oo3 - Attempt to control new powers... failed [Video]

[boundbynaught]

Whose face is this?

And why can't I stop turning into him? ... I think he's a little taller than me...

... My voice too... I didn't think my voice was supposed to change too!

[This is indeed Riku Replica. He's been turned into a Metamorphmagus from Harry Potter. After a few days of (accidentally) shifting (parts of himself) into people he at least knows, he 'relaxed' into a state he doesn't recognize. Instead of defaulting back to Riku's face between shifting states, he keeps going back to this form and it's kinda freaking him out - enough to make an SFC post! Replies will come from cadenbychoice]

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[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[He chuckles once.] Have you forgotten?

[Private]

"-I could finally be someone- Someone who's not at all you!"

You yelled that at me in front of the memory of an old mansion, remember?

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

But that was-

I didn't think-

Not like this...

[This was beyond even his wildest dreams.]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Sometimes this city was a good thing; maybe, just maybe, it will be that for the derp on the screen.]

There's no face like that in this bubble, Caden. The facial structure is similar to mine, but other than that...

['You're your own person.']

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

You know that for sure? How do you know for sure there's no one who looks like this?

[Good things don't happen to emoderps.]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

I've been here for months. There's no one here with that face, and there's no one here with your scent.

[...Meeting Sora and Kairi while she was here─along with all your other friends─disproves that theory, man.]

1/2

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

[Once upon a time Rep might've wondered if Riku was lying to him. And he did now - for about a second.]

Then, how...

[He's still caught up in the improbability of his situation.]

I thought I could only change into other people like this.

2/2

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter anyway - it'll go away soon.

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Sigh. Oh, Caden.]

...You should know. For a brief period of time, Zexion was able to take on Sora's appearance.

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

That would just be an illusion - no different than now. It's not what I really look like.

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

There's a fine line between illusions and reality, Caden. I won't say anything about what could be, but anything you believe to be fact is what's truth to you.

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what Kanji told me too.

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

And Kanji's right. If all you're seeing is a sort of illusion, then seek what's real in your own way. Otherwise, what you deny will continue to tear you apart.

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

It's not going to get any easier by everyone just saying that to me. Didn't work in Castle Oblivion, won't help now. Zexion's powers didn't help, more illusions won't either. And no, I don't know what will. I just know what all I've tried.

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[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Because you looked outside yourself for the answers, idiot! There's always a chance for something else to work... always another way.

2/2

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[He places a hand to his forehead, trying to calm down and bite back the strange, feral nature the wolf half this curse gave him. Believe him, it isn't an easy feat. All of this... is too much like what he dealt with before Castle Oblivion and during. Insecurities, being frustrated by people who didn't understand trying to tell him what to do, telling him he was wrong, that he should accept the dark or disappear. Ice, crushing blows to the abdomen, being trapped within an illusion of pain and misery, being blinded to truth─

He wouldn't be that for Rep─for Caden.]

...Just don't give up trying to see what's right in front of you.

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

[He opens his mouth to protest again at 'idiot,' but lets Riku finish.]

I made a promise. To Kairi. That I'd try. That's all I can promise, bro.

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[His breath is caught at the mention of 'promise' and 'Kairi' in such close proximity to each other, but what really makes him stop dead in his metaphorical steps is the last word.]

...Bro?

[Riku grows eerily silent before the picture on the screen flickers out. He... couldn't allow his eyes to betray him like this, and it was far too much for words to say as images of the islands kept coming to mind. "Bro" was too close to Wakka's "brah" for a few memories to not come to mind. He... hadn't even realized just how much he misses those familiar shores.]

...I'm holding you to it, even if she doesn't remember when she returns.

[Bitterly, he thinks, 'If she comes back.']

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

[That slip up? Completely unintentional. So at first he thinks maybe Riku was the first one to say it, but then recalls his own words and- nope, it was definitely him. Where did that come from? He wanted to blame Kanji, for picking up that style of speaking. It didn't change what he'd said, though.

And after all, everyone thought they were brothers, didn't they? It was easier to say than 'Riku,' because that was still such a complicated name to Rep. 'Bro' was unique, to Rep anyway. It was something he didn't mind using to refer to who Riku was and what their connection was - because even Rep knew that that connection would probably never go away.

This whole time, he's been silent, mouth a little agape as he ponders all of that. Finally, he nods solemnly, much like he did at first.]

I was holding myself to it anyway. And... [He nods again.] yeah, I guess that just... [Words, not his best friend. He waves a hand.] Unless you don't want me to.

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, he kind of figured for the derp on the other end of the line, but he has his own anger and emo issues to deal with at the moment that he doesn't trust his own eyes and facial expressions─damn you, Vatheon─to not betray.

He doesn't show his own face, but he still sees Rep's and his gestures. He's growing too close, beginning to like the kid. What if he left the city again like the others─left and forgot or never came back? He'd be dead again, and with the last time still looming in his mind...

Riku is truly missing his own powers, right now.]

It's fine. Just caught me off-guard.

[Too used to 'real thing,' bro. No, you will never live it down. And correct; you're stuck with him for the rest of eternity, Rep.]

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

Fine. Settled.

[... Right. Now what?]

... If it helps, I started using that name. When I first meet new people, I mean. Instead of explaining everything.

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[...Okay, he might have uncovered the camera at that one. If only because it made him smirk faintly.]

It gets monotonous after a while, doesn't it? Having to explain.

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

It's more annoying than anything because they never get it, with a few rare exceptions.

[Kanji, Ryoji, N to some extent.]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

I get the same thing all the time, so I know what you mean.

[Yeah, he realized that Kanji understood when they became drinking buddies-- YOU HEARD NOTHING.]

[cadenbychoice.livejournal.com]

What, people asking you about me? Or...?

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

They keep asking if we're brothers. [Yes, yes that is a teasing smirk.] I almost started saying we're cousins.