BOND - Let's get ready to Grandstand!

[terribletwos]

Who: Roxas and fellow Grandstanders
When: Day 64, morning into afternoon since he can do this for a while...
Where: Gym

Well, someone had decided he was sick of sulking over whatever was wrong with Solar Flare and has set out to do what he should have been doing since he got here. Mainly concentrating on generating sparks so they could purify this star and get another step closer toward rescuing their friends.

So he's traded some of his recent trial sparks for a fairly sturdy ball, which he's brought into the gym. He heads for the the section of the gym where there's a good bit of wall to work with before setting the ball down. An instant later, he summons both his Keyblades and uses the tip of one to fling the ball into the air before catching its descent with the other Keyblade and knocking the ball up again. He's probably going to keep repeat this pattern until people start to enter or walk by the gym.

When they do, he'll call to them, doing his best to not lose sight of the ball and maybe even bounce it off one of the walls to buy himself some more time before giving it another hefty tap upward. He'll even offer an encouraging smile.

"Want to give it a try? It's something a friend taught me a while back. The trick is to see how long you can keep the ball from touching the ground. It's allowed to touch anything else though. Well, except for other people since that might get dangerous.

It's a lot harder than it looks, but it's fun too. So I figured it should count for the play thing Clover does. It's like... training. While bonding at the same time. "

He gestures toward the available practice weapons with his head, as he strikes the ball again. "You can probably use some of those to keep it in the air. Just make sure you don't hit it too hard or you'll lose control."

Comments

[learnedfool]

I was a younger child, and my older brothers outgrew clothing faster than it wore out.

[terribletwos]

Brothers?

[learnedfool]

Yes. Two of them. And older sisters.

[terribletwos]

They're... people who live with you?

[learnedfool]

Not since we were children. I...

Do you know what the words I'm using mean?

[because this doesn't sound like familial chit-chat, and Des is going to point that out.]

[terribletwos]

[ Roxas looks away, reluctant to admit it since Penric seems to comfortable in using the term. As if he expects everyone to know it. ]

... not really. The Organization didn't have anything like that.

[ And Namine hadn't included any of it in the Twilight Town simulation since Sora didn't have these "siblings" either. ]

[learnedfool]

The Organization?

[terribletwos]

Oh, uh, they're this group that I spent most of time with. Before I left.

[ A pause. ]

We were kind of on the wrong side.

[learnedfool]

But you left. Plenty of people are on the wrong side without knowing it. Worse to be on the wrong side, know it and do nothing when you know what you could do and nothing would stop you.

[terribletwos]

[ Roxas gives him an even look before shaking his head. ]

I didn't leave for anything like that. I left because I wanted to know more about myself and they wouldn't tell me.

After that... I was just tired of being controlled.

[learnedfool]

That's a reasonable thing to be tired of.

[terribletwos]

I didn't think it was a thing most humans have to worry about.

[learnedfool]

Being controlled?

[terribletwos]

It's not, right?