[ closed ] the shadow is the greatest teacher

[darkcharge]

Who: Vanitas and Riku
Which: Closed
Where: Reactor
What: Investigation!
Warnings: Vanitas and Riku being snippy?





Is your nose broken? You can't get a good whiff of that nightmare energy coming through?

[ Yes, he is taunting Riku. No, he doesn't really care that he is either. Vanitas and Riku are both here for the same reason. They are going to get on well enough to at least work together. But that doesn't mean that Vanitas is going to refrain from giving the other a hard time when and where he can...

Especially since he knows that this isn't easy. If the leak could be so easily found, then the whole ordeal wouldn't have happened to begin with. There wouldn't have been a need to act and there wouldn't be a need to try to figure out what went wrong.

Vanitas, himself, favors sabotage. He has no idea what Riku is thinking as he walks around, a couple of Floods at his heels. ]

Comments

[darkcharge]

No, it wouldn't. However, it will make it easier for you to apply the patch since nothing will leak out while you're working on it.

[ See? He knows how to play nice? ]

[retrieves]

[... Vanitas and "nice" is always such a strange concept to him.

but then he nods.]

That'll work, then. It wasn't too hard... but not all of them might be so easy.

[darkcharge]

That leak was easy. We don't know that the next one will be like that.

[ Which, speaking of, the Unversed are darting off. They sense the next leak and it's going to be bigger than this one. Or, rather, more energy will end up leaking out. ]

We are supposed to be a team here, right?

[retrieves]

... Right.

[it's still kind of weird, following the Unversed. even though it's not unlike anything he's able to do, it's kind of strange to see someone else who isn't batshit insane using darkness powers to something that's not inherently chaotic.]

Have I ever apologized for the way I treated you when I first got here?

[maybe it's because he's thinking about all of that that he randomly brings it up.]

[darkcharge]

[ Huh? Apologize for that? But Vanitas had expected all of that. So why would Riku apologize for behavior that's expected? ]

Sort of, I guess. There was that text message.

[ He looks at him, raising a brow. ]

It's what I expected would happen. Every time someone else shows up, I expect that sort of thing.

[retrieves]

You had a point then, too. That I of all people should've believed you a little faster.

[Vanitas' whole... everything probably didn't help, but he's not going to bring that up.]

I'm glad I was wrong about you.

[darkcharge]

[ Oh he... Doesn't know what to do with that. Riku is being genuine with that apology. There's nothing sarcastic or whatnot in that tone of voice. Nothing backhanded or biting.

It's a good thing that they are wearing protective gear. Because Vanitas is... Feeling some kind of way about it. ]

Don't worry about it. I was wrong about myself anyway.

[retrieves]

Haven't we all been at some point or another?

[the text wasn't really all that ungenuine too, but there was still tension there at the time he'd said it. even if he does remember it now in passing... he wanted to be a little more sincere.

for some reason, he's come to like Vanitas somehow. maybe it's how in some ways, they understand each other.]

Some are just more drastically wrong than others.

[aka them.]

[darkcharge]

It took you how long to embrace that?

[ The Unversed have stopped. They are right there, at another leak. This time even Vanitas can sense it through the suit.

And augh. Looks like there are fissures from where the crack had started. ]

[retrieves]

[Riku cuts Vanitas a Look for a moment, and looks down at the fissures and leak.]

Let's just get this done.

[and he'll start working his dreamotion on it again, half waiting for Vanitas' help before he uses more.]

[darkcharge]

Fine, fine. Spoilsport.

[ Vanitas kneels by the leak. He takes a deep breath and places his hand above the cracks. From this point he is going to start to manipulate the nightmare energy. ]

[retrieves]

[Riku's just going to roll his eyes, and then as Vanitas manipulates the nightmare energy, he's going to use dreamotion and his own abilities to patch the leak.]

Not the first time anyone's called me that.

[Sora calls him this... all the time...]

[darkcharge]

[ Riku can't see it, not with the protective suit. But Vanitas knows. He can feel how it is gripping at his hand. How the nightmare energy must be effecting it even now. But Vanitas is still keeping that to himself as much as possible. ]

I bet not. Just... Hurry.

[retrieves]

[he nods. since it's more intense than the other one, it takes him a little longer... but then he's done.

he exhales and then shakes his head, getting up from his crouched position.]

You good?

[darkcharge]

[ This one is actually leaking more than the previous one. And that... That is a little bit more for Vanitas to handle, especially getting more directly involved as he is.

Already he is frowning. Jaw tight.

And when Riku is done, he snatches his hand back like it's been burned. Shakes it out. ]

Just fine.