It's less, not none. [ a little dryly as he pets the meow wow. fat catdog... ] But yeah. Shadows are weird. Even weirder when you step into them. This affect you guys any?
I don't have any hope left for zero arguing at this rate. [it's slightly amused. they're busy fiddling with stuff on their nightstand. their uniform is kind of haphazardly thrown on, like maybe they weren't wearing it entirely before cloud came by. one of the gloves is threatening to fall off, a few things are misbuttoned...it's fine.]
I'm not sure though. Probably? I haven't left my room today.
[ he's not going to point out the uniform mess, but he is.
taking a candy bar out of his jrpg pocket, first, handing that over, and then taking out the red xiii plushie. he is still petting meow wow with his other hand while that happens. ]
[ eat your candy, sora. but he ends up sort of handing him the plushie when meow wow crawls in his lap because that is a bigass cat dog and he kind of needs both hands to balance this mess as he gives up and sits with him ]
Yeah. Pretty sure he'd hate seeing himself like this. [ red's dignity... destroyed in this adorable posable plushie. cloud seems to think it's a little funny, though ] It just showed up in my room.
but they take the plushie and they watch meow wow practically bowl cloud over before they pull their legs closer to their body to give both of them more room. they're fiddling with the plushie, letting one of red's legs do a lil kicky.]
Weird. Maybe it's just supposed to be something nice. You guys are friends, aren't you?
this dog cat is so jiggly, god. cloud's trying to find a way so he is not pushed back down on the bed completely and squished by love and also licked to death. please. ]
Sure. [ he might waffle on terminology but it's been four months in various murdergames so he gives up trying to be distant, it's fine ] I don't mind having it. Beats a lot of stuff we've received in this place.
[you know that's true. puppycat is very comfy with his cuddling and trying to lick cloud's face, and gemini is still playing with red-plushie's pawpaws.]
Yeah. It could be a lot worse. It's kind of nice to have while you're still here. Even if Red XIII might throw it away when you get home.
[ no ... no licky... cloud is doing that thing where you kind of lean away from the dog's face while continuing to hold and pet them. it's fine. ]
He's going to try, and the rest of them are going to convince him to try and keep it. [ a little wry. his friends are bullies. ] You had this guy in the Realm, right? That one week.
That's because nobody can say no to Aerith or Tifa, I'm pretty sure. Gonna guess the same about Barret. [a gloved hand comes up to pet meow wow though.]
Surprised you really remembered. [they sound a little pleased though, more lively than they have for most of this conversation.] He was one of them though, yeah. They're called Dream Eaters. They're friends. Meow Wow's the one that sticks with me the most. And Komory Bat was with Riku a lot.
also wow. glad cloud can accept "bat bat" but it's meow wow he has issue with.]
I don't want to hear that when your name's Cloud. [says the idiot whose name literally means sky.] And it's not like I named him. That's what he was called when he was created.
[meow wow squeaks happily now that he's managed to lick cloud's face.]
Yeah. They're all different and they all have different ways of being created, so they have specific names. In the Realm during that week I had Meow Wow, Komory Bat, Necho Cat, Pegaslick, Ryu Dragon, uh...probably a few others, too.
[ cloud pokes meow wow on his side. naughty squeaky puppy. he's wiping his face off ]
Yeah, I remembered yours changing a lot. They were weird, so it was hard to forget. [ no one knew that that week cloud had a baby chocobo daemon hidden in his robes because he had dropped too law in numbers. hilarious ]
anyway, meow wow does his rolly polly bullshit to wiggle on his back and try to make cloud pet his tum.]
I think they probably changed a lot because they were all friends that helped us during our exam. [that's not why. it's just because i thought it was funny.] We were connected back then, too.
Okay. So you created your own friends. [ sure. whatever. he tilts his head ] I've got time if you do. [ he's not entirely sure if they do, which is why he says it, rubbing the tumtum. the image is hilarious. ]
I have a little time left, sure. [meow wow is pleased with the tummy rubs.] ...I think I told you that my friend and I used to practice together while we were growing up, and eventually we both came into possession of our own things. [things being code for "keyblades."]
The problem was that there's actually an exam you're supposed to take in order to become a master. Both of us had to take the test in order to not only become masters, but learn a new skill that was supposed to help us later.
[ HE DOESN'T ACTUALLY NEED THIS MUCH BACKGROUND INFO TY BUT THIS IS VERY SORA
he blinks a little. he is also dumping meow wow on gemini's lap because he's tired of pets, but he expects to be jumped again immediately anyway. ]
I remember your silver-haired guy. And Roxas... [ he shakes his head a little. sort of, maybe, vaguely, but not enough that he knows immediately when asked. ] I don't think you said anything about what.
[there's an oof because meow wow is fucking fat, but gemini is busy rearranging him before leaning back against the headboard. also look this is also just how their relationship went in redacted, they overshared and cloud wished they would stop talking.]
Roxas is my Nobody. It means he's half of who I am, because I lost my heart once. The monsters we fight are called Heartless. They're creatures born from the darkness in people's hearts, so when that darkness consumes them, they become Heartless. Nobodies are everything else that's left behind. Usually Nobodies remember everything about themselves when they were a whole person, but because I came back and regained my heart, Roxas didn't remember anything.
Anyway, if you destroy both a Heartless and also a Nobody of a person, they...revive. Into their original selves. And that's what happened to Xehanort. When we beat Ansem and Xemnas, he came back, and we had to find a way to prepare to stop him from what he wanted to do. It's why we had to take the Mark of Mastery exam, because...there were a few other wielders that had been lost years ago. We had to learn how to use this thing called the Power of Waking.
I think I told you that worlds can be totally destroyed by Heartless if they aren't stopped. That's what happened to our island. There were a ton of worlds out there that had been destroyed but then revived, but they were still in a deep sleep. Instead of being overrun with Heartless though, they were filled with Dream Eaters. Creatures like Meow Wow are called spirits. The evil ones are called Nightmares.
In order to pass the test, we had to go to a lot of worlds and unlock the keyholes so we could bring them back to the Realm of Light and awaken them again. It was meant for us to learn so we could figure out how to awaken the sleeping hearts of the other wielders that went missing.
he is going to move past the roxas nobody stuff because he is completely list on that part, how the hell was that kid alive if he's half of sora's whatever, what does that even mean. he at least understands the concept of people becoming darkness and then whatever other half. sure. he is not sure how xemnas and ansem made a guy named xehanort, but it's still. two parts of one asshole made another and they still had to kill the asshole. that part is Fine.
the dream stuff is also fine. he just accepts all of that. ]
... So you took an exam to learn something to help you take down your silver-haired guy and the... Dream Eaters happened to be there and the nice ones helped you out. That it?
[ honestly them being some kind of dream spirit explains their appearance entirely cloud no longer has to question the catdog thing ]
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I'm not sure though. Probably? I haven't left my room today.
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[ he's not going to point out the uniform mess, but he is.
taking a candy bar out of his jrpg pocket, first, handing that over, and then taking out the red xiii plushie. he is still petting meow wow with his other hand while that happens. ]
You got any clue why I got this?
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instead, they're focusing on the red xiii plushie. meow wow is busy trying to crawl into cloud's lap.]
...huh. No, but it's kinda cute. It's Red XIII, right? Or some version of him. [they reach forward to beep the plushie's nose. hehe.]
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Yeah. Pretty sure he'd hate seeing himself like this. [ red's dignity... destroyed in this adorable posable plushie. cloud seems to think it's a little funny, though ] It just showed up in my room.
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but they take the plushie and they watch meow wow practically bowl cloud over before they pull their legs closer to their body to give both of them more room. they're fiddling with the plushie, letting one of red's legs do a lil kicky.]
Weird. Maybe it's just supposed to be something nice. You guys are friends, aren't you?
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this dog cat is so jiggly, god. cloud's trying to find a way so he is not pushed back down on the bed completely and squished by love and also licked to death. please. ]
Sure. [ he might waffle on terminology but it's been four months in various murdergames so he gives up trying to be distant, it's fine ] I don't mind having it. Beats a lot of stuff we've received in this place.
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Yeah. It could be a lot worse. It's kind of nice to have while you're still here. Even if Red XIII might throw it away when you get home.
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He's going to try, and the rest of them are going to convince him to try and keep it. [ a little wry. his friends are bullies. ] You had this guy in the Realm, right? That one week.
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That's because nobody can say no to Aerith or Tifa, I'm pretty sure. Gonna guess the same about Barret. [a gloved hand comes up to pet meow wow though.]
Surprised you really remembered. [they sound a little pleased though, more lively than they have for most of this conversation.] He was one of them though, yeah. They're called Dream Eaters. They're friends. Meow Wow's the one that sticks with me the most. And Komory Bat was with Riku a lot.
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... Its name is Meow Wow?
[ he can accept the bat one. he cannot accept meow wow. ]
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also wow. glad cloud can accept "bat bat" but it's meow wow he has issue with.]
I don't want to hear that when your name's Cloud. [says the idiot whose name literally means sky.] And it's not like I named him. That's what he was called when he was created.
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he's also busy spluttering when meow wow succeeds in licking him, making a face ]
So it's-- stop that!-- so it's the species...? Or whatever?
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Yeah. They're all different and they all have different ways of being created, so they have specific names. In the Realm during that week I had Meow Wow, Komory Bat, Necho Cat, Pegaslick, Ryu Dragon, uh...probably a few others, too.
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Yeah, I remembered yours changing a lot. They were weird, so it was hard to forget. [ no one knew that that week cloud had a baby chocobo daemon hidden in his robes because he had dropped too law in numbers. hilarious ]
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anyway, meow wow does his rolly polly bullshit to wiggle on his back and try to make cloud pet his tum.]
I think they probably changed a lot because they were all friends that helped us during our exam. [that's not why. it's just because i thought it was funny.] We were connected back then, too.
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he dutifully pets the tummy of this extremely squishy beast ]
They helped you during an exam? [ he sounds a little confused because what kind of Test requires this ] I thought you said they were created.
[ friends can be created cloud don't be mean ]
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Both of those things can be true, Cloud. [they sound pretty amused.] But yeah. They helped us during our exam. It's kind of another long story.
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I have a little time left, sure. [meow wow is pleased with the tummy rubs.] ...I think I told you that my friend and I used to practice together while we were growing up, and eventually we both came into possession of our own things. [things being code for "keyblades."]
The problem was that there's actually an exam you're supposed to take in order to become a master. Both of us had to take the test in order to not only become masters, but learn a new skill that was supposed to help us later.
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it's very hard to take seriously because he's still petting meow wow but the Look ]
... Okay. So these guys... were made to help you take your test?
[ the magic key test also had pet helpers? ]
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Did I ever tell you what Roxas is?
[i fucking hate you for making me narrate kingdom hearts btw.]
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he blinks a little. he is also dumping meow wow on gemini's lap because he's tired of pets, but he expects to be jumped again immediately anyway. ]
I remember your silver-haired guy. And Roxas... [ he shakes his head a little. sort of, maybe, vaguely, but not enough that he knows immediately when asked. ] I don't think you said anything about what.
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Roxas is my Nobody. It means he's half of who I am, because I lost my heart once. The monsters we fight are called Heartless. They're creatures born from the darkness in people's hearts, so when that darkness consumes them, they become Heartless. Nobodies are everything else that's left behind. Usually Nobodies remember everything about themselves when they were a whole person, but because I came back and regained my heart, Roxas didn't remember anything.
Anyway, if you destroy both a Heartless and also a Nobody of a person, they...revive. Into their original selves. And that's what happened to Xehanort. When we beat Ansem and Xemnas, he came back, and we had to find a way to prepare to stop him from what he wanted to do. It's why we had to take the Mark of Mastery exam, because...there were a few other wielders that had been lost years ago. We had to learn how to use this thing called the Power of Waking.
I think I told you that worlds can be totally destroyed by Heartless if they aren't stopped. That's what happened to our island. There were a ton of worlds out there that had been destroyed but then revived, but they were still in a deep sleep. Instead of being overrun with Heartless though, they were filled with Dream Eaters. Creatures like Meow Wow are called spirits. The evil ones are called Nightmares.
In order to pass the test, we had to go to a lot of worlds and unlock the keyholes so we could bring them back to the Realm of Light and awaken them again. It was meant for us to learn so we could figure out how to awaken the sleeping hearts of the other wielders that went missing.
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okay.
he is going to move past the roxas nobody stuff because he is completely list on that part, how the hell was that kid alive if he's half of sora's whatever, what does that even mean. he at least understands the concept of people becoming darkness and then whatever other half. sure. he is not sure how xemnas and ansem made a guy named xehanort, but it's still. two parts of one asshole made another and they still had to kill the asshole. that part is Fine.
the dream stuff is also fine. he just accepts all of that. ]
... So you took an exam to learn something to help you take down your silver-haired guy and the... Dream Eaters happened to be there and the nice ones helped you out. That it?
[ honestly them being some kind of dream spirit explains their appearance entirely cloud no longer has to question the catdog thing ]
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