#relinktus

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: ​❝ you see me for what i truly am. ❞

riku hums quietly  ,  glancing at roxas from the corner of his eye.  of course he sees roxas  ,  what else is there to see ??  hesitantly  ,  quietly  ,  he leans over  ,  setting his hand over the blonde’s.  he lifts his gaze for a moment  ,  looking into the fire before he speaks  ,  clearing his throat.

‘ you say that like no one ever has. ’ 

there’s no malice or bite to his words  ,  as if he knows them to be true.  it makes him frown a bit  ,  but he doesn’t say anything for another moment  ,  blinking. 

‘ .....that’d be a shame. ’

#☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #♡ ✧ ☆ ── relinktus. ╱ keep us together as the lights go dark . #relinktus #owo

[heartspent]

@relinktus​ said: ‘ i’ll find you again , wherever we end up next . ’

sora  tenses  slightly at that  ,  unable to hide the way  fear  makes his stomach churn.  he doesn’t  want  them or anyone else to end up anywhere they’re apart  ever  again.  it  pains  him  ,  the thought of being lost  ,  of  losing  anyone again  ,  especially roxas.

his heart  aches  in a hollow way at the idea.  he doesn’t want to be so far apart ever again.

he makes himself comfortable against roxas’ side  ,  blindly reaching out for a gloved hand.  he’s afraid to be alone now  ,  after everything.  if it weren’t so  sad  ,  he’d almost laugh.  sora couldn’t remember a day in his  life  where he’d ever been truly alone  ,  &  now he’d had so  many  days of it  ,  night after night.  it was  awful  ,  &  he clung to roxas just a little bit tighter now.

he wants to protest  ,  to say that he wouldn’t let them ever be separated again  ,  but his voice feels so  raw  ,  like he hasn’t spoken in  months  ,  it cracks in all the wrong places  ,  his throat hurts still.

‘ ...promise ?? ’ 

it  aches  to ask  ,  he wonders if roxas can tell just how much.  he’s never been sure what to do with his pain  ,  how to handle it  ,  how to  hide  it.  how to put away the parts of himself that are  decidedly  unheroic.  the world needed a hero  ,  that’s what he became.  he became a martyr  ,  a savior  ,  an  atlas  of sorts.

now  ,  sora mused silently  ,  he didn’t know how to be anything else.

he forces himself to speak again  ,  eyes shut tightly where he’s curled against roxas  ,  ear pressed against his chest so he can hear the blonde’s heartbeat  ,  know that he’s real  ,  that  this  is real.

‘ ...don’t....don’t wanna lose you again. ’

#i....did Not mean for this to get so long #but anyways have some post mom pain !! #⊰ ❛ ♛ . * ── answered. / gonna carry that weight a long time . #relinktus #anyways i am Going to make you a tag here and its Going to hurt

[keywieldsaa]

@relinktus​ said: “I’m a nobody.” angst starters.

‘ that’s not true. ’ 

the hero just  smiles  ,  shakes his head  &  takes roxas’ hands in his own.  though  technically  roxas isn’t wrong  ,  or  wasn’t  wrong at one point  ,  that was never who he is  ,  what  he is.  he looks down to their hands now  &  hums  ,  looking him in the eye again.  that’s the only way they look alike  ,  really.  even just at that  ,  roxas is  already  so different from him  ,  not a part of  something  ,  but a  whole  all on his own.

‘ you’re you, roxas.  and that’s not nobody. ’

sora smiles  ,  swinging their hands lightly.  how could roxas be  nobody  if he’s standing here  ,  if everyone sees him  ,  knows  him. 

‘ you’re roxas, who likes sea-salt ice cream and spending time with his friends.  you’re the one who saved me.  you saved your friends.  and you have a heart, so that makes you somebody. ’ 

grinning  ,  sora lets go of one of the blonde’s hands to poke at the  center  of chest with a giggle  ,  light  &  soft. 

‘ you’re not a nobody.  you never were, not to me. ’

#wehhhhh i don't have any normal icons for sora but he cares roxas sm #✦ ── may your heart be your guiding key . ›› answered . #relinktus

[starcracking]

@relinktus​  said: ❝ long story short. i survived. ❞

kairi can’t claim to understand much of what he’s been through.  but  ,  she thinks  ,  from the little she’s heard  ,  it couldn’t have been pleasant.  she offers him a  gentle  smile  ,  bitter  &  tinged with her own brand of  understanding  .  carefully  ,  she places one hand over his before she speaks  ,  looking him in the eye.

‘ ...i’m glad you did. ’

#ooooo soft kairi hours...... #♡ . ❛ ❪ answered. ﹕ may your heart be your guiding key ｡ #relinktus

[lightreigned]

@relinktus said:     don't mind roxas, sora, he's just gonna step right into your home & make it his own, nonchalantly looking around before sitting down on the bed & just ... staring. right at you. sorry, sora, but it had to come to this. " ... so when are you & riku gonna start dating? "  | UNPROMPTED ( @dawnwalks​ mentioned ) | ALWAYS ACCEPTING !

  Sora was flopped on his bed , soft little blips coming from his phone that he held just inches away from his face .  He was so close , so SO CLOSE to a new high score !!  Just a littleeeee ... Bit ... Moooooooooreeeee ...

  And then the bed shifted , startling Sora enough where his phone fell - SMACK ! Right on his face .

  He quickly sat up , the phone falling into his lap as wide eyes locked eyes with whoever had plopped down on the bed with him .  Oh - it was just Roxas . 

     ❝ Roxassssssssssssssssss !!!! ❞

  He spoke with a slight whine , pouting at his other and crossing his arms . 

     ❝ I was doing so welllllll !! Why did you - ❞

  Sora was cut off by Roxas’s sudden question , blinking and watching the other boy for way too long in complete silence as a light blush came to his cheeks .

   What kind of question was that ???

  HIM ??? Dating Riku ???  What was Roxas going on about ... ?  Sure he spent a lot of time with Riku , missed Riku a lot when they were apart ...  Feelings that he had for Riku were different than feelings that he had for anyone else - he had identified that much ...

   But ... DATING ??

     He had never really thought that far ...

  Sure holding hands , cuddling , and going to visit nice places with Riku had crossed his mind before -  Maybe he had wondered how a kiss might feel once or twice ... Or three times ...  But DATING , putting a label on it ...

     What would that sort of label MEAN for them ? 

  Sora had seen many couples in his journeys .  And he couldn’t lie - he wanted that sort of relationship ONE DAY .  But he never thought that day would be soon .  He hadn’t thought of who might be there in that fairy tale ending with him .  He had started to doubt that he would even get to HAVE a fairy tale ending like that ...

.

   What would it be like if Riku was standing there in that image with him ?

  The thought alone made the light dusting of pink across his cheeks turn a deep red .

  Riku ...  and him ... a fairy tale kiss ... In a meadow , in front of a castle , at a party , walking along the shore - those would all be perfect endings .

     But - that could ruin their friendship too , couldn’t it ?

  Would they have to give up their friendship to try ?  What if it went bad ?  Could they still be friends after that ?

     Could he take that sort of risk ... ?

  Riku was so important to him .  A shining beacon of light and life and hope in his life .  Someone he could always depend on , someone who he would do anything for .  His best friend , his OLDEST friend , someone who had been in his life for as long as he remembered , someone he always WANTED in his life .

  He couldn’t risk losing that ... not after everything they had been through to get to this point ...

  Sora could be happy with Riku where they were , as they were forever ... 

  Just as long as he could have Riku in his life , the arms wrapped around him and gentle touches were just the cherry on top ... 

   And he would get rid of that if Riku ever wanted to .

     Just as long as they could be friends forever ...

  The boy blinked back to reality , realizing that he had been staring at his other for that entire time . Hands reached down to fiddle with his phone , turning it over in his hands and tossing it back and forth as he tried to gather his thoughts and speak through a nervous stutter .

     ❝ I-I had-hadn’t ... T-Thought about that really ... ❞

#relinktus #dawnwalks #&& Hearts in tune ;; Soriku #&& Trumpets sound a triumphant return ;; POST KH III #&& Ring Ring Incoming Gummi Message ;; Asks

[theysacrifice-a]

@relinktus​     →     from here.

“There’s nothing left here to save.”

‘ yes there is !! ’ 

sora’s quick to  counter  roxas’ argument  ,  concern more than  anything  lacing his voice.  how could roxas think he isn’t worth saving ?!  didn’t want to be  alive  ,  be his own person ??  sora couldn’t understand how he didn’t think he was worth saving  ,  how he thought it even  mattered  .

even if he wasn’t worth it  ,  sora would still  try  .

‘ you are already more than enough worth saving !!  so just -- !! ’ 

oh  ,  when had he begun  crying  ??  he’s not  sad  ,  if anything  ,  sora finds himself a little  angry  at roxas now.  because how could he think he was anything less than anyone else ??

how could he  possibly  think he was worth less to sora than whatever it would take to save him ?? 

‘ just let me, please.  you already had so much taken from you because of me.  let me give some of it back, whatever i can. ’

#AH #im imagining this like their brief meeting in 3d u know #this is Definitely like shortly post 3d bc i love suffering #relinktus #hero of light. ( sora / answered. )

[kukyc]

HOW  IS  YOUR  SOUL  PERCEIVED ?

The Strong-Willed

Your soul has touched darkness and so you learned to wrap yourself within it. You felt fear and decided you would never let it control you again. You're not always all sharp edges and cool stares, but you refuse to be prey again. You turned your teeth into fangs so you would be the one to bite. You learned to growl louder than all the predators who stole your innocence. It may seem like you don't care, sometimes you try to pretend you don't, but I see the way you sharpen your knives when the ones you care about are hurting.

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[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: roxas isn't known for being gentle, but there's a certain kind understanding in the almost absent way that he tucks a stray shock of silver hair behind riku's ear. " ... sorry, " he mumbles, jerking back as if he's been burned. " i don't know why i did that. 

riku  jerks  slightly when a piece of hair is tucked behind his ear  ,  blinking almost  owlishly  .  he wasn’t used to that  ,  or any kind of  gentle  affection from  anyone  ,  really.  it was made  more  surprising coming from roxas.  almost just as sheepishly  ,  riku twirls the loose strand around his fingers  ,  looking away.  his voice comes  quietly  ,  if not  shyly  ,  when he speaks.

‘ no, it.....it’s fine. ’ 

words are barely mumbled  ,  &  to busy his hands  ,  he re-ties his hair  ,  tucking in the loose strand  &  clearing his throat quietly. 

‘ .....thanks. ’

#☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #relinktus #look they're Bonding.

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: hmm, #22 for that kiss meme because it's that or an accident that gets them to tbh 22.   .....in a rush of adrenaline.

surprisingly enough  ,  riku thinks  ,  they don’t make a bad team.  it’s not as though heartless were crawling out of the ground  ,  but there were a fair few  ,  &  the two of them made quick work of most of them.  still  ,  with every swing of his keyblade  ,  the fighting more  mindless  than anything.  not mindless  enough  ,  riku thinks as he’s sent flying by a rather  large  heartless.  struggling to recover  ,  he fumbles for braveheart  &  it slips  just  out of his grasp  ,  fading into light as he’s  slammed  into the ground less than gracefully.

he doesn’t register the choked noise he makes  ,  nor anything past the pain of landing on his hip  ,  the one that was still  damaged  after all this time  ,  just like him.

he’s prepared to take another hit  ,  he can already see it coming  ,  &  he braces himself for it...

.....but the hit doesn’t come.  keyblades  clang  &  roxas blocks it  ,  giving him enough time to summon his  own  keyblade once more  &  finish it  ,  watching it disappear into a cloud of darkness.

roxas is saying  something  ,  but it doesn’t reach riku’s ears over his heartbeat  &  the sound of his feet against the ground.

in a split second  ,  his keyblade is dismissed  &  he leans down &  kisses  roxas before his brain can catch up  ,  before he can think about what  exactly  he’s done.

his brain comes to a  screeching  halt when he jolts back  ,  cheeks red  &  eyes wide.  he’s expecting rejection  ,  they’re barely friends  &  now he’s made it impossible to stay even as that  ,  &  his cheeks burn  red  with shame.  when he speaks  ,  his voice is soft  ,  afraid to break something else in this moment.

‘ sorry.  i-i should....we should...keep moving. ’

#OH rikus afraid roxas will hate him........ #☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #♡ ✧ ☆ ── relinktus. ╱ keep us together as the lights go dark . #this hurted just a little #relinktus

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: “What can I say ?  I’m a glutton for punishment.”

‘ i wish you weren’t. ’ 

it’s out of his mouth before riku can stop it  ,  &  for a moment  ,  his hands freeze.  he shakes any thoughts  ,  any  feelings  away  &  returns to patching up the few scrapes  &  cuts that weren’t quite enough to warrant healing magic.  still  ,  to see him as hurt as he’d  been  ,  riku wasn’t too proud to say it turned his stomach.  he still wasn’t sure how to deal with that  ,  so he pushes it aside  ,  boxes it up nice  &  neat  ,  where he won’t have to think about it.

‘ if you’re hurt like that and i....and someone can’t get to you to help, you’re putting yourself in danger. ’ 

a quiet sigh leaves him  ,  &  one of riku’s hands sits on the blonde’s shoulder now  ,  careful as he looks away. 

‘ just....be careful.  please. ’

#stop he cares sm...... #☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #relinktus #♡ ✧ ☆ ── relinktus. ╱ keep us together as the lights go dark . #screams abt this......

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: “everything is going to be okay. Just hang in there.”

‘ ‘m fine.  can take a hit’r two. ’ 

it’s  wheezed  out from where he lays on the ground  ,  in a  heap  of aching muscles  &  joints.  sure  ,  he can take a few solid hits  &  get back up again  ,  but right now  ,  riku feels like he just got run over by a  truck  .  everything  aches  ,  he knows it’ll be worse if he doesn’t get up  ,  but he can’t seem to find the  energy  to.

‘ stop... stop worryin’ about me, idiot. ’ 

riku turns his head to the side  &  spits out  something  that was pooling in his mouth  ,  unsure of what it really is.  it’s  red  against the ground  ,  must’ve gotten some in his mouth somehow.  he wrinkles his nose up  &  sighs  ,  weakly trying to push roxas away. 

‘ can take care’a myself.  s’not....s’not safe. ’

#hmmmmmm my brain decided its rikuroku hours so...... #relinktus #☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #♡ ✧ ☆ ── relinktus. ╱ keep us together as the lights go dark . #sorry roxas hes Stupid !!

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: “ i know i’m not the person you want, but i’m here. ”

riku’s  surprised  .  he didn’t expect roxas to be the one to make the first move  ,  extend an olive branch after  everything  riku had done to him  ,  to his friends.  he’s not sure what to think of it  ,  what to  do  with it.  for a moment  ,  he stands there  ,  gaping like a fish out of water  &  he wants to  kick  himself.  out of habit  ,  he lightly grips his wrist  ,  the same one the blonde had  broken  (  did he remember that now ??  )  ,  &  looks down at the ground for a moment.

might as well get it off his chest.

‘ ....thanks.  and for what it’s worth...i’m sorry.  for everything. ’

#☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #>:((((( #relinktus #actually i take it back UNHURT ME !!!!!!!!

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: 💏 9.   ...in public.

they aren’t a  thing  ,  not really.  not in the way other people would think  ,  with how close they were now.  riku knew that  ,  they  both  knew that  ,  they were simply riku  &  roxas  &  they  happened  to be together right now.  nothing special.

&  yet  ,  riku makes the move to hold roxas’ hand in his as they walk through twilight town  ,  doing nothing in particular.  riku’s never really spent  time  here before  ,  not the real thing at least.  it’s  different  from the simulated version in some ways  ,  it’s  warmer  ,  for one.  he couldn’t hold roxas’ hand there like he could now.

it’s  nice  .

they’re up on the clock tower by the end of the day  ,  &  riku decides that sea-salt is probably his  least  favorite ice cream flavor.  he eats it anyways  ,  he’s learned not to care too much about the taste of things.  when he finishes  ,  he looks over to roxas  ,  hand over the blonde’s  ,  &  leans in to kiss him without much thought behind it.

roxas’ lips are sticky  &  sweet  ,  like ice cream.  he could probably get used to the taste of sea-salt like this.

‘ y’know....this almost feels like a date. ’

#hands u smthn soft...... #relinktus #☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #♡ ✧ ☆ ── relinktus. ╱ keep us together as the lights go dark .

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: we’re safe now. you’re safe now. 

riku’s always hated nightmares.  he’s always hated them  ,  the way he feels so out of  control  ,  the way he wakes up so full of the  fear  he tries to suppress.  it’s why he doesn’t sleep anymore  ,  why he pushes himself to  exhaustion  before he lets himself rest.

it doesn’t help  ,  but he pretends that it does.

he doesn’t realize he’s shouted himself awake until roxas is trying to soothe him  ,  doesn’t realize how much he’s  shaking  until he’s being held.  he feels  sick  ,  feels raw  &  rubbed open  &  vulnerable  in the wrong way  ,  he wants to push roxas away  ,  but he doesn’t  ,  he just finds himself clinging tighter  ,  voice  raw  when he finds it.

‘ don’t....don’t go. ’

#☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #riku vc: just bros bein dudes :) #relinktus #♡ ✧ ☆ ── relinktus. ╱ keep us together as the lights go dark .

[dawnwalks]

@relinktus​ said: [Trace] [Trace] Trace my muse’s scar purposely

it’s rare for  anyone  to know things about him  ,  &  riku makes it that way on purpose.  no one knows much about him  ,  save for his friends.  &  even then  ,  they don’t know  everything  .  especially not his scars  ,  physical  or  mental.

but he can’t help it.  as much as riku despises showing his weaknesses  ,  they overwhelm him  ,  &  as such  ,  today is one of those times.  it  hurts  ,  &  he can’t help but feel as though he’s wasting his time  ,  when sora’s out there by himself  ,  alone  ,  waiting  .

it almost hurts more than his leg does.

he’s not expecting the slight touch  ,  nor how  gentle  it actually is  ,  spanning the length of the scar running above his hip.  the rest is hidden  ,  but it’s enough.  he jolts slightly from the touch before he speaks  ,  frowning. 

‘ that one’s....from xemnas.  he...shattered my hip in that fight.  but it’s fine now.  just....a nasty scar. ’ 

it’s a lie  ,  an obvious one  ,  as riku shifts his weight from his bad leg  ,  but roxas’ hand is....surprisingly warm  ,  &  he finds that his face is  ,  too.

#☾ ✧ ☆ ── answered. ╱ may your heart be your guiding key . #♡ ✧ ☆ ── relinktus. ╱ keep us together as the lights go dark . #relinktus #idk What this is but !! i think abt rikus hip a lot

[heartspent]

@relinktus​ said: ❝ you are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy. ❞

sora pauses  ,  feeling as though roxas was looking  through  him rather than  at  him when he speaks.  it’s  odd  ,  to be known so thoroughly  &  yet not really known at all.  it catches him off-guard for a moment  ,  ever present smile disappearing before it resumes it’s place on his face.  gently  ,  he shakes his head  ,  placing his hands on roxas’ shoulders  &  letting them sit there.

i’m strong because i have my friends.  because i have you.

he can’t speak  ,  not from here  ,  &  his smile is somewhat resigned as he leans forward to rest his head against roxas’.  there’s so much he wants to say  ,  but there isn’t enough time  ,  not now.  there’s never enough time to say everything  ,  it seems.  the  ghost  of a laugh passes over his lips as he  reluctantly  pulls away  ,  preparing to leave once again.  he can never linger long enough in dreams.

he’s only a step away when he turns around  ,  seemingly forgetting something he deemed  important  enough to let this moment drag on far longer than it truly should.  silently  ,  sora unhooks the clasp of his necklace  ,  pressing it into roxas’ gloved palm  &  curling his fingers around it  ,  offering another smile with an unspoken message. 

take care of this for me, okay ?? 

he grins again  ,  the very expression seeming to hold the sound of his laughter before it dims.  his time here is up  ,  he can’t linger in dreams very long anymore.  still  ,  he’ll leave roxas this  ,  hope his message gets through  ,  he can’t know for sure. 

don’t forget: i’m always with you.

#⊰ ❛ ♛ . * ── answered. / gonna carry that weight a long time . #relinktus #HI CONSIDER: ROXAS DREAMING ABT SORA LIKE IN KH2 #if this makes any sense thats what its supposed to be but also it just HURTS