doubles.

I figured it was either something like that or my own mind playing tricks on me. But I feel too awake to be dreaming. Eh. [shrugs]

So, uh... What kind of world are you from? [wonders if it's anything like his]

It's pretty normal compared to most of the people around here; I'm just a regular high schooler.

[laughs a little.]

It sounds so boring compared to all the people around here, though. So many people here have traveled to different worlds or gone on adventures of some sort, or at least have neat powers.

[raises eyebrows] Nah, that's not boring at all! I'm the same way. I go to school in Philly.

I'm not - I mean my family isn't exactly what you'd call normal, though.

...Neat powers? Like, uh, Spiderman or something?

...Cool. [impressed nod]

Really? I was going to school in Quebec until this year. I mention my city, my province, my country and over half the people here don't know it! It's kind of annoying sometimes.

Not normal? How so?

[laughs again.]

More like magic. Shooting fireballs, summoning weapons, that kind of thing. Like out of a video game.

Oh, Canada? That's cool. I was born in Seattle, but my parents adopted me and they lived in Philly...

Ehh, well. My family own this haunted house. And it's really popular, but it's hard to upkeep and stuff... Just a weird thing to grow up around, haha.

Having to listen to Dad is the worst, though. But the other employees are fun. Except for Larxene, I hate her. Luxord always comes in drunk, too. [frowns]
Axel's my favorite. [smiles]

...Shooting fireballs? Dude, that sounds awesome. Normally I'd ask if you were kidding, but right now I think I'd believe anything you say. [laughs]

Really? I'm living in B.C. to go to school this year.

Your family owns a haunted house? That is so cool!

Larxene is the psychology teacher at my school. I'm not too surprised about Axel, though. Roxae and Axels seem to be good friends in a lot of worlds.

It's pretty cool, but some people here are really dangerous.

[her hand unconsciously drifts to her stomach as she says this, curling in the fabric of her shirt.]

Yeah... That's what a lot of people say. I guess it's cool, but when you've been around it for so long, it doesn't really... seem so special, I suppose. ...And it's probably why I think horror movies are completely dumb.

Woah. Larx? A psychology teacher?? I never would've put that together. [has a good laugh] Axel's a cool guy, he's one of Dad's best employees.

Dangerous? [looks at her, concerned] What, don't tell me something happened to you. [extremely nervous for his well-being now - this is why he hates going places alone. This is probably no different than the city!]

But you're not dead.

I... well, I died.

[frowns.]

When I say the people here are dangerous, I mean it. Some of them are murderers, or completely nuts. You should probably try to avoid Larxenes and possibly Saixes, and be wary around basically anyone in a long, black coat. Oh, and there's some crazy Axel-looking guy with green hair and clown makeup. Stay far, far away from him, he apparently carved some guy's face up on his first day here.

Oh hello, clone of me.

You don't know that, though, do you? I mean, I could be, for all we both know.

[easygoing shrug] I don't really care. At least it's a moment's peace.

What's your story?

You... died?

Wait, wait, wait. If you're dead, how are you here? Does this place, like, have a respawn point? [blink]

[nods, taking this information into account - geez, this place isn't as great as he made it out to be] ...Long black coats, okay.

[winces at the mention of carving faces] I don't feel so safe, anymore. [now he really wishes Axel - well, the Axel he knows - was around.]

No, someone used some kind of potion on me, and it brought me back and healed me completely.

[sighs softly.]

Sorry for dumping all this on you right away, but it's better that you know now instead of finding out later if you got attacked. It's generally not that dangerous; there are a lot of nice people here as well.

Potion... Kay. So it is like a video game.

And it's okay. I think I'd be more comfortable knowing now, rather than find out later that I was in the company of and possibly befriending murderers without even knowing it. [blink.]

I'll have to try and pick out the nice people. I'm glad I met you first.

[have an unblinking look. This kid's right eye is completely black and boy does it stare]

I'm just a Roxas, silly. I don't have a fun story.

[smiles, head tilting slightly as she does so.]

I'm glad I could help out someone new.

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

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