itsjustagamerp | Nineteenth Link

Characters: Namine and Riku
Content: All the picture conversations
Location: Wherever they choose to do their drawing
Time of Day: Varies
Warnings: Adorbs? Poorly drawn pictures? Angst expressed through Art?

Since Riku was feeling better, the old routine was starting up again. Namine had missed their drawing exchanges while he was sick, and then while he was sleeping so much. This week things seemed to be a little better, though she'd been worried for him last week.

There was at least enough time for her to draw something for him. It seemed like they were getting some of their powers back this week. She'd seen both his and Xion's keyblades return to them on Cambot, and she was happy for them. Her realization about her own abilities had come a little later.

Really, it shouldn't have surprised her. It was the only special ability she had, even if it seemed more like a burden sometimes. Even if she didn't want to tell everybody, she could at least tell Riku, though. He could find a way to let Sora know without broadcasting it.

So her picture was a simple one of her and Sora, with a thought bubble connecting them. Inside the thought bubble was one of the images she'd gotten from Sora's memories: Sora and Riku talking to Yen Sid in his tower.

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Riku's reply came after a dew days, given his absence. When he got back, he instantly resumed his old habit of grabbing the picture and then taking it to his desk to look over and reply. The moment he looked, however, his smile faded. It'd been too long.

He'd forgotten what the conversation was about.

Out of context, he wasn't sure what it meant. To make things worse, he wasn't sure how to tell her this in pictures. With a sigh, he grabbed a post-it note to supplement his picture. He depicted Sora asleep with a thought bubble above his head filled with brightly colored creatures, some happy-looking, some malevolent. Each had a kind of symbol on them, one for the good ones an another kind for the fierce ones. Riku was diving into the thought bubble and wore a different outfit. The sigil on the back of his shirt matched that of the friendly-looking creatures.

His post-it note read, "It's been too many months. I don't know what our conversation was about anymore."

With that, he slid it under her door that late evening, wishing he could have replied properly.

Namine hadn't expected an immediate response, given her knowledge of the fact that he'd been sent home. After he returned, she was pleased and flattered to get a response to her picture so quickly. It looked like he enjoyed these conversations as much as he did.

The picture made her smile, but it turned into a sad smile as she read the note. Of course he wouldn't remember what they'd been talking about if, to him, he'd been gone for months. At least he was offering the possibility of another topic. It looked like he'd had to watch over a sleeping Sora yet again--this time, without whatever help she could offer.

The friendly-looking creatures proved to be fun to draw. She depicted them and Riku with his Keyblade drawn standing guard in front of Sora, who was fast asleep. As an afterthought, she drew a question mark on this picture, too--she might not have interpreted his correctly. As a reply to his note, she wrote "It's okay," on a post-it of her own and stuck it on the picture.

She managed to deliver it the next morning after she awoke--a little later than usual, since she'd stayed up later than she'd intended.

A little later made no difference to Riku. As always, he was asleep when she slid it under his door, and remained so to about noon. When he finally opened his eyes, he looked over to the door. It was a force of habit by this point, and a habit he easily picked back up when he returned. He did his usual: grab the reply, take a look, go get breakfast and bring it back into his room to eat while he worked on a reply. The post-it note response was a relief.

He wasn't quite sure if Namine understood. This time Riku drew himself inside the thought bubble with a brightly-colored bat, one that had been depicted before. With them stood a threatening, black-coated individual with the symbol of one of the viscous-looking creatures on its back, in contrast to Riku. Its coat was tinged with purple. Outside the thought bubble, however, was a black-coated youth, his eyes yellow and his hair white. He was carrying the sleeping Sora off somewhere.

Riku delivered his in the late afternoon. It'd been hard to draw, and the trash around his desk was proof of it.

Usually, Namine smiled to see a picture of Riku waiting for her. This time, she sighed with relief to see it come sliding under her door. Having found evidence that someone had been in her room while she was away, she'd been worried that it might have been stolen. That issue settled, she placed the picture on her desk as she finished straightening up the clutter her "visitor" had left.

That done, she began work on two pictures. One was a direct response to what Riku had sent, and showed him and the black-coated youth fighting while Sora slept on in the background.

The second picture was to let him know of the new development. First, she drew a line down the center of her paper, then another line dividing the left half into two. In the top left panel, she drew herself smiling in her room while everything was in order. In the bottom left, she was in her room again, but it was in disarray and she looked confused. In the right-hand panel she drew Riku in his room, but added a question mark.

She delivered it the next morning on her way to the Theatrical Deck.

It seemed she'd understood. That next afternoon Riku got down to work. It took him quite a while, and he ended up taking a break at one point to eat and hit the Rec Deck to get in some exercise. It wasn't until maybe 10 pm before the pictures were delivered.

Riku had drawn a picture of him and King Mickey amongst the white thrones of the Organization. In those thrones were various members clad in black and hoods up. Two members had their hoods down and they were on their way to intercept the Keyblade wielders. They appeared to be Ansem Seeker of Darkness and Xemnas. Meanwhile, Mickey and Riku were running for one throne in particular; atop it sat a sleeping Sora. At the bottom was a message: "I think all of us need to talk about this."

The second picture was split by a line. On one side was Riku looking at his room. It was messy. His room generally was a little, but it was never anything that couldn't be cleaned up in two minutes, tops. The other side showed Riku looking less-than-happy. His room was still messy, but sheets had been torn off the bed, dresser drawers were open, and all the wads of failed pictures on the floor had been moved, a few re-opened. One that was uncrumpled Riku labeled with an arrow. "Your last reply."

Namine was getting ready to go to sleep when the two pictures arrived, so she set them face down on her desk to look at the next morning. Otherwise, she really would have stayed up far too late working on a response. As it was, she'd caught a glimpse of them and did spend some time thinking about what they meant before managing to fall asleep.

After breakfast the next day, she set to work on two new pictures. The first one was very similar to the one Riku had drawn, except that in it, Riku was fighting the Seeker of Darkness while Micky fought Xemnas. Sora remained asleep in his throne, and the other cloaked figures had question marks over their heads. Her not only said "Me, too."

The second picture was much more simple. Again, the paper was split in half, each side depicting one of their rooms. In each room stood a shadowy figure looking through everything. She seemed to be using question marks in her pictures a lot these days, and this one was no exception. The same could said of post-its, because she added one with the message "Something else to discuss with the others?"

She didn't manage to deliver the pictures until after lunch.

Nineteenth Link

[Talked to Lynx, Sora WAS told before he left.]

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