diatu | Eagull Eyes - Backdated closed log

Who: Xion and Link
What Eagull hunting and first meeting.
Where: Where the Eagulls congregate
When: ~~Backdated to the time of Sho and Link's Circular Logic thread~~ Just before Roxas arrived.
Warnings: Video game violence and angst.

Xion has been making her ice cream munny mostly by doing Eagull hunting missions. It was odd that she wasn't forced to do a mission every day and only did them on the days she chose, but she tended to do them often, afraid to find out that it was mandatory after all. Lacking her Keyblade, she's been using a large branch and a fair amount of thunder magic. Also running. She was very good at the running away until only one or two were after her, to make the odds better for herself.

She never really thought to ask Axel if he wanted to join her, figuring since he hated missions, he was probably happier to not. So she worked on her own. And anyway, since Saïx arrived.... she's been very confused. Fighting the Eagulls turned off that part of her brain for a while since she had to focus on not being destroyed. Again. She wouldn't do that to Axel. So... she stopped worrying for a few hours and just focused on her missions. And after... she could join Axel for the icing on the cake.

Her usual routine these days. She really hadn't expected someone to come across her as three Eagulls cornered her. Not something she couldn't handle, but the lack of room to move was making it a bit tricky....

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"You're not gonna hurt my feelings," Link reassured her.

"Feelings can be... hurt?"

Link blinked at her. "Sometimes, yeah? If someone says something mean or stuff?"

She considered that, pensive. All the horrible things that had been said to and about her. But she didn't have any feelings to hurt. So... did it matter?

"Is... that a heart thing?" she asked softly.

"I don't know," Link shrugged. "Does it matter?"

She shrugged. "I don't know if it does," she said softly, looking at her gloves. "Axel says I still have a lot I need to learn. He says that I know a lot more than most people my age, but that there are somethings I should know that I don't and somethings that I know are wrong. He's been trying to help me learn."

"Isn't that why we're all at school? To learn stuff we don't know?"

Link smiled. "I mean, I'm okay with weapons, but, I sure don't know half the stuff we're learning. Or, uh, didn't know until they taught us."

"But none of those things seem to be things that I need to know. Even the class that teaches how to make potions doesn't teach potions that are useful like healing potions or eathers." If there was a class on how to deal with people with hearts, or on what to do if an old enemy turns up claiming to be your best friend's best friend... those could be useful classes. Histories about this world and math and such had no interest to her, no bearing on her reality.

"Hey, I think us not exploding is a pretty useful thing."

Link brightened. "And they'll probably eventually teach us healing potions, I bet!"

"Would it really matter if I did?" she asked, softly.

Link looked astounded. "Of--of course it would! You're a student here like everyone else. Your friends and teachers would be really upset if something happened to you."

"Axel would be upset," she said softly. "Saïx would probably be relieved or something. I am not sure anyone else would even notice." She shrugged wandering back towards the Eagull nest she had been investigating before he showed up, before she'd been cornered.

Noa, Fluttershy, even that persistent duck girl Webby all seemed to have forgotten she existed already. So they would hardly notice if she vanished. Sora vanished, and no one but her seemed to notice, and he was a Somebody, with a heart and everything.

Edited (punctuation ) 2019-06-23 23:17 (UTC)

"See? You can name one person already. And that means there's people you don't even know about who'd care," Link said confidently.

"How does knowing Axel would care mean that there are people who don't know that would? Axel and Roxas are my best friends from home, and Axel has a heart now. So he can care. What does that have to do with anyone else?"

"Because, most people are good and even the ones that aren't great still usually have an aversion to someone exploding."

Link is completely earnest, smiling gently. "There's no reason to assume no one would care about you."

"Until I came here, no one ever did," she pointed out. She wasn't feeling badly for herself. Just stating a fact.

"Sounds like you haven't met enough people."

Or, there was a glaring problem with her world, but, that would be rude to say. And Link's House was all about manners.

"We weren't supposed to. We were supposed to do our job without being noticed."

"Then...you haven't met nearly enough people. The world...worlds? Are full of good people.

Sure, there's a few bad ones. But, there really are far more good ones than bad."

"I'm not real," she reminded him. "And I was never built to last. Doesn't it hurt people with hearts, when they care about someone who has been disposed of?"

"No one lives forever," Link pointed out.

"Even Somebodies?" Was Axel going to someday..... "Who would dispose of a Somebody?" Who did she have to end to protect Axel?

Link blinked, puzzled.

"Everyone dies," he said, a little bewildered. "It's just the natural end of a life. No one specifically tries to---okay, most people, don't try to kill other people."

"They don't?" she asked, confused.

"Not usually, unless there's a war, or someone is evil, or brainwashed."

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