✨— drexm-eater.
Such thoughts can be easily traced, Riku knows, because he’s often contemplated them himself ; if he’s to be entirely honest, Sora’s almost too bright for really anyone to handle.
He doesn’t know Ventus incredibly well, can’t even attempt to claim to ( all he knows is he reminds him another boy, sharp and quick-quipped and angry ) but, in his own ways, this boy of stellar hues and celestial skin isn’t at all like him.
The voice is the same, physical properties, yes ; but his heart thumps hard and heavy in his chest, shoulders hardly stiff with frustration.
His question isn’t so unfamiliar, and Riku’s not ultimately surprised ; he merely gives a small hum in the back of his throat, taking a moment to inquire, with a raised brow, before seating himself at the edge of the world with his new companion.
❛ everyone here is needed. ❜
He’s certain that not only he believes so ; most definitely, if Master Aqua was to have a say in the matter, she’s be just as insistent, if not all the more so.
‘twas not long ago the star himself was the ray of light. burning too bright, too fast for his fellow warriors to handle. and yet someone else has taken his place.
now not only has light been stolen, but face as well. roxas. would he think hard, he would feel replaced by all but a few. terra could never replace him. aqua just might. but surprising is it, when a boy he doesn’t know, but knows all the same, thinks he is needed. just as much as two who could easily replace. head droops and celestial locks akin to spun gold fall feather light o’er the star’s shoulder, once the other sits. lets hair block features, so woe cannot be so easily seen. he is supposed to be a key of light. he’s known it for years. and yet here he is. letting his heart fill with darkness. hate. anger. regrow what had been stripped away.
❛ including the frail boy who failed to be what he was destined to? ❜
not many know his fate, but it is a burden carried since days long before feet first touched soil at the land of departure. before even then, at the graveyard.
