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challenge: 154. Still Believe
title: Relativity
words: 379
notes: set during KH1. to the mods; I’ll be away on vacation for the next two weeks, and I may or may not be able to check in. I’ll definitely be unable to do banners, if my turn comes up. sorry! :[

Riku’s not stupid. He knows he’s fallen in with the wrong crowd. If it hadn’t been for that creepy voice in the back of his head telling him open the door to the point where he had to get over to the island as fast as he could, just to make it shut up, he would never have fallen into the darkness. He wouldn’t have been taken in by a witch.

If there’s one thing Riku’s learned from hanging out with a bad crowd, it’s that villains are relative. Yeah, Maleficent’s destroying worlds, and she might have had a small part in the way his crumbled, but she’s lonely. All she thinks about is power, gaining power, and then she’ll have everyone under her control. She won’t be by herself any more.

Yeah, he might have taken Kairi along for the ride, but he didn’t mean to make her this way, like a cold, pale doll sitting listlessly in the corner. He didn’t mean for his adventure (his heroic adventure, wherein Riku Explores the Worlds, With Sora And Kairi) to start out with him working for the bad guys, witches and wizards and boogeymen and dead people bossing him around while he does everything they want. Yeah, he’s trouble, but it’s because he’s guiltridden and just wants to find Kairi’s heart.

Riku’s had a lot of time to think things through. He knows there’s no way he can be a hero now, not after being a bad guy. What kind of hero kidnaps innocent girls, or lets the darkness get to him? Heroes don’t have voices in their head egging them on to do exactly the wrong thing.

Riku’s not stupid, but he is proud. Yeah, he knows, deep down, that he’s in big trouble, but he’d never admit it, not even to Kairi. So in a way, he’s kind of happy when Sora won’t come with him. Sure, Sora can be the hero. Someone has to be. And if he forgets about his friends, then, well, maybe heroes are a little preoccupied.

And villains are relative, anyway. Even if Riku’s the bad guy, he still has a chance. He knows he’s in for a long and bumpy ride, but it’s not like he’s going to get off now.