A Disorganization Of Introductions - OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

Now that Xion and Lea have found each other, Xion isn’t letting him out of her sight if she can avoid it, afraid to find out that this wasn’t actually real. And that seemed to be mutual, so the two can be spotted the next day constantly with each other, as Xion shows him around from what she’s discovered. Which… mostly means good places to hide.

Xion’s hood would seem to be up to everyone but Lea until she actually pulls it down in the individual threads.

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[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea nodded his acceptance of the wild-haired teen's terms. "I'll make sure that you don't have to do it for Xion again, at least," he said. "Now that I'm here, I'll always be there to bring my friends back when they need it." Hopefully it wouldn't be needed now, but if it was? He wouldn't hesitate.

Xion's quiet question required a bit more thought though. "Well, some of it depends on what you're taught," he said. "Different worlds have different ideas about whether certain things are right or wrong. But a lot of it comes from you. Either things you learn through experience, or things you just... know. Just like you realizing that helping Xemnas create his Kingdom Hearts was wrong. No one straight up told you it was, you just... figured it out."

He rubbed the back of his head a bit sheepishly. "Sorry," he said. "I know that's probably not all that helpful. But really that's a question people have been asking since long before I was born, and will probably still be asking long after I'm gone, and I don't think there'll ever be an easy way to answer it."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Actually... Riku sort of did," she said, softly. "I worked a lot of it out from what he told me. He was the imposter we were told to watch out for..." she said softly. "He found me... he was the one who realized that I needed to return to Sora. And he was the one who told me I had to make the right choice... I just... I didn't know how, for a while. Or what the right choice was."

She looked down at her gloves. "Every time you beat me and brought me back," which was going to sound so wrong to Atem, and didn't realize it, "I thought that meant that leaving was the wrong choice. You won because... because you knew the right choice. By the end... that last battle..." she whispered, looking away... "I went in thinking I was going to win because I finally knew the right choice, but by the end... I knew that the battles... had nothing to do with being right or wrong." she reached up and pinched the edge of his sleeve. "I'm sorry I put you through that, Axel. I'll appologize to Roxas too, when we bring him back, but... I think... that was much worse on you, than anyone."

[king_of_egypt]

"You succeeded?" Atem questioned a little bewildered by it at first but as she explained it then it dawned on him. It was just like his own situation. Wasn't he also here post his mortal end? Eerily he could still draw parallels to the first time he had defeated the dark presence that had threatened his own world and what she described. When he was sealed in the puzzle afterwards, his name was lost to history, and those who knew him as it played a pivotal role in the magic that had sealed the dark one away. They had to forget then.

Turning his attention to the taller male, "Thank you, for your understanding once again. I'm just relieved that there is someone here to look out for her that she knows and trusts."

As the redhead expanded on what was right and wrong, Atem was silent. Normally, he might tell someone to search their heart for the answer but in this case it would be highly inappropriate. If Xion were truly lacking that part of her soul then there was little wonder that she struggled with the concept. Even those with hearts had trouble making critical choices in life.

Beat me and brought me back....... oh that does sound wrong. If the descriptions Xion had shared about Atem's actions were not fresh on his mind he might have been more leery. There was just something about the way she spoke that tended to be more inflammatory than reality. It made it difficult to know which parts to take issue with and which parts to let slide. This looked as if he was intruding on to a private conversation that needed to be held between the two.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Yeah, being able to beat someone in a fight never had much to do with either person being right or wrong," Lea said. "Even if some people like to paint it that way to make themselves look good."

"And you don't have to apologize," he said. "It was an icky situation all around, and none of that was your fault. It just took me a lot longer to wise up to that fact than it probably should have."

Turning back to the wild haired teen, Lea nodded. "Yeah, that's one good thing to come out of this whole 'magical kidnapping' business at least," he said. "Anyway, I don't think I've introduced myself; my name's Lea. Got it memorized?"

[king_of_egypt]

Now beating someone in a card-game based duel..... cough. "Sometimes all it proves is who is the more proficient fighter." Atem offered up in defense of the redhead's words, while thinking back to a certain friend of his that was always finding himself in altercations of the physical variety.

Ideally some of this conversation would stick with the girl.

"The first of many, I hope." Atem was still optimistic that Anastara still held promise for each of the people drawn to it's floating shores. "No, we really hadn't the chance to exchange names before." Clearing up all the misunderstandings had taken precedence. "I think I can handle remembering a name such as that." Smiling a bit since it wasn't really a complicated one. Then again, neither was his. "Mine is Atem."

[nobodys_puppet]

She reached up and took a pinch of Axel's sleeve in her fingers and just held on. she wasn't sure why, but for a moment there she was afraid that if she didn't he would just.... vanish into the air and she'd never see him again.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea smiled too, and when he felt Xion's gentle tug on his sleeve, shifted his hand to casually rest on her shoulder, understanding the need for that physical connection. "Nice to meet you, Atem," he said with a nod. "And this, by the way, is Xion, since I doubt she'd have introduced herself before either under the circumstances." And likely might still not, because... Xion.

"And one thing I gotta say; I'm liking the hairdo," he said. "It's not often I find someone with hair even wilder than mine."

[nobodys_puppet]

She shifted a drop closer so that his arm could rest more comfortable. Not that she needed to worry, his limbs as long as they were, she could be halfway cross campus and he could still lean on her. But she was willing to let him introduce her, willing to stay quiet and not speak.

Until Axel said the thing about the hair. Her head shot up and she stared at Axel in something akin to shock at just the absurdity of the comment. If it had been Roxas there, not Atem... she might have made a small joke. As it was, it took effort to keep quiet and not quip about how Axel did not need his hair up that much more to make him any taller, thanks.