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[It's assumed that Draco is around somewhere despite not being on camera immediately, judging by the fact that when the feed starts travelers are greeted with a nice view of a bedroom wall absolutely covered in diagrams, charts, graphs, drawings and notes. Literally every square inch of the wall above the bed is covered in paper marked with random colored pens. It's assumed the rest of the room is set the same way. In the background, anyone listening can hear a coffee maker brewing a new pot.

War's never been one of Draco's favorite things, but the battles in Asgard have made him think of his home world and the situation he's in. He hates thinking about it, but he's started dissecting everything he knows…hence some of the charts that are overlaying some older charts. When Draco begins to speak, he's still out of the line of vision, if only because he can't exactly face the city just yet.]

…I know this man at home who's trying to, more or less, recreate the entire world. A perfect world where everyone's exactly the same and everyone who's considered less than worthy is punished severely if they're not outright killed immediately. [This is bad. This is a bad idea to be bringing this up, but Draco's full of bad ideas and bad decisions lately.] Actually, his favorite method is to torture them severely before sparing them and then murdering them with a flick of the wrist.

But the thing is, despite the fact he's more or less a slit-nosed homicidal freak, he has a large following. Many follow him out of fear, but there are just as many who follow out of loyalty. There are many people who actually, genuinely believe our world will be better if we follow his plan for destruction and reconstruction. It's messy and violent, and yet they go along with it anyway. Funny how that works, isn't it? One has to wonder why. [It's probably for the best that Voldemort's not around to hear that one of his servants is basically disregarding everything he's been taught. But after his last conversation with Jade? Maybe he really doesn't have to be constantly fearing for his life...maybe just every other day.

Let's get to the point, shall we? His hand appears in the frame of video and he's pinning a fresh piece of paper to the wall above the bed. He soon takes out a pen and in a neat, elegant scrawl writes something on the top of the page.

The art of persuasion and manipulation

His hand hovers in midair for a moment before he withdraws it.]

What is the fine line between persuading people and manipulating them? And, as a bonus question, what is the fine line between safety and fear? Sometimes I have to wonder if the rulers of this world aren't any different, what with having to do their bidding without even asking us. And yet we do it anyway because we're told it's better this way. [He knows it's a stretch, but it's still a valid point in his opinion.] As you can see, I've plenty of room on the paper so give me something worth writing.

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And so what's stopping you from obtaining it? [Draco is finding that everyone from the KH worlds have complicated situations. Not that he has put two and two together and realized this is someone from those worlds, but.]

[Oh Draco, their lives are so so complicated it's ridiculous. Hearts, no hearts, data copies, replicas, light, dark, something in between, messed up time travel and nefarious plots. Even they don't know what's happening sometimes ~~most of the time.~~]

Getting to it is pretty difficult, and not just because there's people who'd want to stop me.

So knock them out of the way and there goes half your problem.

[grins.]

Oh trust me, that's not the part I'm especially worried about.

[okay, maybe a little worried. Xehanort's not gonna be no pushover.]

So what are you worried about? [Because right now, Lea, you are starting to sound like all talk.]

[almost - almost switches off the feed then. He's probably said too much as it is. Probably should have just done this anonymously, like before.

But he continues anyway.]

Losing someone I care about forever.

...ah. [It's an awkward sort of pause because okay. Okay, that's an incredibly valid point. Isn't half the reason he isn't acting is because he's busy making sure he doesn't lose his family?] That's where things get incredibly complicated then.

[humorless laugh. You have no idea.]

Yeah, especially when they're here, and not in the time when I was yanked from. That just adds on another layer of complication.

And am I correct in assuming that if you were to mention everything about what's happened in the time they haven't lived yet, it would ruin things?

Not necessarily, since nothing I say will change what eventually happens. They already know what the outcome is.

[nevermind this whole issue with memories or lack thereof]

So you believe that you're tied in to a destiny no matter what.

[laughs, bitterly, and shakes his head]

No. Because I tried to change it before and failed. I'm from their future.

Besides, I've been told that when you go back you don't remember this place. So it doesn't matter one way or the other.

[gives a rather acidic grin]

Unless these gods want to try doing me a favor.

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Between you and me? I don't believe that in the slightest. I don't really think they're capable of making us forget entirely.

[he's pretty intrigued by that thought, if his raised eyebrow is any indication.]

Oh? What makes you say that?

You don't think it's just coincidence so many people come back here with their memories still, do you?

"So many"? Isn't it just a handful of people that were just lucky enough to be the exceptions that prove the rule?

Exceptions, screw ups, whatever you want to call them. The fact of the matter is that there's still more than one of them and it keeps happening. You've never wondered why?

I've only been here a couple of weeks. Haven't exactly had time to wonder about such things yet with the recent events going on.

[He has, but rather hasn't had time to investigate them, yet.]

What makes you so sure it wasn't intentional on their part?

What, to act as something of a safety net to lure us in and give us false hope? It may very well be, but there is always a loophole for everything, intentional or not.

[that makes him slip into a rather conspiratorial smile.]

So what do you suggest?

I've a few ideas, but I'm fine-tuning. I suppose you might be interested when they're in the prototype stage?

I suppose you might be right.

So what's in it for me if I let you in?

That depends. What do you want from me?

[he's not against a little tit for tat, but it all depends on if it's within his ability to give.]

Hard to ask something of value from someone I don't know. [So. Who are you?]

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