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[dreammark]

Looks like you've made up your mind.

[sigh]

There's no stopping you. Best of luck to you on your application, mun.

It'll be good to see Sora again and one of them is a little kid. Huh. This'll make things interesting.

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[waterfell]

A touching reunion between friends?

[Her tone is dismissive; there's some definite skepticism there. Go ahead, call it cynicism.]

[reversedestiny]

...You're coming here?

[Hi. Meet the AU!Sora who is a giant douche and was raised by a certain Heartless.]

Just skimmed his AU a bit, giving the app/AU a read through tomorrow. 3D spoilers okay?

[dreammark]

Sora!

[He hasn't seen you in a little while]

Yeah, guess I am. My mun's made up her mind.

[dreammark]

[a shrug] Call it what you will. It'll be good to see him again.

Who are you?

[waterfell]

Mercury. Call me by that. I'm also where you're going.

Pfft, I play ABC. xD I'm spoiled to hell and back and beat most of the game. Use spoilers in his AU.

[reversedestiny]

[...Long while for him! 8D; He doesn't like you.]

I think you'll enjoy it.

... That app, ouch. Riku winced.

[dreammark]

You think so?

[pause]

... You okay, Sora?

[dreammark]

Riku.

How long have you been around there?

[waterfell]

It'll be two years come March.

[And because she can never resist having the advantage:] You, too, you've been there before.

I have more in-depth stuff in his journal. And I am happy to babble about it in IM. ob

[reversedestiny]

...I'm probably not the Sora you know.

[and to prove it, there'll be a Dark Fire aimed at nowhere.]

[dreammark]

[Okay, what is going on here? Riku knows that spell, much like his own Dark Firaga spell.]

[....]

I think you're right. What happened to you?

[reversedestiny]

I dunno. What happened to you?

[dreammark]

[That's a really long time, but Riku isn't the one to beat around the bush though. Straight to the point, this one.]

I have, huh? That doesn't surprise me, considering the number of mes around. How long was I there for?

[waterfell]

It was about three months. Until a year ago today.

[This is oddly specific, enough to suggest they'd known each other well enough for her to notice when he vanished from her dreams, something she'd probably deny anyway.]

[dreammark]

I don't think I should tell you. [He doesn't know what to make of you, bff]] It's kinda a long story anyway.

[dreammark]

[It doesn't take him long to figure it out.]

I'm guessing we knew each other.

[waterfell]

We did.

[They hadn't been close, or friends, but they could have been. They'd had a similar loneliness - and a similar darkness.

She brushes it away - pushes it away, really, with a sharp reminder to herself that she speaks aloud:]

He wasn't the same as you.

[dreammark]

What do you mean? [He really is curious]

[waterfell]

You should know it for yourself, soon: There are many different worlds that meet. He was from another.

[dreammark]

Right. Think I get it. I've seen different versions of people before.

[He's curious if it was his replica or not. He doesn't know about his Data version though.]

[waterfell]

Your friends are also different.

So, what will you do?

[She has a vested interest in... anyone's answer to that type of dilemma, really.]

[dreammark]

Adjust as best as I can, honestly. Even if Sora is different, he's still my best friend.

[And it's the truth, they've been through way too much to just dismiss him. Sora is still Sora no matter what.]

[waterfell]

The person you're thinking of when you say 'friend' is the one there with you.

[It's not quite intentionally picking apart Riku's relationship with Sora, though that's something she'd do; it's the reason she can never hear the sailor senshi claiming she's their friend. The naive girl they know is their friend. She, Mercury, is not and, she'd say, never was.]

[dreammark]

[Well, he's interpreting this to his canon...]

Yeah, he is. As long as our hearts are connected, he'll always be there.

You've got friends like that?

[3D turned him into a sap. Sort of. But Sora's still the bigger sap between the pair.]

((ooc; and I've just realized you're a mod at OPN. Was the other Riku an AU?))

[waterfell]

[If Riku could only know what he's asking. It's the question of her entire existence, and-]

Nothing like that.

[She's decided no. She had no friends growing up. When she thought she finally found some- she'd been wrong. And that's all that need be said.]

(/waves! and yeah, he was AU. was a psychic working with the police force)

[dreammark]

... I kinda know that feeling.

[He was alone once, back during his time in Castle Oblivion, he had been alone until Mickey showed up at the tail end of his quest.]

You never know, a friend might just pop up out of nowhere.

((/waves! Ah, okay! The only other canon point I had was 358/2 Days, but that's still pretty cool.))

[waterfell]

[No, Riku. Friends don't 'just pop up', friends aren't there for her, friends aren't forever. Friends are false, friends are fake, and even at their best... friends are temporary.

She knows all that. No matter that there are people who've come to touch her heart anyway, despite herself and all her better judgment, she knows all that.]

I'm fine with how things as they are. [She's very nearly convinced herself of that.]

[dreammark]

Ask you're heart if you truly believe that. [He's not buying it and he wants to help, even if he is speaking up from personal experience.]

i love these two stubborn already XD

[waterfell]

[Few people have the confidence to so directly challenge her like that. For a second, half of one really, the surprise shows on her face. Everything she'd like to say sounds hollow in her mind.]

I believe it was all for the best.

[This, perhaps surprisingly, is true enough. She may not have perfectly calmed her heart - which point she pointedly ignores - but her mind knows the consequences if things had gone differently. The way it happened in other worlds.]

Riku's a stubborn kid, he has a good heart now. |D She's gettin' him to think xD

[dreammark]

[Oh, he saw that look.]

Is your mind telling you that?

[There's a brief pause]

You can't let your heart be a prison, Mercury.

and vice-versa

[waterfell]

Should you be talking like that to someone you've just met?

[She's never been good at easy intimacy, quick friendship. But it's also an excuse to push the topic away.

Belatedly, a more real answer comes.]

It isn't a prison. [It's a fortress, locking everything out that she can.]

Last tag for now, sleep times!

[dreammark]

I can't help it. Sorry. [He's just calling out what he's seeing of her really.]

If you say so. [He thinks there's something deeper going on with her, but he knows better when to stop pushing the topic. Leaving it up to her if she wants it dropped or not.]

[....]

Be honest with yourself. [His tone here is soft spoken. Even if the subject gets dropped, he won't give up on her.]

sleep well! thank you for the awesome so far :D

[waterfell]

[Be honest with herself. The trouble is, even honesty can contradict itself.]

It's the same for you. [She remembers he was lonely.] Don't try to be so noble.

[dreammark]

I'm working on that.

I don't know how I was there before, but I'm not him. >[have a shrug] Things have changed.

[waterfell]

[Good. Then, especially as he hasn't met her as himself, they can avoid the whole 'but Ami-chan this isn't you'.

Or so Mercury assumes.]

I don't expect you to be the same. If that boy is your friend, do the same for him. [It's a rare piece of actually well-meant advice: Meet Sora as himself, not with expectations of someone else.]