[open] 🌻 try as I absolutely, totally might

[oathkeeper]

Sender: Sora
To: Everyone
Subject: Help me out!
Warnings: tba


[Because of a certain conversation Sora is now attempting to defend his honour!]

hey! it’s sora! or hi i'm sora!

there was someone last month who said i’m a troublemaker but i said i only cause trouble every once in a while and that doesn’t make me a fully-fledged troublemaker, right? i don’t cause trouble on purpose! only if i caused trouble on purpose would that make me a real troublemaker!

anyway he said that if i can find people who can vouch for me that i’m not a troublemaker at all he would believe me! can you help me out? you guys can tell him that i’m good news, right?? right?

[Sora has never done anything wrong in his entire life!!]

Comments

Sender: Vanitas

[darkcharge]

[ Hold on. Sora can probably hear Vanitas laughing from wherever he is. ]

No, I wouldn't call you a troublemaker.

But you are definitely a brat. Also a trouble-seeker. A trouble magnet.

Sender: Roxas

[twilightskey]

Are you looking for a serious answer to that?

[Press X to Doubt]

Sender: Vanitas

[darkcharge]

Please, Roxas. As his otherself I think your words hold a great deal of weight.

[oathkeeper]

[Wow!! This is betrayal!!]

vanitas!! that's not helping!!

[oathkeeper]

roxas i'm serious here!! you have to help me!!

[spirialink]

oh my friends back home used to say that about me!

[darkcharge]

Isn't it though? After all, I did side with you.

[oathkeeper]

really?? but it's not true at all, right! sure we get into some trouble every now and then but we're not troublemakers!

[oathkeeper]

you can't call me a brat, vanitas! that's exactly opposite of what i need right now!

[spirialink]

yeah we're not troublemakers!

we're troubleseekers!

[is that something to be proud of?]

[oathkeeper]

[Just because he's not wrong doesn't mean he should say it!]

wait i don't know if you should say that!

sender: Flowey

[your_best_friend]

Come on, give us the details! What's your criminal record?

[spirialink]

huh

wait what's wrong with that

we're always getting into trouble because we're troubleseekers!

or maybe it's more like trouble seeks us???

[darkcharge]

You are a brat though.

My brat.

[oathkeeper]

[✔️ Trespassing
✔️ Breaking Laws
✔️ Disobeying Royal Authority
✔️ Break and Enter
✔️ Murder
✔️ Rewriting Space and Time
✔️ Illegal Skateboarding
✔️ Breaking Eggs]

nothing! i don't have a criminal record!!

[your_best_friend]

Everyone has one. Including me! Wanna hear what I've done?

[oathkeeper]

whaaat? uh sure??

[your_best_friend]

Arson, assault, child abuse, genocide, kidnapping, mass murder, regicide, stalking, theft, torture, treason. At least that's all that it said on the billboard I had when all those X-Class Akudama were kidnapped.

I can tell you it should be a lot longer. And simultaneously nothing. Timeline shenanigans.

[oathkeeper]

[Bruh.]

i mean i'm not here to see who's laundry list is longer, i want to prove that i'm not a troublemaker.

but why are you such a big one?

[oathkeeper]

your trouble-seeker, trouble magnet brat...

[your_best_friend]

Okay. Imagine if you had no empathy nor compassion. Now, imagine reliving the same few years or so over and over and over. For thousands of years. You'd eventually get bored of doing all the good and helpful things, wouldn't you?

And even then, you'd eventually get bored of doing all the "troublemaker" stuff, too.

Stuff happened between the me getting bored of the bad and me arriving here that made me want to try and make my own form of emotions and compassion, but me being a "troublemaker" isn't the point. The point is why should you care if you're a troublemaker at all if you're honestly trying your best not to be one anymore?

sender: Shikanoin Heizou

[book2thehead]

[Oh, this is gold.]

Having a good time so far~?

Sender: Naminé

[lethechained]

[ ... Well. Unfortunately for Sora, Naminé's entirely too honest, and sits there a moment with her mouth shaped into a hesitant line for probably a solid minute before she ever actually puts pen to paper. ]

It's not that you make trouble, exactly.
But you are good at finding it, and it's good at finding you.

[ .... ]

Then again, you're not usually the one running from it, either.

Sender: Senku

[10billionpercent]

In my experience if you have to deny being a troublemaker - you're a troublemaker.

Don't run from it, embrace it. Troublemakers get the best things done.

[ This is terrible advice from a troublemaker. ]

[book2thehead]

That's exactly what I said to him!

And I certainly never said anything about it necessarily being a bad thing~