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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! }

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You do realize there would be people who'd try to stop you.

I know. But I know more about them than any of our enemies did when they went into this. Besides, I'm not doing it to hurt anyone. I won't go around taking hearts when it's not necessary.

And what would you be doing it for?

...power. Someone has to. Better me than Ansem. When I figure out how to work this place to my advantage we won't have to worry about the psychopaths anymore.

[She gives the papers in her hands a little wiggle.]

I've got all I need to get started.

Just remember, Riku.

[he smiles softly, like there's no problem at all.]

Power corrupts.

[She gives him a look.]

Little late for that one, aren't you?

No, I don't think so. It won't matter much once the spell is over with.

[yeah, he's pretty sure he's figured out what sort of spell hit her.]

Why's that?

[Why does he think so, is what she wants to know.]

Because suddenly emulating someone like Xehanort seems very unlike you, don't you think?

[She frowns.]

Before I rejected her we had a lot in common. You know that.

The difference being where she embraced corruption, you denied it a place within you. I find it hard to believe you would so readily go back to it without something meddling.

Does it matter what changes my mind? This isn't the first time I've gone after something like this.

Maybe.

[still, he seems pretty sure that whatever's going on with her isn't normal.]

[She stares at him for a moment, then tilts her head up.]

Are you going to stop me?

No. At least, while you may be planning things that could get dangerous further on, you're not harming anyone or anything right now. But you know I wouldn't be able to stand by if you were to become corrupted enough to hurt people to get closer to your goal.

I know. But you know that if it came down to fighting against me, I would win.

[he chuckles, but doesn't disagree. when's the last time you saw him fight, Riku?]

It wouldn't matter. I wouldn't be the only one fighting against you.

[A while. But she still knows she would win.]

I know. I mean alone. I wouldn't stand a chance against Axel.

[She considers that.]

Unless I took his heart.

[his smile gets rather tight.]

If you did, I wouldn't hesitate to kill you.

I know. Don't worry, I'm not interested in Axel's heart. I'm sure it would be massive and powerful. It would be interesting to find out what kind of heartless he would make, how it would work out with Hachibi, but it's not worth the trouble, and I don't want to hurt you.

[She frowns thoughtfully.]

"Interesting."

[he looks a bit thoughtful as well.]

I wonder how Red will take your new interests.

[She gives him a look.]

Either by telling me to go for it since he despises Axel, or killing me immediately. Probably the second one.

Does that not bother you? That he might try to kill you?

... I don't know. But he's killed me twice already and I could beat him in a second. You think I'd let him kill me?

Let him? No, I don't think you'd let anyone.

[except for the giving people permission to do it thing, but that's not the same.]

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