[It feels strange talking about these things, because while he knows these things did happen to Sora and the others, he has trouble reconciling them with his own memories. For him, Sora and the others hadn't gone anywhere else. But in some alternate universe, possibly this universe, they had. And bad things had happened. And the part that eats at him the most is the fact that he's far too late to do anything about it now.]
You don't think the Calamity Selves could happen here. [It comes out of his mouth too flat to be a question, but he can't help reiterating it, like it should be comforting. Maybe at another point in time it would be, but after hearing about what Takeshi and his friends had to go through, to be relieved that he's being spared feels like cowardice.
His eyes fall shut as Takeshi describes how others had to see what you've been hiding. It reminds him too much of how it had felt for Kairi and Sora to see him wearing the face of Xehanort's Heartless. For them to know how far into the darkness he'd had to sink. If he could he would have hidden that forever. But now he knows better.]
I don't blame you for wanting to hide away from all of that. I understand it. But it sounds like by hiding you gave your Calamity Self plenty of fuel. What did it feel like to have the truth come out? Did the weight of the past feel any lighter?
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[It feels strange talking about these things, because while he knows these things did happen to Sora and the others, he has trouble reconciling them with his own memories. For him, Sora and the others hadn't gone anywhere else. But in some alternate universe, possibly this universe, they had. And bad things had happened. And the part that eats at him the most is the fact that he's far too late to do anything about it now.]
You don't think the Calamity Selves could happen here. [It comes out of his mouth too flat to be a question, but he can't help reiterating it, like it should be comforting. Maybe at another point in time it would be, but after hearing about what Takeshi and his friends had to go through, to be relieved that he's being spared feels like cowardice.
His eyes fall shut as Takeshi describes how others had to see what you've been hiding. It reminds him too much of how it had felt for Kairi and Sora to see him wearing the face of Xehanort's Heartless. For them to know how far into the darkness he'd had to sink. If he could he would have hidden that forever. But now he knows better.]
I don't blame you for wanting to hide away from all of that. I understand it. But it sounds like by hiding you gave your Calamity Self plenty of fuel. What did it feel like to have the truth come out? Did the weight of the past feel any lighter?