Salutations.

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

I am Ansem, called, by turns, the Seeker of Darkness, Devourer of Worlds, Son of the Shadow, etc. or - if you are Riku - 'go away'.

I care little for titles but for the first one; the others are poetic twaddle at best. The last one amuses me as I retain a soft spot for its origin.

If anyone has, by chance, come upon any of my research notes, I would be very grateful to the one who returned them. I will offer an appropriate reward. (And before anyone gets clever - I do not lie. I am many things, true, but no liar.)

-A

P.S. How have you been, then, Riku? ♥

Comments

[shroudedinchaos.livejournal.com]

I'm almost glad to see you. This proves that there is no longer any shred of you left in my heart.

I'll destroy you again, any time you want.

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

Demise at your hands would be bliss to me, my knight.

[shroudedinchaos.livejournal.com]

...

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

What did you think I was going to do, flee?

I tease because I care, honestly~

[naughtiseternal.livejournal.com]

...my predictions were correct - the power of Kingdom Hearts is truly amazing. I assume the mere explosion of Ansem the Wise's machine was enough to reform you.

Now, return to me, so we may be complete once again!

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

...I respecfully decline, my 'brother'.

[naughtiseternal.livejournal.com]

...why?!

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

Because we are so far from one another now that such a union would end in madness and aniihilation, and another division. It might destroy us both.

When I find my reports, I will return to my research. You shall have a heart. it will - simply not be me.

[kicktothebeat.livejournal.com]

What the hell.

[stygian-destiny.livejournal.com]

...

[kicktothebeat.livejournal.com]

Who is this guy? He stole the Superior's hair!

[stygian-destiny.livejournal.com]

I.

I don't know.

[kicktothebeat.livejournal.com]

...they look almost identical. The heck.

[stygian-destiny.livejournal.com]

...Yeah.

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

I am his Heartless; he is my Nobody. We are two halves of a whole. Or we were.

Now we are two whole beings much greater than the sum of our parts.

[stygian-destiny.livejournal.com]

...You're the Superior's Heartless?

Why didn't he just try to find you instead of making Kingdom Hearts then?

[darknessinhtml.livejournal.com]

Ah, the original pretender to my name and research. Does your seeking of darkness so tax your mental capabilities as to preclude the invention of a more suitable moniker?

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Oh.

It's you.

how delightful.

Really, now, old man, where is your wit? If you were worth of the title, it would not have been taken from you so easily. And honestly - what manner of outlandish name is 'darkness in zero'?

Such ire. Such hatred. It's quite adorable, watching you deny the Darkness when in truth she has devoured you completely. ♥

Do remember, my beloved 'master', that you made me. You broke my heart. Therefore, my birth and that of Xemnas....is your fault.

Remember that and despair. You are so - amusing when you're ranting and howling in denial of your own sins.

[darknessinhtml.livejournal.com]

The title was only such because my previous work made it so. You were ever and always merely a thief, of research, of resources, of reputation...building your empire on fantasy and stolen hearts. I do not waste hatred on you and your shell; I merely despise you for what you have made of yourselves.

My sins are and will always be my own. Do not cast stones at me for your compounding of them. I have struggled with the darkness and kept my sanity and my purpose, if not my innocence. That is my penance, that and my mission to stop my wayward charges...I long, for the sake of the worlds, to see yourself and your Nobody face your own retribution.

[lunarxeffected.livejournal.com]

How interesting.

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

...?

[shinra-sucks.livejournal.com]

I think I like the sound of you. I've been called Nightmare and Akuma myself and 'Hey, you annoying little shit so I know what it's like for people to throw names around without really thinking about it.

[extenebrarum.livejournal.com]

What they don't realise is that calling someone 'monster' awakes in the heart a desire to live up to that name.

I was once named 'no heart'. If that's not a self fulfilling prophecy--

[shinra-sucks.livejournal.com]

That is so true! If someone calls you a bad name, it makes you start thinking about whether you really do live up to it!

...you don't have a heart?

[lightning-larx.livejournal.com]

So you're the Superior's Heartless.

[keybladeslaash.livejournal.com]

A;GHDSAKGJHDF

A-ANSEM?!?!? I MEAN, XEHANORT'S HEARTLESS???!

WHATTHEHECKISITWITHEVERYONECOMINGBACKIKILLEDYOUYOUJERKFACE.

[eternaldunce.livejournal.com]

You devour... worlds? Why?

[notcosplaying.livejournal.com]

[Makes me want to take up KH!Cloud....]

[theotokos.livejournal.com]

All talk and no show?

Lame.