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Character: Riku
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 16 (Apping him after the final battle)
Canon: (WARNING: I try not to give too much away but there might be some spoilers for KH2)
There once was a boy who wanted to leave his tropical paradise and explore other worlds with his best friends, Sora and Kairi. The saying, "be careful what you wish for" bit him in the butt afterwards. A disaster comes and while Sora is panicking that their home is being torn apart, Riku gladly welcomes the darkness coming out. Once the three friends get separated, he's tricked into working for a group of Disney villains which eventually gets him possessed by an even nastier guy. Riku fights back, aids Sora and winds up in the realm of darkness. Not that great but he gets to hang out with Mickey Mouse. Once reunited with his friends in KH2, he's almost the same person he was before the first game's events. Except he now comes nifty powers (such as sniffing out the darkness) and emos about his past actions.
Compared to Sora, Riku's calmer, more mature and more serious. He values his friends so much that he's not afraid to take extreme measures. Occasionally his confidence goes to the point of cockiness. He's somewhat of a pessimist and is envious that Sora's more free spirited then him. Overall, Riku's a cool and collected guy. Just be careful he's not too jealous of you otherwise he just might turn spiteful and start backstabbing.
When I saw that door to light, I was hoping the light meant it was a symbol of hope…NOT swamp gases. This place reeks with darkness. Or it could be just the water, since its high noon. Wait; was that a gorilla's arm floating by? Anyway, there's been a huge mistake. I was with a friend, and now he's missing.
Has anybody seen a spiky haired kid named Sora? He's carrying a giant key. It looks like mine, but a lighter col-ASDL;KBFG-
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When I said I was looking for a friend, I didn't mean I wanted to be friendly with the tentacles. And don't pretend you didn't hear me, toucans. I know you're all squawking at me. Taping "jailbait" signs to my back while I was saving myself from violation was pretty obvious too.
Now before anything else tries to give me a surprise from behind, I wanna know if Sora's here. If not, just point me to wherever I can get myself heal-
....
Those pink dresses the gorillas are prancing around in look an awful lot like Kairi's outfit.
Character: Riku (link is fairly spoiler-heavy)
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 16. This link cites him as 15 in the first Kingdom Hearts, and a year passes between it and Kingdom Hearts 2.
Canon: One day when Riku was 15, his world got eaten by monsters called heartless, and he got separated from his best friends, Sora (whom he was insanely jealous of) and Kairi (whom he had a raging crush on). When he finally found them again, Sora had a bunch of new friends -- along with a cooler weapon than Riku -- and Kairi was, for all intents and purposes, dead. So, pretty angry and jealous at Sora, Riku made the mistake of letting an evil madman take over his body. Happens to the best of us, right? Though the best of us usually don't get dressed in skintight outfits with hula skirts attached. Luckily for him, Sora beat the sorry ass of the evil madman, but Riku ended up getting locked behind a giant door. Whoops.
Spoilers for Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 2 ahead: Riku ended up wandering through Castle Oblivion, killing a few nobodies on the way and meeting a mysterious man going by the name DiZ. DiZ struck a deal with Riku to help him find Sora if Riku would do him a few favors, including capturing the nobody named Roxas and bringing him to DiZ. With some difficulty, Riku did as he was asked, and once Sora woke up from being knocked out for a whole year, Riku started wandering around leaving hints as to where Sora needed to go. He wouldn't ever confront Sora in person, though, being as there was a little inconvenience that he now happened to look like the evil madman that Sora thought he'd defeated a year ago. Whoops again. (This Riku is taken from near the same point that Sora was: about at The Brink of Despair in The World That Never Was.)
Spoilers over! So basically, Riku is, as far as personality goes, pretty laid-back. He's mellowed out a lot since the first game, and he's much taller hotter cooler more self-assured now, and even his jealousy doesn't seem like such an issue anymore. He does have incredible moments of angst over how he's from the darkness and no one can love him and yes, we hear this story once every Squeenix game, right? He's still very fond of Sora and Kairi, though, and misses them a lot. If not for the whole darkness-angst issue he has going, he'd go back to the islands and live a peaceful life from then on out. But alas, a hot emo boy's work is never done.
So I guess the way to look at this is, it could always be worse, right? King Mickey loses track of Sora, no problem, I can find him again. When I try to warp somewhere, I end up in someplace I don't recognize, okay, sure. Yeah, it's even dark here, that's something I'm used to. And there's no worries about creepy men and tentacles of darkness yet, which is kind of a relief. (Ansem was a sadist. Trust me, you don't want to know.)
Besides that, my body seems to be back to normal, which I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. Cause on the other hand, I could be turning into a dog, or a cat, or... a girl, I guess. With everything that seems to go on around this place, it could be worse. I mean, my sword could have turned into a sex toy. It's plausible. Not something I like to think about, but plausible.
....Errrrr, maybe more plausible than not. Tossing it. I can always find something else, right?
Yeah, so it could definitely be worse. Not a whole lot. With the not knowing where I am. And the not being able to figure out a way to leave. But you know, that's minor, I'm sure that I'll survive.
Hopefully.
So the problem now is that there's this... kid, and he's tugging on my arm and he keeps saying "please, sir, I want some more." I'm not really a "sir" in the first place, but that's besides the point.
I had no idea zombies could even make puppy eyes. I mean, sure, one of said eyes is falling out, but he's still being all dewy-eyed. It's like looking at Sora. If Sora was green and wanted to eat my brains.
So not really like Sora much at all.
Right, moving on.
Speaking of Sora. He's got to be around here. Is he getting lazy? There are monsters everywhere. I thought the keyblade master was supposed to defend the peace, protect the worlds, so forth, so on, I'm getting tired of repeating it everywhere I go.
I mean, there's a huge squid in the lake, and it looks like it's a heartless, or I don't know why else it would be catching small animals and --
...I saw nothing. ...Is that a crocodile? --
...Er, let's stop there. I don't want to go into detail. But obviously the squid's not Heartless. That or the Heartless have... uh... changed motives. Maybe.
Back to prying the zombie kid off my arm.
Could be worse my ass.
Character: Riku
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 16
Canon and App are both spoiler free.
Canon: Once upon a time, Riku was an adventure seeker who wanted to escape the boring, dingy island he grew up on and see other worlds. That he planned to do this by sailing on a tiny raft, with only three fish to feed three people, shows us that Riku was never the sharpest of keyblades to begin with. Thus, no one was all that surprised when Riku let his Heart turn to Darkness, betrayed his best friend Sora, and was possessed by a crazy guy, all while wearing a feathered hula skirt. Fortunately, Riku is only an anti-hero, so he ultimately redeemed himself and spends the next two games coming to terms with his complete lack of fashion sense Darkness. This makes Riku unique in the game for not only being a keyblade bearer (which is Not As Rare As They Want You To Think) but also enables him to use both Darkness and Light and prove that the two are not mutually exclusive.
Riku is a good kid who loves his friends, but had a bout of typical teenage "you don't love me the mostest" wangst thanks to his boyfriend having ADD. Though this at one time kinda-sorta resulted in the destruction of worlds, he's now past that fun genocidal stage of puberty. Riku has grown into someone who is outwardly cocky and inwardly deeply humbled, and in the end wanted nothing more than to return to that dingy little island with his best friends.
And no, he never did aquire the ability to dress himself.
So it's a new day, a new world, with a new chance to find Sora. I can already tell this place is going to be different than the others, though. Arriving in a locked closet wouldn't've been that weird. ...it actually seems to happen a lot lately. But this is the first time the keyblade wouldn't unlock the closet door and I had to bust out. And I'd say I'm sorry about the property damage, but instead of an angry housewife all I got was fanfare and confetti. Which is little over the top, don't you think? It's wasn't exactly that hard to get out of--
...
Ooh. I get it-- hah, hah. Look, it's not my fault that's the only door out of Narnia.
Well, sorry to interrupt your endless summer camp hazing, but this won't take too long. I'm looking for a guy named Sora. You'll recognize him by distinguishing features like brown hair, blue eyes and a tendency to spend most of his time attacking things with a really. big. key. Even if you haven't seen him around, you should still check on any treasure chests you keep in hard to reach places; I guess you could blame his 'finders keepers' mentality on me.
So if you see him, let him know Riku's here to pick him up and take him home before Kairi can ream both of us a new one. And if you haven't seen him-- well, it's pretty unlikely Sora could be anywhere without stirring up enough trouble for everyone to notice.
Either way, I'll be sticking around a while, just to be sure. And if there's anything I can do in exchange for something to eat, let me know. Right now I don't have any food on me, and so far every moogle I've seen here is more interested in telling me to keep saving than selling me anything. Though if all the moogles here are such great merchants that they'd rather let you starve than take your munny, I guess I can figure out where the local zombie population is coming from.
That should cover everything. And if anyone has any info on Sora I shouldn't be too hard to find. It's a small world, after all.
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Character: Demyx.
Series: Kingdom Hearts II
Age: A teenager, but has an unspecified age.
Canon: QUICK ORGANIZATION XIII RECAP: Hear this Empty Name of Moroseness and fear, mortals! These fabulous dudes
- want nothing more than to regain their lost hearts,
- are Kingdom Hearts II's main antagonists, earning themselves their own world,
- wear snappy black jackets (even Carson calls them simply fabulous),
- control other lesser Nobodies (Gamblers, Samurai, etc!),
- and tend to have their butts kicked by a duck, dog, and small child armed with a key. You know. The usual.
Demyx is, essentially, a special member of Organization XIII. Very special. (I'm rather sure that both him and his backwards mullet opt to take the short bus and avoid the confusing rush, in fact.) Unlike the other members of Monotonous Despair Anonymous, our favorite sitar and water-wielder doesn't really have the heart badumcha! to want to fight anyone, nor take his given missions all that seriously. Our dorky, silly baby just wants to rock and roll all night! And, you know, party every day.
Demyx does have a dark, Emo Indie Group side to him, however. Even though most of KH's characters believe that Nobodies " mask their true nature by only pretending to have emotion," Demyx obviously doesn't believe this "having no heart" business to be true, and even became violently angry when Sora implied otherwise. Demyx is a real boy, damn it, and apparently treasures this belief enough to the point of bothering to get off his whiny ass and defend it.
That totally doesn't stop him from being a complete dork in most all other respects, though. I mean, the guy drops the medallion he was supposed to steal. AWESOME, DEMYX. +3 BARD POINTS.
... Why do they always send me on these kind of things? I'm no good at being sneaky, they know that... come on, capture one? Alive? But they're already dead! And gross, and loud, and... and I'm gonna be dead if I don't take one back for the Superior's experiments, but... this is, like, so --
-- Campers! Oh, geez, you scared --
I mean.
... Hey, peons, weren't you ever taught how to properly respect your superiors and their privacy? 'Cause sneaking up on someone who can drown you in an instant is a very bad idea, brats. And -- and you should be minding your own business, anyway! I didn't come all this way to get harassed more than usual! ... but I guess since you're already here and everything, you can go ahead and help a -- uh, "reconnaissancer" out. We can still be friendly, okay? All I need is some answers, and believe me, I needed them tomorrow.
I mean, yesterday. ... stop laughing.
So I need these... uh. The -- wait a sec, they wrote it down... these archetypal undead antagonists. Oh, geez. Right, I need some information about those creepy things for -- ah, stuff back in my own world, so it'd be really swell of you guys to just give up a few for me! And then I can totally be on my way, and then nobody needs to be on the wrong side of any real Nobodies, and then --
--- and then I can pop back out of here again because that's the Keyblade master over there, shoot shoot damn it shoot.
Say you didn't see me. Please? C'mon, be a sport!
Character: Demyx
Series: Kingdom Hearts II
Age: nknown, but he's one of the younger
members of Organization XIII. So maybe around
17-19ish.
Canon: Demyx is a member of
organization XIII, which does of course mean he is a
black-cloak wearing Nobody. Unlike most of the other
members, he doesn't really take anything he's sent to
do seriously until it's too late. He has a tendency to
spazz and whine and then consult his cue cards before
actually doing anything, like confronting Sora. His
weapon of choice, because really, this is
Kingdom Hearts, everyone has a weapon of
choice is a sitar, which he uses to create
water clones, crazy-fast water blasts, etc etc. Sure,
he might not consider himself a strong fighter, but
when inspiration hits, he might fuck your shit up. Or
run away, whichever.
Oh man oh man. I told them they were sending the wrong
guy! Last time, well, that didn't pan out so great. I
even had cue cards! It should've worked right? Some
days, writing notes with your lucky glittery gel pen
can't help you. And now I'm...um...
In the woods.
What an encore. If only I had a heart, then I could be
properly devasted. I don't think this organization
takes me seriously, it's not like I don't try.
I do! and I am! I am full of effort and untapped
potentional! I just need to be tapped! This is
just like that time I poofed up in a strange place
with little mechanical children singing happily about
some tiny world. The song was cute, I guess,
but too repetitive. As a musician myself I offered to
help and that's when things went...haywire, literally.
I was just trying to help, it needed
improvement in a bad way, I mean come on has anyone
heard that song?
MUSICAL CRETINS. How dare they undermine my talent and
then try and sell me overpriced King Mickey
Merchandise. I refuse to believe anyone ever having a
musical career through that place.
And now here I am. What am I'm even suppose to do
here? Maybe, hopefully, I have written out what I need
to do? Come on, where is it? ... That's
one ominous shaped shadow right there. And oh look
it's belonging to a big person-shaped thing with
oozing....You're looking quite alive...? So uh, what's
a cadaver like you doing in a forest like this? Ever
been to the underworld? It's got great digs...Oh, that
arm, well, the thing is, its mine. And it's sort of
attached still...
Aha, found the cue card~! It says "In case of an
emergency, do as Monty Python would do : RUN AWAY RUN
AWAY; or build a giant wooden animal to do trickery
in." Huh. Not any handwriting I recognize, but I'll
take what I can get. And running seems like a good
idea right now.
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Character: Larxene
Series: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (link)
Age: appears to be in her late teens
Canon: Larxene is a member of Organization XIII, that crazy group of pseudo-villainous-type people in black cloaks. More specifically, she's number twelve (which makes her the second-youngest member), "The Savage Nymph". Her element is lightning. She's one of the group sent to Castle Oblivion under the command of Marluxia with instructions to find a way to control Sora. Marluxia, however, isn't interested in handing Sora over to the Superior once he's under the Organization's control--he intends to keep him for himself. Larxene is basically Marluxia's second command in this plan. It mostly works--that is, until Axel steps in and purposely screws them over.
Larxene is a total sadist. In Castle Oblivion, she takes great pleasure in messing with Sora's mind, moreso than is strictly necessary to her job. The manga shows her reading works by the Marquis de Sade in her spare time. Most of the time, she's a very cheerful person, except when someone really pisses her off--in which case you might want to run like heck. She gets along with the other members pretty well, especially Marluxia--and Axel, until the whole betrayal thing happens.
Oh, my.
I admit, when I woke up face-down in a swamp with squirrels gnawing on my fingers, I may have been a little pissed. But I'm willing to call that an overreaction--after all, teleportation is tricky business and the damn rodents didn't even get all the way through my gloves. Because this place is great~! I need to find this Director woman--I think we'd get along fabulously.
There's got to be some way to transplant those overly-friendly vines, 'cause talk about perfect presents for Marluxia's garden. And the underwear bushes, too. I think I even saw some of his favorite style of panties on those. Maybe he'd even stop stealing mine if he had a reliable way to grow his own!
And the zombies. Jeez, are they the cutest things ever or what? There's even one wearing a set of ears just like that stupid king--it keeps following me around like a little rotting puppy. A-dor-a-ble. Can I keep it? I brought my thumbscrews and everything, so I know I can keep it... busy.
I've just got one eensy-weensy problem. See, when I was still lying in the swamp half-awake, I felt this weird tickling sensation on my head. I thought it was just more squirrels, but turns out it was the the feeling of someone taping a comatose Shadow to it. Normally I'd blame Axel, because he can't seem to shut up about my hair, but seeing as he's not--
...what? He is here? Nonononono, you misunderstand! This is my happy face. I just can't wait to see him again! Just tell him that he might want to watch out for freak lightning storms--I hear they're in the forecast for the next couple of days. ♥
This world is the best.
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Character: Kairi
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 15
Warning: Canon info contains spoilers for the first game
Canon: There once was a boy with a giant key
Who had to go face his destiny
He made some new friends
And bad guys met their ends
Thanks to Sora, Donald and Goofy.
Okay, so there’s more to it than that. The villains, for example, tend to control Heartless-creatures that are born from hearts consumed by darkness. Or they either are or control Nobodies, who come from the bodies left over from making Heartless, because smart villains recycle. In addition, Sora, Donald and Goofy spend the time they don’t use fighting evil to look for Sora’s friends and the missing King Mickey. Or was it the other way around?
Kairi is one of Sora’s best friends. She’s cheerful, strong minded, and has a good sense of humor. Kairi arrived on Destiny Island one day with no memory of her past and was adopted by the mayor. Surprisingly, Kairi doesn’t angst over this; she’s usually happy just being with her friends. Unfortunately, between being one of the seven Princesses of Heart that, together, can open a door to darkness, and a close friend of Sora, the Keyblade wielder, Kairi tends to be a popular target for kidnappings. Other than that, though, she’s a fairly normal girl.
Permission has been granted for the vague Sora reference.
Well, that was interesting. I don’t think that I’ve ever escaped from a dungeon through a magic portal before. I’m not sure this is where I was supposed to be going, though. I kind of pictured more buildings and fewer trees. A lot fewer. I hope my friends will be able to find me here…
On the bright side, the wildlife is friendly. One of the squirrels gave me a surprisingly detailed map of the area. The forest looks pretty widespread; it must be easy to get lost around here. I spent a little time trying to figure out where I was and found that big lake in the middle. It must be really pretty at night if I can make out the glow now. If I can find a boat, it’ll be almost as good as home. I wonder what those symbols on the map mean, though? It’s almost like a circle with triangles around it. Or curved trapezoids.
Of course, some of the details on the map are a little odd. Like the scale: it’s inches to tentacles. I don’t know whether to be more worried over why tentacles are used for measurement or how big this means the average tentacle is here. There’s not a conversion rate, but from what I’ve walked today, I’d guess it’s somewhere around thirty feet.
And then there’s the paperwork that the squirrel insisted on giving me. I get that this place is called Camp Fuck You Die, but I’m not sure why I have to apply to be a camper here. I think I can fake my way through the three-hundred-word essay on who I think killed the Director’s fiancé and why, but I’m not so sure I can come up with three good references on such short notice. And why do all the papers say my name is Mary Sue?
I’m beginning to think that squirrel wasn’t as friendly as I thought.
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Character: Riku
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 16 (Apping him after the final battle)
Canon: (WARNING: I try not to give too much away but there might be some spoilers for KH2)
There once was a boy who wanted to leave his tropical paradise and explore other worlds with his best friends, Sora and Kairi. The saying, "be careful what you wish for" bit him in the butt afterwards. A disaster comes and while Sora is panicking that their home is being torn apart, Riku gladly welcomes the darkness coming out. Once the three friends get separated, he's tricked into working for a group of Disney villains which eventually gets him possessed by an even nastier guy. Riku fights back, aids Sora and winds up in the realm of darkness. Not that great but he gets to hang out with Mickey Mouse. Once reunited with his friends in KH2, he's almost the same person he was before the first game's events. Except he now comes nifty powers (such as sniffing out the darkness) and emos about his past actions.
Compared to Sora, Riku's calmer, more mature and more serious. He values his friends so much that he's not afraid to take extreme measures. Occasionally his confidence goes to the point of cockiness. He's somewhat of a pessimist and is envious that Sora's more free spirited then him. Overall, Riku's a cool and collected guy. Just be careful he's not too jealous of you otherwise he just might turn spiteful and start backstabbing.
When I saw that door to light, I was hoping the light meant it was a symbol of hope…NOT swamp gases. This place reeks with darkness. Or it could be just the water, since its high noon. Wait; was that a gorilla's arm floating by? Anyway, there's been a huge mistake. I was with a friend, and now he's missing.
Has anybody seen a spiky haired kid named Sora? He's carrying a giant key. It looks like mine, but a lighter col-ASDL;KBFG-
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....
When I said I was looking for a friend, I didn't mean I wanted to be friendly with the tentacles. And don't pretend you didn't hear me, toucans. I know you're all squawking at me. Taping "jailbait" signs to my back while I was saving myself from violation was pretty obvious too.
Now before anything else tries to give me a surprise from behind, I wanna know if Sora's here. If not, just point me to wherever I can get myself heal-
....
Those pink dresses the gorillas are prancing around in look an awful lot like Kairi's outfit.
Character: Riku (link is fairly spoiler-heavy)
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 16. This link cites him as 15 in the first Kingdom Hearts, and a year passes between it and Kingdom Hearts 2.
Canon: One day when Riku was 15, his world got eaten by monsters called heartless, and he got separated from his best friends, Sora (whom he was insanely jealous of) and Kairi (whom he had a raging crush on). When he finally found them again, Sora had a bunch of new friends -- along with a cooler weapon than Riku -- and Kairi was, for all intents and purposes, dead. So, pretty angry and jealous at Sora, Riku made the mistake of letting an evil madman take over his body. Happens to the best of us, right? Though the best of us usually don't get dressed in skintight outfits with hula skirts attached. Luckily for him, Sora beat the sorry ass of the evil madman, but Riku ended up getting locked behind a giant door. Whoops.
Spoilers for Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 2 ahead: Riku ended up wandering through Castle Oblivion, killing a few nobodies on the way and meeting a mysterious man going by the name DiZ. DiZ struck a deal with Riku to help him find Sora if Riku would do him a few favors, including capturing the nobody named Roxas and bringing him to DiZ. With some difficulty, Riku did as he was asked, and once Sora woke up from being knocked out for a whole year, Riku started wandering around leaving hints as to where Sora needed to go. He wouldn't ever confront Sora in person, though, being as there was a little inconvenience that he now happened to look like the evil madman that Sora thought he'd defeated a year ago. Whoops again. (This Riku is taken from near the same point that Sora was: about at The Brink of Despair in The World That Never Was.)
Spoilers over! So basically, Riku is, as far as personality goes, pretty laid-back. He's mellowed out a lot since the first game, and he's much taller hotter cooler more self-assured now, and even his jealousy doesn't seem like such an issue anymore. He does have incredible moments of angst over how he's from the darkness and no one can love him and yes, we hear this story once every Squeenix game, right? He's still very fond of Sora and Kairi, though, and misses them a lot. If not for the whole darkness-angst issue he has going, he'd go back to the islands and live a peaceful life from then on out. But alas, a hot emo boy's work is never done.
So I guess the way to look at this is, it could always be worse, right? King Mickey loses track of Sora, no problem, I can find him again. When I try to warp somewhere, I end up in someplace I don't recognize, okay, sure. Yeah, it's even dark here, that's something I'm used to. And there's no worries about creepy men and tentacles of darkness yet, which is kind of a relief. (Ansem was a sadist. Trust me, you don't want to know.)
Besides that, my body seems to be back to normal, which I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. Cause on the other hand, I could be turning into a dog, or a cat, or... a girl, I guess. With everything that seems to go on around this place, it could be worse. I mean, my sword could have turned into a sex toy. It's plausible. Not something I like to think about, but plausible.
....Errrrr, maybe more plausible than not. Tossing it. I can always find something else, right?
Yeah, so it could definitely be worse. Not a whole lot. With the not knowing where I am. And the not being able to figure out a way to leave. But you know, that's minor, I'm sure that I'll survive.
Hopefully.
So the problem now is that there's this... kid, and he's tugging on my arm and he keeps saying "please, sir, I want some more." I'm not really a "sir" in the first place, but that's besides the point.
I had no idea zombies could even make puppy eyes. I mean, sure, one of said eyes is falling out, but he's still being all dewy-eyed. It's like looking at Sora. If Sora was green and wanted to eat my brains.
So not really like Sora much at all.
Right, moving on.
Speaking of Sora. He's got to be around here. Is he getting lazy? There are monsters everywhere. I thought the keyblade master was supposed to defend the peace, protect the worlds, so forth, so on, I'm getting tired of repeating it everywhere I go.
I mean, there's a huge squid in the lake, and it looks like it's a heartless, or I don't know why else it would be catching small animals and --
...I saw nothing. ...Is that a crocodile? --
...Er, let's stop there. I don't want to go into detail. But obviously the squid's not Heartless. That or the Heartless have... uh... changed motives. Maybe.
Back to prying the zombie kid off my arm.
Could be worse my ass.
Character: Riku
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 16
Canon and App are both spoiler free.
Canon: Once upon a time, Riku was an adventure seeker who wanted to escape the boring, dingy island he grew up on and see other worlds. That he planned to do this by sailing on a tiny raft, with only three fish to feed three people, shows us that Riku was never the sharpest of keyblades to begin with. Thus, no one was all that surprised when Riku let his Heart turn to Darkness, betrayed his best friend Sora, and was possessed by a crazy guy, all while wearing a feathered hula skirt. Fortunately, Riku is only an anti-hero, so he ultimately redeemed himself and spends the next two games coming to terms with his complete lack of fashion sense Darkness. This makes Riku unique in the game for not only being a keyblade bearer (which is Not As Rare As They Want You To Think) but also enables him to use both Darkness and Light and prove that the two are not mutually exclusive.
Riku is a good kid who loves his friends, but had a bout of typical teenage "you don't love me the mostest" wangst thanks to his boyfriend having ADD. Though this at one time kinda-sorta resulted in the destruction of worlds, he's now past that fun genocidal stage of puberty. Riku has grown into someone who is outwardly cocky and inwardly deeply humbled, and in the end wanted nothing more than to return to that dingy little island with his best friends.
And no, he never did aquire the ability to dress himself.
So it's a new day, a new world, with a new chance to find Sora. I can already tell this place is going to be different than the others, though. Arriving in a locked closet wouldn't've been that weird. ...it actually seems to happen a lot lately. But this is the first time the keyblade wouldn't unlock the closet door and I had to bust out. And I'd say I'm sorry about the property damage, but instead of an angry housewife all I got was fanfare and confetti. Which is little over the top, don't you think? It's wasn't exactly that hard to get out of--
...
Ooh. I get it-- hah, hah. Look, it's not my fault that's the only door out of Narnia.
Well, sorry to interrupt your endless summer camp hazing, but this won't take too long. I'm looking for a guy named Sora. You'll recognize him by distinguishing features like brown hair, blue eyes and a tendency to spend most of his time attacking things with a really. big. key. Even if you haven't seen him around, you should still check on any treasure chests you keep in hard to reach places; I guess you could blame his 'finders keepers' mentality on me.
So if you see him, let him know Riku's here to pick him up and take him home before Kairi can ream both of us a new one. And if you haven't seen him-- well, it's pretty unlikely Sora could be anywhere without stirring up enough trouble for everyone to notice.
Either way, I'll be sticking around a while, just to be sure. And if there's anything I can do in exchange for something to eat, let me know. Right now I don't have any food on me, and so far every moogle I've seen here is more interested in telling me to keep saving than selling me anything. Though if all the moogles here are such great merchants that they'd rather let you starve than take your munny, I guess I can figure out where the local zombie population is coming from.
That should cover everything. And if anyone has any info on Sora I shouldn't be too hard to find. It's a small world, after all.
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Character: Demyx.
Series: Kingdom Hearts II
Age: A teenager, but has an unspecified age.
Canon: QUICK ORGANIZATION XIII RECAP: Hear this Empty Name of Moroseness and fear, mortals! These fabulous dudes
- want nothing more than to regain their lost hearts,
- are Kingdom Hearts II's main antagonists, earning themselves their own world,
- wear snappy black jackets (even Carson calls them simply fabulous),
- control other lesser Nobodies (Gamblers, Samurai, etc!),
- and tend to have their butts kicked by a duck, dog, and small child armed with a key. You know. The usual.
Demyx is, essentially, a special member of Organization XIII. Very special. (I'm rather sure that both him and his backwards mullet opt to take the short bus and avoid the confusing rush, in fact.) Unlike the other members of Monotonous Despair Anonymous, our favorite sitar and water-wielder doesn't really have the heart badumcha! to want to fight anyone, nor take his given missions all that seriously. Our dorky, silly baby just wants to rock and roll all night! And, you know, party every day.
Demyx does have a dark, Emo Indie Group side to him, however. Even though most of KH's characters believe that Nobodies " mask their true nature by only pretending to have emotion," Demyx obviously doesn't believe this "having no heart" business to be true, and even became violently angry when Sora implied otherwise. Demyx is a real boy, damn it, and apparently treasures this belief enough to the point of bothering to get off his whiny ass and defend it.
That totally doesn't stop him from being a complete dork in most all other respects, though. I mean, the guy drops the medallion he was supposed to steal. AWESOME, DEMYX. +3 BARD POINTS.
... Why do they always send me on these kind of things? I'm no good at being sneaky, they know that... come on, capture one? Alive? But they're already dead! And gross, and loud, and... and I'm gonna be dead if I don't take one back for the Superior's experiments, but... this is, like, so --
-- Campers! Oh, geez, you scared --
I mean.
... Hey, peons, weren't you ever taught how to properly respect your superiors and their privacy? 'Cause sneaking up on someone who can drown you in an instant is a very bad idea, brats. And -- and you should be minding your own business, anyway! I didn't come all this way to get harassed more than usual! ... but I guess since you're already here and everything, you can go ahead and help a -- uh, "reconnaissancer" out. We can still be friendly, okay? All I need is some answers, and believe me, I needed them tomorrow.
I mean, yesterday. ... stop laughing.
So I need these... uh. The -- wait a sec, they wrote it down... these archetypal undead antagonists. Oh, geez. Right, I need some information about those creepy things for -- ah, stuff back in my own world, so it'd be really swell of you guys to just give up a few for me! And then I can totally be on my way, and then nobody needs to be on the wrong side of any real Nobodies, and then --
--- and then I can pop back out of here again because that's the Keyblade master over there, shoot shoot damn it shoot.
Say you didn't see me. Please? C'mon, be a sport!
Character: Demyx
Series: Kingdom Hearts II
Age: nknown, but he's one of the younger
members of Organization XIII. So maybe around
17-19ish.
Canon: Demyx is a member of
organization XIII, which does of course mean he is a
black-cloak wearing Nobody. Unlike most of the other
members, he doesn't really take anything he's sent to
do seriously until it's too late. He has a tendency to
spazz and whine and then consult his cue cards before
actually doing anything, like confronting Sora. His
weapon of choice, because really, this is
Kingdom Hearts, everyone has a weapon of
choice is a sitar, which he uses to create
water clones, crazy-fast water blasts, etc etc. Sure,
he might not consider himself a strong fighter, but
when inspiration hits, he might fuck your shit up. Or
run away, whichever.
Oh man oh man. I told them they were sending the wrong
guy! Last time, well, that didn't pan out so great. I
even had cue cards! It should've worked right? Some
days, writing notes with your lucky glittery gel pen
can't help you. And now I'm...um...
In the woods.
What an encore. If only I had a heart, then I could be
properly devasted. I don't think this organization
takes me seriously, it's not like I don't try.
I do! and I am! I am full of effort and untapped
potentional! I just need to be tapped! This is
just like that time I poofed up in a strange place
with little mechanical children singing happily about
some tiny world. The song was cute, I guess,
but too repetitive. As a musician myself I offered to
help and that's when things went...haywire, literally.
I was just trying to help, it needed
improvement in a bad way, I mean come on has anyone
heard that song?
MUSICAL CRETINS. How dare they undermine my talent and
then try and sell me overpriced King Mickey
Merchandise. I refuse to believe anyone ever having a
musical career through that place.
And now here I am. What am I'm even suppose to do
here? Maybe, hopefully, I have written out what I need
to do? Come on, where is it? ... That's
one ominous shaped shadow right there. And oh look
it's belonging to a big person-shaped thing with
oozing....You're looking quite alive...? So uh, what's
a cadaver like you doing in a forest like this? Ever
been to the underworld? It's got great digs...Oh, that
arm, well, the thing is, its mine. And it's sort of
attached still...
Aha, found the cue card~! It says "In case of an
emergency, do as Monty Python would do : RUN AWAY RUN
AWAY; or build a giant wooden animal to do trickery
in." Huh. Not any handwriting I recognize, but I'll
take what I can get. And running seems like a good
idea right now.
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Character: Larxene
Series: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (link)
Age: appears to be in her late teens
Canon: Larxene is a member of Organization XIII, that crazy group of pseudo-villainous-type people in black cloaks. More specifically, she's number twelve (which makes her the second-youngest member), "The Savage Nymph". Her element is lightning. She's one of the group sent to Castle Oblivion under the command of Marluxia with instructions to find a way to control Sora. Marluxia, however, isn't interested in handing Sora over to the Superior once he's under the Organization's control--he intends to keep him for himself. Larxene is basically Marluxia's second command in this plan. It mostly works--that is, until Axel steps in and purposely screws them over.
Larxene is a total sadist. In Castle Oblivion, she takes great pleasure in messing with Sora's mind, moreso than is strictly necessary to her job. The manga shows her reading works by the Marquis de Sade in her spare time. Most of the time, she's a very cheerful person, except when someone really pisses her off--in which case you might want to run like heck. She gets along with the other members pretty well, especially Marluxia--and Axel, until the whole betrayal thing happens.
Oh, my.
I admit, when I woke up face-down in a swamp with squirrels gnawing on my fingers, I may have been a little pissed. But I'm willing to call that an overreaction--after all, teleportation is tricky business and the damn rodents didn't even get all the way through my gloves. Because this place is great~! I need to find this Director woman--I think we'd get along fabulously.
There's got to be some way to transplant those overly-friendly vines, 'cause talk about perfect presents for Marluxia's garden. And the underwear bushes, too. I think I even saw some of his favorite style of panties on those. Maybe he'd even stop stealing mine if he had a reliable way to grow his own!
And the zombies. Jeez, are they the cutest things ever or what? There's even one wearing a set of ears just like that stupid king--it keeps following me around like a little rotting puppy. A-dor-a-ble. Can I keep it? I brought my thumbscrews and everything, so I know I can keep it... busy.
I've just got one eensy-weensy problem. See, when I was still lying in the swamp half-awake, I felt this weird tickling sensation on my head. I thought it was just more squirrels, but turns out it was the the feeling of someone taping a comatose Shadow to it. Normally I'd blame Axel, because he can't seem to shut up about my hair, but seeing as he's not--
...what? He is here? Nonononono, you misunderstand! This is my happy face. I just can't wait to see him again! Just tell him that he might want to watch out for freak lightning storms--I hear they're in the forecast for the next couple of days. ♥
This world is the best.
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Character: Kairi
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 15
Warning: Canon info contains spoilers for the first game
Canon: There once was a boy with a giant key
Who had to go face his destiny
He made some new friends
And bad guys met their ends
Thanks to Sora, Donald and Goofy.
Okay, so there’s more to it than that. The villains, for example, tend to control Heartless-creatures that are born from hearts consumed by darkness. Or they either are or control Nobodies, who come from the bodies left over from making Heartless, because smart villains recycle. In addition, Sora, Donald and Goofy spend the time they don’t use fighting evil to look for Sora’s friends and the missing King Mickey. Or was it the other way around?
Kairi is one of Sora’s best friends. She’s cheerful, strong minded, and has a good sense of humor. Kairi arrived on Destiny Island one day with no memory of her past and was adopted by the mayor. Surprisingly, Kairi doesn’t angst over this; she’s usually happy just being with her friends. Unfortunately, between being one of the seven Princesses of Heart that, together, can open a door to darkness, and a close friend of Sora, the Keyblade wielder, Kairi tends to be a popular target for kidnappings. Other than that, though, she’s a fairly normal girl.
Permission has been granted for the vague Sora reference.
Well, that was interesting. I don’t think that I’ve ever escaped from a dungeon through a magic portal before. I’m not sure this is where I was supposed to be going, though. I kind of pictured more buildings and fewer trees. A lot fewer. I hope my friends will be able to find me here…
On the bright side, the wildlife is friendly. One of the squirrels gave me a surprisingly detailed map of the area. The forest looks pretty widespread; it must be easy to get lost around here. I spent a little time trying to figure out where I was and found that big lake in the middle. It must be really pretty at night if I can make out the glow now. If I can find a boat, it’ll be almost as good as home. I wonder what those symbols on the map mean, though? It’s almost like a circle with triangles around it. Or curved trapezoids.
Of course, some of the details on the map are a little odd. Like the scale: it’s inches to tentacles. I don’t know whether to be more worried over why tentacles are used for measurement or how big this means the average tentacle is here. There’s not a conversion rate, but from what I’ve walked today, I’d guess it’s somewhere around thirty feet.
And then there’s the paperwork that the squirrel insisted on giving me. I get that this place is called Camp Fuck You Die, but I’m not sure why I have to apply to be a camper here. I think I can fake my way through the three-hundred-word essay on who I think killed the Director’s fiancé and why, but I’m not so sure I can come up with three good references on such short notice. And why do all the papers say my name is Mary Sue?
I’m beginning to think that squirrel wasn’t as friendly as I thought.
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