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Who: The Spade Pirates and anyone on the island.
Where: Deesuko Ballia
When: 9th-16th
What: Spade shenanigans, Valentines Day curse event shenanigans, and a super fly drag show
Warnings: the usual
Status: Open



Pls to be dating your threads.

New recruits! Welcome to Deesuko Ballia! A dome covered island that is a pirate paradise. Extra deets can be found in the Island Registry. To get here you can take the Nav from Backwater Brig to the Sun or Moon.

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[heartismyown]

Roxas happens upon her while she's decorating and he looks around in wonder. All that pink. What was up with that?

He sidles up behind her, not speaking until he gets there.

"What're you doing Selphie?"

[booyaka_boom]

Selphie grins down at Roxas, handing him a leftover pink heart that she's holding.

"Decorating for Valentine's Day!~ What are you doing, mister?"

[heartismyown]

"Now I'm wondering what Valentine's Day is." Roxas says without much thought, taking the paper heart. Weird right? He turns it upside down, it kind of looks like the bottom of the symbol for the Organization.

[booyaka_boom]

"Then you've come to the right place! I can tell you all about it!" Selphie sits down and takes his hand, gently turning it so that the heart is the right way up again.

"It's a day where people celebrate love! Love for your family, and love for your friends, but most of all... Romantic love! And you give gifts to the people that you love the most, and make sure they know how much you love them! Or, if there's someone you admire, you can send them a message but keep it secret. Like when I was your secret admirer, remember?"

[heartismyown]

Roxas looks at her for a moment. Did he remember that? Hmmm. He has to think about it. Finally he settles on a nod. It sounds familiar, so he remembers something of it.

"I don't know what that is either. Love. What's that?"

[booyaka_boom]

Selphie gives Roxas a look that suggests that she could just scoop him up and huggle him until he understood. There's nothing worse in the world, she imagines, than not knowing what love is. Instead, she just pats him on the head.

"Let's see... Love is when you are really happy when you are with someone. Like, they make you smile and laugh, and they fill your whole body with a nice warm feeling. But when you're not with them... it feels horrible, and cold, and dark. And love is when... you would do anything in the whole wide world to make that person feel the happiest, most specialist that they could ever feel. Something like that. Ever felt like that before?"

The whole speech is delivered, of course, with stars in her eyes and wild hand gestures and flailing.

[heartismyown]

He blinks at her, staring as she speaks. He blurts out an answer without really thinking about it.

"Kind of like Lea then, but we fight a lot so I don't think it's the same thing."

Roxas thinks back to the time Lea was gone and he thought he was dead and shivers.

"Maybe it's kind of like that. When I thought he was dead I didn't feel very well."

[booyaka_boom]

"Yeah! I think you're right! I bet that is like you and Lea." She smiles a little and shrugs slightly, "I think people who love each other can fight too. Sometimes they fight even more, because they care about each other so much. It's kinda complicated, I guess..."

She frowns a little at his final statement, and this time she does go in to give him a hug, "Mmmhmm. That makes sense too."

[heartismyown]

He smiles a little though and a little belatedly he returns the hug. Maybe he does feel that way about Lea, he does't know all the emotions though, it can be hard to tell.

"What's the hug for? Axel was okay, but he just didn't come back and someone told me and I didn't like it. It was confusing at the time, still is now a little I guess. I'm not supposed to feel anything after all."

[booyaka_boom]

When he hugs back, Selphie just snatches him up even closer and cuddles. "The hug is for you being cute - and I think you just deserved one. It's not so bad, right?" She sits back for a moment to take a good look at him, before giving a wink, "Okay, so maybe you're not supposed to...but it can't hurt if you feel something by accident!"

[heartismyown]

"No, I like hugs." Roxas treats her to a grin. "Lea's pretty good at giving them when he feels like it. He's bony though. Sometimes he wakes me up when he elbows me in the middle of the night and it's pretty annoying. I guess I could sleep in my own hammock, but I've been in his since I died and it's pretty comfortable, and he hasn't kicked me out yet."

Sometimes asking Roxas a question is rewarded with a long rambling answer.

[booyaka_boom]

"Great! Hugs are great!" Selphie laughs at mention of him being bony. "Well, it's nice to have someone to sleep next to. Cosy and warm..." She trails off, because it's been longer than she'd like since the last time she had a certain someone sleeping next to her. "But yeah! So long as he hasn't kicked you out, I'd say you're onto a winner!"

[heartismyown]

"Ah, maybe. Ikki said I should...not fight with him so much or he might not be my best friend anymore."

Roxas shuffles his feet a little bit.

"I'm trying to remember that so that doesn't happen."

[booyaka_boom]

"Ikki said that?" She thinks about this clearly for a few moments, trying to imagine him giving advice to Roxas like that. "Huh. He should maybe listen to himself sometimes..." She gives him an apologetic smile, "It is all pretty complicated... But I bet Lea would love you loads even if you did fight every now and then."

[heartismyown]

"Love me?" Roxas blinks at her a few times. "I never really thought about it."

He barely can sort out his own feelings, let alone someone else's. "Yeah, because Axel- I mean, Lea is always hiding stuff from me and when he does that it makes me mad and I don't like it. Feelings are really confusing. I never thought he'd stop being my best friend though!"

Knots, it was like he was tied up in knots.

[booyaka_boom]

"Roxas, it doesn't matter who you are, what you are, how old you are... feelings will always be confusing. Even for me, and I have a million different kinds of feelings all over the place!" Her smile becomes a little more lopsided now. "But you know what? I don't think he'd ever stop being your best friend either." She bites her tongue, careful of what she says about Ikki in front of him.

[heartismyown]

"Really? Hmm.." That's pretty interesting. Roxas scratches his head a bit and he brightens. "Well I...I hope not. I can be more careful!...Maybe."

He always seems to just believe what people tell him, without questioning it. Roxas isn't sure, but probably it's the kind of thing he has to ask Lea. It always seems to come back to that, doesn't it?

[booyaka_boom]

"Yeah... Sadly, so. But hey, it's part of what makes life so interesting, right?" She smiles as he brightens up and nods her head in reassurance, though she can't help but wonder what the hell Ikki has been telling him. "Being careful isn't always a bad thing, I guess. But yeah, you guys are friends forever for sure, I can tell!"

Not that she'd ever seen the two together, but she could tell from how Roxas spoke about Lea that he was good to him.

[heartismyown]

Lea was exceptionally good to Roxas, and deserves full credit for it. Roxas just smiles though and shrugs. "Well if he tries to leave me behind, I'll just have to go drag him back, right?"

It's their deal, and it shouldn't be just one way. Besides, Roxas knows he can take on Lea when he has to.

"What else do you do for this holiday?"

[booyaka_boom]

"Exactly! And that's love! Where you'll follow a person no matter what!"

She smiles and tilts her head somewhat as she thinks, "Well..People who are..romantically in love, they can go on dates, like for dinner, or something special like that. Sometimes they give gifts too, to show how much they mean to each other. Valentine's is more...important if you have someone that you love in that way, I think."

[heartismyown]

He seems to be mulling it over. "What's the difference?"

[booyaka_boom]

"You mean betweeen that and like you and Lea?" Cause she's assuming that that's not romantic. She thinks about using Riku and Yuuki as an example, but she's not sure if Roxas knows about that. "Well, it's like loving your friend but..it hurts more, I think.. And, you want to be beside them all the time... And loads more hugs than you get with your friends. Kisses too, even."

[heartismyown]

Roxas nods at her question and scratches his head.

"I don't know how it could hurt more. It's pretty painful like it is." He grumbles a little. He's trying to think back to what it felt like when he was numb and he can't do it. He's been like this awhile, feelings intense and uncontrolled at times.

"I like hugs though." He thinks about it some more. He doesn't feel the need to be beside Lea right now but that's because he'll see him later, after all they share a room.

[booyaka_boom]

"Hmm... I just know that it can hurt a real lot..." At least so far it had hurt more than she might have imagined it would. "But sure, hugs are always good. You can come get hugs from me anytime!" And at least she seems to brighten at this.

[heartismyown]

"Yeah, okay! They are good, yeah. Lea hugged me first though." Roxas grins at her.