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[seasides]

[TIME FOR AN ENTIRELY TOO LONG MULTI-CHARACTER POST.

seasides is in the kitchen... what a boring guy. with things set up kind of how they used to be, and people once again relying on the kitchens, he's made his way to the main one to cook up some stuff to stash away in the fridge and freezer for others!

fading is not amused. he's trapped in a cage in a section of hallway made of white sand and marble. the cage isn't very big, which has him stuck sitting, and looking rather grumpy. there's no visible lock on it.

skybright is currently pushing herself in a training room, magic drained and looking half ready to collapse where she stands. there's a first aid kit sitting on a bench nearby, several bottles (elixirs, mostly) sitting empty next to it.

ghastlydawn hasn't been seen much, but she has been around. super disappointed with the change in the DR still - she grew up in the open world version, after all - she's been exploring to keep herself from lingering on her thoughts and getting even more homesick than she already is.

before is... pinned to a wall with several familiar knives. he doesn't look more than a little beat up, and mostly amused! he's got no idea why a Larxene attacked him, only to do barely anything aside from pin him there, but he can't move his hand enough to pull any of the knives out, and he doesn't want to rip his jacket. oh well.

islandflower is sitting in an outdoor room, a simple-looking field with several slightly battered targets some distance away, taking a break from practicing magic. the door is open and she's well in sight, but she's rather distracted reading.

fromshadow has found something that looks like it's fresh out of Halloween Town. it's a gloomy, mist-covered room, the door opening to a large clearing amidst spindly frost-coated trees. the clearing is filled with row upon row of gravestones, but each and every one of them marks an empty grave, the spaces all cleanly dug out but not even holding a coffin. he's standing just inside the doorway, too wary to actually go and check it all out.

conflagrate, who I totally didn't forget about, is in one of the closets. this particular one seems to hold clothing for both male and female, and she's just sort of absently browsing the men's button-down shirts at the moment. for some reason, all her clothing has gone and vanished from her room-house-thing, so she's rebuilding her wardrobe.]

Comments

[daddyhasagun]

What I mean is that I can't help being the person I am. And I'm the sort of person I want to be.

[conflagrate]

Not many people can boast that.

[daddyhasagun]

[Kira shrugs a little]

I don't have a problem with myself. I like who I am.

[conflagrate]

That's good.

[though she doesn't sound terribly enthused.]

[daddyhasagun]

[Kira just shrugs again, still smiling politely]

It's nothing much.

[conflagrate]

[she sighs in reflexive 'annoyance' and drops the shirt she was looking at to turn to Kira.]

Look, I'd apologize for apparently hurting your feelings, but as a Nobody, it would be full of shit, so I'm not going to bother. Are you really going to keep plastering that smile on just because a stranger said something that probably doesn't apply to the people you actually know?

[daddyhasagun]

I already know that you're a Nobody. I can feel it. And as a Nobody, you should know quite well how to fake things that aren't real.

[Kira gives a bright smile as she speaks, even though those words are probably some of the cruelest she's ever said]

[conflagrate]

My, my. The little princess has claws. I didn't realize you were so cruel.

[Axel smiles sharply in return.]

I was just being courteous. No one likes being lied to, and isn't that just what Nobodies are? Great big bundle of lies.

[daddyhasagun]

If you think I'm cruel, it's only because I love. I don't care what you think about yourself, because you won't be changed in what you think you believe no matter what I say. But my family is made up of Nobodies, and people who think they're less than Nobodies. And none of that matters to me because I love them and they love me and that's what's important.

So you can keep lying to yourself and to other people. Go ahead and keep trying to be who you remember you used to be, or maybe even throw that all away and stop feeling anything at all. If nothing matters to you, then you don't matter to anything, so you might as well just give up.

[Kira can give her own version of a Hannibal Lecture when she wants to, even though she prefers not to; things are much easier when everyone thinks you're dumb]

[conflagrate]

[she lets out a sharp laugh, looking nothing but amused.]

Oh, that's cute. Let me go through and point out why I don't care. One, there are different types of Nobodies. Varies by universe. I've met ones that are wholly flesh and blood, ones that really do need to eat to survivet. Among those, there are also ones who feel echoes of emotion, beyond the whole acting deal. But see, here's the thing: I don't.

I'm not trying to be 'who I remember I used to be', thanks. I've got no interest in being Lea. I've also got no interest in putting on a petty smile and offering empty apologies when I've, boohoo, hurt someone's little feels and literally cannot give a damn.

But please, by all means, continue. Clearly, you are the expert on all things Nobody because you happen to have some in your family.

[daddyhasagun]

If you don't care and don't give a damn, what in the world are you doing still talking to me? Have fun choosing your new wardrobe. Or don't.

[and with that Kira will turn to leave, because she's not needed and Axel doesn't or can't care either way, so Kira has no reason to stick around either]

[conflagrate]

[she just snorts and goes back to picking clothing, not in the least bit insulted or upset by Kira's words. the only reason she'd kept speaking to her at all was because she was there.]

lolz this was perfect for something i had planned

[daddyhasagun]

[that's just fine since it's not like Kira cared either way about Axel anyway]