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[darkcharge]

Name: Vanitas
Date: 11/2
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As so many people ask questions, advertise, or whatever on this thing I figure I have nothing to lose doing the same.

You see I have a particular problem. A pest problem. I'm looking for creative ways to rid myself of this little bug that seems super intent on sticking around. Normally I wouldn't bother with something like this but my usual methods of getting rid of unwanted things?

Well. It's not working.

Comments

[lightblooming]

All the more reason for me to be the one to do it.

.... But, Vanitas. You and I need to talk about what happened the night the mist appeared.

[darkcharge]

No, we really don't. You're not sorry. I'm not sorry.
That's all that it is.

[lightblooming]

Don't put words in my mouth.

[darkcharge]

But I'm a monster, Aqua. You put down monsters, remember?
There's nothing to be sorry for and I'd have a hard time believing it if you were.

[lightblooming]

I told you, I don't fight people for the sole purpose of hurting others. It may be what you're after, but I've trained to fight in order to protect.

... That night was different.

[darkcharge]

When you fight it does hurt others. When you engage in it, you know you are actively going to cause someone physical and sometimes emotional damage.
It can't be avoided, even if your INTENT is something else entirely.
In order to protect anything you have to be prepared to destroy what threatens it.
So in that sense the purpose IS hurting others. It's only justified because you're trying to SAVE something else.
That night was no different. Maybe you weren't protecting someone else. You were just trying to protect your heart from my words.

[lightblooming]

[ She doesn't admit to it, but he does have a point... ]

No, I wasn't myself that night. Most of us weren't.

[darkcharge]

Now now, Master Aqua. Maybe you weren't yourself but how you reacted to me?
That was, at the very least, the most honest response I've gotten out of you.

[lightblooming]

... What are you talking about? I've never been dishonest.

[darkcharge]

We don't really have time to unpack THAT loaded statement.
You mean to tell me you've never WANTED to just show me my place? Not even for a second?

[lightblooming]

Whenever I fought you, it was to protect myself or someone else.

[darkcharge]

Oh? Then explain the complete disgust in your eye whenever you look at me.

[lightblooming]

The only thing you've ever done is hurt us.

[darkcharge]

All I've ever done is what was necessary for me to survive.
It wasn't personal.

[lightblooming]

You followed Master Xehanort's plans and played a hand in us being separated from one another.

You can't expect something like that to just be forgiven.

I don't understand everything about you, but what I do is for them.

[darkcharge]

No and I don't seek forgiveness. I never will because as I see it, I didn't do anything wrong. Anyone in my place would likely have done the same.
So, yes. I followed the Master's plans.
As you already have made abundantly clear, I am a monster so really that should be expected.

[lightblooming]

[ Aqua doesn't respond right away. She keeps everything in mind that he's told her - and while she doesn't forgive him for what he's done here or back in the Keyblade Graveyard, she realizes she may have gone too far. ]

... I apologize for calling you a monster before.

[darkcharge]

It's the truth. I'm hardly offended by it.

[lightblooming]

It's only true if you allow it to be.

[darkcharge]

Unlike you people, who tend to turn a blind eye towards things when it's convenient for you, I don't.
I know what I am and that's not going to change.

[lightblooming]

Part of having a strong heart full of light is about being certain of yourself.

I've never doubted who I am.

[darkcharge]

But it wasn't always so full of Light now was it Aqua?
Would you have put down Terra or Ventus if they couldn't have been saved?
That is the duty of someone who is so strongly aligned with the Light, right?

[lightblooming]

I may have fallen once, but that doesn't change who I am.

No.

I'd never do anything like that. There's always another way.

[darkcharge]

One day you'll realize not everyone gets a happy fairy tale ending.
In order for someone to get it, they have to rob another of it.
But you keep on telling yourself these things, Aqua.

[lightblooming]

I know that.

Don't assume I'm naive.