from @obsidianrite’s zexion, to riku replica. ( ♡, always accepting. ) KILL BILL SIRENS
“ wouldn’t you like to be real? ” it’s funny, almost── how they are more real than he ever will be. a nobody, at least, has ties to humanity; a forgotten heart, a missing link. but what does that make him, then? the replica stands, with false memories that were never his own, in a body that was never his own. wouldn’t you like to be real? their number eight asks, voice as heavy as a hand / on its shoulder / as a hand guiding it’s own, soul eater pointed towards zexion’s heart.
“ all you need is the kind of power that the real riku doesn't have. if you can get that, ” axel says, “ you can be a new person── not riku, nor anybody else. you won't just be a copy of someone. you will be unique, your own self. ”
isn’t that what it wants? not the unloved copy, not the forgotten promise── its own, beating, living heart. ( an echo of something, something similar, beats in its own chest. ) to tear into, tear asunder── at least then, that heartbreak would have been its own. tendons snapping between teeth, viscera stained canines── at least then, that decision would have been its own. not pushed into, not forced into. his own self. his own self. his own── self?
( an echo of something, something similar, has already been born. )
its footsteps feel heavy, moving in a haze── one, two, three, towards the body of a being he remembers── faintly, only faintly, seeing on the other side of that glass tube── one, two, three, guided hand pulling back as the other moves forward. the hood of that black coat entangled between its harsh grip, threaded like a spider’s web── one, two, three, darkness gliding across the room to meet him.
( his own self, his own self, his own self. like a mantra, like a prayer, repeated over &. over. eyes glassy &. grip inhuman, the replica stands there, clinging to the promises that will never be fulfilled for him. his own self, his own self, his own self. what does that mean, in the first place? how can he / break free / find a self, in the midst of the broken boy &. the bad friend &. the star-charmed memories he’s laid to waste in? his own self, his own self, his own self. how does it rip it out of them, rip it out of him, rip it out of itself? how does it hold it, between bloody claws &. a hollow chest &. a hungry mouth?
his own self, his own self, his own self. he doesn’t care how. )
“ so sorry, zexion. you just found out way too much. ”