on being homeless + looking to app & canon update after 3 month spoiler period

[divetotheheart]

A game? I can't get sidetracked now! I've got a Mark of Mastery Exam to take! If I let Riku go off on his own, who knows what trouble he'll get into without me.

[There are lots of worlds that need our help, aren't there? You could do some good.]

Good point.

Okay then. Let's do it. We'll help out for a while. Then I've got to get back to the exam.

[Glad we're on the same page. Take care, Sora. You'll be apping at the end of KH2. There's a lot you won't know.]

C'mon. You worry too much! Maybe I haven't got the whole picture, but as long as me and Riku stick together, we can take on whatever's waiting for us.

We don't need to know our futures. Me and Riku will make our own!

It'll be fine. You'll see.

[ooc: likely spoilers in comments.]

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[shadowsthedawn]

I don't think I'm the one to be worried about, Sora. Especially when it's you who is apparently going off somewhere.

[He's almost offended that Sora thinks he needs watching over. But mostly he's just amused that his friend thinks he's the one who'll get into trouble. Who looks out for who here?]

[divetotheheart]

[What's one little old game? He can handle it.] It'll be like all the other worlds we've been to. Nothing like some extra practice before the test.

[Like studying, only cramming for this test calls for magic and keyblades.]

[shadowsthedawn]

No, it won't. From what I've heard about these others worlds, it takes a lot more than a Keyblade to leave them. If leaving is even possible. You have to be careful, okay?

[divetotheheart]

[His eyes widen a little. Not what he expected to hear.] I will.

Why would our muns send us to a world with no way out? That doesn't make any sense.

[shadowsthedawn]

[Yeah, he'd thought as much. He better tell Sora exactly what he had to look forward to.]

I have no idea. To toy with us maybe? And a lot of these places aren't very nice either.

[divetotheheart]

They really do that? [That's awful. SORA DOES NOT APPROVE.]
We may be muses, but we're people too! [Not just mindless puppets.]

Has your mun sent you anywhere before?

[shadowsthedawn]

A couple of places, but none that were too unpleasant. And you were usually there so it wasn't too bad. But not anywhere for awhile. I've been in her headspace for a couple of years now.

[stilldontgotit]

Hey, I know what it's like to be behind on the times, Sora. It's a hassle, but I think you'll pull through.

Besides, it's just like you to goof off during a test.

[He smirks. Sorry, pal. There's always room in Riku's schedule to tease his best friend.]

[divetotheheart]

Oh, gee thanks.

[His tone's playful, but he means it. Optimistic as he is, that seals the deal: Riku thinks he'll be fine, so that's exactly what he will be.]

What do you mean by you 'know what it's like'? Did something happen to you too?

[stilldontgotit]

I'll just put it this way: When my mun picked me up, I hadn't even left the islands.

[He crosses his arms. Really, that's a pretty huge indication there.]

You and Kairi were about a year ahead of me. Made things pretty complicated at the time.

[divetotheheart]

The islands!? That's even farther back than me! [This Riku doesn't just LOOK like he's from the past. He IS from the past. None of Yen Sid's magic at work.]

[It's also concerning. Riku's journey made him who he was, but it was a painful, arduous one filled with darkness, wandering paths and self sacrifice.]

[Carefully] Did you ever hear what happens from the two of us?

[stilldontgotit]

I found out after a while. Drove me nuts, too, being powerless.

[He shakes his head.]

But that's in the past, literally. I went through some of it eventually, up until Mickey and I got out of Castle Oblivion, and now my mun's thinking about another canon update.

[divetotheheart]

[He's sorry you had to go through that, pal. Hang in there!]

Where's she thinking of updating you to?

[darkheartwaiting]

[you... total goofball. he's speechless for a moment, shaking his head with a slight smile.]

Says the guy who slept through his maths exam three years in a row.

[that one where you stayed up for fifteen minutes straight is still the current record holder, by the by.]

I guess this is the perfect test for you, then. All you have to do is sleep.

[and save the universe again. details.]

[divetotheheart]

[Hey. Don't knock his studying habits. A certain somebody won't be so smug if the Mark of Mastery Exam deals with long division and multiplication. Sora's got sleeping through that to a tee!]

That was just the one time! [No.] Three times.

[darkheartwaiting]

[you say that like people are supposed to like long division. he'll be sleeping next to Sora if that has anything to do with being a keyblade master.]

See, what did I tell you? How can your mun worry about you; you have a gold star in napping.

[not that it would make any difference, now that the exam had actually started. still... it wasn't Sora's only skill.]

[he wasn't top notch at taking care of himself, but he could get through; with a stupid smile on his face to boot.]

[divetotheheart]

[Bro-nap powers activate.]

C'mon. I'm not that bad, am I?

What I think she's really worried about is what kinda trouble I'll run into because of what I don't know.

What canon point are you from, Riku?

[pullsheavendown]

[Peering at you, braintwin. Someone is concerned with more than your exam plans.]

...did you get shorter?

1/3 A wild Roxas has appeared!

[divetotheheart]

Shorter?!

[divetotheheart]

I don't think so?

[Give him a second to verify this-]

3/3

[divetotheheart]

[- before reality kicks in. That would be his other he's talking to.]

Roxas!? Is that really you?!

His use of sudden question was...sort of effective?

[pullsheavendown]

[He looks down. Back up. Where is he? ...not in Sora's heart, oops.]

Last time I checked?

TRAINER chooses VENGEFUL DISGRUNTLED SCIENTIST IN BANDAGES

[divetotheheart]

It's this place, isn't it?

[He inspects Roxas from where he stands, like he's a mirage or some weird but very happy anomaly.]

Is that how you're here?

...well crap.

[pullsheavendown]

Isn't that how everyone's here?

[The fourth wall may not be broken, but he's peering slightly over the top. Of course this isn't a dream world that brings people together, Sora, that would just be silly.]

you can always blow up a moon. That's pretty effective against him

[divetotheheart]

Good point.

[The silliest.

Time to make the most of being face to face with Roxas]

Roxas! I've always wanted to talk to you, but I've never had the chance to until now.