[ Cheeks puffing out before he draws a breath, Sora gestures again for Roxas to sit down on the carousel's edge. Not to say that he has to but that they can and that perhaps it might be better even though at this point Sora himself doesn't think an explanation will be any more shattering or illuminating than just confirming Roxas' suspicion. Maybe he suggests it because it seems more companionable, not standing and facing each other as if in preparation for some sort of showdown but sitting side by side, whether on a carousel or a clock tower, a beach or in a ship traveling between worlds. ]
It's kind of a long story.
[ He pauses. ] But when I was trying to save my friend Kairi, I turned into a Heartless. That's what [ he frowns for a second because the word 'create' sounds kind of bad even if he can't explain why, even if it's true ] um. That's when you were...born, I guess.
[ That, Sora feels, is also accurate and in its own way, truer. He didn't mean to create Roxas and Namine when he used the Keyblade of People's Hearts to sacrifice his own, pulling out his and Kairi's, but it is what happened. He can't take it back and he wonders if it's bad that he wouldn't, not only because he had to save Kairi but because he wasn't lying when he said he and Roxas are friends.
Not knowing all of Roxas' story, his judgment isn't exactly reliable, but there's a good chance even if he did know it, his end verdict would be the same. He would rather Roxas exist at all than not; he would rather have had this chance to know him. Roxas is the reason Sora thinks of this particular world between worlds as a good thing; it is an opportunity he knows he won't get again.
He adds: ]
Every time a Heartless gets created, then a there's a Nobody too.
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[ Cheeks puffing out before he draws a breath, Sora gestures again for Roxas to sit down on the carousel's edge. Not to say that he has to but that they can and that perhaps it might be better even though at this point Sora himself doesn't think an explanation will be any more shattering or illuminating than just confirming Roxas' suspicion. Maybe he suggests it because it seems more companionable, not standing and facing each other as if in preparation for some sort of showdown but sitting side by side, whether on a carousel or a clock tower, a beach or in a ship traveling between worlds. ]
It's kind of a long story.
[ He pauses. ] But when I was trying to save my friend Kairi, I turned into a Heartless. That's what [ he frowns for a second because the word 'create' sounds kind of bad even if he can't explain why, even if it's true ] um. That's when you were...born, I guess.
[ That, Sora feels, is also accurate and in its own way, truer. He didn't mean to create Roxas and Namine when he used the Keyblade of People's Hearts to sacrifice his own, pulling out his and Kairi's, but it is what happened. He can't take it back and he wonders if it's bad that he wouldn't, not only because he had to save Kairi but because he wasn't lying when he said he and Roxas are friends.
Not knowing all of Roxas' story, his judgment isn't exactly reliable, but there's a good chance even if he did know it, his end verdict would be the same. He would rather Roxas exist at all than not; he would rather have had this chance to know him. Roxas is the reason Sora thinks of this particular world between worlds as a good thing; it is an opportunity he knows he won't get again.
He adds: ]
Every time a Heartless gets created, then a there's a Nobody too.