And so another day goes by...

[attheclocktower]

Characters: Xion (OU) and Ven (OU) and Namine, later open to all.
Location: Wherever Ven and Namine are, later either Library or the 15th Floor
Format: I'll match you!
Summary: After two incredibly improbable cases of mistaken identity, Xion goes to find someone with answers. Later, she takes an interest in sewing.
Warnings: Nothing currently, will update as needed.

[This was long, long overdue. Vanitas thinking she was someone else and almost killing her had been a scare enough. She might have been able to dismiss it as some kind of fluke, or just avoided him and had done with it. But then it had happened again, with someone else entirely. Suddenly a passing question was a very pressing one, and she had a few people she wanted to scout out to ask them about it. She checks their rooms first, already knowing the way to Ven's room and checking the nameplates for Namine's.]

[Later in the day, she can be found, hood up as she pokes around floor 15. The weather seemed to be warming up fairly quickly, had ever since the new month had started, but she was in no mood to ever repeat what had happened at the end of February, with them being so cold they could barely move. So... clothing or blankets or something. Maybe a scarf? She couldn't find any anywhere, besides the other rooms which could eventually have people in them. So... maybe there was another way?

So she'll be poking around the fabrics and equipment on Floor 15, never mind that she has no idea what most of this is even for...

A little after that, she can be found in the library, too. Looking for books on blankets and clothes... She's not sure which books will help her the most in this case, given that that kind of knowledge just hadn't been necessary for Organization life.

Wherever she is, though her hood is up. She doesn't want any more cases of mistaken identity.]

Comments

Room Whatever-His-Room-Number-Is I'm too lazy to check

[forceless]

[It'd take awhile before anyone would answer the door when Xion came to Ven's room, but if she waited around a few minutes, she'd eventually be greeted by one of the spikey-blonde-haired residents, who greeted her with a smile once she recognized her...hood.]

Hey! Xion, right? Looking for Roxas?

lmao Plus (Room 1-16)

[attheclocktower]

[Oh thank goodness, he was there. She'd almost been about to leave and look elsewhere. But him being here... made things a little bit easier. Though... this still wasn't easy. Part of why it'd taken this long. A lot of this risked going in to territory she wasn't sure she was ready to go. She was afraid, terrified of rejection and given what she was... But how else was she supposed to explain how this is happening?

Well, if anything that's what she was here to find out. Or at least try to get clues - it was entirely likely Ven would be confused as her.]

Um... no. Actually I'm looking for you.

[Kind of a reversal on the usual situation, but necessary. Though come to think of it, it might be good to talk to Roxas about this later]

Is... anyone else here?

[No matter what, she doesn't want any audiences for this discussion, no matter what their intentions. If Roxas were here she might not mind, but... anybody else, no.]

I AM FLAWLESS

[forceless]

Oh, really? [He was a tad surprised by that. Not that he didn't want to be friends with her or anything, but. Well, having a facetwin just made things a lot more complicated and confusing and let's leave it at that.]

No, no one else is here. [He glanced back in the room for a moment as if checking for any hidden roommates, and opened the door wider so she could step inside.] Do you, wanna come in?

[He had no idea what she wanted, but it must have been important.]

/APPLAUDS, GIVES PERFECT 10

[attheclocktower]

[Xion nods and steps in, glancing briefly around the room though not really taking in its contents. She's nervous and anxious, and it probably shows - she's fidgeting a little, staring down at the ground.

She finally comes to a stop near the bed Roxas had been sleeping in when she'd found him, before steeling herself and turning around.]

You're... You and Roxas are friends, right?

[She didn't know Ven that well, and while he did seem like an okay person, she... she was still nervous. Maybe though... it might've been feelings carrying over from when he'd remembered but... she trusted Roxas's judgement. If Roxas was friends with him... she could trust him too, she thought.]

/bows, thank you thank you

[forceless]

[Once Xion was inside, Ven shut the door behind them, making sure it was shut tight before turning to look at her.]

Of course! We assure you that all accusations of stealing faces are purely joking. [He added with a teasing grin.]

[lethechained]

[Xion won't have far to look for Naminé's room if she starts near Ven's; Naminé's is one of the very next doors. The girl isn't expecting a visitor, but she doesn't wait long before moving to open the door, just a crack, and peering out.]

-- Xion?

/calls for encore okay no I run out of wit after like three subject lines I fail 1/2

[attheclocktower]

[The joke, under normal circumstances, might have gotten a laugh out her. However, considering why she was there?

Still... He was Roxas's friend, right? Like Axel had been, before she met him. She could trust Ven.]

This... is probably going to sound like a strange question but...

[Trying to keep her fingers steady she reaches up to her hood...]

2/2

[attheclocktower]

[... and after a moment's hesitation, flips it down.]

...When you look at me, who do you see?

[This... might not be the best way to start this conversation, and she's nervous that he might see someone different, and what it might mean... but she's going to have to pull her hood down sometime to explain this, so...]

lmao what is wit. all my jokes are from the seat of my pants.

[forceless]

[...Yeah that was definitely a weird question. Weird enough that for a moment, Ven simply stared in confusion, his head tilting to the side ever so slightly.]

Uh, if you mean, what do you look like? Blue eyes, short black hair, parted kind of to the side, [and he gestured the direction of her hair with his fingers on his own head,] kind of short.

[And a beat as he lowered his arms again.] Is this a trick question? [He was sure he didn't recognize her from some other place, that was for sure.]

Gonna tenatively place this after Ven's

[attheclocktower]

[That's another bit of relief for her, to find Naminé at her room too and not have to go searching all over the Tower.]

Naminé... can I talk to you?

[Talking to Ven had helped some, but in many ways he'd been as baffled as she.]

Alrighty then. :|b

[lethechained]

[Naminé's still more than a little uncomfortable in her skin, after the... well, incidents recently. Xion, especially, she worries for, because if anyone can be hurt by Naminé's powers, it's Xion.]

[But if she needs something, Naminé has no intention of turning her away. There's a hesitation, but at the end of it she opens the door enough to speak to the other girl without it being between them.]

... Of course.

And all my jokes are from... some.. where... /starts playing Somewhere Out There

[attheclocktower]

[Her eyes widen and her shoulders visibly sag with relief. He sees her, he sees her. She... she smiles helplessly and shakes her head. Truth be told, she feels a little silly, now.]


It... no, it's not. You can see me... [She looks up.] There... have are some people who have just arrived here, and... they looked at me, and they saw you. I... don't know why.

[And she was hoping you might have some idea. She knows she's a memory replica. She knows her double looks like Sora. But being made from Sora's memories of Kairi, shouldn't people see Kairi, or Sora? Why would they see Ven?]

I thought of Out There from Hunchback of Notre Dame, no brain that's not right

[forceless]

[He blinked a bit more in confusion as her relief. Not that he wasn't happy for her, really! But, that didn't mean he wasn't a bit confused. OK more than a bit.

In fact MUCH more than a bit. Because he just got MORE confused when she brought up that some people said she was him. With Roxas he understood but...her?] Huh? But....I have no idea why, you don't look anything like me.

[Stiiiill kind of dumbfounded that ANYONE could make that mistake, really.]

[keybearer]

[Well, while she's hanging out in the library, she might hear the sound of footsteps from behind, followed by somebody clearing their throat.

Oh, it's just that other Riku.]

Hey, Xion.

[attheclocktower]

[Xion glances left and right down the hallway, still visibly nervous and wanting to avoid eavesdroppers. Though at least Namine already knows a little about her, so there's less risk of having to explain certain things. Though she still might.]

A lot of people have been arriving lately, and... something strange has been going on.

[She looks up.]

Do you know Ventus?

[lethechained]

[It's not hard to see that Xion is unsettled. These topics of conversation are ones that Naminé's realizing she, too, would rather discuss in private - er, in as much privacy as can be offered, in the tower. Fortunately, Naminé's the only one in her room at the moment, so with a quick glance behind her to make sure she's really alone, she opens the door and steps aside.]

I do. But maybe we should talk inside.

Re: I thought of Out There from Hunchback of Notre Dame, no brain that's not right

[attheclocktower]

I know, that's why it doesn't make sense...

[Enough that Xehanort's claims of them looking similar were laughable in normal circumstances. Straight black hair and spiky blond were about as different as you could get. Really though, it wouldn't be that important except... Vanitas.]

I've never even met either of them before. [She hesitates again] One of them looks a lot like... a friend of mine, though.

[attheclocktower]

[Xion was tilting her head sideways at some of the volumes, trying to read thier titles, when she heard someone clear there throat and her head jerked upright. She glanced around quickly, and... oh, it's Riku.

She smiles a little sheepishly.]

Hey, Riku.

[attheclocktower]

All right.

[Xion relaxes a little at that, walking into the room. Once she's inside, she pulls her hood down, now that she was much less exposed, and she already knew Naminé could see her face.

She'll wait until the door is closed until she starts up again.]

There are people I've never met... they look at me, and they saw him.

[She could get Sora. She could get Kairi. But seeing Ven... made no sense.]

[lethechained]

[The girl shuts the door quietly, hand lingering on the knob as she turns and listens. Her head raises slightly at that last part; they saw 'him'?]

You mean that they saw Ventus?

[forceless]

Who was it? Are you sure they weren't just messing with you or something?

[He scratched his head a bit, perplexed. Someone had to be joking, right? 'Cause there really was no way.] Or has anyone else ever mistaken you for someone else before?

[attheclocktower]

Yes... One of them actually said I looked like him from a distance.

[Which meant they were lying or they really saw someone else. Because she didn't resemble Ven, really. Not even distance could really be used to explain away the mistake.]

[lethechained]

....

I think... that I know the reason. But--... first, there's something that I need to ask you. Xion, what's the last thing that you remember from before you were brought to the tower?

[attheclocktower]

It's... hard to explain, but I don't think they were joking.

[Has she been mistaken for someone else before? Yes - but that was with her hood up, and Roxas thinking she was the Organization imposter, something entirely different.

But two people - both new arrivals - messing with her in the exact same way? and above all, the real reason she knew was because of her other self. She's not sure she has the right to just expose her like that, though.]

One of them was named Xehanort. He said he used to be your Master. He... also said I looked like you from a distance, when I said I wasn't you.

[She won't mention the other just yet.]

[forceless]

X-Xehanort?!

[Sorry Xion, he really was concerned but.... Hearing that name immediately caused him to visibly jump in a combination of anger and panic.

Just gotta calm down really, that's all.]

I...hm. [He frowned.] I don't know, it's not like I ever had black hair when I was little or something. Maybe it's because of Vanitas? [He was just thinking out loud at this point, but even the Vanitas thing was a bit of a stretch.]