Actually the last one I wrote. I have a tendency to go horribly out of order. Nonetheless, I like the connections between these two.
Square-Enix/Disney, Tetsuya Nomura.
04. covered up (Sora)
These two are mockingbirds, they say.
They copy each other without really meaning to; they watch movements and imitate fake smiles, all the faker when aimed at each other.
They've both been through so much pain they shouldn't be allowed to gleam like that, but they do. … They really do. And they get a little better at it each time the darkness touches them, like that black handprint could never stand out against those tombstone-white teeth. This is how they're the same: all feathers and beaks and pretty songs.
The handprint sinks into their skin and instead becomes imbedded in their soul, showing in blue eyes and calloused hands as they strum strings. And this is how they're different: different strings to pluck and different songs to sing.
Demyx plays a nocturne. Sora plays a fight theme.
Demyx listens to stories. Sora listens to hearts.
Demyx cries alone with his instrument in his lap. Sora cries on his knees in front of his best friend.
But they both cover up their sorrows and pretend things don't matter, those heavy and seemingly important things like heaving hearts and heaving chests and the heaving cries of the fallen as a world tilts on the wrong axis and gets swallowed in darkness.
It's the first time anyone sees Demyx cry. And Sora swears he'll never show anyone his tears again.
Because it hurts too much to watch someone else fall apart.