You got someone you think you know well

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Who: Terra (earthy), Roxas (pullsheavendown) and surprise guest star Sora (happylocksmith)
What: HE'S 👏 NOT 👏 VENTUS 👏 YOU 👏 NUMPTY
When: Some time after everyone returns from Nadril
Where: Olympia
Warning(s): Kingdom Hearts lore is still stupid

[Axel is probably going to be annoyed when he hears later that he was left out of this, and Roxas will proooobably apologize for it...probably. Maybe. Maybe not. It's not that he doesn't appreciate his friend's concern, or that he thinks he wouldn't be just as worried if their positions were the other way around; he does, on both counts. But after what happened when Axel tried explaining things to Terra (or so he'd heard), Roxas is pretty sure it's better if his best friend isn't here for this.

Besides, he wants to handle it himself. In Nadril, he spotted Terra several times and either slipped away or opened a portal and then ran. He's tired of running, and he's tired of hiding behind other people. If this is going to continue to be a problem, he'll solve it.

On the plus side, he's got a couple of things going for him that he didn't during that first surprise meeting.

Around midday, he makes a circuit of Olympia's market district before wandering a little outside it, where there's some space. And then he calls down a pillar of light; briefly, just for a few seconds, high enough that anyone who happens to be paying attention will see it above the buildings. And they might come looking for what made it. If not, well, he supposes he'll be the one who goes looking.]

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[Roxas is about to point out to Sora that he still knows more about it than Roxas does, a lot more, because he is the one who has all the memories and he is the one who picked up the dark Keyblade and jammed it into his chest and made Roxas, even if he didn't know he was doing it at the time and even if they both did it, technically, because there was no 'both' at the time when they were still one person—but Terra interrupts before he can/

Oh. Yeah. Terra's wrong, but Roxas can see how it'd be easy to miss if you're distracted by different hair

And the different voices.

And Sora smiles a lot more, too.

He looks at Terra, looks at Sora again, back at Terra, and shakes his head as he turns to Sora.]

Let's just show him first.

[happylocksmith]

No really, we do look the same! You just need to get past all this-

[The this in question is the mass of angles and tufts of mousy brown hair that make up his signature 'do. It would take a lot to get past it, goodness knows combs rarely do.

But it seems that Roxas is on the same wavelength and they'll have to go with a more visual approach.]

Okay. Desperate times, right?

[He reaches into one of the large pockets on his pants and pulls out two black, woollen beanie hats. He tosses one to Roxas, then sets about stuffing his hair into the other one at the same time Roxas does.

His... takes a little longer to fit properly.

Once that's done, he shifts his features to carefully mimic Roxas' as best as he can.]

See?

[earthy]

[Uh... All right...?

Terra slowly crosses his arms over his chest as the boys wrestle their respective hair styles into black beanies Sora happened to have with him. Or brought along with him for this exact purpose? Whatever... this purpose is...?

When they finally finish tucking every last spike under the beanies and straighten up in front of him, Terra looks back and forth between them.


And lifts his shoulders in a shrug. What's he supposed to be seeing here?

(Maybe give him a minute... Let the mental image of the hair fade a bit...)]

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[Roxas looks at Sora before he looks at Terra, and even though they're doing this beanie thing to show someone else how much they resemble one another, a little pickle of strangeness goes does his spine. It's like looking in a mirror, but not; seeing Sora's face isn't like seeing his own. There's no looking glass to completely reverse his own features because they're not his, they're someone else's.

Once upon a time, it might have really bothered him, he thinks. If he'd met this Ventus kid, someone he doesn't know at all, or if he'd met Sora before understanding why and how they're connected. But it's hard to get upset about looking like...like yourself.

He takes a long breath and relaxes his shoulders, shifting his gaze toward Terra as he lets his expression fall into the same calm one as Sora. They'd tested this earlier and in the beanies, he knows they pass for brothers. No, twins, identical ones—until some unruly hair inevitably sneaks out.

He'll wait for some kind of reaction, but he's already searching for the next idea, only to come up short. If this doesn't work, Roxas isn't sure anything will, even the flash cards.]

[happylocksmith]

[Sora's trying hard not to look too hopeful because that would ruin the effect, but as the moment draws on longer and Terra doesn't say anything or react, he gets a bit fidgety.

Maybe this was a dumb idea, he was hoping for a quick and easy 'oh wow, you're right, you are exactly alike and you're both just like Ventus! how silly I am' and now there's this awkward silence. (And never mind the fact that if he and Roxas do look just like Ventus there's still the big, impossible to answer question of why that would be.)

He shifts uncomfortably on his feet and looks at Roxas, then Terra then at Roxas again, his expression getting more and more puzzled, before he coughs awkwardly.]

And, you know, there's the x-name thing too...