[ open ] Growth is Painful

[darkcharge]

Who: Vanitas + Open
When: Throughout Jan
Where: All around
What: Quest Prompts, Event Prompts, and closed threads
Warnings: TBA


( Orphanage: Mistaken Identity )

[ Vanitas has nothing to do with the orphanage or the kids there. Really and truly, he doesn't. Now he might have been tasked to drop some donations off, but hanging around them? Playing with them? Oh no. No no no. That's not something that Vanitas can tolerate at all.

Seems like he's in a bit of a situation right now though. Looks like some of the kids are out and about when he's dropping something off. With a cry of "Sora!" one kid starts running toward him. One kid becomes two. Then there's a quite a few running up to him and asking him a million questions. What happened to your ears? and Is your hair darker?

Van is a little overwhelmed and flabbergasted. Help? ]


( Wet and Wild: Options A and B )

Back off!

[ It's not so unusual for Van to be out in the Wilde offering assistance or just working out some of his own aggression. This time he's battling some Shades while a group of people try to clean up the area. They're now evacuating and Vanitas? Eh... He might be buying time. Not for their sake, but mostly so that he doesn't have any dead weight holding him back.

He slashes at one with his weapon, Void Gear and goes to take another step. So ( a ) either help Van get people out or get ride of Shades...

OR

( b ) Unfortunately this had been taking place along the cliffside. He gets the idea to cast a spell to cause a controlled landslide to bury another Shade. Unfortunately it also makes the ground below to become unstable. One wrong step and Van is getting swept up in an additional rockslide that is going to cast him off of one of the cliffsides. ]


( Wilders Training )

[ Okay so Vanitas had originally been there for other reasons. He just so happens to come across the recruitment people and others interested in taking part. That's why he shows up at the training grounds. When someone asks if he is a new recruit? He brushes them off and says that he's just here to watch.

But if a Mirrorbound were to try to convince him... That might change things. Or he'll just watch Mirrorbound and their partners attempt to train people and scoff from the sidelines. ]


( Wild Card )

[ Either throw whatever you want at me and I'll roll with it or hit me up at jardaan


( Event Prompts )

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Comments

[spirialink]

You said that anything I do to Sora's heart affects your heart too, right? That means anything that happens to your heart, I'm responsible for. [It was a straightforward and simple answer, to say the least.]

I won't back down from helping Sora, especially now that you've told me all this, so that means I have to accept responsibility for anything that happens to him, and to you, as well. But if I can make sure that your heart is healing right too, then it shouldn't be a problem, right?

[There's a brief pause on Kor's end.]

And... If I screw that up somehow... Well, I'm responsible for that too. And I'm prepared to accept the consequences of that.

[darkcharge]

[ That attitude isn't wrong, of course. It's accurate. If something happens, then Kor is 100% responsible for it. ]

I... Suppose.

[ Squinting. ]

Why would you want to?

[spirialink]

Why wouldn't I want to?

[Kor's response comes quick, without hesitation.]

I've got the power to help, so... I want to help. I don't really have any special reason other than "I want to do it".

[darkcharge]

[ why wouldn't he want to? Vanitas still can't understand the mindset of people that just help just *because.* There's literally nothing in it for Kor to even bother caring about what happens to Vanitas. No other reason but to help someone. ]

It really is no wonder that you get along with him. You both have such simplistic reasoning...

[spirialink]

Of course. There's a reason we're brothers, you know.

[Kor, Vanitas was not complimenting you.]

[darkcharge]

Kor... I was teasing you. It's not meant to be taken as something to wear like a badge of honor.

[ Though there are uses for people who have such logic skills. ]

[spirialink]

Huh? You were?

[He's... very oblivious to when he's being teased by somebody.]

Err... I mean, y-yeah, I knew that!

[No, he didn't.]

[darkcharge]

Tch. No you didn't.

[ He huffs and scratches at his cheek. It's a very Sora-like gesture. But does it come from Sora? Or is it just something that all of them seem to share due to each others' influences? ]

Whatever. I'll give you a chance. One chance only.