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kingdom hearts - roxas

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What—this again? Hey, deities, can you let us know ahead of time when we're going to have guests? I'd have done my shopping earlier if I'd known.

[Roxas sounds more resigned than annoyed. Although he is a little annoyed.]

Sora, Demyx—I'm gonna be late getting groceries for dinner tonight. The streets are really crowded. Again.

[ooc: Fourth Wall time! Visitors are free to network with him, overhear him in person or just bump into him on the street.]

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[He nods slowly. This guy...seems friendly, and it's not like he can't defend himself if necessary. Besides, he's getting really curious now.]

Okay...I'll listen. Uh, if we head this way, the crowds might thin out some...it's always worst near the fountain. At least the ticking's gone.

[Terra motions with his hand - lead the way - and steps back to follow him.]

The ticking?

[Mumble softer.]

You hear it when you're alone. No one's going to have that problem this weekend.

[They won't be able to find a completely empty street, but slowly the crowds thin out.]

Some unusual world effect, huh?

[Tucking his hands in his pockets. Sigh.]

That's just the start. [Grimace.] The deities who run this world make weird stuff happen all the time. Once I turned into a creepy puppet. And one time everything was Legos.

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Deities... [He can grimace, too.] Great.

Don't worry. They don't usually do much on the weekends where extra people show up. The crowds are annoying enough.

[He gives Terra a long look, not so much suspicious as searching.]

So tell me. How do you know me? And why don't I know you?

[The longer he's around this Roxas, the stranger everything seems.]

I don't know why you don't know me... Or I don't know for sure, anyway. It might have something to do with the deities. Or the heart of this world. In some worlds like this one, peoples' memories get messed up when they arrive.

[Pause. Sigh.]

I know you because we met in another one of those kinds of worlds. I... mistook you for Ven, at first. [... Possibly an understatement.]

What?

[Roxas stops in his tracks, caught thoroughly off-guard by the maybe-not-a-stranger's words.

It's not that he believes them because Terra sounds sincere, though he does. It's because...well, it's not that hard to believe he could have lost memories. Not when it's happened several times before.]

So I got pulled to some other world—met you—and then I just forgot it all?

Not again.

[He's bracing himself for the anger, the skepticism, the complete, unwavering denial that such a thing is even possible...

...

...

Whoa, what was that?]

That's what it's looking like... [Blinkblinkblink.] Not again?

[New world, new Roxas. Or maybe it's time that makes the difference.]

You could say I've had a few problems with memories before.

[Baffling.]

Oh.

[So baffling.]

I've had a few troubles with memories myself. They're trickier to hold on to than some people think... But yes. We have met before.

Then...I'm sorry I forgot you.

[He looks away for a moment.]

It stinks. Being forgotten.

[Hair ruffle time, Roxas.]

It's okay.

[He nods slightly, if only to himself.]

No one ever means to forget.

[This feels oddly familiar and even more oddly comforting so he'll let it slide.]

They don't need to mean it if someone else makes them forget.

[He shrugs and starts walking again.]

So if you know me, you know what I am. And about the Keyblade.

[Terra hangs back for just a second.]

I know what you are. [When he does join Roxas in walking, he lengthens his stride to catch up to him and then stays near his side.]

I know you have two Keyblades, too. You don't need to pull that on me again.

Huh? [He frowns for a moment.] Pull what now?

Nothing. Never mind.

So, I thought I heard you mention Sora and Demyx before...

Yeah, they're here too. The only ones I know from back home now. We live together.

[BAFFLING.]

Axel and Xion aren't around, huh...?

[BLANK STARE] Axel and who?

[Uh.]

Xion. Your other friend you're always eating ice cream with.

[Can he possibly get blanker? Apparently.]

No. It was just me and Axel. And then...some other kids, but that didn't...count.

[Terra returns his stare at first. Then, a few awkward moments later, he turns his eyes back to the road ahead of them.]

Oh.

Okay...

[He shakes his head and shakes off the confusion easily. A little too easily.]

Axel's never been in the City, not since I've been here. I wish he had been. Did you meet him in that other world, too?

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