[It would probably be easier to have these conversations with a version of Xehanort that COULD feel. It would reveal more than this mild neutrality did. But odds are pretty good Xemnas was going to do exactly as he pleased, warning or no. It was the way of things.]
Multiple times coexisting is such an ... interesting concept, don't you think? So many possibilities. Or perhaps, opportunities.
[The smile that crosses his face isn't genuine, it can't be. He's simply incapable. But he remembers the expression, and the choice is deliberate, slow and falsely amused.]
And if your word can be trusted, little king, then you too are likely ... not as strong as you were. And if nothing I do here matters, then there is no reason to not further my experiments, for it will have no lasting consequences.
[Wait, that's not the conclusion he's supposed to be getting here!]
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Date: 2014-05-17 06:32 pm (UTC)[It would probably be easier to have these conversations with a version of Xehanort that COULD feel. It would reveal more than this mild neutrality did. But odds are pretty good Xemnas was going to do exactly as he pleased, warning or no. It was the way of things.]
Multiple times coexisting is such an ... interesting concept, don't you think? So many possibilities. Or perhaps, opportunities.
[The smile that crosses his face isn't genuine, it can't be. He's simply incapable. But he remembers the expression, and the choice is deliberate, slow and falsely amused.]
And if your word can be trusted, little king, then you too are likely ... not as strong as you were. And if nothing I do here matters, then there is no reason to not further my experiments, for it will have no lasting consequences.
[Wait, that's not the conclusion he's supposed to be getting here!]