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[boundbynaught]

Temporary:
March 7th thru March 14th: Gone for Canon Update
March 15th thru April 7th: Reroutes to contact Riku instead of Arden
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
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Comments

[onebadapple]

Now Arden, I'm a bit surprised. [She tilted his chin up, her eyes locking with his and she smiled.] You may be exact in body, but you most certainly exact in mind and spirit, I would think your time here would have taught you that by now. If you were an exact replica of Riku, I'd have him in here being my assistant manager too, wouldn't you say?

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?

[boundbynaught]

[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.

[onebadapple]

[Well... to be quite honest, Snow wasn't sure she understood most of that. Because seriously, Arden, she only just learned about keyblades too.]

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.

1/2

[boundbynaught]

I don't think keyblades work that way?

[ Except maybe they do, he certainly doesn't know. ]

Maybe dunamis can fix it easier?

[ He's not sure... ]

2/2

[boundbynaught]

... But it really is a nice surprise.

[ 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. ]

[onebadapple]

Or my new manager can get on the case of finding someone who can while I tend to tomorrow's prep work. [That is not a request, as she lightly bops him on the nose.]

Take the time you need to look through the books on floor fixing.

[And to come to terms with... everything.]

Wrap then?

[boundbynaught]

​[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.]