[011//Audio & Commentlog] More 4th wall fun :D

[oathbreakers]

K--Kairi!

[Riku sounds surprised, but also excited. What has he found?]

You've got to come see this. Deck 12--around the left side of the luggage.


[Riku's on the luggage deck, off to one side sitting on the floor. Scattered around him is an entire collection of interesting things, including a bunch of Disney movies--but what -Riku's- looking at is a game. Yeah, he's holding Kingdom Hearts I and II, and is staring at them both. There's a PlayStation 2 nearby, and you can bet he's planning on figuring out how to play these things.

What in the -worlds- has he found here?]

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It is the best. XDD

[oathbreakers]

[Then there you go!] Doesn't seem like much of a problem to me.

So where do you come in in my future, anyway?

yyy it is

[reflected]

[Hm... there's a lot he could tell you, and given that you don't have as much Darkness in you as he remembers... man. You are young. Anything he tells you would be a major spoiler, wouldn't it?] How much do you want to find out?

[Best to play this by ear. If he wants to know about Castle Oblivion, he's probably the best source of information you can get since Sora forgets it all, that idiot.]

[oathbreakers]

[Riku contemplates this for a minute. He knows that knowing what comes in his future is a dangerous prospect, but... hey, he already knows part of it anyways. Right?]

As much as I need to know.

Kairi's here, and she's from my future, too. What all happened?

[At least this way he'll know everything that she knows.]

[reflected]

[He frowns, but nods, resigning himself to it.] I don't know what happens after we parted ways, and most of what I know from before I was created comes from altered copies of your memories.

[He's going to avoid asking who Kairi is--that's the girl he likes. The one that's supposed to be in the memories, instead of Naminé.] But what I do know, is that somehow, you wound up in Castle Oblivion, just a few days after Sora had been lured there by a nasty group called Organization Thirteen.

[He pauses, the look on his face going contemplative.] It might be better to show you what happens, instead of telling you.

[oathbreakers]

You can do that? [Okay, that? Is -cool-.]

Then show me.

[Oh man, he is -so- ready for this.]

[reflected]

Yeah. [Slight smirk.] Just a little something I picked up.

[Well. All right. He closes his eyes, mostly to help him concentrate on grasping hold of that stolen power and using it. It takes a few seconds, but their surroundings flicker away, replaced by startling white marble hallways.

And the scenes start to unfold--every encounter he had with both Riku and Sora. Why he includes Sora in this, he's not entirely sure, but he feels like it's probably important.

'Look. See how they manipulated your friend. Manipulated me, and you. Messed with our memories.' People Riku has never met are frequent--a tall lanky man with wild red hair, an even taller man with green eyes and a cruel smirk. A man with a scythe, and a blonde woman with throwing knives. A smaller man, with dark hair and a calculating gaze half-hidden by his hair, and finally a large, imposing man with wirey hair and a square jaw. All wear the same coat--a long hooded black thing that seems to soak in the light from around them.

Time passes, and the scenes continue. Every fight, every taunt, every jeer--and the horror and numbness of having the memories chained in his Heart shattered, scattered in his mind. The final scenes mostly involve Riku, and the fights that they both had. When their final fight starts to play, the illusion flickers, the Replica's concentration slipping.]