Character Information
General
Canon Source: Kingdom Hearts
Canon Format: Video game
Character's Name: Naminé
Character's Age: 15 physically, but she's only been alive for roughly a year and half
What form will your character's NV take? A basic tablet computer about the same dimensions as a first generation iPad. The rim around the screen is still black, but the back is a simplistic silver colour with a faint checkerboard decal and a dark silver
Nobody mark where the Apple decal would be.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: The major ability that Namine possesses is her strange and foreign power. Unlike most Nobodies of her world, she wields no weapon or elemental power, but rather a unique type of magic created from the circumstances of her birth. She has the ability to change and manipulate the memories of Sora and those his heart is connected to in any way that she pleases (even though she cannot get rid of some memories altogether like in the case of Sora’s memories of Kairi. Instead they just lie dormant). This is caused by the time Kairi's heart spent being in such close contact to Sora's when their world was swallowed by darkness. There is still not a lot known about this power, as Naminé herself admitted when she first met Roxas, but it seems to have the potential to be a wide range effect, as many people on different worlds forgot about Sora during the time he was in stasis while Naminé worked on his memories. Whether an effect like that is intentional or not is not known.
However, she does share the ability to summon Corridors of Darkness like other Nobodies and use them as a form of transportation between worlds. These are normally summoned by a raise of the hand and appear in a dark cloud of swirling darkness. Normally, this would be exceedingly dangerous for people to use as a form of transportation as close contact to the darkness can erode and damage their heart. However, some people such as Kairi, who has a heart of pure light, and Riku, who has a strong darkness in his, can withstand the Corridors and come out of it perfectly unharmed. Considering that Nobodies do not have hearts to corrupt with darkness, Naminé can willingly form and use these portals as she wishes.
Weapons: None, unless her sketchbook counts as such.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
Namine -
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories -
Kingdom Hearts StorylinePoint in Canon: Mid-KHII, after the extra scene in Final Mix where Naminé, Axel and Riku (stuck in Ansem's form) meet on Sunset Hill in Twilight Town, and the two Nobodies run off into a Corridor.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: On the surface, Namine seems like a soft spoken, shy young woman, but there’s more underneath her than at first glance.
Due to her ‘upbringing’ and treatment from certain others, she is nowhere near like Kairi’s outgoing and social personality. Being caged up inside Oblivion with only heartless people using her as a means of manipulation pushed down much of her personality into obedient submissiveness. Those first few months of her life were spent barely talking and obeying the wishes of Marluxia without any further thought for fear of being eternally alone. But observing Sora’s journey in the Castle and seeing just how her manipulation was effecting him negatively, Namine begins the first step to breaking her shell, by defying Marluxia’s orders and escaping the room she was held captive in so she could meet with the boy. She had already begun to feel guilty for her actions. It was the first real emotion that she displayed in the series, and subsequent other feelings followed shortly after. It’s another thing that sets Naminé apart from normal Nobodies: due to the special circumstances relating to her birth, she has the ability to feel or at least display strong emotions despite not having a heart (which in their universe, defines and gives a person emotions). Most Nobodies rely on the memories of their past lives to act as if they have feelings to put on a facade. In Naminé's case and because she does not have any prior memories to being born as she is, due to the circumstances around her birth, there is nothing for her to base her actions and expressions off of. Therefore, what she expresses and what is on her face are truly what the girl feels inside. She's an anomaly amongst nonexistent beings, making her even more mysterious to even herself.
From then on, Namine began to grow from the fearful child and into someone that’s not afraid to at least try to stand up for herself. Though she still feared Marluxia and Larxene, she refused to do any more work on Sora’s memories if it meant harming him. This little streak of disobedience would carry itself well into Twilight Town, where she worked with DiZ and acted on her own accord by interacting directly with Roxas in the virtual Twilight Town, and even The World That Never Was, where she helped Kairi escape from her prison. Much of her role is of a calming support by this time, as she works towards fulfilling her goal of setting things the way they were and returning to Kairi to complete her.
Despite her minor rule breaking and the occasional bouts of confidence, Namine still retains much of her initial personality, just to a minor degree. She’s still passive and shy, preferring to stay on the sidelines, but not to the extent where she’s a shut in or could be easily manipulated like before. However, she still is incredibly guilty for her crimes in the past, despite setting things to the way they should be. As well, when it comes to dealing with others, she often has a strange way of trying to separate herself and her beliefs from the situation. When discussing Roxas' origins with him, she claims the Organization to be neither good nor bad. Despite everything that they had put her through in Castle Oblivion, she puts herself and her opinion to the side in order to act as a neutral party for the sake of others. After all, being declared and constantly reminded that you are a being of nothing for nearly a year by someone who is prejudiced against what you are can have that kind of effect on a person. Self-worth is something that Naminé does not possess in spades. Others come and are always considered first in all of her actions and thought processes regardless of whether they are Somebody or Nobody. Naminé's own well-being and fate, unless it comes to at a danger to Kairi, will always be considered last. It would take a great deal of time for her to overcome these ideas and feelings about herself.
But regardless of all that has happened to her and what she believes, Naminé remains a mysterious but kind-hearted and well-meant individual with a rather calming aura about her. Though she hasn't had much luck with her life, she slowly does change things around and develops more and more into someone who is self-assured, and goal driven. It's mostly the interactions with others that she has to thank for that, mostly doing with Sora, Riku and even Axel and Roxas that cause her to grow more friendly and able to create genuine friendships without the need to alter a person’s memory.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Just try and get her settled in with both the city and cast shenanigans to deal with. Have her get used to the idea that she can be on her own and completely separate from Kairi as she'll probably still have the intent to return to her. Once she's told about the school, she'll probably go back for classes, but may eventually consider getting a job to be able to help out with her friends.
Appearance/PB:
As simple as can be.