[ Acceptance without explanation is something that he had gotten used to doing, had been forced to do for most of his time with the Organization. After all, he'd been nothing but a tool to them, hadn't he? Just told to follow orders without question and everything would be fine if he just did that.
But eventually he had to break away, look for the answers he's been wanting for so long, though in the end he still doesn't get all of them. If anything, he just gets more. And it's almost unfair that Sora seems to get what he wants without a second thought.
Roxas has already accepted it though, when he had fought with Sora during that single time, that single time that he could have had a chance to rise up and take over. He'd been the stronger one, he could have taken Sora down easily if he had gone full power. He could have been the one to face Xemnas one last time and finally fulfill a promise that he barely remembers. But he didn't. Because he saw and understood the reason why it had to be Sora, why his Other would be able to do things that he couldn't. Why his Other is accepted and he isn't.
Just because he accepts doesn't mean that he still didn't have a few questions of his own.
So it's a little surprising that one night he opens his eyes and doesn't see the usual darkness with light coming from beneath him through stained glass. Instead of what he usually sees, it's a room, an unfamiliar room with various things that shows the personality of just who it belongs to. Moving about in a body similar yet different to his own, it's almost like riding a bicycle (or maybe in his case a skateboard). A sense of freedom he hasn't felt since he saw Sora floating, sleeping, in that pod at the Old Mansion. He has a chance to be himself, if even in the body of another.
Whatever urged him to go to the play island, he doesn't know, but seeing the figure sitting at the bent tree, he has to wonder if maybe Sora wanted this. To give him a chance to find whatever answers he still has for himself, rather than the answers that they could find themselves. To give him a sense of closure about things.
And there's only one person who can really give him that. ]
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But eventually he had to break away, look for the answers he's been wanting for so long, though in the end he still doesn't get all of them. If anything, he just gets more. And it's almost unfair that Sora seems to get what he wants without a second thought.
Roxas has already accepted it though, when he had fought with Sora during that single time, that single time that he could have had a chance to rise up and take over. He'd been the stronger one, he could have taken Sora down easily if he had gone full power. He could have been the one to face Xemnas one last time and finally fulfill a promise that he barely remembers. But he didn't. Because he saw and understood the reason why it had to be Sora, why his Other would be able to do things that he couldn't. Why his Other is accepted and he isn't.
Just because he accepts doesn't mean that he still didn't have a few questions of his own.
So it's a little surprising that one night he opens his eyes and doesn't see the usual darkness with light coming from beneath him through stained glass. Instead of what he usually sees, it's a room, an unfamiliar room with various things that shows the personality of just who it belongs to. Moving about in a body similar yet different to his own, it's almost like riding a bicycle (or maybe in his case a skateboard). A sense of freedom he hasn't felt since he saw Sora floating, sleeping, in that pod at the Old Mansion. He has a chance to be himself, if even in the body of another.
Whatever urged him to go to the play island, he doesn't know, but seeing the figure sitting at the bent tree, he has to wonder if maybe Sora wanted this. To give him a chance to find whatever answers he still has for himself, rather than the answers that they could find themselves. To give him a sense of closure about things.
And there's only one person who can really give him that. ]
Riku.
[ Though where to even start? ]