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Who: Ventus

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Where: Violet City!
When: Tonight
Summary: ~~Ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny~~ ~~lookalikes on parade~~ First encounter!
Rating: E for Everyone
Log:
Ven had gotten fairly accustomed to making his way around Violet after dark. It had been about a week and by now he knew how to get from the inn to the mart and back again, which...was just what he was up to. He made his way along the path with a box of something called pizza in tow, humming a little something to himself.

As was typical he wasn't in any particular hurry, pasing to gaze up at foreign stars curiously. They were so different from the ones he'd seen in other worlds, and he had to wonder what distant, strange places those shimmering lights might be.

Of course, with his keyblade out of commission, he wouldn't be finding out anytime soon.

A tap to his shoulder gets him out of his reverie, and Ven glances at his Drifloon. "Yeah, yeah, don't want the food to get cold..." Besides that, he was pretty curious as to what this pizza-stuff tasted like, so with that in mind he starts walking again.

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Roxas yawned as he walked into town. He's finished his training for the day, and was looking forward to getting some sleep. He was improving and he knew it. Soon, he'd be able to challenge Falkner.

"It's gonna feel good to get that badge, huh Sparky?" Roxas said to the Pikachu on his shoulder. Sparky nodded back, grinning. Roxas smiled slightly. Sparky always seemed to have a lot of energy.

He rounded the corner and froze. Across the street was the guy who looked like him. Not sure what to do, Roxas took a few steps back. Should he say something? Or just, not draw attention to himself. Sparky looked at him, concerned.

For his part, Ven was obvious to the new presence. There were people all around, so he was content to take this pizza back to the inn to share with his friends. After all, it was clearly much too large for him to eat all by himself.

A breeze picked up then and Drifloon let out a distressed little cry, grabbing at Ven's sleeve. That made Ven turn around, catching his pokemon by one of its string-ling limbs so it wouldn't get blown away. "Geez, you're really a lightweight, hu-"

Of course his thoughts more or less fell apart once he got a look at Roxas. Sure he'd seen the guy before, but that was on a little screen. This was something else entirely.

Roxas realized that he had been spotted, and fought the urge to leave right away. He knew that at some point he was going to encounter his lookalike, but he'd kind of wanted it to be on his terms as opposed to anything else. Still, it didn't look like he had much of a choice now.

He gave a slight wave, and tried to will himself across the street.

Once Ven got past floundering for a response he waved back, which resulted in Drifloon bobbing as it clung to his wrist. "Hey! Roxas, right?" Even if the situation was a bit confounding, but that didn't mean he had to be unfriendly, right?

"Yeah. That's me," Roxas replied, finally crossing the street. Thankfully, most of the people had moved on, or just didn't care. He didn't want the attention.

"You're Ven, right?"

"Yep! So far I don't think there's three of us...hopefully." Ven waited, paying little mind to the people around them. He'd seen twins running around so he doubted the sight was all that unusual.

The circumstances, on the other hand...

"I didn't know you were here too," he added.

Roxas nodded. He hoped not. That would just make things more difficult.

"I've been here for a while," Roxas replied. "I want to challenge the gym, so I've been training." His Pikachu nodded in agreement.

"How long have you been here?"

"Let's see..." Ven paused for a moment, counting days on the fingers of one hand. Not that he particularly needed to, but time just seemed to fly in this world. "Think it's been about two weeks now. I wanna challenge Falkner too, eventually."

On that note he pointed at Pikachu, causing Drifloon to bob again. "Is that your partner?"

Roxas nodded. It seemed he had another rival now to.

"Yeah, this is Sparky," Roxas replied, as the electric mouse waved. "He's a Pikachu. He used to be a Pichu but he evolved." Roxas still wasn't too sure how it happened. Evolution was weird.

"What's that?" he asked, pointing to the Drifloon. He'd never seen a pokemon like that before. Granted, he hadn't seen a lot of pokemon, but each one seemed to be weirder than the next.

"Nice to meet you, Sparky," Ven gave a wave to the little mouse in return, amused by the greeting. Pokémon really were amazing, when he got to thinking about it.

He looked to the latest addition to his team and smiled, tilting his head in its direction since he still had that pizza box to hold. "This is Drifloon. He uh...sorta decided to tag along with me the other day."

In turn, Drifloon lifted one string-like appendage and waved to Roxas.

Roxas waved back, tentatively.

"I think he counts as the weirdest pokemon I've seen," Roxas said, after a pause. And that included magnemites and geodudes. "So, you didn't really catch him?"

Pokemon following trainers wasn't unheard of, but still, it seemed weird when so much was focused on battling. Plus, keeping the subject on pokemon was good neutral ground. Roxas had questions, lots of them, but he wasn't sure how to bring them up.

Ven chuckled. "Well, at first I thought somebody just tied a balloon to my backpack. But then this other Drifloon tried to make off with Enma and when it talked, I kinda figured it out."

Drifloon went back to holding Ven's wrist and he shrugged. If anything, he and his friends just seemed to pick up company. "I guess so, but I count him as part of my team. They've all been in a pokéball at some point, but Vaporeon doesn't like it."

Although the situation was strange, it wasn't exactly the first time Ven had dealt with body doubles in this place. Seemed a lot more personal when it was him though, and he floundered a little for something else to say.

"I can't get Sparky into a pokeball. I've tried," Roxas sighed. He'd gotten shocked enough to know it wasn't worth it. When Ven mentioned Vaporeon, Roxas wanted to ask about it. There were still so many things he wanted to know about them. But there were more important things to deal with first.

"So, uh, I don't suppose you've ever met a guy in red, have you?" Roxas asked. "Before coming here?" If he had a clone, Roxas immediately suspected that guy who had made the digital Twilight Town.

Ven nodded. "Yeah, Vaporeon's like that too, ever since she was an Eevee. Think it sorta scares her." He wasn't sure why that was, but then, she was a rather timid girl so maybe she just didn't like being all alone in there.

It really made him wonder what the inside of a pokéball was like.

"A guy in red...? No, I don't think so. Knew a guy with red hair though," and Ven gestured to his hair as though it were at all necessary. Shame he couldn't approximate the shape, but he figured that wasn't all that important. If Lea ever popped up here, Roxas could see for himself.

Roxas paused, taking in that information. He was kind of glad not to be dealing with the guy in red, since Roxas had every intention of avoiding him.

"Yeah, I know someone like that to," he said, thinking of Axel. At least, that's what Ven's actions suggested. "So, where do you come from?" It had to be the same world.

"Well...I don't really remember where I was born," Ven admitted, certainly used to explaining his general lack of recollection. Where he came from or who his family was remained a mystery to him. "But I've been training in the Land of Departure for the last couple of years. You see, I was working on becoming a keyblade master"

Hopefully Roxas didn't think that was some world for dead people like Rise first had. "Where're you from?"

He'd never heard of the Land of Departure before, but when Ven mentioned the keyblade he was certain that they were from the same world. At the same time, he was kind of confused. He thought that only he and Sora could wield the keyblade. Maybe there was a connection there.

Before he could get to that, Roxas paused, kind of wishing that he hadn't brought the subject up now. Everything that had happened still felt too close.

"Twilight Town. I'm from Twilight Town," he said finally. The false life he lived there was enough to convince people that he was a normal kid, and so he didn't mind continuing the lie.

"Twilight Town, huh?" Ven thought about the name for a while. It definitely wasn't familiar as far as he could recall, so he doubted he'd ever been there. Hard to tell, but at least it wasn't a world he'd visited in the last couple of years. "Sounds like a nice place."

Maybe someday he could see what it was like, but somehow he really doubted that would be possible.

Though speaking of worlds, it brought up a question in his mind. "Have any of your friends from home shown up here?"

"It was, yeah," Roxas nodded. Digital or not, he still had fond memories. "Not from Twilight Town specifically, but some other people I know are here."

Most of them he knew through Sora's memories, but others weren't.

"What about you?"

After a beat, Ven shook his head. "Haven't seen them around so far, so I figure they must be back home." Ven sort of wished they could come to such a peaceful place and get away from the enormity that everything seemed to assume the more time went by, but he didn't have any control over that.

"But I've met some nice friends here, so I don't mind."

Roxas nodded. He'd managed to make a few friends here as well. At least, he hoped they were friends. Acquaintances really, since he hadn't opened up to anyone all that much.

"Ven, why do you think that we look like each other?" Roxas asked, finally.

[ooc: I know the jist of what happened so if comments become spoilery that's okay]

Ven blinked at the abrupt change of subject. Although it had been lingering in the back of his mind, he hadn't exactly known how he wanted to broach it. "Well...I'm not really sure. Enma thought maybe we were related, but Sora told me that couldn't happen because you're a um...."

He paused as he thought about this, bringing a hand to his chin. What was the word..? Oh, right! "A...Nobody? Although I've got no idea what that means."

[ooc: Gotcha ♥ Doubt Ven knows too much however - he's from before . Whiteout for anybody that breezes by]

Roxas paused, and looked down at the ground. Granted, he hadn't told anyone not to spread that fact around, but still, it wasn't a fact he liked to advertise.

"Yeah. I'm, kinda like, Sora's other half," he explained, tentatively. "I don't really get it either." That was about as far as he wanted to go with that subject.

"I...sorta know how that is. Can't say I'd heard of Nobodies before, but the rest seems close enough." It hadn't occurred to Ven to ask Sora all that much about it - they'd gotten too distracted with confusing one another. But it didn't seem like something Roxas was eager to talk about, so Ven let it go at that.

With that in mind, he supposed he had one idea. "Maybe it's related to how Sora looks like Vanitas."

"Who?" Roxas blinked. He'd never heard of anyone by that name. It was hard to imagine that Sora had a lookalike, but Roxas did, so maybe it wasn't impossible.

"Well, you're a part of Sora, but Vanitas is a part of me." Like many a protagonist from his universe, Ven placed a hand over his heart. It seemed to him that someone like Roxas would surely get an idea of the implication.

"I see," Roxas replied, but he had to think about it for a moment. He was a part of Sora who looked like Ven, and Vanitas was a part of Ven that looked like Sora. Maybe that meant that Ven and Sora were connected somehow.

"Why does he look like Sora?"

Ven shrugged, having pondered that question and come up dry. "I've got no idea. I was pretty surprised when I saw Sora's face. They don't look as close as we do, which just makes it even more confusing. Vanitas has yellow eyes and dark hair."

"That's...weird," Roxas had to admit. He could only wonder why that was. Hopefully, someone would show up with an answer.

"So, you've met Sora, right?"

"Yeah, over the journals at least." While Ven had wanted to meet Sora in person sometime, the guy had disappeared before they crossed paths. Riku seemed pretty unhappy about it, so Ven hoped the guy would show up again in the near future. "It was...pretty confusing. He's not at all like Vanitas, not how he acts, anyway."

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