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[another_chance]

[There's a few folks of the Xehanort persuasion out and about today, it seems...

The youngest? blankedpoint can be found raiding a kitchen. Got to say, he likes this much of things since they changed. Not like he has any clue that most places don't.

A teenaged one, then. another_chance has found himself an arcade room, and is very happily taking a blast at some seriously retro games.

The adult? forza_del_bene has found the laboratories, and he could hardly be happier. He's hard at work setting up various bits of kit.

A female one - exmariascientia is in the simulation room. Taking a very logical and precise study of the effects of whacking a rather too bulky looking keyblade at things.

In other news.

An Aqua has finally come out of seclusion. tideturned reacted in a most-un-Master-like fashion to the DR closing in again, but she's improving. She's hanging out in a comfy lounge, listening to music and sipping on some kind of relaxing herbal tea. Just taking it easy.

As far as Keyblade Masters go, there's another who's stirring; lightofoblivion is in the library. Felicius is catching up on a few history books, though he can't help but find himself cursing the lack of anything much between his own era and that of most of the residents...

Last of all, a pair of Heartless. kingdom_seed is in a garden; Layla's well wrapped up against any chill in the air, sitting on a bench and happily writing away.

As for her father? As for agrabah_weapon?
... Maybe it's a good job she can't see Kurt at the moment. This is a Heartless on the prowl. Maybe not conspicuously so, but better stay clear of those back corridors if your heart's interesting enough...]

((And that's everyone who currently has a journal of mine, aha. This is my attempt to get back into the loop (via being a copycat apparently), usual open-post stuffin' applies.))

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[reversedestiny]

[There's silence a moment, before he... Actually shuffles his feet a bit.]

...We don't have games like these at the castle.

[another_chance]

[Huh. Pause.]

... which castle? [...Didn't Sora come from an island?] Though... I wasn't too familiar with them before I came here, though, either. We had computers, but not many games.

[reversedestiny]

Hollow Bastion.

[Maybe other Soras. But he'll go and inspect a fighting game...]

...I've never used the computer. Dad says it's off-limits to me right now. But I've read a lot of the library books.

[another_chance]

[... Hollow. Bastion. He tenses up noticeably, but tries to stay calm as he speaks on.]

I know the place. Well. I used to live there once.

[Before it changed.
Something's not right there.]

[reversedestiny]

Really?

[...So the appearance might not be coincidence, then.]

I don't know many people who would live there.

[another_chance]

When I lived there it was still called Radiant Garden.

[Easy. Easy. He's looking more at his game than at Sora as he speaks, though.]

[reversedestiny]

...Radiant Garden?

[He's never heard that name before.]

[another_chance]

Yeah. [And now he looks over.] No-one ever ... mentioned it to you?

[reversedestiny]

...It's just me and Dad.

[And a bunch of Heartless and the occasional visiting villain from another world.]

[another_chance]

[Hmm. Second time he's said that.]

Who's your dad?

[reversedestiny]

...He looks a lot like you, actually. His name's Ansem.

[He'll just be trying to figure out the controls to the game he's standing at.]

[another_chance]

[Well, crap. He's going to be a bit mind-blown for a moment. Don't mind him turning the earlier stare right back... that description's helped out with the 'which person called Ansem' question quite nicely.]

...He raised you?

[How the heck...?]

[reversedestiny]

Yeah. He took me in when I was little and my parents abandoned me. He says he found wandering in the darkness. It's been just us ever since.

[Well, except for Kairi for a bit.]

[another_chance]

[A little suspicious, but he can't immediately see any flaws in the description...]

Huh. I guess I just never saw him as the sort.

[Not an Ansem, anyway. But given his own difference in background... he's willing to give the benefit of the doubt.]

[reversedestiny]

He's not always the best, but... He taught me everything I know.

[...Unfortunately, it's left him with little time to do much else, it seems.]

[another_chance]

Well... that's good, then. You're happy, there? Were happy?

[He's clutching at the concept that things might've somehow turned out alright...]

Crushing those hopes in three... Two...

[reversedestiny]

Yeah. I help him out with his work, and with the Heartless.

[...Said way too casually. Yup.]

...one... crud.

[another_chance]

[... He just thumps the buttons of his game at that.]

Heartless. Still the Heartless.

[reversedestiny]

...Well, yeah. Why not?

[And yes. He's sincere.]

[another_chance]

[...Seriously. He takes a deep breath, a deep sigh, trying to restrain himself.]

Do you know what they do? The destruction they cause?

[reversedestiny]

Of course I do. I've lived with them for nine years.

[another_chance]

[Gritting teeth, now.]

If you don't see the harm in it, I'm hardly going to be able to tell you what it is. [He looks down, shakes his head.]

You really are your father's son.

[reversedestiny]

...Why is it a bad thing? Humans aren't exactly pristine.

[Spoken like someone who's seen a lot of the negatives.]

They'll trample each other if it means saving themselves.

[another_chance]

[He swallows. Trying to stay calm - and trying to keep the bot of him that sees the point under control.]

So what do you want to do, then? What's your hope for the future?

[reversedestiny]

That everything will return to the darkness. And then, there will be no more pain, no more suffering... Nothing.