Non-challenge post.
For I am two weeks late. :/
Challenge: None
Title: To the Future
Word Count: 491
Spoilers: None at all
A/N: I'm...not so happy with how this turned out. :/ The quoted/italicized parts are from a song I like (Tegami~Juugo no Anata he, by Angela Aki) and thought it might be fun to use it a fic for the "letters" challenge. Didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but I hope people enjoy it anyway.
To you who are reading this letter: I wonder where you are and what you’re doing.
Kairi writes as neatly as possible, because even if it’s for a fun assignment, schoolwork is still schoolwork. Besides, who knows if she’ll be able to decipher her usual chicken scratch in 20 years.
Still, she gives into the temptation to decorate; little doodles in the margins, dotting her ‘i’s with circles--things that make the letter she’s writing “hers”. It’s for her future self, after all. 20 years from now, will she still be living on Destiny Islands? Still friends (or maybe something different?) with Sora and Riku, or has she had to choose one (lord she hopes not)? Will she have children? Will she become a doctor like she wants to now, or choose another job?
Her letter is signed with a remarkably detailed picture of seven people--three humans, three nobodies, and one who is neither--standing together and smiling, all of them whole. Somewhere in their shared heart, Namine smiles sadly.
Riku’s letter starts out normally enough, with complaints about the stupid time capsule his graduating class is creating and the stupid teachers making them write something to put in. Well, maybe the whole thing isn’t stupid. It’s still kind of sappy; more Sora’s thing than his, even if he does wonder what’s going to happen. If he’d known what trying to explore other worlds would lead to...
His handwriting becomes shakier, almost as if he’s afraid to ask but can’t stop himself. He wants to know if the nightmares eventually stop; if he ever manages to forgive himself for what he did. Do he, Sora, and Kairi eventually drift apart despite all that they’ve been through together? Have the worlds all been restored, or are they still fighting against the darkness?
He seals the envelope with both glue and tape, then writes his name in large, block letters on the front.
Sora writes in a broad scrawl that might as well be a secret code only he can make heads or tails of. At least half a page is taken up explaining the time capsule project (which is pretty awesome) and how they’re all writing a letter and putting something in--the picture of all his friends together is his contribution.
He doesn’t ask any questions. Sure he hopes everything is great when the time capsule is opened. College should be fun after all, even if Roxas likes to needle him that the workload’ll kill him within two semesters. Wherever he ends up afterward, whatever he ends up doing, he wants to still have Riku and Kairi with him, and be able to visit their friends on other worlds. Anything else, well...what happens happens.
At the end of the letter, in slightly neater handwriting, is a sort of postscript made up of two words: Always remember
To you, who are reading this letter: I pray you are happy.
Challenge: None
Title: To the Future
Word Count: 491
Spoilers: None at all
A/N: I'm...not so happy with how this turned out. :/ The quoted/italicized parts are from a song I like (Tegami~Juugo no Anata he, by Angela Aki) and thought it might be fun to use it a fic for the "letters" challenge. Didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but I hope people enjoy it anyway.
To you who are reading this letter: I wonder where you are and what you’re doing.
Kairi writes as neatly as possible, because even if it’s for a fun assignment, schoolwork is still schoolwork. Besides, who knows if she’ll be able to decipher her usual chicken scratch in 20 years.
Still, she gives into the temptation to decorate; little doodles in the margins, dotting her ‘i’s with circles--things that make the letter she’s writing “hers”. It’s for her future self, after all. 20 years from now, will she still be living on Destiny Islands? Still friends (or maybe something different?) with Sora and Riku, or has she had to choose one (lord she hopes not)? Will she have children? Will she become a doctor like she wants to now, or choose another job?
Her letter is signed with a remarkably detailed picture of seven people--three humans, three nobodies, and one who is neither--standing together and smiling, all of them whole. Somewhere in their shared heart, Namine smiles sadly.
Riku’s letter starts out normally enough, with complaints about the stupid time capsule his graduating class is creating and the stupid teachers making them write something to put in. Well, maybe the whole thing isn’t stupid. It’s still kind of sappy; more Sora’s thing than his, even if he does wonder what’s going to happen. If he’d known what trying to explore other worlds would lead to...
His handwriting becomes shakier, almost as if he’s afraid to ask but can’t stop himself. He wants to know if the nightmares eventually stop; if he ever manages to forgive himself for what he did. Do he, Sora, and Kairi eventually drift apart despite all that they’ve been through together? Have the worlds all been restored, or are they still fighting against the darkness?
He seals the envelope with both glue and tape, then writes his name in large, block letters on the front.
Sora writes in a broad scrawl that might as well be a secret code only he can make heads or tails of. At least half a page is taken up explaining the time capsule project (which is pretty awesome) and how they’re all writing a letter and putting something in--the picture of all his friends together is his contribution.
He doesn’t ask any questions. Sure he hopes everything is great when the time capsule is opened. College should be fun after all, even if Roxas likes to needle him that the workload’ll kill him within two semesters. Wherever he ends up afterward, whatever he ends up doing, he wants to still have Riku and Kairi with him, and be able to visit their friends on other worlds. Anything else, well...what happens happens.
At the end of the letter, in slightly neater handwriting, is a sort of postscript made up of two words: Always remember
To you, who are reading this letter: I pray you are happy.