voice testing and eyeing up poly_chromatic

[goshdarnbatku]

I get that you want to 'get me right' before you decide if you're going to send me to a new world, but are you sure this is a good idea? I've got responsibilities I need to live up to back in my own world, I can't stick around for no reason when there's work to be done. You know every Keyblade wielder counts, do you really think sending me to a new world is what's best for everyone right now?

And I don't know what you're getting at with the user name either but you can stop giggling.



[ooc: KH3D spoilers possible in the comments]

Comments

[yuusha_oh]

My mun just tried explaining what she thinks is the joke to me and I still don't get it.

[goshdarnbatku]

She says it's got something to do with finding a 'bat cave' in Traverse Town, I don't think I understand what that's got to do with it either.

And then she went and named my Komory Bat Alfred.

[yuusha_oh]

My mun is giggling but...[Shrug! Guy still doesn't seem to get it.] Maybe I need to know more about Batman.

[goshdarnbatku]

Who's Batman? Is he someone from your world?

[binarysky]

No, she can keep giggling.

[goshdarnbatku]

Roxas!

[Harsh man, very harsh.]

[binarysky]

[Riku gets kind of a half-smile, because Roxas doesn't hate him, but he doesn't especially like him, either.]

What? You're not tough enough to take it?

[goshdarnbatku]

No it's just-

I wasn't expecting to see you here, but it seems like you've got a weird habit of showing up like this.

pfft that icon

[binarysky]

Everyone can show up here. Whether you want them to or not. [pause] And sometimes a bunch of the same person...which is really weird.

[dreammark]

[T-that username, fff, guess who's laughing]

[goshdarnbatku]

[Glad someone thinks it's funny.]

[dork_of_keys]

[Have a Sora who is amused by the username.]

What's wrong with your username?

[goshdarnbatku]

I don't think I'm a gosh darn anything, I don't know what she's trying to get at with it.

[dork_of_keys]

She's really not telling you why it's funny? That's not nice.

[Sora's pretty sure he gets it. Besides the general meme regarding Batman, he assumes it relates to one of Riku's link styles and the little bat wings it gives him.]

[goshdarnbatku]

From what the other guys stuck up in her head have been telling me, she doesn't do nice all that often, at least not when it comes to them. I guess it could always be worse.

[It might just have something to do with all of that, and the fact that she found a batcave for him in Traverse Town and couldn't stop giggling.]

[skylight]

[ Sora's been in the City for so long he knows it better than some of the other worlds he's been to. He's seen familiar faces come and go, and it's never easier, but he's had Roxas for most of it and he knows he's lucky for that.

Where to start in explaining it all to Riku though. That's something he's not sure of at all. He knows, somehow, he shouldn't want Riku to be 'stuck' with them, but he does want to see him again. And for more than just a day or two. He misses him. He misses Kairi.

He misses home.

Always one to appreciate the moment, Sora wouldn't exchange what he's found with Roxas - and even if recurrent, with Ventus - not for a second. Not at all. But maybe - no, definitely, with his friends, yes, Sora may be...well, selfish.

The idea that he could see Riku again, after looking for him for so long is beyond words.

Still, he tilts his head at the text, brows raised. ]

I dunno, as I recall, you are a little batty.

[ He says it jokingly, but it really has been...a long time, long enough that 'recall', though used exaggeratedly, isn't much of an exaggeration at all.

More sincerely though, a shuffled follow up: ]

You could...though. You know, come where we are.

It's neat. Reminds me of some of the other places we've been.

And you wouldn't have to worry about ...the other places. Time stops at home. Well, I mean, we go back to the same part we left.

[ He stops rambling only because for once he actually realizes he's rambling. ]

[goshdarnbatku]

Batty huh? Thanks a lot Sora, you sure that's not you?

[The same good natured feeling is shot back at Sora as he folds his arms over his chest in mock annoyance and looks away with a smile.]

You can be kinda batty yourself at times.

[Still... all that talk about time stopping makes him feel uncomfortably ill at ease, remembering a round room with thirteen white thrones and a decidedly not-batty Sora slumped in one. It's a different type of time stopping, but it still reminds him of the job he has to do.]

Are you doing okay there? You've not got your butt into too much trouble without someone to get on your case about it?

[skylight]

[ Sora half expects a hand to swoop down and ruffle through his spikes - er, hair - but when it doesn't happen, he just smirks, imitating Riku's posture from crossed arms to the sidelong glance. Some things are easier to fall back into than others, but for Sora it doesn't last long. His smirk falls apart into a normal grin and he shrugs, peering directly at Riku again. ]

Well, there's that saying: takes one to know one.

[ He's about to say something else but stops when Riku beats him to it. His eyes widen, a slight quirk to his brow. On face value it's a jibe, sure, but even being almost recursively apart doesn't change what growing up as best friends gave them: a sense of knowing. ]

Sure -- I mean, no, [ he waves a hand briefly, emphatically. ] I mean. Yeah I'm okay and no I'm not getting into trouble.

I should be asking you that.

What...what've you been doing? How's...how's Kairi?[ His voice softens a little with that last inquiry. He knows 'here' wherever 'here' is, it's not like with the City where time is supposed to stop outside. Riku could be from any time.

He looks different. Sora wonders if he thinks the same of him. ]

[goshdarnbatku]

She's fine, she's safe. She's with Master Yen Sid, he's going to train her to use her Keyblade. Don't worry about her, she's going to be just fine there. Who knows, she might even be better than both of us next time we see her.

[He lets his arms drop and nudges Sora gently on the arm with his elbow. Better to tell him about the positives rather than scare him about the very real threat that the Xehanorts possess and how Kairi and the light she embodies could be in danger even now as one of the Princesses. Kairi would smack him for worrying Sora unnecessarily anyway.]

We've been busy where I've come from, just got back from another adventure where I wound up bailing your butt out of trouble again. You're welcome, by the way.

[He's trying to make light of it, even though it still seems mind blowing to think that all of that has just happened and at the end of it all, Sora's safe, Xehanort's plans and the inevitable confrontation loom on the horizon and he, Riku, of all people, has been deemed worthy to bear the title of Keyblade Master.

Yeah. Kind of a lot to go through.]

I'm glad you're okay.

[skylight]

[ This time Sora laughs, something of his childhood giggle still to be found in the center of it - not unlike a heart. His grin has more an affectionate upturn to it, less amusement more that expression language hasn't come up with the right words for yet in descriptors alone. What it means is simple enough though: he has missed Riku and is glad to be in proximity again, to talk, to look, to know beyond a shadow of a doubt his friend is okay. His word on Kairi all the more.

He returns the bump to his arm with one of his own, though his elbow ends up nudging against Riku's side instead. It's true that if he knew of the things Riku doesn't tell him, he'd be more worried and it would be useless (though he'd spend his time in the City working against that thought too, trying to find what no one to record has necessarily found when trying: a way out.) At least in this time and place it may be the truth too: some things don't need to be rushed to be shared.

Again he scrutinizes his best friend a little, tilts his head and half mock leans away as if trying for a better perspective - literally - before leaning upright again, quiet a tic longer. ]

You did? [ He wonders which trouble it was, brow arching again even as he goes on to add, ] I miss you. You and Kairi.

Um.

Hey, by the way--

[ Maybe he rushes on a bit after all, reaching to bat, cat-like, at the taller boy's hair. ] When'd this happen?

[ -90000 POINTS for observation powers, Sora.

Somehow that's...probably not surprising. ]

[conjoins]

Hey, at least time's stopped while you're there! You sound like you could use a break from what you're saying, you know?

And, uh... I don't really get it either. Gosh Darn Batku? .. I think she's calling you a bat?

[goshdarnbatku]

[Oh look it's another Roxas-

Oh wait. It seems he's made that same mistake he made on the beach again.]

I can kinda see why she'd want to bring up the bat thing, just not why she thinks it's so funny.

[And he sighs. Girls man, how do they work.]

I don't think I can take a break. I've got responsibilities that I can't ignore and people I need to protect.

Hey... who are you? I think you're someone I'm meant to know, but I don't remember ever meeting you.

[conjoins]

[ he shrugs at the statement, ] I dunno, man. [ and then pauses in thought. ]

A break never hurts anyone, especially if no time passes while you're taking it. I mean, it's not like you're ignoring your responsibilities, but you can't really do that while you're in the City, right? So why worry?

[ this time, he takes a longer while to reply, eyeing Riku critically. ]

I'm Ventus. ... Uh, I don't think I've ever met you? [ because he's from BBS. ] You sure you're not talking about Roxas? We look pretty similar-- well, really similar.

[goshdarnbatku]

Ventus. I'm Riku.

[If Riku's at all honest, he's still so new to his title that he's not 100% sure on what his new responsibilities entail, but he is a Master and that is nothing to be sniffed at, of that he's certain.]

I... have met you, or an echo of you... I'm not sure how but it was you. You and Roxas and a girl I don't know. I thought you were Roxas but you're not him.

[Your face is more open for starters.]

Sorry, I'm not making much sense am I?

[conjoins]

[ he squints in thought, blinking a few times. ] An... echo of me?

Sorry, I.. don't really know what you're talking about. [ it's nice that you can tell them apart, though. ]

Not really, no. Maybe I'd know if you told me where we met?