asgardmeridiem | END OF ARC 1: DAY 169-170 DOWNTIME

[The first battle is over, but the second will begin any time. For two days, the enemy forces will remain on the other side of the battlefield, working on strategy and tending to their wounded. Both sides have taken heavy losses, and the Arena is full of the hurt and dying.

The battlefield itself has turned to a bloody, muddy mess. The elves will be asking the Army Engineers group and anyone else willing to help them lay timber and gravel out to make the ground easier to walk on for the next battle.

What will you do in your breathing space? Keep working, mourn your losses, or retreat from the horrors of war?]

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Let's just say he's meant to be a champion of light. He fights for what's good in the worlds.

Edited 2012-11-09 06:06 (UTC)

'Champion' isn't the word I would use to describe him. [She shrugs, ruffling Dog's ears.]

[he's obstructing it, in a sense. Roxas himself is not the champion, exactly, but his original nature...well.]

There's more to him than even he's aware of. But he can handle himself in a battle, he just has to remember how - and he is.

I'm still keeping an eye on him.

[The latter part she understands, at least.]

Well - good! No matter what you say I can't think of him as a fighter. He's just a kid. He should be staying somewhere safe.

Edited 2012-11-09 06:27 (UTC)

He's strong.

You shouldn't doubt his abilities.

He's a kid. He needs to be protected.

You realize he doesn't like to be treated like he's helpless, right?

He isn't helpless! He's just - ....

[A big cowlicked moeblob.]

... A kid.

Yeah, he is. But he's capable. When he gets up to the level he once was, he'll be stronger than me.

[and Lea also just wants Roxas to remember what he's capable of, too, to be more like what he used to be.]

And how strong are you?

[God that is impossible to picture.]

Things are a little skewed here since we don't have access to all of our original abilities, but I'm no pushover. I've been known to give a few people a run for their money.

[This very bizarre subject is giving her a curious thought.]

Are you sure you don't mean the other Roxas?

I mean both of them.

.........

Are you sure?

I mean - I can see the younger Roxas being a good fighter! He's even got those sword things. But Roxas? He's... too gentle.

[sighs, dragging a hand through his hair. Trying to explain Roxas' past and false memories would be too complicated, and he's not even sure Roxas would like him telling Euri all of that anyway.]

Trust me. Their fighting abilities can be on the same level. Roxas just has to remember it - and he will learn what he used to know, if he keeps going.

[She wouldn't understand it if he tried, sadly. His comment makes her frown.]

Is that a good thing?

There's no good or bad to it; it's part of who he is.

It doesn't seem like it to me....

It doesn't matter. That's how it is.

Well... will it make him happy?

[he's quiet for a few moments, considering her. It's not really a question he can answer. It's part of Roxas, that ability. Having the keyblade, fighting, vanquishing heartless or whatever else. It's not something he essentially needs, but it's still a piece that's been buried for...a long time, it seems. But he also can't forget the conversation he had with him earlier.]

He wants to be able to protect the people he cares about. That's important to him.

[It isn't much of an answer, but at least it isn't completely vague. Still, Euri focuses on scratching Dog's head for a minute or so before she replies.]

... As long as you're always going to keep an eye on him.

I'm not going to let anything happen to him.

[That's a promise to himself he's going to do whatever necessary to keep. He's lost him once before - never again.]

Good.

[Because even if this is who Roxas really is, she can't help but think of him as a kid.]

[she may have to lose that image of him someday. Roxas is still young, still rather innocent in a way, but there's so much more to him than just that.]

I won't lose him again, so don't worry.

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