Revelation

[thirteenth_brat]

Who: Roxas, Terra, Ven and Aqua
What: There's something Roxas thinks they ought to know...
Where: Merlin's house
When: Sunday afternoon
Status: Ongoing
Notes: If this gets Paris cursed, so help me... Also, since it really is just a chat, tags don't have to be prose. They can be action tags.



Roxas had considered telling them a lot sooner. He'd almost caved and told Aqua when he'd met her at Yen Sid's tower, but Ven was still out of it due to his Heart being elsewhere and they hadn't even had any clues as to where Terra was at the time. Once all three were reunited, Roxas hadn't been able to bring himself to drop that bombshell on them yet. Now?

Now, things might be a little more complicated. In all honesty, he'd almost forgotten about it until a couple days ago and he really didn't think about what had reminded him. He was probably going to have to name names anyway, but that could wait until it was necessary.

Merlin had suggested having this discussion over tea. Roxas wasn't so sure, but he supposed it could make it less awkward at the very least... As long as Merlin's enchanted tea set behaved.

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[wr-npc.livejournal.com]

Aqua was horrified. How anyone could agree with Xehanort was far beyond her ability to comprehend. He embodied everything Master Eraqus defined as evil, and his plans were... His plans were nothing short of heinous.

But there were a few things that caught her attention as Roxas kept talking. The first?

"'She?' Who is 'she?'" she asked. After a pause, she added quietly, "And what do you mean... 'we?'"

[thirteenth_brat]

Well, now this... wasn't planned. He had meant to add in his own involvement with the Organization when going into more detail about how some people had been tricked. Obviously, he'd screwed up. Still, there wasn't a whole lot he could other than what he'd been doing: answering their questions. It wasn't like he intended to keep it secret.

"I... was a member of that Organization for a while," he explained, resisting an urge to go staring into his tea cup as he spoke, "I don't know it you were told this already, but when Sora had lost his Heart, I was his Nobody. But, I didn't have any memories, so when Xemnas found me and offered to help me fill in the blanks, well... besides that, I had to nowhere to go, as far as I knew. In return, all he wanted me to do was kill Heartless, since killing Heartless with the Keyblade releases any Hearts they might hold and he needed the Hearts for his plan. As far as I knew for most of my time with the Organization, all that plan was was for everyone to get their Hearts back. It didn't occur to me to ask what collecting Hearts from Heartless had to with it. I left when I found out that it had almost nothing to do with that, if it ever had anything to do with it at all."

There was no way in hell he was going to get into the fact that the most likely reason he, as a Nobody, had been able to use the Keyblade in the first place was because he had probably been carrying Ven's Heart around at the time. There were also probably some points within what he'd just said that he would have to clarify.

And then there was the other question. He'd been about to name a name and maybe reveal the thing that was probably going to cause the most brain damage. That... could maybe get put off for the moment. Actually, he fully expected that if he somehow forgot that reveal, Aqua might ask again.

[windybonds.livejournal.com]

Ventus didn't need to be told about that particular detail, of course. His Heart may have been resting, but a disturbance as great as the one that had moved it from Sora to Roxas was difficult to miss...and to, in some strange, vague sense, remember.

In any case, he already knew that Roxas had once been Sora's Nobody; the fact that Terra and Aqua didn't hadn't even crossed his mind. He didn't know about the Organization, of course, but hearing about it didn't surprise him - again, it was just the feeling of a piece falling into place, the sense of emotions that he couldn't place suddenly gaining context.

So that's not what he asked about, when he finally opened his mouth. Instead, Ven focused on something else entirely.

"But, Roxas...you stopped helping him once you figured out what was really going on. The Refugees who were helping him did the same thing, right?" To be honest, Ven didn't really understand what had happened, or what Roxas was trying to tell them. All the Refugees seemed like good people...so what did it matter if they had made a few mistakes?

[wr-npc.livejournal.com]

So Roxas had helped Xehanort, too, even if he didn't realize it at the time. Another victim of the Darkness, she supposed. Another victim of Xehanort's corruption. She sighed, yielding her earlier question to Ven's. It would get answered soon enough, or she would find out for herself.

[thirteenth_brat]

"Yeah, we did. I wonder, though," Roxas replied, "So many things were changed from what would have happened. Still..."

He sighed. There was so much that happened that shouldn't have and so much that didn't happen as predicted that was probably changed for the worse.

And he knew he still had a question to answer and while Aqua hadn't prodded, he really didn't want to drop the question altogether. Part of the reason he was telling them this now was because he didn't want to give their enemies a chance to use the information for divide and conquer tactics. Hopefully he wasn't helping that along...

After a moment of thought, he went on, "His biggest help from the Refugees came from one Refugee in particular, though. When their world fell, she'd lost her Heart. Her Nobody managed for a long time to hide what she was. Actually... I don't think anyone would have known if she hadn't come out and told us. But, at some point, she got to talking to Xehanort, or rather, to his Nobody. Xemnas was able to convince her that what he was trying to do was right. She agreed to help on the condition that he try to find a better way to do it. She even joined the Organization. But he didn't quite keep his word. He was still collecting Hearts while at least looking into other possible ways to accomplish his goal."