Sixty Ninth Clone

[sitaronthewater]

[Voice Post]

Roxas! Hey, Roxas, if you're out there somewhere, say something. You haven't been home in a while. Did the visitors maul you or something?

Aw, come on, you can't have left, could you have? [A long, over-exaggerated sigh.] I guess I'm going to the Hall of the Missing today, but you'd better not be there!

[/Voice Post]


[Voice Post, Some Time Later]

Guess he left. At least the ticking's not here anymore, though, and I was used to doing most of the chores anyway. So I guess it's not that bad.

[Attempted Filter to Stephen Stills]

Uh, hey. What's up?

Comments

Well I guess I still love you anyway. *cheekpinch*

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

[He handwaves at the question, as if it helps the explanation.]

You know, the Organization. Coats like mine? I mean, I guess you weren't really here when most of the others were.

damn right!

[totallyinaband]

No, I wasn't.

I'm guessing family wasn't a big part of it, though?

Ma'am, yes, ma'am!

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

[snort] Family doesn't really matter to [He puts on a mock condescending, slightly-British-sounding voice] 'those who no longer have hearts, as you seem to keep forgetting, IX.'

[totallyinaband]

No hearts in the metaphorical sense?

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

[Darkness knows how many times he's had to explain this before, but he gives a little sigh and pout before he launches into a very basic explanation.]

When someone's heart gets consumed by Darkness, that heart turns into a Heartless. When the Heartless is formed, we're what's left. I'm a Nobody.

[totallyinaband]

Oh.

That harsh, man.

Well, you know. You're not a nobody here. I mean, we all need you in the band.

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

[He regrets the phrasing almost immediately. Demyx apparently does not learn, because he gets this like every time he says it.]

No, that's just what we're called. Nobodies.

[totallyinaband]

Okay, man. Sorry.

Well, uh... so things are still weird with you? With the curse thing?

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

What're you sorry for? Lots of people have done that. I don't- phrase it right or something.

Yeah. I mean, I haven't had a family for years, I don't even know if they're still alive. I'm a different person than I was then, anyway. It's kind of like I never had one to begin with, almost. And then the only interaction I've really had, before the City, was the Organization where they kept talking about how none of us have emotions. Going from all that to that curse was- I mean, it's different than usual. Friends, yeah. But family's really different.

[totallyinaband]

Yeah. I know what you mean. Back home, I haven't talked to my parents properly in years. It was weird, we were all just so close. And happy. I never had that growing up, you know?

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

Really? Why not?

[totallyinaband]

Oh. 'Cause they're assholes.

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

[Thank goodness he hangs out with enough people that he now gets implications of such words as opposed to just thinking he's talking anatomically. His eyes are wide.]

What'd they do?

[totallyinaband]

Nothing really, they're just jerks about a lot of things.

What about yours. Did you get along?

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[There is a long pause here as he processes what Stephen says and then legitimately thinks about his question.]

My mother was alright. My father was away a lot. He got me my sitar, though.

[totallyinaband]

That's cool. You gotta be thankful for that, then.

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, I guess. But like I said, they weren't really mine. They were [Insert some combination of letters of d-y-m-and-e because Nomura hasn't told us]'s.

[totallyinaband]

That your... brother?

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

No. That was my name before I got turned into a Nobody. They mix it up and put an x in it when you join the Organization.

[totallyinaband]

I guess that's effective. I little arbitrary...

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

It's a way of identifying your new not-quite-life. [A pause, as he goes back to being serious again.] The funny thing is, even during the curse I didn't really have parents. I mean, I did, but I don't remember who they were supposed to be.

[totallyinaband]

Sometimes I think the City can only invent so much. When you look back at those type of weekends, there were always huge gaps in your memory. You just don't notice them at the time.

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

Huh, yeah, that's true. Like the weekend when we first got together. [Time Bomb.]

[totallyinaband]

Yeah. That was a good time.

[sitaronthewater.livejournal.com]

Well. Yeah. [He grins a little.] But I meant that during that weekend I hadn't been a part of the Organization. But after it was over, I couldn't really remember a lot of details. Like if I was still a Nobody or not.