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[lorei.livejournal.com]

Challenge: [85] Alive
Title: To Begin
Wordcount: 271
Notes: Whoo, I meandered all over the place with this, but it was fun ^^
No spoilers if you're familiar with the basic plot of Kingdom Hearts, and it's G-er than G :D


Riku woke up one day and he saw that he was dying.

He decided to ask those people-- his parents, his teachers, the adults-- what he should do to begin living.

Study, work, read, they told him. Then you'll start to live.

So he became the best student, the strongest worker, the most well-read child on the islands. But it didn't matter because none of it was real-- it turned out that school only trained him for work, that work only trained him for more work, and that books were only paper in the end.

He went back to the adults and asked them why he was still dying. They looked at each other, then at him. What do you mean? You read and you work, and that's what we call life.

Then Riku had his revelation-- they're content because they're already dead! They can walk and talk, but their souls and their minds-- their hearts are dead!

Once he could see that they were dead, he could see the killer as well. It was the island itself-- the claustrophobic, limited, insignificant, boring world where dreams were born only to die.

He wanted to leave. He had to leave, before the island killed his heart and his soul, before it sent him to-- not to oblivion, but to something worse-- to obscurity.

There was only one chance, and Riku took it without hesitating. Who cared if it was by the powers of light or of dark, of good or of evil, that he had finally been spirited away?

Whatever it was, he knew that it would bring him to life.

Comments

[lazzchan.livejournal.com]

....


You own me soul with this fic. Holy gods above...

*hands you cookies and brownies*

[lorei.livejournal.com]

I own your soul with this? Cool! :D

Yay! E-cookies and brownies make me glee :3

[colichemarde.livejournal.com]

Niiiiiice. :D

[lorei.livejournal.com]

Thaaaanks :D

[thano.livejournal.com]

... holy...

marry me?

[lorei.livejournal.com]

I'm being proposed to? Awesome! I'd love to! XD

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[lorei.livejournal.com]

Thank you ♥

[lindskaba.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Very, very nice use of language here, and a very in-character Riku. I must say this is the sort of topic I was looking for when I issued this challenge, not gonna lie ♥

[lorei.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you! Riku is one of the few characters that I'm pretty confident writing about. (And, 'alive' is such a fun prompt! Very good challenge ^^)

[kunoichi-life.livejournal.com]

I felt claustrophobic and surrounded reading this drabble. It was creepy in that way that only a child can feel it. Absolute. Overwhelming. Terrifying.

I LOVE YOU. *memory'd*

[lorei.livejournal.com]

Memory'd? I'm so honored! I'm so glad you liked it!

And, icon love.

[i-got-spunk.livejournal.com]

WAKE ME UP INSI-*shot*

Cough. This was pretty spiffy :D

[lorei.livejournal.com]

Oh lord. I remember that song ^^;

Thaaank you kindly :D

[aishiteru.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I am just completely in awe of this. Fucking brilliant, really. I don't even know what to say, only that the island, the island is what's killing and limiting them..... just... fucking fantastic.

[lorei.livejournal.com]

Eh heh, thanks :D I was afraid that part was a bit too awkward, I think I could have written it better somehow, but I'm lazy, so..^^;