moonstrualcycle | no running in the halls!

[ These are the consequences of your actions. ]

Funny you ask! It's both.

[ She crawls backwards onto the couch, and holds her arms up to form a rectangle with her fingers, like a camera. ]

Picture this? Five Rikus, all in one location. Four of them are guys. One of those guys is like, six. Oh, and none of them are replicas.

[excuse me? hewwo? ????]

Guys? I don't-- where did they all come from? It can't just be different points on the same timeline, what would be the point?

[ugh, playing middle management to a bunch of scientists rubbed off on her, she's analyzing when she really should just be freaking out a little.]

Girls and guys. Kids. Different timelines, different stories. There's an adult version of ours, but she's... from the future here? I don't know, she has a kid.

[ Lea didn't have enough time or energy to unpack all of that. ]

Guy yous, too. Well, Saïx.

[Lea, you can't just drop shit like that without warning, oh my god. guy versions of herself aren't even worth responding to, with everything else coming to mind.]

A kid? That's... weird. What about other people, are there versions of you here? Or of any Axel, I guess, or anyone else we know.

[ Her first day here she saw a lot of weird shit on her own and found out there's a weird dude version of herself married to Kai, okay. Share the pain, bff. ]

So many Axels no one has a chance of forgetting me.

[ Hah. ]

There are doubles and copies of everyone. Sora, Kai, Xemnas, me, you— people from other worlds. Heartless that wanna be pets. Sleeping realm nonsense. Almost everything.

[ She leans back into the couch, tilting her head all the way back to rest her neck across the back cushions. ]

Just... most of them aren't ours. You're the first you I've seen here.

Well. I won't lack for excitement, it sounds like.

[she crosses her legs again and unconsciously mimics Lea, sliding down a bit and tipping her head back.]

Tell me it's not all just confusion and weirdness, there has to be something good about this place.

Well... There's always something to do. No one can die here, and people who die can just... come back. You don't have to pay for anything, so I eat a lot.

[ A pause, then, and casually, because she's a big goober: ]

You're here.

[snrk. Isa shifts sideways to bump shoulders with Lea, feeling like anything more might be unwelcome, since this one isn't caught up on things.]

I missed you too, idiot. I'm amazed you're still such a beanpole, with free food available all the time.

[to clarify, she specifically missed having Lea all to herself. the kids are great and all, but their social circle is so big now that it's hard to just be best buds like they used to, between that and everything that's happened.]

[ It's all A Lot, for her, but she's adapting to it very quickly. She's got friends here, sure, but this is someone who really knows her. Isa knows her even better than Roxas did, so she responds to the bump by just leaning the majority of her weight sideways. On Isa.

She did just say she missed her. No take backs. ]

I know, right? You'd think something would take after this long. My best guess is because I keep going back and forth between here and our world. Universe, whatever...

[ If it sounds like she's hesitating to say something else, it's because she is. ]

[she's surprised to hear that Lea's come and gone from here, but that's less important than the hesitation, which she homes in on both as a friend and as someone who exploited the emotional weakness of others for several years. Lea's getting an elbow to the ribs, though it's fairly gentle, as those things go.]

Spit it out, whatever it is.

[ Ugh. She tried to give up all of that zeroing in emotionless crap after Roxas. Why are you still using it? Ugh. ]

Well, I said it was months. Technically that's not wrong?

[because someone has to, and she's always been like that.]

...so how long has it actually been?

[and thank god, she was almost worried a declaration of love was coming. at least get her some food before you do that, Lea.]

[ No way, she's not nearly tired enough. ]

...two years.

[ She frowns, then shrugs. ]

Something like since the first time I showed up here, according to Riku. Every time I left and came back more time had passed by. I started tracking it to check, so time actually spent here is closer to two. It's crazy.

[it's like pulling teeth sometimes with this one, honestly. it sounds like Lea's full of shit and it's been more than two years, even, but she's not gonna push. yet.]

Okay... does everyone here come and go like that? That seems like it would get annoying after a while.

[ No no, it's legitimate, she wouldn't lie about it twice. Time is hazy and fucking with her here. Who knows why? ]

Sometimes people go back. Riku said she showed up here not long after I died and it took her back later to 'finish things'. Some people never go back.

[ This place is stupid, but she's accepted it. She stretches her arms up above her head, then becomes dead weight on both the couch and Isa. She might be testing her. ]

My bets are on some kind of trickster god.

[ugh. what an annoying friend to have. what if Isa makes like she's gonna just push Lea off of her but then goes for a surefire ticklish spot? totally casual: ]

Seems as likely as anything else. I wonder if this is where Demyx got to whenever she was slacking off.

[ Then she's going to bark out laughter and crab-crawl out of the way. How dare you. ]

Yeah right. You know she wouldn't have kept it a secret, even if no one believed her. 'Oh man, guys, sorry, didn't finish my mission today. I got sucked into a world with a whole band of Axels, only they're all guys.'

[ Here, it's her best Demyx impression. ]

[that gets a quiet laugh out of her, too; both Lea's reaction and the Demyx impression.]

I'm not sure, the amount of teasing and innuendo she'd get for a declaration like that might have been enough to keep her quiet. But that would involve thinking about something before actually saying it, so you're probably right.

Yeah, that was never really her style.

[ This is a good time to remember that, aside from the circle that were in the sleeping realm, and the other RG folks that were on the ground when Lea woke up, she has no idea about anyone else being around. ]

Hey. You don't seem too broken up about being stuck here, for someone who was just hanging out with me on the beach.

What would be the point? It wouldn't take me back there, and you're handling it alright. Anyway, me, broken up about something?

[this is a lie, we know from canon now that Isa holds onto shit for years, although she rarely lets anyone see it. if she's not a Cancer then i don't know anyone who is.

let's see, so people around she could actually talk about would be Terra/Aqua/Ven, and i guess Even and Demyx, and AtW. except that Even would entail explaining about how she was good all along and helped get Lea's kids back and also Nami.]

Oh, my mistake, nothing ever gets to you.

[ You are full of shit, you know you're full of shit, I know you're full of shit...

Also please, god, tell her Demyx is alive again and was chosen as a vessel. She'll pop something from laughing. ]

There's no real point, but I've had time. If you don't deal with it now you'll deal with it later. I'm just not sure how that'll be.

[bah, time to distract Lea from all this feelings talk, because honestly, she's fine! she'll continue to be fine, and nothing is weird, and she definitely won't be weird and possessive because she has Lea all to herself and has no idea when that might change.]

It'll be fine, stop worrying. Speaking of Demyx, she rejoined the Organization too. She was supposed to be another of Xehanort's vessels.

[ That is all very suspicious, and it's fortunate she can't read this. But wait. You've successfully distracted her! You've also broken her. ]

......why?

[score. she shrugs.]

No clue. She ended up benched anyway, as she put it. Got replaced by one of Vexen's replicas.

Full offense, but she's not someone I would've chosen either.

[ Ew. Does that mean she was going to be one if she'd stayed loyal? Get killed and then revive along with everyone else to be a Horcrux? No thanks. ]

So Replicas and Demyx. Sounds pretty desperate.

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