Xander's Pharaoh: The Present IV

[madimpossibledreamer]

If you want to seriously depress yourself, think about mashing up the Innocent Sin ending with, well, anything.  In this case, Yugioh.  Because Atem's name is a key and leaving a key to destruction around for anyone with a mind reading/controlling thing around is a bad idea, and there's a lot of those running around.  So, basically, they all have to forget all their memories with him, and it's...it breaks my heart.~Dreamer~

*They smell different.  Xander smells like sawdust, because he half-heartedly whittles.  Haru smells like the desert sands.
*They also tend to stand/sit differently.  Haru has better posture.  That’s how Willow usually tells the difference if they’re not talking.
*Haru’s left wrist also often acts up, so much so that he’s got a brace on hand just in case.  Xander’s never does.  (It was one of the wounds in the final fight, and for whatever reason, it stayed.)
*They have a habit of finishing each other’s sentences, or, if they’re feeling lazily, passing things along for the other to say for them.  Despite the amount of effort it actually takes to change.  (Not much.)
*Their instincts are good.  Usually.  When they’re off, they’re way off.  Usually if they’re tired or distracted (thus not paying attention).
*Haru’s surprisingly a gender equality guy.  They get in the biggest arguments over the careless things Xander says like that.
*They agree about their mother.  They wanted to get her away from the abuse, too, but she didn’t want to go.  The last thing she did was slap him, but it just hurts their heart.  They’d probably accept any present she sent with a smile, no matter how much it didn’t fit.
*Neither of them deal well with rejection or being abandoned.
*Sometimes Haru gets depressed.  Xander’s prone to that, too, and listening to country music (which Haru can’t deal with), but he forces a smile on his face and keeps bugging his twin until Haru reemerges.  Haru’s generally seen as the strong, mature one, but Xander tries to stay upbeat because he knows it affects Haru, and he doesn’t like causing pain to twinnie.  Also because it’s a lot of work dragging Haru out when he’s in a mood.
*Sometimes they play the game of seeing if people will realize that they’re the other.  They’ve figured out how to pretend to be the other, to the point of mimicking voice and vocal patterns.
*Haru tends to start a lot of things and not finish them, though.  He’s interested by all knowledge, too, and gets a little flighty.  Choosing a major is going to be very difficult for him.  He’s not immediately good at everything, either, and sometimes ends up monopolizing their time studying, since he’s occasionally perfectionistic when it comes to grades.
*Xander’s a little lazy, but sometimes it bugs him and he actually finishes what Haru began.  Just as his twin occasionally acts as the one who keeps him in line, when Haru gets to the point where he’s trying to do too much at once, he gets them to calm down and take one thing at a time.
*At these points, too, he only ends up getting about 4 hours of sleep for the body, but it works for him.  One of them can sleep and actually get decent refreshment, so as long as they both get a fair amount of that time asleep, and their body gets at least 4 hours, they’re perfectly awake.  Xander sometimes ends up goofing off in the middle of the night, when the other has been hogging the body.
*He will force the other to stop excessively studying and spend time with their friends.  At the very least, go study with Willow!