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His "torture" was to make me better! [glares at Roxas]

It was to improve me so I'd survive.

[Roxas is honestly startled by Riku's defense of Vexen, but glares right back a moment later.]

I'm surprised that he didn't kill you in the process!

And what was so "bad" with you before that needed to be made better? Huh?

[Angrily waves a handful of papers around, but he's angry at Vexen and the fact that Riku is defending him, but not at Riku himself.]

What good could possibly come from him shoving electrodes up and inside of you just to see how long you could stand the pain before you either screamed for mercy or passed out, Riku?

[he's defending because he doesn't remember a lot of the worse parts, just thinks that it was all in the name of science]

I wasn't able to properly pay them back for all they did for me.

[looks confused at the anger being shown, head tilted to the side in an oddly childish way]

...He--

[stiffens, the mention of that bringing back flashes of white-hot pain and the sensation of his voice going away from screaming so long and hard]

He--!

But they didn't do anything for you! Nothing good, at least. [Of this, Roxas is sure.]

[Notices Riku stiffening and instinctively grabs for him.] Riku!

They did! Th-they made me-

[wavverrrrss, sitting down hard, though it's more of a badly-controlled fall, hands shaking]

Stop it, stop talking, it's--

[grits his teeth against the flashes of memory, shaking his head]

Riku! Riku!

[Slides down beside Riku, clutching at his hands. He raises his voice in desperation, trying to get Riku's attention.]

They can't hurt you anymore! You're safe now.

[presses his forehead to his knees, shivering]

I don't....he said I'm not supposed to remember!

I know you're stronger than this, Riku. You've always been strong.

[Roxas is starting to become used to Sora's words just randomly coming out of his mouth, but it still is a bit unexpected.]

Just hang in there, Riku. Please!

[quiets after a while, listening to him, hands white-knuckled, his face pale as he tries to just sit there and breathe, shaking]

W-what else was in those notes.

[Roxas eyes the notes darkly. They're lying in the floor where he dropped them when he reached for Riku.]

Are you sure you want me to continue?

[He's pretty sure that he already knows the answer, but he wants to give Riku the opportunity to stop if he wants.]

I have to.

[slowly leans back, resting his head against the wall, watching Roxas]

[Nods slowly. He wouldn't expect anything less from Riku, so Roxas will do his best to read through the rest of the notes.]

All right.

[ooc: Any more note suggestions? Also, any hints on if this is Riku or Repliku? ^^]

[ooc; bwhaha, anything you want. I'm easy. ♥ It's known that he didn't get along with Saix, who came a few times to check on Vexen's little projects. Marluxia and Larxface came to say hello a few times, and he hates them.

I'm not saying if he's Rep or Riku, bwaha, it's for everyone else to decide. ♥]

[keeps watching]

*makes a very sad attempt at pouting* Yours is an evil laugh.

Let me sleep on it? I've got classes in the early morning tomorrow, and I think you're at least two hours ahead of me -- maybe even three hours.

Yeah, I figured that he probably wouldn't have much love for Larxene after a couple of shock sessions. XP

So ... do you have it established in your mind if he's Riku or Repliku? Or are you just waiting to see what the general consensus turns out to be? ~~To be honest, I've been thinking of him as Riku, but I guess we'll eventually find out!~~

I know who he is, haha, I'm just letting everyone else puzzle it out for a while. ♥

Uhh, I may be? it's 2 in the morning for me, lulz.

sleep well!

Yup, three hours difference. PST say hello to EST! (At least, I'm guessing that you're on EST.)

Thank you! ♥ You sleep well, too!

♥♥ Haha yes, that I am.

I also have to get up for school in 4 hours, oh yeah. 8D night!

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[his face is oddly blank as all of it is read to him, and he swallows at the last bit]

I didn't think I did.

Yeah, um, please don't mind the fact that Vexen's notes kind of contradict themselves at times. I noticed that I had the first set of notes describing Riku as having a high pain tolerance, and now this second set seems to indicate that Vexen is complaining that Riku can't handle enough pain. Silly scientist, please to be making up your own mind, kthnx. XP

I'm not sure why Riku's pain produces better hearts though, unless it somehow overwhelms him to the point that all he can do is cling to a tiny glimmer of light deep inside of him -- and/or maybe he knows in his heart that he needs to survive for the sake of somebody or something, though he can't remember with his mind who or what, and it's his strength of heart and will that compels him to hang on. And this determination, coupled together with the light, gives rise to better hearts.

Or something to that effect. ^_^;

If Riku is a Replica, I don't know if the above hypothesis would still hold true or not, so I won't have the notes say anything more about it. But I figured that the whole 'more pain = better hearts' would give Vexen a good excuse to keep ~~torturing~~ 'improving' Riku.

And I couldn't resist tossing in a mention of the other Roxas. ^^ I don't know if Riku will sense something familiar about him at all, but I'm thinking that newbie!Roxas somehow gets a hold of one of Riku's hearts and tries to shove it into his own chest ... or Riku could try to shove it in Roxas' chest. Either way, Roxas has a very poor reaction to the heart, since it's not his own, but the experience is of some marginal interest for Vexen since none of the other Organization members have tried to use Riku's hearts like that before. They tried using them with Dusks and other lesser Nobodies in the past, but the results were not promising.

*flails helplessly* Or something like that. I dunno. Have any plotbunnies that you want to let loose, by any chance? ^^

I kind of wondered about that, but figured that it either got worse as time went by, or like, it was different kinds of pain. IT'S VEXEN; HE MAKES UP HIS OWN RULES.

I could see it like that, or like, his body is just going in overdrive in a way, to do what it has been now designed to do, and so like, it does that. It's left vaguuuue. [easy]

And yeah, haha, Vex's a bastard like that, so it wooorks. <33

...You know what. I could see Vexen seeing Roxas doing that, but it not working because Roxas /has/ a heart. Vexen just writes it off as it not working though, not realizing. ...[thinks]. So theoretically, this Riku /could/ create hearts for the Org, if their hearts weren't out there.

A-actually I wrote fic for him, lolol. I keep doing little bits and pieces about him, but i only posted one if you wanna read that?

Or it could be the length of time that Riku is in pain. He might be able to tolerate high intensity pain, but for how long? And/or he could have developed a tolerance for pain as everything progresses.

Ohhh! I didn't think about the fact that the heart wouldn't work for Roxas because Sora's still out there. That's a really good point! To be honest, I don't know about if the rest of the Organization still have their Heartless running around, or if their hearts are already part of Kingdom Hearts or what ... but Riku's hearts won't work for them one way or another, I guess? Either way, that's a double whammy for Roxas.

And, yes, I want to read your fic! *bounces around gleefully*

[Nod] Yeah, the length of time could do it too.

It could go either way; it might be that it works for a few, but since there's so many heartless out there it may only work on some.

Ahaha, um. http://chiiaroscuro.livejournal.com/87579.html#cutid1

Note that it's written at 3:00 in the morning on 1 hour of sleep and that, honest, I can write better than that. [DIES]

*sniffles and wibbles* Oh, Riku!

If you can write that good on just one hour of sleep ... wow. Just wow. ♥♥♥ *definitely wants more*

So that's what the acid is for! Ah-ha!

I think I might belatedly switch over and start having Vexen's notes identify Riku as 'Experiment 01' now....

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