Kingdom Hearts Catch All

[hotheadwarmheart]

Who: Lea and other Kingdom Hearts characters
When: Various times through May and June
Where: Various locations
What: Any random tidbits of interaction for the messed-up key-children and friends that don't fit elsewhere.
Warnings: Kingdom Hearts drama. It's inevitable. Also probably more than a little ice cream.

Discussion of dancing with Xion

Xion would find Lea sitting on a bench under a tree, sketching something on a pad of paper. He'd look at it, frown thoughtfully, then erase a bit and redo it until he was satisfied. It was still a little while til sunset, but he was always up for a little chat.

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[hotheadwarmheart]

"A bit of both," Lea said. "Humans in most worlds aren't just... kind of brought into existence in full sized bodies like Nobodies or Replicas. They're born as tiny babies, and then grow up gradually over about 18 to 20 years or so. So the fact that they were born that way probably makes them more stable. But I think it might just be our world that has physical and magical laws that would allow Nobodies and Replicas to be created like we were to begin with. So it's also sort of how this world works too."

He scratched his head though regarding her lack of musical experience. "Which kinda prove my point," he said. "Sometimes I hear music like that and it makes me want to move, and that's why I think that dancing is fun. But if you tried it, you might find a whole different reason why you liked it. Or you might not like it at all. It's just one of those things there's no one right answer to."

[nobodys_puppet]

She stared at him wide eyed. "Real people can live for twenty years?" she asked, stunned. She was almost a year and a half old. Twenty seemed like FOREVER.

[hotheadwarmheart]

For the sake of not being there all day, Lea opted not to mention that humans could live far longer than that and just nodded. "Yep," he said. "Frankly I'm pretty sure Nobodies and Replicas can too, if left to their own devices. It's just that- even discounting the various magical entanglements that we were involved in- life with the Organization tended to be pretty violent, so life expectancy there wasn't that great."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Wow...." she whispered, a bit awed by the enormity of that. Then she blinked and looked at him. "But you said those kids had a whole month off. Is that because they are expected to live so much longer? Or..." No it couldn't be, could it? "Do... they get a whole month... every year?" She was putting this stuff together. Slowly, perhaps, but she was getting there.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"That's generally how it works, yeah," Lea said. "One month per year. Not sure if that's the case around here though, since it's coming up on summer, and I haven't heard anything about it. Might have to see about asking someone."

[nobodys_puppet]

"What would we even do with a whole month off, here?" she asked, softly, still a bit stunned by the enormity of it.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Honestly? No idea," Lea said. "Not sure if we'd be allowed to leave the city on our own, but I'm sure we'd find something to do inside it though. I mean the people who live here have to have stuff to do for fun, right?"

[nobodys_puppet]

"Unless they only just do classes and what passes for missions here?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea chuckled. "Nah, that's just at the school," he said. "The rest of the people in the city have other sorts of jobs. But jobs usually give people some days off, so they probably have stuff to do for entertainment. I could probably look into that, see what's available."

[nobodys_puppet]

"If you want to." She still didn't think he'd find anything they could do with even a single whole day off other than sleep and sunset ice cream.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Well sleep and ice cream would certainly be involved, but he can find other stuff to do too.

Anyway, he nodded... then chuckled slightly as he realized something. "Man we've gotten pretty far off the original question, haven't we?", he said.

[nobodys_puppet]

She laughed a bit and pushed lightly at his shoulder. "When don't we?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

He laughed a bit more at her playful shove. "Yeah, our conversations tend to become a mass of tangents any more," he said.

"But regardless, no, the dance isn't mandatory, or anything like a mission," he said. "And you don't have to go if you don't want to, even if random people start pestering you to go with them."

[nobodys_puppet]

"To go with them? they need backup?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Not as back up, as a date," Lea said. "It's sort of like asking someone to go somewhere with you as a friend, but with the possibility of being more than friends later. Which is why it gets annoying when people you've never even met start doing it. Apparently, people here think that having a Sundered as their date is some kind of symbol of high status. We're something new, different, and interesting, and people want in on that."

[nobodys_puppet]

"More than friends? There can be something more than friendship?" Somebodies really had everything. She couldn't even imagine anything better than being with her friends. Than having friends. And there was something more?

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea should have known not to bring this up. It had been hard enough explaining it to Roxas, even in the vaguest fashion. "Yeah," he said. "It's sort of similar to friendship but not quite directly related. And it's really complicated if you're actually going to be serious about it. Honestly I don't know much about it myself so I'm really the wrong person to ask for details. And since you're still figuring out friendship, I doubt it'll be something you need to worry about for awhile anyway."

"And I really doubt most of those asking Sundered for dates are really that serious about it," he added. "Like I said, the majority of them just want to be in on something new and interesting, and we happen to fit the bill."

[nobodys_puppet]

"I don't understand," she admitted. But if he didn't think she had to think much about it now, she was content to remain ignorant for now. But if he wanted to explain it, she'd listen. She'd listen to nearly anything he wanted to tell her.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"You and a lot of other people," Lea said. "Like I said, it's not really something you need to worry about. Suffice to say, if anyone asks you to go to the dance with them, you can feel free to tell them 'no'. Though if anybody keeps bothering you about it even after you've told them 'no' once or twice, let me know and I'll tell them to cut it out."

[nobodys_puppet]

"They will listen to you?" Well, who wouldn't? But still.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"No guarantees, unfortunately," Lea said. "Some of them can be really persistent. But I'd probably have an easier time telling them off than you would, and I'm more intimidating when I want to be."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Well that's because you're you," she said with a smile. She meant it as a complement.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Darn right it's because I'm me," Lea said, grinning right back. "After all, you mess with the fire, you're gonna get burned."

Good place to wrap?

[nobodys_puppet]

She looked up at him with that smile she only gave to her friends, nodding. That smile that said that she knew that he could do anything. Sorry, Axel, hero worship mode is still activated.

Yep, looks good. :)

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea chuckled and ruffled her hair. Maybe he can't do everything she thinks he can, but he's got being a friend down pretty well.