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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empatheias
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
[Source]
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Feels like forever since I've seen him!
[He'd been starting to get depressed about it.]
Did everything... go okay?
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For your definition of 'okay'? No, it didn't. But-
[He has to add that quickly.]
But... We talked for a bit. I can't speak for him, but it was hard, Sora - not because of who he is.
[Maybe focusing on this part will make sense.]
But because it was very different from the last time I managed to talk to him. Somehow-
[He laughs wryly. Who'd have thought....]
Somehow, it's like the complete opposite. He came to me, back then. This time I had to ask him not to leave before we talked even as little as we did.
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He's from a different time since the last time he was here.
[Riku from before was from the same time as Sora, Riku who's confident and forgiving and wants to move on from harder painful things. But Riku right now...]
It's gonna be hard, I know. But please try to give him a chance. Just like Riku did before.
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As long as you know that too. I figured it out by that blindfold - I'd heard about it from him before.
[Just to give Sora some insight - that he's heard things from "Riku" that this Riku maybe wished he didn't know, thereby allowing Sora to maybe be a bit more specific if ever he wanted to.]
But look, all I'm trying to say is... he's your friend. I know that. Nothing changed that, and I told him that. I promised him that whatever happened or didn't happen between him and me, I wasn't going to put you in a situation that made it harder on you. Not on purpose.
For example - I offered to make him dinner like any new housemate and he didn't want it. That's fine. But I offered. I'm trying. I'm not expecting you to make him change his mind, Sora - and I'm not sure you can. I don't know what it'll take. But that's for him to figure out - with my help, if he'll have it.
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[And he does sound a combination of frustrated and sad, but sympathetic too.]
Don't be so hard on yourself if it takes awhile.
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It's hard on Sora, feeling like he's in the middle now. So this really means a lot to him.]
I- ... I'll try.
[Arden is right, Sora would be hard on himself if things went south or if things didn't go as he would like fast enough. He can sing Riku's praises all he wants but in the end it'll be up to Riku and everyone else. So, he needs this reminder.]
Thanks, Arden. That means a lot to me.
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We all have to try - that's why Minnie knighted me, right? There's no way to instantly show him everything that's happened to me in my two years.
[ And even if there was, maybe it wouldn't matter. Maybe as long as he looked as he did, he and Riku could never truly reconcile. It was a hard thought that he kept to himself. ]
Anything else I should know right now, aside from what the blindfold means to him? That you're comfortable telling me, I mean.
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He puts a smile back in place, a little strained, but happy nonetheless. Sora will always struggle with knowing more about their timeline than anyone else. But he doesn't blame Arden for that.]
I guess just that he's going to be really hard on himself no matter what anyone says to him. Even what I say to him. I don't know if he'll believe anything anyone says until he wants to.
[Sora will keep believing in Riku, though. That's so much will never change.]
He can be super stubborn right now. It's kind of annoying. [He laughs genuinely. Sora still has rights as best friend to say things like that.]
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That makes sense from what I heard before - how it was only through some combination of you and Kairi that got through to him, and I know I'm no substitute for her. Not even Naminé would be. So... yeah, 'until he wants to' sounds about right.
[ Which, as he pointed out to Sora, could be awhile. Arden has to chuckle at that last remark. ]
Yeah, I can't imagine how you must feel about that.
[ Said full of sarcasm. There's no way he'd joke about that to Riku's face, but for better or worse he's been on the receiving end of Sora's frustration at someone being stubborn. ]
I'll do my best though. Thanks for understanding.
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If only Kairi was here to bop him across the head.
[If only. There's only so much scolding and reassuring Sora can do at Riku's face before he gets frustrated but Kairi always had a knack for easily keeping them both in line and fairly too.]
You too, Arden! If things get too rocky, just let me know, okay?
[Becuase he can do some bopping in place of Kairi for now. Or at least he can try.]