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]

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.