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[...There is something wrong with his body.]

[Saix really doesn't want to admit it, because that would make Axel right, but it's simply fact that he realizes once he's back in his own body instead of stuck in Axel's. It reminded him of what it felt like to be Isa a little bit, and it also reminded him of how it had felt when he had first joined the Organization. How he is now is... different. It's the Darkness. It feels thicker, like a heavy fog. He knows he's done some horrible things in the name of his goal, but never cared because the end justified the means. Still, this almost feels like too much.]

[Saix spends the day trying to convince himself that he's just letting himself fall into the same delusional trap that Axel has, but in the end, he has to know.]

[So you'll be seeing this guy on the SFC today, looking as calm and apathetic as ever.]

I'm curious, but are there any in Vatheon who are knowledgeable in the spiritual heart of a person? Perhaps the better, more general word would be 'soul'.

[A body, a mind, and a 'heart'- that's what makes a person, isn't it? But take away the 'heart', have it be lost to Heartless, and you're left with a body and a mind. A Nobody...]

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So you don't know how to use them.

Do you need a test subject?

I doubt you want to volunteer for that.

I would say otherwise.

And if I said it involved destruction, you'd reconsider, wouldn't you.

Not at all. I don't have a heart. There wouldn't be anything to destroy.

You don't have one?

[There's a moment's pause before Dirk sends his next message.

Hold up, broski.
I may be the newest participant in soul-shenanigans amateur hour, but what the hell are you volunteering yourself for if you don't? How does it even work, going around without a heart?
Are you trying to get someone to give you one?
There is a 88% certainty that making a shiny new soul for you isn't possible, and I somehow doubt there are any extras just lying around the bubble waiting to be used.
Even if my abilities worked that way, which even by loosest interpretation I'm led to believe they don't.

It would be preferable if someone could just give me a heart but that seems to be outside the capabilities of most individuals both in my universe and others.

For how it works, that's simple enough. In my universe an individual is composed of three things: the Heart, the body, and the mind. Creatures created out of Darkness called Heartless hunger for the Hearts of people and even entire Worlds. When they take it from a World, it is lost. When they take it from a person, the Heart becomes corrupted by Darkness and transforms into a Heartless itself.

If the will of the mind and body left behind is strong enough, than it creates something called a Nobody. Most of the time their body becomes twisted into lesser creatures. On occasion, however, the body remains looking human. Those Nobodies can remember how it felt to have a Heart and can remember their past. However, they do not truly feel and are just hollow shells missing a vital part of themselves. That is what I am.

I am volunteering myself for it because I have been lead to believe something strange is happening. Another Nobody has somehow managed to retrieve his heart, at least so I think, but does not know how this came to be. Coincidentally, there is something wrong with my body. I need someone who knows about hearts. I believe it is just the natural accumulation of Darkness inside of me, but I don't want to overlook anything.

Why the hell are they called heartless if they’re actually hearts? It’d make more sense to call them ‘corrupted’ and call people like you ‘heartless.’

[But as little sense as that makes, that’s not the most important part, so time to move on.]

I can give it a go, ‘cause I’m curious as hell.
But let this be your advance warning, dude, I doubt I’ll find anything.
Not because whatever is or isn’t there, but because I’m certain that’s not how this shit works.
I’m no Seer. I’m a Prince. And that means my designated role is to fuck shit up.
This will probably accomplish absolutely nothing, in your case, not even with the darkness if it’s there, since that’s not my division.

I presume because they knew nothing about them at the time of their discovery. Who knows? I wasn't involved with it.

That in itself can be used as a way to find something. If you attempt to destroy something, but find nothing to destroy, then that proves I have no heart. If you manage to cause some amount of damage, then that proves I've been given the wrong information.

When do you think you'll be ready?

Only if it does something then you're worse off than when you started.
What the hell, it's your loss.
I'm ready whenever you want to try getting your souly bits crushed into a macabre pulp.

I doubt things can get much worse.
I've just spoken with someone else who seems to know something about it. I'll contact you after the two of us are done talking.

Aye aye. You know best, dude.
Except for the part where you're asking someone to fuck around with your soul.

Assuming I have one.

Touche.

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