Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days liveplay! (complete)

[sincere]

What's that? Yes, I just finished a Kingdom Hearts liveplay, it's time for SON OF DAYS: A KINGDOM HEARTS LIVEPLAY OF A GAME I'VE ALREADY FINISHED. Sorry, out of the way, it's time to get my Nobody feelings on. /rolls up sleeves


Current progress: Completed.

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[sincere]

There's no New Game + so I will just have to make a new game.

We start with sneering at Heartless, panning over the Organization members on their chairs, and then Roxas and Axel musing about how they definitely probably don't have hearts, because of consistency.

[emends]

sits here forever. :D

[sincere]

/.watches them pan through each member of the Organization, their powers, and their weapons

[sincere]

Man, I still love all of these assholes.

[sincere]

Video ends with zombie Roxas getting his name. "His light shines as bright and as brief as the setting sun." :(

[sincere]

Flash forward to snarky Roxas greeting Axel on the bell tower on day 255. ♥ He's so cute. They talk about what a zombie he was and is and they laugh and Axel talks about why the sun sets red, because red is the color that travels the farthest. He says it smugly like it's his personal achievement.

Roxas rolls his eyes and calls him a know-it-all, and they laugh. And they wait, but Xion... doesn't come...

Time for some tragedy.

[sincere]

"You gotta figure, everything starts someplace. The closes thing for me is when I was just seven days old, and I met her."

Day 7: Number XIV

[sincere]

Roxas sleeps like a zombie fully dressed on his flat bed over the covers because that's definitely how people sleep. Time to talk to some people and get a mission!

[sincere]

Axel: Hey, Roxas.
Roxas: ... :(
Axel: Something I can help you with there, chatterbox?
Roxas: ... :(

Roxas is still too young to talk, but he does have some vaguely sad/lifeless faces! When Axel says something actually relevant ("We're supposed to have a meeting in the Round Room today", plus some more commentary) Roxas repeats after him, "Round... Room?" but right now he's barely reactional. He's so new and blank.

[sincere]

Xigbar: HEY ROXAS, HOW'S IT GOING. :D

Saix: Be ON TIME for this meeting. :|

Larxene: Ewww, you're awake. :\

Hey guys, just doing my rounds

[temples]

Xigbar, shine on you happy diamond, you. :D

[sincere]

Xemnas introduces Xion, Number XIV.

Roxas has a flashback to when he was introduced the same way -- with Axel trailing behind him like a babysitter. He looks up at Xemnas, who frankly looks bored.

But now Xion looks up, directly at Roxas.

[sincere]

I think you mean Xehanort?

[sincere]

"After seven days of clinging to a number and a name, I had trouble processing anything else. I couldn't have told you who the people in the black coats were, or what they wanted with me."

Day 8: The Icing On The Cake

[sincere]

I'm sure that first week is very helpful for Organization members who need to adjust to their new lifestyle, but maybe not so much for someone who doesn't have anything else to go on. Saix gives Roxas his first mission, with Axel along to babysit some more. Axel complains and Saix ignores him.

Dear Diary

[sincere]

I'm a week old today. Saix told me to keep a diary. Xion was introduced, but I don't know if I was like her when I was introduced, because I don't remember a week ago very well. Or anything.

[sincere]

Zexion: What's the significance of No. XIV's name, exactly?

Axel: Talk to Saix when you're ready to go. Also, check out my bad posture, I'm practically horizontal while sitting upright on this couch.

Xion: ... /zombies it up

[sincere]

As we head out, Roxas and Xion stare at each other for a little bit. Axel gives him a name pop quiz and Roxas demonstrates that he may still not speak voluntarily unless asked a direct question but damnit he sure knows people's names.

[sincere]

Down in the Twilight Town underground, Axel fails to explain anything. "Missions are... uhh, you know..." Roxas does not know. "You know what? Talking is dumb," Axel concludes. Truly he is a master of cleverness and manipulation.

[temples]

XEHANORT WISHES HE WAS AS COOL AS XIGBAR.

[sincere]

Axel: Find the treasure chest.
Roxas: That's all I have to do?
Axel: I know. Don't strain yourself.

I appreciate when Kingdom Hearts allows itself to have a real sense of humor instead of "OH BOY, THAT RIDICULOUS DONALD! LET'S ALL LAUGH UPROARIOUSLY FOR THIRTY SECONDS STRAIGHT UNTIL WE FADE TO BLACK."

[sincere]

Roxas: Is this the chest?
Axel: It is! Well done!
Roxas: ...
Axel: ...Well? Aren't you going to open it?
Roxas: The mission was to find the chest. Aren't I done? :|a

No, sweetie baby. You open chests. Then it's time to RTC, because this was the entirety of baby Roxas's first baby mission.

[sincere]

Axel gives him some more enthusiastic praise that Roxas responds lukewarmly to, and when Axel prods him, Roxas turns around and goes, "I could have done that blindfolded."

THERE'S MY SWEETIE BABY ♥♥♥

Axel rewards him for being a jerk by dragging him away from their RTC for some ice cream -- the "icing on the cake". Roxas can't remember the name because he was just a newborn the first time they got it and he doesn't remember Day 1. Axel declares that "Today is where it all really begins anyway", because it's Roxas's first time actually going out, doing work, being one of the Organization.

[sincere]

"That was my first day working for the Organization. They gave me missions, and I carried them out. But if you asked me what my job was... I would've just stared at you."

Day 9: Heartless

[sincere]

Today Roxas is working with Marluxia, because we need to introduce the Castle Oblivion cast quickly before killing them all off. Marluxia generously welcomes Roxas.