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Christmas... It seems to be a rather special holiday for many of you, much like it is for those in worlds connected to my own.

Merry Christmas, everyone. [...That's what you're supposed to say, right?]



[A while later, ff you're out wandering the village Christmas Eve, you may just notice a familiar figure, however younger they might seem to those who know either of the other two 'Rikus'. Just walking around, covered in layers and still holding onto the journal he arrived with. Though, it is getting rather late... Why is he still outside on tonight of all nights?]

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

[ Sob, everybody wants to be a Riku. Still, he's not getting a response to his staring, so that's not exactly an answer. Finally he asks, not even sure if it's the right question but he needs to ask something. ]

Who are you?

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[encryptedpages]

[Hey. He didn't ask for this form. It was chosen for him in all the sad irony he didn't begin to realize until he arrived in the 'real world.' ...Still hasn't grasped the full scale of it, either.]

Memories used to fill Jiminy's Journal. [He closes the book in his lap, standing.] Though I guess you could say 'data' as well.

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

[ So you're not the Real Thing.

... Wait. ]

... What?

[ Okay, something just went completely over his head and he's not even entirely sure what it was. ]

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[encryptedpages]

[Yep. Just like with everyone else, the truth is stranger than fiction ha ha.]

In other words, not Riku. Just someone who looks like him.

[Greatest lesson in this story: If you ever find a book that was once full of entries and is suddenly blank? Don't upload it to a computer.]

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

Another one. [ It slips out before he can stop it. He cringes a little and moves on. ]

So your memories... are from that journal, you said?

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[encryptedpages]

[That's right. Yet not exactly like him. Whee differences in 'programming.' He frowns slightly, but nods.]

Not this particular one, no. ...If you refer to Jiminy's Journal, then yes.

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one. Those are... like Sora's memories, aren't they? [ That's kind of weird to think about, dude. ]

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Yeah. [He offers a shrug. The weird levels froze over at his arrival, man.] The King, Donald and Goofy didn't take the surprise so well, either.

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

You met them?

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[encryptedpages]

... You could say that.

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

What's that supposed to mean?

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[encryptedpages]

It's more like 'recruited their help' than simply met. Even with modified data, I had to make sure Sora would have some friends by his side.

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to not make sense?!

[ BECAUSE YOU'RE REALLY NOT MAKING SENSE. sob. ]

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[He shakes his head.] It's a long, confusing story.

[IT'S ALL COMPLICATED AND HE HASN'T CREATED "DATASCAPE FOR DUMMIES" YET. HE IS SORT-OF SORRY, FACE TWIN. troll]

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

Then why would you bring it up?! You're...! [ ah fuck this ] Why do you look like us?! [ He probably should've said "Riku" instead there but he's too mad to care right now. ]

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[encryptedpages]

You're the one who asked what I meant. [Duh. And, as for that inquiry...] Because this is the form the journal chose to protect itself.

[Brain meltdown in 3, 2, 1...|]

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

...

[ You are just. getting a stare.

Where does he even begin with that. I mean seriously, what. ]

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[encryptedpages]

...Someone found a message in the journal. Mickey thought it was a good idea to import all the hidden data into a computer. I came into being as the avatar of that data.

[Called it. Why does his mere existence break so many brains?]

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

[ Because there's the amount of sense most of KH doesn't make. And then there's Re:coded. ]

So you're... not real?

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[encryptedpages]

[That's assuming that anything in their worlds make sense at all, you crazy 4th Wall tapper.]

Real as any memory record can be.

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[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

Yeah? And how real's that?

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[encryptedpages]

[He glances away for a brief moment, sensing that mistrust.]

Ordinarily I should only be able to exist within a computer's datascape. So out here in the real world? Not real at all. [Yet he's... accepting of that, if not confused as to how it's even possible at this rate.]

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[personafalsify]

... Then you're also just a fake.

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[He nods curtly.] So long as I can help unravel the mysteries surrounding this village and our own universe, I could care less what others consider me.

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[personafalsify]

You're just... okay with that?!