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Twelfth ★ [Video | Filtered from Aqua]

[...A feed during the attack? Seriously? There's only a brief glimpse of gold eyes beneath a hood before the SFC is tilted so only one of the kraken's tentacles can be seen. It takes five seconds before a deep, almost blank voice filters through the darkness.]

What do you do when you've been lost to despair. [A pause as disks of light(?) are tossed at it from behind the speaker.] What is it that you do when you lose sight of the hope you'd kept alive until now and realize that you don't have what it takes to protect others by your own power?

[He's silent for a long while, seemingly focused on dodging the retaliatory actions of the attacked appendage... until a black hand suddenly shoots electric shocks of the same white and pale blue energy at a now writhing mass of flesh.]

Tell me... What does one do with oneself then-?!

[Click.]

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You still have to help yourself before you can help others.

[~~Silly protags, and this one is a hypocrite.~~]

Edited 2011-10-09 19:44 (UTC)

[Sephiroth... Heh. If only he knew. Still, it would be stupid to acknowledge knowing him like this.]

Can I even face them like this...

Once what's over?

[Sorry bro, you lost him and he doesn't follow logic trains well on the best of days.]

Helping others does help me. I can't stand knowing my friends are hurt.

[Poor thing...]

[Riku's hold on himself and the SFC waver slightly as the creature behind him attacks, heart constricting in his chest at the very thought. He'd become monster in his own eyes... so how could he face someone else like this, let alone those he knew and trusted?]

...I can't. [The tone just doesn't match the voice; scared and conflicted, in a voice that was always overconfident and arrogant.]

I hope you're right.

... At least there's one more way to tell you two apart.

[As for answering, he points up. The kraken, genius.]

You sound like someone I once knew...

[He still listens as he hovers there, at least. It shifts so the hood is visible, as is the creature's chest behind him. This... really is all he can do, and he hates it almost as much as the pain she just described.]

I don't know... Sometimes I wonder if falling like this is truly the lesser of two evils.

What do you think I've been doing even now?

[It's cold, calculated and far too dark for his own comfort and causes a wince under that hood of his. Bolts and disks are still flying, and it's taking all his anger and causing him to feel almost numb as he floats there...]

Edited 2011-10-10 23:50 (UTC)

[He glares up first, then to the side. He speaks in a very deliberate tone, clearly angry but so much so that volume won't help anymore.]

I'm not going to just wait for it to go away like last time. I have his powers; I should be able to fix this.

Monologue-ing mostly from the sounds of it.

Just so you know, that went out centuries ago.

Then being alone would cause more sadness, more despair. Is that what you really want?

[There's a faint hint of a chuckle that's quickly covered by a cough. Goddamn the horrid that is this voice...! Yet the faint amusement behind the amber is still rather apparent.]

There's a limit on what power alone can accomplish.

I leave the monologue-ing to someone else.

[...The one he sounds like, to be precise.]

I am right.

You must believe in yourself, Riku, even when all hope is lost.

If it saves them... ['Is that what I really want, though? To pro-']

—Hnngh!

[There's the sound of an SFC clattering to the ground as both hands reach up to grasp either side of the head of one that didn't belong to him—a roar from the beast connected to his shadow shielding him briefly before vanishing in a swirl of the very darkness it's made of.

"Why did you seek power?" There was that voice again, asking him the same question as it always did. It never stops asking, and yet he always hesitated like he couldn't recall the answer.]

There's... someone back "home." Someone I have to—

['—protect.' It's all he's been thinking about since the door began to glow; all he's been able to think about since way before he could even begin to recall. Always in some manner, yet his heart... He's never been able to follow it. How can he now, when he looks so much like—?

In your hand, take this Key. So long as you have the makings...

He can remember that voice so clearly now, but the face... It's almost as cloudy as Aqua's was. This stranger, that power he has yet to find...

His voice is heavy, mixed with so many emotions it's almost hard to tell where his begins and the shadows end.] ... "To protect the things that matter."

...I want to be home. To protect the ones— [—I love.] that need me.

Oh spare me. [He stands up.] Don't tell me you got his mouth along with that face? [Then he crosses his arms and turns away.] What else could possibly fix this?

[Angry, he turns around again with a slashing motion.] Your situation is different from mine. Maybe power can't fix why that keeps happening to you. And maybe power can fix why this has happened to me once.

It's too bad that you feel that way.

If you want to disregard all of this, then go ahead. But I remember something from....well, I'm not really sure when it was. My friend was in danger, but I didn't do everything I could to help them out. In the end, things just got worse, and I regretted what happened with all my heart. Recently, though, one of my friends had her life threatened. That time I made sure to do everything in my power to help out. We all did, really. Things still didn't turn out like we wanted, but I didn't regret the outcome as much.

I guess what I'm trying to say is... in my opinion, it's gonna hurt either way, but letting everything fall apart without doing anything is what ends up hurting the most.

I understand. [There's a small but kind smile forming on her lips] It is difficult to want that while trapped in this world. To be here while the ones who need you are far away...

Edited 2011-10-11 05:36 (UTC)

[He shakes slightly with silent laughter the moment he turned away. It really was like a younger him in this case, and it reminds him of how much of a brat he once was.] If I got his mouth, all that would be coming out of it is "blah blah darkness blah blah abyss."

[He tilts his head to the side faintly, then waves it off to the side.] I only hope you're right and that it doesn't get worse.

[Now there's an incredulous look if ever there was one.]

Worse how?

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