021 ~ [Voice]

[distressedude]

[Even with the month of February coming to a close, the weather has still been rather cold. But that didn't stop spring from trying to make its way through, and even now, one could see the start of buds on trees around the forest. Appropriately bundled up for the weather, Ion rests at the foot of the largest tree in the cherry tree grove just north of the village. Taking in a long, steady breath, he absentmindedly opens his journal. When he speaks, it doesn't even seem like he's addressing the journal at first. His voice sounds distant; he's had a lot on his mind lately.]

I wonder what it would be like to live in Luceti longer than I lived back on Auldrant... so far. [Those last words are added rather hastily, like an after-thought. There's a wistful smile on his face.] Thinking about it used to make me feel sad... now I'm almost not sure what to think. It feels like the longer I'm here, the greater the chance is that I might start to forget things about home. The sound of the city bustling to life in the morning. The way the sun shines off the fonbelt in the sky at sunset. The faces of all the kind people I've met...

[He trails off before smiling a little more brightly.]

But I guess it really hasn't been all that long. [Two years in Luceti. Almost a year back on Auldrant. Nearly a quarter of the time he's been alive.] Besides, there are things here that I never want to forget as well...

[He trails off and looks off into the distance. The only sound for a few moments is that of birds chirping overhead. Aburptly, he looks back down at the journal.]

Ah. I think I lost track of where I was going with this. I'm sorry for rambling.

Comments

[distressedude]

[That's probably something Kohan will have to get used to, seeing as chances are he won't be forgetting that experiment anytime soon. And neither will Ion.]

That's right. I wonder if it's simply because there are so many different people here from so many different worlds... it's difficult to imagine how the village would be able to function otherwise, with so many different sorts of people here.

[He pauses, thinking to himself for a moment.] Perhaps that's one of the things I never expected I would enjoy so much. Though there are still a few people from my world who refer to me by my title, it's... nice to have everyone here call me simply by my name. It feels so much warmer, somehow.

[personafalsify]

I'm glad.

[ That he's happy about something like that. ]

Maybe... a lot of people come from worlds where there aren't things like... Replicas, or... Nobodies. [ It's the best he could come up with for a second example. ] So they don't have any ideas about what it would mean until they meet someone like that.

[distressedude]

..."Nobodies"?

[Well hey, here's another world where something like that doesn't exist.]

[personafalsify]

... Oh.

They're... people who were born without hearts. Or that's what they say, at least. For some of them... that just doesn't seem right.

[distressedude]

[...]

Born without a heart? How... is that possible?

[...there is a slight miscommunication going on here.]

[personafalsify]

[ To be fair, Kingdom Hearts is really stupid about how it uses the word heart. ]

Oh, right. Not "heart" like...

[ how does i explain canon ]

Alright, how about this. It's thanks to our hearts that we can feel emotions. Happiness and sadness, good feelings and bad. It's because of our hearts that we want to help people, or... hurt them. Hearts can have both light and darkness in them.

But Nobodies don't have those emotions. They might seem like normal people, but... they don't have hearts. That's what makes them Nobodies. At least, that's what I've been told.

[distressedude]

People who don't have emotions... I didn't think something like that was possible. Newborn replicas on Auldrant seem emotionless at first, but they develop them as they grow and learn about the world around them...

[But to be incapable of feeling them at all... that sounded so sad. Although, if they're not capable of feeling sad, does that mean they wouldn't agree? It sounded complicated.]

[personafalsify]

[ It is complicated. ]

I'd... never really thought it was possible, either. I've met a few of them, though, and some of them... I don't know if I'd say that they didn't seem like they had emotions, but. I guess, something about them seemed off. But some of them did act like they had emotions.

I don't know what a Nobody with a heart would be, though. Maybe just a normal person. Not sure why they'd want to be a Nobody, then...