kingdomdressing | ♡ Now, after leaving Kairi and Sora to their sleep, this wasn't where he expected to end up...

[ Oh hey. There's yet another Door of Darkness popping open in Radiant Garden, a familiar enough sight around these parts and a person stepping out of it, ignoring the faint wisps of black clinging to their black cloak, and looking mighty confused as the silvernette blindly takes in his unfamiliar surroundings.

Obviously, this wasn't what he had expected to see.

There's a new Riku to add to the current collection, sleek black cell phone clenched in hand and a black blindfold smugly wrapped over his sharp eyes. Yet, strangely enough, there's a odd amount of Light -for a Riku of this time period anyway- swirling within him. ]

... This clearly isn't where I supposed to end up.

[ And then he 'spots', well, senses... multiplies of the same person. There are dozens, upon dozens of similiar but not scents overlaying this whole place and it's got him on edge. Had Xehanort and his friends already stumbled, actually, scratch that knowing them and their hero complexes, probably jumped feet-first into trouble or something?

And what's with the cell phone?

[ occ note: This Riku hails from the same Mirrorverse!universe as

youstillneedme,

lower_case_x ,

stormytides , and

x_roadnot_taken . :D Taken from after CoM. ]

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[Even would like to protest that 'hero complex' remark. He'll grudgingly admit that he's a decent man, but he's really only along to provide some semblance of sanity to the group - or so he sees it, anyway.]

It's not where any of us were to end up.

[ Lea, Isa, Xehanort, Ienzo... The list goes on, and sadly, Even, you're included in it.

And sanity is overrated. ]

... [ Riku quickly turns to face the blonde man, frowning. Hey, wasn't one of Xehanort's ~~minions~~ friends? What's-his-name... Even? ]

Wonderful. Where is "here"?

Edited 2011-06-12 19:06 (UTC)

[Someone has to balance out Braig, and if it has to be him, well, so be it. Their travel group would be even more of a shambles otherwise.]

Most here refer to it as 'the Dressing Room'. However it more closely resembles a... nexus of sorts. A crossroads, if you prefer.

[ Ugh. He's crossed paths with you lot enough to know that if that organization of heroes was in any more shambles, it'd be horrible.

How do you balance out Braig? ]

... A interiexistal nexus of worlds called the "Dressing Room"? I thought a dressing room was where you tried on new clothes...

Great.

[Oh, a new arrival? Well, someone here isn't going to leave them stranded. (Although if he realised just which Riku this actually was, he'd be contemplating it.) Regardless, Xeha's offering a smile, even if he's not sure it'll be noticed given the context-]

Probably not, no.

[Very carefully.]

I'm hardly the one to be blamed for the ludicrous name of the place.

[ A surprised look, cause I mean what the heck last he saw, you were running off with that annoying duck and dog, not in this weird place. And then;

Damnit, stupid hero! ]

Xehanort-- Xeha?

[He blinks, a little baffled by the sudden notoriety.]

Um - that's my name...?

[And shortened straight away, too. Huh.]

[ Very, very carefully. ]

... Never said that.

[ This being nice, and not rude thing? Kinda sucks, how do Light-people do it all the time? ]

It was very nearly implied.

[There's nothing saying Light-siders can't have their sharper sides. Take him, for example.]

[ Well, his ~~ex-~~ ~~former~~ ~~best~~ friends are kinda in comas right now, and you slacking off isn't something he needs. ]

Not often I see you without those annoying sidekicks of yours.

[ Remember this snark, Xeha? Remember it? ]

Wasn't intended.

[ He noticed, alright. ]

[Vaguely. Riku's seen him more than he's seen Riku at this point of his story. It's enough to make him almost jump as he realises what he's talking about, though. Sidekicks...? Does that mean...?

His tone lowers, becomes steady and serious.]

Once. There's a lot that's changed.

Then I suppose I can accept the apology, such as it might be.

[ There's a eye-roll concealed behind that new black blindfold of his. ]

And what changed, Xehanor-- Xeha?

Hn.

[ Headtilt. ]

What's with all the... strange copies of the same scents around?

[He sighs. If this is his Riku, he's not expecting a positive response, but...]

Look around you. Or ... whatever you want to do. Does this look like the Radiant Garden you know? This isn't even the universe we used to know.

[ This is his Riku, just a little further along and a change in where he stands in the grand scheme of things.

With a shrug, Riku turned his head towards Xehanort, eyes shut behind the blindfold -- he couldn't see with his eyes this way, after all, and so had adapted to probing with the Darkness/Light, forming shapes in his mind to show him what things were what, albeit with very little detail, if any, in hues of black and white.

So it was specifically-shaped masses and scents for him, but it worked all right. ]

... Considering they're still rebuilding Radiant Garden from Hollow Bastion, no, it doesn't.

[Rebuilding? He swallows. Spoilers.]

...They weren't even doing that when I saw it last. But that's part of the point! Time's strange. Space is strange. There's a million bits of different worlds from a thousand different timelines here.

[Slightly sarcastic-]

Sorry if you wanted to pull whatever stunt you had planned next. But it's not so simple right now.

[ Spoilers, oh shi-

Mental blink. Then a mental groan. The alternate universe theory. And he's in a crossroads, a nexus of that-theory-proven-true. Oh, as he had said before; just wonderful. His head was going to hurt so much by the end of this.

Let's focus on the facts then. He has a DiZ to track down after all. ]

... So, we're from different times, but I'm ahead of your time?

[ If so, awesome. He's likes having a edge, however slight. Riku is... kinda assuming Xehanort's from some point after Riku switched sides, because Riku's used to dealing with Xeha being on the same team as him. btw also totally noticed that sarcasm there.

Have a smirk. Siding with the Light or not, the In-Betweener's still somewhat of cocky bastard. ]

The next "stunt" I have to pull actually involves helping you, hero. Come'on, don't tell me you've forgotten so quickly.

[Helping him? What the-? He might be used to Rikus being decent folks by now, but in this context...]

Can't forget what you never knew. And last time I saw you, you were hanging around with Heartless.

Parallel dimensions.

[ Oh, he's a bastard though and though, but decent enough at his ~~squishy~~ core.

The smirk fades a little at that, before he snorts. ]

... I ditched 'em. To be correct, I back-stabbed every last one of them.

[ That was the simplest version of the tale he was willing to give at the moment. ]

Edited 2011-06-12 21:39 (UTC)

... Oh, hell.

Huh.

[Interesting. Very interesting.]

Saw sense, then? [Refraining from 'see the light'...]

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