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[When the feed comes on, Aqua is smiling warmly, though she looks somewhat weary.]

Hello. My name is Aqua. Some of you know me. Most of you probably don't, though.

I'm actually doing this to make an announcement. If it's not too much trouble, I'd like everyone from any world where the Keyblade exists to respond to this message. There's been some confusion lately, and I think different...

[She pauses. It's clear by her expression that she's searching for an appropriate term.]

...timelines, may be involved. It's lead to aggression before -- I just think, considering the circumstances, we should try to at least be polite to each other, if not work together.

[Her smile wavers a little, replaced by quiet reservation.] I know not everyone will agree to this, but I'm sure it will be helpful in the long run if as many people respond as possible. There's a form below this that I'd like if people could fill out. Feel free to lock your response to only me if you would be more comfortable doing that.

I'd also like to make another call for the people who have been taking magic lessons with me. I know it's been hard to keep up with because of the...chaos. But, our meeting place will stay the same, and anyone is welcome to find me in room 1-07 if they need me on a day that we haven't scheduled lessons.

And, for those who have Keyblades...I can teach you, too. If you want me to.

[Her lips tilt upwards again.] Thank you all very much for your time.

[The feed cuts off. As promised, there's a form for all the KH cast to fill out!]

What is your name?
How old are you?
Are you a Keybearer?
Did you ever apprentice under a Master?
If you did, what was their name?
Have you learned under more than one Master?
List their names, if you have.
Would you consider yourself to be of the light, or of the darkness? Both? Neither?
Do you have anything you'd like to ask me?

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[It takes a while for this one to respond, both because of his own mixed feelings towards ~~his~~ Aqua and because well.

It's Aqua. He killed her once, but she came back - He wasn't even sure what she was. (If he'd ever been told, it'd been forgotten or pushed aside). She was with Eraqus the last he knew. Still... A sigh and then - the feed is fumbled, and shows what looks to be an older blonde with a blindfold before it swaps to voice.

He sounds something like an older Ventus. Only much more passive.] ....I ...have a keyblade.

[He's hestiant, very much so. Too many 'bad memories' and assoications with Aqua make him reluctant to speak out, but at the same time..... he has only been.... rewarded, after a fashion... for his curiousiy. Meaning that nothing 'bad' has happened.] Please m-make the form verbal. I will will fill it in that way.

[...wow. His voice sounds...very, very familiar.

But, she can't jump to conclusions, even if the brief clip of him she'd seen showed that he looked familiar, too.]

Alright.

[In a warm, patient voice, she lists off the questions. And then, after a pause:] Do you want me to repeat any of them?

... My name is Ventus. I ... don't know how old I am. Maybe 22. [It's closer to 24.] I am a keybearer.

[And then there's a really really long pause at the next one that he needs to answer. Finally, it comes out though.] Yes.... Eraqus and Vanitas.

[That last one? Is exteremely complicated and it's not even true per-say because Vanitas does not count as a Master, but all he knows now... he did learn from his Other. Anyway, he continues without explanation.] Yes. Xehanort. Eraqus. .... Maybe Aqua.

[Again, complicated. But hey, he's truthful.] ..... I am a tool of the darkness. It does not matter what I am.

[...We hope that you did not break your brain, Aqua.]

[...after all that, she decides it would be prudent to lock this post.

Is this the same Ven? That she met that one time? He doesn't seem like he remembers. But maybe he was pulled from later in his timeline...as strange as that seems. What does that mean for his world, though? Was it truly destroyed as the notes from the Tower said?

She supposes it doesn't matter. He isn't acting at all like he recognizes her, even though he said right in his answers that she once taught him.

It disturbs her deeply that he would even call Vanitas a Master, in any sense of the word. To have a great man like Eraqus put into the same group as that monster...

Her voice sounds almost sad when she responds, and tight with something that's hard to place.] Thank you for your time, Ventus. It's nice to meet you.

...I guess. [If Aqua is disturbed that he'd call Vanitas a Master, then she would be heart broken to know what Ventus thinks of the man he once looked up to - and what he thinks of his former friends.

It is the same Ventus though - just a lot more broken. There's bitterness in his voice too. She's not the one he knows - that much is clear - but she sounds like her and that makes him wary and guarded.] ... you are not the one I killed.

[It doesn't hurt any less to hear that than it did the first time.

She tries to hide it -- Aqua is good at that -- but there's a faint betrayal of sadness in her response.] ...no. I'm not. My Ven never did anything like that.

...I see. He was never betrayed, then.

[She can't help it. She gets angry. How could he make an assumption like that? Shouldn't he, of all people, know better than that? His own master had done him the offense of carving his heart in half. And worse, he's insinuating that some other Terra and Aqua would have abandoned him like that. She won't stand for it.]

Terra and I would never betray Ven. If something ever happened, we wouldn't rest until it was righted.

[And they hadn't. When Ven fled the place they called home, they'd searched the ends of the universe for him. She may not know the circumstances of this mysterious boy's universe, but if their family is involved, she doesn't believe for a second that they'd have left him to any miserable fate.]

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