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?]

[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]

[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]

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?

[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.

[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.

[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.]

[pullsheavendown]

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

...did you get shorter?

[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?

[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?

[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.

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?

[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.

[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.

[divetotheheart]

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

Where's she thinking of updating you to?

[stilldontgotit]

End of 3D. She figures that three years in a game means she can do it with a clear conscience.

[Which is kinda silly, but hey. It's her call.]

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?

[divetotheheart]

The exam'll probably be over by then, right? Say hi to the future-me when you get there.

[The Riku Sora knows right now is a good guy. Riku in the future will really be something.]

Did you say three years?!

[divetotheheart]

That's good. Looks like your mun's been taking good care of you, if you haven't been anywhere crazy.

[stilldontgotit]

Nah, that was just the wind.

[Heh.]

Of course I said three years. My mun's had me in a game for a while now.