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Name: Mawi
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Canon: Kingdom Hearts
Character: Sora
Timeline: During his drop to Traverse Town at the end of KHDDD.
Personality:

Sora is a pretty happy guy. Anyone would get a little more than down in the dumps if they lost everything they had to an all consuming cosmic darkness, but when that fate befell his world, he shrugged off most of his own personal troubles to focus on the job at hand. His "job" fluctuates given whatever needs to get rescued at any given moment in time, but tends to revolve around his two best friends, Riku and Kairi, and various movements thereof. In fact, they are the only people that can derail Sora from a job. Although he's better known for saving the multiverse, he considers that more of a side thing (a big side thing, but still) in comparison to making sure his friends are absolutely safe. Sora always puts his friends first, so much so that when it comes to prioritizing, Sora can get a little dodgy. Yeah, so what if he's a keyblade hero? Find him his friends; then he'll talk. It's impossible to overstate his devotion to his friends! He'll put a great deal aside for the sake of a friend - his possessions, an important mission or goal, any pride he has left over, and then whatever he has left after that. This compulsion stems more from an unconventional inferiority complex than anything highminded like loyalty or respect; he knows he's not much as a person, knows that he's kind of disposable, and uses that thought to justify running headfirst into fights he may not be able to win. He does love his friends dearly, and strangely enough, he doesn't feel terrible about feeling like he's somehow less than the next guy. He does feels as though he's lacking in... something. The cause might be something as simple as with being stuck in second place after Riku all his life, or it might be some strange emptiness that Sora was born with that he can't control, which is what his enemies usually imply (and does exist - a great deal of his personality and mannerisms are not his own. More on that in the history section!) But the knowledge never makes him feel inadequate, depressed, or discouraged for more than a second or two.

Regardless, if someone else needs his help and nothing but the keyblade can save the day, Sora is always ready to step up to the plate, given maybe a nudge or two. Because he is a nice guy: a little slow on the uptake, maybe, sometimes selfish, aggressive, and optimistic to a fault, sure, but he can get behind a good cause and push with the best of them. Once he sees someone who clearly can't defend themselves left on their own, he's incapable of turning a blind eye, even if that means going beyond spending time and energy to make things right. Outspoken, curious, and competitive, he clashes and bickers with the people he meets sometimes, but they tend to come out the other end as friends, even if they were the worst of enemies before. Not that that always happens! Sora doesn't like to hate people at all, but if you can't agree with him on a few key things - friends, peace, the common good - it'll be hard for him to find a way to get you on his side. (Not that that's necessary - fluid priorities, remember? The right words and he'll see things your way). Still, Sora's everyone's friend, or he tries to be - he defines himself with his friendships, especially through his friendships with Riku and Kairi, who help ground his casual spirit and give him something to fight for and treasure. He's a loose cannon firing blanks without their influence and he knows it. Without his friends, he's kind of frail and useless (literally - he has a weak heart, which in the world of Kingdom Hearts means that he has a fragile will and little personality, and was frankly doomed to be kind of uninteresting.) However, the sheer variety and quantity of friends he has, his dogged devotion to them, and his ability to augment and channel their abilities gives him enough strength of heart to take on the most powerful of dark forces, making him both an anomaly and a dangerous wildcard as a Keyblade wielder. Therefore, when it comes to making a friend, he'll put everything he has into making things work out for them. It's 60% lifestyle choice, 40% survival (and 100% him just enjoying himself - he love love loves his friends!)

Putting all of that aside, Sora is a typical teen jock - blunt, outgoing, not at all enthusiastic about school, able to sleep at the drop of a hat, computer illiterate, and maybe a little more excitable than his peers (his reaction to meeting Santa Claus was.... enthusiastic!) However, his boisterous attitude is balanced by a very humble view of himself, his friends, and what he wants out of his life, making him oddly lucid and calm when he's faced with a harsh reality. He's built to face a lot of sadness and hardship with positivity, and that might be his best trait of all - being able to bear the weight of very heavy emotions, and having an empathic ability strong enough to take on the emotional baggage of others, if only for a little while. This ability seems to be deteriorating somewhat, or at least use of it to battle the constant negativity thrust upon him seems to be taking its toll; his ability to trust people, even his closest, most trusted friends, is fraying as of the most current canon. Still, his simplehearted magnanimity and willingness to empathize no matter what is still there, and while it's unremarkable on its own, in the world of Kingdom Hearts this ability makes him a superhero that will save many, many lives and friendships. And he's determined to! It's kind of a big task, but for an unremarkable kid, he's remarkably single-mindedly determined to see it to the end. It's what he'd do for any friend, and a stranger is just a friend he hasn't made yet. That's just how he rolls.

Background:

GOD. OK, SPARKNOTES VERSION.

When Sora was 4-5 years old, his heart (as a metaphysical representation of himself, his soul and feelings) reached out to the heart of a boy named Ventus, a keyblade wielder whose heart had been horribly broken. A man named Xehanort had tried to extract the darkness (a metaphysical representation of the bad shit that one feels, just kind of general evil stuff made physical) from Ventus to make him a being of only light. Ven's heart wasn't meant to take that kind of strain (no one can have a heart made only of light except for a Princess of Light), so it started to dissolve. However, Sora restored Ven's heart with a bit of his own, temporarily stopping the damage. A year later, Sora briefly met the keyblade master Aqua, but has since forgotten that meeting (understandable, since he was very young at the time). However, he did promise Aqua that he would always take care of Riku if he went too far astray, a promise he's kept throughout his life. After a long series of adventures, Ventus' heart was reunited with its dark half, but it had been weakened significantly by a fight between him and the physical embodiment of his dark half, Vanitas, who had grown sentient. Since their hearts were already connected, Ventus traveled back to Sora's heart and asked if he could stay until it was safe and he was strong enough to go back to his body. Sora agreed, and that's how two residents (Ventus, an incredibly gentle and sweet kid, best friends with Aqua and Terra; and Vanitas, complete asshole, kind of a sociopath) ended up in Sora's heart from a very young age. Sora draws some of Ven's mannerisms as a result: an easy smile, the habit of putting his hands behind his head while he's thinking.

About ten years later, Sora, his best friend Riku, and Kairi, a girl from another world, planned to leave their island together, but were interrupted by a darkness that ate their world and separated the three from each other. Riku, who had been thrown to a different world, had succumbed to the darkness that took their home, and mostly stood in Sora's way from then on as an antagonist. Kairi had disappeared in front of Sora's eyes when their world was being destroyed, but as Sora looked for her, he realized he was starting to hallucinate entire conversations with her when it was clear no one else but he and his friends and fellow travelers, Donald and Goofy, were in the room. He also started to recognize places he had never been to before. On top of that, he found that he could summon the Keyblade, a special weapon that chose its wielder. (Unbeknownst to him, Ven had been the one to introduce the weapon to his heart - one can't be a keyblade wielder if they haven't been in contact with a keyblade.) Using the Keyblade, he could destroy the Heartless, the dark creatures that had been eating the heart of the worlds, and prevent them from eating worlds that they hadn't fully devoured. Things started getting more complicated when Riku found Kairi's body - her heart was nowhere to be found, making her nothing but a lifeless shell. Sora spent most of his time chasing down Riku and Kairi's body, rescuing other planets and making friends, growing closer with Donald and Goofy in particular.

On the last world, Hollow Bastion, he finally caught up with Riku, who made a bold claim - the keyblade Sora had was supposed to be Riku's. The Keyblade, sensing Riku's strong heart, switched sides, and Donald and Goofy were obligated to follow him on their king's orders. However, Sora came to realize that his friends were literally his power - his weakness of heart would always be trumped by the collective power of his heart's connections to his friends. Using his belief in the power of his friendships, he was able to take the Keyblade back from Riku in their second confrontation. He proceeded deeper into Hollow Bastion and defeated Maleficent just in time for Riku to return... but with a passenger. Riku, possessed by the Heartless of a man who called himself Ansem, wielded a new Keyblade, one that could unlock all the contents of the heart. He stabbed Maleficent in the heart to demonstrate its power; using the unlocked darkness in her heart, she turned into a massive dragon. After defeating her, Sora chased Riku into the heart of Hollow Bastion, where he was keeping Kairi's body. There, Sora finally defeated Riku in a duel. Right before he disappeared, Ansem as Riku revealed that Kairi's heart had been inside Sora's all this time, which explained why he could see her when no one else could, and why he had recognized places he had never been to - he was actually remembering Kairi's recollections of the places she'd been before she came to their island. Ansem as Riku disappeared, leaving his keyblade behind. With Kairi's body still lifeless and her heart in his, Sora did the only thing he could: he stabbed his own heart with Riku's unlocking keyblade, releasing both his and Kairi's heart. Kairi's heart returned to her body, but Sora came back as a Heartless. The consequences of this one action ripples over the course of the next few games (... this is going to take a while.) He spent the next few minutes as a Heartless with a conscience, choosing not to attack his friends when he found them again, but Kairi brought him back by the power of love... or something. This part was never really well explained. I think he's pretty much a heartghost from this point on?? Whatever. He went on to defeat Ansem, who had separated from Riku (who had tried his best to protect his friends after realizing he had been manipulated), and restored the lost worlds back to their rightful places. He had to close the door to Kingdom Hearts, the place where all hearts go when they die in order to be reborn, sealing Riku in, along with Donald and Goofy's king, Mickey. He returned to his world in the primordial soup where Kairi was waiting, but decided to travel back into the spaces between worlds to find Riku and King Mickey. He told her this and promised to come back.

In between the worlds, he found a castle where he was promised by a mysterious man in black that he would find Riku and the King, but also something else he missed. However, the man in black warned him that as he searched the castle, he would slowly forget everything, starting from the outer memories and working into the memories he held most dear. Sora started climbing the castle's floors with Donald and Goofy's help. The floors manifested as the worlds Sora had already been to, featuring friends he slowly started to forget, and between floors, various black-coated villains who called themselves members of the Organization opposed him, mocking his efforts. However, in the middle of his climb and amidst all of the growing amnesia, he started to remember someone else - Naminé, a girl he had grown up with but had forgotten about for some reason. However, the memory of Naminé started to replace his memories of Kairi, the girl he loved the most in the world. The Organization, reminding him that he would find something he missed, claimed that they had captured her inside the castle. Soon, he had forgotten why he started searching the castle, assuming that he was there to rescue Naminé. On his way up the tower, he also traveled through a floor that represented a world on the other side of his heart called Twilight Town, a world he didn't fully understand nor remember. When he finally reunited with Naminé, she told him the truth - she was a witch with power over his memories, who had been stealing and modifying his memories the entire time. She explained that she only agreed to help the Organization because she was lonely. With her help (and the help of an artificial version of Riku - please don't ask), he defeated Marluxia, the original black-coated man. Naminé went to work setting Sora's memory right, but in exchange, she had to destroy the memories he had made of the castle, including his memories of Naminé. Donald and Goofy's memories were to be mended as well; she revealed that while she had power over Sora's memories, their forgetfulness was caused by their close connection to Sora's heart. Sora promised that she would always hold a special place in his heart, even if he wouldn't remember her. Reworking Sora's memory would take a year, and for that year, Sora would have to sleep. So sleep he did...

When Sora woke up, Donald and Goofy were waiting for him. Not remembering how they got there or why they were asleep, with no clues except for a mysterious hint that told them to "Thank Naminé", they walked out to discover that they were in the basement of a mansion on the outskirts of a world called Twilight Town. Meeting several kids their age in town, they worked out that Sora had to leave and find guidance because a new kind of enemy had appeared. However, as Sora said goodbye to his new friends, he started to feel as though he'd never see them again, something that hadn't happened before, especially not with kids he had just met. To his surprise, he shed a few tears before coming back to earth and leaving on the next train. He met the keyblade master Yen Sid, who told him about a new kind of enemy: Nobodies, the shells left behind by people whose hearts had left their bodies and turned to Heartless. Unlike the Heartless, it was easier for a Nobody to become sentient; a whole group of sentient, human formed Nobodies had formed a group called Organization XIII to find their hearts by creating as many heartless as possible. Sora went on another quest to save the universe and find Riku and King Mickey, meeting more new friends and reuniting with old ones. At some point along the way, he found out that Kairi got really tired of waiting for him to go home and escaped, but got captured by Axel, a member of the Organization who had gone rogue. After chasing down Axel, he found him struggling to defend himself against a group of Nobodies sent after him by Saïx, a member of the Organization. Axel told Sora that Kairi had been taken from him by Saïx. Axel used the last of his strength to defeat the Nobodies surrounding them and after telling Sora that he reminded him of a Nobody, Roxas, who had made him feel like he had a heart, opened a path to the Organization's headquarters, the World that Never Was, and died. Arriving there, Sora was accosted by a boy in a black coat who fought him in the depths of his heart. After a very hard fight, the boy conceded, saying that Sora made a good Other. Arriving at the castle, he finally found Kairi, who had escaped her prison with the help of a mysterious girl called Naminé, and he finally, FINALLY caught up with Riku, who had taken on Ansem's form in order to use the powers of darkness. Riku told him about the existence of Roxas, the mysterious boy Sora had fought earlier and the nobody Axel had mentioned - Sora's nobody, created when he separated his heart from his body in Hollow Bastion a year before. Roxas had been reunited with Sora against his will in order to reunite Sora's heart and body, and had only made his peace with it during Sora's fight with him. Roxas had had his own life and friends (including the friends he had in Twilight Town; the sorrow that Sora had felt was Roxas'). The separation of Sora's heart from his body had also caused Naminé's creation - Naminé was Kairi's Nobody, an impossible creature since a Nobody is made from the shell of darkness left behind after the creation of a Heartless. Kairi, as a princess of heart, had no darkness to create a Heartless, which is why she became a shell of her own body in the first game. Naminé was instead made using Sora's body. Determined not to let Kairi and Riku out of his sight again, Sora defeated the rest of the Organization and traveled further into the castle, only to find King Mickey with a mysterious man... the real Ansem, Ansem the King. Ansem the Heartless who had taken Riku's body a year before was an impostor called Xehanort, whose Nobody, who called himself Xemnas, was trying to create an artificial Kingdom Hearts using the hearts Sora had released throughout his journey. However, King Ansem exploded the incomplete Kingdom Hearts, killing him and releasing light around the entire premises. The light caused Riku to return to his normal self, to everyone's surprise and relief. Together with Donald, Goofy, and Riku, Sora defeated Xemnas... 's first form. (GOD DAMN IT.) Before Sora and Riku could escape the castle, the portal leading out of the dimension closed. Together, they destroyed Xemnas once and for all, but they were trapped in Betwixt and Between, an area made of nothing. They eventually found a path that led to an beach inside the realm of darkness. After a very long time of waiting in which the two hashed out their feelings about each other, they got a message in a bottle from Kairi, which lit a path back to their island, where Kairi, Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey were waiting. A few days after Donald and Goofy had left, Sora and Riku were discussing their place in the universe when Kairi ran up with another message in a bottle from the king.

The message described the suffering of several people connected to his heart: Roxas, who had lost everything, including the living memory of his friend Xion, another Nobody, who also had to reunite with Sora at the cost of her existence and the knowledge of her existence; and Ventus, who had lost his two best friends, and still slept in Sora's heart. These hearts inside of Sora had helped him battle his foes and influence his choices throughout his life. In order to rescue these people and bring them peace, Sora and Riku would have to go through a Mark of Mastery exam, which would determine if they were of Master rank with the keyblade, and go on one last quest to reunite all of the people who were torn apart by the Heartless. Sora, aware that he owed the hearts inside him his life, strength, and current personality, accepted the quest.

The Mark of Mastery exam took Sora and Riku back in time; their bodies slept as their hearts, in their younger bodies, went back to the moment when their island was taken by the heartless in order to investigate and free the sleeping worlds, which were safe from the Heartless but still had yet to awaken. However, the two were separated early on and Sora's heart was plunged into sleep. He awoke in Traverse Town, the first sleeping world, and started his journey to figure out why the worlds were still asleep. Throughout the journey, Riku was stuck in a parallel set of worlds; although they could influence the events of the other parallel, they couldn't see or speak to each other. A unfamiliar young man in a black coat opposed Sora, mocking him as his heart guided him deeper into the dream. The last dreaming world was the World that Never Was. Despite echoing warnings (from Riku, who had found Sora's body and realized what was wrong), Sora continued to follow his heart, finding several mysterious people: Ven's recollections of Aqua and Terra (he briefly turned into a very confused Ven during this time), then Xion, who caused him immense emotional distress that he couldn't explain, and Roxas, with whom he had a brief conversation where he explained that he wanted to give him his life back. In return, Roxas allowed Sora to share some of his memories, which caused him even more distress. Sora finally got to the very core of the dream where the young man, who was actually a young version of Xehanort, revealed his ultimate plan: the eldest Xehanort had gone back in time and informed the young version of himself of his plans to create a Keyblade War. The various time-displaced versions of himself manipulated everyone over decades in order to first try to trap Riku in the darkness as Xehanort's newest vessel, then, as a back-up plan, trap Sora in his own dreams, defeat him there, and lock him within his own heart so Xehanort could use his body as a new vessel. His plan to find new vessels had begun with the Organization, his first attempt to create thirteen vessels for himself, but Sora had ruined that plan too. Xehanort also explained that the Nobodies did have hearts - Sora had killed extremely confused people with young hearts. Sora did his best to defeat Ansem, but unfortunately, since the youngest Xehanort had already seen his victory, Sora's defeat was time-locked. Sora fell asleep, trapped inside his heart to be devoured by the darkness within, when... Ven, who was still inside, gave his armor to protect Sora from the darkness. (GOOD BOY.) Riku, King Mickey, Lea (Axel with his heart), Donald, and Goofy rescued Sora's body from the Xehanorts and brought him back to Yen Sid's castle, where Riku performed one last dive into Sora's dream, rescued Sora, met all of his current heart inhabitants (excluding Vanitas), and discovered a data version of King Ansem that the real King Ansem had implanted inside Sora's heart during his year long sleep, who gave Riku information on the nature of Sora's heart and existence and informed him that Sora was already awake and well. Riku traveled back to his own body to find Sora in a pair of fucking funny glasses having a tea party with Donald and Goofy, with Lea sitting off to the side being a smug motherfucker. Seriously? Fucking seriously??? Oh my fucking god. Sora did NOT pass the exam, Riku did, Yen Sid apologized for sending them both into a trap, but now they know what Xehanort was up to, which is nice even though they can do shit all to stop it; Kairi was one of the seven chosen warriors of light who will help the other six light keyblade wielders against the thirteen chosen wielders of darkness in the next keyblade war, and suddenly Axel has a keyblade. This is the happiest ending to a Kingdom Hearts game ever. Sora goes off to do his own thing - he ends up going back to the dreaming Traverse Town in his normal body to look for his Dreameaters. And this is where I stop. PHEW

Abilities/Additional Notes:
Sora has a very, very wide skillset throughout the games that fluctuates within various contexts. However, I've chosen to use a combination of his abilities from Kingdom Hearts II and a few of his spells from DDD. I've omitted spells that slow and stop time since the flow of time in Adstringéndum doesn't accommodate for time manipulation. I've also omitted a comprehensive list of abilities and equipment for brevity's sake; the abilities he will use the most is under the other abilities list and his equipment shouldn't have a bearing on everyday gameplay. If any of these abilities are game-breaking or excessive, I will happily remove them from the list. Thanks!

The keyblade acts as both a sword and a blunt, bludgeony object. Sora keeps it stored in his heart and summons it whenever he needs it, so he doesn't need a sheath or a holster. It's sharp and durable enough to slice through skyscrapers. Other abilities include:

- Universal key - Can unlock most conventional locks. Might be able to unlock doors locked with advanced technology (I'm pretty sure that the locks on space ships lock via keycode or something, and Terra broke out of one, so... If that's excessive, let me know.)
- Empathic weapon - the keyblade is connected to Sora's heart and cannot be taken from him. If Sora is separated from it, he can summon it back to his hand, even if it's locked up somewhere else - it disappears and reappears in Sora's possession.
- Can turn into other versions of itself - As of right now, Sora has the keychains he gained from the worlds from KHII and the dreaming worlds from DDD. Each keychain turns his keyblade into another form with different stats and abilities. For simplicity's sake, I can and will limit the amount of keychains he has available to him and say he lost them on the way or something. (he has like 40+ at this point in his life ok i'm at peace with nixing 90% of them)

Magical abilities:

- Curaga: A cure spell. Can heal a good amount of damage of physical damage, but cannot repair completely broken bones (he can do fractures at most), unconsciousness/incapacitation, sickness/poison, or death.
- Esuna: Can cure sickness, poison, and non-physical forms of incapacitation (confusion, sleep, temporary blindness, etc), but not genetic diseases/disabilities, unconsciousness, or death.
- Element spells: Fire, ice, thunder, and light (Firaga, Blizzaga, Thundaga, and Sparkga/Faith). He's very proficient with these spells and can hit wide areas with any one of them. On the downside, the bigger the spell is, that harder it is for him to aim...
- Poison: Temporary poison. Flushes out from the system quickly.
- Mini: Temporarily makes opponent small. Their attack capabilities goes down significantly.
- Magnet: Draws in opponents. Sora can localize this spell to hit only his opponents.
- Zero Gravity: Sora creates a weak event horizon that causes things/opponents in the area to float. Sora can localize this spell.
- Balloonga: Balloons that hit like homing missiles, then multiply and hit again...
- Sleepga: Puts people to sleep.
- Time Bomb: Turns opponents into time bombs. They walk off, and then... boom!
- Tornado: Wind attack, Sora summons and controls a small tornado.


other abilities:
- Can jump pretty damn high! Think... his own height. Five feet.
- He can jump again in midair in what is called a double jump.
- HE CAN GLIDE! He can't fly, but he can kick off from a high point and glide until he hits ground again.
- Can fall from extremely tall heights and survive.
- Slide-dash! It's this... really long slide, I have no idea how it works. Handy for dodging things!
- Dodge Roll! It's... a roll. He uses it to dodge things. He can roll...forever. HE'S GOT SOME REALLY GOOD INNER EQUILIBRIUM.

Sample Journal Post:

[ For the record, I'm sorry. In a series of badly formatted posts, the first in text: ]

gijowjaifoskljdnagonewofaslkfjaksljdf hello??? hello?????? who is this?? tron are you there

[ The second also in text: ]

i don't know what this is but i found it in my pocket. it's not mine!! didn't steal it. if i'm talking to anyone, i have somebody's computer thing. you can go ahead and take it if it's yours. i don't know where i am though, so you're gonna have to find me. sorry

[ The third post is a brief video of Sora's blue eyed brown haired charming as all heck self, eyes widening in surprise before he waves and turns the feed off. ]

[ Fourth post: ]

what do you use this for, anyway? i keep hitting send but i'm not getting anything back.

[ Fifth post: Just a short video of him pulling a sad clown frown face briefly before spotting the look on his face and bursting into laughter. He keeps giggling to himself as he looks for the button to turn the feed off. ]


Sample RP:

floor, floor, flOOR, FLOOR-!

Sora threw up his arms and turned his head, hitting the ground in a rolling, gravel-scrunching mess of limbs. As he stared into the space directly in front of his nose, he faintly hoped that nothing had gone too far off the rails this time.

"Oww..." He lifted his arms up and blinked until his swimming vision locked on to his wrists. His gloves had taken the brunt of the landing, the tough fairy-cloth still in one piece, but red scrapes stung fire into his forearms where the cuffs ended, and his bones vibrated with aftershocks of the impact. He didn't have to touch his face to feel warm wetness bubbling up above his right eyebrow and into his hairline. Yep, that landing was pretty much a wash. Tragic. Riku would have told him to roll into the landing, stupid. Sora swore never to breathe a word of this to him, never ever ever.

Still on his back, he reached out and summoned the keyblade. "Heal," he said, rolling onto his rear as green light surrounded him, a soothing coldness covering his scrapes and cuts and covering them with smooth, scarless skin.

Blinking the brightness out of his eyes, he scanned the ruined city around him. No cobblestone, no lightposts, not a trace of old metal railings or wood shingled roofs. Not even a moogle. "So... not Traverse Town. Not by a long shot," he added, jamming the point of his keyblade into the ground and pushing himself to his feet. Dusting his clothes off, his feet started taking him forward, past piles of rubble and smashed storefront windows.

Did he take a wrong turn? He wasn't sure if you could take wrong turns when traveling to the sleeping worlds - wasn't it supposed to be, you know, as easy as falling asleep? "Maybe I was wrong." It wasn't an outrageous thought, but something about the way the torn-up buildings echoed his words back at him made him uneasy. Sure, he was used to making mistakes, but most of the time his hindsight was sharp enough to tell him exactly what he did wrong, and more importantly, showed him how to make it right. This was different. For some reason, he didn't think he did anything wrong.

His thoughts settled on Jiminy Cricket in a flash of clarity; without the little scribe, he didn't know if he could retrace his steps. He tried not to think about how maybe this trip was sort of kind of not really but actually a really bad idea especially because he didn't bring his friends - what if Xehanort was behind this and the war was actually starting, like, now?? - and instead focused on patting down his pockets for something to write with. At the very least he could try writing down what was right in front of him. If a cricket could do it even while crashing onto a jungle planet, then he could too - what is this?

His fingers caught onto something smooth and unfamiliar in his left hip pouch. He scooped it up and rolled it over in his palm - it had buttons like the computer in the castle at Radiant Garden, but it was small. "What the..." Dismissing his keyblade for the moment, he poked at the buttons with both thumbs, blinking hard as the screen flickered bright light into his eyes. He jerked his head up, looking up and down the empty street. "Weird... it's not like anyone dropped it. That doesn't make sense! How do you drop something in someone's pocket by accident...?" Filling his ears with his voice, he took a turn onto a storefront step and leaned back against the doorframe, hitting more buttons at random. It wasn't as though he had anywhere to be, really, and if he was going to stay here for a while, and this was his only clue to what just happened here... might as go with it, right?

He starting reading the options on the menu... Video? That sounded promising.