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[pullsheavendown]

[This should be coming from XIII, but recent shenanigans have rendered his username unintelligible. But he's on video, so it's not like he's trying to hide his identity. Those who have already met Roxas (or Axel or Riku) may recognize the black coat, but he's picked up a warm scarf to go with it, and a knit beanie cap is flattening some of his hair spikes.]

...hi. I'm Roxas. I don't know if we're supposed to introduce ourselves—I've never used one of these things before—but that's me.

[He gives a little wave.]

There's something I wanted to know. Have any of you ever been to other worlds before? I have, but I'm trying to figure out what makes this one so different. It's not just that it's a refuge from the storm or that time's frozen in other parts of it. Something about this place affects things people can do. My friend and I know a special way of getting around quick—it's not really magic, but kind of like it, I guess? Except it only takes us maybe a block now.

And there's something else I've always been able to do, a thing I can summon, except now I can't and I try and I try but it just doesn't—

[As he speaks, he's shaking his left hand in frustration when suddenly there's a pop and a black flash and suddenly a Keyblade can be partially seen at the bottom of the screen.]

Uh. Never mind about that last part? But I'd still like to know about the rest.

Comments

[beatupgrass]

These ones just watch and, apparently, save people from cataclysmic planet-eating storms. Other ones... Pretty much eat the other planets.

[pullsheavendown]

They can eat worlds?

How big are they?

[beatupgrass]

Like planet-sized?

[As in Ego was a LITERAL PLANET. The one that Knowhere's made out of is no slouch either. Its stupid HEAD is almost planet sized.]

[pullsheavendown]

[For a long moment, Roxas just stares, jaw literally dropped.]

Wow.

[beatupgrass]

Exactly. Darma and her goons are practically bite-sized compared to those dudes.

[pullsheavendown]

Geez. I hope none of them show up. This could end up an even bigger mess.

[Like, literally.]

[beatupgrass]

Maybe they were smart enough not to save, uh... most of 'em.

[pullsheavendown]

I guess we could go look at the pods and find out. They'd have to be really big ones.

[beatupgrass]

You'd think that, but Ego is, like... person-sized sometimes.

[pullsheavendown]

What, for real? That seems like cheating.

[beatupgrass]

All the better to have kids with, I guess. He's Quill's dad.

wow I thought I replied to this but I apparently I pasted the tag and closed the tab

[pullsheavendown]

Seriously?

[He sounds both baffled and impressed.]

Is it cool for him to have a dad like that? I've never had one at all. [So really, what does he know.]

[beatupgrass]

He was a dick. Stick to no dad at all. I don't have one either and I'm pretty okay with that.

[pullsheavendown]

Oh. That stinks.

[Was him being a jerk connected to being a planet person, or just a coincidence? Probably doesn't matter.]

I'm okay with it too. If we've come this far without parents, we must both be doing fine.