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[dawnwardroad]

Player Name: Rams
Preferred Pronouns?: she/her
Player Contact: reflera#2112 @ discord, or rams
Other characters in play? n/a

Character Name: Riku
Canon: Kingdom Hearts
Game Transplant: Jarjammed, and a bit at We The Lost
Original App: here!
Game Summary: Three bunny children decided to play a game called Sburb. By narrowly escaping meteors, monsters, and tentacle gods they hoped to win its Ultimate Reward- and then two of them were killed, leaving one player who could not finish the session alone. She decided to hack into the game’s coding and pull in reenforcements from across different universes, unwittingly trapping them there until they could manage to work together and win the game and claim its prize- or lose everything.

How long was your character in Game: One year and eight months, give or take; four months in WTL the first time, six months the second go around
History of Character in their Game:

Riku was one of the first people to enter the Medium in Jarjammed, and so was part of the first group of people who set out to figure out where they were/what they were supposed to do/how to get home, etc. Riku’s client player (who he was responsible for helping enter the game and avoid death by meteors) was Sirius Black, who quickly latched on to Riku and they became fast friends.

Riku explained to Sirius about all the worlds he had been to, which appeared to Sirius to be straight out of classic fairy tales and similar literature. They discussed some of their history and world structure to each other with a lot of mutual curiosity. The early stages of the game were filled with a lot of similar memos with people explaining radically different home universes and learning about other people’s; Riku was slightly more used to this, if only because of previous world-hopping experience.

As the players discovered different game mechanics, they learned that when asleep they could wake up on one of two moons: Derse, or Prospit. Prospitian dreamers could see visions in the clouds of Skaia at times, and Dersite dreamers could hear and speak with the Noble Circle of Horrorterrors (giant eldritch space cephalopods, natch). Riku and Yuna were among some of the first to ask questions of the Horrorterrors, and discuss what their true motives might be.

After the first month or two, Kairi entered the medium; a second Kairi, with a different chumhandle than before. There were the obvious discussions of “but you’ve been here before” that come with different people picking up the same character, but overall there was mostly just a sense of relief between Riku and Kairi at each other’s company. Sora showed up shortly after, and although Riku avoided him at first out of guilt, the three of them eventually met up and things dissolved into a lot of sappy words and group-hugging.

Some time later, human-Karkat discovered that famous-literary-character Sirius Black was one of the players in the session and proceeded to knock over the fourth wall and nearly spill the beans about Remus Lupin being a werewolf. Since Remus had recently been pulled into the game, this put Sirius off rather quickly. Riku talked to him about losing his cool, and Sirius confided that Remus was indeed a werewolf and he was looking for a Derse dreamer to find Remus’s dreamself to see if being asleep on a moon would trigger said lycanthropy or not. Riku investigated, and reported back to Remus that his dreamself was pretty human-looking, so nothing to worry about there.

Shortly after that is when Sburb began to glitch out. Specifically, this resulted in players swapping bodies for a few days, much to the playerbase’s confusion and panic. Riku wound up in the body of a violetblood!Sollux, who quickly located his body and kept Riku under house arrest for the duration of the event for fear of one of the highblood adult trolls finding him. Sora was swapped with Remus, and at Riku’s request, went to check on Riku’s body which turned out to be inhabited by Zuko.

After the glitching righted itself and people settled back down, they realized that players and planets were mysteriously disappearing from the Incipisphere. The consensus was that people might be returning home, spat back out by the game. Kairi was one of the players who vanished.

After that, Sirius wound up getting himself into a fight with Sollux, which resulted in him getting knocked out by Gamzee and needing assistance. Riku picked him up (after some a tense standoff with said clown troll) and took him back to safe ground, where he was promptly worried over by just about everyone present. (The “Sirius, Be Sensible” club was founded sometime around this point, which was basically Yuna and Riku trying very hard to auspisticize between Sirius and Everyone Else.)

Since only half the playerbase was Prospit dreamers, not all of which were even awake at the time, there were occassionally memos made to summarize the visions seen in the clouds of Skaia while dreaming. One of these included a vision of Sirius from his prison stint in Azkaban, basically confirming a bad future for him. Another was of Riku destroying Destiny Islands. Both of these things caused significant alarm, though Sora did stand up for Riku and vouch that it wasn’t what it looked like and Riku was not actually a horrible person who blows up islands all the time.

Later, after a lull in exciting plot events, Sora came over to visit Riku because the two of them were due for some quality best friend time. Sora also confessed that he may or may not have been the mysterious person who snuck into Riku’s house in the dead of night and cut off like five inches of his hair. Serious talks about feelings ensued, followed by a wacky chase scene and a sparrng match which Riku won only by merit of having been in the game longer. Also, ice cream.

Yuna and Riku later got together to discuss the odd coincidence of them both growing up on an island with a boy named Wakka and also (knowing, in Yuna’s case) a boy named Tidus, and a system of magic that is ridiculously similar. Around this time, there were more dropped characters and among the disappeared parties was Sora. Riku was pretty distressed about this, but having Yuna and Sirius to back him up kept him from brooding too intensely.

Sometime later, players with dreamselves on Derse began to have increasingly intense and vivid nightmares- not normal ones, of course. They dreamed of achieving something they wanted desperately, but through twisted and unsavory means. In Riku’s case, this manifested as being able to protect Sora and Kairi- the people he cared about most- at the cost of killing anything and anyone that came near them. The Derse dreamers were very unsettled about all of this, and some suspected the Horrorterrors to be behind it.

As a result of this, Yuna’s waking and dreamselves fell into a deep slumber and wouldn’t wake. Riku was the first to discover this, and asked for help from the general public; Remus offered to meet up in her tower on Derse so they could try to wake her. After some fiddling and occlumency-based magic from Remus, they were able to reach her in her dreaming state and wake her up again.

Shortly after, Signless hosted a masquerade ball on his planet, the Land of Mirrors and Fog. Riku attended only because Signless had become his server player after his original server disappeared, so LoMaF was only one planet over. There’s simply no excuse not to attend a party when it’s next door.

Unfortunately, the ball took a turn for the awful when LoMaF’s denizen, Nahash, decided to crash the party. It spread an impenatrable fog, and cloaked the guests in illusions that were mostly symbolically awful on a personal level. Riku’s appearance changed to look like Xehanort’s Heartless (which is how he was forced to look without his blindfold), and so was rightfully panic-inducing. There was a lot of trickery and turning people against each other and even straight-up lying from Nahash’s illusions, and people fled en masse. Those who didn’t chased after the denizen and engaged it in combat. Riku fled back to his planet and hid until the effects wore off, and then some.

After the fight with Nahash, Dasraa took Yuna against her will out of desparation for someone to heal Signless. She performed some minor healing, and after a struggle, escaped from Dasraa. Afterwards, she announced in a memo what had happened, but Dasraa insisted he had done nothing wrong. When he made another memo asking if people had a problem with his actions, he was told off by several people, including Riku, who remained predictably overprotective about one of his close friends.

After the masquerade, things were quiet for a while, until the next batch of new arrivals. In this round, Riku met someone who was from the same set of connected worlds as him- even one that he had been to once before, Hollow Bastion (under its previous title, Radiant Garden). This new player ran into some trouble when a consort wandered into a high-level area, and asked Riku for assistance. It turned out that the mystery individual was actually Ienzo, who’s past self had manipulated and tried to murder Riku. Mutual awkwardness was had. Riku still assisted with the recovery of the lost consort, but didn’t stick around for long.

After all that, the game started to glitch out yet again. Things that were used to prototype sprites instead prototyped the players, much to their surprise and/or panic. Riku was prototyped with a half-eaten deer carcass and a stuffed rabbit, which equated to antlers, rabbit ears, and a whole lot of leaking bodily fluids and innards (stuffing, also). This was obviously a very unpleasant week for most players, especially those trailing bodily fluids around the house for a week. Yuna came over to see if she could fix the damage with magic, but since Riku wasn’t actually injured, it didn’t work. The moral support was highly appreciated though.

Once things calmed down after the prototyping incident, Riku got a message from Zexionsprite (Ienzo’s sprite, prototyped to be essentially himself when he was a Nobody) asking him to come over and do something about the fact the Ienzo was having an emotional breakdown. Being the only real acquaintance in the game thus far, Riku agreed to come over and bring amateur counseling skills. Ienzo tried very hard not to continue crying, with varying degrees of success. Riku stood there and shrugged awkwardly and tried to be consoling. The two of them got to know each other a little better, even if it was still kind of awkward.

The awkwardness continued when Riku messaged Sirius to ask for help removing the gratuitous bloodstains from his entire house. Sirius obliged, because he had experience in these things, and invited Riku to come live with him and the other players in Cassandra’s castle instead of a spooky lonely mansion.

As a tribute to one of the long-time players disappearing, there was a memo set up to play one last game of A Wizard Has Stolen Your Heart- which said player had introduced. (NB: It is a word game in which one player sets up a metaphorical “you” and “your heart” and the next player has to describe reuniting them and state what the new “you” and “your heart” are) Riku got vaguely personal during his turn and flipped out a little when someone else misinterpreted it. Remus contacted him to ask if he was alright, and Riku opened up a bit about himself and some of his issues from his past involving darkness and that one time when he got posessed. Luckily, posession and lycanthropy are more similar than one might thing and they were able to understand each other even better.

Encouraged by having a positive social interaction, Riku messaged Cassandra and told her he was invited to stay there by Sirius, but since the castle did not belong to Sirius, he was seeking permission from the actual landlady. She told him he was more than welcome, and the two of them had a long conversation about the pains of being a long-time player, being quietish people, and the fact that Riku had basically been to several worlds based on fairytales.

Riku started to settle in to his new place in Castle Godsend (which was probably a lot healthier than living alone in a spooky mansion), but unfortunately good things do not last very long in Sburb sessions. The Horrorterrors started stirring up trouble again, this time by reaching out and posessing a few people with the power to spread that posession on. Cassandra was one of them, and she used her game-given abilities as the Grace of Word to get other people to open themselves to the Horrorterrors as well. Riku was one of the people she spread it to.

As more and more people became brainashed by the Horrorterrors, the game sort of split into the groups based on who had squids in their heads and who was still normal. As luck would have it, this is when a new Kairi showed up in the game. She was obviously very concerned over the fact that her best friend was acting all weird (again), and they met up on her planet. They got into a heated argument though, and it ended with Kairi yanking off Riku’s blindfold, causing him to revert to the appearance of Xehanort’s Heartless who once possessed him. He alchemized a new blindfold after storming off, but they didn’t speak again.

Kairi wasn’t the only one interested in Riku’s squidheaded-ness, and so Ienzo spoke to him about the Horrorterror’s apparent plan to scratch the session and reset everything (and everyone in it). Unsurprisingly, this also lead to a heated argument in which Riku almost flew off the handle.

this is the point where I don’t care about eloquency anymore i just want this to be done fuck ~tone~ and bullshit what is this a college entrance essay NO i don’t think so. here’s how it went down.

As it turne out, the Horrorterror’s goal in possessing all these players was to have them simultaneously act out a ritual on several different planets throughout the chain, altering the game’s code and creating “shadow” versions of each planet. Their hope was that the addition of all these new planets would further impede the session and overload it, leading to a scratch as the only option left. Although some players didn’t complete their rituals, there were enough successful ones that the Horrorterror’s plan went through and put the game under further stress.

Riku messaged Kairi, still under Eldritch Influnce, to make sure she was alright after all the fighting that happened around the ritual. Despite lingering squid-headedness, Riku was still himself enough to care about her well being (and even bicker like old times). The topic of birthdays came up, and Kairi decided she was going to throw one for Riku since by rough calculations, he was about due for his 17th birthday.

With the help of several other people (Including, but not limited to: Yuna, Sirius, Remus, recently un-squidded Cassandra, and Ienzo), Kairi managed to pull together a birthday party that was actually secretly a set up to purge the Horrorterrors out of Riku’s head. With a lot of effort and skill from aformentioned friends, the plan was a success. The party itself was also a pretty big success, panda-themed birthday hats and all.

Once Riku got back to normal, he apologized to some of the people he had hurt and/or threatened while under the Horrorterror’s influence. During a conversation with Ienzo, they discussed Riku’s previous “employer”, DiZ; Ienzo investigated and discovered the DiZ was actually his presumed-dead fosterdad, Ansem the Wise. Riku offered to ask Kairi if she knew Ansem the Wise’s whereabouts in their universe, since she was from further in the future than Riku.

Around this time was when the shadow planets- the result of the Horrorterror’s successful ritual- appeared, much to the surprise of the players. For Riku and Kairi, their shadow planets resembled their home islands when they were being consumed by darkness- Riku’s even specificalled called Fragments and Darkness. During a conversation with Cassandra where Riku began to open up to her, he decided to investigate his shadow planet- much to his immediate regret. Seeing what was essentially a destroyed Seas and Gloom only reminded Riku of his own home being destroyed- both by his own fault. Spurred into action by his past failures being thrown in his face, Riku returned to Seas and Gloom and decided he would do something right by facing his denizen and giving peace back to his consorts.

Unfortunately, Riku was nowhere near a high enough level to defeat Sirena, or even reach her. He was forced to take off his blindfold and release the dark power held back inside his heart in order to survive the onslaught of underlings, and even then was critially injured. Now trapped in the body of Xehanort’s Heartless permanently, Riku reluctantly called for backup and waited until his friends arrived. Riku explained vaguely why he now looked like someone else entirely, and went promptly back to hiding in his room and skulking aorund with his hood up.

Meanwhile, there was a group effort by other players to defeat the denizen of one of the original players, and although they won, the players involved were heavily injured. Kairi lost her left arm, and did her best to hide it during memos so as not to worry her friends. She and Riku spent a while pointedly avoiding each other, because that’s what best friends who don’t want to freak each other out do, apparently. Riku visited Yuna during this time, who was also wiped out from the battle after overcasting her magic, and they spent time doing the friends thing.

Riku continued hiding his face from everyone, though he did reach out to Remus to Talk About Feelings. Remus suggested their dreamselves might hold a way for Riku to return to his normal self. Meanwhile, a newly-god-tier Signless offered his Seer of Truth abilities to the game at large, and Riku asked him about the possibility of returning home. Signless told him that Sburb was never intended to work that way, and returning would be unlikely. Curiously, this didn’t put a damper on Riku’s mood, it just made him even more stubborn about finding a way of getting home.

At this point, the Horrorterrors’ hold on most everyone had been broken, but Shelly was still interested in helping them, so they gave him a hit list of people formerly posessed to kill. Riku was on this list, and had to fend off a surprise attack from Shelly- he was stabbed several time and left for dead, at which point he sent out a distress call to Sora and Kairi. The were able to reach him in time, and brough him back to Castle Godsend to recover, as well as catch up between the three of them. Riku had to come clean about his current appearance, and Kairi about her missing limb.

After Shelly’s rampage ended, there was some much needed downtime (including a party at the castle where everyone became varying levels of inebriated), but not for long until the next chaotic event. Sburb continued to glitch and randomly swapped everyone’s powers around. Jade and Hobbes wound up with Kairi and Riku’s keyblades, and Riku wound up with human!Karkat’s powers of inducing Calm. He experimentally tried them out on Kairi (who fell asleep, um) and became Calmed as a side effect. In his emotionally-muted state, Riku decided now was an excellent time to give Ienzo the news about his foster dad being dead in the future. As if it was not obvious, this did not go over well. Riku tried to fix this by Calming Ienzo without asking, which was also a bad idea, and Bertie punched him in the face for it.

Once the Calm wore off and everyone’s powers went back to normal, Bertie messaged Riku apologizing for punching him in the face. Riku also apologized for his string of bad decisions including but not limited to: Calming Bertie’s boyfriend without asking and also having exceptionally poor timing with bad news. They got to know each other a little, and Bertie invited Riku to the Valentines Day party he was planning.

Shortly after, another new round of players entered the session, this time including someone else from Riku’s universe- an artificial replica of him. They were mutualy unhappy to dicover each other, sparks flew, names were called. Although the rest of the game (thankfully) didn’t find out, the replica did mention to Kairi that he and Riku knew each other previously, prompting her to ask Riku what the deal was. Riku then filled her in on a lot of history for times she wasn’t there; she was not too pleased that he didn’t mention it before, but didn’t hold it against him. Kairi also filled him in on another new arrival from their universe, Xigbar, who she suggested keeping an eye on.

Around this time, Steph, Madame, and Redglare announced that they had offered their sleeping dreamselves up as a trade for Sollux, who was being held hostage by the Horrorterrors. The dreamselves were collateral for a deal that had been struck: notably, the players had a two month time limit to either win the game or scratch the session, resetting everything and everyone’s memories along with it. The players quickly began to work towards defeating their Denizens and collecting enough grist to fund the Ultimate Alchemy that would create a perfect Genesis Frog that would itself be the new universe.

The next time Riku visited Yuna, he found her asleep and trying to use her Dream powers to contact her dreamself; the dreamselves had ceased waking at all. She also told him how she defeated her own Denizen earlier, during the power swap, by going outside the rules and usual method. Riku also spent some time with Cassandra, clarifying some things about his current appearance and also receiving encouragement from her and continuing to learn how to open up to people again.

Some time later, a decision was reaches to take the Prospitian ship the players still had and try to get some information out of Prospitians about the mysterious Prospitian Sisterhood. Riku, Cassandra, and Yuna went together to a bar that was supposedly run by an informant who leaked information to Steph, but the informant had since been jailed and the Prospitians were very unhappy to have three Derse dreamers snooping around. There was a very violent barfight, and after they escaped, the three of them interrogated a librarian instead for little information. All in all it was kind of a terrible job for a recon mission.

After their return from Prospit, Cassandra announced she would be confronting her Denizen. Since hers favored puzzles over a combat fight, Riku decided to sit this one out. He watched over the castle for a while, before meeting up with Yuna and Kairi on his own planet for a group quest. There was a lot of teamwork and some puzzles and some fighting, and the three of them did very well until the last battle in which Riku took a mortal blow for Kairi and was killed. She corpsesmooched him so that his dreamself would take over as a sort of “second life”, and he had to sneak onto a Dersite ship to get back to the planet chain.

Riku spent some time getting used to being back in his own body, and psyching himself up to face his Denizen once again. When he finally did, he had grown in character and mastery over his aspect of Shade enough to defeat Sirena. He struck a deal with her that in exchange for no longer eating the pandas of Seas and Gloom, they would come to visit her and ease her lonlieness.

After most of the Denizens had been dealt with, the players collected enough grist to create the Genesis frog. They then flew to Skaia to fight in the final battle against the Black Queen and King. The fight against the Black Queen was difficult, but with the combined efforts of everyone, finally won. As they approached the fight with the King however, the leader of the Prospition Sisterhood swept in and killed the King first, taking his staff and reveling herself as the real definitely very final boss. Her powers were too much for the players, and they hastily retreated back to the planet chain.

As the players collected their belongings from their homes and gathered at Castle Godsend, the Prospitian forces searched up and down the planet chain, bringing destruction in their wake. As the players planned what to do next, the Prospitians and their battleships finally located the castle and began an all-out assault. The players were forced to use a transporter to escape into one of the abandoned laboratories in The Veil, a ring of meteors on the edge of the Furthest Ring and Derse’s orbit. They hid out and moped for a while until the Horrorterrors made one last-ditch effort to contact them. They insisted that the players not enter the new universe, thereby breaking the effect of predestination for every universe that would exist from then on. The players rejected this plea because independantly sentient beings love free will, come on.

Instead of negotiating with the squids, the players struck a deal with Derse instead. In exchange for Derse distracting Prospit’s forces and allowing the players to sneak a cloaked ship through to the new universe, the players agreed to use the computer that broke the game’s code and brought them all here in the first place to disable all of Prospits weapons. They do so, and also discover that the computer can be used to send them back to their homes, but at a cost. the link to this Sburb session would stay open indefinitely, so Prospit and/or Derse could follow them home and become a threat. The only way for them to keeo this from happening would be to erase every NPC in the session, Dersites, Prospitians, consorts and all. The players’ decisions was almost unanimously against digital genocide, and they decided to enter the new universe together.

Riku was very surprised upon waking up in the meadows to find that this wasn’t the new universe, and was in fact, yet another episode of waking up in the entirely wrong world/universe/what have you. He didn’t make the adjustment from sburb’s constant combat system to a sleepy meadow with a mysterious deity very well, having spent the last three years or so fighting some manner of constant threat. Added to the unrest was the fact that the few familiar faces in the meadows were everyone from Castle Oblivion who tried to kill him, and vice versa.

Most of the conflict was between Riku and Even, who were mutually unhappy to wind up as neighbors. There was some discussion about the events of Castle Oblivion that ended in a lot of yelling and threatening and it’s a small miracle no one was actually injured.

The last major event to happen before Riku’s disappearance from the Meadous was when Bertie showed up on his doorstep in the middle of the night. Vampire shenanigans ensued, but fortunately the incident ended without anyone getting bitten (though not for lack of trying on Bertie’s part).

How did they change from their canon personality wise (Please explain what caused it to happen?): When Riku came into Sburb, he was a few weeks fresh out of Castle Oblivion and all the character development and lessons learned there. He was beginning to quiet down from his arrogant, abrasive style and into an older sort of quiet guilt (due to internalizing all the things that were bothering him instead of taking it out on other people). Riku spent a lot of time on Seas and Gloom keeping to himself and working through his issues with guilt/self-hatred/depression by himself, and didn’t make much progress for it. Losing to Sirena was the turning point where he realized that he wasn’t capable of doing everything alone, and didn’t have to, because he had friends despite his repeated attempts to push them away. He even learned to accept the fact that being forced to look like Xehanort’s Heartless forever was alright, because he was still himself on the inside; it was only after he accepted it that Riku wound up able to return to his own appearance. And it was only by accepting these things about himself and the darkness inside his heart that Riku was able to successfully confront Sirena the second time and take full control over his game-given powers. By the game’s end, he was much more comfortable with himself as a person, though still prone to a bit of brooding.

The time Riku spent in the Meadous unfortunately had him regress a bit back to his hermit-like tendencies. The fact that the only familiar faces were people with whom he’d had largely negative interactions with was a large part of it, though he also just didn’t build any notable friendships in the four months spent there.

He came back for a while, engaged in some event-related tomfoolery, but all in all still didn’t manage to forge meaningful connections with anyone except Ienzo. Riku was in a pretty bad place when he left the Meadous the second time, but after returning home for a short time and getting some closure and support from friends at home, he’s in a more stable spot. Also, graduating to Keyblade Master helped. Most of his anxiety/brooding these days is stress over the war that’s about to happen at home, where he is not.

How did they change from their canon physically (Please explain what caused it to happen?): Riku came into the game from early-Days, so he kept a blindfold on to keep the darkness in his heart surpressed (Kingdom Hearts is really weird about abstract things sometimes, um). After facing his Denizen and tapping into the dark power being held back in his heart, he wound up looking like Xehanort’s Heartless. Riku was stuck in this form for several months, believing it was probably a permanent state and he would just have to live with it- but after dying and being revived, his dreamself took over. Since his dreamself looked the way he saw himself, he was restored to his own appearance, sans need for the blindfold.

Currently, he’s just looking like his KH3 self, since it’s his latest canon point. The hair is post-demons tide though, because Yikes.

Powers: Riku is a skilled swordsman, and favors a move-fast-hit-hard approach to combat. Although up close and personal fighting is his strong point, he lacks variety in the way of magic or ranged attacks. As a Keyblade Master, Riku does know most offensive spells, but doesn’t lean much on magic or have much casting stamina.

Being a keyblade wielder is Riku’s most unique power. The keyblade can unlock just about anything (people’s hearts and the hearts of worlds included) and can change form depending on the keychain attached to the hilt. It can be summoned and dismissed as necessary and will not work for people it doesn’t belong to (with the exception of other keyblade wielders, sometimes).

Riku has also mastered the powers given to him by Sburb, according to his title- the Host of Shade. He can manipulate shadows and give them physical, tangable form to attack or defend with, as well as slipping in and out of them nearly seamlessly. Riku also uses them to enhance the ability he already had to sense people via the darkness around them.

Possessions: Riku will be bringing most of the essentials from his sylladex, including: a booktop (book-laptop hybrid) that no longer connects to pesterchum, but has logs of old conversations; a sweater and some classic fairy tales the Cassandra gave him for his birthday; the organization coat that is really just for cold weather and not sentimental purposes, honest; a bunch of keychains; and a very weathered photo of Sora, Riku, and Kairi from before they left the islands.

Please provide three samples from your previous game, at least one will have to be third person with context:
Sample One: Hey look it’s that guy who tried to kill you in a past life
Sample Two: Tea time with Cassandra
Sample Three: A birthday party slash surprise exorcism

aaand here are three from WTL:

Sample One: Introspection with your clone
Sample Two: Arguing with Even about time travel and the multiverse
Sample Three: Interview (and scuffle) with a vampire

Notes: I’d like to keep the 4th wall event threads that Riku’s been in canon, if that’s alright! I’d be bringing him in from almost directly after the last one, so as not to bring in more KH3 canon than necessary. Let me know if it’s an issue though, or if anything else needs tweaking- he’s been to the Meadous and back several times, and I know it’s tricky territory.