♔ day 12 - Memory Theater curse ♔

[binarysky]

[ooc: Viewers will see the full memory as depicted in video #1, but since I play Roxas with his English voice + dialogue in mind, both are here for reference; the memory sequence takes place from 3:47-4:24 in the second video.]

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[existais.livejournal.com]

That-

[existais.livejournal.com]

-wasn't meant to be shown, was it?

1/2

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

What? What the--

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I didn't post that! I couldn't! How could anyone--there was no one else there then! I mean, I don't remember...

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Roxas...?

We weren't supposed to see this, huh...

...You know, I don't think it's really true. About you not being able to feel. In fact, I think that's a load of crap. You miss your friends. That's a feeling. You have fun with them, there's another one. You get surprised and happy and sad, just like everybody else. You can feel.

Why would they tell you otherwise? I don't like it, it's not right...

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

No, I can't. I'm Nobody. We don't have hearts to feel with. He was right.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...Okay, do you know what a heart is? It is an organ. It pumps blood in and out and all around the body. It does NOT, contrary to popular belief, cause emotions and feelings.

Those come from inside you. From your mind, your soul, from a part that can't really be defined, but that everybody, even a Nobody (whatever that is) has. If you couldn't feel, then you wouldn't be capable of having friends, or liking things.

You can feel. He was wrong.

[spiritofsorrow.livejournal.com]

The heart isn't something one feels...it is something one has. And even if a "heart," in your world, is something else, for the purposes of being real, feeling real...if you care about these memories, if they evoke anything within you, then that is what matters.

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

But I don't have one.

[spiritofsorrow.livejournal.com]

Even if you don't -- that doesn't mean you aren't real, or that you can't feel anything. Perhaps your world works in a strange way, but you still don't seem like a "heartless" person in the usual sense.

[notsobendy.livejournal.com]

Giant floating letters...

What does he mean by you can't feel?

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I can't.

I don't have a heart.

[notsobendy.livejournal.com]

Uhhh, I'm pretty sure that's not possible.

/invisible comment

[charmedbymemories]

[Just watching and feeling a sense of dread starting to loom over her.]

/invisible comment

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

[...happy birthday to Roxas?]

/invisible comment

[charmedbymemories]

[/sends a cartload of sea salt ice cream ; A;]

late comment SOB

[so-ancillary.livejournal.com]

did that really happen?

NEVER TOO LATE I love backtags

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's the first thing I can remember.

yay /o/

[so-ancillary.livejournal.com]

so why can't you feel?

backdating is for cool people DAMN YOU [audio]

[afterlighted.livejournal.com]

This curse... Did you remember that, Roxas?

THE COOLEST OF COOL [audio]

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

[Normally Roxas would brush Riku off or tell him straight out to go away—that it's not going to work, he's not going to believe a stranger over his friends. But now he just feels tired and even emptier than usual.]

A little.

[There had been Twilight Town, and Xemnas, and his new name. Then most of it had been a blur for the next seven days.]

THE COOLEST OF THE COOLEST [audio]

[afterlighted.livejournal.com]

This City doesn't know how to play fair.

It'll come back to you, eventually. Your memories.

1/3

[faroffdream.livejournal.com]

Can't?

I mean...I knew that...I did. They told me.

[faroffdream.livejournal.com]

I don't like it.

I don't...want it to be like that.

Those feelings weren't mine...in Twilight Town.

So...

And what about Axel? What about---

➥audio➥➥

[faroffdream.livejournal.com]

[ Some nervous shuffling is so audible here but then his words are hurried as if he's trying to cover up that shuffle. ]

Didthat---doyouremem---

...what were you looking for?