audience - axelea

[cyclists]

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[cyclists]

[...he doesn't have an answer. So he's silent for a moment, thinking it over.]

...I don't know. Everything we've done isn't good enough. So how...[...] I don't know what to do.

[leaberator]

[ "everything we've done isn't good enough" ... doesn't that hit the nail on the head for how it feels? ]

Everyone's talking about making lists and trying to figure out what everyone would want, like it's so easy, but... We still don't even know if there's any conditions to that "last one standing" thing besides not being corrupted. That's what I'm worried about.

[cyclists]

[...] We might get more information to clear that. But then they won't be able to relay that to you until at least Wednesday, and by then that's leaving too much time before someone else might get corrupted or killed.

In the end...it all comes back to that. [...] There's something I have to show you, too.

[leaberator]

The corruption won't give us a break, huh?

[ he looks towards roxas with a frown ]

What is it?

[cyclists]

[He shakes his head, but he's also...just slowly lowering his hood. When he turns and makes eye contact with Axel, Axel's immediately treated to a memory all the way to 30:01. The fighting seems sped up, but the point is he gets all the dialogue up to "let's go show Axel" or what-have-you.

Tada.]

[leaberator]

[ meanwhile, roxas can have this lovely memory, ignoring the demyx parts because he was dead in real canon.




he looks up at the sky ]

Were you trying to show me a stick?

[ WHAT MURDER MEMORY? LOL ]

[cyclists]

[He was in the middle of saying "that again?" but then Axel's memory shows up.

And. Haha. Hahahaha.]

What was that? [Excuse him, he's alarmed and he's just going to sit up and almost dislodge his cat.] Why...?

[leaberator]

[ please go back to the stick? ]

A half-baked plan going about as well as expected? [ he waves it off ] You never told me you used a stick to help Xion get her Keyblade back.

[cyclists]

And you never told me Saix stabbed you. [This is apparently a bigger deal than the stick!!!] Also, how we got Xion's Keyblade back wasn't important, we just did it.

What plan? What was going on? Why did Kairi throw meatballs at you?

[leaberator]

It's a fun anecdote?

[ unlike this subject. he makes a face ]

I didn't tell you because it didn't matter. I kidnapped her, and then she got away from me and the Organization got her, so I tried to fix it.

[cyclists]

Why did you even kidnap her--you're going to tell me it doesn't matter, aren't you. [Flatly. Oh so flatly.

IT MATTERS A LOT!!!]

[leaberator]

[ ... he sighs ] It doesn't, Roxas. It's not like I thought things through that much. It was some kind of-- half-baked thought that it'd help me see you again.

[cyclists]

[Oh. Well that shuts him for a second. That definitely sounds like a stupid idea, but...]

...and then after that...[...] ...with Sora. [...oh. Oh no, what if he doesn't come to that conclusion? Ever? Even if he doesn't know all of the details it's not that hard to figure out the chain of events.]

[leaberator]

... You know about that?

[ it's difficult to tell, exactly how much Roxas could see through Sora, if anything at all. He's never actually asked, either. Axel shrugs, looking away. ]

I toldja. Can't turn on the Organization without some consequences. He'd been dogging me ever since I didn't come back from Twilight Town. I got sloppy and he got me. But it's not like he finished the job, so who's the real sloppy one?

[cyclists]

Not everything. Not all of the details, but...[Maybe that's not important. He knows something happened that involved Sora and involved Axel and suddenly Axel didn't exist and there's the weird heart thing that happened and Kingdom Hearts is a mess? It's a mess.]

Who finished the job, Axel? [Just. He's not thrilled, and actually he looks very unhappy, but maybe don't make jokes about this my guy.]

[leaberator]

...

[ he made his bed and now he has to lie in it but wow is it one shitty fuckin bed. he regrets this bed so much.

he hesitates, but in the end he shrugs, a half-smirk on his face, bEcAuSe MaKiNg It A jOkE mAkEs It OkAy ]

I did. You seriously think anyone else in the Organization could've taken me down? C'mon.

[cyclists]

[...look we have zero idea how much Roxas actually knew because whatever, but uh. Haha. Great. Making it a joke DOES NOT HELP?

He's just giving him a blank stare, which also means prolonged eye contact and because he's still not used to this, Axel finds himself facing the aftermath of his death. But at least Roxas seemed to grasp why it was Sora after trying to beat him up? He even called him a good Other, what do you want from him.

That seems to jar him enough though, given he's shaking his head and making a displeased noise.] ...no, but that doesn't make it better.

[leaberator]

[ ty: we have no need for axel to give him a memory
me: here, roxas, have this cutscene of axel and kairi talking. they're friends now. embarrassing.

axel's the one looking confused now. and also. he's decided to not address the dying part anymore!!!!!!!! ]

Wait... were you... fighting Sora? How?

[ and actually while he's thinking about it were those conversations he had with roxas real. either of them. why is kingdom hearts ]

[cyclists]

I was mad. [That's "why", Roxas, not how. He's also confused, it's fine. Give him a moment to, like, process everything.]

...so...you kidnapped her...and then you guys became friends? [...he's not addressing the death part. Or the crying. Or like. Anything hard right now because he doesn't want to explain things either.]

[leaberator]

You're always mad.

[ he's joking. ANYWAY? RUDE? ]

I said I was sorry. [ like. a lot. ]

[cyclists]

Shut up. [DOUBLE RUDE.] He put up a good fight, it was fine.

...they're really alike, aren't they? [He does not think he needs to spell out who he means.]

[leaberator]

... Yeah.

[ he says it quiet. he still misses kairi if he thinks about it too much. it's weird. he shakes his head and decides to MOVE ON from MEMORY SHARE ]

Before all this mess, weren't you gonna tell me something?

[cyclists]

Huh? [...oh! No, we're not moving on from the memory share because, haha.]

...that was it. [He looks at his hands.] This hasn't happened before. Lune and I have never been susceptible to the things you guys are going through, but now we are. [No weird emotions, no mem-swaps before this, etc.]

[leaberator]

So... on top it affecting everyone, not just partners, it's also affecting you guys?

[ he frowns ]

These effects have always been the universe, right? What, is its range broken?

[cyclists]

I don't know. I didn't even know it was affecting us until I saw something from someone else, and they saw mine. But it's the universe, yeah. I don't understand why it's happening though.