melodicnocturne | Thirteenth Melody [Video]

[Hello Route! Say hello to the inky fog that has been filling up Johto all week, then say hello to Demyx's face as he turns the camera around.]

Man, this fog is killing me. I've been stumbling all over the place, can't see my hand in front of my face even. Ghosts everywhere! If I turn around to see one more screaming ghost, I'm gunna freak...

[Funny he should say that, really, because there is a vaguely definable rock formation somewhere in front of him and he is absently wandering toward it. It's a training day, after all, and he has his boys out and about to fight the wilds and ~~cull the herds~~ defeat the evils of the ghost swarm!]

...There's something over there.

[Demyx stops dead in his tracks, completely frozen solid in fear as he sees something approaching from the rocks. It slithers up, slowly crawling on its fours and snakes toward him slowly. The silhouette is almost unmistakable.]

N-no way... Shadow! HEARTLESS!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[The camera crashes to the ground immediately, and Demyx is heard running and screaming in the opposite direction as the creature nears. One of his pokemon grabs the gear while the other, Fugue, rushes toward the beast to attack. The camera feed stops abruptly, then comes back on several minutes later to the real monster in the fog staring at the camera up-close.]

Ssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab.

[The creature grins wide, showing off its razor-sharp teeth. Another victim pranked, just as planned. However...]

Zoro!

GET BACK HERE, YOU JERK!

[The feed cuts again, this time with the little troublemaker looking frightened for a change.]

((OOC: Replies to this entry will come about fifteen minutes later, when he reclaims the gear and catches the Sableye!))

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[Hello new person, have a clearly out-of-breath-from-sprinting-around Demyx.]

G-gah...[Pant, pant, wheeze.] No. No, we...we got 'im. It's a....it's a thing, and it looks like a Shadow.

[He's hunched over, the gear is propped up on something next to him while he catches his breath. Even in the fog, you can tell that he's covered in sweat from running around after the Sableye that stole his gear and scared him.]

It's looks...too much like a Shadow. Too much. Tricky, tricky thing.

[Sure, he'll believe everything's "under control".]

OK, top priority here so then I can understand what you are going on about: what is a Shadow? [Because, unless you are talking about actual shadows, you totally lost him.]

Heartless. Things. I...ugh.

[The blond holds up a finger and takes a few more moments to catch his breath and steady himself. An explanation like this is gunna need more than three syllables, and that's not happening until he gets his lungs back up to speed.

After a good few many deep breaths and some coughing, Demyx gives it one more go.]

Okay, okay. Shadows, take two. So, imagine you're a human. Imagine you're havin' a perfect day and everything's all sunshine and kittens. Then, bam suddenly primal evil in the shape of writhing foggy darkness runs you through and steals your heart.

[Complete with some motions of his fist being driven into his chest to illustrate the production, isn't he nice?]

Now, we're talkin' more than just the muscle beating in your chest here. We're goin' full on to the emotional and spiritual center of a human being's existence, ripped right outta ya. Following so far?

Edited (what is anatomy really) 2012-10-28 01:08 (UTC)

Yes, I actually am following. [This kind of stuff isn't all that foreign to Bro, considering that, back home, he was just in the middle of some crazy game where things were, well, pretty wacky.

He can totally get behind the idea of creatures stripping people of emotions.]

...Really? You're...you're still on the page with me?

[Just gunna stare at you for a few seconds in confusion.]

That's a first. Seein' as how you don't know what a Shadow is, I'd figure the whole 'Heartless' thing might be a bit of a jump. But, hey. Makes my job easier.

Aaaaanyway. So, you die. Poof, one human minus heart equals dead. 'Cept not, you're a Heartless now. Maybe just a Heartless, maybe more. You might be 'lucky.' No tellin'. So, you've lost your body and your heart, and now you're just a thing. Now, you are the inky black darkness that ran you through. You're a teeny-tiny little thing made of pure darkness. And you've got an appetite for other people's hearts. Just like how that inky black thing that stole yours had a hunger for your heart to begin with.

That's a Shadow, and that's the Heartless. They're things. Not alive, not dead, just...hungry.

[Man, he comes from a place where things thrown inside an energy ball become sentient beings and a magical ring gives people unlimited and supernatural powers. Not to mention people being having a real self and a dream self.

It's going to take more than a Heartless to faze him.]

Listening to this, death doesn't seem like such a grim fate. Just comes to prove there are far worst things out there.

And based on your crazy footage you assumed one of those things were here, hm?

Considering I've seen plenty of them up-close and way too personal, yeah. Not a sight for sore eyes in the least. In fact, on a list of one to the absolute last thing I ever wanted to see in my entire life here, it's the absolute last thing I ever wanted to see in my entire life here. Hands down.

I know very well how it is to have... unpleasant meetings and not wanting to repeat those. [Fucking Jack Noir...]

But what kind of pokémon you could have mistaken for the crazy creatures you described me?

It's called a Sableye, apparently they're cave-dwelling ghost-dark cross-types. This guy must have gotten bored of the cave-man life and decided to take his act on the road.

[Demyx holds up a pokéball, and he is glaring at it so hard.]

They look exactly like Shadows in the fog. And for all the 'aww kinda cute' you might think if you've never seen a shadow before, it will rip your heart out. Mercilessly and rapidly.

Seems like a most pleasant pokémon.

Are you still going to keep the little rascal, even after all the trouble it caused?

...I read the 'dex entry, and like...apparently they like to play tricks and scare people. But, like, apparently they're also a really lonely species that just want to make friends.

I dunno, I know how that kind of life feels. If the little guy really just wants to make friends...I don't think I could just let him go, even after all that. Heck, I play a lot of tricks on people, I love pranks, I just...I dunno, y'know?

Actually, I can relate to that a whole lot. I mean, not gonna say that a well played prank here and there isn't quite rewarding. [He can't help but smile and remembering the stupid tricks he pulled on his younger brother]

Say, I never got your name.

Demyx, the Melodious Nocturne. Traveling musician and pokémon trainer.

[The blond grins cheerfully, oddly happy to be able to call himself by his old title without the former meaning. It was a stage name now, not a mark of his place among the Nobodies. Something to be proud of and, for once, not feared or hated.]

Pleased to meet ya!

That's quite the title you have there. Maybe I should come up with one for me as well.

In the meantime, you can call me Bro.

And, hey, good to meet you too man. Say, how long have you been to this place anyway? [He has been asking this to everyone, because he still can't believe people can stay here for more than one year.]

It's from before I came here, actually. I used to be a member of an organization of people looking for something called 'Kingdom Hearts.' I was number nine, and that was my title.

Nowadays it's just a stage handle when I'm doing gigs...And, about eight months? Maybe nine, now. I haven't really kept check on it. Nice to meet you, Bro.

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