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towerofanimus2012-10-05 01:00 am
justabignobody) wrote in towerofanimus2012-10-05 01:00 am
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Characters: Riku (justabignobody), Various and Open
Setting: right after this, and the days following it
Format: Start off action, but I'll go for what's preferred.
Summary: [A] Escape =/= being safe. Clearly, the situation requires an adult, so Riku drags Xion to see the only person who probably fits all his requirements [B] Riku reports to the Higher Forces. [C] Paranoia is still a thing (or well... even more a thing than usual), but when has that ever stopped Riku from going through his day.
Warnings: None as of now? Will be updated as needed.
[A | Room 03-04 | Locked to Xion, Terra and the Anguished One, if they feel like being woken by exhausted Keybitties]
[If Riku were to think about it, he wouldn't be able to think of the last time he had been this exhausted; in this particular way at least - his left arm feels like on fire, the pain a constant throb on his mind and he is utterly burned out on both magic and Darkness. The only reason why Way to the Dawn is still in his hand is because he is clinging to it like a lifeline; as long as he is holding onto it he has at least something to defend himself with, even though he is not sure just how long he'd hold out, if he were to be attacked now.
Xion... doesn't really look much better - she isn't injured (not majorly at least), but the tiredness is written all over her face, and if one thing is clear, it's this. They need a safe place to stay for the rest of the night. Well... that as good as excludes both their rooms already, Xion's for obvious reasons and his just to be careful (even though he thinks/hopes he has not given himself away to Ganondorf) and leaves them... with very little.
They need someone trustworthy... someone stronger than either of them.
Someone who hopefully won't mind them knocking even though it's long past midnight.
There's... really only one person who fits that bill... and who Riku feels somewhat comfortable going to. And so he finds himself steering Xion towards the third dormitory floor, towards Terra's room.
He flinches just slightly when he lifts his left hand, pain racing across his skin, but he needs to knock and he can't let go of his Keyblade, not yet.
Not until they are safe.]
[B | Floor 29, 29th September | Locked to Zelda and Gandalf]
[It takes a while until Riku finds the strength to move and do what has to be done - his arm might still be hurting and the exhaustion drawn over his face, but his mind is clear and he is sitting on knowledge that needs to be passed on - starting with the attendance of that 'reunion' (or at least the names that he had been able to make out) as well as the plans he had come to overhear, ending with... whatever Reno had gotten himself into.
So he sneaks away to deliver some notes - neat, simple and to the point; a meeting spot, a time and a signature... he usually doesn't do things like this, but he hopes that Zelda and Gandalf will follow his invitation.
On the next day he finds himself sitting right in the middle of the garden in center of the maze on Floor 29, sorting through the information he had gathered, trying to figure how to best approach each topic. There isn't much else for him to do as he waits...that doesn't involve scratching at the bandage on his left arm anyways.]
[C | all around, 29th-30th September | Open]
[Even though he is still kind of unable to let go of his tension and can't help but stop before he enters a floor and sense for certain people, he refuses to let himself be effected more than that - he's gotten away clean after all; and even if he hadn't... by now it's too late to do anything about it.
So he spends his day as he always would (except for that little tidbit of extra paranoia of course) - wandering the floors, lingering at the libraries to look for one book or another (or pretend to anyways).
And well... if that leads to his running certain other people... he certainly won't be complaining about it.
Catch him if you can?]
justabignobody), Various and OpenSetting: right after this, and the days following it
Format: Start off action, but I'll go for what's preferred.
Summary: [A] Escape =/= being safe. Clearly, the situation requires an adult, so Riku drags Xion to see the only person who probably fits all his requirements [B] Riku reports to the Higher Forces. [C] Paranoia is still a thing (or well... even more a thing than usual), but when has that ever stopped Riku from going through his day.
Warnings: None as of now? Will be updated as needed.
[A | Room 03-04 | Locked to Xion, Terra and the Anguished One, if they feel like being woken by exhausted Keybitties]
[If Riku were to think about it, he wouldn't be able to think of the last time he had been this exhausted; in this particular way at least - his left arm feels like on fire, the pain a constant throb on his mind and he is utterly burned out on both magic and Darkness. The only reason why Way to the Dawn is still in his hand is because he is clinging to it like a lifeline; as long as he is holding onto it he has at least something to defend himself with, even though he is not sure just how long he'd hold out, if he were to be attacked now.
Xion... doesn't really look much better - she isn't injured (not majorly at least), but the tiredness is written all over her face, and if one thing is clear, it's this. They need a safe place to stay for the rest of the night. Well... that as good as excludes both their rooms already, Xion's for obvious reasons and his just to be careful (even though he thinks/hopes he has not given himself away to Ganondorf) and leaves them... with very little.
They need someone trustworthy... someone stronger than either of them.
Someone who hopefully won't mind them knocking even though it's long past midnight.
There's... really only one person who fits that bill... and who Riku feels somewhat comfortable going to. And so he finds himself steering Xion towards the third dormitory floor, towards Terra's room.
He flinches just slightly when he lifts his left hand, pain racing across his skin, but he needs to knock and he can't let go of his Keyblade, not yet.
Not until they are safe.]
[B | Floor 29, 29th September | Locked to Zelda and Gandalf]
[It takes a while until Riku finds the strength to move and do what has to be done - his arm might still be hurting and the exhaustion drawn over his face, but his mind is clear and he is sitting on knowledge that needs to be passed on - starting with the attendance of that 'reunion' (or at least the names that he had been able to make out) as well as the plans he had come to overhear, ending with... whatever Reno had gotten himself into.
So he sneaks away to deliver some notes - neat, simple and to the point; a meeting spot, a time and a signature... he usually doesn't do things like this, but he hopes that Zelda and Gandalf will follow his invitation.
On the next day he finds himself sitting right in the middle of the garden in center of the maze on Floor 29, sorting through the information he had gathered, trying to figure how to best approach each topic. There isn't much else for him to do as he waits
[C | all around, 29th-30th September | Open]
[Even though he is still kind of unable to let go of his tension and can't help but stop before he enters a floor and sense for certain people, he refuses to let himself be effected more than that - he's gotten away clean after all; and even if he hadn't... by now it's too late to do anything about it.
So he spends his day as he always would (except for that little tidbit of extra paranoia of course) - wandering the floors, lingering at the libraries to look for one book or another (or pretend to anyways).
And well... if that leads to his running certain other people... he certainly won't be complaining about it.
Catch him if you can?]
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I suppose you had her best interest at heart telling her about Sora that time on the beach, didn't you.
[There was no need to say anything else. Everything was implied in that one statement.]
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Wha-
[But then it dawns him, the only time he and Xion had stood at a beach... and for a moment his face is blank as his mind is racing - how could Reno know, who would have told-
...But maybe nobody had. Maybe he had seen... between the Dreams and the way Naminé's powers had gone haywire - twice now already (at least that he knew of) - it's certainly likely. And probably just what happened.
His eyes flash now that certainty is settling, and confusion making way for ice cold anger.]
As a matter of fact, I did. Stop. Stalling.
[This is not about himself. This is about Reno.]
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[Reno is none too pleased himself, placing his hands on his hips in irritation. All he ever wanted was to keep the people of the Tower safe, maybe make up for some of the things he had done on Gaia...
The Tower was sort of his second chance, if it could be called that. As terrible as it was, it was sort of like a condensed version of the Planet, but with the monsters running rampant in the living spaces. As bad as the Tower had been so far, there were times, back on Gaia... it could be a helluva lot worse. That was the slow realization he had come to, to a slight hysterical amusement. Even more so now that he had no choice serving Ganondorf secretly.
To be accused of not being good enough rubbed him in the worst way. Apparently trying and failing was the worst sin someone could commit.]
Where the hell were you when Vanitas broke into her room, not once, but twice? And when she was getting kidnapped by that pig-faced maniac? What about when Vanitas attacked and almost killed her, killed Shion and left Yu wounded? Why'd Axel ask me to look after her, and not you? You want to know what I think is takin' care of someone? You answer those questions first.
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[Riku's voice is still calm, but more quiet, the flash of anger in his eyes steadily burning.
To him the tower is a prison, a place that keeps him from doing what has to be done. Which is - as terrible as that may be - capturing Roxas and reuniting him with Sora. He does recognize it as chance for others, for those that would eventually disappear, for Xion and Naminé and Roxas and he wants nothing more for them than to be able to make friends, to have something resembling a normal life. Something outside the control of the Organization and DiZ.
He hadn't liked trusting Reno with Xion, but for all that he and Axel been adversaries in the months before the tower, for all that he had let the Nobody chase him, he had trusted him in regard to Xion, because despite not having a heart Axel had cared for those close to him.
It seems like his trust had been misplaced though.]
As much as I might wish for it, I can't be everywhere. Nor do I know all that happens at the moment it happens. Nobody does. And I wouldn't expect you to.
[He snorts in disgust.]
But what I expect is that if you spy at someone. Cover. Your. Weaknesses.
[He really shouldn't have to tell Reno that.]
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You can't be everywhere? WHAT THE HELL DO YA THINK I'M GETTING AT?! I CAN'T BE EVERYWHERE. And if it hadn't been for assholes like you blowing my cover it wouldn't have happened. BECAUSE SOMEONE DID. I was tortured and killed for what happened and I'm thankin' Minerva herself Xion and Elena- and Elena- got out mostly unharmed. I wasn't so damned lucky.
The way I remember it, you wouldn've gotten out either without me distracting that bastard. Oh, yeah- and it got me killed.
So you take your judgmental, self righteous, hypocritical ass and direct it at someone who deserves it. Like Ganondorf. And blow a big one on him.
[Shaking with anger, he was pretty sure he was at his breaking point. It'd been a long time since he'd been this angry. He kicked one of the boxes of gym gear across the room and started stomping to the staircase. He needed a drink, or maybe ten.]
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Because, clearly... if Reno has nothing better to do than blame what happened on him and Xion, then he definitely isn't fit to be trusted with her.
He lets a moment pass before he speaks up, voice calm, cool, calling over Reno's stomps.]
If keeping your promise to Axel was such a drag, you only needed to say a word. Consider yourself relieved of it.
[He shouldn't have trusted with it in first place anyways.]