[closed]

[retrieves]

Who: kh cast
Which: closed log
Where: during the event so...everywhere?
What: everything all at once
Warnings: death and... idk a lot of angst





anyone dying? log it here!
people getting into cuddlepiles post-event? log it here!
anyone got anything else they wanna do with kh cast without posting on the event log? this is for you!
closed threads with the kh cast catchall or just general cast tagging is in here!

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[retrieves]

[it's like a dam's broken in his emotions. he hadn't allowed himself to feel this much in so long, because he's just been having to push on and jump into the next catastrophe. but now, here, where everything's so much quieter in comparison and especially since he'd been sitting in bed for a couple days, he's had too much time to think.

he's glad that he feels Sora's face against his neck, because then he can't feel as embarrassed about falling apart, though he's been as quiet as possible about it.]

You have so many people who're important to you.

[he rubs his face with the back of his arm as his other hand finds Sora's arm so that he can squeeze it. if something happened to him, he knows Sora would be okay. he knows it in his heart.]

I have you. You're... my important person.

[oathkeeper]

[The weak way that Riku says those words back to him ache in Sora's heart. He's never even seen Riku cry before so to hear the start of tears and how Riku's trying to hold them back makes Sora's shoulders tremble.

He doesn't know how to say the words he wants to say. To convey the complicated feelings that Sora carries in his heart that bubble up all the time. He knows those feelings are there like a little sunspot on the page of his heart. Even if he knows he shouldn't say them. They're still there. They always have been. And right now he feels somehow warm and worried at the same time.]

Riku... [His arms gently squeeze the other boy. Like he'll hold him if he falls.] I don't want to know what it's like to know you're not around. Because without you I wouldn't know what to do. So... Can't we just promise each other that no matter what happens we'll always protect each other?

[Does Riku really think Sora would be okay? He would be shattered without Riku. Nothing and no one can ever replace him. Sora knows he needs Riku too.]

[retrieves]

[of course Riku thinks that Sora can make it without him. he's watched it happen more than once -- but he's not going to bring it up right now. as sappy as he always teases Sora is, he's the one that knows he wouldn't be able to stay away forever...]

Fine.

[he doesn't want to continue to argue the point anymore. but he will lean into Sora and start pulling himself together, because he doesn't like this. he doesn't like crying, even though a small part of himself feels a little relief.]

You win this time.

[oathkeeper]

[While Sora might be strong when he's off and about doing his own thing time and time again... Riku's strength is always in the back of his mind. Even after all these years Sora still believes that without his friends that he's really... nothing. He's not strong at all. He's only strong because of his friends. Nothing more. Nothing less.

They would probably argue about this point forever if it ever properly came up.]

I'd say it's a tie.

[Because Sora relented that Riku can have his part too as much as it pains Sora to give it up. He still holds onto Riku and hugs him tightly, though. He's not ready to let go.]

[retrieves]

Hmph...

[Riku's not ready to move, either. it's nice to feel Sora so close to him, solid and warm after everything that'd happened. the fact that he'd just assumed that this sort of thing would never happen again...

he was always fine with it. giving everything up for Sora was always a no-brainer to him, but he knows that if he were to say anything it'd just end in arguing.

he doesn't want to argue right now.

instead, he leans into Sora some more, letting Sora steady him. Sora always steadies him whether he knows it or not, but in this moment, he needed it to be physical.]

🎀

[oathkeeper]

[It's just the truth between the two of them. Sora and Riku are intricately bound to each other in a lot of different ways. Sora would do anything to keep Riku safe too even if that means rewriting time and space or ripping out parts of his own heart to make sure Riku can live. So if they do continue to talk about it they are going to argue in circles and circles. It's just a fact.

So for now a tie will have to do. And a quietly steady and almost desperately needed hug between the two of them. Sora will hold on for a while longer just hanging onto the fact that Riku is alive and he's okay and he's right here.

Everything else will heal with a little bit of time.]