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Characters: [OU] Master Xehanort and potential victims
Setting: Anywhere you are
Format: I'll match whatever. Action is fine, the old coot just wanted to WORDS for his first post.
Summary: Old man goes out to explore the tower and runs into everyone who never wanted to run into him ever. And maybe some people who did.
Warnings: It's Xehanort. Everything is fair game. KH cast I apologize in advance...

Pacing, pacing. Back and forth. Something had gone wrong, something that he - how laughable, that - hadn't planned for. A random, stray element, that .00001 chance of something coming up. Whatever it was, it had catastrophic effects. His fingers curled and uncurled as he ran through options, through possibilities.

No matter. He was still there. He would find another way. The X-Blade was simply one path to Kingdom Hearts, after all...

He turned on his heel, coat swishing and hands clasping behind his back in that practiced and comfortable way, heading out down the hall. Footsteps even, measured. Making a mental map. Memorizing every step, so that even if he couldn't see or hear he would still be able to find his way.

If this was where he was going to stay, he would make it service him. It was simply a matter of learning its secrets.

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[Sora immediately, instinctively, tries to make himself smaller. While his darkness is deep, it's nothing compared to the man. The coat he wears is all too familiar, with a few smaller differences. He's not sure what to think, but he won't say anything.

Maybe Xehanort will move on...]

[Sora is small, but his darkness does give his location away, and it isn't long before Xehanort looms behind him pleasantly, studying him intently.]

Good day, young man.

[He looks familiar... too familiar. Vanitas? No... Vanitas' darkness was familiar to him. Still, the resemblance was uncanny...]

...Hello.

[Sora remains guarded, distant. He can't shake that this man is too similar to his kidnapper.]

Is something the matter? I apologize if I've made you uncomfortable.

[He leans back a bit, taking his gaze off of Sora to look at the screen the boy was playing his game on.]

You remind me of someone. That's all.

[He's still trying to play Quiet Knoll, not that he's very good at it. So it's paused at the start screen.]

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[Odd. There's only one him, after all. He doesn't recall ever seeing this child before, either.]

The thought of someone resembling me so closely as to cause me to be mistaken for them is rather strange. Who could such a person be?

[Which is good, because then he might leave Sora alone! ...Right?]

...He's my adoptive father.

[Won't say kidnapper, that gives away too much.]

[Sora's earlier reaction indicates that there was something less than pleasant about this so-called father/son relationship... especially given the darkness in the boy's heart. Some darkness is natural, but to be so steeped in it requires special circumstances.]

You've nothing to fear from me, young man. Clearly your relationship with the man was less than pleasant. Thankfully, I'm sure, he didn't follow you here..?

No.

[Sora's like this with most people, thankfully, so Xehanort hopefully won't figure out that he's right.]

I haven't seen him in months.

Then there is little to worry about. You should enjoy yourself more, young man. Stress in someone your age is a terrible thing...

[A pleasant grin, one he's honed from years of practice.]

...

[And now he'll just stare.]

You have no idea what this place is, do you? "Stress" is what we feel all the time because there's no resting.

I've only just arrived. Please enlighten me.

This is the tower. And everything you fear, everything you hate, this place will play it against you. You'll probably die more than once, lose limbs even more, and end up with who knows how many monsters trying to kill you.

[All said with a straight face. Because he is dead serious.]

[His expression doesn't change, apart from him studying Sora's complete set of limbs perhaps.]

How many times has it happened to you?

Died once, went insane and killed a friend once, got a crush on someone and tried to kill them... Oh, that's not even counting the killer teddy bears, the time the tower vanished and we were trapped in the skeleton of it, and, oh, let's not forget the time the computers freaked out.

[And that's just what he's experienced.]

I'll take it into consideration. For the time being, it seems even you have enough of a moment to be concerned about other things.

This? This is a coping mechanism so I don't go insane.

[It's why he's playing violent video games, really. Because then he can feel better.]

Oh? What is this?

[Yes, please do explain the Silent Hill clone to him. Do it, Sora.]

It's a video game. Basically, you're looking for someone, and the entire town's a nightmare. There's monsters everywhere, and crazy people. So bashing in the heads of zombies has helped me not go insane.

[If you want to watch, he'll let you. Doesn't mean he's particularly comfortable, but he isn't giving you too much room to figure things out, old man.]

[Yeah, give him a moment to take this all in.]

You use this to simulate the environment you live in, living vicariously through this other person as he engages in violent behaviour in the name of trying to find someone?

...Pretty much. Can't rebel against the tower, so I'll take it out on monsters in a game.

You can't attack the monsters that are here?

I can, but more will take their place. It's best to avoid them.

((oh wow I just realized I totally used the wrong icon up there last night XD OOPS))

How unfortunate. So this provides catharsis from a hopeless situation...

Pretty much.

[...Ohgod. He's talking with Xehanort.]

It works. That's all I care about.