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savedbyasong ([personal profile] savedbyasong) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-05-12 07:56 pm
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Time to grow [closed]

Characters: Shion and Riku
Setting: Floor 29, meadow beyond the hedge maze
Format: Either
Summary: Shion is ready, he goes to meet Riku for his first lesson on trying to control darkness.
Warnings:

A lot had happened since Elena's disappearance and Riku's offer, Xion had been caught up in the experiment mainly. And Shion had been concentrating on helping her. Then this last week... had been one of bad memories but he was trying to move on.

And in doing so had remembered the offer Riku had given him, a promise to help him try and sort out the darkness that only seemed to grow inside of him, the anger and rage that threatened to boil over every time someone close to him got hurt.

Which happened all too often in this place.

So he made his way to the twenty ninth floor. This was another reason he had been avoiding this. Maze's were not good. They brought back only painful memories, of the labyrinth and of Dark World.

So he wasn't in the greatest state when he finally found his way out into the meadow beyond.
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[personal profile] justabignobody 2013-11-26 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Riku sits back and listens, eyes drifting off as he processes the story, his hands clenching, he can sense Shion's anger and he understands it... and it's not just an attack over an insult, is it?

Still, it's too early to pin point anything yet.]


...You said, you also got angry as a child. Can you describe those situations for me?
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[personal profile] justabignobody 2013-12-27 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Somehow this nudges at something in Riku; there is something about this wording...]

That city you lived in... was it really 'perfect'?
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[personal profile] justabignobody 2013-12-28 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riku chuckles lightly.]

Fair enough.

[Riku at least doesn't subscribe to perfection, never really has. And when there's something like a city claiming as much for itself and people are being pushed to believe it... well then he can't help but feel wary of it.]

Were there any consequences for doubting it?
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[personal profile] justabignobody 2013-12-29 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that sounds as far from perfect as it gets. And something to get angry about, no doubt.]

Were there people you knew that disappeared?
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[personal profile] justabignobody 2013-12-30 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Riku just nods; Shion doesn't have to say anymore. He gets it.]

I'm sorry.

[For asking, for making Shion remember, for the friend he lost no matter how long ago.]
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[personal profile] justabignobody 2014-01-06 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[He leans forward, carefully extending his arm to reach and touch Shion's shoulder in reassurance.]

If this place proves anything, then it's that there's a whole lot of universes out there, where someone made a different choice and everything changed according to it. I'm certain... somewhere there is a place and a time where you managed to safe your friend.

[After all... there is a world where he never lost himself to the point that Kingdom Key abandoned him. If there's that, then anything is possible.]