[open!] you're only everything I ever dreamed

[oathkeeper]

Who: The Kingdom Hearts cast + You!
Which: Open Log!
Where: The collection of treehouses that the cast has made! And other areas!
What: An open log for residents and adjacent CR to come and go. Top levels inside!
Warnings: tba!


[Now that the residents of Songerein are settling in it seems that a group of uncanny key kids (and a few others) have come together to make a nice little collection of connecting treehouses. The houses are dreamed up and put together with a patchwork of wooden bridges and boards and spruced up with fairy lights that glow and hang from the rafters. The treehouses are high in the canopies of thick trees and the balcony sections are open and breezy for any visitors to come to walk up the steps and see.

Down below the treehouses on the ground seems to be a rather flourishing garden of sunflowers. Where they come from or how they sprouted is still unclear. But it is joined with a rather chubby-looking chicken that pecks at the ground occasionally. Along with the grazing chicken, there seems to be a whoosh of dragonfly wings as a large dragonfly has taken to the treehouse as a home too. And what is this? It seems they might have a small collection of blue birds that won't leave the house alone. What other creatures are out and about?

Dreammotion energy seems to be strong around the treehouses. As the trees house a collection of boys with vivid and wild imaginations. Sometimes lights will flicker brighter or plants will bloom with various strange flowers. And the smell of baking chocolate and cookies is always in the air.]

Comments

[darkcharge]

[ OH there's still definitely a stare. His eyes look from Lio to the bruise. Then back up to Lio. ]

You say it was an accident, but the emotions that you are giving off are telling me otherwise...

[ Why are you embarrassed and avoidant? ]

[piromare]

... I tried to fly.

( said nonchalantly, as if this were some kind of common thing that lio tried to do. but if he were speaking to anyone but van (and a few select others that knew him)... )

I thought maybe I could. So when I ran as hard as I could and jumped forward...

( lio laughs, but it's a short and cut off noise. mostly out of embarrassment. )

At least I didn't skin it.

[darkcharge]

You tried to -

[ Vanitas cuts himself off. Groans and rubs at his face. Normally that wouldn't really be a cause for any thing close to concern. Stupid guy had been something like part bird. But Lio isn't here so it seems nonsensical to try something like that. ]

How high, stupid? How high were you?

[piromare]

Just off of the ground. I didn't want to risk hurting myself real bad, you know?

( he's not that stupid! he's exploring his surroundings using the powers that he thinks he had. that he thought he had. lio is quick to raise his hands up in front of himself defensively, shaking his head. )

... I could fly back home, too. Using my fire.

[darkcharge]

So what you're telling me is that you thought you could fly... Not because of the other place. But because you could back home with your flame.

[ Fingers tap on the countertop. He huffs. ]

Can you think of a reason that it wouldn't be working?

[piromare]

If I had wings, I would've been more daring.

( even now when he rolls his shoulders, he can almost feel that slight weight. that wariness to not bump into things. the ability to sort of bundle himself using those feathers, some soft and some stiff. )

Maybe it's a lack of confidence? A lack of using that strength for so long... after all, it was missing for a year or so.

( he frowns and sighs. at least he's comfortable enough around van to admit that. )

Doesn't feel right.

[darkcharge]

Maybe it has something to do with this place, Lio. I think that it limits our abilities that enable us to move around quickly.

[ A shrug. Looking bac at the now somewhat destroyed plant. Frowning at it. Yes, he knows Lio well enough to - ]

Not all of my abilities are really working right either. So there's that.

[piromare]

Yeah, I figured as much. But that doesn't mean I should feel like my wings have been clipped for this long...

( he can still feel the fire. it burns inside of him, wanting him to return to his former glory--- blazing and bright. )

... so, do you still want to try to patch me up?

[darkcharge]

[ With a sigh, he waves towards the living room. ]

Go and sit down. I'll be around in a minute after I clean this up.

[ Meaning the dirt and shards of the pot on the floor. Vanitas isn't really going to just leave this around for someone else to deal with. Then he'll walk back into the living room to tend to Lio. Because he can at least try this out. ]

[piromare]

( he'll go to the living room then at van's request, though he's slow to do so as he keeps an observant and caring eye on his friend. small things like cleaning up a self-made mess is considerate of others. a very quiet act of kindness.

and he sits down in a chair, already moving to pull up his pants leg to reveal the large and dark colored bruise just below his kneecap. it certainly made it hard to walk at times, but... )

... could've been much worse. Just saying.

[darkcharge]

[ But it's not anything that could really be considered life threatening. Before long he makes his way into the living room and kneels before the leg. ]

It's not the worst I've seen. Just that it kind of feels stupid how you got it.

[ Vanitas takes a deep breath. Holds his hands against that leg. Focus. Happy thoughts. Positive ones. See how the body should knit itself together... ]

[piromare]

( even if van isn't completely successful... it's the fact that he wants this more than anything that makes lio want it to happen, too. whether it's in the homey surroundings that he's seated in or the obvious amount of determination that van is exuding as he holds his leg?

memories from here... seeing vanitas for the first time, away from their shared nightmares. them fighting off those goblins. they resonate with him.

and so that bruise? it starts to turn a little yellow, fade at the edges. what looked a lot bigger moments ago shrinks into something smaller and more the size of a coin... )

[darkcharge]

[ It's still not as fast or as effective as Vanitas would like. It's nowhere near where he had been before coming to this place. Yet it is still working, isn't it? Maybe what he had really needed had just been the right subject.

Or, something that actually motivates him more than a plant. ]

It's not the best job I've done. But it doesn't look like you'll lose that leg.

[piromare]

( and lio snickers, slowly rotating his ankle while flexing the muscles there. )

Well thank goodness. Don't know what I'd do if I lost my leg and couldn't get around without wings... it'd make moving around pretty hard.

( all in all? it feels much better. walking back to his treehouse won't be an issue. )

... you didn't lose your touch, Van. You'd never let that happen.

[darkcharge]

You'd figure it out. If not you then I'm sure some weirdo around here could conjure something up with those dream powers people have.

[ He waves it off, finally plopping himself down onto a couch. ]

I never had healing magic in the first place, you know. It wasn't something the old man taught me. So it's essentially relearning a skill that I picked up from the other place only this time I'm learning it how I should have in the first place.

[piromare]

That's the thing. I don't want to just dream... I want to live with them again.

( lio closes his eyes and takes a slow breath in, releasing it after holding it for a moment. )

I don't know how the proper way you're supposed to learn how to use magic like that. Never had the chance, you know. ( he slowly opens one eye with a half-smirk. ) But I wouldn't mind continuing to help you figure out whether it's working or not.

( and it seems to be, so far. )

[darkcharge]

[ A lot of people seem to have things that they want for themselves. Things that aren't really being taken from them despite the fact that they are here and not where they should be. ]

It was just a slightly different process. The flow of magic itself was just different. Off, maybe.

[ He knows that he's gone over this before. Or tried to explain. But for Vanitas, it is so easy and for others it's not. Hence the reason he gets frustrated over healing magicks. ]

Are you volunteering to get injured more or what here, Lio?

[piromare]

Eh? No, no.

( a quick shaking of his head as he tries his best to convince van that the last thing he's going to do is get intentionally hurt. )

But... it's comforting, knowing that you'd be able to help if something goes wrong in the middle of a fight. Normally I'd have to fix myself up after one.

( which means recovering. resting. wasting time. )

And if it's you doing it, I know it'll be fine.

[darkcharge]

[ Lio. Sometimes this guy isn't all that different than Sora. Saying things that are from the heart like that. Sappy and genuine.

Vanitas just doesn't know what to do with these things. So he just stays still. Huffing. ]

Why are you like this...

[piromare]

Don't know what you're talking about.

( a laugh, as he stands up. he reaches down and touches that spot, and it's still sore... but a vast improvement compared to what it was like before. )

Then again, between the both of us? We should be able to end a fight before it even starts.

[darkcharge]

You know exactly what I am talking about.

[ Don't play all innocent with him Lio! The other boy definitely knows what it is that he is doing. He knows how embarrassed and flustered and huffy it makes Vanitas too.

He just falls back onto the floor. Sitting down there and glowering up at Lio who has decided to change the course of this conversation. ]

Well I can end a fight before it starts. Still out on you since I haven't entirely seen what you're capable of.

[piromare]

( lio reaches down, beaming brightly at the dour boy. )

If you're curious... I can show you. Just a taste.

( his hand glows blue, the faintest of flames starting to grow around it--- without heat building up along with it. )

[darkcharge]

[ He watches the little flame, of course. It's in the weirdest of colors too. Vanitas almost wants to reach out to touch it. Almost. ]

As if I will be satisfied with a taste.

[piromare]

[ and he reaches out to vanitas, wanting to help him up. ]

It's okay. It's not going to bite you. It's a safe flame.

[ mostly illusory. if anything, it's more feather-like than flame-like. ]

[darkcharge]

[ Well if Lio is going to offer him a hand up, Vanitas isn't going to refuse it. Rather he stands and then sits down by his... Friend. ]

Normally you wouldn't have to earn about a flame biting.

[ But he reaches out all the same. To see to this flame. How it somehow feels - ]

Soft?