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xaldin,
yuuno scrya

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It was just a single step towards getting home. That's how all journeys start. Yunno is setting himself up for a project.

In this case that means he's ordered a light snacking meal (tea, oranges, granola bars), a pad of paper (white, suitable for rough sketching), a box of pencil crayons, and a holographic, portable computer. It's heavy on geometric patterns and blinking lights.

He's put up a sign

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and has settled in to work on an extremely complicated design. Please, someone interrupt before his eyes cross from the math.

Tiny Tag: Yunno Scrya, Xaldin

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Xaldin is attempting to get used to being indoors based on the theory that it's slightly easier for him than it is for Xigbar and one of them should be able to go inside without pain.

Or at least without admitting to pain.

It's the computer that causes him to stop and look. He'd be the first to admit that he hasn't any artistic skill, and he's not interested in translations, but once upon a time he worked with computers and biology. Yes, wildly different areas of focus but he was that smart and filled in the gaps his best friend had in his knowledge.

So the computer causes him to stop and look at it.

Not biology, no. The design is clearly mechanical and complicated in a way that means extra dimensions get used for storage. And routing connections.

Yunno looks up, "Can I help you?"

"Probably not. I was just interested in your computer." Xaldin says "It's been a long time since I got to work with one."

"It's a portable from Mid-Childa. At least the design is, Bar produced it. Did you work with computers a lot?"

Yunno sets the computer, which is mostly keyboard due to the projected screen, aside. His eyes need a rest after staring at preliminary spell equations.

"I used to." Xaldin says quietly "I've been focused on other things lately. Mostly recruitment."

Yunno nods. "I don't handle that myself but the Bureau is always looking for more people. We're perpetually understaffed. I'm in research mostly."

There's a limited number of pardons you can use to populate an agency with. Really.

"After my last experience I think I will be set on defense instead." Xaldin states calmly "We're getting to the point where we will either win or die."

Yunno sobers quickly. He's had those type of fights already.

"What ends do you fight for?" because the 'Why?' is survival by now, "I apologize, I forgot to introduce myself. Yunno Scrya, Scrya being my family name."

He gives a shallow bow, still seated. He'd probably wobble if he stood up.

"Xaldin. The Whirlwind Lancer. III of XIII." Xaldin states in turn "We are attempting to attain Kingdom Hearts so that we can get our hearts back and exist, fully and completely. The other side is killing us so that we cannot attain Kingdom Hearts because they have been told by a man named DiZ that we are evil."

Xaldin bows in return. Despite the fact that his feet are nowhere near the ground he doesn't wobble at all.

The best description for what happens here is that Yunno's clothing sneezes, flashes green, and straightens out into the tunic, fingerless gloves, and cape shown.

"Does this have anything to do with cows? Please have nothing to do with cows."

Yunno's had some bad conversations involving cows. Mostly Spoon.

The total lack of wobble in flight? That barely rates a glance - Yunno has friends that would spend all day airborn if the flight regulations weren't so strict.

"No. Why would it have anything to do with cows?" Xaldin is confused now.

"There was a person, braided hair with beads," clarifies Yunno, "He mentioned Heartless cows as part of a conspiracy that spanned worlds."

He settles back in the chair slightly, "He seemed very sincere and there was the girl who mentioned exploding ones. They've been the most consistently mentioned possible danger."

After, you know gratuitous magic use. But Xaldin is flying, so there's no rocks to throw there.

"There are probably Heartless cows." Xaldin says slowly "But they are like all other Heartless-devoid of anything but the drive to collect hearts. I've never heard of a conspiracy and can vouch that the Heartless were created by a combination of stupidity and betrayal."

"Stupidity and betrayal are almost always the problem. Ignorance comes close as well, but that's fixable. How does anything even exist without a Heart?"

Yunno has no idea how that's even possible. His magic comes through his.

"Willpower." Xaldin states firmly "Obscene amounts of willpower and the refusal to let go and fade into Oblivion. I have done so for more than ten years."

"T-ten years? That's... How? I've seen incredible things done with a strong will but still."

"I promised not to leave him." Xaldin says simply "And I won't. Until Xigbar is whole, I won't let go."

"Ah," now we're in territory that Yunno knows how to deal with.

It's amazing how much the Bar is like being with his friends.
*cough*Buncha crazies the lot of 'em.*cough*

"Are the Kingdom Hearts you mentioned the only way to regain a Heart? Or can you use a different method and outflank your opponents?"

The Kingdom Hearts sounds like a Lost Logia. He really doesn't want to get involved in rough magical artifacts of doom from another universe. Putting people back so they don't violate the actual nature of reality is something he supports though. It makes the headaches of thinking about how it works go away a bit.

"We have three possibilities going right now." Xaldin states, "Kingdom Hearts is one of them. The other two we found here. I am open to hearing about more possibilities. I don't care how we get them as long as we do. As long as he does."

"I can't build a Heart. No one from my world has admitted it's even possible. Devices to draw on and amplify on one exist. They stretch potentials and emphasis strengths, those we have. I'm working on a rough design for one now."

He points to the screen scrolling numbers in the background and CAD program in the foremost window.

"I have nothing." Xaldin says "But if you hear of something I would appreciate it if you let me know." He can't be happy, or hopeful, he can only give logical appreciation.

"Of course," he's really to forgiving about fights for survival of people you care about. Most of his friends are too.

"Please, tell me about the other two options you mentioned. I can't create a Heart, but maybe I can help anyway. Enough half solutions might be spun into a whole one."

"They are also ways to regain hearts. VIII already has managed and promised to help us in exchange for his life. A woman named Rachel said that she could give us hearts. We are waiting for more details from her."

"Eight? The same way you're Three I take it? How can I tell who they are?"

Yunno's opened as small text editor in the computer to take notes. It might be a holographic computer but typing's getting used. Voice recognition in something as crazy as Milliways is just asking for trouble.

"We all wear these coats." Xaldin states, "Xigbar, VIII, and IX are the only of us I have seen here. Xigbar is a foot shorter than I am, has gray hair, one eye, and a large scar on his face. VIII has red hair and blue tattoos, and is proportioned very strangely. IX is tall, blond, and probably used to be human."