April Test Drive Meme

[thewakemods]

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[melodiouspacifist]

He did not choose to sit, but gestured Clef to continue all the same. This sounded like it was some version of Traverse Town.

"For a reason?" Demyx echoed the most obvious question to him. "I don't know what reason I'd be here, except for work...which judging on this place, I'd guess I got lost or something."

*here. Wow, me.

[guru_clef]

"We are all here because we possess skills or knowledge needed to help save the worlds. Any of them that are in danger. The Pillar of this world has called us here to train and learn so that when we are ready, we can help. There are many heroes here, none of us will ever have to stand alone."

[melodiouspacifist]

Demyx took a moment to just stare at him and process that information. The knowledge and skills needed to save the worlds?

That was hero stuff. He was no hero.

"I don't think that's why I'm here. I'm most likely just lost."

[guru_clef]

"It is why we are all here. Why we will continue to be brought. We all have, within us, the potential to be heroes. Else... we'd not have been Awoken."

He offered a hint of a smile.

"There are people here who can help."

[melodiouspacifist]

"I really think whoever thinks that about me is a little confused, you know?" Demyx tilted his head.

"I'm not a hero. I don't save anything."

[guru_clef]

"Then perhaps what he sees in you is the potential," he said with a small warm smile.

[melodiouspacifist]

"I'd really rather not think about that." He ran his hands through his hair. Demyx would rather not think about his potential to be a good person. He didn't have that choice.

"I don't know why he'd think that."

[guru_clef]

"Nor do I," he said with a simple shrug. "But Pillars have reasons the rest of us sometimes cannot fathom, I suppose."

[melodiouspacifist]

"I guess, maybe." Demyx really wasn't sure what to think about the situation he was in.

"Why are you doing magic by the lake?"

[guru_clef]

"I like to practice when I can away from places with many people. While I take the utmost in safety precautions that I can, that is one of them. The magic I practice here is mostly combat magic, in anticipation of being needed to help in other worlds."

Though he missed summoning and taming, after what happened with Nash he was... hesitant.

[melodiouspacifist]

"I guess that's cool." Demyx smiled and moved aside. "I mean that's fine for practice. Why do you want to fight though? Did someone tell you you have to?"

[guru_clef]

"Other things that I can do to be of help are not things I generally need to practice. Diplomacy, teaching, research. All useful, and all things I do naturally. Fighting however does not come naturally to me, and thus is harder. So as there is a chance I may need to help fight and defend, I need to be prepared."

A small fond smile.

"Besides, one of the members of my family here, Link, has a penchant for getting in trouble. I want him to always feel that I will have his back, should we wind up in a combat situation, rather than being a liability."

[melodiouspacifist]

He couldn't stop himself from making a face. "I don't care for fighting, another reason I can't be a hero."

He tilted his head. "Your family?"

Demyx hadn't really thought about 'family' in a very long time, unless one counted the Organization as family, which he supposed he was stuck with doing so.

"I guess that sounds nice."

[guru_clef]

"Most people who enjoy fighting tend to be closer to villains than heroes, though not all. Most heroes dislike fighting and do it when they have to to defend others. Part of being a hero is doing what others need, even when you dislike or even hate it. Doing what is right, even when it is hard. That is a large part of being a hero." He gave him a warm smile.

"We found each other here, and he reminds me of someone from home who was as close to a son as I have ever had. It is frustrating, but also wonderful, watching him grow and learn. Others from his world, his family, have arrived, and we are making a home for ourselves here."

[melodiouspacifist]

"You don't have to like fighting to be a villain." He waved his hand a little. "Doing what's right, huh? How are you supposed to know what that is?" As far as his life went, whatever he was supposed to do was whatever his Superior said.

"Like starting over?" He hummed lightly. "Huh."

[guru_clef]

"No, it is no sinecure. Most is far from all."

"You can learn what is right, over time, and you can ask someone you trust. You can see what others do and the affects it has, and what affects your own actions have. We are always learning what is right and wrong, and it changes with context. As do we. It is always an effort, but always worth that effort, in the end."

He nodded. "Like starting over. Or, rather, like starting fresh."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Trust." Demyx smirked a little, was there anyone who fit that description? He didn't think so, not when his coworkers were waiting at his back, knives sharpened.

"If you say so, since you're the hero expert. I'm just a musician after all."

He exhaled slowly. "Starting over...I don't know if I can have that, but it would be nice someday."

[guru_clef]

"Trust," he agreed. "In a world governed by will power, trust is a valuable asset, and not a thing to be offered lightly, but when it is earned, it is perhaps the strongest of all bonds."

He smiled at him. "And whoever said music is not heroic? Music lifts the spirit and eases the heart. It can gentle and sooth, or it can call to arms. Music is one of the most powerful forces in existence, when wielded properly. It is a skill I have never learned, personally, but one worth pursuing."

"You are here now, you can have exactly that, if you wish it."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Sorry, I haven't got any bonds like that." He waved his hand back and forth a bit, dismissing the idea. He was meant to seem friendly, but he wasn't very trusting.

"I like music, as much as I like anything, and it's part of who I was...am...whatever. I haven't met anyone else who really cares for it." He knew the many rebukes of making too much of a racket that he was used to.

"Time is limited, it always is. Even if I can't leave today or tomorrow, I'll be found. He'll find me." His fate was sealed the moment he became a Nobody and was found by his superiors.

[guru_clef]

"Then perhaps you will forge them here, young man."

"There are people here who care for music. Link plays an ocarina, I know. I would much prefer he practice music with you than play with bombs."

"Who? Who is he?"

[melodiouspacifist]

He doubted that very much, but he didn't voice his dissent.

"An ocarina huh? Nice instrument. Not my style though, I'm more of a string instrument kind of guy. I play a sitar." Demyx didn't comment on the explosives, it wasn't his forte.

"The Superior of course. Your boss wouldn't let you run around for work unsupervised, would he?"

[guru_clef]

"I am certain he would love to hear it."

A small hint of a smile. "Actually, she trusted me to do exactly that. I know my duties to her, and she trusts that I will fulfil them. She has never questioned my loyalty." Though he has questioned his own, since arriving.

[melodiouspacifist]

"Oh yeah? Weird." His own loyalties were surprisingly resolute, regardless of the reason, but that didn't mean that his Superior trusted him, or any of them really.

[guru_clef]

"Perhaps less so than you might think." He smiled warmly at him. "This is a different world, things are different here, for all of us."

[melodiouspacifist]

"I don't really know, I can't say how people do things normally." Demyx mused. "I haven't talked to people in...well awhile." He smiled awkwardly. Talking, not threatening, the latter he did as required.

"Different here? I'm not so sure about that." He doubted he belonged there anymore than anywhere else.