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◦ xion · ⌠soraface⌡ · fey ◦ ([personal profile] worldsapart) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2012-05-01 09:52 pm

002 ✘ and i rationed my breaths ✘ backdated to 4/22

Characters: AU4 Xion and YOU
Setting: [01] Dorm halls ; [02] cafeteria ; [03] floor eleven
Format: I'll match you!
Summary: Xion/Soraface/Fey kept herself locked away in her room for a week (except for the collar check-up) after her death. Finally, she's dragging herself out
Warnings: ANGST ANGST ANGST


[ 00 ; room 2-01 ]

[Falling... falling... into darkness...]


[ 01 + 02; dorm halls and cafeteria ]

[If you happen to be in the dormitory hallways, there's someone you're likely to see. There's a black-coated small figure with a full head of brown spiky hair making his(?) way towards the stairs. If you get a good look at their face, it's pretty clear they're out of it. And, somehow, the hair is more messy than it should be. Whoo, bedhead.

In the cafeteria, Xion can be found sitting by herself, picking at the food on her plate. Despite the almost overwhelming force of her hunger, she doesn't... really want to eat. She knows she needs to, because it would maybe give her the energy to combat how absolutely tired she feels, but... bleh.]



[ 03 ; floor eleven ]

[She died.

That's what happened, right? They had found her otherself, Axel had grabbed her, and then they turned to fight all the way back down... It wasn't that she was tired, or hurt too bad, or anything. She was doing fine. With Oathkeeper and Oblivion drawn and Riku and Sora at her side, she had felt like maybe... she could take on the world, you know? She thought that they were gonna be okay. And then, and then -- She doesn't know how it happened, where it came from, but that not-Heartless bird came in and knocked her feet out from under her, carried her off the ramp, and then she was falling. She tried to Aerial Recover, but she was too far away, she couldn't grab the ledge, and Oblivion couldn't break through the stone enough to hook on, and she...

And then she died. Because that's what happens when you fall from a who-knows-how-tall tower, right?

But she's here. She's still here, somehow. She's even managed to find ice cream. It's not sea-salt -- it doesn't really taste like much of anything, really -- but it's ice cream in bar-on-a-stick form, and the familiarity is all she can ask for right now. That's why she decided to seek out this floor after she found the ice cream. It isn't, and won't ever be, the Twilight Town clock tower. But, then... She doesn't want it to be. That would bring back too many bad memories right now.

Your... friend? Roxas, do you think I could be a friend?

When Axel gets back, let's ask him. Then all three of us can have ice cream together!


It hurts. She manages to fight back a sob by distracting herself with ice cream.]


It's not salty... and it's barely even sweet. [She tries to smile a little, for herself. For him. She whispers,] Eating ice cream by yourself... really isn't the same, is it, Roxas?
lethechained: (not good news man)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
But--....

[But Xion wouldn't have had to go back to Sora, and maybe if that hadn't been necessary, there would have been something that could have been done.]

But maybe if things had been different....
lethechained: by Kris (....)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[... It's true.]

[It's true, and yet still, Naminé finds herself weighed down by guilt. Still frowning, she sighs. What she did gave Xion life, in a way, or at least gave life to the person that Xion became, and it also took it away... or at least changed the form it took. It's hard not to blame herself, even knowing that.]


... I guess... you're right. Things-- might not have turned out the same way. [In both the good sense and the bad one.] ... I'm sorry, Xion, that it had to be that way.
lethechained: (Flatline)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
....

[She tries to smile. It's almost entirely a failure.]

But, you know... it's not quite the same, here. [There's no Organization to push them around, for one.]
lethechained: (A bit of a smile)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Naminé's had practice, too - but it's been harder and harder, lately, and this-- this has been a very jarring experience. The second attempt, though, works out much better.]

Yes. It's a second chance for many of us. [Third chances for some, too.] It's... a wonderful opportunity, even if this isn't-- ideal.
lethechained: (Worth drawing)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
[She blinks, looking slightly startled. Then, slowly, her smile quirks larger, just a little.]

That's a nice thought. [And she means it, too, even if she's not sure it's possible.]
lethechained: (calm)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Her lips purse slightly, smile fading. One hand raises up to lightly press fingertips against her own collar.]

That's true, but... I don't know if it's enough.
lethechained: (First aid)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[... She could say that it's hopeless. She could say that there's no way to get the collars off and no way to win with them on.]

[She doesn't.]


It's-- very brave of you to say that, Xion.
lethechained: (It hurts to smile)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-06 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her smile is pained and bittersweet, but it's there.]

... I think anyone would want that. [To believe that they can be happy, that is.]
lethechained: (Could be worse.)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-16 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
... Mm. It really helps to have a positive mindset. There are a lot of things about this place that are good already.
lethechained: (Heh.)

[personal profile] lethechained 2012-05-16 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly...! We don't have to be alone. There are so many nice people here.
Edited 2012-05-16 16:31 (UTC)