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[ex_ventus850]

Who: Ven and anyone!
Where: The park
When: Afternoon-ish?
Style: Whichever
Status: Open!

A good question, because there was a very short, very lanky blond boy asleep in the park. He lay sprawled out, limbs akimbo and mouth open while he snored none too silently. Years and years ago his friends would've called him a hopeless sleepyhead. Nothing had changed since then at all, except that his slumber was deeper than any he'd partaken of in the past. Not to mention dreamless. And he was shivering thanks to it still being a little too cool outside for a t-shirt.

Not very fun. So if anyone wanted to prank him while he was asleep, he wouldn't notice a thing.

Until he woke up, anyway. Luckily for anyone thinking of it, Ven was a heavy sleeper.

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[ex_ventus850]

When Ven eventually realized what'd been done to him, someone would be getting pranked back. And those would be the people who'd disturbed his beauty sleep, though honestly it could've been any random passer by. Ven wouldn't really discriminate. However. At the moment, he was startled clean out of his unconscious state thanks to the voice that interrupted it. It failed to process in his mind, because his heart felt the strong presence of light mixed with darkness near him.

Excitement and relief filled him, and he was scrambling up before his eyes had even opened.

"Terra?! You're okay!"

Yes... he'd utterly derped around and not registered the fact that it had not been Terra's voice that had called to him.

[limitless_land]

Like he cared. After all, it was that time of the year. Guess that meant two for the price of one?

Instead he only blinked at the name. Terra, the one that he had a feeling belonged to someone he'd promised something important to a long time ago. With the few from that time passing and leaving through this world so many times, it felt like deja vu to hear it again, much like it had been that foggy night in November.

Aqua had muttered that name once before, too.

"Sorry. Not quite him." Though he wondered, just how was he connected if Aqua had seen... "I'm Riku. Guess you could say... he's an important friend of mine, though."

[ex_ventus850]

Suppose so. Riku would just end up reaping what he'd sewn. That was all.

"You're... oh. Uh. Th--" Ven raised his hands to his eyes and rubbed the sleep clean out of them before he blinked them open to stare dubiously over at the stranger. That heart... gave off such a familiar presence. Riku himself was familiar. But how? And why?

"Oh. Well..." Confused and worried and disappointed as he was, he didn't let that show on his face for an instant. Instead, in a move Riku was likely very familiar with, he put on a bright grin and held out a hand.

"Then any friend of his is a friend of mine. I'm Ven."

[limitless_land]

Riku doesn't mind so long as it was all in good fun, just saying. He waited though, not showing his amusement at the stumbling over himself. The kid just woke up, after all.

Okay, he still wasn't about to comment on the "make up" job, either. That one he could wait for just a little longer. Instead, he merely shrugs a bit. Ven's presence was familiar, too- he'd know it anywhere. Though he wasn't exactly sure how, wasn't sure if he wanted to know. Okay, he was sure that he wanted to know. He kept his mouth shut, instead deciding to observe and wait. He'd want to see his supposed-to-have-been Master, as well.

Yet in a world that called so many to itself, letting others pass through while others stagnated, he doesn't know if he even has the right to say it.That grin... It was so much like Sora's.

"Riku," he replied, shaking hands with the not-quite-but-kind-of new acquaintance. It was painfully obvious that Ven had no recollection if being here once before. "Nice to meet you, Ven. I take it you just got here?"

[ex_ventus850]

This was Ven we were talking about here. Any prank he'd commit would most definitely be all in good fun. And he'd have fun getting his 'revenge' on Riku, too. If he knew what the older boy was thinking, he'd scowl like a little kid. Because... yeah. He'd just woken up, and needed to get accustomed to being in the Light again.

The last thing he'd remembered was falling into darkness, and then being surrounded by a bright Light. And Sora. There'd been Sora, as he had before, ready to help him out.

And now there was Riku, who felt so such like Terra that in a way, it was comforting to simply stand there beside him. But this wasn't his best friend. This was Sora's. So he moved back a bit, rubbing at the back of his head in an unconscious gesture that might put the older teen to mind of his own best friend.

"Nice to meet you." He replied automatically, still grinning. "Yeah I did."

[limitless_land]

Fair enough. He decided to go easy on him in the first place, anyway-

Just like before, there was a horrid case of deja vu. One he didn't fully understand even now. He sighed, crossing his arms in front of his chest in a manner that was probably a little too much like a certain best friend for comfort's sake. Yet he said nothing on it, only nodding at the automatic response.

"...Guess I can fill you in, but you may want to dry off, first." Riku turned to head toward where they'd find the closest stores and thus a towel or two, only to slow to a halt and quietly add one more sentence: "-and perhaps wash your face."

Happy Early April Fools~