snowblindrpg | [log] open mouth, insert weird orange sprite tail [closed]

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[log] open mouth, insert weird orange sprite tail [closed]

Characters: Davesprite and Sora
Location House 58
Date: 164, after lockdown
Summary: Davesprite gets his voice back and can finally talk to Sora! Then Sora gets to overhear Davesprite ruining everything with the Bucky fiasco.
Warnings: Nothing planned, will update if need arises.

HOUSE 58: A simple single-story building, the snow weighs uneasily on it, and it creaks and groans under the strain at the best of times. It's very dark, and only the kitchen and living room are intact. The kitchen has a back door. Two snowmen have been built outside. A message has been written on the wall in blue ink: "Don't wreck the snowmen! That's super mean!" "ALPHONSE ELRIC, MAMI TOMOE, FREYA CRESCENT, GREED, EDWARD ELRIC, STEPHANIE BROWN, DAY FORTY ONE, TRAVELLING EAST." has been carved into one of the walls. The following has been written on the wall in blue pen: "This is Building 95 97 on the composite map. Contact @CaptSteveRogers for details." Underneath this is a fairly accurate map showing the house in relation to the school and buildings 29, 35, 35, 37, 40, 41, 47, 48, 50, 53. House 34 is labeled "Medical assistance; hot, clean water. Contact Dr. Epps @claytonator". The school is labeled "School. Food available in cafeteria; DO NOT STAY HERE OVERNIGHT." The shed is labeled "Shed".

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[Hey, it could be worse! At least he's not super talkative and hard to understand like a certain duck back home is!]

I found some coffee filters, which will be good for filtering out anything that could be potentially drinkable. They'll also be a good source for a fire if I find anymore matches.

[Shifting to sit, he leans back on his hands, legs stretched out in front of himself.]

I have supply boxes set up in the aquarium and in the school. People can leave requests or items for other people and I move stuff around and find stuff people need!

[The day Davesprite learns Daffy Duck is real is the day he gives up on any concept of sense and logic in the universe whatsoever, and it's already pretty tenuous.]

Huh. Full admission time: when I first met you, you seemed like kind of a dumb guy with bad hair, but I was probably being unfair when all you had to go off was a bunch of obtuse bird squawks, stupid doodles, and gestures to go off of. That actually sounds useful.

[Pause.]

Still doesn't explain the hair, though.

[Sorry, Sora, but he's been wondering for two days and he has to ask.]

[Well that's....he has to give him points for at least being honest. And it's not the first time someone's assumed that Sora was dumb so he can't really fault him there. Sure it doesn't make him feel all that great but..]

You're not the first person to think that.

[Insert slightly forced smile here.]

Not many people have had use for the supply system but as long as I'm helping some people, it's better than nothing.

[And now the smile turns to a bit of a pout.]

What about my hair?

[Sorry, Sora. He's kind of a dick sometimes and it's been so long without words that the gladness to be speaking them again overrides the sense that would hold some back.]

Nah, dude, it's a good idea. The houses are pretty hit-and-miss, and then there's this other crap that can send you halfway across the map, or stuff like the static that can interrupt travel plans... It has to have helped some people.

[He's sincere about that, at least. But there is still the question of his hair, and Davesprite doesn't refrain from gesturing.]

Man, you know, how it's all...

[He holds his hands like spikes out from the sides of his head.]

Like bedhead, hair mousse, and the wind had a bad hair baby that went full anime. How does it stay up like that? Have you got a can of hairspray you've been touching it up with when I'm not looking?

I hope so. That's what I really want--to help people as much as I can. I don't have any of my magic or abilities here. I don't even have my weapon..but I can at least do this!

[He hates not feeling useful. He hates not being able to do things to fix the world.]

...Spiky?

[There's a bit of amusement in his voice now and it grows into outright laughter as the other keeps going.]

Nope! I don't really do anything to it except comb it!

[Davesprite stares. Nothing? Really? He hasn't seen him do anything else to it, but it sounds like bullshit. He's not about to stick his weird bird hands into his hair to feel for product, though, so that mystery will have to remain unsolved.]

Those are some insane genetics you've got.

But hey, what about that junky thing you were carrying when the stuff with Bucky went down? That looked like... I don't know what, but you were holding it like it might be a weapon.

It's just always been like this!

[Sora flashes the other a grin, reaching up to run his fingers through his own hair.]

Kairi and Riku use to tease me about it. Even when it gets wet it never really falls flat!

[JRPG protag magic.]

It was kind of a makeshift weapon. I mean I don't really have everything I need to make a proper keyblade so I just sort of worked with what I had.

[Davesprite just shakes his head in disbelief. What the actual hell. He knows comics are real, and books are maybe real (or whatever it is modern day Watson means), but what's this now? Is it anime? Is Sora really full-blown anime? He doesn't know. He doesn't ask, either, because it's not the point. Fictional stories of other worlds don't make their lives stop being real things that happened to them.]

[He lets the other subject take the forefront.]

Okay, that you've got to explain to me. What's a keyblade?

[Oh if only it were as simple as some animes were.]

Keyblades are weapons that only certain individuals can use. People that were trained and chosen to fight against the darkness. They're all sort of modeled off the original x-Blade, which is the one true keyblade that can open up Kingdom Hearts. The keyblades my friends and I can wield are still powerful though! We can use magic with them and unlock worlds and lock them if they need protecting. You can also use them to unlock a person's heart.

[Sorry, Sora, but this is the most anime thing he's ever heard. JRPGs were never really his deal.]

Ahahaha, holy shit.

[And that means he has to laugh, too.]

So what does unlocking someone's heart mean? Or that Kingdom Hearts thing? You want to ask about the nonsense from my world after, that's fine too, because it's its own whole flavor of stupid, but I've got no idea what you've talking about.

[Sora can't help but laugh a bit.]

That's alright. I've only met one person here that knew what I was talking about and that's Leon.

[Cue him rubbing the back of his neck.]

It means you're basically allowing their heart to be free of their physical body. If they have a strong enough will, they're able to exist without their heart. Otherwise they turn into heartless. If Kingdom Hearts is unlocked...I..we don't really know what all will happen. People will be able to use it's power for their own purposes, whatever those may be.

[?????]

Okay, what? Because now I understand even less than I started. Why would you want to go taking someone's heart out of their body? Don't they need that to not die? And why are y'all searching for Kingdom Hearts if you don't even know what it will do?

[He's not discounting that there could be good reason. None of them understood the full deal with Sburb when they started playing it, after all. This, though, is a whole hot fresh mess of fuck and his brain is melting next to it.]

I don't like doing it! I've only ever done it to myself before--

[Which is a whole other special story all it's own.]

--but there are people that use the keyblades that way. My main job is to get rid of the Heartless that invade all the different worlds then lock the heart of the world to keep the Heartless from being able to get back to it.

[His life is a mess.]

Because we have to find it and protect it before Master Xehanort gets to it. He wants to take control of it and let darkness consume it and if that happens, then all the worlds will be lost.

[What.]

[Sora goes on before he can ask about that first thing, though; and the more he does, the more it... maybe doesn't make sense, but sounds like it could if he had more background. Good enough.]

I think I get it better now. Bunch of standard forces of evil, save the worlds plural stuff under all the complicated crap on top, right? I've barely got room to talk acting like yours is the weird one, considering all the parts of the game I played.

[Davesprite's definitely following along better than most people have.]

Yeah that's pretty much exactly it. It's gotten even more complicated since we found out that Master Xehanort can time travel and has been moving through time to alter things as it all plays out.

[Fun times, fun times.]

The game? What do you mean?

Yeah, time travel tends to do that.

[Complicate things, he means.]

I'm talking about Sburb. It's this game me and my friends played. There's a whole bunch of stable time loops and unavoidable, predestined, had to happen or we wouldn't exist in the first place type stuff involved with it, but the real basic explanation is that it destroyed our world and set us on the path to making a new one. We escaped the whole meteoric destruction thing by entering the part of reality the game takes place in, and the rest is a bunch of fighting monsters, building houses up taller to reach these gates for travel, and eventually defeating the end boss so we can claim the Ultimate Reward.

At least, that's how it was supposed to go, but everything got all junked up from way early in due to a bunch of mistakes on basically everyone's part. Time shenanigans, making a nigh unbeatable enemy, getting the universe destroyed, our session being kind of doomed to failure from the start. We ended up having to scratch our session, which is like a hard reset, and find a way outta that so we wouldn't get rewritten in the process. We had just gotten to the new session when Norfinbury up and grabbed me, so now I'm here.

Jade tells me they eventually won in her timeline, but not without more time travel to fix some stuff that was going wrong and what sounds like a bunch of other chaos I don't know the half of.

[And now it's Sora's turn to be on the receiving end of a whole lot of weird information. So excuse him as he tries to process all of that and make sense of what he's being told.]

So..you...basically live in a video game--lived in a video game--and had to play through multiple times to try and get the perfect ending so you could get your home back?

[He holds his hands out to his hands and shrugs, though it's hard to see clearly in here.]

Sort of. It was a video game, but one that was directly real. We weren't inside a computer or whatever; the software just acts as a kind of tool to facilitate the rest. And it wasn't about getting our home back, because that's gone for good. The whole planet got obliterated by meteors in this event called the Reckoning, and then the universe it was in got literally killed. What we had to do was get to the new session and meet up with the players from that one just to have the chance of making a new universe at all, since ours was doomed to failure.

[Okay so it was, in a sense, sort of like TRON's world but vastly different at the same time. Because of the whole alternate reality thing.]

I've been inside a computer program before but it wasn't anything like that.

[This is kind of mystifying.]

So you ended up in a whole different reality in an attempt to make a new world for yourselves with the..players of that world? What about your families? Did you--were they....were they safe? Or did you really lose everything...

[He sucks in a breath, then breathes out audibly.]

That part's complicated too. So the thing us, there were four of us players, and we each had one guardian that raised us. But all of us—all eight—were made in the game itself. There's this thing called ectobiology that involves cloning stuff out of slime, but they weren't part of my quest so you'd have to ask someone else the details. We arrived on Earth years ago via meteors that went back in time, more or less, and then those babies grew up to be us in the present. If you don't get it, don't worry about it.

Our guardians... Jade's grandpa died years before the game even began, and the rest died during the game itself. This guy called Jack Noir killed them.

[His voice goes stiffer there.]

The new session wasn't started by a new world, though. More like a different timeline. Instead of us living in the modern day, it was our guardians who did, so they wound up the players but as teens who never raised any babies. At least that's what I understand about it. I got taken here before I could meet any of them.

[Dear God, Davesprite, your world is one of the most interesting and confusing worlds that he's ever heard of. And that's saying something.]

So you guys were created in the game...then put on Earth to grow up.

[Did he at least get that part right?

He knows better than to ask about the Jack Noir thing because the way Davesprite's voice stiffens tells him it's a lot like how he doesn't really like talking about Xehanort in depth.]

Wait, so things restarted and your guardians were the players--what about you guys? Did you guys not exist in the new session at all?

Yep.

[Good job, Sora, you got that part right.]

But no, we were there, I think. Just... in the past? Different versions of us who lived different lives. I don't know the details, though, so I can't tell you anything more than that.

[He appreciates that he chose to ask about that instead of Jack.]

[Sora nods a bit.]

Gotcha.

[Man oh man.]

That sounds...really intense. I've been to a lot of worlds but nothing like that before! I can't even imagine going through all of that.

It was for a while, but the past three years were honestly pretty boring. All the action got put on pause for a boat trip across mystery space to get us from what was left of our session to the new one that the scratch prompted. It was kind of nice, though, getting a break from everything.

[It was warm and safe and he didn't have to worry about running out of food. There was an honest-to-god grandma who couldn't be paid to stop making baked goods.]

Your world sounds like its own kind of crazy, so I suppose its all relative who's got the weirder life.

I bet. Breaks are always nice.

[And hard to come by when you're caught up in crazy things like strange games or fighting monsters made from people's hearts.

Sora can't help but laugh a bit sheepishly.]

True. I bet a lot of things about my world are just as weird to you as the idea of your world is to me.

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