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[Which, for the moment, more or less goes over Roxas' head.]

Sounds good. I used to—wait, no. I didn't. [Uh, sorry, just give him a second. He shakes his head.] I'm pretty good at getting things done. And I want to contribute, so my best friend doesn't have to pay for everything for me.

Who's your best friend?

[Maybe he can get in on this too. Or maybe Rocket knows him and he'll blow the whole scam.]

His name's Axel. Red hair, kinda spiky?

[He holds his hand up several inches above and behind his head to indicate how much spikier it is.]

He's been here a lot longer than me.

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Oh that guy. Yeah, I know that guy. Got stuck in a maze with him once.

[Y'know. Just El Nysa things.] He's, uh... Something, all right.

[Ha. A maze? He's going to have to ask Axel about that later.]

Yeah, he is. I've known him since I was born. And we used to work together, back where we came from.

Yeah, I can see where not being stuck in a place like this with somebody like that would make it easier to take.

[He was fortunate, he sorta-kinda had someone around, even if Quill vanished and then came back at one point.

Also look at Rocket, trying to be... nice. HE'S DOING HIS BEST.]

[Roxas smiles and nods. Rocket's definitely earned a point or two for getting it.]

Some of the other people here are cool too. But I haven't met everyone yet.

[Some of them might be huge jerks!]

What about you? Is anyone else from your world awake?

Quill, Mantis, and Gamora, so that's the whole team except Drax and Groot. They're all morons, but havin' 'em here is better than trying to make it alone, I guess.

[Procytsun lotor in action.]

[Between Rocket being a raccoon and the name 'Mantis', Roxas is picturing them all as animals.]

What kind of team are you guys?

[Quill is clearly a porcupine.]

The galaxy-saving kind. Two-time galaxy savers, in fact.

[Technically, they never saved the galaxy the second time because the Storm hit, but you know what... you take the victories you can get.]

Oh, that's pretty cool of you guys.

[He does sound impressed, but...maybe not as impressed as he should. It's like he knows other people who do that kind of thing.]

Maybe you'll get a third try here.

[Don't think he doesn't notice that lack of AWE, Roxas. Rude. Rocket's shoulders slump a bit, because what is the point of saving the galaxy if you don't get paid or showed a shitton of respect.

It's almost like it does not occur to him that there are world-savers everywhere.]

Well, the dragon situation didn't bode well, but I'm callin' that one a fluke.

[Is awe really worth it? You can't eat awe. Or use it as munny.]

It sounds like that was really rough on you guys. Geez, I don't know how anyone would fight something like that.

[his ego eats awe.]

I fought a giant extradimensional creature that looked like something I've eaten before. It wasn't supposed to be that hard. That jerkass dragon was just big and mean and already dead.

[He would argue that big and mean and dead-but-still-moving-somehow are attributes that should make a creature even harder to fight, but]

What kind of stuff do you eat?

Uh... [He's caught off guard by what should be a reasonable question.] Aquatic.... things? It looked like a nasty space squid, okay.

You eat things that look like nasty space squid? That's gross.

I eat seafood, which can look pretty gross sometimes. When you look like this, it gets really hinky to eat anything mammalian.

What's wrong with the way you look? I think you look fine.

[Rocket tilts his head.]

Seriously?

[He gestures to himself- all three feet and furred with metal brackets on his chest.] This is normal to you?

[Roxas looks him up and down, hesitant, but not because he's unsure of himself. It just feels like this might be a trick question.]

Yes? Why not?

I'm a walking abomination of nature, kid. I, quite literally, should not exist.

[Normally he wouldn't be so bold about this, but the fact that this is normal for Roxas is wigging him out so much he doesn't know what to think. There's at least two reasons for that and he likes neither]

[Huh. How about that.]

Then we've got something in common. I was never meant to exist either.

[There's a long period of silence.]

Y'know it doesn't count if your mom and dad weren't expecting you and you just happened right? I don't know a whole lot about human biological shit, but I've heard that's a thing that happens.

[YOU LOOK SO NORMAL... Then again, so does Prompto.]

I don't have a mom or dad. I don't mean I'm an orphan, I never had parents. I wasn't born, I was created.

[And the person who made him didn't even know it.]

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