towerofanimus | This is gonna hurt later [partially backdated]

Characters: AU Riku Replica and YOU
Setting: Various places in the tower, during the event (15th-19th)
Format: Action tags to start, but can switch to prose if necessary
Summary: The tower took Repliku and...didn't quite put him back in the same condition he left in. This is a catch-all post for Repliku. He's part of Group C and like all the others in his group, will answer to Groups A and B.
Warnings: Possible violence, mild body horror (see the above link), possible death/injury, blood, gore, etc., mental anguish, brainwashing

During the event, he basically sees everyone as a replica of himself. And will most likely try to kill or harm whoever's nearby whenever he's malfunctioning. He has strong magic and a summonable sword and won't hesitate to use both.

Mindless
[Don't mind the kid in the black coat, he's just doing his job. Don't mind the blood on his coat, his shirt, his hands, it's none of your concern, and it's none of his either. Hopefully you don't recognize his outfit or the coat he's wearing, or maybe the face just barely visible underneath the hood--unusually expressionless but otherwise unchanged. Be grateful he's wearing that hood, because you probably don't want to see what it's hiding.

He's just doing his job, don't mind him.]

Partial Sanity
[No. No no no nonononono. Everything was wrong. He couldn't move--no, that wasn't right, he could move, but he couldn't move the way he wanted to. It was like his body decided to go on autopilot and no amount of mental force could change it.

Not that he had a lot of mental force anyway. He couldn't measure time accurately, but every once in a while his brain would go fuzzy and then he'd be somewhere else and couldn't remember getting there. And then there were the blackouts, two of which he'd woken up after with his hands covered in blood. Or holding someone's arm. He couldn't tell whose, they all looked the same.

They all looked like him. There was something not right.

"What's going on? Why is this happening to me? Why can't I MOVE right?"]

Malfunctioning
[He couldn't stand them. All of the replicas. One was enough, two was way too much, but they were everywhere. They had to be killed, whatever it took.

Maybe you're an unmodified tower resident, maybe you're a fellow experiment. Doesn't matter, he's spotted you and is approaching, sword in hand, ready to attack.]

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[Suzaku span and dodged the sword that was coming towards him. He saw enough to know this was Riku... one of them at least, and he had been experimented on.

Which probably meant talking him down wasn't going to work, but he would try regardless.] Riku can you hear me?

[Nope, he doesn't. Not that he could respond very well anyway even if he could. Suzaku's response is a blank stare, though he pauses with his keyblade up, as if trying to determine how much of a threat Suzaku actually is.]

[It seemed it affected everyone differently, some could talk, some couldn't. Some seemed violent and others just vacant.

He stood very still, sticking to what he had told those planning on storming the administrators. They shouldn't give their friends any excuse to hurt them, because the odds of Jason wiping their memories was low, and this would be painful to remember.]

[Riku still hasn't caught onto what's happening with everybody. He's been too focused on finding his clone. So when he does see the Replica, he immediately bolts his way, unaware of his current mental state.]

About time I found you!

[It hasn't completely set in that something's gone horribly wrong. He's yet to fully realize even the collar's color change.]

[Haha, mental state. You're funny, Riku. Sorry, but your clone is currently out at the moment, can his body take a message? His response to Riku is a slight head tilt...

...followed by a Firaga blast, with no warning or change in expression.]

[Riku barely has time to react. His eyes fly wide open, and he dodge rolls to the side. The fire just barely grazes his arm, and he winces at the sudden heat.

The Keyblade flashes into his grip, and he cloaks himself in a breeze, just to be safe. However, he's not lifting his weapon just yet.]

C'mon, now's not the time to start picking fights.

[The appearance of Riku's weapon seems to get a reaction out of him--a flicker of anger over his otherwise blank expression. Just for a split second, then it's gone.

Then then he's preparing another Firaga spell. Someone does want to fight.]

Edited 2013-04-18 01:29 (UTC)

[Ugh. Good thing he threw up that Aeroga shield. When the flames whirl his way, Riku grumbles and throws up his Keyblade in an attempt to deflect.

Rep may want to think fast, because there's a Keyblade whirling his way shortly after the block. Riku doesn't want to hurt him, but incapacitate him? If that's what it takes, sure.]

[After a run-in with a different mangled resident, chaos had decided on a different approach. Instead of speaking with them, he used his telepathy as he walked toward Repliku.]

'Because the Administrators have tampered with your body. I am so sorry that this has happened to you..'

[Oh good, now there are more voices in his head. Wait...the voice isn't trying to tell him to do something. He turns to Chaos not of his own volition, but simply because Chaos just happens to be standing in his path. After all, it was silly to assume that the constant stream of 'No, go that way, THAT WAY' and 'Really, what am I even DOING with these bodies this is disgusting' would actually accomplish anything.]

"You...who are you? I-I don't need sorry...I need help."

Edited 2013-04-17 22:46 (UTC)

'I am chaos. And..even I am not sure how to help you as you are now. I would say to wait it out until Jason got bored..but that would not help your current predicament.'

"Waiting? What...good will waiting...no, no! Keep talking."

[There's no outward sign of it, but he has to fight to keep from slipping out of his mostly-coherent state of mind. It's a lot like trying not to fall asleep, and it feels like it's getting harder every time he tries.]

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'Waiting may free you eventually, my friend. Jason gets bored of his projects and does not keep them for a long while, so, while this is horrible, you only need to wait it out. I shall talk with you for as long as you need.'

[chaos can feel that inner fight though, so he tries to speak for as long as he can.]

[No chaos, don't say that, he'll try to adopt you for the rest of the event.]

"That could be a while...I don't want you hanging around if I black out again."

[Or if his drone mentality manages to override his own. As it is, he's overridden it long enough to keep still and chat with Chaos, at least. For now.]

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[Not that chaos really minded if people formed bonds with him. It was up to them to do so, up to their choice-to form a bond or not.]

'Don't worry. If that happens, I shall escape. However, if I see you when you wake up again, I shall speak to you.'

[Ryoji couldn't help but notice one of the workers seemed to have stopped in it's regular work, and it was his job as a retrieval unit to get it back in line. He approaches Riku, already forcefully speaking a command.]

You have work to do. Start moving before I am forced to take further-

[As he comes closer, the blood on the replica's hands is obvious.]

What is that?

[Perhaps the worker had been cleaning up after a corpse was found, but perhaps he was causing murders himself.]

[Hopefully Ryoji can't read thoughts, or else he'll hear 'Riku' mentally screaming at him about how he's not going to do anything, you can't make him and don't ask where the blood came from, he blacked out before it got there.

His external response is entirely different. The fuzzy feeling comes back, suppressing the more argumentative part of him, and he starts to turn to leave, until Ryoji speaks again.]

Blood. I was sent to clean up a body.

[Which is true. He hasn't killed anyone yet.]

Edited 2013-04-18 08:05 (UTC)

I see. Then you should be cleaning yourself before you get that blood anywhere else.

[He remains oblivious to Riku's internal conflict. Why should the worker unit fight, anyhow? The retrieval units have more authority than them, and so his orders to Riku should be followed without question.]

This is gonna hurt later [partially backdated]

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You and Suzaku mun are terrible

I know :3

S'ok, though. I'm a terrible person too.

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Ohey boss

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