[Closed] Absence makes the heart grow weary

[twilightskey]

Who: Roxas and Close CR
Which: Closed Log for planned threads
Where: Around Town
What: Bleeding Heart shenanigans and the fallout therein
Warnings: General emotional instability due to Bleeding Heart infection. Will apply CWs as they appear

Valentine's Day was an unusual holiday, meant to spread love and joy and cheer. It's a celebration for loved ones and those who's hearts were connected, or at least that's what Roxas has come to believe. It's honestly a very nice celebration, and he can see the honesty and joy that is meant to be behind the festivities. But for Roxas, he can't help the pang of sorrow he feels at the same time. Because even though there are people here in Reverein that he knows, people that he cares for... he is still very much aware of the friends who are not here. Friends he hasn't seen in so long, even back in that other world. And despite trying to be positive about it, he misses them. It's just been so long since he's seen his Twilight Town friends, and he misses them dearly. Axel, Xion, Hayner, Pence, Olette, and even Saix... it's been so long since he's seen them. Almost two years, counting the time he spent in Aefenglom. What he wouldn't give to share this strange, dreamy world with those he misses...

Perhaps its that longing that lures the Bleeding Heart in, which settles into his chest without him even realizing it. But those longing feelings for his friends grow stronger, and more twisted as time passes. Roxas is familiar with anger, but the chest-clenching, seething rage he starts to feel -- at the lack of his friends by his side, at his inability to see them, at the very worlds that have pulled him into them -- becomes more and more potent within him, to the point where his very presence begins to cause nearby plants to wilt and singe with unlit embers. He retreats further into his own isolation, away from his friends in this world, away from the other treehouse dwellers, away from any who want to see what's gotten into the Nobody.

And then, eventually, he's just gone. His room empty, his window open, and a trail of singed plants leading into the forest the only evidence to him even being there.

[[OoC: If you would like to do a closed thread with Roxas here, feel free to PM me or send me a message on plurk (pocketnoivern)!]]

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[spirialink]

Ah, I Spiria Linked with you! [Kor pats the red Soma attached to his arm.] I told you about that before, right?

[Surely he's mentioned his abilities in the past, right? Maybe? He's not sure.]

I'm here to help you, Roxas. There's something wrong in here. Something that shouldn't be here! Just look!

[He gestures to the platform they're on, this weird red glow beneath them...]

[twilightskey]

Oh..!

[Kor's told him before, but Roxas has never seen it before. But it looks like it's pretty similar to diving into someone's heart. Huh...]

[Roxas frowns, looking at his heart station, and the pulsing red glow. He nods slowly.]

You're right... there's something wrong with my heart. I feel... disconnected from it. Like I can't feel all of it; all I can feel is anger, and rage. I don't..!

[He's not able to say the rest of his thought, because his eyes widen as a sharp pulse echoes around them. From beneath his feet, a pulse of darkness spreads, before rising up to grab at him with shadowy tendrils. Roxas lets out a cry as he begins to sink into his heart station, looking to Kor.]

Kor!

[spirialink]

[All Roxas can feel is anger and rage... It was a textbook case of impending Despir, or at least this world's version of it. Kor was all too familiar with situations like these; It was his job as a Somatic to fix them, after all.

His musings are broken when he hears Roxas cry out his name.]

--Roxas!!

[Without even a second thought, he runs forward, practically diving for Roxas, and attempting to grab his hand before he's pulled in completely.]

[twilightskey]

Ahh!

[Roxas grips on tight to Kor's hand, trying to pull him out of the pit of darkness he's seeping into. But thought the two do have strength behind their grips, Roxas still continues to sink.]

[From within the pit of darkness, a pair of eyes leer up at Kor. Whatever has a grip on Roxas clearly doesn't want to let go, doesn't want Kor interacting with Roxas. And if it drags Kyo in with him, so be it.]

[spirialink]

[Kor keeps his grip on Roxas' hand tight, Though the malevolent force had no intention of letting go of Roxas, neither did Kor. But try as he might to fight against it, it was stronger, and so he slowly begins to sink into the darkness with Roxas,

But he came here to save Roxas from the darkness, not lose him to it, So even if he has to dive into the darkness to save him, he'll see it through.]

[twilightskey]

[Down Roxas goes, and since Kor refuses to hold on, down Kor goes too. Down, down, into the darkness that has infected Roxas's heart.]

[Since that darkness had been targeting Roxas, those tendrils swirl around Roxas's form, tying him and binding him in a cocoon of sorts as it pulls him down into the depths of his heart. But since Kor hadn't been intended as the target of that attack, he can see the cause of the encroaching darkness. A Bleeding Heart, which seems to delight in the sight of Roxas's inner self being bound and tucked away deep into the recesses of his heart.]

[As for Kor, though, once it looks up to see him, it hisses, ears angling low. An unwanted pest, it seems...]

[spirialink]

[There it is. Whatever it is, it's got Roxas, and Kor wasn't about to let that stand.

Back on his feet, he draws his Soma, the golden-hued weapon radiating with emotional power.]

Whatever you are, let my friend go!

[He was burning with anger at the Bleeding Heart, for hurting his friend like this.]

[twilightskey]

[The Bleeding Heart lets out a little hiss, its tail swishing. So, this one wanted to play? Then so be it.]

[It spread its wings menacingly, before it dives at Kor with a hiss, slashing its claws at him, crackling red energy surrounds it as it tries to slice at the other boy.]

[spirialink]

[Kor dodges and rolls out of the way, quickly bounding back to his feet. He'd fought more heart-eating monsters than he could care to count, he wasn't about to fall to whatever this one could do.]

Voltaic Roar!

[He swings his sword in a horizontal arc through the air in front of him, the path it followed crackling and roaring with electricity, arcs of lightning quickly lashing out at the Bleeding Heart.]