Harbor
eleven; Sora's Parents (hero)
He likes to imagine his son is a hero. But she likes to pretend that her son is a prisoner. They argue that point a lot, and the only thing they can agree on is that one night he simply vanished. And so did they, they also agree, there is no contesting that, the entire fabric of the islands with them. They woke up somewhere unfamiliar, alarmed and unaware. Like some scene from a children's adventure film, or maybe a cartoon, rumors whispered into their temporary-home Andalasia about a boy wielding some contraption–a sword-key to conquer the darkness. The stuff of Saturday mornings curled up before the TV, cheering on the hero. And so that was when Sora's father decided his missing son was a hero. His mother, however, couldn't bring herself to believe it–so he became a prisoner in her eyes. And she raised Hell when, restored to destiny Islands and hearts intact, she learned otherwise. She hated that.
She still does. But they don't fight about it anymore, because they are old and they are tired, and most importantly they are tired of waiting for their son to come home with the swell. It worries her that the murmurs of the Saturday cartoons, of Sora and of Kingdom Hearts have all but stopped, and, secretly, it worries him too. But one thing doesn't change: she still believes him a prisoner and he still calls his son a hero.
She doesn't like that.
For if he is a hero, he won't be coming home.
"And the swell never came, "