☆ Two ☆ Sora

[skyofreality]

This is a guide for everyone here about the information we've been able to gather about what's happening here so that you all don't miss anything important and can hopefully see the truth of the situation. I know it's a lot but I'm hoping this is organized so that you can follow along and understand our situation fully. As new information comes up, I'll be updating this so please check this for new updates which I'll make new notations of so you can easily find it in the document.

TERMS

Keyblades:
Magical weapons wielded by individuals of strong will and heart, comes with three main abilities which are unlocked with practice and time. Collect KEYCHAINS and attach it to the hilt in order to change the appearance and abilities that go along with it.

Time Loop:
We have all been sucked into a situation where time continues loops back on ourselves for four years. None of us remember the previous loops and forced to start all over again from the beginning. The only individuals who appear to know are part of the group already here before we got here. They attempt to change the events in an attempt to get a different ending and seem to be trying to get us doing different things in order to get the outcome we all want - putting an end to this. Every loop gets shorter and smaller which means they have less time in order to change our future. We all agreed to this the first time.
ESTIMATED TIME IN CURRENT LOOP: Two months or less.
ESTIMATED LOOPS LEFT: 12
UNCONFIRMED: Universe may explode had we not agreed to this.

Heartless:
Creatures created by the darkness in people's heart. They are usually black and have yellow/gold eyes, can vary in shape, size and strength. Especially strong-willed individuals can retain their human form but is not common. These are typically mindless creatures who attack others in order to reach the darkness in other people's hearts to strengthen their numbers. They can be controlled with individuals who have a strong will and a powerful darkness in their hearts but those people are at risk if they still have their own hearts.
CONFIRMED: They exist here. Tiernan can summon and control them.

Nobodies:
These are the vessels and souls left behind after a heart is lost to darkness, they typically don't remember who they are or what they were like when they were a whole being. Like Heartless, they vary in shape but are mostly human-looking and white/gray. Strong-willed people can look similiar to how they first were. They also tend to start out with no emotions but their hearts can recover given time and eventually return become able to feel and experience emotions again. I'm unsure if memories return when this is the method that's used as I've never had confirmation about this fact.
UNCONFIRMED: Defeating both will complete the person. Do memories return? How long does it take for a heart to reform fully?
CONFIRMED: They also exist here - in both forms.

Static:
A word used by Aqua and described by Yuri. A person who becomes background noise and is fused into a loop to the point that they simply don't come back the next time through. You are aware that they are there but play no active roll in the events happening around them. They don't know if ending this time loop will bring back those who were lost in previous rounds.
UNCONFIRMED: Maki is this round's Static.
SUSPECT: I've had a thought about the Static and they remind me to another creature called Noise that exists in another universe. They are essentially the souls of people capable of influencing thoughts in people and inflicting negative feelings on them.

Rules:
The people running things have extremely strict rules both that they tell to us and that they don't. With their knowledge and experience, I suspect they know what fails to work during a round so they try to get us following them too.

The Doors:
Okay, I've heard mention of another door and seen one for myself. The first one was the one Nico found and I'm sure if it's the same door. The one Akira and I found when searching for Nick appeared only when I combined Light and Dark magic. It just appeared out of nowhere and had a keypad on it. When we knocked, there was a man inside who had green eyes and chanted some spell at us. We blacked out and woke up in the village. Neither of us can remember where the door was.
UNCONFIRMED: One door? Two? Location. Keycode.

PEOPLE

Yuri:
The group's leader who makes sure his people and ours all follow by the rules learned about in previous loops. Extremely protective of his people and will do anything to protect them even if that means he has to get rough with us. Has stated that one of their numbers died and didn't get reset like the rest of us. Also that they did cooperate with us fully in the past to no success. Appears to have the final say in all matters.

Aqua:
A Keyblade Master who's in charge of making the game plans which I'm sure are all run through Yuri for approval and changes first. Has fallen to darkness but she was a really kind woman who cared a lot about her friends and protecting the safety of all worlds. I can still that kindness in here so I don't think she's completely lost that.

Sora:
Another version of me, probably the real Sora. He's fallen to darkness as well but again, I don't think he's as bad as he seems. Just very broken and pushed passed the point of hope so he's angry and hostile towards everyone. I know it's hard to look at the two of us and see us as the same but the reason I was so... angry and all at him was because I could see myself becoming like him one day. With enough pressure and loss. It hasn't been easy - accepting that and I've decided that I want to save him.

Vanitas:
The darkness born out of someone's heart who can be exactly that but that's not all he is, trust me. He's rough around the edges in a lot of places but I've seen how different versions can be and he's actually really loyal and super protective of the people he ends up caring about. So if his people are threatened he will react violently, trust me on that.

Eraqus:
Someone I admittedly don't know too well except for the fact that he's another person from my world. Pretty sure he was Aqua's Keyblade Master when he was older. He knew someone who wanted to change the way the worlds were but has since said that that person isn't involved. Nice guy who's capable of turning back someone's time to before they were seriously injured. Can help out with injuries sustained during the weekly games but not able to do much about the murders.

???:
An unknown individual who used to be part of that group but has died trying to help us during one of the loops. They died.
UNCONFIRMED: Did not come back when things were reset.

???:
A man with green eyes who knows magic to make people forget certain memories.
SUSPECT: May be protecting Nick's Heartless.

Alice:
Yuri's love interest who is both here and not at the same time. Capable of communicating through the network and was seen on the ship. Capable of influencing emotions on us which were positive ones and is also trying to help us all.

Nicholas "Nick"/Lucas:
A person who helped Tiernan and I the last time we were in a situation like this. Also known as Santa/The Creator. Is currently a Nobody. Has a wide collection of powers which include creating objects out of nothing, bestowing powers upon others, collecting them from others and Tiernan-only-knows how many others.
UNCONFIRMED: Has a Heartless form or how long he's actually been here.
CONFIRMED: Has two different appearances normally.

Shea/Shalana:
SIIIIIIIGH. Okay. Let's do this. Mostly referred to as Shea but her name is actually Shalana - she just really hates being called that. She was partly responsible for the last death game Tiernan and I were in, she enjoyed manipulating and hurting us. She had the ability to call on lightning, massive tornadoes, fly, time and reality. We thought she'd died as we both saw it happening right in front of us but turns out we were wrong. If she's really the one responsible for all of this, I'm not surprised to find a lot of similiarities between what's happening now and what happened then. We had issues with time then too, plus the murders, investigation, trials and executions. They happened every other week. She was working with an accomplice at the time who (as far as I can tell) had been captured by a powerful organization but who even knows.
UNCONFIRMED: Same version of Shea? Working with someone?
MORE ON HER COMING BUT TIERNAN KNOWS HER BETTER BECAUSE HE WAS ON HIS A-GAME LAST TIME.


Down below, I'm going to make a list of events as they've happened so far.

Comments

(frozen comment) Timeline

[skyofreality]

TOPIC: The Doors

[captive_aided]

The person with green eyes is named Kurama.

He's the same as me, Goro, and Sephiroth.

[skyofreality]

Of course it is. The guy really seems to get around and there's probably like... a hundred of him.

So he's a Nobody this time, huh? Has he been one as long as you can remember?

[captive_aided]

Yes. We woke up together.

[skyofreality]

Can you remember how long ago?

Anything more than almost three weeks?

[captive_aided]

Almost a year ago.

[skyofreality]

How many loops have you seen?

User: Kurama

[byanyother_name]

Lucas no. Why are you doing this to me? I thought we had something.

😕

[captive_aided]

Yes, yes, I know. You're special to me, I apologize, et cetera.

Things needed to come to light.

[byanyother_name]

❎

[He's doubting your sincerity, Lucas.]

I didn't want to come to light. I'm not convinced they're worth the trouble yet.

[captive_aided]

But this is an approach that hasn't been tried before, is it not?

We won't know if we don't try.

And the worst that could happen will happen, anyway, if history continues to repeat.

[skyofreality]

Hey, I'm all up for trying new approaches. If anyone here has experience with time, reality, and all that stuff listed up there - it's me.

Plus a bunch of other stuff.

[byanyother_name]

I suppose but still. Fine. I'm sure I can find a way to work this to our advantage.

Most of them are softer towards you than those assholes, at least.

But you're going to have to make this up to me.

[skyofreality]

Hey Kurama. Welcome to the conversation.

Nice to see you again. Thanks for the whole thing with the door, the memory wipe and the lift back to the village.

[byanyother_name]

:)

[skyofreality]

I'm glad you didn't just leave us out there even though we found your super secret special hidden door. You need better security if anyone can just find it like that.

So what's up? How are things? Have we met before this whole time loop situation?

[byanyother_name]

Please. You were practically led to it.

Have you forgotten already? I'm Nobody. I don't know if you met the whole version of me like you met 'Nicholas', but Lucas and I began our existence together.

[just_as_planned]

I used my new Keychain's empathy power on Nick yesterday. They were faint, but I felt emotions in him.

I haven't tried it on either of the newer Nobodies for a point of comparison, though.

[skyofreality]

Hm, well I guess I'm not surprised by what's been revealed. If he's been watching us through the various loops then he'd have time to form some. My own Nobody, Roxas, developed feelings in about a year so I'm kind of going off that.

You could try it and see what happens. I think Iori has the same ability so maybe get together with her and see if you both get the same result?

[just_as_planned]

That might not be a bad idea. In experiments like this, it's always a good idea to take multiple measurements, just in case one sensor misses something.

[livefreely]

I'm here for it!

[just_as_planned]

Did you think to check Lucas/Nick while he was around?

[livefreely]

I haven't yet. . . but I can, the next time I see him.

[skyofreality]

She's also had hers longer and I'm not sure if it'll be stronger or not than someone starting out. I only know so much about empathy.

So let me know what you guys find out so I can put it down in the information.

[just_as_planned]

If nothing else, she has more experience interpreting what she's reading.