[Light, how does he say it? Butting heads with people like Larxene is one thing - he can at least stand toe to toe with her even if it's only for a hot second, but people like Saix were different.
They were scarier.
He always had a hard time reading Saix, and this time was no different.]
You know. How things were with us back in the Organization. The first time around, that is. We weren't really friends, but...
[He trails off with some uncertainty. During his early days as a Nobody, Demyx had wanted to befriend everyone but that didn't quite happen as he had hoped. Maybe this time could be different? Strained, perhaps, but different.]
[He gets it - or, well, he thinks he gets it, as much as he's ever 'gotten' Demyx.
They weren't friends back then. He didn't want friends back then, and bought in wholly to the idea that they couldn't have emotions, so trying to forge friendships was... useless. Hollow.
Now, though? He knows that wasn't quite true, and he did way too many people a disservice in being like that.]
We're not in the Organization anymore.
[There's no reason for him to be as ambitious and hungry for approval as he had been, and... hopefully there's less reason for Demyx to be scared of him.
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[Light, how does he say it? Butting heads with people like Larxene is one thing - he can at least stand toe to toe with her even if it's only for a hot second, but people like Saix were different.
They were scarier.
He always had a hard time reading Saix, and this time was no different.]
You know. How things were with us back in the Organization. The first time around, that is. We weren't really friends, but...
[He trails off with some uncertainty. During his early days as a Nobody, Demyx had wanted to befriend everyone but that didn't quite happen as he had hoped. Maybe this time could be different? Strained, perhaps, but different.]
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[He gets it - or, well, he thinks he gets it, as much as he's ever 'gotten' Demyx.
They weren't friends back then. He didn't want friends back then, and bought in wholly to the idea that they couldn't have emotions, so trying to forge friendships was... useless. Hollow.
Now, though? He knows that wasn't quite true, and he did way too many people a disservice in being like that.]
We're not in the Organization anymore.
[There's no reason for him to be as ambitious and hungry for approval as he had been, and... hopefully there's less reason for Demyx to be scared of him.
Being human again is hard.]