[Fic] Differing Tastes

[fuyu]

... because nekokoban and I seem to have this perpetual-motion inspiration ping-pong game going. XD


Title: Differing Tastes
Words: 354
Rating: G
Summary: Roxas and Sora disagree on some very important things.

Riku had learned, when he had finally been able to emerge from the darkness and come home, to count his blessings. The beach was always there, the waves familiar and soothing; he still had a home he could go to; Mickey was always just a bottled letter away; most of all, Sora and Kairi still trusted him and wanted him around, and that was where he usually stopped counting, because nothing could bring any greater warmth or relief than that.

He rapped his knuckles twice on Sora's back door, his personal knock, and then let himself and Kairi in. Just knowing he still had the welcome to do that made him feel overwhelmed with gratitude, and he had a broad smile on his face as he stepped inside Sora's family's kitchen.

It quickly faded into a look of utter bewilderment.

The fridge was hanging open, gushing out cool air into the room as Sora gulped down milk directly from the jug. He was making urgent little noises as he drank, as if he had been lost in the deserts of Agrabah and his life depended on this milk.

"Sora?" Kairi asked, Riku still standing mute where he had opened his mouth to say something and found no words.

Sora put down the jug and gasped for air, turning wounded blue eyes on his two best friends. "Roxas," he mewled plaintively, "is trying to kill me."

Before anyone could say anything, in the blink of an eye Sora's entire manner changed. He set the milk down on the counter, rolling his eyes and giving Riku and Kairi a thoroughly unimpressed deadpan stare.

"He's being a baby," Roxas's voice said. "It wasn't even that hot."

And suddenly he dived for the milk again, taking another long frantic drink. "You put pepper all over it, you traitor!" he wailed when he came up for air.

Taken aback, Riku looked down at Kairi questioningly. She gave a helpless little shrug.

Riku decided to add to his list of blessings that, while his best friend had apparently gone insane, at least things weren't going to be boring around here.

Comments

[nekokoban]

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Oh, Sora. You're so dumb.

[glees madly at you] Yay for SORA AND ROXAS BEING DORKS and YAY FOR THIS and YAY FOR YOU. :DDDDDDDDD

[flashes icon at you]

[fuyu]

XD XD XD He's just like me about his food - it can't be spicy - and being overdramatic about it. XD

THEY ARE DORKS SUPREME. NOW THAT THEY ARE IN THE SAME BODY THE WORLD IS NOT SAFE FROM THEIR DORKINESS.

yay icon! ♥ *icons back. CHAIN OF MEMORIES ICON WUT*

[clarify.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's way too cute! They're way silly and awesome. ♥♥♥

[fuyu]

♥♥♥ They are. So much fun to write. :D

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

XDDDD
That's fabulous! The hilarity that is the two of them sharing a body is...er, well, hilarious >->
too early for werds, sorry >->;;;;

[fuyu]

XD Yeah. Man, Sora is such a dork, and Roxas such a snarkbutt. They'll have to learn how to meet halfway before they KILL THEMSELVES. XD hahah no worries ♥

[sister-coyote.livejournal.com]

Oh, icon love!

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

thank you ^^v

[miss-arel.livejournal.com]

Haha! Yesss, that is awesome. ^^ I can just see this. Oh, your Sora is so adorabobble. And Roxas would like hot, spicy food, wouldn't he...

That last line? Is golden.

[fuyu]

icon. *makes grabby hands at Roxas* come here and be cuddled.

Heeeee. ♥ Thank you. :D And yeah, nekokoban and I decided Roxas probably likes anything that's strongly-flavored - except for sweets. Which Sora loves. XD

Thank you. :D

[miss-arel.livejournal.com]

I luff this icon set. ♥

You're welcome! Was much fun to read.

I kinda figure most of the Nobodies would like strong-flavored food. Since they lack the capacity to feel certain things (or at least, feel them the way complete people do) they'd probably want to experience strong feelings everywhere they could, even if it's just strong food. Kinda like the ghosts in Harry Potter. But then, I'm also half convinced Saix is/was a werewolf, so you're welcome to take my theories with a grain of salt. ^^;

[fuyu]

I have only the original one of Demyx, but yes, it is love. ♥

:D

Yeah, most probably. I was sort of thinking that too. :) It makes you wonder, then, if after returning to Sora, Roxas might find his taste for OMG STRONG FOOD fading. He's no longer technically a Nobody, and Sora is the original and doesn't like the spicy, so maybe over time he'd go from dumping cayenne on things to a grudging sort of "okay, I guess this would taste alright without pepper" acceptance. (And perhaps meanwhile, Sora might find that his tolerance for spicy has increased. XD)

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

OMG I finally found your giftcard while I was cleaning out my room and I'll drop it in the mail today.

[fuyu]

... woohoo!

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Hah, what an ironic picture. But, yeah, I'm sorry that I've been such a deadbeat, and happy Christmas in July?

[fuyu]

It's all right. Thank you. :D *used it to buy a couple things she's been wanting/needing, so wheee*

[elanor-pam.livejournal.com]

I'm being horribly spoiled for KH2... but it's so good~ ;__;♥

[fuyu]

fdhgfdk stop spoiling yourself! XD; I need to put up fandom tags on my fics, don't I.

Well, at least you're enjoying the spoily.

[libekory.livejournal.com]

Heeee. I don't normally go in for this literal body-sharing, because I can't help thinking it would be kind of...creepy, especially when it comes to love and marriage and sex and such. XD But I'm starting to get that I'm in the minority on this. XD

Anyway, it's a great image, when Roxas takes over and sets down the milk carton. ♥ And you already know how I feel about Roxas liking spicy food, hee. ♥♥

It's adorable. You're awesome. XD

[fuyu]

Hee. XD I can go either way on it myself, the big SoRiKai fic I'm planning will probably not have so much of the body-sharing and be closer to what I had in Naught's Requiem, where Roxas is there in the back of Sora's head but not a fully active personality with access to the body, y'know? ... I do find that it makes an interesting device, though. XD No doubt it'd be creepy to have Roxas hanging around and probably critiquing during teh sexxors, but if they had to - and they would - they'd work around it. XD

Hee, thank you. ♥ And yes. XD ♥

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[megami-no-yume.livejournal.com]

I sort of thought about this myself... the whole body sharing thing. It seems plausible... I mean, at least for a while after rejoining, that Roxas would retain his sense of self. Whether that enables him control of the body/ability to communicate with others, is where things get messy though. It does make for humor, but then it *is* kinda weird on the subject of intimacy.

Reading these 'shares a body' fics next to these 'SoKai' fics leaves one with strange (pervy) thoughts... Such as "I wonder if Roxas ever takes over out of curiousity?" Or "I wonder if Roxas even likes Kairi?" I just don't see Namine having an outgoing enough personality to be so assertive... or maybe she and Kairi combined too well for her sense of self to exist... *confusing herself*

[fuyu]

If Roxas had a strong sense of self and didn't seem to be losing it, he and Sora would work something out, just out of necessity. Roxas might find or make a quiet, set-aside place in Sora's head where he could curl up and give Sora some privacy (he'd probably do that anyway, really, so he could have time to himself too). He might also just kind of hover in the back and 'go along for the ride' sometimes, though I'm iffy on how Sora would feel about that. Taking control is something he'd probably have to get Sora's explicit permission on, though, and Sora would probably give it only on the condition that he be allowed to give warning.

... That said, Roxas taking over in an intimate situation would be a really, really interesting fic to read. I kind of want someone with more talent than me to write that, now. o.o

[megami-no-yume.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it'd be a strange (awkward/uncomfortable) thing... especially for Sora... to have Roxas take over in that sort of situation. I mean, of course Roxas would need to have permission (and I don't see him ever doing that unless the other party was willing and aware). Unless he and Sora really weren't getting along, or something, then one could argue that he could do it without permission. I've heard a lot of other's takes on how it works, most of which have been "Sora goes into a sleep-like state when Roxas has control of the body". Where-as Roxas doesn't have to be in a sleep-like state when he's not in control... because... well, I guess because he just hangs around in the back of Sora's mind.

In one fic, Sora and Kairi would just zone out, and not be aware of anything that happened when the others were in control. All we really ever saw in that fic was Namine popping up and coming onto Riku and Sora... and, while interesting, Roxas never interacted with Kairi. (he wasn't into Riku 'that way'.) In another fic... Roxas didn't appear until he and Sora got into a big argument, brought on by some trauma... and he took over by force when Riku upset him. But in that case, he asked Kairi to bring Namine forward. Then Kairi and Sora weren't aware of anything.

I didn't want to say it straight out, being totally pervy, but yes... I would really like to see someone write this scenario with 'others and intimacy'. (although I think you have more than enough talent. <3) I've been looking for some Roxas/Kairi interaction (any interaction...there's none out there! You'd think he'd at least get to know her under the circumstances. ) and then this idea came about. It would be *really* interesting to see that sort of interaction with Roxas.