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[ Xion had walked into the clothing store in the village square as her normal self. Just a sixteen year old Poppet picking up some warmer clothes for winter, nothing new.

She darts back outside just a minute later, looking deeply bewildered and rather ... different. For one, she's suddenly three inches taller than she was a moment ago, and somehow her hair has grown to hang a good four inches past her shoulders. Not to mention she seems to have filled out that teenage body of hers. This is definitely a woman, one who seems to be in roughly her mid twenties.

Considering she was just in the clothing store, she's dressed rather impractically for the weather in loose, flowing black pants and a black camisole. It's an outfit more appropriate for working out in... and given the bow she has in her hands and the quiver of arrows on her back, it looks like that's what she was just doing.

An arrow is now nocked on that bow as she stares around in growing alarm, before her eyes narrow in thought and frustration. Down goes the bow, and the arrow goes back in its quiver.

Give her a moment or two, and she'll have darted back into the clothing store to grab a coat before heading to the fountain, bow once again over her chest, reading her journal as she goes.

When she speaks, her voice has changed a little, too -- it's only slightly lower, but somehow she just sounds older. ]

This isn't... this isn't the Luceti I was just in. Just a second ago it was summer, and I'd been... it doesn't matter.

[ this young woman is frowning rather severely at her journal, her mind obviously working a mile a minute as she thinks. ]

... is there something strange going on? Can anyone tell me when this is? What year is it? Something doesn't seem right.

[ there's a pause, now, and a little bit of anxiety as she proceeds. ] ... is everyone still--? ... dad? Axel, Roxas? ... Riku?

[ unconsciously, Xion raises a hand, pressing her fingers to her mouth in worry and in thought. The observant may notice that there seems to be a plain gold band around her ring finger. Surely that can't be a wedding ring? She'll drop her hand before you can get a closer look, though. ]

Please, tell me what's going on.

[1) different bracket style just because. but also to cut down on the length of this thing.

2) she looks something like this, only with the hair midway down her chest instead. spoiler as to who she married. 8|

3) all replies will come from

reactualized and y'all better appreciate because making that shit took FOREVER. also please do comment here if you want Xion to have knowledge of a future version of your character!

4) I'm tagging like a beast EVERYWHERE right now, please do ping me if I missed something somewhere.]

(edit; WHOOPS I just realized there's a bit of a time discrepancy in some threads, as to what time of the year it was when Xion was poofed back. :|a gonna just handwave it. sorry!)

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[ ... oh god.

oh god, he's SO CUTE.

;~~~~~~~~;!

Xion is trying so hard not to just scoop him up in a hug right then and there. ] My name is Xion. What're you doing out here all by yourself, Luke?

[He probably wouldn't mind in the slightest if he got scooped into a hug, seeing how he loves attention and affection. Luke looks around - he did go pretty far away from the house, didn't he? But hey, there's a fountain! And he wanted to see it!

So, he points over Xion's shoulder to the fountain.]

W-Water!

[ Luke, you are going to be the death of her. Death by cute. She can't help but laugh at how sweet he is, and she stands, offering him a hand. ]

Want to go look at it together?

[You just haven't seen him during his tantrums. :| Luke stares for a second, then smiles and reaches up to take her hand, using that to pull himself up.]

Yes! Pretty water!

[ ... hopefully she won't have to. :|a but she grins when he pulls himself up, and she keeps a hold on his hand as they walk over. ]

Does anyone know you're here, Luke?

Guy!

[But just a second after he says that, he looks a bit unsure. Guy knows he's here in this story, but not here at the fountain. Luke isn't really sure how to correct himself, though, so he just leaves it at that.

He's walking pretty awkwardly, too, as if he's walking on a tightrope rather than the solid ground.]

[ ..... hm. Xion will have to personally check with Guy later -- or maybe just take the kiddo home after they're done here.

She's noting how he's walking, too, and can't help but be reminded... a lot of herself, when she was still new. She doesn't really remember the first one or two weeks of her life, but from what she was told...

... well. Luke, at least, talks.

But it's for that reason she hangs onto his hand, letting him use her to balance, and she doesn't say a word about it.

Once they make it over, she'll take a seat on the edge and smile at him, releasing his hand, though ready to catch him if he trips again. ]

Have you ever seen anything like this before?

[That's only because he's a month or two old now - when he was first brought to his family, he couldn't talk, walk or do much of anything on his own. He barely even had a personality. It was mostly thanks to the people who are raising him that he's even like this.

Luke grabs onto the edge once Xion lets go of him, and he pulls himself awkwardly over the edge so that he can sit on his knees. He hangs onto the other end as he leans forward and stares with curiosity at how the water sprays upward and into the water below, almost as if it's never ending.]

Uh-uh...

[ dang. it took him longer than it took her. though it mostly just comes down to differences in how they were built, huh?

like machines.

Xion watches him with a very fond smile on her face, now resisting the urge to reach out and ruffle his hair. ]

Just don't fall in! It's cold, and you might get sick.

[Just like that.

Luke almost loses his balance, but he leans back just in time to not fall in and look like a wet dog. He continues to stare for a while, as if expecting the water to stop sometime.]

Pretty... [He blinks, then looks up at her for a moment before he smiles again.] You pretty!

[ LKSHDGKJSADHGLKAJDA

FDIUGSAHRFANSLKD;JV;ASDOIGUVAHSDOASFGDLKLKS

SJDLK!!!!!

!!!!

Oh god, Xion starts to laugh and cannot really stop. No longer even trying to resist, she gives his hair a ruffle. He is so fucking cute she can't even. ]

Thank you, Luke, that's very sweet of you.

[Luke almost thinks he did something wrong since she's laughing about it, but then she ruffles his hair and thanks him and calls him sweet, so that must've been right! He laughs thanks to the action and the fact that laughter is contagious, then tries to repeat one of her words.]

Su-su-wee... t!

[ OH GOD, THAT IS IT, SHE IS GOING TO ADOPT HIM RIGHT HERE AND NOW AND KEEP HIM FOREVER! ]

That's right! [ grinning from ear to ear ] Good job, Luke! [ have another hair ruffle. ] Did you want to stay here and watch the water some more, or should we go somewhere else?

[You might have to talk to Guy about that one. :| Luke's smile grows even wider from the extra hair ruffling, but at her question, he looks up at the fountain for a while longer before he scoots himself away and off of the edge.]

Somewer-where?

[ Guy does not get a say in it, okay. ;~; Xion taps her chin with exaggerated thoughtfulness, then grins. ]

How about the bakery? They have all sorts of sweet things to eat!

[Luke watches her with a tilted head, and... he's never heard of a bakery before, so he gives a blank stare before he taps his own chin, mimicking her thoughtful action.]

Coo-kies?

Mmmhmm! And cakes, and cupcakes, and all kinds of things! Would you like to see?

[H-He's never had cake (or cupcakes) before and it all sounds delicious. So, Luke brightens and bounces lightly on his toes, keeping a hold on the edge of the fountain to keep his balance.]

Yes, yes!

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