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xion ([personal profile] imaginarytides) wrote in [community profile] caughtinanetwork2012-04-27 12:38 am
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002 | [dream/video]

The dream starts off fairly simply.

It's a black void. There's no visible floor or ceiling or anything to be seen, but Xion's heels still click as she walks like there was one anyway. Her gait speaks of confidence, her appearance is that of the black haired Kairi lookalike that she considers her own. Despite the fact that there's no destination in sight, her aimless walk is highlighted by some hidden spotlight. This continues for a while, until she begins to approach something in the distance.

What she's approached is a mirror, but what's reflected back is much different. The figure in the mirror has no face to speak of, and as she places her hand to the glass-- her gloves conspicuously absent-- she is startled by the articulate doll joints that now allow her hand to move instead of muscle and bone. She jerks back as if to gasp in surprise but she makes no sound. Putting her doll hands to her face, she's met with a smooth, blank expanse. The faceless figure in the mirror is her.

Her distress begins to build when she attempts to turn away from the mirror and finds that she can't. There's some unintelligible murmuring in the background now, and the invisible spotlight keeps trained on her fruitless attempts to move. Something is holding her back. She can see strings attached to her limbs now, and as the murmuring grows to become full fledged yelling, each voice jerks her bound figure in a different direction.

"The Organization has no use for a broken tool..."

"...They're gonna destroy you!"

"I can't save you, not even a memory..."

"Then come back with us..."

"...What's right for you and your friends, and everyone else..."


Each new voice pulls her this way and that, until she's so tangled in the strings she can barely move. They've wound around he neck, pulling tighter and tighter. Her clumsy doll fingers claw uselessly at her throat, and it doesn't matter that she has no way to breathe, she just wants to scream for everyone to be quiet. It's over, she did what she had to do, what else do you want? But of course she has no mouth to scream with and the strings just pull even tighter as the cacophony of voices finally join her own to say,

"It's time for this puppet to play her part."

[And with that Xion starts awake, the scream finally ripping its way out of her mouth. Breathing heavily, she runs her hands over her face feeling all the features and poking at her cheeks to feel that they really are flesh and blood. That fear allayed, she lets out a slow breath. Her sleep had often been fitful when she still had that choice to make, but her nightmares had never been as vivid as this. Apparently, she'd been wrong to hope they'd leave her be now.]

ooc: Tags will be slow as if they aren't already, sob since I'm out of town at the moment.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-04-30 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it just comes from you. [ He likes it, anyway.

And he nods. ]


She's a Keyblade Master. She, Terra and I were all training together under Mas--

[ He bites his lip, swallows, and manages to say the name quietly. ]

Master Eraqus.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-04-30 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He glances downward. ]

Mickey said he's gone. And.. and that Xehanort's responsible.

[ Trying to be strong's only going so far. His eyes are bright when he looks back up at her. ]

Sorry.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-01 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Y-Yeah, I remember. I wasn't always his student.

[ he clenches the wayfinder tightly in his hand. ]

Xehanort found me, and started my training. He wanted me to give into the darkness in my heart and use it to fight these monsters he summoned.

[ Heartless. Purebloods. He still has no clue what they are. ]

So he took the darkness out of me. It made a whole other person. My heart couldn't survive without it, and I wouldn't have if Sora's heart hadn't reached out. When he saw I was alive, he took me to stay with master Eraqus.

[ Looking back up at her. ] He didn't just train me. I was treated like I was part of his family. Like Terra and Aqua.

[ There's more to it, but. It's such a long story that it's impossible to explain in one go. ]

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-01 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ He can definitely fill her in about that on a later date.

Right now, he's glad to be able to lean on her. ]


He's the only father I've ever known.

[ That is a wonderful idea. And it knocks him enough out of his sorrow to smile a little. ]

To become a Keyblade Master. That's my dream.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-01 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods. ] Yeah.

And when you're old and strong enough, there's an exam you need to take to become a Master.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-02 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Slowly, he nods-- and then his eyes widen. ]

Too? I've known about Roxas since I got here, but...

You, too?

[ That gets the small smile to stay on his face for awhile. ]

And yeah, we are.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-02 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's identical to Sora's, and the design is eerily familiar for reasons he'd rather forget. But the fact that there's another wielder out there who seems to be around his age does cheer him, though ordinarily he'd be off the wall with excitement about it. Today, he's rather subdued, smiling at her a bit as he summons Wayward Wind to his hand. ]

This Organization sounds horrible. Both of you are important. I'm sure Master would agree.

[ His smile fades. ] We're the last few of the Keyblade Order.

You probably never knew about him because he's been dead for ten years, by your time. Why y'didn't know about Master Yen Sid or Mickey, I don't know.

But m'glad that Organization never found out about 'em.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-02 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
If Xehanort was a part of it, that's kinda the way he works. He spent years working on this plan to turn me and my darkness into a weapon. Until he was ready, he pretended to be a harmless old man.

Then... he was more than happy to manipulate everyone to do what he wanted.

[ At that comment, he looks away from her. ]

I've talked to him about it. It's... it's a long story.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-02 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard that name mentioned before. He sounds a lot like Xehanort.

He didn't tell Master Eraqus what he'd turned me into, either. He gave me enough information to get angry, and let me go home to do it myself.

After that...

[ He nods, and finally does what he's wanted from the start by leaning forward to hug her. ]

Yeah, we do.

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-02 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He sighs, lingering in the hug for another moment or two. ]

Not used to these, huh? [ Meaning the hug. Then.. ]

A little. But what happened to my Master was my fault. He attacked me, and Terra defended me against him.

Mickey said that Master was shielding Terra from Xehanort when he was killed. If I hadn't gone back home, none of that would've happened.

[ It's going to take him a long time to come to terms with this. ]
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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-03 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. I think we both kinda needed one.

[ He blinks at her, brow furrowing as time goes on. ]

I haven't thought of it like that before. I guess I've just been feeling awful for telling him I thought he was keeping me imprisoned on that world.

I know it's definitely not Terra's fault. And I... don't even think he knows.

[ And he has no idea if or when he can even tell him about it. Since he doesn't seem to have experienced it yet. Ven's gaze is thoughtful, as he eventually starts to smile a bit at her. ]

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[personal profile] ex_ventus850 2012-05-03 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ If this were their own universe, they'd probably already have formed a d-link by now. She's accomplished enough. He rubs the back of his head, and sighs in response to what she's just said. ]

You're right. I just don't know how to do it.

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