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[Amy : Disney : Throne Room]

Proper introductions would be nice. It was too crowded and there was too much going on all at once. She didn't know the cornerstone had assumed human form, and only half-remembered the other new people's names.

"Before we start introductions," she said, standing up from her spot at the table so she could be recognized, "would you clarify: did you remove Loui-Steven's memories yourself? Or was that just a natural consequence of what happened?" The question was directed in the Merlin / Guardian direction, which seemed to be where the authority was.

[Amy : Disney : Throne Room]

Good. If they had intentionally taken his memories, it would have deprived him of an essential experience. Many experiences, in fact, since the time he came here. It would have been like stealing a part of him. People learn from their experiences, their mistakes. Amy nodded her approval. It was still concerning, though; he had no recollection of what he had done, and although he had been purified, and although there were factors in play that were no longer relevant, if he was susceptible to being evil once, he might again.

She felt the same way about Nick.

"Thank you for clarifying. Please, continue with the introductions," she said, and looked back to the Guardian, wondering who he or she was. She sat back down.

[ Luke : Disney Castle : Throne Room ]


Luke smiled and nodded at Feather and Kyla as they passed him, and made his own way to the table immediately after, reclaiming his seat next to The Great Ninja Yuffie. And that was about the time the chaos started. After feeling the wonderful calming effects of the Guardian he had so recently had words with rising up to meet them, he saw what he presumed was the fourth Earthling they had been told about, and some of their present company didn't seem too happy about it. He nodded his agreement with Feather's advice that the three newcomers already seated at the table should just "pancake through it." Though he had never heard that exact terminology before, it wasn't hard to figure out, so he kept his lips figuratively zipped, not wanting to get caught up in the rising tide of drama.

He listened to the new-newcomer's introduction, making a mental note of the names "Steven" and "Louis," the former apparently his real name and the latter, from what he could gather, the name of someone else who had been pretending to be him? But was dead now? Or purified? Or something? Either way, it seemed the "Louis" person had hurt them in the past. Even so, if the Guardian and some of the wisest Disney characters said he wasn't the same person, then Steven was okay with him. His own policy was usually forgive and forget, but then again, he didn't have any of the actual story of what went down between all of these people. Luke breathed a sigh of relief and continued with the consuming of eggs as Steven joined Kyla and the rest of them at the table, and no further yelling or swearing seemed to be happening yet.

[ Kyle ; Sora ; Matthew : Disney : Throne Room Buffet ]

"Hahaha-noooo. Hahaha-noooooooooo," Kyle responded to the new girl to the melody of Beethoven's 5th. Then, under his breath as he started putting together a small plate, he couldn't help but continue the train of music. "Hahahano, hahahano, hahahano~ hahahano, hahahano, hahahano~..."

"Frankly, you're one of the most flamboyant of us, so you might as well," Sora said with a light smirk as he cut into some scrambled eggs. The antics between Nicholas and Noelle were not lost on him, either, as he gazed silently between the two with a grin.

Kyle stopped his humming (very shortly before the crescendo, fortunately) to stare at Sora. "Betrayal."

The Keyblader only shrugged with a small laugh.

Grumbling, Kyle stood up, and his posture quickly grew more... rigid. There was a very stark difference between charisma within a group and charisma in the spotlight.

"I'm Kyle. I wear green. I like jokes. I do time magic and dragon stuff. I use a spear. Also I've nearly gotten us killed more times than not, so it's frankly a miracle there's this many of us to even meet you new people," he said, his tone slowly drifting from forced-casual to pseudo-sarcastically self-deprecating within the span of seconds. He sat down.

He managed to hold back, 'Also I'm the reason things are as ******** as they are, what with replicas and awakened gods and whatnot.'

"And the atmosphere had just gotten so happy and energetic." The teasing sarcasm from Matthew was by no means subtle.

Kyle snorted louder than he'd intended.

...that guy just vanished- and am I the only one who just felt the ground shake?

No one seemed to pay any mind and the one person who spoke up after his vanishing act had more to say about Steven's own lack of memories of the past 7 days than about the fact someone literally just vanished for a full second followed by a small earthquake. This is going to take some getting used to...

And so Kyle, the one who excused himself via means unknown, introduced himself... following a musical rejection to his own nomination, the source of which Steven found himself lightly humming the continued tune to even after Kyle had finished his objections.

Dawn stood up and made her introduction, keeping the same self-depreciating tone that Kyle sported on his own. Good to see they all had things in common to build friendships off of. He noticed one girl sitting near the guy who'd spoke pretty harshly at his entrance giving the guy who had awkwardly welcomed him her middle finger, Most of them anyway.

Sooooo, welcome to alcoholics anonymous, Steven thought humorously as he sat down at the table with Kyla and Song, he smiled at those at the table and acknowledged each with a nod.

[ Song : Disney : Rooms -> Throne Room ]

Too occupied with the greetings thrown around, Song missed the chances to be entertained by Noelle's and Nick's exchange.

In response to Steven's smile, Song reflexively flashed him one of her own along with a pair of "victory" signs. She welcomed him with a, "Sup."

Although, that might have been a little unnecessary because she introduced herself shortly after. While she preferred to be last in introductions at least, there was a lull in the talk and so many people that she would have felt guilty if she didn't take advantage of it hasten proceedings even just a little faster. Standing up again, Song gave a small self explanation, "Um. Hi. I'm Song. Song Yi Kim. I'm a bit lame and I honestly think it's a miracle I survived this long. I look forward to getting along with everyone and I'll do my best, but Feather here can definitely tell you about all the times I've let her down. Aha."

If anyone was thinking that there sure was a lot of self-deprecating people in this room, Song's introduction, embarrassed laugh and all, would only strengthen that notion. She had ended by pointing out Feather and an embarrassed scratch of her head before taking her seat. Hopefully, Feather would appreciate the hook she had provided, maybe even tie a joke to it. That would make Song happy.

Was it mentioned that Song had finished eating? Because she had finished eating at this point.

only after sitting down did Song realize she could have said more, . She had just been following the pattern that had been set, and only now did she think that, as someone completely new, she should have added more. However, the opportunity had already passed,

[ Feather : Disney : Throne Room ]

“I will invite you to my funeral so you can let me down one last time, and you would probably drop the casket anyways.”

Feather joked back quietly to Song but had the constant serious tone that makes people uncomfortable apparently, not that they would know, they thought it was just their normal voice toned down a notch. There wasn’t even a smile on Feather’s face either, just a constants flat line as soon as Steven sat at the table. Feather is really good at holding their face in on position for a long time, great training from constant annoying relative dinners.

People introduced themselves; Feather nodded and went to sipping tea to try to relax the nerves, not helping. Mini Doom Cat Bus Train already knew what would happen so it started making small noises as Feather muttered to themselves as response.

‘I just have to introduce myself, it will get around to me, I have about a few people worth of time to prepare something short simple. As long as I-‘



‘…….’ “Mwew mwew mwawwwwwww.” <******** froze as soon as a finger directing attention to them, they weren’t prepared for that. And oh boy, Feather doesn’t do well under attention at all. Not preparing for class speeches, just being randomly put on the spot to speak in front of people, nope, Feather is horrible at that. They thought they had time to prepare something, maybe a joke or a pun, but nope, ******** nope don’t even have time for that. MDCBT facepalmed as it just crawled off Feather’s lap back onto the table.

Oh here comes the spontaneous tears problem again, Feather knew it would happen but body was frozen unable to react, tea cup gripped firmly fingers. It happens all the ******** time, happened in class, happened during a big presentation, happens on the god dam seabus, ******** spontaneous tears. It’s not that they were sad or angry, it just happens, not emotions tied other than maybe shock? It wasn’t fear; Feather doesn’t mind speaking in front of people if they were prepared. But here they were, crying in front of a bunch of people, and ********, oh right first time crying in front of Kyla, s**t brain work god dammit.

Well thank you MDCBT for making the situation less awkward by doing a full body train slam into Feather’s face from leaping off the table and causing them to topple backwards and get a face full of furry underbelly.

“….I’m….okay.”

Feather muffled out from underneath their mini summon, using it as a cloth to wipe their eyes quickly as well. Multipurpose right? The MDCBT yowled in complain as Feather did that but they just lifted the mini summon off their face and quickly formatted something to say since their brain was rattled slightly.

“I am Feather.”

Good start, but Feather then tonked down MDCBT on the table with a light thump.

“And this, is my summon.”

That works but brain continues with,

“It weighs one hundred fifty tons and fires ten doom spells, at 10 MP per spell. It costs my entire mana bar to cast with this summon for 2 minutes. Some people think I be blowing my load too fast, maybe. But I yet to see them come back after they are doomed.”

Feather madlibbed and finally smiled at the end, suddenly lifting the mini summon and have it flailing legs up in protest.

“NEXT!”

Feather sits their a** back down; summon being petted and scratched around the ears since its hissing due to the sudden movements. A swig of tea to finish everything off.

[Noelle : Disney Castle : Throne Room]

"Kyle's why we can't have nice things." The agromancer called out unabashedly directly after Kyle introduced himself, then turned her attention back to Nick.

Noelle held back an uproar of laughter at Nick's response, snorting almost quietly. The chapstick middle finger--a classic. She wasn't sure where he was going with it at first, but she wasn't disappointed.

'Touché, good fellow. Touché. TO BE CONTINUED--'

"I'm Noelle, I'm the team's flower girl and I don't know about you self-deprecating souls, but I'm amazing. Also, I'm a delicate forest creature and if you make me cry I'll dismember you." She deadpanned the last bit, waving her knife around menacingly.