Old muse! new account!! Lets see if I've still got this. c:

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

[A sudden explosion of dark tendrils and a blinding white flash exposes a hunched over figure on their knees. There are gasping breaths for air that aren't needed - not anymore - not without a heart. After a few shaking and forced gasps the nobody lifts his head to look around with more just a little bit of confusion apparent on his face]

--what the?

[With a barely suppressed whimper Demyx hauls himself to his feet, not as easy as he first anticipated, made apparent by the cringe and unsteady balance that serves to remind him of a recently concluded battle. That's right - he had fought Sora and failed. His nonexistence had been terminated... so why?]

[Why was he here?]

Man, is this some sort of afterlife? [taps his temple thoughtfully] Do nobodies even have an afterlife?

[Have an extremely confused nobody.]

{ooc// coming to the dressing room right after that final battle with Sora. Have fun trying to explain things to him. c': I hope I did this right!}

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[shotyourlock.livejournal.com]

[Some of the finer details of this guy's appearance are no doubt less-than-familiar to Demyx (notably the lack of gray streaking his hair and the clothes he's wearing) but the eyepatch and scar are... pretty recognizable no matter what the world.]

As if it would actually be an afterlife.

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

[Effective way to make him even more confused! Demyx squints a little at the slight change in appearance. It looks like Xigbar - yet something else about him really doesn't. What is up with that. But he is at least pleased to see a familiar face.]

Hey, Xig'! You're here too? [looks around] Uh... where ever 'here' is.

[blinks] Where are we exactly?

[shotyourlock.livejournal.com]

Spacio-temporal crossroads. But you can call it "The Dressing Room".

[A brief pause, and then:]

Oh, and the name's Braig. Not Xigbar.

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

"The Dressing Room", huh? Weird. _{Now I just have to find out why I'm here and maybe things will start making sense}!

[Flinches visibly. There is no way he just mistook someone else for Xigbar. But apparently he had?]

No way!

[There is a stunned silence that lasts longer than it should as the gears in IX's head start to turn and a truly dumbfounded expression from Demyx]

But you look just like him. [Demyx laughs and looks away to avoid any awkward eye contact] 'cept kind of younger.

[shotyourlock.livejournal.com]

[Braig just grins, as if he's heard this sort of thing before (he has, not that he'll say so).]

I'd kind of hope I did. I mean, it's not like a lot of dudes can rock the whole eyepatch look, if you know what I mean.

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, you don't exactly run into many guys with eye patches. [Lightbulb goes off in his head.] Wait a sec, does this mean you know Xigbar?

[It still hasn't occurred to Demyx. You can't really blame the kid. A detective he is not.]

[shotyourlock.livejournal.com]

Why don't we just say I know of him? I mean, kinda hard not to, when the place sees juuuuust about everyone sooner or later.

[Braig doesn't blame him in the least! He's just not going to stop being cryptic.]

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

'know of him'? [the look he gives Braig shows his dissatisfaction with that answer. But he's not going to say anything about it]

It's kind of hard to believe just about everyone shows up here. [not that he distrusts your word- oh okay maybe just a little] I mean, I don't remember being here before!

[shotyourlock.livejournal.com]

Because you weren't. But dudes enough like you? Those we've had. Might still have even. I mean, it's not a multiversal crossroads for nothing.

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

Now that's just weird!

[Demyx rubs his forehead]

I think this multiversal crossroads thing is going to give me a headache.

[shotyourlock.livejournal.com]

Ah, you'll get used to it. I mean, not like you were doing anything else, right?

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

[Grumbles]

For all that you know I might have a lot of things I could be doing.

[He does plenty of things like sit on the couch, play his sitar.... nap...]

[shotyourlock.livejournal.com]

You can do 'em here.

[He's not going to bother asking what. He might not know Demyx, not personally, but he knows someone close enough as to base a few key assumptions on.]

[skybright]

It's not the afterlife.

[there's a Sora nearby! fancy that. except this Sora is visibly a little older than the one Demyx would have been fighting, and on top of that sounds and looks a good deal more female.]

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

[well he doesn't know that this is kind of a different Sora. Or maybe he's just too preoccupied with summoning his sitar to notice the differences]

You!

[scowls at. Demyx iiiiis still a little sore from round 1]

[skybright]

[she makes a face at his response, not that she can really blame him. she was getting her ass kicked by him when she first showed up ages ago, and was pretty sore about it for a while.]

I'm not the one you were just fighting, aaaand you probably don't want to fight me. I've learned a lot since that time in my life.

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

[Demyx doesn't really want to have to fight unless he has to, especially right now when he's kind of exhausted.]

I can't exactly trust the words of a traitor, now can I?

[Damn right he's giving this Sora a suspicious look over.]

[skybright]

[she just rolls her eyes.]

Look, I'm not Roxas, okay? She- or I guess he, where you're from- is inside me, yeah, but she's not even awake. Or at least, not making herself known to me.

aka Demyx is too tired to listen to Organization orders at the moment

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

_{[Well he guess that makes some sense... Demyx sighs]}

Well, if you are actually telling the truth and aren't the person I was ordered to confront I guess there's no point in this.

_{[He still has his guard up because despite it being an alternate version it's still Sora]}

Wait a minute- "She"?!

[skybright]

[why does no one ever notice she's a girl? it's kind of frustrating, and makes her feel a little self-conscious. is it really not that easy to tell? whatever, she sighs and nods.]

Yes, she. You're a she where I'm from, too.

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

_{[It is mostly because it just takes Demyx a bit to realize some things sometimes.]}

I'm a chick too? _{[give him a moment so he can wrap his mind around this one]} Like, with boobs and all?

_{[looks down at his chest - then looks over at hers]}

[skybright]

Um, duh.

[since girls generally have those. and Sora hunches a bit when his gaze is suddenly on her. her coat isn't enough to completely hide the fact that she's got female curves, even if her chest isn't terribly impressive.]

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

That's just weird!

<sub>[Demyx figures it probably has to do with the whole Spacio-temporal crossroads thing Braig was kind of trying to explain to him earlier. Heck if he understands any of it.]


[...That and Demyx has a hard time imagining himself as a girl]</sub>

[skybright]

Yeah, well, imagine coming to a place that's full of people who look like they're the wrong gender to you.

[since that's basically how it was for her.]

[lookinglively.livejournal.com]

_{[oh, jeez, so now he feels kind of bad for her]}

That... must have been a lot to adjust to.

_{[Demyx isn't sure if he should give Sora a sympathetic pat on the head or if that would be innapropriate- not so long ago he was fighting with an alternate version]}