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Name: Chicklet
Contact: Here or Plurk: ChickletLARP
18+? yep
Other Character: Will be apping V from Order Of The Stick
Character
Name: Xion
Canon: Kingdom Hearts Days
Canon point: Moment of death. So she will be understandably confused.
Age: Chronologically? Less than a year old. Physically looks to be in her early teens and acts about that young or younger most of the time, but like a kid who had to grow up fast, and is trying to be an adult.
History: One Keyblade - Roxas - was not enough. So the Organization tried to artificially create another out of memories from the same heart that gave life to Roxas. So they stole memories from Sora and created Xion.
Xion's brief life was intense for its brevity. She was taught to go unseen by anyone but the Organization, and within the Organization most people could not see her properly. At least one of them saw only a blank space where her head should be. Most never saw her hood down, never heard her voice.
When many members of the Organization went on a special mission, Xion was paired with the other Keyblade Wielder, Number XIII, Roxas. In time, working with him, fighting alongside him, staying near him, he began to see her face and hear her voice. He became her first friend. When Axel arrived, Roxas decided the three of them would be friends, and Axel accepted that, and Xion. He saw her face from the start, but she is pretty sure that is because of Roxas.
The three friends started meeting regularly atop the clock tower after missions, to share sea salt ice cream and talk. These were the best moments in her life.
But overall, her life was not a happy one. Xion was constantly afraid that she would be turned into a lesser kind of Nobody, called a Dusk, if she did not collect enough hearts for Xemnas, Number I. Saïx, Number VII, who gave them their missions, was the cruelest of them all on a day to day basis.
Trying to help her, with her powers running erratically, Roxas would try to get partnered with her on missions, and when she couldn't summon her Keyblade, he often loaned her his so that she could make her quota and survive.
Saïx learned of this and split them up, but she had regained the ability to capture hearts just in time and survived a little longer.
Two major things happened in the middle of all of this - Xion and Roxas' comas, and Riku.
Xion and Roxas seemed to fall sometimes into unexplained deep sleeps from which they could not be awoken for many days. Always when one of them was in a coma, the other was stronger than usual, and was able to do the work of both Keyblades. This would eventually lead the leadership to come to the conclusion that they only needed one of them, and that whichever was weaker should be destroyed.
Riku... Riku was the other huge change in her life after befriending Roxas and Axel.
Riku was friends with a boy named Sora and a girl named Kairi. Odd Somebodies (people) that Xion had clearly never met, but kept having flashes about. Dream like memories or memory like dreams. Riku nearly destroyed her when they first met, but over time he came to realize what she was. Of course, his conclusion was that what she was... was the main obstacle keeping Sora from waking up. He kept pushing at Xion to end her own existence so that the memories trapped inside her would return to the sleeping Sora.
And she did try. More than once. But she wasn't strong enough emotionally, wasn't brave enough. Axel and Roxas were able to convince her to come back, to stay, for a time. Often they had to knock her out first. But Axel would clearly rather her alive but hurt - in as much as Nobodies could be said to be alive - than gone forever.
In the end, she spoke with the witch, Namine, and agreed to return to Sora. She fought her friends one last time each, though when she fought Roxas, Namine's magic had already begin to work. He didn't remember her. It wasn't just the memories inside her that had to go to Sora, but memories of her had to vanish as well.
She pushed Axel into weakening her. And Roxas... their last conversation, Roxas didn't see her face, he saw Sora's. She pushed Roxas into fighting her, and in the end he didn't remember who she was, or why they were fighting, but he held her as she died, and just before the moment she will arrive in game, she saw what she thought was impossible, a tear on Roxas' face. A Nobody... who could cry.
Personality:
Loyalty
Xion has only ever had two real friends, and to them she was unflinchingly loyal, even when she seemed to stand up to fight against them. In so much as she thought herself capable of liking anyone, she liked Roxas and Axel. Honestly, she LOVED Roxas and Axel, always will, but she is thoroughly convinced that she could never love or be loved, so she never thought she loved them. She did want to, though. When Riku's words cut her, asking her what was the best answer for everyone, she knew that her dying was the best answer.... in part because her being alive weakened Roxas, and because if only one of them was going to be kept alive... it had to be Roxas. Had to be.
Emotionally weak
It has to be said, and I am not going to make excuses for her. Yes, she has moments of strength, but they do not define her, and they do not last long, save for her final acts. She is easily manipulated, and easily hurt and bruised by the words of others. She has had self-loathing and an absolute lack of self worth beaten into her. I'd say she took the words about how worthless she is to heart, but well... like everyone else she swallowed the lie that she had no heart.
Even when she had the conviction that her dying was what was needed in order to save everyone... multiple times she let Axel talk her back from that, and her conviction crumbled.
Young
This does overlap the last a bit, in venn diagram style, with gullible being the connected area. She is painfully naive about some things, and has little to no idea about how the world actually works. She is very inexperienced and undereducated, but has the certainty of the young that she knows all that she needs to know about most things. When she is right, she is SURE she is right, that she knows everything, until Axel or Riku come along and fill her head with something else instead, and then she is sure that THAT is the right thing.
Fearful/timid/painfully shy
Xion is pretty much always afraid, and her single biggest fear for most of her life is that she (or her friends) will be turned into a Dusk. This fear is constantly driven into her by Saïx, who keeps reinforcing the fact that if she does not perform to expectations, she will be destroyed, that if she fails at her job, she will be destroyed. Part of her job is to never be seen. So she avoids being seen by anyone not in the Organization. And even among those thirteen people with whom she is allowed to interact, most disdain her, if they even notice her at all. This has led her to withdraw more and more inward. She was created of Sora's memories of Kairi, but despite being made of the memories of two very extroverted and cheerful people, her existence has instilled within her the association that bad things happen when strangers see her. But at the same time, like many shy people, she desperately wants friendship and acceptance.
The following are not so much bullet points as important key things I wanted to touch on that I couldn't quite place elsewhere.
Sea salt ice cream and the ocean - Among all the darkness, there are a few things that shed some light into Xion's life. Her friends, of course, sea salt ice cream, the ocean, and sea shells. Seashells will be mentioned again below, but here tie in with the ocean. It is easily theorized that Xion is drawn to the ocean because Sora grew up on Destiny's Island, and thus spent most of his formative years around the ocean. Sea Salt ice cream is a direct link to Roxas and Axel, as it is something that they came to share after missions when they had time to just sit and talk. The ocean fills her with longing, and sometimes an odd calm she rarely gets elsewhere, and ice cream at sunset is tied to friends in her. Both have become cornerstones that she turns to in rough times.
Seashells - As mentioned above, Xion is drawn to the ocean. When she starts going on missions alone, while Roxas is in his first coma, she starts collecting seashells. Every day that he is out, she leaves one on his bed beside him, for him to see when he wakes up. One one hand this can be dismissed on the meta level as a narrative tool to demonstrate both time passing, and her diligence in visiting both the clock tower and him every day in his absence, the shells actually tell more about her and their situation than that.
The setting, the place where they live, from the bedrooms to the meeting areas, they are all drab and dull, showing little to no colour, and no variation. Xion's room and Roxas' room look the same. No personalizations, no art, nothing but the same bland appearance to all rooms. The shells, like the sunset the three often watch, are an explosion of colour. It is hard to tell if this is a small act of rebellion, or if she never thought of it that way (I feel that if she had realized it could be seen as rebellion she would have been too scared to leave them where people could see them) or if it is just that she is drawn to the life and energy implied in colours that is absent from their home. When Roxas is gone in his coma, she leaves seashells to draw him home, and to give him something other than the same walls to see, something that is her, something that is there for him, even when he thinks he is alone and lost.
Always Keep In Mind: Do not use phrases like "in her heart" or words like "love" easily. be very careful in her thought posts about such things.
For all she has seen glimpses of so many worlds, there is so much about how most worlds work that she does not know, has never experienced. Some things, like summer vacations, she knows about in theory only. Others, like what a family is, she has no experience with, whatsoever.
Samples
Log Sample: Sample from the TDM. I can provide a sample from another game, if needed.
Questions: Write an IC answer to the following questions:
What do you want to study at Diatu Magicademy?
"I... I don't know," she said softly, looking down at her gloved hands. "I'm not even supposed to be here..." She wasn't supposed to "be" at all. She swallowed hard, pulling her hood so that it covered even more of her face. "I suppose... I want a way to get my powers back. Portals and... and my Keyblade...." a soft whisper. If she could do that... if she could just do that.. she could warn the others. Tell Riku and Namine that her dying hadn't led her to Sora, hadn't saved anyone. If she told them in time... maybe...
Maybe... she could save Roxas, before it was too late.
"Can... Can I relearn that? How to get home?"
If you knew you could go back to the moment you left, would you leave immediately or continue your studies for a while?
"..."
A small nod.
She was supposed to die, if dying would fix things, would buy Roxas more time before he had to return to Sora then...then yes. Besides... he didn't even remember her any more. There was nothing left for her, except to cease to exist. Her being here at all was wrong.
If your enemy was at Diatu Magicademy, how would you react?
She swallowed hard. Did they mean a heartless? Or....
Or someone else? Saïx, Xemnas.... Her eyes closed, hidden by her hood, her chin drooped. Her hand closed into a fist, but... no Keyblade came. She tried again, flexing then closing her fingers. Nothing. Once more. Nothing.
She took a deep breath, then answered honestly. "I'd be destroyed," she said, simply. And it would be pointless. If she had to cease to exist... she wanted to do it in a way that helped everyone. She didn't want to give Saïx or Xemnas the satisfaction of killing her, and dying to a random heartless...
She closed her eyes.
But she knew the truth. She couldn't defend herself, here. If they wanted to destroy her, they could. Easily. If they wanted to take her apart to try again, she would be no more.
When is it acceptable to resolve a dispute by force?
"When that is the best way." At last, an easy question.
What should the supreme goal of any wizard be?
"I.... I don't know. Protecting the worlds?" From Xemnas. From the mess she helped him create.
Special Considerations
Your Special Something: Item of power, please.
Rank Your House Choice: Ka or Random.
Powers:
Summoning her Keyblade. (For the canon blind, I would be happy to provide a more detailed explanation, the short version being it is a giant soul bound magical key that can be used to separate heartless from the hearts they have stolen, and can unlock or lock hearts and worlds.)
Dark Portals. Members of the Organization can open dark portals that can lead from world to world or from place to place within the world. For some odd reason (Play balance and dramatic effect) this rarely works on worlds that the user is not VERY familiar with, except to arrive at that world, or to RTC (return to castle.) For the game, even after regaining it, it probably would take her a while to get the knack of going anywhere but her dorm reliably.
Kingdom Hearts magic. Xion shows herself capable with magic spells even when she cannot summon her keyblade. The list of spells can be found here, along with some other basic KH end game abilities like glide/fly (fly can only be used in certain areas) and some physical abilities, like dodge roll, which is just what it sounds like.
Items:
Her Keyblade, as mentioned above.
Sea shells that she'd left for Roxas
Journal entries
Sea Salt Ice Cream.
Anything Else: I do not as of yet know if Xion is in KHIII. Either way, she is being played from the canon point of Days which came out in 2009. I am using the KH 1.5 cinematics for canon reviews. While I have read the manga, I am not using it for a canon source.
Name: Chicklet
Contact: Here or Plurk: ChickletLARP
18+? yep
Other Character: Will be apping V from Order Of The Stick
Character
Name: Xion
Canon: Kingdom Hearts Days
Canon point: Moment of death. So she will be understandably confused.
Age: Chronologically? Less than a year old. Physically looks to be in her early teens and acts about that young or younger most of the time, but like a kid who had to grow up fast, and is trying to be an adult.
History: One Keyblade - Roxas - was not enough. So the Organization tried to artificially create another out of memories from the same heart that gave life to Roxas. So they stole memories from Sora and created Xion.
Xion's brief life was intense for its brevity. She was taught to go unseen by anyone but the Organization, and within the Organization most people could not see her properly. At least one of them saw only a blank space where her head should be. Most never saw her hood down, never heard her voice.
When many members of the Organization went on a special mission, Xion was paired with the other Keyblade Wielder, Number XIII, Roxas. In time, working with him, fighting alongside him, staying near him, he began to see her face and hear her voice. He became her first friend. When Axel arrived, Roxas decided the three of them would be friends, and Axel accepted that, and Xion. He saw her face from the start, but she is pretty sure that is because of Roxas.
The three friends started meeting regularly atop the clock tower after missions, to share sea salt ice cream and talk. These were the best moments in her life.
But overall, her life was not a happy one. Xion was constantly afraid that she would be turned into a lesser kind of Nobody, called a Dusk, if she did not collect enough hearts for Xemnas, Number I. Saïx, Number VII, who gave them their missions, was the cruelest of them all on a day to day basis.
Trying to help her, with her powers running erratically, Roxas would try to get partnered with her on missions, and when she couldn't summon her Keyblade, he often loaned her his so that she could make her quota and survive.
Saïx learned of this and split them up, but she had regained the ability to capture hearts just in time and survived a little longer.
Two major things happened in the middle of all of this - Xion and Roxas' comas, and Riku.
Xion and Roxas seemed to fall sometimes into unexplained deep sleeps from which they could not be awoken for many days. Always when one of them was in a coma, the other was stronger than usual, and was able to do the work of both Keyblades. This would eventually lead the leadership to come to the conclusion that they only needed one of them, and that whichever was weaker should be destroyed.
Riku... Riku was the other huge change in her life after befriending Roxas and Axel.
Riku was friends with a boy named Sora and a girl named Kairi. Odd Somebodies (people) that Xion had clearly never met, but kept having flashes about. Dream like memories or memory like dreams. Riku nearly destroyed her when they first met, but over time he came to realize what she was. Of course, his conclusion was that what she was... was the main obstacle keeping Sora from waking up. He kept pushing at Xion to end her own existence so that the memories trapped inside her would return to the sleeping Sora.
And she did try. More than once. But she wasn't strong enough emotionally, wasn't brave enough. Axel and Roxas were able to convince her to come back, to stay, for a time. Often they had to knock her out first. But Axel would clearly rather her alive but hurt - in as much as Nobodies could be said to be alive - than gone forever.
In the end, she spoke with the witch, Namine, and agreed to return to Sora. She fought her friends one last time each, though when she fought Roxas, Namine's magic had already begin to work. He didn't remember her. It wasn't just the memories inside her that had to go to Sora, but memories of her had to vanish as well.
She pushed Axel into weakening her. And Roxas... their last conversation, Roxas didn't see her face, he saw Sora's. She pushed Roxas into fighting her, and in the end he didn't remember who she was, or why they were fighting, but he held her as she died, and just before the moment she will arrive in game, she saw what she thought was impossible, a tear on Roxas' face. A Nobody... who could cry.
Personality:
Loyalty
Xion has only ever had two real friends, and to them she was unflinchingly loyal, even when she seemed to stand up to fight against them. In so much as she thought herself capable of liking anyone, she liked Roxas and Axel. Honestly, she LOVED Roxas and Axel, always will, but she is thoroughly convinced that she could never love or be loved, so she never thought she loved them. She did want to, though. When Riku's words cut her, asking her what was the best answer for everyone, she knew that her dying was the best answer.... in part because her being alive weakened Roxas, and because if only one of them was going to be kept alive... it had to be Roxas. Had to be.
Emotionally weak
It has to be said, and I am not going to make excuses for her. Yes, she has moments of strength, but they do not define her, and they do not last long, save for her final acts. She is easily manipulated, and easily hurt and bruised by the words of others. She has had self-loathing and an absolute lack of self worth beaten into her. I'd say she took the words about how worthless she is to heart, but well... like everyone else she swallowed the lie that she had no heart.
Even when she had the conviction that her dying was what was needed in order to save everyone... multiple times she let Axel talk her back from that, and her conviction crumbled.
Young
This does overlap the last a bit, in venn diagram style, with gullible being the connected area. She is painfully naive about some things, and has little to no idea about how the world actually works. She is very inexperienced and undereducated, but has the certainty of the young that she knows all that she needs to know about most things. When she is right, she is SURE she is right, that she knows everything, until Axel or Riku come along and fill her head with something else instead, and then she is sure that THAT is the right thing.
Fearful/timid/painfully shy
Xion is pretty much always afraid, and her single biggest fear for most of her life is that she (or her friends) will be turned into a Dusk. This fear is constantly driven into her by Saïx, who keeps reinforcing the fact that if she does not perform to expectations, she will be destroyed, that if she fails at her job, she will be destroyed. Part of her job is to never be seen. So she avoids being seen by anyone not in the Organization. And even among those thirteen people with whom she is allowed to interact, most disdain her, if they even notice her at all. This has led her to withdraw more and more inward. She was created of Sora's memories of Kairi, but despite being made of the memories of two very extroverted and cheerful people, her existence has instilled within her the association that bad things happen when strangers see her. But at the same time, like many shy people, she desperately wants friendship and acceptance.
The following are not so much bullet points as important key things I wanted to touch on that I couldn't quite place elsewhere.
Sea salt ice cream and the ocean - Among all the darkness, there are a few things that shed some light into Xion's life. Her friends, of course, sea salt ice cream, the ocean, and sea shells. Seashells will be mentioned again below, but here tie in with the ocean. It is easily theorized that Xion is drawn to the ocean because Sora grew up on Destiny's Island, and thus spent most of his formative years around the ocean. Sea Salt ice cream is a direct link to Roxas and Axel, as it is something that they came to share after missions when they had time to just sit and talk. The ocean fills her with longing, and sometimes an odd calm she rarely gets elsewhere, and ice cream at sunset is tied to friends in her. Both have become cornerstones that she turns to in rough times.
Seashells - As mentioned above, Xion is drawn to the ocean. When she starts going on missions alone, while Roxas is in his first coma, she starts collecting seashells. Every day that he is out, she leaves one on his bed beside him, for him to see when he wakes up. One one hand this can be dismissed on the meta level as a narrative tool to demonstrate both time passing, and her diligence in visiting both the clock tower and him every day in his absence, the shells actually tell more about her and their situation than that.
The setting, the place where they live, from the bedrooms to the meeting areas, they are all drab and dull, showing little to no colour, and no variation. Xion's room and Roxas' room look the same. No personalizations, no art, nothing but the same bland appearance to all rooms. The shells, like the sunset the three often watch, are an explosion of colour. It is hard to tell if this is a small act of rebellion, or if she never thought of it that way (I feel that if she had realized it could be seen as rebellion she would have been too scared to leave them where people could see them) or if it is just that she is drawn to the life and energy implied in colours that is absent from their home. When Roxas is gone in his coma, she leaves seashells to draw him home, and to give him something other than the same walls to see, something that is her, something that is there for him, even when he thinks he is alone and lost.
Always Keep In Mind: Do not use phrases like "in her heart" or words like "love" easily. be very careful in her thought posts about such things.
For all she has seen glimpses of so many worlds, there is so much about how most worlds work that she does not know, has never experienced. Some things, like summer vacations, she knows about in theory only. Others, like what a family is, she has no experience with, whatsoever.
Samples
Log Sample: Sample from the TDM. I can provide a sample from another game, if needed.
Questions: Write an IC answer to the following questions:
What do you want to study at Diatu Magicademy?
"I... I don't know," she said softly, looking down at her gloved hands. "I'm not even supposed to be here..." She wasn't supposed to "be" at all. She swallowed hard, pulling her hood so that it covered even more of her face. "I suppose... I want a way to get my powers back. Portals and... and my Keyblade...." a soft whisper. If she could do that... if she could just do that.. she could warn the others. Tell Riku and Namine that her dying hadn't led her to Sora, hadn't saved anyone. If she told them in time... maybe...
Maybe... she could save Roxas, before it was too late.
"Can... Can I relearn that? How to get home?"
If you knew you could go back to the moment you left, would you leave immediately or continue your studies for a while?
"..."
A small nod.
She was supposed to die, if dying would fix things, would buy Roxas more time before he had to return to Sora then...then yes. Besides... he didn't even remember her any more. There was nothing left for her, except to cease to exist. Her being here at all was wrong.
If your enemy was at Diatu Magicademy, how would you react?
She swallowed hard. Did they mean a heartless? Or....
Or someone else? Saïx, Xemnas.... Her eyes closed, hidden by her hood, her chin drooped. Her hand closed into a fist, but... no Keyblade came. She tried again, flexing then closing her fingers. Nothing. Once more. Nothing.
She took a deep breath, then answered honestly. "I'd be destroyed," she said, simply. And it would be pointless. If she had to cease to exist... she wanted to do it in a way that helped everyone. She didn't want to give Saïx or Xemnas the satisfaction of killing her, and dying to a random heartless...
She closed her eyes.
But she knew the truth. She couldn't defend herself, here. If they wanted to destroy her, they could. Easily. If they wanted to take her apart to try again, she would be no more.
When is it acceptable to resolve a dispute by force?
"When that is the best way." At last, an easy question.
What should the supreme goal of any wizard be?
"I.... I don't know. Protecting the worlds?" From Xemnas. From the mess she helped him create.
Special Considerations
Your Special Something: Item of power, please.
Rank Your House Choice: Ka or Random.
Powers:
Summoning her Keyblade. (For the canon blind, I would be happy to provide a more detailed explanation, the short version being it is a giant soul bound magical key that can be used to separate heartless from the hearts they have stolen, and can unlock or lock hearts and worlds.)
Dark Portals. Members of the Organization can open dark portals that can lead from world to world or from place to place within the world. For some odd reason (Play balance and dramatic effect) this rarely works on worlds that the user is not VERY familiar with, except to arrive at that world, or to RTC (return to castle.) For the game, even after regaining it, it probably would take her a while to get the knack of going anywhere but her dorm reliably.
Kingdom Hearts magic. Xion shows herself capable with magic spells even when she cannot summon her keyblade. The list of spells can be found here, along with some other basic KH end game abilities like glide/fly (fly can only be used in certain areas) and some physical abilities, like dodge roll, which is just what it sounds like.
Items:
Her Keyblade, as mentioned above.
Sea shells that she'd left for Roxas
Journal entries
Sea Salt Ice Cream.
Anything Else: I do not as of yet know if Xion is in KHIII. Either way, she is being played from the canon point of Days which came out in 2009. I am using the KH 1.5 cinematics for canon reviews. While I have read the manga, I am not using it for a canon source.