[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]

[ 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?

[piromare]

Soft.

[ as he allows it to extend past his wrist and hand, onto and surrounding vanitas', lio marvels at how easy it is to still do this; if anything, even easier than before. his emotions not running wild, his desire to burn less than his desire to want to preserve his friendships. ]

... I can control whether it burns for real or not. Fire can be scary, but not when it's mine.

[darkcharge]

[ Someone really should explain it to Vanitas better. He still doesn't really have any sort of grasp on these dreamotion ability things. Or how it all can make his natural abilities stronger.

But that could be because outside of healing, he doesn't really know how to manifest his emotions as energy. They've only ever been Unversed. ]

So are you saying you can only do things with your own flame?

[piromare]

I can control all fire to some extent, but here? I've only tried using my own. It's all about the color.

[ pink? danger. blue? fine. normal fire? also probably danger. he can explain that part later. ]

It's nice, huh?

[darkcharge]

What do you mean color, Lio?

[ He thought that color only pertains to heat levels? ]

[piromare]

Look at it.

[ it's blue right now. an unusual color for a flame that isn't incredibly hot. that it dances around lio's hand and wrist, and as it flickers and wiggles against vanitas', it continues to appear like an illusion at most. ]

From me, that blue is safe. It doesn't hurt you. [ a beat, then: ] It won't hurt you.

[darkcharge]

[ Well Vanitas is going to continue to look at it. He can see that it isn't hurting him. That it won't burn. It's still pretty unusual if you ask him. After all the fire spells that Vanitas uses are tinged with a bit of Darkness. A black, purple, blue rather than straight up reddish hues. ]

And if you wanted it to burn?

[piromare]

[ with his other hand? another flame wraps around his fingertips--- but he doesn't let it grow any further than that. this one, however, takes the color of a bright and florescent pink. ]

This one.

[ carefully, he lowers it near van. not close enough to burn him but to be able to feel that radiant heat come off of every flicker.

but he'll be ready just in case van tries to touch it, too.]

[darkcharge]

[ Well this one he isn't about to touch. Instead he just kind of stares at it and the way it dances around Lio's fingertips. Why is it that these two flames have such wildly different colors? Why is it that they do not have the appearance of a regular flame? ]

How is it that you can determine which one will appear?

[piromare]

Honestly? It's... got to do a lot with how I feel about a person.

[ which is why the flame immediately goes back to blue. ]

I don't want to hurt the people I should be protecting. Even if they're stronger.

[darkcharge]

[ Yeah well. Vanitas feels as though, for Lio, that he calls into that category of "people that Lio should be protecting." So he can't really outright deny him any of that, you know? Because he's already agreed to Lio looking out for him. ]

I don't think it matters if they are stronger or not.

[piromare]

Some people think they don't need it, you know?

[ he's not saying vanitas is in that category. but he's seen plenty of headstrong people make foolish mistakes, including himself. ]

In the end, it's about doing the right thing. Especially when it comes to my friends.

[ his fire dances again along his fingertips before snuffing itself out. ]

[darkcharge]

[ Oh. The fire. It's gone. The heat goes with it. And... Well Vanitas' distraction. ]

Yeah and one of those friends can't even figure out how to do more than heal a couple of scrapes.