Can't Escape

Cover taken from the CoM Manga.  Very fitting cover, I believe. 

Some Things You Can't Escape, affectionately known as Can't Escape, since I have a habit of coming up with really long titles for fics and then have to shorten them when I'm talking about them to people. 

Can't Escape was spawned by the idea of meshing my KHverse with rarmaster's KHverse.  First I sent Pi over there, then I thought it would be rather Vexen-like to escape there, since he was done working for Xehanort.  (This ended up working in his favor, because Xehanort was going to kill him otherwise.)  My Vexen has since stayed in rarmaster's universe.  He lives in Castle Oblivion, drives Riku (her Riku) crazy, is one of the few (only) people who puts up with Joseph and Toby all the time, helps Alpha keep the Program safe from 37, (despite not being able to actually touch the Program because Alpha is paranoid) and has even offered to help hack it--though those offers have been turned down.  As for Pi, he's back in my universe and assists Ienzo as a shopkeeper in Hollow Bastion. 

Can’t Escape spent quite a bit of time literally just tracing different happenings with Joseph, Vexen, and other random replicas in Castle Oblivion during the Rebellion (6, Thistle, Alpha).  This worked really well back when Riku was off doing other things and Sora was off doing other things.  Now that Riku and Namine are in Castle Oblivion all the time, it’s a little bit harder to have side-stories going on because the Rebellion is taking up such a huge portion of their lives.  All of that content gets posted in rar’s Dead Inside.  There are still occasional blips that take place alongside the main content, it’s just from a different character or something that’s going on while Riku happens to be away in Hollow Bastion, or something like that.  (Things with Vexen, with 6, with Joseph…)

A lot of what gets posted are literal crossovers with both rar’s charries and my charries.  Characters do end up in both universes.  Though, more often than not, it’s my characters that end up in her universe.  This is mostly brought on by the fact my characters travel more, leaving room for cross-universe trouble.  Every time this happens, it’s because something important is hinging on that travel. 

Joseph came to my universe and gave crucial information about Namine and Riku and gained valuable information about Kairi and Sora.  My Kairi, Namine and Xion got bounced to rar’s universe and had quite the run-in with Shad.  This was important for both Shad and for Namine.  My Axel ran into rar’s Axel and the two of them had quite a good time messing with people’s brains.  Plus, this was important in Toby’s discovery.  My Riku and Namine run into Shad again, which is crucial to both of their character’s developments.  Most recently, rar’s Kairi and Tifa ended up running into my Kairi and Roxas.  This was important for her Kairi to realize just how important her Sora was to her. 

There are other crossovers yet still planned.  I know Riku seeing Riku is something that is greatly anticipated.  But that will have to wait still yet. 

Anyway, Can't Escape essentially chronicles the events that happen NOT in the main stream of rarmaster's universe.  It's the events of Castle Oblivion that don't make it into Dead Inside.  It's what Joseph decides he's randomly going to do when he's bored.  It's what goes on at CO when Riku and Sora are elsewhere.  It's what Sora's Shadow decides he's doing when he's not pestering Sora.  It’s random stuff with 6.  It’s what happens when rar’s characters and my characters mesh together for funsies.  It’s a load of fun.

Yes, Can't Escape has gotten a tad darker since it's inception, but rarmaster and I both strive to keep it light-hearted.  Though, because Larxene L is HORRIBLE and Sora's Shadow is worse, it's sometimes hard.  Though, Shadow is at least fun to write for (for the most part).  At least, when you're writing him, you can hardly be out of character because he really doesn't have any limits as to what he won't do so long as it's dark.  L is just annoying and gross, especially when paired with 37.  The main reason for this dark tone is that Dead Inside has gotten a lot darker.  But, there is hope for it to get more lighthearted as things continue.  Just hang on for the light. 

I don't think there's much else to say.   Check it out if you haven't read it.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6902839/1/Some_things_you_just_cant_Escape