We've already established that Xenan loves the taste of fish. She's really not helping her "He-is-not-my-boyfriend" case when she claims that Demyx tastes like one of her favorite foods.

No one can get R-2 to sit still long enough to watch Lord of the Rings. Way too much of that film is dedicated to traveling, which consists of horses galloping across the screen with dramatic music accompaniment.

Demyx never had a chance with Jasmine. You can't fault Aladdin's singing voice, for example. He's got Demyx beat on every whole note (heh, music puns)!

Well, the Magic Carpet has an attitude. If you were to present Arpeggio with a prank opportunity, it would just sit there, but Carpet would drop that bag of manure on the prank target so fast that it would still have time to tour China before curfew!

It's getting harder to keep R-2 a secret.

I'm pretty sure that whatever "normal" looks like, it would never dance around while wearing Xemnas' underwear.

Speaking of Xemnas' underwear, have you noticed that none of the members seem to wear a shirt under their coats? They have pants, boots, and gloves, but no shirt. Whenever the hood comes off, they also unzip the front a bit to give you a peek at their anime chests. Even Larxene. Weirdos. Of course, I'm the biggest weirdo for drawing attention to it.

I guess Riku summoned a new outfit offscreen to replace the Black Coat that he flung off in that awesome scene where he joins Sora's party, or maybe it's the reverse: wearing the Coat makes one's current outfit disappear, then it reappears when they take the coat off. The coats can probably be formed out of Darkness like Vanitas' and Riku's D-Mode suits.

Ship confirmed? Eh, close enough for rabid fanboys like myself.

What if R-2 wants to try this "kissing" thing after the concept is explained to him? Does "The Talk" have to be modified somehow to account for the participants being Nobodies and/or Replicas? Maybe the moral authorities should add topics like, "No matter how hot she is, don't cast Blizzard at her."

Demyx said "R-2", out loud, in a room Xigbar set up to get blackmail material!

Well, Xigbar had already disappeared, but it's implied that he can hear whatever he wants, from wherever he wants, with his space powers. Even wearing the hood on the Black Coat isn't enough to block his spying prowess entirely, which is why Mickey's always all, "Ssh!" when he shows up in KH2.

Is it bad that I ship this particular "date?"

Axel's all like, "You don't get to be mean to Sai'x! Only I get to be mean to Sai'x!"

Speaking of Sai'x, I can't type that umlaut over the I, so I used an apostrophe instead, and it sort of stuck in my head. When I have to make "Sai'x" a possessive, as in "Sai'x's claymore", the excessive punctuation gets messy, but it's the best I can do.

Colors are awesome. The power to control colors, like saying your own colors are "transparent" and having it actually be true, is even more awesome! All he needs to do is train that power until he no longer needs to stop breathing to concentrate solely on the colors.

R-2 tells it like it is! It's like an achievement in ignorance. "No one told ME we couldn't have hearts. So I decided that now we do!" And he's totally right!

Well, they could have just burned a pile of REAL books with Twilight on top, and then they would have disrespected Twilight as literature by association.

So R-3 wasn't nice enough to stop the power drain before Zexion faded. Wait, this means R-2 can use illusions now! He can make fire lions whenever he wants, and they won't burn!

Day 23 since Roxas joined the Organization: Best. Day. Ever.

Now it's time to see what the worst day ever looks like. Sai'x probably has some choice words (and even more effective claymore attacks) to describe the gang's complete destruction of the Organization-controlled rooms in Castle Oblivion. Not to mention flagrant disregard for the rules. Or not really disregard; they paid attention to the rules and broke them on purpose. Evil!

Par-ty! Ice cream par-ty!

Would it have killed Namine to get a longer dress for herself after she got taller and wasn't under DiZ's thumb anymore? Seriously, she's still wearing the same dress a year later, and it no longer covers as much of her legs as it used to. Imagine what she'd look like a couple years down the road... Or don't. "I guess some things...really are better left unsaid."

This reminds me of a certain scene from Avatar: the Last Airbender. The group has been cooped up in an ultra-lawful city under constant surveillance, they're super bored, and the bad guy is in the process of conquering the world while the city council "deliberates", so Aang finally gets fed up, says something heroic, and Toph, my favorite character from that show, jumps in the air and screams, "YEAH! Let's break some rules!" Followed immediately by her breaking the wall down.

I guess naming one's weapons gets the person more invested in their weapon's condition and their skill with using it, which improves their willpower, and as Nobodies (beings who exist solely by their own strength of will), their motivation and willpower are directly related to their combat potential.

I get the feeling that if they hadn't believed they couldn't feel anything, the Organization could do some truly epic stuff by using those emotions as motivation.

Crikey! That croc is a story-relevant character! I bet Captain Hook would be indebted to Axel forever for this!

Does using Fire magic to bake the cake not count as setting the oven on fire?

Talking may be too much effort for Demyx. I guess he told Xenan about the X-Face nickname, among others, off-screen at some point? I know that one was in his Secret Reports, but that's his private diary, and I don't think Xenan's dumb enough to go rooting through the personal stuff of a personified force of nature, even if the persona he applied to himself (and which is in the process of becoming real) is a facade of total incompetence.

Choking Xenan seems to be a running gag. Maybe she should train herself to not need air, like how Sora can train himself to fight so well that falling off cliffs doesn't kill him. To say nothing of the crazy moves he pulled in the final battle string against Xemnas.

Hair gel? Check. Shampoo? Well-prepared. Sharpies? COLORS!

"And somehow, I had become a big sister again." My heart just melted, which reminded me it's there. D'aww!

I hope R-2's increasing spazziness isn't a warning sign of a total existential breakdown. Exactly none of the other Replicas survived, mostly because they tried to kill their originals and lost. R-2 seems way too excited to have a paper with WORDS on it to worry about whether he's "real" enough or not, but he might still snap or disintegrate or something. That would certainly change the general mood in this story.

Total rules broken by various characters (and by myself) so far: 27!

Really, did he need to add a rule against breaking the previous rule, like with the black paint? Maybe he's just THAT lawful-neutral.

Demyx's worst memory seemed kind of soft compared to Xenan's, but at least Xenan got a last look at her dad. Hey, is Xenan's dad a Nobody now?

On top of that, shouldn't Xenan herself have some Nobody servants, like Demyx has Dancers? With the new Nobodies being revealed in KH3, we can be fairly certain there are "high-ranking Nobody" types for every member of the Organization. I call them Nobody Servants, and the humanoid Nobodies would be called Nobody Masters in general, but being a member of Organization XIII is more relevant, so only Namine would just be a Nobody Master.

Does Namine have Nobody Servants? That thought just occurred to me. Xion wouldn't, because she's a Replica, not a Nobody. Perhaps she could comandeer the Samurai from Roxas, though.

R-3 has seen some serious trauma. I can't believe I forgot that Vexen was a completely amoral mad scientist with a cloning fetish.

Oh dear, Sora's illusion could have been bad. He didn't fall unconscious in that fight. He did stab himself afterward, and what if the illusion of that act had the same effect as the actual event, i.e. turning him into a Heartless?

Frying pan! Best. Blunt weapon. EVER!

I think the Keyblade has an aura of Light that makes those trails when you swing it. That means that the more wide, blunt, and covered in knick-knacks a Keyblade is, the more surface area it can use to hit enemies with its aura. Wow, that actually explains why fancier Keyblades are stronger!

Sora lost? With his friends there? Well, I guess even the power of friendship has limits. Not only did he just beat Larxene, he also had to fight R-3 "Repliku" before that. And he may not have stopped to rest after the Darkside before THAT... In short, he overextended himself.

Oh no, trapped in the lexicon. This is gonna suck. Hopefully it will suck in a humorous and/or awesome way, but still.

I think the Heartless and other mindless monsters use a different card system. They certainly don't have any decks, and they usually can only play a few values of cards, all of which have their faces on them. The value is probably random. Card breaks probably actually, you know, break the card involved, which lets out some magic energy that stuns the person using the broken card. I totally ignored the battle cards when I covered this in my own fic, but I kept the door cards and the fact that Heartless drop stuff when they pop. Who would teach Riku how the cards work in battle?

We're not dancing, we're fighting...with STYLE! I love Riku's fighting style!

Anyone who watched Tangled knows that frying pans in Disney are the ultimate non-lethal weapon, capable of knocking out sword-wielding knights by the dozens. And in a Disney-based universe where cards and books can be just as lethal as swords, frying pans must be downright terrifying. Like using a bomb to kill a fly.

Xenan, you just broke Rule 3! No going into the late Vexen's lab, due to the threat of unusual death by dangerous experiments!

So there were multiple Riku Replicas in this AU! Too bad all the Organization's base are belong to Sora. R-3 is on his way to destruction. He has no chance to survive make his time. *Depressed laugh* Ha ha ha... Hopefully R-2 will have at least a few happy moments before being killed, or more preferably he won't get killed at all.

Well, at least R-2 knew what's what in the lab, despite having questionable sanity even without magic sugar cake. Yes, better to just let it wear off than to try an "antidote" that causes black welts and death.

Yes, let's NOT get tagged by Larxene's knives. That sounds like a plan.