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Characters: Darkra and YOU!
Setting: Media floor!
Format: Commentspam, pls
Summary: Nothing much, just a light-hearted log of playing video games! And Darkra sucking at them, like usual.
Warnings: None!

So, Quiet Knoll. We meet again.

[Sora has been playing video games occasionally now that his mood is better. And this time, he's playing the sequel to the game he's already beaten: Quiet Knoll 2. ...And he's sucking just as badly as he did before, but he doesn't seem to care. ~~Though this may be because he's an idiot and tried to take on a game on Hard mode while he was rusty.~~ He'll have fun either way, bashing monsters with rusty pipes while looking for his character's supposedly dead husband. He's not gotten very far in the game, and in fact, he seems totally lost. But he is still staring intently at the screen!]

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Nice to meet you, Van.

[He'll go back to the hallway after a cursory look for keys, but nothing. More bashing monster skulls.]

When I die, I'll let you take over, okay?

Fine by me.

[ Even if ,you know, he's never played a video game before in his life. But Sora doesn't need to know about that, right? ]

So, uh. This is the first time I've seen you around.

[He's paying attention to the screen, trying to not get himself killed. Because he's stupidly playing on Hard.]

What do you usually do?

[...]

Protect the prisoners here, mostly. [ Lie. ] Help when I can and see what else the administrators can throw at us. [ Bullshit. ]

You?

[ He looks at the screen again, arms folded as if he's observing the strategy of how this game works. ]

I mostly play video games, really. When I'm in a bad enough mood, though, I break people.

[He says it so casually. And then he'll chuckle.]

I'm not stupid. I can smell the darkness coming off of you.

How hard do you break them?

[ It's then that he'll grin and give off a snort. At least one of the Soras here isn't gullible or downright stupid. ]

Can you now? Heh, I was wondering when you'd catch on.

As hard as I can. I'm not always successful...

[He's still hurting from Terra.]

...But I do try.

[As if to emphasize a point, he brutally slaughters a monster.]

I was raised around Heartless. Darkness is kind of my things.

[ Yeah, any Terra can be a bitch to try to get down. Vanitas learned that one the hard way. ]

Mm. Any reason why you were?

My parents supposedly abandoned me. So... one took me in. He was named Ansem.

[He quiets down a moment and ducks into an apartment on the game, finally finding the key he was looking for.]

[ Ansem...

Well, that name alone makes this all the more interesting. ]

Did you ever ask your parents why or see if you could find them to see if they really intended to abandon you?

Yeah. They weren't there. They were in such a hurry to leave, they didn't bother with taking everything.

You ever think that something made them leave?

Maybe. It's not like there's any evidence left, so I guess I'll never know.

[It's been much too long since he was taken, after all.]

[ That will just give him a moment of pause and a slight eyebrow raise. That's...not Soralike. ]

So, what? You're just gonna give up hope that easily? Come on, I know you're better than that.

Well. I can't do anything here, can I?

[And just a few rooms away from the save point, Darkra's character dies. With an aggravated sigh, he'll pass the controller over to Vanitas. And as if on cue, a fat cat-dog-thing crawls into his lap.]

...Your turn.

No, but you can plan. Don't give up so easily. It'll make someone boring.

[ And, frankly, he's tired of people being so blase about things here.

He takes the controller and observes the controls before giving it a try. It seems that murdering things, even fictional, seems to be second nature to him. ]

I'm not. But I can't do anything until I have access to Dad's notes.

[That'll tell him things for sure, after all.]

Oh. And if she looks somewhere not straight ahead? That means there's an item in the room.

Ever thought about rebellion?

[ Yep, it does. He definitely knows what to do here to get Sora to his side. ]

Got it.

[ He looks around the room and tilts the camera to see where an item would be at before making the character pick it up. ]

Rebellion? Against what?

[That has him confused. There's been attempts to rebel against the tower, but...]

You know, the one who's been spoon-feeding you all of this crap to get you to his side.

[ If Sora's quick enough, he'll know what Vanitas is talking about. It took him long enough to break free of his control and he's been grateful for that freedom. ]

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[That? That is a really quick way to make him mad. He'll hold his temper in check, but he's obviously not pleased.]

I'm not going to just turn my back on him when he's been the only person that's always been there for me.

[Because he fears being abandoned, and he clings to consistency.]

[ He catches that anger, what with being used to it and decides to turn a new avenue into this conversation. ]

Look at this girl we're playing as. Do you think she wants to stay in this town, continually fighting monsters and doing the same thing day after day or do you think she wants to get out of there and explore new territory?

...I guess she wants to leave.

[But he can't leave behind the one consistent thing in his life. Not when everything else has left him behind.]

Right. So, apply that to your situation - the ones that have left the tower probably didn't mean to go home or wherever we're taken when the population dwindles. They probably miss you and all that sappy stuff.

[ God, where did this come from? Ugh. Vanimant will just casually roll his eyes behind his mask. ]

...They still left. I'm always the one left behind.

[He's a bit bitter. Why is he always left behind?]