A wild Replica appears!

[windup_boytoy]

[Here is Ri. He hasn't been very Ri-like lately, but he certainly isn't on his deathbed anymore, or vomiting Darkness, or anything weird and nasty like that. He's gotten tired of people telling him to rest, so he snuck out. He's currently busily digging through a closet, pulling out interesting bits of electronics and equipment.

He has A Plan. And needs Very Specific Things.

This probably won't end well.]

Comments

[windup_boytoy]

What the hell. What's wrong with those cute little booties? Or maybe a teddy bear or something?

[why so stopping]

[unforgivenskies]

Must have gone out of style.

[Don't worry, he's moving again.]

What was that thing we just went through, Riku?

[windup_boytoy]

Oh. That was just my modified Barrier. I keep it up to keep the Heartless mostly out of the hallway.

[Ri will head further down the hallway, past doors with little name placards that he fixed up, though the 'names' are silly, like 'Prince & Pyro']

And I'm not Riku.

[unforgivenskies]

[Yeah, he's staring at that one as they pass. It makes him think of peas, actually. Then he's shifting his stare to who he thought was Riku.]

Uh... I think I missed something, then.

[windup_boytoy]

My name is Ri. I'm totally way cooler and much more handsome than Riku. And these rooms down here are empty. Do you want to look and choose one?

[unforgivenskies]

Oh, of course... Sure.

[He's still confused, though he's agreeing anyway. He thinks Ri looks just like any other Riku, though admittedly most of them don't have a pink ribbon. Or urges to blow things up.]

So who's the Prince? Charming?

[windup_boytoy]

[his pink ribbon is awesome, thanks very much; he's also laughing at Sora's question]

More like Prince of Dorks. The Prince is Kai, he's a Prince of Heart.

[unforgivenskies]

Oh. I get it. Who's the Pyro then?

[windup_boytoy]

Axel. Not an Organization one. Well, yes, but not. He's a ninja. They're together.

[unforgivenskies]

I don't know what a ninja is, but I don't have a good opinion of Axels either way. I hope I don't see him.

[windup_boytoy]

He's actually decent, for an Axel. I don't particularly like Axels either, but he's okay. You might spot Red around, too. He's Riku-pi's boyfriend.

[oh such delicious gossip]

[unforgivenskies]

Riku-pi?

[Does he even want to ask about Red?]

[windup_boytoy]

Riku-pi is a Riku. Except she's a girl. She and Kai are from the same world, they're all genderswitched there. But her being a girl doesn't make her girly at all, so I had to give her a cute nickname.

[Ri will open the door to the closest empty room; it's set up the way a hotel room would be, though this one happens to have its own bathroom]

[unforgivenskies]

Sounds like it might be dangerous if I tried calling her that. What about this Red guy?

[Sora will wander in, though he isn't too impressed with a hotel look. It would only make him feel guilty if he let it get messy. He does like the bathroom though.]

[windup_boytoy]

Well, yeah, I'm the only one who calls Riku-pi, Riku-pi. Everyone else calls her Riku. I'm special. And Red is... well, he's a pre-Axel, I guess you could say. Axel's Somebody. He's from Halloweentown.

[Ri will wait while you inspect things!]

[unforgivenskies]

[Sora shrugs when he catches Ri looking at him.]

Too fancy. I'd feel bad letting it get messed up.

[windup_boytoy]

[that makes Ri laugh]

You know that you can change the stuff you don't like, right? In my place, I knocked out a bunch of walls to get into the adjoining rooms, so me and Sora have more of an apartment.

[unforgivenskies]

The walls didn't grow back?

[windup_boytoy]

I just kept hacking at them and they learned their lesson. There might've been fire involved.

[he's so proud]

[unforgivenskies]

... Somehow, I'm not surprised.

[He's not willing to try doing the same though. Too much effort when he can simply pick another room. He'll head a few doors down to see what's inside.]

[windup_boytoy]

I had help. Besides, I had to expand our room once my family got bigger.

[unforgivenskies]

Just how big is your family?

[windup_boytoy]

Well, from my world, it's really just me, Sora and Riku. But then Sora and I hav-- had our son, Sorabug, that we sort of adopted here. But then there's Kai & Axel, and Riku-pi & Red... my little brother went home a long time ago, but then there's all the versions of us from the future and stuff. It gets sort of confusing.

[unforgivenskies]

Wait... How can you be from the same world as another Riku? I thought you just decided to be different from all the other ones here.

[The future bit is just as confusing to him, but it's Ri he's talking to, not some futuristic person.]

[windup_boytoy]

[that makes him chuckle]

Because I'm not Riku, remember? So of course we can be from the same world.