Selphie's Christmas Cheer

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Who: Selphie and her Spades
Where: Aboard the Sun
When: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (posting now because, y'know, Christmas)
What: Spreading lots of Christmas joy, while wearing an elf outfit
Warnings: None? It should all just be lovely and nice. Possibly swearing - it's the Spades
Style: Any that makes you happy!
Status: Open!

The mistletoe was just the start of Selphie's Christmas cheer spreading. Of course, she hadn't exactly gone round advertising she had done, but anyone who had come across some might have guessed. Next on Selphie's list was her Christmas outfit. She has ordered one from the delivery service, so can be found running around on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day all dressed up in an elf costume.

Christmas Eve - Selphie has completely decorated the galley, and is in the process of heating up a large pot of mulled wine. She thought about baking Christmas cookies, but she was scared of making a total mess of it, so there's a bowl of half-made cookie dough sitting on the side too. As she's stirring the mulled wine, or cleaning the tables, Selphie can be heard singing a variety of Christmas songs, some of which she seems to be making up as she goes along.   

Christmas Day - every member of the crew will have woken up to a small gift by their room/dorm. She has carefully selected different chocolates and candies in different shapes, flavours, and colours, and they've all been carefully wrapped, with a mega (and rather unnecessary) amount of ribbon. There's a handmade card for each member of the crew too. Selphie has drawn a picture of something on the front that she associates with that particular pirate. She's not the most artistic person in the world, but she's not awful either, so the drawings are kind of cute. In all, despite the little money Selphie has, she's made an effort to make the presents as individual as possible, and she really hopes they're liked. She keeps out of the galley on Christmas Day, because no doubt lots of things are going on in their in preparation for Christmas dinner, or something, but she can be found here or there about the ship as usual, looking pretty happy in her elf costume.
 

 

 

Comments

[by_heart]

Hm? [It takes him a second before he figures out what Roxas means by that.]

That's what you're upset about, huh? Sorry, but I think you're the only one who liked that guy.

[Himself included.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas doesn't know much about that, but now that Lea has a heart, he can guess that he wants to go back to whatever heart-people do, when he had a heart before.

Maybe Lea and Axel really aren't the same. How can they be? Hearts are important. It's only dawning on Roxas now and he stares at him wide-eyed.]

Oh.

[This is what it's like to have a heart. Does Sora think like that about him too?]

[by_heart]

[Something just clicked in that fluffy little head. Hopefully it was the right something. Lea reaches out and ruffles Roxas' hair, surprised for a second at how soft it is. He's never actually felt it before.]

"Oh" what? You didn't see me hanging out with anyone else, did you?

[heartismyown]

[It wasn't. After the hair ruffling, he moves aside.]

You're not Axel.

[He means more than just the name change.]

Do you wish he just didn't exist?

[by_heart]

[Wow, that must really have touched a nerve. Him and his big mouth. Still, that was an easy enough question to answer.]

And leave you without your best friend? I may not have had a heart then, but I wasn't that much of a jerk.

[He fusses with his bandanna and looks off to the side.]

I do remember everything, you know, the good stuff and the bad stuff. It's not like I'm a completely different person. Just whole again, that's all.

[heartismyown]

I don't know the difference. I don't know what that's like. I don't remember anything from Sora. Do heart-people think like that?

[His tone is soft, his eyes wide and wounded.]

[by_heart]

[He hates that look and his eyes slide off to the side once its turned on him.]

Think like what? That there are things we do or say that we're not happy about? I think everybody has feelings like that.

[heartismyown]

I mean you don't like Axel. But I...

[He grimaces a little.]

Just never mind. I can't say the words I need. I don't think I know them.

[by_heart]

[He thinks he might know them. Or, at least, he hopes he knows what Roxas is getting at.]

You don't want anyone saying bad things about your best friend, even the guy himself.

[He shifts uncomfortably and scratches at the back of his neck.]

Thanks. For that.

[heartismyown]

Yeah. Kind of that. But I'm a Nobody too and what if Sora doesn't like me? Then what? I just...disappear and I'm forgotten?

[by_heart]

[Always Sora Sora Sora lately. Okay, so he understands the importance, but--]

Hey! He's not the only one who can remember you, you know! What does it matter if he likes you or not?

[So that's a little harsh, but what does it matter? Roxas shouldn't need Sora at all.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas looks at the deck and he shrugs a little bit. He doesn't know why it bothers him.]

[by_heart]

Go show off your skateboard to him, then. I'm sure he'll be impressed.

[He crosses his arms and scowls. If Roxas wants Sora's validation so bad, he can go find it.]

[heartismyown]

Why would he think that's impressive?

[Roxas is confused. This whole conversation has gotten away from him somehow.]

You're mad at me. [Now, why?]

[by_heart]

I'm not mad at you. I'm the one who told you to go make new friends, after all.

[It's not like he has to protect Roxas from the world anymore. He shouldn't get jealous of Sora like this.]

So go make him remember you if that's what you want.

[heartismyown]

I don't want you to be mad at me, that's what I want!

[Making a decisions, he clearly has to say sorry for whatever it is he just did. He charges at Lea and wraps his arms around his waist.]

I just don't like you talking about Axel like that. Don't you think it would hurt him if he knew? If I thought Sora hated me and wished I never existed, it would hurt in my chest.

[by_heart]

Alright. [Lea grinds his fist into the top of Roxas head.] I'm gonna say this one more time, so you better get it memorized: Axel and me aren't different people like you and Sora. People just called me Axel when I didn't have a heart. I'm the same guy who bought you ice cream and answered all your questions and kept an eye on you back then, I just have a heart again. Do you get it now?

[He hopes Roxas doesn't put together what that says about how he feels about himself.]

[heartismyown]

How am I a different person from Sora then?

[Lea wins this round, something more interesting caught his attention.]

[by_heart]

Don't look at me. Sora's heart is special somehow, otherwise it wouldn't be so important.

[He shrugs. Technicalities like that were never really of concern to him. It made Sora's Nobody different, it helped give him back his heart, it gave him his Keyblade somehow, but how isn't something he's going to give much thought to.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas clings to him anyway, hugging him tightly.]

I don't know if you don't.

[He looks up at him.] You're not mad at me right?

[by_heart]

Nah, of course not.

[This hugging thing has picked up since the whole cold curse incident. He's not exactly inclined to complain about it, either. It certainly seems to make Roxas happy.]

So go play and stop worrying about me.

[heartismyown]

Well, okay.

[As long as Lea wasn't mad and mostly he's not anymore either. Roxas runs over to his skateboard and takes off on it to keep playing with it.]