Demyx frowned. That didn't sound right...but then again, this guy sounded so convinced of what he was saying that he wasn't sure he'd take any arguments from Demyx too well. He wasn't sure who this Ritsuka was still, but he wasn't sure he liked him. "Well, what you want matters to me," was all he said. "You're my roommate. And you seem like a nice guy."
At Soubi's rather matter-of-fact statement that Demyx should have destroyed Xigbar and the others rather than let them mistreat him, his eyes widened slightly. "I couldn't have done that," he said, appalled. "I mean...they're jerks, yeah, but most of the stuff they did to me wasn't worth killing them for." Something inside him squirmed uncomfortably at the fact, which he was well aware of, that what they'd done to other people might well have been worth killing them for...but there was an even more important reason why he'd never entertained the idea of killing them, or even leaving them. "Besides...like I said, they were the only ones besides me. Without them - I'd've been alone." And man, that was a depressing thought - one he couldn't even entertain for very long. To be the only Nobody in the universe...even Xemnas had the company of II through VI when he'd first became a Nobody.
No one should ever have to be that alone.
Man, he'd sure been explaining his nature a lot, recently. Maybe he ought to make a sign and hang it around his neck to save him some exposition time. While he definitely didn't like what the worlds he'd been familiar with thought about Nobodies, at least people had known what they were right off the bat - a Nobody's nature was pretty complicated to have to describe on a regular basis, and he definitely wasn't the best person for the job. "I'm a Nobody," he replied. "We have these creatures called Heartless in my universe; they steal people's hearts. For most people, losing their hearts means that they just...die. Well, not die, exactly, but they become Heartless themselves, so everything that used to be them dies. Nobodies are special, though. If a person with a strong enough will loses their hearts, sometimes their body survives as an empty shell - that's a Nobody. The really strong ones keep on looking human, even, and remember that they used to be human - that's me and the rest of my Organization. The people who didn't treat me that well," he clarified, after a pause. "There were only thirteen of us in the whole universe. I'm the ninth." He ran a hand through his hair. "And honestly, even I'm not sure what's so strong about me that I became a Nobody - but that's what I am." He tapped his chest. "Basically, we're people without hearts. I don't even have a heartbeat." Not that he honestly expected Soubi to check - he didn't seem the tactile type; he was certainly keeping distance between himself and Demyx - but it was the most easily verifiable way to prove what was a pretty outlandish story.
Re: M76 [Demyx]
At Soubi's rather matter-of-fact statement that Demyx should have destroyed Xigbar and the others rather than let them mistreat him, his eyes widened slightly. "I couldn't have done that," he said, appalled. "I mean...they're jerks, yeah, but most of the stuff they did to me wasn't worth killing them for." Something inside him squirmed uncomfortably at the fact, which he was well aware of, that what they'd done to other people might well have been worth killing them for...but there was an even more important reason why he'd never entertained the idea of killing them, or even leaving them. "Besides...like I said, they were the only ones besides me. Without them - I'd've been alone." And man, that was a depressing thought - one he couldn't even entertain for very long. To be the only Nobody in the universe...even Xemnas had the company of II through VI when he'd first became a Nobody.
No one should ever have to be that alone.
Man, he'd sure been explaining his nature a lot, recently. Maybe he ought to make a sign and hang it around his neck to save him some exposition time. While he definitely didn't like what the worlds he'd been familiar with thought about Nobodies, at least people had known what they were right off the bat - a Nobody's nature was pretty complicated to have to describe on a regular basis, and he definitely wasn't the best person for the job. "I'm a Nobody," he replied. "We have these creatures called Heartless in my universe; they steal people's hearts. For most people, losing their hearts means that they just...die. Well, not die, exactly, but they become Heartless themselves, so everything that used to be them dies. Nobodies are special, though. If a person with a strong enough will loses their hearts, sometimes their body survives as an empty shell - that's a Nobody. The really strong ones keep on looking human, even, and remember that they used to be human - that's me and the rest of my Organization. The people who didn't treat me that well," he clarified, after a pause. "There were only thirteen of us in the whole universe. I'm the ninth." He ran a hand through his hair. "And honestly, even I'm not sure what's so strong about me that I became a Nobody - but that's what I am." He tapped his chest. "Basically, we're people without hearts. I don't even have a heartbeat." Not that he honestly expected Soubi to check - he didn't seem the tactile type; he was certainly keeping distance between himself and Demyx - but it was the most easily verifiable way to prove what was a pretty outlandish story.