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[justabignobody]

Characters: OU!Riku and OPEN
Setting: All the floors, Night time
Format: Gonna go with action; but if you are more comfortable with prose, go for it!
Summary: Riku decided to go out at night and take on a private fact-finding mission. Someone has to start taking notes on the different monsters after all, right?
Warnings: Some violence, will update as needed

[Ever since the Tower had folded itself together into one room and almost overwhelmed its residents/prisoners with that army of monsters, the floors have become far more unsafe... at least, as far as Riku had noticed.

He is used to the constant threat of being attack, has gotten used to it long before he had been drawn into the tower, but the constellation of creatures it has thrown at him so far... is interesting to say at least. Some of them he knows of course, but there are many, far too many, he thinks, that he knows nothing of, that don't feel like Heartless or Nobodies or anything else he's ever encountered and he's pretty sure that only some of them are creatures of the tower.

Tonight he has assigned himself a fact-finding mission in that regard - to find out just which Heartless have made it to this place, just how many other creatures aside of them, to get an idea how to fight those he doesn't know.

He is wandering the floors in silence, head slightly bowed, his hand gripping tight around Soul Eater as he stretches his sense the best he can - he prefers not to be surprised if he can help it. While he won't ask or even accept help if offered aloud, he most likely won't stop anyone from helping out either, if he happens to be in the middle of a fight. He won't hesitate to come help out, should anyone find themselves in trouble either.

Help/bother/distract/talk to him?]

[ooc: If you haven't, please take a look at his permissions post!]

Comments

[lethechained]

[His reservations are more than understandable, of course. She'd have them too, were she not privy to certain information regarding Aqua. The woman is probably more trustworthy an ally than any other they might find in such a place, if only because she is, to Naminé, a fairly well-understood quantity. Catching on to his concern with no trouble at all, she says,]

... She's the one who taught me. [One of her hands curls against her chest. There's just so much to say, but she's not sure where to start, so she sticks with,] She's... a good person, Riku. [That doesn't, however, mean that she'll always act with the same interests, but,] She's been teaching others, too. If there's anyone here who can be trusted to do it, it's her.

[justabignobody]

[If this would be anyone other than Naminé telling him this, Riku would... maybe not disregard it, but definitely give it far, far less weight. It makes him pause and also scold himself a little - he had never asked Naminé just where she had learned how to use magic, from who.

He looks a little torn, not quite totally sure what to do with that new information, eyes closed as he frowns and then finally sighs. Aside of his own reservations there is nothing speaking against Aqua - she is a Keybearer and a very, very advanced magic user from what he's seen. And Naminé was vouching for her. Not to mention that they were lacking alternatives...]

...All right, then. I'll talk with her about at the next chance.

[lethechained]

[Being torn is just as understandable, and she's more than willing to offer him the time he needs to choose his words. It's unpleasant, seeing that look on his face, but hopefully he'll have no regrets, once he's gotten used to the idea. His answer earns him a slight smile, meant both to encourage and apologize.]

... Thank you. I know it's-- not easy. [To trust an almost-stranger with something like that, she means.] But she is the best choice. I promise.

[justabignobody]

[He won't have any regrets, if this whole arrangement works out like they want it and Sora indeed gets the training he desperately needs.

He just bites back the comment that really, she's the only choice; Naminé wouldn't call her the best without reason.]

...I'll take your word for it.

[lethechained]

[They'll have to hope for the best, but this is still the best chance.]

[Taking her word for it does make things easier - but now as she smiles her gratitude for his cooperation, she's left to keep her worries to herself. She's about as confident in Aqua as she can be in anyone beyond a select few, but she'll always fear what might happen, should she be proven wrong.]