the cracks in our memories can't change the bonds in our hearts
Welcome
to Simple and Clean, an au post-3D Kingdom Hearts roleplay.
After Xehanort removed the chains of memories linked not to people, but to objects and events - the keyblade, the Princesses of Heart, and Kingdom Hearts itself - the heroes found themselves living in a world where they are... ordinary. Where they are highschool and college students, parents or siblings, and living in a world not too far removed from our own.
Casting his spell cost Xehanort strength and time, but he's begun to move - and not everyone had their memories pulled. How will the worlds react to the return of the darkness when the light doesn't know to stand against it?
Events
Xehanort's awakening is at hand, and with it has come the beginning of the destruction of his spell.
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10/08/17 First major site event has begun! Xehanort has awoken and he's hellbent on ensuring his plans will not be interfered with. A halloween writing contest has started as well, so be sure to check them both out.
It hurt. Oh it hurt sooo much. He spent so many hours in the lab he had completely forgotten to eat, everything was fine till he decided to go over to the city for some new text books about the physics of area fluctuations. A theory forming from when these odd spots began to change computer data, then poof it was gone. He studied the graphs for hours forgetting necessities.. like Caffeine. Food. Water. Breathing, joking.
He grabbed his head ringing in the ears, the world brightening create a high saturated colors around, his head spinning in pain. Needed... Caffeine.. Strongest. Now. His breaths grew heavy holding onto his business satchel bag, few more steps. He practically pushed the door of the cafe opening, the world darkening slightly. The cool air helping his shaking body, he made his way in line barely holding it together waiting. Moment he got to the counter stumbling in quick words, "Blackest coffee.. quick." He placed the money on the counter, head throbbing terrible, releasing a small groan.
He slightly stumbled over waiting for the coffee, please hurry. He kept his eyes slight slited trying to focus on the spot where the drink is suppose to appear as the barista placed it there, taking the stool of the barista bar. The colors while darker compared to outside, still just unbearable... Coffee cure.. Needed to create a coffee cure. Caffeine, carry lots of caffeine pills. Something anything, never again. Never again.
Riku currently lives in Shibuya in a small apartment with Xion. He works more than full time in order to pay for her and himself, and purposefully distances himself from others to keep from being distracted... and to avoid the strange sparks of emotions that being around Sora and Kairi cause.
Human
19 Y/O
Male
Barista
Handgun
Rped by: Komory
There's darkness in my life - whichever life I've really led.
Post by Riku Gallahad on Sept 17, 2017 23:43:12 GMT
i don't like your little games
The months he had spent working at the cafe at done its best to kill whatever pieces inside of him had once cared about his fellow man. He didn't want to be dead inside and devoid of any sense of affection, but it was just so damn hard to care about people, especially when those people were customers. Really, did they even count as being people? Or just... mindless drones that existed to make his life harder than it had to be.
Riku found himself giving the other a flat stare, completely unsympathetic to the obvious pain he was in. Whatever the reason, he have no doubt that it was his own fault. Another beat, a slight roll of his eyes, and he turned to get the coffee, black, that had been begged from him.
"At least you managed to say please.". He didn't do much to try to keep the passive-aggressive edge from his voice as Riku filled a cup up. It was slammed down unceremoniously next to the hunched over figured as the silver-haired male crossed his arms over his chest. "Anything else? Or just the shitty coffee?"
Customer service skills were not his strong suit and he didn't doubt that he was going to get another stern talking to about how this wasn't the proper way to speak to the valued guests who visited the cafe. But honestly, who cared? They did sometimes, but only because they just wanted a chance to try to lord over someone.
The rather socialized focused male completely missed any snide rude remarks toward his behavior, oh no his focus was the pain. That unbearable pain, the shaking of the body, the brightness of the world. MAKE IT STOP. The cup was slammed in front of him, instantly his hands reached forward grabbing the cup without so much as a thank you or care for the mess he made on the counter. No, he chugged it slamming it down. "Another." he slammed the refill charge, the world slightly clearing up a bit more, the caffeine inserting the body, the pain still lurked.
As his focus began to increase he noticed a rather not giving a damn silver hair male in front of him. One who looked to be his age if not older, the store itself seemed to be completely devoid of customer,s what was the time? He quickly pulled out his phone, it was around late evening when most people were already home or just not that into coffee. He gave a flinch dropping the phone on the counter assuming in the spilled coffee, had the worker not cleaned it up. He grabbed for his head, placing his forehead on the counter whimpering, reaching for where he believed the refilled cup to be. The ringing still there drowning out the world, waiting for that refill.. That edge further deeper into his addiction of the coffee.
Riku currently lives in Shibuya in a small apartment with Xion. He works more than full time in order to pay for her and himself, and purposefully distances himself from others to keep from being distracted... and to avoid the strange sparks of emotions that being around Sora and Kairi cause.
Human
19 Y/O
Male
Barista
Handgun
Rped by: Komory
There's darkness in my life - whichever life I've really led.
Post by Riku Gallahad on Sept 18, 2017 2:12:59 GMT
i don't like your little games
He blinked, mildly impressed by the way the other just chugged the coffee down if only by the fact that it had just been poured and so it had to still be pretty hot. How the inside of his mouth and throat hadn't been scalded were beyond Riku but hey, not his probably. It was likely the other didn't even have much feeling there anymore if this was the way he acted when he had to go for just a little bit without caffiene, anyways.
"Yeah this doesn't seem unhealthy at all." Sarcasm that was followed by Riku obediantly heading off to get him the second cup of coffee. He came back with a rag as well to wipe up the small spill, and he found himself making a small mental note at the way the other seemed to be shaky and jittery even as he guzzled the dark liquid down.
"... Do you... do you need me to... call someone?"Like 911? As a rule, Riku didn't really allow himself to get close to or attached to any of his customers, but even he could tell this behavior was a bit alarming. "You... might want to sit down for a few minutes."
The very moment the cup was back within his touch his hand grasped it and drunk about 1/3 an amount before slowly lowering the cup feeling the caffeine taking an effect things becoming clearer pain loosening. The menu slowly went from blue scrambled mess to actual words, a voice speaking to him becoming clearer each second as the pounding headache began to receded. Call? Sit down? He gazed slightly dazed toward the employee before blinking several time, "No need, pangs fading out..." He spoke desperately waving the call and suggestions away.
" Food...need sustenance of high protein variety." he mumbled thinking how he probably haven't ate in long while, how while his stomach had lots of liquid the scent of warm food filled his nose making the stomach growl. He pulled out a little bit more money for the food, before picking up the glass again his hands still slightly shaking from shock, he covered the most shakiest before lowering the cup. Wasn't worth the battle, heart rate high, need to calm down. Breath In. out. In out. Slowly he reached for the phone pulling up a program that showed what seemed to be heart rate analyzer of some sort the rate slowly returning to normal by 1 pulse per minute. 20 minutes be normal 20 minutes.. sustenance help speed up progress..
He huddled over to one of the stools to the cafe bar, pulling the phone lazily over to him. He stared the silver hair for a long period watch the way he moved and not quite focusing on how to start a topic, just wanting a bite to eat and moment relaxation. Soon cleaning out the phone history before pulling out what looked to be some map of the area with tiny dots, almost like google with only the streets and tiny little dots. Only they seeme to be focused certain business, the streets, and some where larger than others. The dots seemed to fade out one by one as if a path losing power certain areas. He watched it silently stomach growling.
Riku currently lives in Shibuya in a small apartment with Xion. He works more than full time in order to pay for her and himself, and purposefully distances himself from others to keep from being distracted... and to avoid the strange sparks of emotions that being around Sora and Kairi cause.
Human
19 Y/O
Male
Barista
Handgun
Rped by: Komory
There's darkness in my life - whichever life I've really led.
Post by Riku Gallahad on Sept 19, 2017 2:23:53 GMT
i don't like your little games
A cafe that specialized in baked goods and coffee wasn't really the best place to go and get a meal that was high protein, but Riku supposed there were a few things that might qualified for that. Of course, whether or not the other had enough money for it was another question...
The answer to that was no, but he did have money for something.
Riku wasn't really sure why he was entertaining the other with his incredibly off behaviour, but it was just a few minutes later that he found himself placing a plate with a grilled cheese down in front of him. "Bon appetite. Or... whatever." He was certain it would get more than a few questions, and so: "Look, cheese is a protein and you didn't exactly give me a lot of money. Or ask nicely. Or tell me what you wanted."
Long story short, if the blue-haired-- teen? man? wasn't happy with it, he could take his issues and fuck off for all Riku cared.
"Can I get his royal highness anything else? Or am I allowed to step away and get back to work now?"
A grilled cheese was placed in front of him, his hands reached out pulling the sandwich to him, before grasping taking a bite from it. The cheesy grease filling his mouth looking up at the employee not silently focusing on the male. Employee went on about explaining about the sandwich, he paused swallowing bite, "Still sustenance, contains 4 grams of protein help hold over." He answered before taking another bite, the guy went on about highness and getting back to work. He gave a nod not bothering to apologize and/or attempt to understand the employees comment about him being a highness.
Done with the sandwich, he finished off the glass, "More." He asked pushing the glass forward, before shifting his eyes down on the app with the dots. Should the employee come near, he would point to the app. "What does this looks like to you?" he would ask attempting to get an outsider perspective.
Riku currently lives in Shibuya in a small apartment with Xion. He works more than full time in order to pay for her and himself, and purposefully distances himself from others to keep from being distracted... and to avoid the strange sparks of emotions that being around Sora and Kairi cause.
Human
19 Y/O
Male
Barista
Handgun
Rped by: Komory
There's darkness in my life - whichever life I've really led.
Post by Riku Gallahad on Sept 20, 2017 3:08:19 GMT
i don't like your little games
He just blinked and smiled a bit uncomfortably at the young man. Something about the way he acted was starting to rub Riku the wrong way-- or maybe it was just the unpleasant memories that he was beginning to stir up. Riku had never been that bad, but there had been a time in his life when he had dedicated himself to being the best at his studies. It probably wouldn't have been completely out of the question to hear him utter a line like that when he was talking to a classmate while they were going over an assignment just 'because'.
A refill of his coffee, followed by a blink as Riku looked down at the other's phone. "What?" What did it look like...? Nothing really spectacular. It mostly just looked like one of those optical illusion pictures, though he had a feeling the effect was being intentionally caused by whatever was running on the phone and wasn't just from an image. "A... phone app? Some dots?" Probably not the right answer.
"Is it... supposed to look like something?"
[ WORDS ] [ NOTES ] Riku, softly: 'this is why u people aren't supposed to leave ur labs' [ TAG ] @ienzo
The drink was refilled, this should probably be his last one, he didn't want a repeat from last time stayed up for 32 hours. Great for scientific progress, terrible for his heart and health. The employee made a simple "wha-" noise slightly cut off from Ienzo tuning his stupidity out staring trying to figure it out. The messy hair peered closer answering simply 'phone app some dots'. The scientist looked upward annoyance written on his face, "Yes, some dots and an application on a touch sensitive portal computer device." The employee asked a question about what it looked like. The male didn't even know the home roads? address? Even in his worst he knew this was a location beacon with dots of certain unknown properties.
He gave a grumble, human public, all lower in Intelligence Quantities. He gave a small sigh before explaining, "It shows a map of this very location, rather the location of the portable electronic device to which the app is currently active on pulling from a GPS. The Dots are rather odd in behavior, they weren't here last month, suddenly past two weeks became stronger and more numerous. They seem to vanish after a certain time limit, yet this time limit can be random. It also seems the longer this odd data reading is in a location the stronger it gets. Only when you view the location there is nothing odd except a few higher energy reacts or rather increase of entropy in an area." He groaned picking up the coffee taking swallow, this hurts... The head. so much. "I don't know. " He pouted upset this wasn't making sense, after swallowing the coffee and placing it back down. What was causing the various different readings? Why suddenly in the area only? Why suddenly these past two weeks, he been studying various data for months since moving here.. Not to mention at home. It seemed almost the world itself was feelinga sense of pain or lose of itself, before repairing itself.
Riku currently lives in Shibuya in a small apartment with Xion. He works more than full time in order to pay for her and himself, and purposefully distances himself from others to keep from being distracted... and to avoid the strange sparks of emotions that being around Sora and Kairi cause.
Human
19 Y/O
Male
Barista
Handgun
Rped by: Komory
There's darkness in my life - whichever life I've really led.
Post by Riku Gallahad on Sept 21, 2017 2:17:16 GMT
i don't like your little games
“... Okay…?”
Riku hated to admit this but he wasn’t following what the other was saying. Not at all. Something about, the phone app was supposed to be tracking some GPS signals, and they were appearing erratically and at random and he didn’t really get why they appeared where they appeared? Maybe… something like that. He supposed he could ask a few more questions to try to get a better understanding of what was going on, but he wasn’t sure if the other would really give him a good answer. At best, it would be more gibberish. At worse, he would just be scoffed at.
“Have you just tried… going to those areas?”
It was probably such a ridiculously dumb thing to say, but the other hadn’t mentioned actually checking out the locations out all. Or, well, that there was nothing odd at the locations… “Or maybe there’s just. Something broken in your app.”
Hrn. Either way, it wasn’t his problem, was it? Riku shook his head. “Have fun figuring it out, I guess?” As far as he was concerned though-- this ridiculous conversation was over. Or at least, it should be. Clearly he wasn’t providing the intellectual stimulation the other required.
[ WORDS ] [ NOTES ] Riku, softly: 'this is why u people aren't supposed to leave ur labs' [ TAG ] @ienzo
“... Okay…?” He felt a slight rise of annoyance, homo sapiens must they all be so slow? He basically said cellphone tracking of certain data points within a certain area, why couldn't this guy just not understand that. Wasn't ther a game? Ingress? Wait.. There was a more popular one, with posters. Pokemon Go? That was it.
“Have you just tried… going to those areas?”
He paused. Wait. What? Go to those areas? He slowly blinked uncertain he heard the right, go to those areas? Did he not say that? Though, same time. He didn't observe enough did he? He reached up scratching his head trying to grasp what this Homo Sapien just said. Go there. Go in Public. Observe, sit outside. Leave the hell hole of a lab. Find evidence, make hypothesis. Go in person. "No." He answered before chewing his lip in disbelief that this was such a simple answer. The guy then quickly lost any status he had gained mentioned about the being broken, snatching up the phone closing it with a click sliding it into his pocket. "It is not broken. Built it myself." He slid off the chair as the guy called out, giving a small grumble he picked up the drink before leaving out the door.
Go there. investigate. See in person. He'll need more protein, sleep, and better prep.. To face... people.
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