Heart Write-Up
In general terms, this was a very derpy heart. |D I had certain things planned for certain rooms and certain triggers, but I was basically going to wing the rest because THAT IS HOW YOU DO AN IKKI HEART. And it worked out for the better! It was fun to run, and I want to thank everyone who played |D ♥ Thanks for making my first time running a heart game fun~

Onto the heart itself - I felt it better to keep things simple, as really, Ikki is a simple guy. He is also someone, in Sabra, who keeps certain things separate - such as himself BEFORE Sabra and who he is now. "Ikki" and "Raven", to put it into easier terms.

So coming into the first room of the heart, it was split in the same way. Orange doors would lead to "Ikki"'s memories, and in turn people would run into someone far closer to canon. These doors were on one side of the room.

Red doors, on the other hand, would lead to "Raven" and Sabra memories, and these doors were on the other side - along with the ~*MYSTERIOUS*~ black door. People who went through those would run into Ikki as he is now - or in the case of the black door - would run into Ikki before he stabilized himself in regards to who he was.

Over in the orange doors, each one was marked with a certain team's symbol - Sleeping Forest, Kogarasumaru, Toul Tool To, and Genesis. Behind these doors were places that Ikki identifies each team with - Sleeping Forest, for example, has three of his sisters on it, and therefore the door would lead to Rika's place, which - while he DOES remember the tower and all - he remembered them as family first, and he thinks of them that way first, and that's why Rika's house is represented by Sleeping Forest's sticker.

For the other doors - Shinonome Middle School was behind the Kogarasumaru door, which Ikki associates with Kogarasumaru; that's where the team was formed, that's where they won their first match, and up in the secret base is where Ikki declared to everyone that Kogarasumaru was going to defeat Genesis and Sleeping Forest. It holds a lot of GOOD memories for him, and for the purposes of his Heart, was the best place to run. Tool Toul To was represented by the park Ikki and Kururu first met in. To Ikki, it's a really important memory! Especially because Kururu is someone important to him. Had Ikki remembered more about them or Kururu, it might've ended up being something else, like the Tower or the church.

And finally, Genesis was represented by the Tower. The only memories Ikki has that line up perfectly are what happened down in the tower between him and Sora and Sleeping Forest. From Hako being kidnapped by Nike to Sora breaking his will to fly, everything happened here! Which is why it only makes sense for this place to be in Ikki's heart, to represent those events.

As for the Sabra side, the two doors lead to Pyxis' (old) dorms and the Arena respectively; two places Ikki is comfortable with, and two places he identifies as 1) belonging to him and Pyxis, and 2) the one place in all of Sabra he has (few but) strong, positive memories. The black door, on the other hand, was going to represent all of the BAD THINGS in Sabra, which in turn made it a Bad End. I left this door locked for a couple of reasons, the most important being . . . I didn't finish it. :B BUT SHOULD SOMEONE HAVE OPENED IT they would've experienced ONE OF Ikki's horrible, horrible Sabra experiences. I would've had people roll for it, but it would've come down to Surgeon, Trickster, or Game Master funtimes. :|aaa So really, automatic bad end.

Back to the main room, though - there was ALSO an option I left vague, mostly to see if anyone would do it. And that was to climb the wall and sit up with Ikki! And Kururu did this, which gave her a nice view of the sky in Ikki's heart - the room itself was suspended up in the middle of the air, with nothing to see above or below or around but sky, sky, sky. This was kind of an "insta-win" in that I didn't think anyone would do it. |D;;

Moving onto the rooms, there were a couple of things on the list specific to each room, which there were some that kind of spread through all of them! Then there were OTHER THINGS you could've done on top of that, in order to trigger either Ikki showing up, or a memory, or whathaveyou. Like I said, I was winging this.

SO LET US START OFF WITH SUPLEXES - this was tossed in as a "LET'S SEE WHO WILL DO THIS" idea a-and I love you all for doing it. Anyone who would've stepped up to Rika (seriously) or fought back would've immediately been booted from the house. The three people who went to this area - two were suplexed! Tokitoh got out of it, though he did get to see it happen, so I can't really blame him. :V

THE BIG THING TO DO HERE THOUGH was to head to Ikki's room and get Ikki to show up - or well, two of them. Tokitoh came close, but time was up so I had to boot him. :( HOWEVER exploring in Ikki's room would've eventually triggered a memory of Akito kissing Ikki - more specifically the one where he dooms over people thinking he might only kiss guys. THIS would've triggered two Ikkis showing up - one being a HARDCORE REP OF CANON SIDE, while the other being a HARDCORE REP OF SABRA SIDE. They would get into a fight, and depending on how people reacted to this, it would've either a) did nothing, b) totally kicked canon's ass, or c) kicked sabra's ass and REVIVED IKKI'S HOMOPHOBIA.

Option C was hilarious Bad End. Because not only would you have had to dealt with Ikki in his heart, you would've had to deal with Akito once he found out. And that's bad.

Moving onto Kogarasumaru's door, people would've been given A-T and given FREE REIGN TO HAVE AS MUCH FUN AS POSSIBLE. The more people either gave into Ikki's encouraging/teasing remarks or just upped and rode around themselves, the more it would make Ikki closer to the encouraging bastard he is in canon.

ALSO, somewhere on that property was a Kogarasumaru sticker that had fallen off it's place on the wall. Putting this back would've reaffirmed his ideas and actions regarding being a leader, and later on people would see more of Ikki's canon leadering being put in motion. But since no one did this, Ikki's laid back way of leadering stays the same. :V

Tool Toul To's door . . . hahaha. 8D There weren't any HUGE PLANS for this room except to relive that day in the park, but Kururu went there! And . . . rewrote Ikki's memory of meeting her a little. So instead of remembering beating Kururu on the swings, he remembers Kururu beating HIM, in an epic kind of way. Had anyone made it through this room completely, they would've witnessed Ikki being DRAGGED OFF BY KOGARASUMARU and yelling about him being a slacker about chores and whatnot, and would've reaffirmed that he is, in fact, and asshole who lets lower beings handle his work.

Genesis' door! I AM SO DISAPPOINTED NO ONE GOT FURTHER IN THIS SO I COULD MAKE UP AWESOME SHIT i mean. Okay, this was where a possible BAD END could've happened, because Sora was lurking about in here. Upstairs was the factory - in there you could explore, trigger the Hako memory (which Jake managed), then go downstairs to where the big ol' plot stuff happened.

Down here, you had the chance to HIT KIRIC WITH A SHOE. I don't know why anyone would pass this up personally, but doing so would reaffirm Ikki's special ability of PISSING PEOPLE OFF BY BEING A HUGE DICK. Since no one did that, well. :V There would also be a chance to trigger the gravity down there, like in canon - which would mean everyone would get to experience suffocating in zero G ;D There was ALSO a chance to trigger the Sora memory, and also for him to show up. HOW I don't exactly know (as I was, of course, winging it) but depending on how things went, it would've lead to a BAD END or . . .

Going back upstairs! Which - instead of bringing you to factory, would've brought you to Kogarasumaru's secret base. Here people had the option to punch Ikki in the face, along with everyone in that room. While this has no effect in general, just getting to that point would've kept the resolve he had about Genesis and Sleeping Forest; Bad Ending down below would've killed it, and "broken" his wings.

Heading over to Sabra side, again, there were ways to REAFFIRM SABRA SIDE. No one managed to do this, though, but! Eating Sis' cooking and SURVIVING (and in Makina's case, NOT BEING EFFECTED AT ALL) totally gave Ikki more resolve in regards to EATING IT ALL LIKE A MAN AWW YEAH. Makina seeing the journal, though, reaffirmed Ikki's strong belief of NEVER GIVING UP. There was the chance to see a Pyxis memory here (which I would've chose randomly given how awesome I am) but there was no time.

ARENA. Arena had TWO memories you could trigger, if you got to the top of the thrones. One was a memory of Nico, which was triggered by the piece of Canis cloth. The other was a Kaito memory, which was triggered by the pebbles. Seeing either or both really just kind of made the thrones a place of GOOD MEMORIES, rather than all the bad ones that've built up, etc, and he would've been a little bit more okay with Kaito's pillaring and Nico still being off with Foreman.

There was also going to be a chance to JUMP OFF THE THRONES but I never got around to that. :V

"BUT IKKI" you may be saying as you read all of this rambling bullshit, "WHERE WAS THE TRUE HEART?" The True Heart wasn't hiding, nor was he super hard to get to. There was no special room to go running around looking for, or anything super epic like that. IN FACT, everyone talked to the True Heart at one point!

IF YOU ARE KEEPING UP yes, the very first "guard" Ikki was in fact the True Heart. :'D The big tip off was the clothes (both the Pyxis uniform and the Koga uniform) plus the fact that his emblem was pretty obvious. He was also lying about not knowing what's behind the doors, so had anyone pushed him for info he would've eventually made it very obvious that he is a big fat liar. :V

This right here is why Kururu going to chill with him is actually a huge impact, like I mentioned in the beginning, because watching the sky with the True Heart is probably the most awesome thing you can do for Ikki in Ikki's heart.

SO ALL IN ALL, congratulations, this was a very good end.