[Day 152]

[coolerthansora]

Who: Roxas and you~
Where: Sora's room --> Yutopil Apartments
When: Daytime
Style: I'll match
Status: Open!

Roxas was a jealous person. Most of the time he chose to keep quiet about it or even ignore it because it wasn't supposed to matter anymore, not here. He had every opportunity here to get what he wanted.

But today he couldn't ignore it. It kept eating at him until he did something he'd been avoiding since he'd first figured out why he hadn't seen the guy around: he went to see Sora.

The idea of being around his Other while he was asleep had made him uneasy before. Not now. He stood over Sora's bed and looked down at him and felt that surge of envy. Roxas had been made to give up everything he had, everything he was, for this guy. And however nice he was, Sora had no idea what that was like. To have to give up existing because you were the inferior person. Not even that, you were the unworthy half of a person.

He could never make Sora feel that either. He couldn't even shout at him for it, with him just passed out like this. Roxas looked around the room. Sora wasn't someone who strongly valued material possessions, but that was all Roxas had in his power to take away from him. So that was what he did, grabbing whatever he could--that dumb short-sleeved hoodie, a toy sword, what looked like a seashell collection, anything.

He'd arrived by portal, but he didn't leave that way. He walked back out of the house and towards his apartment with a defiance in his step. Go ahead, ask him why he's stealing his Other's belongings.

((This is a sanctioned theft, and he'll be giving it all back later anyway. Probably.))

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[blitz_acing]

Tidus wasn't sure where he was planning to go; he had just started walking around aimlessly. His trip had led him here, nearly colliding into Roxas. Fortunately, he managed to save himself before he did.

"Sorry-- oh, it's you! The guy with the hair. I don't think you ever told me your name."

He paused, eyes drifting down to what he assumed were Roxas' belongings.

"I didn't know you played with toy swords."

[coolerthansora]

Roxas instinctively drew the collection of stolen items closer at the near collision, not wanting to drop anything.

"It's Roxas," he said with maybe a little too much emphasis. Emphasis that said I'm not Sora, at least to anyone who knew. "And I don't."

Struggle bats were not swords.

[blitz_acing]

Tidus blinked a few times, and scratched the back of his head, wondering why Roxas was acting so...different. Was he upset about something?

"Then...why do you have a toy sword in your arms? And all that other stuff?"

[coolerthansora]

"What, I'm not allowed to have stuff?" he said defensively.

[blitz_acing]

"I never said that," Taking a step back, he tried to keep his voice as level as possible. Something was wrong, he just didn't know what. "Is something on your mind? You're acting kind of different."

[coolerthansora]

Was he acting differently? He hadn't tried to take this feeling out on Sora in a long time, not since the World that Never Was. Why was it so strong right now?

But he shook his head, frowning. "You- don't really know me. That's all."

[blitz_acing]

He shrugged. "You're right, we've only talked a few times. But that doesn't mean I don't want to know you. Tell me about yourself! What's your story?"

[coolerthansora]

Roxas blinked, taken aback. "My story...?"

His story was that he was nobody. People weren't supposed to be interested in that. "You're really asking?"

[blitz_acing]

Tidus nodded sincerely. It didn't seem like such a big deal to him, but the fact that it was to Roxas only intrigued him further. "Why wouldn't I ask? You seem pretty interesting, and I'd like to know you, if you'll tell me."

[shirleyhopeful]

Meanwhile, Shirley was walking by when she found Roxas with a bunch of stuff. At first she wasn't going to ask anything about it but it seemed like a lot of things he was carrying around. With that, she walked up to him.

"Do you need help moving your things around, Roxas?" She asked before she got a closer look at what he was stealing carrying around. "I didn't know you were into seashells."

[coolerthansora]

A friend had given Roxas seashells once, but he didn't remember that, so he shook his head.

"I'm not, really. And it's fine, I've got it." Normally he would have said this with at least an attempted smile, but the frown stayed on his face and there was an edge to his voice.

[shirleyhopeful]

Shirley usually wasn't one to pry but should she take that chance? Clearly something was up and she wanted to help out but...

Either way, she's going to find out if that is a good idea or not.

"Are you sure? I don't want you to carry all this stuff by yourself. Isn't it heavy?"

[coolerthansora]

"No. He didn't really have that much."

Oops.

Roxas hefted the junk and started walking again as if to prove he wasn't having any trouble with it.

[shirleyhopeful]

Wait what? For a moment, Shirley just stared at him before speaking up. Did She hear what Roxas just said?

"He? Can I ask what to you mean by he?" Was it Vantias he was stealing from? "Are you taking Vanitas's things?" But why would he have a toy sword?

[coolerthansora]

"Vanitas?" Roxas gave her a look of surprise. Why would Vanitas have any of these things? The guy probably didn't even change his clothes.

"This is Sora's stuff," he said clearly.

[shirleyhopeful]

Well, doesn't Shirley feel silly?

"Oh, right, of course he wouldn't have things like that." She let out a nervous laughter before she continued. "Then can I ask why you have Sora's stuff?" Don't tell Shirley you've been stealing, Roxas.

[coolerthansora]

"Because it's Sora's." Obviously. "If he can take from me, then I can take stuff from him. It's only fair, right?"

[imaginarytides]

Roxas will find Xion hanging around the lobby in Yutopil. At Axel's suggestion she'd been looking into moving closer to her best friends, but it still struck her as odd to be leaving behind her other, smaller apartment for the more spacious offerings in their complex. Comparatively it was far from the strangest thing she'd had to do, but it was still a new thing for her when it was all said and done.

"Hey, Roxas!"

She greets him with a smile and a wave when he enters, before raising her eyebrow at the... suffice to say, odd collection of items he's carrying.

"Were you out shopping or something?"

[coolerthansora]

Roxas looks up at her as he shoulders his way through the door, blinking. Xion. She lost everything to Sora, too. Usually he sympathizes, but right now he's not sure how to feel about it. She'd gotten to choose, after all.

"...something like that."

He glances down at the collection, wondering if there's anything particularly recognizable in there..

[imaginarytides]

"...Alright."

That was a much more vauge answer than she was expecting. During an awkward pause she glances over everything he's holding. Nothing strikes her as particularly recognizeable at the moment, however she'd really like to find a conversation starter in there somewhere.

"That's a nice shell collection. Where'd you find them all?"

[coolerthansora]

"I didn't," he says simply, and then decides he doesn't care if she knows where he got everything. She should feel the same way, right?

"They're Sora's. You want 'em?"

[imaginarytides]

She steps over and picks up the shells. "I didn't know Sora was giving stuff away. To be honest I thought he might be in one of those comas..."

Xion is assuming the best of her friend right now, but she really doesn't now how deep his issues with his other run. It's not like he would have stolen anything, right?

[coolerthansora]

"He is. He's been asleep for a couple weeks now."

Asleep, like before. But this time they don't need Roxas to wake him. He'll just wake up on his own, eventually, and go on being Sora.

[imaginarytides]

She's taking a closer look at the bunch of stuff now. "You didn't just take all this did you? I mean, he wears that jacket all the time, doesn't he?"

[coolerthansora]

"He's not wearing it now." Way to point out the obvious without answering the real question. "I'm thinking maybe it'd look better on me."

He's not, really. He just knows Sora likes the thing and doesn't want him to have it.