A testing ground for Demmy and the Deegans.

[donovan_deegan]

Yes, the man who just came out of the welcome bay was most certainly wearing a shockingly pink jacket. Under it, he had been wearing a black shirt, but now hit was over one arm to show off the odd looking tattoo over his whole chest. A Kelsheen mark. Never knew when it would be useful. He had his axe in one hand. He was ready to shred, if he could find someone to jam with.

Yeah, the man had just been kidnapped. He looked remarkably calm about it, in fact, he seemed almost cheerful. He found a seat after a bit, pulled his axe into his lap, and then started playing, watching people to see who might come near, and figuring out who he could ask for more information than the projection had given him.

Question number one being.... where was Miranda?

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[melodiouspacifist]

He smiled and shook his head. "It's true. I don't have a heart."

[donovan_deegan]

"You laughed. You're smiling. I don't buy it."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Oh, I don't have to. People like it better when you smile." Well the laugh had been genuine, but was that really evidence of anything?

[donovan_deegan]

"And you care about what people like?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"I don't know...maybe?" He wasn't sure about that. "I don't like being alone that much."

[donovan_deegan]

"Understandable," he said with a grin that meant he was winning.

[melodiouspacifist]

He was not winning. "So, for people to talk to me I have to not be...well crazy like some of my colleagues."

Imagine people trying to talk to Saix or Vexen. That would be a disaster.

[donovan_deegan]

"And you want people to talk to you, because..." He so was.

[melodiouspacifist]

Absolutely not.

"Well, it gets awfully boring by myself."

[donovan_deegan]

He nodded. "So. You care. You get lonely and bored when alone. You have a sense of humour. You can play music. Hate to break it to you, kid... you have a heart."

[melodiouspacifist]

"I don't think that's how it works. The Superior said it's not possible." Demyx answered and let his words sink in for a moment.

"Ugh." He rubbed his forehead. Damnit. Lea said he was wrong but that slipped out. His thoughts turned to Xemnas all too often.

[donovan_deegan]

"Not sure how to tell you this. But people lie. And can be mistaken. But you? You check off all the boxes. You have a heart."

[melodiouspacifist]

"I don't, but someday I'd like to."

[donovan_deegan]

"Well, what do you think it means to have a heart?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"Well it makes you a person. A Somebody." Demyx answered. "I think you get a conscience." He definitely didn't have one of those. "You can feel it in your chest. You feel things again."

[donovan_deegan]

"Feel things. Like humour? Loneliness? Enjoyment?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"Well yeah, I guess. Happiness. Sadness...all kinds of stuff."

[donovan_deegan]

"So when you said you are lonely and bored without people, when you laughed at my joke, enjoyed the burger, when you play music...." Smirk. Checkmate.

[melodiouspacifist]

"I don't know. Maybe it's just a memory?"

Was he really feeling things? He had some flickers, anger for one thing, but this was something else. Did those feelings count?

[donovan_deegan]

"Or maybe it is a heart. Though that is interesting. A memory? How so?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"Well, that's what the brainiacs said. We don't have hearts or feelings, they're just memories from before."

[donovan_deegan]

"Well you do seem to have one to me. Even if I'm not a brainiac. But before what?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"When I used to be a Somebody." He smiled and sipped the rest of his milkshake down. "But I had my heart taken so now I'm a Nobody. It's been a long time."

[donovan_deegan]

"And how exactly was it taken?"

[melodiouspacifist]

That was a topic of conversation best avoided usually. He shifted uncomfortably at the memory.

"A shadow snuck up on me and stole it and that was the end of my Somebody."