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[ The more things change, the more they stay the same, and things are changing. It's a bit like falling into Wonderland. For those from a universe where 'Ansem' destroyed entire worlds, they might it find familiar, reminiscent of the dark outskirts of the worlds leftover. Soras, especially, will find the way they scatter and melt into nothing familiar. The entire dressing room is shrinking. As the worlds unmerge and become their own, disconnected from the makeshift world around them, things are reverting back to how they were. The outermost walls of the apartment building are expanding, the actual apartments themselves shifting around like a Rubik's Cube, down one, to the side, turning in place. Some go tumbling like a box kicked down a flight of stairs. Houses are sliding closer, squashed together, yards shrinking to fit a uniform length.

When things stop and the dust settles, most people will find the result just as familiar. Anyone who's been here longer than a year surely will. We're back to the original layout of the dressing room; the endless apartments. There's no end in sight, but there's also no roof, and the hallways aren't pristine. Most of them look the same, or similar enough, but they still seem outdoors. Concrete sidewalks and round stone walkways in dirt roads, desert passages made of sand and stone, grassy halls lined with vines and flowers up doorframes, or wet, murky swamps with steps leading up to rooms. There are halls for where people live, but they're virtually indistinguishable from the other halls. The rooms where nothing is predictable. The houses are all along the same 'hall', winding in a large curve back to the main room, which is where all of the halls can be accessed, the main kitchen, and special doors to go to each and every World. All that remains from before is the river, winding through the halls.

Trams still run along the outskirts, because no matter how cluttered and tight things are again, the place really is endless.

And everywhere, everywhere there are colorful bubbles floating through the air, across water, even stuck in trees. Some are clear, some filled with colored smoke, and some dripping. They crackle like glass and burst into nothing when touched, hitting the one responsible for popping them with a spell. It's the New Year, after all. Has to start off with a bang. ]

{ ooc ; Happy New Year, DR! It was voted on a while back on LJ, and now it's happening. Maybe this fresh start (in more ways than one!) will stir in a little more life. As with tradition, spells are recycled during the New Year, so! The available spells to hit your character with are:

- age character up or down
- character speaks only the truth
- character becomes an animal or has animal traits
- fear spell (character undergoes their worst fears)
- love arrows (causes the character to fall in love with the first person they see)
- aphrodisiac (character becomes unbearably aroused, and stays that way without the help of another person)
- alignment swap (good becomes bad, bad becomes good, grey areas are up to you)
- power swap (element changes to opposite, or switches abilities with another character)
- body swap (two characters swap bodies)
- sex swap (physical sex changes)

Expect more spells soon! }

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[His face isn't any more familiar than any other in the crowd; but any face coming up that quickly without looking where it's going isn't too welcome. Before any collision, sharply-]

Careful.

[He stops short, looking up.]

Oh, sorry, should've been looking where I was going.

[Hold on a sec, he's just actually looked at her face. Click... whirr...]

What the... you?

Were you expecting someone else?

[A man, perhaps? Or blue hair?]

[A man, yeah. But also a lighter complexion. He just stares for a moment, looking confused; this is the first time he's seen a Xehanort.]

... You look a lot like someone I know.

... I can't say I'm surprised.

Your name isn't Ansem, is it?

[Guess who's never actually heard his boss's actual true name?]

[She raises an eyebrow, laughs a little.]

No. Xehanort. Ansem was my master's name back in my world.

[She hasn't as of yet made the mental leap to taking the label for her own... for one thing, the fact that people already know Ansem as a man makes it less convenient for her.]

Oh... kay. Interesting. Looks like I mistook you for someone else, sorry. You look sort of like my old boss.

[... Funny, he hadn't meant to say that last part. Subject-change time!]

So, looks like you're exploring, too?

[She nods. Interesting...]

Attempting to get the - new configuration of the place down, yes.

I kinda liked it better when it was the big wide-open spaces, to be honest. Wish I knew why it keeps changing like this, but at least it stays the same way for a while at a time.

Hm - I've never been the type for the outdoors. [Liar, a voice whispers in the back of her mind.] But I can understand why people like it - liked it that way.

Mm. Looks like the river goes all over the place now. Gonna miss the ocean though. I hope we don't end up flooding again, that'd be a pain with the river everywhere..

[She nods.]

I can imagine that quite easily.

To be fair, the only actual flood we've had was before we actually had a river, so I don't really know. Not like this place works on normal logic.

[Dryly-] Sadly enough.

Oh, the logic thing? Yeah. It's kind of a pain, but it could be worse.