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
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]
Voice;
Are you alright? I'm on my way to Usagi's.
[Please don't do anything murderous without seeing Naminé and talking to everyone first, Arden.]
Re: Voice;
Don't worry about me.
[ Sora might here the soft quavering of Arden opening a Dark Corridor. If nothing else, he can definitely feel exactly the murderous intention that he expected coming from Arden. ]
I'm on my way there too. I'm not staying long.
[ He has a bully to confront. ]
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Yes you are because the place Naminé is going to need you the most right now is right with her, okay?
[Sora is pretty sure he's the only one who's had direct experience with not having an amulet.]
Without her amulet Naminé is going to be really sick with apathy. She's going to need your help to keep her feeling emotions. [Then he quickly adds,] Leave the amulet to me and Ven. We're gonna get it back right now.
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[ Usagi said the same thing and he knew then that a quick reaction was needed. ]
I've beat him back once before Sora, I can do it again - if more of you are going, then it won't be a problem!
[ He does care about Naminé. So much. It's just buried right now, angry and guilty that he let this guy go the last time. That he clearly didn't take Arden's meaning to stay away. Arden knew that he'd targeted Naminé and didn't actually do anything that would prevent him from trying again. And so he did try again. Arden feels like he should have known better - him of all people, someone else so tied to the Darkness, so wrapped up in it in the past that he'd done everything possible, destroyed someone to get what he thought he needed. That guilt pours out of him, unguarded from Sora. ]
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[Sora shouts this back. His patience is really starting to wear thin with both Arden and Riku.]
Who knows what Vanitas will do if he sees a bunch of us coming his way with keyblades ready? What if he just smashes it before we can even do anything?
[A breath...] Please, just trust me. Ven knows Vanitas better than any of us and he'll be able to find him. And I'll take care of the rest.
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That's what I'm afraid of too - that he'll smash it before you even get there, or when you show up, just because he feels like it. I don't know how you think you can get it back from him without a fight, Sora.
[ He's worried. So worried. It was one thing for him to willingly try to smash his amulet and Sora stop him out of concern; Vanitas with someone else's amulet, someone he didn't care a bit about... he feared it may already be too late. He's used to jumping right into the fray with his Dark Corridors thanks to pinpointing things with his nose. He knows a little bit about Ven and Vanitas being connected, but not just how connected. For all he knows it's just as good as his Scent at finding the guy. ]
... I do trust you, Sora. It's him I don't trust.
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How weird that it's Sora trying to calm down the "level-headed" ones.]
I'm gonna figure it out.
[He's thinking of Naminé and how she needs heartful emotions right now. He's thinking about how the darkness would hurt Riku even more in the state he's in. He's thinking about Arden getting hurt in a reckless fight with Vanitas. He's thinking about how Ventus is going at this alone.
... Why won't anyone just listen to him?]
You said we're best friends, right?
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... Yes. We're best friends.
[ Not just that he said. They are. That bond is something he can't bear to give up. Yet... If there's anyone equally reckless as Arden or Riku, it was Sora, when it came down to helping someone like the position Naminé's in. So even if he trusted Sora to do whatever he could to get Naminé's amulet back... 'whatever he could' might be pretty intense. That's what Arden realizes he's afraid of by that tone in Sora's voice. ]
If you're not going to let me go with you, then at least...
[ Augh. What can he say that isn't overbearing? He tries several times, but can't come up with anything good. Something something come back in one piece and even if there's a line starting with Squall, I want to see you too, in good health or within recovering range, without having let Vanitas off the hook but also without letting him do something like pummel him into the ground or let loose his Antiform in exchange for the amulet or anything else crazy like that.
'Look after Naminé.'
Yeah... it kind of felt like that all over again. Except this time he really did care if Sora survived the confrontation. ]
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I promise I'll come back all in one piece and with her amulet. Vanitas doesn't have anything on me and Ven, both.
[He can't promise what will happen or that he won't get hurt at all because he doesn't know. But he's determined to come back with the amulet and hopefully unscathed enough that only a few cures are all he'll need. The best case scenario is that he won't need any cures at all so he's gunning for that option. Vanitas is unpredictable, though.]
Stick by her, okay? We'll be quick as we can.
[The silent thank you is there in a flicker of soft appreciation. He won't let Arden down.]
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And he doesn't know Ven that well. Trusts him like he trusts a puppy, really - that he's hardly a danger to Sora, but can he actually stand up to Vanitas for one thing, Vanitas specifically, and was he at least as good a fighter as Arden was? Arden couldn't answer that on personal experience, so his 'trust' in Ven was a significant gap compared to how much he trusted Sora.
So Arden looks down mentally, and nods in assent. ]
I will. See you soon, Sora.