Twelfth ★ [Video | Filtered from Aqua]

[limitless_land]

[...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.]

Comments

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Heh. What is there to believe in him aside from the light his friends still brought out.]

... I'll try.

[Action]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Yep. Just going to stand here, secretly amused.] Is it?

[Voice]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

I'll hold you to it.

[There's nothing saying he can't do both at the same time, though.]

[Voice] never late till the fat lady sings, and then... /hands out earplugs

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

That's easier said than done.

[video]

[myowncourse.livejournal.com]

I tend to tune out useless things.

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[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you. Though, I wish you didn't have to see me like this.

[If only Mami knew all the double meanings behind that one sentence. Then she'd probably understand why a smile still didn't touch the "man's" lips.]

[Action]

[boundbynaught.livejournal.com]

Of course. I'd have to spend a week holed up in a library just to begin turning into him for real.

[video]

[goldenflint]

It's a pleasure to meet you too.

[she shakes her head] Mmn, it's all right. We all lose our way sometimes.

[Action]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

I don't think staying in the library would actually do a thing.

[He would know. He tried that in Hollow Bastion.]

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[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Really need to kick that habit.

[He said that out loud, didn't he. ...Oops.]

[Voice] /offers popcorns?

[twiceinhabited]

Even if it's hard to do.

[video]

[goldenflint]

Oh? Then perhaps you do need someone to guide you, Riku-san.

[video]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I think I'll be fine. Especially with friends by my side.

[Action] 1/2

[boundbynaught.livejournal.com]

Heh, you're probably right.

[Action] 2/2

[boundbynaught.livejournal.com]

... Guess I should go.

[video]

[goldenflint]

If you are sure.

... That's a wonderful thing to hear, Riku-san.

[Action]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Mm. I should, too. [He pauses, giving the replica one more look.]

...If you need somewhere to stay, there are five empty rooms where I reside. [Cruel irony, and the admittance that another scent he'd become familiar with was no longer here.]

[video]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Please don't mind that he doesn't smile; he knows just how creepy it is on this face, and he won't bother to give her any sort of nightmares. He wouldn't wish his own on anyone.]

I chose this path for them. [It doesn't show crossing his lips, but a small flash of who he used to be flashes in his eyes.] Might as well see where else it leads.

[Voice] /popcorn.gif

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

...Guess we'll just have to see if it's even possible.

[Voice] /sits

[twiceinhabited]

As long you don't give up too soon.

[video]

[goldenflint]

... May I ask if you have the strength to see it through?

[video]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

... My entire existence should be impossible. The fact I'm still here makes me think I do.

[Voice] /too

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Right. ...

[Action]

[boundbynaught.livejournal.com]

[For a moment, Rep just stared in confusion at the offer. He didn't even consider whether he did or didn't want to take Riku up on it - he was still balking a little that Riku made the offer in the first place. It was just another way of showcasing how much things had changed.

He blinked, and finally shook Zexion's bangs out of his eyes a bit.]

I... would need to bring the dog.

[Action]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Well, it wasn't really like he had much else to offer him, and other than the reaction being priceless it was sincere. Even if he considered it selfish, not wanting to be alone in such a large apartment and sentimentally unable to leave it after all this time. ...Yes, definitely changed.

The comment got a small chuckle out of him.]

So long as he doesn't go after the kitten...