thebastion | Day 224

Who: Saix, some Dusks, and you whether you like it or not
Open: Open
When: 224
Where: Your room! Yep. ALT: around the Bastion
What: As it turns out, Dusks are assholes.
Format: I'll follow
Warnings:

Normally mornings in the Bastion are... routine and occasionally dull. That's just how it is.

Yet this morning, a few people might feel something... wet and cool on their face. Moving? The moment they open their eyes, they'll- Okay what the fuck is that. That might be all the thought they get to have before the Dusk Nobody suddenly vanishes in a swirl of Darkness and... Was it holding a sharpie in its hands?

...You might want to go take a look at your face in a mirror. Or give chase. One or the other.

Alternatively...

Whether you've been a victim to bored sharpie scribblings with your face on the canvas or just going about your day as normal, you'll suddenly find a golden retriever and another (or maybe even the same) Dusk Nobody nearly barreling into your kneecaps. The dog moreso than the Nobody, really. The dog looks up with a happy tail wag and what looks like a stick in its mouth before a sharp whistle has both creatures returning to Saix's side.

"Sorry about that." It sounds more obligatory than sincere.

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"Really?" Some things never change, apparently. "A normal one? Where would you get the ingredients?"

"I dunno. I might have to buy some of those with shards, too. Rin would know." He hesitates and then offers, "I guess you can have some, once it's made."

"...If you need anything else, I could give you some. I've managed a decent stash now. I doubt an ice cream maker would put too much of a dent in it."

Roxas blinks at the offer, but he guesses it makes sense if Saix is going to get ice cream out of it, too.

"Um, thanks. Are you saving up for something?"

"I was saving up for a moon." Yep, that's a thing he just said. Roxas should get why that's important for him or else Saix is going to dismiss him as an eternal lost cause. "It seems the Bastion has taken care of that for now, however, so I think I'll aim for some... less costly expenses."

No, Roxas has that one. Saix saving up for a moon honestly makes more sense to him than when he decided to get a big gun.

"If you were saving up for that, you probably do have a lot. You could get all sorts of stuff."

"It's just a matter of what." Oh, actually, that reminds him...

"Actually, I have a question I've been meaning to ask you."

"Really?" Saix, you are becoming all manner of unexpected. "What is it?"

Hopefully in a good way, since that is his goal.

Saix shifts in place, letting his hand fall down to scratch the back of New Moon's ears. "You're generally more social than I am, which is really the only reason why I think you might have any idea about this, but... How do you make a person want to keep on living?"

"You mean... if they don't right now?" Well, that's not a heavy question at all. Roxas falters. It's not something he's really dealt with before, unless you count how Axel wanted to go back home so he could give his life for Sora. But he thought he was protecting someone. It wasn't that he wanted to die.

"...it's probably really hard. Like getting your heart back. ... You're not- talking about you, right?" Saix may not be the most enthusiastic about living, but Roxas is pretty sure he's not interested in dying.

"I have a healthy sense of self preservation, so no." He's never wanted to really lose his life, even if he has put it on the table if he thought there was something worth it on the line.

"There's a girl who went out onto the Skyway to die but who I..." Okay, he can't really say 'convinced' here in any shape or form. "I told her I'd kill her if she worked for it. It was the only thing I could think to say as a delaying tactic."

Roxas winces. That's a horrible thing to say to someone, even if it somehow persuaded her to put it off. They definitely need to come up with something better than that.

"Try- not to bring that up again if you can help it. That can't be good for her to hear." He frowns, trying to think of what would help. "Did she say anything about why?"

"I won't." He knows that much, at least. He just... doesn't know what else to do. Still, it feels like something he should keep with. Maybe it won't do much for getting back his heart, but maybe it can help the Darkness that Maka was worried about back in Vatheon. Learning to care about and help other people... Who knows.

"It was a bit of a list, but, from what I can tell... Being useless, her loved ones being dead and not caring about her if they weren't, being called a monster presumably for her powers... The Dusks haven't reported her doing anything foolish lately, so at least she's slightly better but the issue still hasn't been solved."

He already made a promise, so he doesn't want it coming back to bite him in the ass.

"You've been having them follow her?" On the one hand, it's an invasion of privacy, but on the other hand, the only way to protect her from herself is to keep an eye on her, he guesses. It doesn't sit well, but he's not going to tell Saix to stop.

"Maybe, what she really needs is a friend. I know it's a lot easier thinking you're worth something if someone else thinks so, too."

Let's get some friendship power on this, stat.

"On occasion." Just to make sure she really doesn't die.

Aaaand yep he had a suspicion that this would happen. Friendship power, his greatest weakness. Saix looks outright out of his element now. "...I'm not sure if I should go at such a project on my own." It's already become apparent that it's not his thing right now.

Yeahhhh, Saix is kind of new at this friend thing, but Roxas doesn't think it'll hurt for him to try.

"Well- it doesn't have to be just one friend. You could introduce me?"

"Maybe you've already met. Do you know a girl with pink hair named Skyla?"

"Oh." Pink-haired girl? "I didn't get her name, but I think we've met."

The girl with the scary temper who got upset when he said something about not having to do things just because other people thought you should. That part makes a little more sense now.

"I'm not sure she likes me."

"I don't think she much cares for me either, but you're more likely to turn the tides in that, I should think." Saix knows he's not a likeable person but it's never really been... Okay it's been a problem before but the situation made it less of a problem.

"...coming from you, I guess that really means something."

He's not completely sure where he stands now, but Saix definitely didn't like him before.

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