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[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[Well. Another day, another arrival: another Aqua, seemingly dropping out of a portal on the ceiling and stumbling.

Something a bit weird about this one, perhaps, though. Her hair's wild, her eyes tired and oddly focused. She looks rather beaten up, too.]

This - this isn't right...?

((AU Aqua. ... Less than stable, thanks to various things. Usual relevant BBS spoiler warnings apply.))

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/is so sorry, Aqua wouldn't shut up until she got to do this XD

[rainstormxblue.livejournal.com]

Are you all right?

[Says the double that looks a little beat up as well, but not quite as out of it.]

*bwahaha*

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[What the hell?! She steps back, wary, tense.]

What are you?

Teehee

[rainstormxblue.livejournal.com]

Hey wait it's okay I can explain!

[holds a hand out to try and calm her. What happened to you....?]

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[That's not helping too much.]

Then explain. Is this some kind of a trick? Whose idea was this?

[rainstormxblue.livejournal.com]

I don't know whose idea it was, but you're in what's called the Dressing Room, it's like a crossroads of different worlds, there's doubles of everyone here.

Like you, me, and probably the ten or so others of us I think I've seen.

[Hopes this works.]

[aetheriae.livejournal.com]

[sora might not remember her meeting with her world's aqua-- well, aqus, but someone who looks like they might need help and isn't a villain is worth helping!]

Hey, are you okay?

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[You sure on that 'not a villain', Sora? She looks more than a bit confused at the sight of her... what's going on here? Ven's niece or something? She gives a hesitant nod:]

What's happening?

[aetheriae.livejournal.com]

[hey, she doesn't know that :c]

Oh, you're new here?

[give her a second to remember exactly what she was told about this place.]

It's a crossroads between dimensions. Nobody knows how we got here...or how we get back, either.

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

A crossroads between dimensions.

[She looks a bit skeptical, but gives a bit of a nod.]

Between realms? Between worlds?

[aetheriae.livejournal.com]

I think it's between universes. I've seen more than one Riku here, and other versions of me...

[limping-grin.livejournal.com]

Hmm?

What a pretty young thing...

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[Okay, on top of randomly dropping through the worlds, purple catboy doesn't seem too bad. His comment, though, gets a little hint of a blush.]

Thank you. ... I suppose.

[limping-grin.livejournal.com]

[Somebody seems very unalarmed by his legs. In other news, Chesh is trying to figure out if he's ever seen this face before.]

It's the only thing I can say.

Are you as lost as I am?

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[Hey, given he's already rather unusual, she can handle that much...]

That would depend how lost you are.

[limping-grin.livejournal.com]

Did you also walk into this place expecting to be elsewhere?

[todomarishi]

[Don't look now, Aqua, but someone big, metal, and often in need of anger management classes is looking your way.

Seems like it's her condition that's caught his attention. He's noticed the many new Aquas arriving lately, but this is the first one he's seen that has such a... disheveled appearance. He shifts the Keyblade resting over his shoulder, choosing not to directly approach her for now.]

It never is.

[He'll stand back, visor turning to check out their surroundings as if he's standing guard over her until she gets her bearings.]

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[What.
Just. What.
Her Terra's long gone. Long been someone else - just a boy, a fragment of his past. And seeing him here, like he was? She just about freezes.]

How - You're not real...

[todomarishi]

[He looks back to her very briefly. The accusation doesn't bother him much, but it must mean she's from... from sometime after the battle, he would guess. Hard to tell with all the different universes and timelines represented here. And he never did learn what became of the Aqua he knew.]

These feelings are real.

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

Feelings? I - [headshake.] What's happening? What are you? You can't be Terra...

[Evidence of her eyes versus evidence of what she knows, what she's seen. Those conflicts, back then, and so recently, compared to this? The two are fighting somewhere in her head.]

... But how?

[todomarishi]

Can't be? Are you sure of that?

[He turns to her, lifting a certain orange charm out from under the panels of his armor. He recognizes the source of her confusion - she's new, after all - but her questions mean something more to him. He pushes those thoughts back, offering up the standard explanation instead.]

You've found a crossroads, a world with a heart that draws people from faraway places to it. People brought here are from different universes, dimensions, times. There's nothing that can't be here.

[risingwinds.livejournal.com]

[...Whoa. That's not a good sign.

And the curious Ven will curiously wander over to her.]

Aqua...?

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

[She takes a sharp, shocked breath, a half step back.]

N-no. You can't be real. What's happening?

[risingwinds.livejournal.com]

What d'you mean? Of course I'm real!

[He steps closer.]

Aqua, what's wrong?

[stormytides.livejournal.com]

This isn't right - you're gone. Twice over, I heard... all I do is hear, maybe. But I can't be talking to you as you are. Not here. Not now. What am I seeing?...

[risingwinds.livejournal.com]

You're seeing me, Aqua. No tricks or anything, I promise.