lili

[whitewalls]

I WILL PUT A MEME HERE LATER

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[whitewalls]

[ she almost laughs at her asking if they're best friends. ]

Xion isn't. She's a pretty good girl, and... I don't think she'd want a repeat of this. And Axel wouldn't want to burn his bridges with anyone here.

[ .... she moves on. ]

As for your question... no, not really. Axel and I are...well. We get along, but I'm nowhere near as close to him as Xion is.

[coastal]

As long as he realizes that that's what's at risk...

[even lili is struggling with the idea of being able to trust him now

but.]

... so the two of them are best friends and - you're their friend?

[she doesn't

understand relationships]

Do you know them from home...?

[whitewalls]

I do. Although I only really spoke to Xion once before we came here.

[ and she just casually dropped life changing information onto her before cartwheeling away, but it's fine. ]

[coastal]

[???]

Only once? But you still covered for her?

[whitewalls]

I knew of her.... the situation is complicated.

[ ... ]

I don't mind explaining my role that though. It might make it a little easier to understand?

[coastal]

[ . . . ]

Only if you want to...

[lili similarly doesn't mind spilling her tragic backstory but is

generally less interested in forcing others to do the same]

[whitewalls]

A few people already know about parts of it, so I don't really mind.

I guess to start... back home, I have the power to manipulate memories. I used them on a boy named Sora to alter his memories. He's someone really special.

[ she sounds fond while talking about him. ]

Xion has a connection to Sora, which is how I found out about her while I was fixing Sora's memories so that they were normal again. A bunch of complications came up during this process, and I had to talk to Xion about it since she was involved. Apparently she was brought here right after that conversation, but I'm a little further ahead in our timeline.

[coastal]

Complications...?

[she tilts her head, confused. what types of connections can you have with a person that'd make them relevant to their memories?]

That's...

I don't really understand - but you know about her but she doesn't know that much about you?

[whitewalls]

More or less. We've been talking a lot more since coming here, but all she really had to go on before was that conversation and what she heard about me from others.

[ ... ]

I've spoken to Axel a lot more though. He's the reason I even got the courage to try to help Sora after what I did to him.

[coastal]

[??? a furrow of her brow]

Why did you alter his memories in the first place?

[namine explaining kingdom hearts to lili sure isn't a thread i was expecting]

[whitewalls]

Hm... I was threatened, basically. It was either my freedom, or alter the memories of a boy I didn't know.

[ ... ]

I realized pretty quickly I made the wrong choice though.

[coastal]

[oh.

when your freedom is at stake... lili pauses at that.]

... and then you fixed it after, and Lea encouraged you to?

[whitewalls]

Yes. He made me realize that my choices were either to remain a scared little girl, or I could make up for the hurt that I caused. So I chose the latter.

... when I spoke to Xion, I had to give her choices as well. And they were really difficult ones, and she ended up choosing what was objectively the right choice for our mission, but a bad one personally for her. So I owed her for that.

[coastal]

[ . . . she looks down at that]

... I'm still angry at him. I need to figure out how to approach him about what he did.

I don't understand people well - but I can at least understand wanting to protect someone. I think... he wants to help too many people, almost, and maybe that's just making his choices harder.

[whitewalls]

... Axel's smart. I think he'll figure out the way he's doing things might not be working.

[ ... ]

He'll have to.

[coastal]

... I think he doesn't realize how much people care about him, and how his decisions can affect them too.

[whitewalls]

[ how naminé actually wants to answer that... she can't. so. ]

He's just like that.

[coastal]

You just accept it?!

[whitewalls]

Well... I'll tell him when he's being dumb?

[coastal]

... I suppose if there's really nothing more you care to do....

[whitewalls]

... that's not it.

It's just a little weird to explain my relationship with him. That's all.