Christmas at the Castle, a Kingdom Hearts fanfic by Raberba girl
Chapter 10 - ...Three playing cards...
Xion's eyes snapped open. She sat up abruptly, staring around.
The TV was playing a loop of the menu screen for a movie she could not remember Axel starting. Maruhana's petals were still peacefully closed. Larxene was snoring a little and spooning her on one side; Roxas was cuddled up to her on the other, and Axel was over on the end, mumbling something in his sleep that sounded like, "ButIsaIthoughtyousaidyouwere n'tallergic..."
Feeling so full of squee that it was hard to keep silent, Xion shook her fellow Keyblade wielder's shoulder. "Roxas? Roxas, are you really still sleepy?"
Blue eyes cracked open. Then they widened, and Roxas shot upright, staring at her. "Is it...Christmas?" he asked breathlessly.
"It's Christmas!" Xion squealed in excitement. They both made a whispered sound like, "Eeeeeeeee!"
Roxas rolled over and yanked on Axel's arm. "Axel! Axel! Axel! Wake up!"
It took a few tries, but eventually they got the Flurry of Dancing Flames to pry his eyes open. "Wuhbbuh?" he mumbled intelligently.
Xion wiped a bit of drool off the corner of his mouth with her wrist. "Axel, come on! This is the part where we open presents, right?"
Axel groaned and peered at the clock. Then he made a noise like, "Glaargh!" and added, "It's 4:00 in the morning! Go back to SLEEP, you crazyheads!" He flipped over and buried himself beneath the covers.
"Axel!"
"Axel!"
It was no use. Xion looked at Roxas in distress. "Do you know what time Christmas is supposed to start?"
"No..." Roxas sighed and climbed out of bed, stretching. "Do you want to see if anyone else is awake?"
"Sure."
They padded through the Proof of Existence, sizing up portals. "Demyx is probably excited for Christmas," Xion said hopefully.
"Yeah. And I don't think he'll bite our heads off if we go into his room," Roxas agreed.
They entered the ninth portal cautiously. The room was dark except for the illuminated fish tanks lining one wall, which was enough for the young Nobodies to sidestep all the teetering piles of CDs, the stacks of papers, the music stands, and an open sitar case on the floor. They could make out Demyx's figure curled up on the bed under a heap of Dancers, still fast asleep.
The kids looked at each other in silent dismay. Then Roxas cautiously reached over to shake the Nocturne's shoulder. A few Dancers woke up and peered at him curiously, making him nervous. "Demyx? Hey, Demyx, can you wake up, please?"
It took both of them shaking Demyx hard, bouncing on the bed (and then having to push away the excited lesser Nobodies who seemed to think they were dancing), and yelling in his ear before the Nocturne finally showed signs of life. He yawned and blinked sleepy green eyes at them. "Eh? It's time to get up already?"
"Well...it's Christmas morning," Roxas lamely tried to explain.
"Yeah," the musician agreed happily. "No work today, hurrah!" Then he saw the clock. "EH?! What the- Why did you come in so early?!"
"It's...well, it's Christmas morning," Xion fumbled.
Demyx let out a wail. "Yeah! Christmas morning! Which means I'm supposed to be able to sleep as long as I want!"
"But...but aren't you...excited?"
Demyx snorted. "Are you kidding? I don't give a jellyfish's tentacle about Christmas, I just wanted to be able to sleep in for once. Good night!" He flipped over and snuggled deeper into his pillows, causing a Shadow plushie to drop to the floor. Within moments, he was asleep again.
Roxas and Xion looked at each other in disappointment. "Well...now what?"
"I guess...we could always go get breakfast..."
They went to the kitchen to toast some Pop-Tarts, but to their surprise, the door to the dining room was blocked by one of the huge, X-shaped barricades they had only ever seen before on missions. Both their Keyblades failed to remedy this problem. Even dark corridors did not work, since the portals sputtered and dissipated every time they tried to aim for the inside of the dining room. They gave up eventually, and after some consultation, finally went to eat in the Grey Area.
"Oh!" Xion exclaimed upon their arrival. "G...Good morning."
Zexion looked up from his book and nodded. Saïx merely glanced at them, then returned his gaze to the heart-shaped moon drifting in the sky outside the window.
"Um...do you know why we can't get into the dining room?"
"I sealed it off," Saïx said shortly. "The whole Organization should be gathered together before we start."
"About that," Roxas ventured, "what time are we supposed to start? I know that Christmas is on December 25th, but...well, everyone's still asleep."
"It's not surprising," Zexion put in. "Only someone looking forward to the festivities would bother to rise at such an unreasonable hour."
Both Roxas and Xion found this to be an interesting statement. "So...you guys are excited for Christmas, too?"
Both young men looked startled. Then they exchanged glares, their faces coloring.
"It's my job to be awake before anyone else," Saïx snapped.
"Since I ended up on the organization committee, intentionally or not, I need to be in place to supervise," Zexion added in a growl.
"Oh." After an awkward moment, the kids finally went over to sit on a couch together and eat their breakfasts. They felt too intimidated to talk casually with the older Nobodies in the room.
Eventually, they decided that they might as well get dressed, so they did so. Then they went and watched another movie, cranking up the volume in hopes that their older friends would get out of bed, but all that happened was that Larxene angrily stalked back to her own room, and Axel grunted before pulling a pillow over his head.
However, by the end of the movie, Roxas sighed, looked over, and realized that Axel was lying there awake, watching the credits roll. "You're finally up!" the boy cried.
Axel looked over at them and grinned. "Merry Christmas, you doofs." Then his eyes widened. "Ahh!" Roxas and Xion both pounced on him, seized his arms and legs, and hauled him bodily out of bed. They began towing him toward the door, their eyes full of grim determination. "Wait, wait, wait, wait!" Axel cried, half-laughing. "I gotta give you guys something before we go out there."
They paused and glared at him suspiciously.
Axel laughed again. "Let me go. I wanna give you guys your presents where the others can't see and get all jealous."
"I thought you weren't gonna buy any presents."
"Yeah, well, you two are special, okay?"
When they finally decided to release him, he went over to his closet and pulled out several small packages, which he tossed over to them. "Catch."
"What's in these?" Xion asked.
"You'll find out when you open them, silly."
Roxas opened the envelope first and pulled out a little paper square that was inside. His eyes widened when he saw what the gift card was for. "Twenty free ice creams?!"
"Merry Christmas."
"T-Twenty?! I can get twenty ice creams if I turn this in?!"
"Well, you might not want to redeem them all at the same time..."
"Axel! Axel! Thank you!"
"Eh- No! NO! Bad Roxas, no hugging!"
Xion, meanwhile, had uncovered a silver locket with a flower engraved on the front. "Ohhh! Oh, Axel! It's beautiful!"
"Open it."
"It opens?!"
Axel pried it open for her, revealing a photograph of their faces tucked inside. It was, in fact, one of the pictures they had taken in the Disney Town photo booth. "Oh, Axel! It's perfect!"
Roxas was moving on to the little package. He unwrapped it and found... "Wah! It's a Keychain!" he exclaimed in delight. He summoned his weapon to try it out, as Xion did the same.
"Yours is called 'Frolic Flame,'" Axel told Roxas, "and 'Bond of Flame' for you, Xion."
"Woooww!" They were both waving their transformed Keyblades around like idiots, grinning hugely.
"This is so cool!"
"It looks just like your chakrams, Axel!"
He smiled. "Yeah, I figured you'd like those."
"Um, wait right here!" Roxas raced to his room, grabbed the gift with red wrapping paper, and ran back again. "Here!" he said breathlessly, thrusting the package at Axel. "I didn't buy it like the others, but I thought you might still like it...maybe. If you don't, I can get you something else."
Axel grinned and started tearing off the paper ("Nice wrapping job"), looking as if he was preparing to fake an expression of great surprise and delight. Then he actually saw what was in the box, and his face seemed to drain of color. Roxas and Xion grinned in anticipation, looking forward to Axel's reaction.
Seconds ticked by, one after another, and Axel stared at the items in the box as if they were his own severed body parts.
"Um...Axel?" Roxas finally ventured. "I...I'm really sorry...I can give you a Level Up panel or something if you want..."
Axel suddenly closed his eyes, drew in a shuddering breath, hunched over the box as he hugged it close, and dark corridored away.
The kids stared at each other in dismay. "Wow," Roxas said faintly. "I messed up big time."
"Well...at least he didn't burn it," Xion said, casting about for something positive to say.
"He's probably doing that right now," Roxas said glumly, "he's just too nice to do it where I can see."
However, when Axel unexpectedly returned a few minutes later, he was still holding the unscathed contents of the box. He laughed weakly when he saw them. "Sorry. I, uh...needed some time to myself." He rubbed hard at his face, which still seemed to be off-color.
"Axel, I'm really, really sorry," Roxas said earnestly. "This is my first Christmas, at least that I remember, so I know I really suck at it, but...but I'll do better next year, I promise, so...so you'll still be my friend, right?"
"What?" Axel waved his hand in amused exasperation. "No, wait, you got the wrong idea! Look, I...I don't know how the- how the heck you found these, but flaming pants, they're...I..." He tried to pull himself together. "It just surprised me, that's all. I wasn't expecting..."
"Are you okay, Axel?" Xion asked softly.
Axel laughed shakily and rubbed at his face again. "Oi, you two...we don't have hearts, right?"
They nodded solemnly.
"Well...I can't believe I'm saying this...do you guys ever feel - something, anyway? Like...not a complete emptiness, but...something you can feel, in here?" He laid his hand over his chest.
They both nodded hesitantly, then looked at each other in surprise. You, too?
"Heh. Somehow, I figured that would be the case. Well...swear you won't tell anyone, right? I kind of...felt something. Just a little feeling. But it kind of threw me, you know?"
Roxas was not quite sure what this meant. "So...?" he said cautiously.
Axel hesitated, then reached to pull him into a hug, to Roxas's surprise. "Thank you," Axel whispered.
"...Heh. Bad Axel. No hugging."
Axel laughed.
Xion was studying the battered photograph. "That red-haired boy kind of looks like you, Axel," she said. "Who are these people?"
He laughed again, finally seeming back to his normal self. "None of your business, little girl," he said playfully, tugging the picture out of her hands.
"Xion," Roxas said, now very anxious to see Axel's reaction to whatever she had gotten for him. "Are you gonna give him your present now?"
"Well," she said shyly, "I was thinking that I kind of wanted to give everyone their presents at the same time...is that okay, Axel?"
His eyes narrowed. "Where did you get mine?"
"Um...I found it yesterday in a world where a singing dog with sunglasses was going around the city with a bunch of other animals, stealing sausages."
For a minute, Axel looked stumped. Then recognition dawned. "Oh - Oliver and Company," he murmured to himself. "Dad never went there, as far as I know...yeah, should be all right." He looked up and smiled at Xion. "Okay. I'll open mine with the others, and if it's another blast from the past, I'll just corridor away faster this time."
Xion smiled back, a little confused, but glad that he seemed happy.
Axel pulled on a T-shirt and cargo pants ("No WAY I'm gonna wear that stupid coat today"), which prompted Roxas to run and change into his birth clothes, and Xion to fetch a purple blouse and black skirt that she had bought in Twilight Town ages ago but had never had occasion to wear. Then they made their way to the kitchen so that Axel could warm up a few pizza slices for his breakfast and fry some eggs for the kids ("Whaddaya mean all you ate was Pop-Tarts?!").
As they were eating, Larxene came into the Grey Area, carrying a bag of what looked like candy. "Come here a minute, Xi," she called. As the girl went over to her, Larxene smiled and tossed a handful of chocolates at Axel. "Here, it's Christmas. Have some Kisses, since they're the only kind you'll ever get from me."
"Aw, Larxie, you shouldn't have!" Axel fake-squeed, handing half the chocolates to Roxas.
"Yeah, I know. And here, for my fellow mistletoe haters." More chocolates went sailing toward Saïx and Zexion, who did not seem displeased to receive them.
The girls left. Axel and Roxas chatted until they returned, Xion smiling happily and Larxene now wearing a tank top and cutoffs. Caving to their examples, Zexion went away and then returned wearing jeans and a lab coat, replying huffily to Axel's and Larxene's derision, "This is what I feel most comfortable in." Saïx stubbornly retained his regulation black coat, though he made no objection to the others' wardrobe choices.
AT LAST, everyone was awake and gathered in the dining room, which looked magical. Roxas and Xion held nothing back as far as their powers went, even forming sparkling orbs of light to drift around on the ceiling.
"Okay!" Demyx crowed, now bouncing around energetically since he was no longer allowed to sleep. "It's CHRISTMAS TIME! And to get us all in the proper spirit, we're gonna dress accordingly!" A chorus of groans arose as he began handing out Santa hats, but only a few members outright refused to wear them. "Now, who's got presents? This is your moment, go ahead and haul 'em in!"
Roxas and Xion corridored off to fetch their gifts. It seemed like Axel was not the only one to have skipped Christmas shopping, but Xigbar was stacking brightly wrapped packages under the tree, along with Lexaeus, Zexion, Demyx, Luxord, and Marluxia. Even Saïx brought over a festive-looking little basket filled with envelopes.
After Zexion insisted on photographs of the entire Organization standing in front of the tree, "All-righty!" Demyx yelled. "Our little Christmas elf is gonna beeee...you!"
Xion blinked. "Me?"
"Yup! Since you're the newest member. You get to hand out all the gifts! And don't forget the stockings."
A low rumble of (mostly bored) chatter started up as Xion walked around the room, reading the labels on all the presents and delivering them to their proper recipients. Roxas and Axel soon got up to help her. It made Roxas happy to see that the stockings were now magically laden, as if Santa really had come during the night. At some point during the month, Vexen had replaced his mad scientist stocking with a snowflake one, Saïx had bought a crescent moon stocking to take the place of the puppy, and Larxene had exchanged her chibi witch face for a lightning bolt. As Roxas handed them out, he wondered if Saïx had destroyed his old stocking, or if it was still salvageable somewhere...that puppy had been kind of cute...
The gift opening commenced: Roxas and Xion both got umbrellas from Xigbar, Rubik's Cubes from Lexaeus, books from Zexion (Peter Pan and The Adventures of Pinocchio, respectively), vacation coupons from Saïx to be redeemed at their own discretion, CDs of his own music from Demyx, playing cards from Luxord (samurai-themed for him, Disney Princesses for her), and flower seed packets from Marluxia. Which reminded Roxas.
He went to get Maruhana, carefully carrying the flowerpot over to the Graceful Assassin. "Um...this is for you. I started calling him Maruhana - or maybe it's a her, I'm not really sure - but I guess you can name him whatever you want. If he doesn't mind. He eats one Elixir every morning, and don't forget to turn the sun lamp off at night, or else he won't be able to sleep. Oh, and you can have your lamp back, too; we borrowed it for a while so that Maruhana wouldn't get sick."
Man and flower sized each other up. "You are a lot bigger than Rocks," Maruhana concluded.
"A talking flower, eh? Hm." Marluxia gently cupped a hand around the silken petals and inhaled deeply. "Magnificent."
Maruhana preened, and Roxas smiled at them both in relief.
As he was heading back to rejoin his friends, he noticed that everyone seemed to have some sort of stuffed animal - a zebra for Xemnas, a wolf for Saïx, a dolphin for Demyx, and so on - except for himself and Axel. Lexaeus seemed to be particularly spellbound by the toy bear he was holding. "Where did all the stuffed animals come from?" Roxas wondered.
Xion blushed. "From me. It took a lot longer than I thought, but I managed to get them all done in time."
"...Oh."
Xion smiled. "You and Axel have special ones."
"Really?"
"Yes. I didn't want to bring them out until all the other gifts were opened, but I think now is a good time. I'll be right back." She opened a dark corridor and disappeared within it.
"Oi, Xigbar!" Axel called. "What the heck am I supposed to do with a couple of fake pizzas?"
"Try 'em out on your next mission," Xigbar answered mischievously, raising a couple of hair dryers in his trademark battle pose.
Roxas inspected his umbrella more closely and realized that if he held it by the tip, he could wield it in a very similar manner to his Keyblade. "I can really use this in battle?" he wondered.
"Don't try it," Axel warned. "Joke weapons are usually awful." Then he grinned. "But they can still be kind of fun, so save 'em to play with in a holo-mission or something." He flipped up one of his pizzas and caught it again as it came back down.
Xion returned, lugging a large box with a much smaller one perched on top of it. "Here," she said a little breathlessly, handing the small box to Axel and pushing the bigger one toward Roxas. "I hope you like them."
Roxas looked at his present. "Why does it have all those holes in the top?"
"Oh, crap!" Axel gasped, though he also seemed to be laughing. "Little girl, please don't tell me you've done what I think you did..."
Roxas suddenly yelped and scrambled away. His box had lurched, all by itself. And now it was making noises. "Is - Is there a Heartless in there?!"
The room's chatter died as everyone turned to stare at them.
Xion cleared her throat nervously. "Everyone - I actually wanted to get presents like this for all of you, but I wasn't sure if you would be happy about that, so I made toy ones instead...but if you want real ones, please let me know, I'd love to get them for you."
After a pause, Axel grinned at Roxas. "Why don't you go first, buddy?"
Roxas glared. 'Oh, thanks.' Gripping his umbrella in one hand, Roxas slowly reached out with the other and began tearing the wrapping paper off, jerking back every time the box moved of its own volition (which was often). Then he cautiously peered inside.
A face was staring up at him, but it had warm brown eyes, not the creepy glowy yellow ones of a Heartless. A long, furry tail began beating excitedly against the sides of the box.
Then the puppy suddenly launched upwards to lick Roxas in the face, its momentum knocking over both the box and Roxas. Before Roxas could recover, it had romped joyfully onto his chest and was now showering his face with puppy-kisses.
"Aaahhh!"
Some of the others were laughing now. Xion pulled the puppy off of Roxas and cuddled it apprehensively, searching her friend's face for a sign of approval. "I've been calling him Destiny, but you can rename him if you want..."
Roxas stared at the puppy. "That's for me?"
"Um...yes?"
Roxas stared some more. "Destiny?" The dog yipped and struggled vainly to get back to him.
Roxas slowly crawled over and reached out a cautious hand, but before he could touch Destiny's head, the dog broke free and nearly bowled him over again.
Roxas finally laughed, steadying himself and managing to hold the overeager creature away from his face. "He's cool." The sensation of fur against his fingers was wondrous. "...And really soft.
Xion smiled in relief.
Axel rolled his eyes as he briskly rid his gift of its wrapping paper and tipped a disgruntled ginger kitten into his hand. "Well, aren't you cute," he cooed sarcastically at it. "Too bad Mr. Saïx McStrictface won't let me keep you."
"That is up to the Superior," Saïx said stiffly. "I will not concern myself with the matter as long as your mission performance remains unchanged."
Everyone looked at Xemnas. He gazed back dispassionately.
"Well?" Xigbar finally prompted. "What say you, boss? Is Axel gonna be buying kibbles and sifting through cat litter for the next fifteen years?"
Roxas wrapped his arms protectively around Destiny without realizing what he was doing.
"Those with no hearts have no use for such distractions."
Axel shrugged. "Well, nice meeting you," he told his irritably mewing Christmas gift. "Time to go chuck you into the Void now, I guess."
"Oh, Axel, no!" Xion gasped. "Please, Lord Xemnas, please let Axel and Roxas keep them! We'll work extra hard, we promise!"
Xemnas frowned at her. "What nonsense is this?"
Xion looked close to tears. "Please...they're so little...please let us keep them."
"They're really cute," Demyx spoke up, in what he must have thought was a persuasive tone.
"The way I see it," Xigbar drawled, "Superior didn't actually say No. Which means the 'No distractions' thing is really a suggestion rather than a rule, eh?"
Xemnas's only response was a bored "Hn."
Xion's eyes lit up. "So we can keep them?"
"Let's take that as a Yes," Xigbar finally said when Xemnas did not bother to answer.
Roxas smiled and hugged Destiny in relief.
"Oh, I'm so glad!" Xion burst out. She turned to Axel. "Do you like him? You're going to keep him, right?"
Axel looked down at the kitten, who hissed and sank its tiny fangs into his flesh. Even the most acute observer of his face would not have noticed any change in expression, so successful was he in hiding the moment when he fell completely and irrevocably in love. "Eh," he said with false nonchalance, tucking his new treasure into a pocket, "I guess I'll get used to little Bomb here." He looked over and grinned at Saïx. "Nice chew toy."
Saïx, who had just been thinking that it was perfect for Chi and wondering if Number XIII had somehow guessed his secret, now realized that it had been meant as an insulting joke. Not that he minded, but one did have to keep up appearances. He frowned and said icily, "A useless item. I'll see that it gets properly disposed of."
"You could always give it to li'l Destiny there."
'No! It's for Chi!' "No doubt the creature will have plenty of objects to destroy without adding another to the list."
Roxas and Xion were playing with the puppy, who nearly choked on Xion's new seashell bracelet before she rescued it and put it safely back in its box. "By the way, thank you so much for this, Roxas! Did you make it yourself?"
"Yeah. Well, I mean...I was just gonna give you the shells, but then Luxord saw me wrapping them and was all, 'You should make something out of them,' and I was like, 'I don't know what to make,' so he helped, kind of, and it's still all crooked, but...yeah."
She smiled at him. "It's beautiful. So you found that world with the islands, then?"
"Yeah. Have you tried one of those star-fruits they have there? Taste it, it's really good."
Axel turned back to them, digging Bomb out of his pocket again. "Oi, Roxas, hold your hands out."
"Why?"
"Just do it." Axel adjusted the boy's palms so that they were face up and cupped together, then dropped the kitten into them.
Roxas's eyes grew huge. "Ehhh...so soft!" Ten times softer than Destiny, it was threatening to send his texture-starved hands into sensory overload.
Just then, a roar of laughter caught everyone's attention. They all looked over to see Larxene holding up the Twilight shirt with a stricken look on her face, as Xigbar seemed unable to control his amusement.
"Is that an...Edward Cullen shirt?" Zexion said in disbelief.
Larxene's blazing glare zeroed in on Xion. "You told," she said flatly.
The younger girl's eyes widened. "No! I didn't, I promise! I never said anything about your underwear!"
It took less than three seconds for most people to hear 'Edward Cullen' and 'underwear,' and add two and two together. Hilarity ensued. At least, for some people.
Larxene got to her feet, knives flashing between her fingers. "I will KILL YOU."
Xion was a reasonably intelligent girl. She fled screaming, hotly pursued by her third-best-friend-now-turned-enemy-for-life. Axel dashed after them ("Larxene! If you hurt her, I will roast you alive!"), leaving a very confused Roxas behind to wonder if perhaps Larxene had not liked her present after all.
While Xion was being rescued (though not before Larxene had zapped the Twilight Saga boxed sets she had given her that morning into smoking piles of rubbish...which, in Axel's opinion, they had already been to begin with), Saïx and Zexion bullied everyone into cleaning up the dining room, and Xigbar made them bring in the couches from the Grey Area for some reason. Then Demyx announced with great enthusiasm that it was "Time for some quality entertainment! Everyone kick back, relax, and enjoy our rendition of the greatest Christmas story ever told: Saïx's Christmas Carol!"
Saïx blinked. "What?"
Demyx grinned and slipped a homemade DVD into the player. "Prepare for those empty little holes in your chests to be warmed by some good old Christmas cheer!"
To be continued...
Author's Notes: Demyx's Shadow plushie is Chester from JenxtheJinx's videos on YouTube.
Bomb is one of Oliver's littermates. I'm sure that if Xion had known that Oli would've ended up all alone in the rain, she would have grabbed him, too. ^^;
Thank you, Taliax! Because R. girl is just as much of a dope as Roxas is, and would have just given the shells straight to Xion if you hadn't suggested making something out of them. ^^
Xion made a raccoon for Xigbar, a penguin for Vexen, a cat for Zexion, and a bumblebee for Marluxia. And no, Lexaeus does not have a crush on Xion or anything, he just thought that the bear was really cute. I don't think I ever figured out what Xaldin's, Luxord's, or Larxene's animals were. ^^;
I found something like this on BeautifulShadowsKeybearer131 7's profile and thought it would be fun to fill out my own. Organization XIII's opinions on Raberba girl!
I. Xemnas: "Who?"
II. Xigbar: "R.g., you let us make the Christmas Movie From Hell. 'Nuff said. XD *affectionate hair ruffle*"
III. Xaldin: "You have three seconds to get out of range before I send a lance through your gut."
IV. Vexen: "GIVE ME A SAMPLE OF YOUR DNA SO I CAN THROTTLE YOU WITH YOUR OWN REPLICA."
V. Lexaeus: "..."
VI. Zexion: "...Much as I hate to admit it, I kind of appreciate you. Though the next time you force me to read manga, I will destroy your computer."
VII. Saïx: "Hmph. *ignores me snuggling him*"
VIII. Axel: "I'M AN ASSASSIN, *censored*, NOT A NANNY! *rages*"
IX. Demyx: "R. giiiiiiirl, I thought you loved meeeeeeeeee! *SOB* *lets me bribe myself back into his good graces with a truckload of ice cream*"
X. Luxord: "Young woman, will you kindly get off your lazy backside and give me more screen time? *polite huff*"
XI. Marluxia: "*gives me a creepy, calculating look*"
XII. Larxene: "COME HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU HORRIBLY."
XIII. Roxas: "Why do you always write me all clueless like I was in Days? Write KH2-me or Coded-me, where I'm cooler. *pout*"
XIV. Xion: "Ummm...you do realize that manga-me is totally different from game-me, don't you...? *sweatdrop*"