lost again, little boy?

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

[Here's a young man that might look familiar to some, wandering the halls with a pensive expression on his face. As he makes his way along ever so slowly he casts a wary glance to his left, and then to his right, repeating this process every so often.

Passing by an open door he peers into a room, starts, and glaps a gloved hand over his face (that's turning scarlet with record timing), hurrying away. He's not sure what those people were just doing and he...doesn't think he wants to know.

So it's back to shuffling along quietly. He rubs a hand over a scarlet brand on the back of his neck that just peeks out over his clothing, huffing out a quiet sigh]

What sort of place is this..?


[ooc: Say hello to your own little bit of ancient history. Keir here's from the days of conflict leading to the Keyblade War. Bit of background's in his userinfo and fellow precanoners are always awesome, just sayin'.

P.S. feel free to be that naughty couple accidentally peeped on]

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[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

[Kira is quick to snatch up her clothing]

Thanks Rik-- you're not Rikka.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

[Confusion crosses his features for a moment, and then he's quick to agree]

I am not. My name is Keir.

[And as befits an introduction, he sweeps into a formal bow]

It's nice to meet you.

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

[she looks a little flustered but pleased by your manners and nods a little in return]

Thank you then, Keir. You look an awful lot like my brother, Rikka. And this other boy I met named Hope.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

[And when he straightens he stands as tall as his limited height allows. Good posture's important, right?]

I'm...glad I could be of assistance.

I believe I've met Hope; he mentioned we weren't the only two with similar appearances.

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. It's kind of weird. My family is pretty big, so don't be bothered if someone else thinks you're Rikka.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

Your whole family is in this place?

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Of course. More than one of them, too. I was born in the DR, after all.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

People have been here that long?

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Well, time works funny here. My parents were here for like, 15 years before they had me and my siblings, and then they were put in the past, which is now. The me in this time is only a baby.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

...

[dumbfounded]

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Is something wrong?

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

That did not wholly make sense to me.

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Oh. How about this: I'm from fifteen years in the future.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

...Time travel?

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Yup. Pretty cool, huh?

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

It sounds a bit strange to me...

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

You sort of get used to it. Time doesn't work right here, so you might meet the same person when they're a kid, when they're a teenager, and when they're old.

[old is like, anyone over 20]

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

...How does that even...

[Headaches, they're coming for him]

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Like I said, time here is malleable. You might meet someone here who is dead for you, but they're alive because they're taken from before they were killed.

... oh, you can't die here. Not permanently. If you do, you just get brought back.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

But what if someone died of old age, or of illness?

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's anyone that old in the DR. And as for getting sick, it depends. Some people might die and when they come back, they're still sick. Some people die and come back healthy. It's the same for being killed in a fight. No one knows how it works.

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

...So it's possible for someone to continue dying of the same ailment over and over?

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. Unless they managed to get healed in between. Daddy... he told us once that he met a man here who kept... he kept killing himself, over and over, to get out of the DR. It didn't work.

[obviously she does not like this line of conversation]

[guiltybreak.livejournal.com]

[Keir remains silent. He has to wonder if, over time, one would become that desperate for freedom, to get home]

[daddyhasagun.livejournal.com]

... anyway, being here isn't as bad as lots of people say, I don't think. But I didn't come from a whole different world either.