[He considers -- Minato sounds like he has an idea of how the story already goes, but Riku's not sure if he's going to like that that's not exactly the way.]
I don't know. I guess. I... once the princesses were together, Maleficent forged the Keyblade of People's Hearts -- a weapon that could unlock any heart and release it from the bearer's body. By this time my powers had grown a lot, but they were all darkness-based. I could summon shadows to fight for me, call the Heartless, and I could wield dark energy fairly well. Sora arrived at Hollow Bastion, and I... took his Keyblade. It felt so easy, you know? Like I was supposed to have it, like Maleficent said I was. I left him with a wooden sword and nothing, and it felt right. Like he'd abandoned me, now I'd made it even.
[It's spending longer in the dark part of the story than Minato had really expected, but his association of Riku with the Star still isn't really challenged by it. Tarot isn't inflexible, anyway; it's a lens through which to relate to others, but people within an Arcana are frequently not at all similar.
It's what they need to learn, what their personal journey is, that their Arcana explains.]
… Do you think spending so much time with the darkness let it influence you?
[That's what Minato would assume, if it were someone he knew that spent a lot of time enveloped in Shadows. It's not the same, but so far the analogy has served him pretty well.]
Of course it did. And not just the darkness, either. See, Maleficent wasn't working alone. Besides the allies from the other worlds she had, she was being manipulated herself. This guy named Ansem had been waiting for her to make that Keyblade.
I fought Sora and he took the Keyblade back, no problem. So Maleficent let me wield the Keyblade of People's Hearts, and when I did, Ansem stole my body. He was a Heartless, though we didn't know it at the time, and his human body was gone. So when I opened myself up to the darkness that much... he was able to kick me out.
[He pauses, taking a breath. It... had been an awful experience, needless to say.]
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[He considers -- Minato sounds like he has an idea of how the story already goes, but Riku's not sure if he's going to like that that's not exactly the way.]
I don't know. I guess. I... once the princesses were together, Maleficent forged the Keyblade of People's Hearts -- a weapon that could unlock any heart and release it from the bearer's body. By this time my powers had grown a lot, but they were all darkness-based. I could summon shadows to fight for me, call the Heartless, and I could wield dark energy fairly well. Sora arrived at Hollow Bastion, and I... took his Keyblade. It felt so easy, you know? Like I was supposed to have it, like Maleficent said I was. I left him with a wooden sword and nothing, and it felt right. Like he'd abandoned me, now I'd made it even.
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It's what they need to learn, what their personal journey is, that their Arcana explains.]
… Do you think spending so much time with the darkness let it influence you?
[That's what Minato would assume, if it were someone he knew that spent a lot of time enveloped in Shadows. It's not the same, but so far the analogy has served him pretty well.]
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I fought Sora and he took the Keyblade back, no problem. So Maleficent let me wield the Keyblade of People's Hearts, and when I did, Ansem stole my body. He was a Heartless, though we didn't know it at the time, and his human body was gone. So when I opened myself up to the darkness that much... he was able to kick me out.
[He pauses, taking a breath. It... had been an awful experience, needless to say.]