naminé app for a_facility
OOC Information:
Name: Rayne
Age: 20
AIM: ladyphantomhive
MSN: N/A
Y!M: N/A
E-MAIL: raynehargreaves@gmail.com
IC Information:
Name: Naminé
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Timeline: Post Kingdom Hearts 2
Age: Appears to be 15
Appearance: PHYSICAL || Physically, Naminé is a very simple looking girl, small and petite girl for someone her 'age' and strikingingly pretty and pale. With blonde hair that elegantly sweeps over her right shoulder, long, slender limbs, and baby blue eyes, she almost looks like a china doll, something too delicate to move.
OUTFIT || Her outfit doesn't do much to help the almost ghost-like china doll look. She is never seen in anything else but her pure white dress-- sleeveless and plain except for the scalloping of the hem that stops mid-thigh. She wears nothing else of note besides her pale blue sandals.
Abilities: Naminé's abilities of memory manipulation stem from her strange origins, and are very specific, limited to only a certain group of people. Only Sora or people who have been in contact with him can be affected by her memory manipulation (considering how many people Sora has met on his journeys, though, this amount of people can be more widespread and vast in numbers than one would think). Her powers allow her to create, destroy, and modify any memory of this group of people-- to what extent that she can completely do so, however, depends on how close to Sora that person is, and vice versa. She also seems to be capable of creating Corridors of Darkness.
Personality: Before, Naminé was a meek, timid, and almost pitiful thing. Being bullied by Marluxia, Larxene, and the others at Castle Oblivion no doubt suppressed whatever self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth she likely inherited from the strange occurrence of her creation. Shut away from the rest of the Nobodies and of humanity, she became lonely and was manipulated or felt pressured to obey the other Nobodies' bidding-- it wasn't until Sora came and forgave her for the things she did that she started forgiving herself a little, and started to work towards fixing her mistakes. A year after Castle Oblivion was brought down by Sora's Keyblade, Naminé took measures to ensure that he would win in the fight against Xemnas, aiding Roxas, supporting Riku, and freeing her other self Kairi from imprisonment in order to provide Sora with the backup he needed for the battle.
In the year leading up to these events, the changes in her personality were subtle, yet significant. Her reserved nature caused by the abuse in Castle Oblivion will never truly leave her, but being subjected to loneliness and pain allowed her to feel the same things in others, and now she has an uncanny knack for knowing when others are in emotional turmoil. While her words aren't always the comforting that others are looking for, they often carry a sense of truth to them. Being able to sense these feelings in others has given her a stronger reason and desire to speak, and so instead of being a recluse like before, she is instead more soft-spoken-- demure, gentle, but honest (almost blunt, sometimes). Naminé is more assured of herself, more willing to allow herself to live and feel, whether it is happiness or pain. By the time she is whisked to the Facility, she is starting to learn how to stand up for herself, and work to protect others' futures as well as try to find her own.
After she joined with Kairi again, Naminé had come to terms with her role, and herself. She realized that she wasn't quite a Nobody, and she wasn't quite a Somebody-- but rather, some sort of being in between that can understand both the light and the darkness of people's hearts. She understood her role as a guide to the others: calm, kind, and encouraging even as her personality receeded into Kairi, and it is this personality that surfaces when she emerges again.
History: In the world of Kingdom Hearts, the concept of Somebodies as "real" people lies in the possession of the trinity of heart, body, and soul, together joined as one complete person. A Nobody, on the other hand, is a being that born from a person that possesses a body and soul, but lacks a heart. Naminé's birth as a Nobody, as unorthodox as Nobodies are in and of themselves, was even stranger than that, since she was born from two people instead of one.
The story begins with Sora's journey with his friends Donald and Goofy to find out what happened to his home the Destiny Islands after it had been engulfed by darkness. In an effort to find his best friend and rival Riku, Kairi, their mutal friend, got caught in the cross-fire. She lost her pure heart, and with its disappearance, she grew close to the verge of non-exsistence. Unbeknownst to him, it had hidden itself in Sora's heart; when confronted with the choice to lose his own humanity or save Kairi by returning her heart to her, Sora bravely relinquished his humanity to return it to her. Naminé was created in this moment, born from Sora's body and soul, which allowed her control over his memories and the memories of all those he was connected to; since she was also born from Kairi's heart, it gave her an uncanny likeness to her.
Naminé wasn't there to meet the two people she'd been born from; she didn't get to see Sora's bittersweet denouement of rescuing Kairi, but losing Riku. Instead, she somehow landed in the Castle Oblivion, where Organization 13, a group of exceptionally powerful Nobodies, had made their headquarters. Roxas, Sora's Nobody that had been born in the same instant as her, was also there. They made her their captive, and after luring Sora, Donald, and Goofy to the Castle in the middle of their new journey to find Riku, they forced her to manipulate Sora's memories so he would play right into the palms of their hands. Soon Sora was climbing the floors of Castle Oblivion in the belief that the precious person he needed to save at the top was Naminé, not Kairi. Naminé, having been lonely when she came to be in the world, allowed her desire to meet with Sora overrule her guilt for replacing Kairi in his memories, and does as Marluxia of the Organization 13 bid her when he asks her to implant fake memories into a replica Riku.
Naminé's conscience soon forced her to realize what her complacency and memory manipulation have done to Sora, and she ended up hinting to him that her true identity is not what he believes it to be. Before he could question her, replica Riku appeared to challenge Sora, still under the influence of his implanted memories and believing that he was the one meant to protect Naminé. Sora ultimately won the fight, and she was able to confess to him all that she's done. She wasn't expecting forgiveness, but Sora gives it to her, though he was determined to reverse what she had done.
Now equally determined to help him and undo the damage she'd done, Naminé informed him that she was able to help him recover his lost memories, but only after he defeated Marluxia, who controlled Castle Oblivion and was a threat to their recovery. After Sora left her with the unconscious Riku replica to search for Marluxia, she was captured by the man himself, and used as a hostage when Sora finally did arrive to defeat him. Marluxia tried to force Naminé to completely shatter Sora's memories, but she was unwilling to do so after the kindness that Sora had shown her. Despite death threats, she resolutely refused-- just as Marluxia was about to kill her in front of Sora, the recovered Riku replica arrived and guarded her as Sora, Donald, and Goofy headed into the final fight against Marluxia.
With Marluxia's defeat, Naminé was able to set up the process by which Sora would regain his memories. By sealing him and Donald and Goofy within crystal pods in stasis, she would slowly be able to undo the false chains of memories and recreate their true ones. The two bid each other farewell as Sora falls asleep, promising to meet again in the future.
Shortly after this, the real Riku appeared within the Castle, having wandered in the Realm of Darkness before finding his way to Castle Oblivion there. Naminé helped him confront and accept the darkness that was growing within him, encouraging him by taking on Kairi's likeness. Later, the two met in front of Sora's crystal pod. Naminé offered to seal him as she had done with Sora, so that she could do away with his darkness. Riku instead decided to face it head on. The mysterious DiZ, who seems to be working in Sora's interests, has the two of them move Sora, Donald, and Goofy to Twilight Town, as the Castle was not safe with still half of the Organization members still at large.
Some time passes, and Naminé realized that her work to try and recover Sora's memories was being slowed because some of his memories had been "leaked" and allowed to gain sentience in a form called Xion. Xion was made possible by the Organization's Superior, Xemnas, who was using her as a failsafe in case Roxas and Sora both ended up becoming useless to him in his quest to access Kingdom Hearts, the accumulation of all lost hearts. Naminé was the one to explain Xion's true nature as being an imperfect replica of Roxas, and was in part one of the people to convince her to merge back with Sora so he could regain all of his memories again. In a emotional confrontation, Roxas ends up being the one to absorb Xion, and it is this that leads to his leaving the Organization.
Now that Roxas encompassed half of the memories that Sora needed to recover, DiZ had Riku capture Roxas and bring him to a digitalized Twilight Town, where Roxas unknowingly stayed for some time, made to believe he'd been there his whole life. In truth, keeping him there was to speed along Sora's memory recovery, and to keep him complacent until he, too, would be absorbed back to his original self. Naminé, finding a sense of kinship in this confined Roxas, attempted to tell him of his true nature in the last few days of his existence as his own self. Deterred by DiZ and Riku on several attempts, she managed to finally tell him of his true nature, promising that even if he joined back with Sora, he would still be his own self, and that they would meet again. Roxas is then quietly absorbed, and Naminé's job is completed, with some bittersweetness.
DiZ, finding no use for Naminé now that Sora was back to normal, told Riku to dispose of her. Riku instead leaves her in the care of Axel, Roxas' best friend back when they were both in the Organization. She laid low for most of Sora's awakening, journey, and efforts to take down the Organization once and for all. When Kairi was taken to the World that Never Was stronghold, though, she used her powers to break her out, taking her to where Sora and Riku were. She disappeared for the duration of the boys' fight with Xemnas, reappearing after his (first) defeat to say a final farewell to everyone before she joined back with Kairi. She was also able to speak to Roxas again, and the two agreed that though they wouldn't be independent any longer, they had gotten to meet their original selves, and they had the satisfaction in knowing that not all Nobodies succumb to the darkness.
With the Nobodies joined back with their Somebodies, Sora and Riku proceeded to take down Xemnas' last attempt at destroying them. Then Sora, Riku, and Kairi are finally reunited at their home of Destiny Islands-- Naminé and Roxas are last seen smiling at each other through Kairi and Sora's selves.
For her entry into the Facility, Naminé will be taken from the Birth by Sleep ending Blank Points (not the Naminé who is in the White Room of the old Twilight Town mansion, but the Naminé that is residing within Kairi, who sees Sora off as he realizes that he needs to go help those who need him to save them).
Roleplay Sample - Log: A long time ago-- or rather, what seemed to be a long time ago-- she thought that distance between two people could not be bridged by feelings. When she was at her weakest back in Castle Oblivion, still just a newborn being, she hadn't know better. Lacking a heart, she'd only thought with her body and her soul; the desire for a physical closeness was the only thing that she'd wished for. And in thinking that, she'd quashed her conscience, obediently following Maruluxia's orders just for a chance to be able to stand next to Sora and be in his presence. To have a chance at being recognized by him.
She knew differently now. Naminé smiled a little to herself at this realization, now just a whisper of a ghost within her Somebody Kairi. The redhead girl was sitting on the trio's usual palm tree, waiting for the two boys' return, Naminé and the setting sun silently keeping her company.
Yes, she knew differently, and it was humbling to realize that change within herself. It was because she'd lacked her heart that she hadn't known back then. She knew now that feelings were bridges to all different friends of all different worlds, and that a special bond with a precious person could be stronger and more profound than any words or physicality could provide.
Though...bonds could only go so far without being able to be by your precious person's side. The girl stirred a little in this realization in the same instant that she felt a pang of loneliness from her Somebody. Naminé felt it resonate within her, echoing until it slipped away-- whether it had left by means of Kairi's optimistic nature or refusal to be sad, she wasn't sure.
Wasn't it being by someone's side that allowed those bonds to be created to begin with? And to continue, to flourish, and to deepen? Kairi couldn't wait forever.
...Sora, she thought, please come back safely, and soon.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[A soft inhale...and an exhale. There is silence for a moment, and then a sharp gasp.]
--Kairi?
[She was in her own body. Naminé stares down at herself in shock, trying to get used to feeling sensations for herself again. Even breathing was strange for her right now. She slowly flexes a hand, and after a long moment she turns concerned, blinking blue eyes around. If she had her own body again, then where was her Somebody?]
Kairi...where are you? ...Sora? Riku? ...Roxas?
[And even more softly than that, she asks herself:]
...where am I, for that matter?
[Normally white has a calming affect on her, but these white walls made her uneasy. She needs to get out. So she experimentally holds her hand out before her, testing her powers. A swirling black vortex of darkness appears on the wall, eliciting a small smile from her.]
Good, I still have that.
[And then she slips through the portal. It disappears with a soft warping sound once she's gone.]
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. The Blank Points ending is sort of vague, so if you guys would rather that I take her from the regular KH2 ending, I would be fine with that :3
Name: Rayne
Age: 20
AIM: ladyphantomhive
MSN: N/A
Y!M: N/A
E-MAIL: raynehargreaves@gmail.com
IC Information:
Name: Naminé
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Timeline: Post Kingdom Hearts 2
Age: Appears to be 15
Appearance: PHYSICAL || Physically, Naminé is a very simple looking girl, small and petite girl for someone her 'age' and strikingingly pretty and pale. With blonde hair that elegantly sweeps over her right shoulder, long, slender limbs, and baby blue eyes, she almost looks like a china doll, something too delicate to move.
OUTFIT || Her outfit doesn't do much to help the almost ghost-like china doll look. She is never seen in anything else but her pure white dress-- sleeveless and plain except for the scalloping of the hem that stops mid-thigh. She wears nothing else of note besides her pale blue sandals.
Abilities: Naminé's abilities of memory manipulation stem from her strange origins, and are very specific, limited to only a certain group of people. Only Sora or people who have been in contact with him can be affected by her memory manipulation (considering how many people Sora has met on his journeys, though, this amount of people can be more widespread and vast in numbers than one would think). Her powers allow her to create, destroy, and modify any memory of this group of people-- to what extent that she can completely do so, however, depends on how close to Sora that person is, and vice versa. She also seems to be capable of creating Corridors of Darkness.
Personality: Before, Naminé was a meek, timid, and almost pitiful thing. Being bullied by Marluxia, Larxene, and the others at Castle Oblivion no doubt suppressed whatever self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth she likely inherited from the strange occurrence of her creation. Shut away from the rest of the Nobodies and of humanity, she became lonely and was manipulated or felt pressured to obey the other Nobodies' bidding-- it wasn't until Sora came and forgave her for the things she did that she started forgiving herself a little, and started to work towards fixing her mistakes. A year after Castle Oblivion was brought down by Sora's Keyblade, Naminé took measures to ensure that he would win in the fight against Xemnas, aiding Roxas, supporting Riku, and freeing her other self Kairi from imprisonment in order to provide Sora with the backup he needed for the battle.
In the year leading up to these events, the changes in her personality were subtle, yet significant. Her reserved nature caused by the abuse in Castle Oblivion will never truly leave her, but being subjected to loneliness and pain allowed her to feel the same things in others, and now she has an uncanny knack for knowing when others are in emotional turmoil. While her words aren't always the comforting that others are looking for, they often carry a sense of truth to them. Being able to sense these feelings in others has given her a stronger reason and desire to speak, and so instead of being a recluse like before, she is instead more soft-spoken-- demure, gentle, but honest (almost blunt, sometimes). Naminé is more assured of herself, more willing to allow herself to live and feel, whether it is happiness or pain. By the time she is whisked to the Facility, she is starting to learn how to stand up for herself, and work to protect others' futures as well as try to find her own.
After she joined with Kairi again, Naminé had come to terms with her role, and herself. She realized that she wasn't quite a Nobody, and she wasn't quite a Somebody-- but rather, some sort of being in between that can understand both the light and the darkness of people's hearts. She understood her role as a guide to the others: calm, kind, and encouraging even as her personality receeded into Kairi, and it is this personality that surfaces when she emerges again.
History: In the world of Kingdom Hearts, the concept of Somebodies as "real" people lies in the possession of the trinity of heart, body, and soul, together joined as one complete person. A Nobody, on the other hand, is a being that born from a person that possesses a body and soul, but lacks a heart. Naminé's birth as a Nobody, as unorthodox as Nobodies are in and of themselves, was even stranger than that, since she was born from two people instead of one.
The story begins with Sora's journey with his friends Donald and Goofy to find out what happened to his home the Destiny Islands after it had been engulfed by darkness. In an effort to find his best friend and rival Riku, Kairi, their mutal friend, got caught in the cross-fire. She lost her pure heart, and with its disappearance, she grew close to the verge of non-exsistence. Unbeknownst to him, it had hidden itself in Sora's heart; when confronted with the choice to lose his own humanity or save Kairi by returning her heart to her, Sora bravely relinquished his humanity to return it to her. Naminé was created in this moment, born from Sora's body and soul, which allowed her control over his memories and the memories of all those he was connected to; since she was also born from Kairi's heart, it gave her an uncanny likeness to her.
Naminé wasn't there to meet the two people she'd been born from; she didn't get to see Sora's bittersweet denouement of rescuing Kairi, but losing Riku. Instead, she somehow landed in the Castle Oblivion, where Organization 13, a group of exceptionally powerful Nobodies, had made their headquarters. Roxas, Sora's Nobody that had been born in the same instant as her, was also there. They made her their captive, and after luring Sora, Donald, and Goofy to the Castle in the middle of their new journey to find Riku, they forced her to manipulate Sora's memories so he would play right into the palms of their hands. Soon Sora was climbing the floors of Castle Oblivion in the belief that the precious person he needed to save at the top was Naminé, not Kairi. Naminé, having been lonely when she came to be in the world, allowed her desire to meet with Sora overrule her guilt for replacing Kairi in his memories, and does as Marluxia of the Organization 13 bid her when he asks her to implant fake memories into a replica Riku.
Naminé's conscience soon forced her to realize what her complacency and memory manipulation have done to Sora, and she ended up hinting to him that her true identity is not what he believes it to be. Before he could question her, replica Riku appeared to challenge Sora, still under the influence of his implanted memories and believing that he was the one meant to protect Naminé. Sora ultimately won the fight, and she was able to confess to him all that she's done. She wasn't expecting forgiveness, but Sora gives it to her, though he was determined to reverse what she had done.
Now equally determined to help him and undo the damage she'd done, Naminé informed him that she was able to help him recover his lost memories, but only after he defeated Marluxia, who controlled Castle Oblivion and was a threat to their recovery. After Sora left her with the unconscious Riku replica to search for Marluxia, she was captured by the man himself, and used as a hostage when Sora finally did arrive to defeat him. Marluxia tried to force Naminé to completely shatter Sora's memories, but she was unwilling to do so after the kindness that Sora had shown her. Despite death threats, she resolutely refused-- just as Marluxia was about to kill her in front of Sora, the recovered Riku replica arrived and guarded her as Sora, Donald, and Goofy headed into the final fight against Marluxia.
With Marluxia's defeat, Naminé was able to set up the process by which Sora would regain his memories. By sealing him and Donald and Goofy within crystal pods in stasis, she would slowly be able to undo the false chains of memories and recreate their true ones. The two bid each other farewell as Sora falls asleep, promising to meet again in the future.
Shortly after this, the real Riku appeared within the Castle, having wandered in the Realm of Darkness before finding his way to Castle Oblivion there. Naminé helped him confront and accept the darkness that was growing within him, encouraging him by taking on Kairi's likeness. Later, the two met in front of Sora's crystal pod. Naminé offered to seal him as she had done with Sora, so that she could do away with his darkness. Riku instead decided to face it head on. The mysterious DiZ, who seems to be working in Sora's interests, has the two of them move Sora, Donald, and Goofy to Twilight Town, as the Castle was not safe with still half of the Organization members still at large.
Some time passes, and Naminé realized that her work to try and recover Sora's memories was being slowed because some of his memories had been "leaked" and allowed to gain sentience in a form called Xion. Xion was made possible by the Organization's Superior, Xemnas, who was using her as a failsafe in case Roxas and Sora both ended up becoming useless to him in his quest to access Kingdom Hearts, the accumulation of all lost hearts. Naminé was the one to explain Xion's true nature as being an imperfect replica of Roxas, and was in part one of the people to convince her to merge back with Sora so he could regain all of his memories again. In a emotional confrontation, Roxas ends up being the one to absorb Xion, and it is this that leads to his leaving the Organization.
Now that Roxas encompassed half of the memories that Sora needed to recover, DiZ had Riku capture Roxas and bring him to a digitalized Twilight Town, where Roxas unknowingly stayed for some time, made to believe he'd been there his whole life. In truth, keeping him there was to speed along Sora's memory recovery, and to keep him complacent until he, too, would be absorbed back to his original self. Naminé, finding a sense of kinship in this confined Roxas, attempted to tell him of his true nature in the last few days of his existence as his own self. Deterred by DiZ and Riku on several attempts, she managed to finally tell him of his true nature, promising that even if he joined back with Sora, he would still be his own self, and that they would meet again. Roxas is then quietly absorbed, and Naminé's job is completed, with some bittersweetness.
DiZ, finding no use for Naminé now that Sora was back to normal, told Riku to dispose of her. Riku instead leaves her in the care of Axel, Roxas' best friend back when they were both in the Organization. She laid low for most of Sora's awakening, journey, and efforts to take down the Organization once and for all. When Kairi was taken to the World that Never Was stronghold, though, she used her powers to break her out, taking her to where Sora and Riku were. She disappeared for the duration of the boys' fight with Xemnas, reappearing after his (first) defeat to say a final farewell to everyone before she joined back with Kairi. She was also able to speak to Roxas again, and the two agreed that though they wouldn't be independent any longer, they had gotten to meet their original selves, and they had the satisfaction in knowing that not all Nobodies succumb to the darkness.
With the Nobodies joined back with their Somebodies, Sora and Riku proceeded to take down Xemnas' last attempt at destroying them. Then Sora, Riku, and Kairi are finally reunited at their home of Destiny Islands-- Naminé and Roxas are last seen smiling at each other through Kairi and Sora's selves.
For her entry into the Facility, Naminé will be taken from the Birth by Sleep ending Blank Points (not the Naminé who is in the White Room of the old Twilight Town mansion, but the Naminé that is residing within Kairi, who sees Sora off as he realizes that he needs to go help those who need him to save them).
Roleplay Sample - Log: A long time ago-- or rather, what seemed to be a long time ago-- she thought that distance between two people could not be bridged by feelings. When she was at her weakest back in Castle Oblivion, still just a newborn being, she hadn't know better. Lacking a heart, she'd only thought with her body and her soul; the desire for a physical closeness was the only thing that she'd wished for. And in thinking that, she'd quashed her conscience, obediently following Maruluxia's orders just for a chance to be able to stand next to Sora and be in his presence. To have a chance at being recognized by him.
She knew differently now. Naminé smiled a little to herself at this realization, now just a whisper of a ghost within her Somebody Kairi. The redhead girl was sitting on the trio's usual palm tree, waiting for the two boys' return, Naminé and the setting sun silently keeping her company.
Yes, she knew differently, and it was humbling to realize that change within herself. It was because she'd lacked her heart that she hadn't known back then. She knew now that feelings were bridges to all different friends of all different worlds, and that a special bond with a precious person could be stronger and more profound than any words or physicality could provide.
Though...bonds could only go so far without being able to be by your precious person's side. The girl stirred a little in this realization in the same instant that she felt a pang of loneliness from her Somebody. Naminé felt it resonate within her, echoing until it slipped away-- whether it had left by means of Kairi's optimistic nature or refusal to be sad, she wasn't sure.
Wasn't it being by someone's side that allowed those bonds to be created to begin with? And to continue, to flourish, and to deepen? Kairi couldn't wait forever.
...Sora, she thought, please come back safely, and soon.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[A soft inhale...and an exhale. There is silence for a moment, and then a sharp gasp.]
--Kairi?
[She was in her own body. Naminé stares down at herself in shock, trying to get used to feeling sensations for herself again. Even breathing was strange for her right now. She slowly flexes a hand, and after a long moment she turns concerned, blinking blue eyes around. If she had her own body again, then where was her Somebody?]
Kairi...where are you? ...Sora? Riku? ...Roxas?
[And even more softly than that, she asks herself:]
...where am I, for that matter?
[Normally white has a calming affect on her, but these white walls made her uneasy. She needs to get out. So she experimentally holds her hand out before her, testing her powers. A swirling black vortex of darkness appears on the wall, eliciting a small smile from her.]
Good, I still have that.
[And then she slips through the portal. It disappears with a soft warping sound once she's gone.]
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. The Blank Points ending is sort of vague, so if you guys would rather that I take her from the regular KH2 ending, I would be fine with that :3