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[dualikey]

hi guys! uhhhh i hope i'm doing this right

my name's sora and some friends and me are trying to build a boat!


we finished a raft first cause it was easier, but i've only seen hand tools laying around so getting the wood and shaping it and stuff sure is taking awhile. we've made a couple before so even though we don't have anything fancy it'll probably just take a few days, but it'd sure go a lot faster with help.

and maybe sandpaper, i only found a little bit.

anyway, is anyone else used to building stuff?
even if you just wanna help out that'd be great! i guess i don't really have a way to pay you or anything, but i'll let you name the boat! that's fair, right? or if we get lots of help we could probably make more than one.

a skiff should be just enough to get around and i figure to hold 2 people it'd have to be like..... 8 feet long, and for 3 maybe at least 12. it's gonna take awhile though! even with my dad and all his stuff back home it was almost 3 whole weeks. i kinda figured if we got lots of hands that we could make up for not having any of the special gadgets. like i heard you can sand wood down by just using rocks inside a shirt! i already have lots of blisters


oh! and riku said it'd be cool to see if anybody knows how to uhhh what was it

make a lens? so we could use
a torch as a spotlight?

i think that part'll be a little further off


[local islander seeks diy enthusiasts and carpenters of dubious skills to build boat and possibly create tiny fleet. he also enjoys long walks on the beach and cakes with fruit inside, not to be confused with fruitcake.]

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[itsaname]

you could think of it as the fire helping you live here. [ As much as they "live" at all. ] i don't know about you, but my stomach still hurts if i get too hungry.

[ As for his neighbors? ]

i've seen one of them around. he has some unusual pets.

[ "Unusual pets." That's one way to put it. ]

[dualikey]

i guess that's true...

maybe

i'll think about it!

i've never really felt guilty about using fire before. but i don't really know how all the electric stuff at the invincible works either. do you have some in your room?



and uh
that's vanitas

sorry about him in advance he's just kinda always a jerk

[itsaname]

yeah, there's a little kitchen. i can teach you how to use the appliances if you want.

[ He wonders if Sora is from a world or time without electricity, but he doesn't ask just yet. ]

it's fine. i'm used to jerks. and you don't have to apologize for someone else.

[dualikey]

oh! that might be nice

i didn't really look around at that kind of stuff in the hotel
to be honest i kinda expected it to be old fashioned??


but i'll apologize for him anyway. he's not going to. and besides we're kinda
uh [somehow... he's not sure that the people he meets here will really take to the idea of holding a bunch of other people's hearts in his heart, and one of those hearts being part of another person's heart that got broken, and being made up of darkness but still being connected, and how that makes them have the same face.

actually
its a lot even for him]

related


why're you used to jerks? you seem really nice

[itsaname]

[ "Related" strikes a chord in Shadow. He thinks of his own newly-discovered relative. He thinks of the blood spilled in that man's name, and his response is admittedly biased. ]

you still don't have to apologize for him. you're not responsible for what your relatives do.

[ Shadow has to believe that.

As for why he's used to jerks? He considers bringing up the time he spent in prison, but he ends up going with: ]

it was an occupational hazard. i was a bodyguard for a man with a lot of enemies.

[dualikey]

yeah i know what you mean

i guess it's just kindof a... special case. it's hard to explain

[there's a space, he's started to learn, between being responsible for something and for being at fault for something. it's not vanitas's fault that he's like this. but how he treats others is his responsibility.

the trouble is- a heart can't learn to grow all on it's own.
it needs a few helping hands.]



was he your friend? the man you were bodyguarding

[itsaname]

[ Just as Sora finds it hard to explain his "relation" to Vanitas, Shadow finds it hard to explain his relationship with Wednesday. There's so much he didn't know at the time. So many things he finds himself questioning in retrospect. So many moments that have taken on new meaning, and so many things he wishes he could say.

Were they friends? Was even that much true? ]

i don't know. it was complicated.

[dualikey]

[Sora knows he isn't old or wise- he's met so many people in his travels that have taught him things. People who made him question what he believed about right and wrong or black and white. He's met good people who did bad things, and bad ones that did good.

In that way it doesn't really throw him, for Shadow to say it was complicated. Those three words include a lot. They talk about a story that has a whole lot of middle, but maybe not a clear beginning or end.

Sora nods, and finds an easy, quiet smile.]

yeah. i think i know what you mean.



did you want to be?[Friends.]