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[The feed opens up a bit into the bushes, a Buizel chittering away behind the screen and a Litwick wiggling just in the right hand corner, and paws are rolling the gear around. It takes a few minutes for the camera to be righted and pointing a direction that doesn't show leaves and snow, and then it's displaying a yard. A backyard.

Out in that backyard, Vanitas is practicing hand to hand combat with his Riolu and Croagunk; all three are working on their form today, led by "Instructor Zuru" the Scraggy. It seems to be going well enough, some simple arm thrusts and kicks being worked through, before they split into two groups. Riot starts off with a fierce volley of kicks at Zuru, who starts countering and dodging, and Vanitas takes a charge at the Croagunk.. who looks overly nonchalant.

It's a split second movement that the frog fighter makes, and not one Vanitas was particularly ready for; Croagunk used foul play and downright sucker punched his trainer in the gut, doing a fine job of knocking him off his feet and flat on his back. The resulting pained wheeze is enough to make the voyeur Pokemon go running, the Buizel leaving the gear behind in the bushes to time out on its own.]

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Not so much complicated as regions all in one world. They're just different locations with boundless space between them. I could travel between them easily enough, and it hardly took much time for me, unless I purposely took a sky corridor instead of a corridor of darkness.

You know, I've heard about this darkness stuff, but couldn't really get a good explanation of it. It that bad?

It's not the easiest to explain, [but considering who he is] but it's the physical manifestation of the dark thoughts and feelings in ones heart. It isn't just a persons heart though, it can be in anythings core being. It comes in all sorts of forms, depending on how much darkness gathers in one place.

That doesn't actually sound bad to me. Just like... basically it only happens when you can't be at peace with what's wrong, right?

No. Some people have more darkness than others. There is also the worlds with so much light, they cast a very strong shadow. One can't exist without the other overall, but how much of each is the factor. When enough darkness gathers, it can be enough to swallow worlds whole, devouring their light.

Darkness can devour people as well.

Okay so put that kind wrong. I meant, crap how do I put this. It's only bad when people can't embrace it and be happy with the bad too?

No. I would say the darkness can take on a life of its own, whether the person comes to terms or not. [Scratches his neck idly.]

Edited (whoops icons) 2013-02-18 04:33 (UTC)

Well that kinda sucks. And nothing can prevent it or anything?

Not really. Overall though, balance is needed between light and darkness. One can't exist without the other.

Ahhh it's one of those things. I was starting to wonder. In that case, I guess I just gotta work with what I got eh?

Yeah. If you had a heart of pure light, you'd be a Princess or a special case like Ventus.

And princesses are girls, so yeah I see what you mean.

If you want a good idea of what a Princess of Heart is like, look for a girl named Kairi. She's gone right now, but she could be back.

Oh! No no I met her. She's super nice. So like that huh?

Yeah. They tend not to have a truly mean bone in their body.

The only person I could think of like that was my baby cousin but... well, history says no according to my other cousin so I don't even know if home has one.

Your world probably does have one, or maybe even two. It's not as easy to find someone like that as one might think. If your cousin came here, I could probably tell on meeting them. Light attracts darkness like a moth to flame.

Really bad things happened to him when he got older, but he's the most peace oriented person of any age I've ever met so... I can't understand how that changed, even with what I've been told. He's like, unshakably loving and forgiving and stuff, even when people are super mean to him.

Some lights can be pushed into darkness, surrounded by it, but the light never really goes out. I can only guess that he was forced into things beyond his control, or something dear to him was threatened. Blackmail. It's the main reason good people do bad things.

Yeah. It's the only thing it could be really because... I just can't understand it. Like I said, he's the purest person I ever met. [He shook his head.]

But there's nothing I can do about it eh? Out of my hands.

Likely not. Unless you can time travel, but who knows what you'll mess with then.

[You're getting somber on him, fella.] What's your name? I'm Vanitas.

[He didn't mean to, and he gave himself a visible shake to snap out of it.]

Ah! Sorry sorry. Obito. Pleased to meet you.

Don't worry about it. [He winds up with a half smile.] Nice to meet you too. You new to this world?

Been here a few weeks now, but yeah, pretty new compared to some folks I've seen. I've never been to a different world before.

I've been here a little over two years now. World traveling isn't new to me, but it's new to most people who come here.

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