Arden [Riku Replica] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
boundbynaught) wrote2016-10-04 07:34 pm
boundbynaught) wrote2016-10-04 07:34 pm
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March 7th thru March 14th: Gone for Canon Update
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April 14th: Gone again
Arden here, Manager of Sweetie Pies.
If this is about Sweetie Pies, please make sure to mention it in your message and I'll make sure to answer during business hours.
Everyone else, I'll get back to you when I can.
*Has a slightly rougher cut crystal
[Source]
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I think you should try it, Arden. Even if does nothing, that doesn't mean you can't keep using your blade.
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[He takes a deep breath. He can't imagine the reason that Snow White is talking about, why Sora would think she was the best one for doing this. But she's also a friend, the one who convinced him trying didn't have to be as scary as he felt like it was.
So, he summons his keyblade into his right hand - keeping it pointed away from her, then turns it pommel-side up. With his left hand, he brings the keychain up close to it...
And...
A tiny burst of white light later, he's holding a much different blade in his hands that almost looks more like an axe at the top, encrusted with jewels down the sides. He's too in shock by it - he really hadn't expected it to work at all.]
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I don't think I could have given you a better gift.
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[He's so stunned. He's barely hanging onto the blade at all. There's just a wind blowing his hair and Dark Mode skirt a bit, because there's not much else he can think about except what this means for him.
Arden just keeps blinking as he stares down at it.]
How did that...?
[A patch of earth literally sinks beneath him as he tries to hold his balance, unintentionally affecting the world around him with how distracted he is.]
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Ah... Arden, what's wrong? Aren't you happy to have a different keyblade? Should... Should I take it back?
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[For the hole and for his over-reacting. He's trying to take a step out of it.]
I need to just... try to calm down...
[He exhales in a quick version of his meditative exercises that Zenyatta and Nahyuta have taught him.]
I really... I really didn't believe that would actually work.
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It's alright, what's important is you. Are you alright? Arden, talk to me, tell me what is happening.
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This weapon... it's called Soul Eater. It's an exact replica of Riku's keyblade... just like I'm an exact replica of Riku.
[He purses his mouth in thought, and to see if that much makes any sense, but he does add: ]
Sora's keyblade wasn't made the same way as mine. So, I always thought... they wouldn't have the same properties, I guess. That mine wasn't anything more than a plain sword I could summon and dismiss, not with all of the extra things a keyblade can do.
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You've proven time and again you're more than just a replica, a copy of another. So why shouldn't this have been unique to you too? [She leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his brow.]
You keep thinking so little of yourself, a very humble soul, but I wonder when you'll start believing in yourself the way that I and others do?
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[He shakes his head.]
Not this time, Snow. I know I'm more than a replica now, but this weapon-
[He holds it up again, pommel to the ceiling.]
Even when Riku himself had it, he couldn't make it transform. The way I thought about keyblades from when Sora and I last knew each other - before I came to Verens - we all thought that his keyblade was special. I mean, it still is, but that no other keyblades could ever exist. His isn't The Keyblade, it's just a keyblade.
[Then he lowers Soul Eater again, and reattaches the keychain.]
Sora's from a time when they figured all of that out, but I... I had no way of knowing if all of that, all of that new information... would also mean that this replica keyblade could do the same things.
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I do believe I tell you to always try, and that the worst thing to happen is not knowing. Hopefully, though, that keyblade can fix my floor!
[Because again, SERIOUSLY ARDEN?!]
I'm glad that this was a nice surprise, though.
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[ Except maybe they do, he certainly doesn't know. ]
Maybe dunamis can fix it easier?
[ He's not sure... ]
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[ He laughs awkwardly because maybe that's terrible to follow up with after admitting he can't fix her floor but, ahhhh he's so blown away right now. ]
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Take the time you need to look through the books on floor fixing.
[And to come to terms with... everything.]
Wrap then?
[That gets a laugh out of him.]
Alright, alright - floor fixing, coming right up.
[For now, he dismisses his keyblade and gets to work on that.]