Application / Mayfield
Used most of the personality section from my Neverwas app, but I added in some things that I've learned and pretty much completely rewrote the background section.
Name: Malathyne
Personal LJ: spiralstarfall
Contact Info: AIM:
personal: ThineMalathyne
character: puppetpathos
Other Characters Played: n/a
Character Name: Xion (Calder)
Character Series: Kingdom Hearts (358/2 Days)
Character Age: As far as Mayfield will be concerned, she's 14, nearly 15, and she certainly looks it. Technically speaking, though, she's not even a year old.
Background: This be crazy complicated, but let me summarize...
The Organization knew that Sora and Roxas might not work for their plans, so they made back-ups using the Replica Program. They created clones -- replicas, made with the ability to absorb the life force of others -- of Riku and Sora, but in the Kingdom Hearts series we only see one of each. The Riku Replica was deemed such a "failure" that he wasn't even given a number, and he was kept at Castle Oblivion. However, No.i was functional enough that Xemnas decided to take it to the Castle That Never Was. He named it Xion, believing that "a name defines an object [and] gives it a purpose," and for all appearances, the replica was inducted into the Organization.
Half of the Organization was sent to Castle Oblivion, including Axel, the friend of Sora's Nobody, Roxas. The plan was to manipulate Kairi's Nobody, Naminé, into taking apart the memories of Sora in order to turn him into a tool for the Organization. Around this time, the replica was sent on a couple of missions with Roxas, and the two struck up a friendship. Because of their proximity, the replica was able to absorb some of Roxas's power, and in doing so, also picked up some of Sora's fragmented memories. Because Naminé was removing Kairi from Sora's memories first, those were the memories first "available" -- and so, Xion absorbed Sora's memories of Kairi and began to resemble her, both in appearance and personality.
Through Roxas, Xion also made close friends with Axel, and the three of them became a trio of best friends. Roxas and Xion wanted their friendship to last forever, but because of Xemnas's constantly adjusting plans, it was not to be. Although he had not originally intended to destroy Roxas or Xion, the replica was absorbing too much of Roxas's power (as well as Sora's memories), making him almost useless to the Organization. It would be more optimal for Xion to completely absorb him and his powers and become a more perfect Sora Replica -- and then Sora could never wake up, and the Organization would have a Keybearer, theirs to manipulate, control, and reprogram.
Over the course of Xion's attempts to learn about herself, she encountered Riku, who was working alongside Ansem the Wise (then known as DiZ) and Naminé to awaken Sora. Though their first encounter was by no means friendly and it left Xion shaken deeply, in the end she began to consider him someone she could trust. He was honest with her and did not hide answers from her, unlike the Organization, and, more importantly, he gave her a chance to choose what she wanted to do. Did she want to go to Sora, or did she want to stay with her friends? He urged her to make the decision that was right for everyone, not just for her, and these words impacted her heavily, and in the end they are what helped her make up her mind. She ran away from the Organization to find Riku and Naminé -- to return where she truly belonged, with Sora.
Xemnas sent Axel to bring her back to the Castle, and when Axel succeeded, Xemnas took her and reprogrammed her so she would be able to tap into three devices the Organization created and set up that would allow her to draw on Sora's memories in Roxas so she could defeat him in battle and then take his power.
However, Xion now had two driving motivations: She didn't want her best friend to die, and she was going to stop Xemnas at any cost. When Xemnas enacted his final plan, she was one step ahead of him. She made sure that Roxas would defeat her, not the other way around. He would absorb Sora's memories that held Xion's existence together and she would completely cease to be, even in the memories of others, but Roxas would live on, and he could have a chance of foiling Xemnas once and for all.
Roxas gained the ability to use Xion's Keyblade as well as his own. When he went charging back to the World That Never Was to destroy Kingdom Hearts, he encountered Riku. Xion managed to make Roxas throw her Keyblade -- then in the form of Oblivion -- to Riku, and because of this, she was able to urge him to stop Roxas from making it to the Castle. She knew Roxas wasn't ready to face the Organization yet; he wasn't strong enough, despite holding half of Sora's power. In order to stop him, Riku gave in to the darkness in his heart, changing his form to that of Xehanort's Heartless. As Roxas lost consciousness, the last of his memories of Xion faded, signaling the true end of her existence.
(... and then she wakes up in Mayfield. c:)
Personality:
Xion's personality is an even blend of Sora's and Kairi's, and it wouldn't be a stretch to say that there's a touch of Roxas in her, too.
She is, on default, a quiet, shy girl. This doesn't mean she isn't friendly, it just simply means that she's naturally quiet. She is an introvert, and instinctively turns inward to find the answers and solutions to the questions and conflicts of life. She tries to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders, keeping her thoughts and feelings to herself instead of relying on the support of her friends, as important they are to her. She is also surprisingly solitary for a replica of Sora; when she is upset and conflicted, she does not turn to even her best friends for support, and instead she closes herself off in her room to think.
Perhaps in this way, she is more like Sora than one would normally think; Sora never talks about his own problems, instead holding them inside and putting forward a cheerful face. Xion keeps her problems inside as well, she just handles the external interactions with people differently, and perhaps moreso like her friend Roxas. She needs the space to think, and she will grow distant or even cold if she is being held up from her Quiet Time. Also like Roxas, she can get lost in her thoughts and her personal issues, and her tendency to keep her thoughts and secrets close to her (non-existent) heart coupled with her surprising personality 180 can sometimes make her hard to understand.
She has been described as emotionally fragile, and because of her insecurity, she certainly gives off that vibe -- of something small, soft, easily broken, something to protect and cherish -- but it is more like there are some very sensitive areas that, when breached, make her react in very emotional ways (for while she is a replica and replicas do not have hearts, she has a strong connection with Sora, and, like Roxas, this allows her to feel emotions despite not having a heart). She is very insecure about who she is as a person. The knowledge that she is just a replica, created to be controlled like a common puppet, makes that subject especially sensitive. Although she is a "turn inward" type of person, she is also, like Roxas, a "lash out" type, and so when she feels strong emotion, she cannot stop it from showing.
She is also especially sensitive to failure. Just one will send her spiralling into a panic -- Failure is unacceptable, as it means she's pointless and therefore dispensable. Because she is so insecure about her role and purpose in life, the concept of being useless terrifies her; if she's worthless, what good is she? She wants to be important, not only to her friends, but to everyone else and herself, too. She feels a need to prove herself because if she doesn't... she's nothing.
She flocks to kindness like a moth drawn to flame. Be kind to her, and she will return that kindness with (first surprise, but then) her own. This is the quickest way to earn her trust, and once her friendship is earned, it is very difficult to break. Breaking promises and betraying friends just isn't in her nature, and it's hard for her to cut off a friendship, even if she has a very good reason for needing to do so. She loves her friends with every fiber of her being (or, well, as much as a being without a heart can), and she needs them to have any state of stability, even though she doesn't turn to them for help and advice very often. (She's more likely to turn to people she looks up to for advice; in Days, she never, never tells Roxas her innermost problems or goes to him for comfort, instead turning to Axel with questions and then going off to her room to think by herself.)
Do not mistake her quiet and shy nature to mean that she is meek and mild as well -- She is quite the opposite. Like Kairi, she has a sisterly attitude towards her close friends. She worries and looks out for them, and she is always ready to protect and support them. Like Sora, like Roxas, her friends are her everything, and she is loyal to them to a fault. Around them, she relaxes and opens up, and she will laugh and jokes around and tease her friends, and it is perhaps here that she acts the most like Sora, playful-competitive and almost bouncy with optimism and cheer.
Like Kairi, her personality is very grounded and she is logical, though, and when she is comfortable she can be even confident in herself and her abilities. She is a very determined individual, and when she has made up her mind to do something, she follows through with it, even if she is double-guessing herself. She is also curious and observant, taking delight (like Sora) in exploring new worlds and things, noticing little details and drawing conclusions from them; she was taught this for reconnaissance missions, but it carried on into the way she watches people, too. It can be said that she is empathetic like Kairi and, in some ways, smarter than Sora and Roxas, for she processes information and details quickly and can see the different sides of an issue, especially when it comes to emotional subjects.
Even in the face of the truth that the people she considered almost family manipulated and used her, that not all was as well as she thought, that in order to set things right and save her friends she had to give up not just her life, but everything she ever was and would be remembered by... She did the right thing. She saw the big picture -- well, "big" as in "Xemnas is messed up in the head, don't let him get Kingdom Hearts, he has to be stopped, and Sora is the only one who can do it" sort of way -- and recognized that. Although she wanted to be with her friends forever, what needed to be done needed to be done, and she made the ultimate sacrifice for it. Her death is concrete evidence of her determination and altruistic nature. She will do the right thing... once she figures out what it is, anyway.
Abilities: Xion has the ability to absorb the life energy/power/magic/etc. from people, but slowly, over time, and it's seemingly initiated at first by touch. It's up to speculation whether she can only do this with Roxas or if it can be done to other people, but since Riku Replica could absorb the life energy of Zexion, who is not linked to his original, I'm going to say it applies to other people, too, but it only happens when she's having physical contact with someone. (She didn't need to have constant physical contact with Roxas because of their connection with each other and with Sora. Between the two of them, Xion and Roxas hold half of Sora's power, and so when Xion is strong, Roxas is weak, and visa versa. However, because of both the nature of Mayfield and their existences there, this balance of powers doesn't even matter, since that connection won't exist.)
With this absorption ability, she took enough of Roxas's that she is able to wield an imitation Keyblade, and it functions like any other would. She also knows the typical array of spells (Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Aero, Cure), low and high level, from Kingdom Hearts. All other abilities are drawn from her "panels," an example list of which can be found here. In canon, her stats are evenly split between physical attack and magic attack, making her a balanced fighter, like Roxas and Sora. However, because the Keyblade wasn't her original default weapon, she started out just using magic, so it can be assumed that she is perhaps even more comfortable using magic as opposed to physical attacks, the "mage-fighter" to Roxas's all-out offensive.
She also has her limit break and final limit, Event Horizon (identical to Roxas's), which she can only activate when in low health. From the KH Wiki article: "During Event Horizon, Xion rapidly darts around the field while her Keyblade enveloped in light, slashing away at enemies with great strength. ... During her Final Limit, Xion summons four thin pillars of light to quickly move in straight paths to ends of the field, dealing heavy damage to any enemies in their path."
Oh, and it's not really so much an ability, but... As a replica, Xion doesn't actually have a heart. She has a connection to Sora, though, that allows her to feel emotions, anyway. I suppose her connections to Sora and Roxas could be considered powers, too, maybe?
Sample Entry: Here's her intro post at rpgthatneverwas.
Family Request: We've worked it all out beforehand, so is it all right if Xion's placed in a family with Vexen (frozen_pride) as father, Bayonetta (bulletartist) as mother, Zexion (pintsizescience) as oldest brother, and Asa (faaaake) as twin brother? Oh, and could our house be 848 Goldberg?
Name: Malathyne
Personal LJ: spiralstarfall
Contact Info: AIM:
personal: ThineMalathyne
character: puppetpathos
Other Characters Played: n/a
Character Name: Xion (Calder)
Character Series: Kingdom Hearts (358/2 Days)
Character Age: As far as Mayfield will be concerned, she's 14, nearly 15, and she certainly looks it. Technically speaking, though, she's not even a year old.
Background: This be crazy complicated, but let me summarize...
The Organization knew that Sora and Roxas might not work for their plans, so they made back-ups using the Replica Program. They created clones -- replicas, made with the ability to absorb the life force of others -- of Riku and Sora, but in the Kingdom Hearts series we only see one of each. The Riku Replica was deemed such a "failure" that he wasn't even given a number, and he was kept at Castle Oblivion. However, No.i was functional enough that Xemnas decided to take it to the Castle That Never Was. He named it Xion, believing that "a name defines an object [and] gives it a purpose," and for all appearances, the replica was inducted into the Organization.
Half of the Organization was sent to Castle Oblivion, including Axel, the friend of Sora's Nobody, Roxas. The plan was to manipulate Kairi's Nobody, Naminé, into taking apart the memories of Sora in order to turn him into a tool for the Organization. Around this time, the replica was sent on a couple of missions with Roxas, and the two struck up a friendship. Because of their proximity, the replica was able to absorb some of Roxas's power, and in doing so, also picked up some of Sora's fragmented memories. Because Naminé was removing Kairi from Sora's memories first, those were the memories first "available" -- and so, Xion absorbed Sora's memories of Kairi and began to resemble her, both in appearance and personality.
Through Roxas, Xion also made close friends with Axel, and the three of them became a trio of best friends. Roxas and Xion wanted their friendship to last forever, but because of Xemnas's constantly adjusting plans, it was not to be. Although he had not originally intended to destroy Roxas or Xion, the replica was absorbing too much of Roxas's power (as well as Sora's memories), making him almost useless to the Organization. It would be more optimal for Xion to completely absorb him and his powers and become a more perfect Sora Replica -- and then Sora could never wake up, and the Organization would have a Keybearer, theirs to manipulate, control, and reprogram.
Over the course of Xion's attempts to learn about herself, she encountered Riku, who was working alongside Ansem the Wise (then known as DiZ) and Naminé to awaken Sora. Though their first encounter was by no means friendly and it left Xion shaken deeply, in the end she began to consider him someone she could trust. He was honest with her and did not hide answers from her, unlike the Organization, and, more importantly, he gave her a chance to choose what she wanted to do. Did she want to go to Sora, or did she want to stay with her friends? He urged her to make the decision that was right for everyone, not just for her, and these words impacted her heavily, and in the end they are what helped her make up her mind. She ran away from the Organization to find Riku and Naminé -- to return where she truly belonged, with Sora.
Xemnas sent Axel to bring her back to the Castle, and when Axel succeeded, Xemnas took her and reprogrammed her so she would be able to tap into three devices the Organization created and set up that would allow her to draw on Sora's memories in Roxas so she could defeat him in battle and then take his power.
However, Xion now had two driving motivations: She didn't want her best friend to die, and she was going to stop Xemnas at any cost. When Xemnas enacted his final plan, she was one step ahead of him. She made sure that Roxas would defeat her, not the other way around. He would absorb Sora's memories that held Xion's existence together and she would completely cease to be, even in the memories of others, but Roxas would live on, and he could have a chance of foiling Xemnas once and for all.
Roxas gained the ability to use Xion's Keyblade as well as his own. When he went charging back to the World That Never Was to destroy Kingdom Hearts, he encountered Riku. Xion managed to make Roxas throw her Keyblade -- then in the form of Oblivion -- to Riku, and because of this, she was able to urge him to stop Roxas from making it to the Castle. She knew Roxas wasn't ready to face the Organization yet; he wasn't strong enough, despite holding half of Sora's power. In order to stop him, Riku gave in to the darkness in his heart, changing his form to that of Xehanort's Heartless. As Roxas lost consciousness, the last of his memories of Xion faded, signaling the true end of her existence.
(... and then she wakes up in Mayfield. c:)
Personality:
Xion's personality is an even blend of Sora's and Kairi's, and it wouldn't be a stretch to say that there's a touch of Roxas in her, too.
She is, on default, a quiet, shy girl. This doesn't mean she isn't friendly, it just simply means that she's naturally quiet. She is an introvert, and instinctively turns inward to find the answers and solutions to the questions and conflicts of life. She tries to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders, keeping her thoughts and feelings to herself instead of relying on the support of her friends, as important they are to her. She is also surprisingly solitary for a replica of Sora; when she is upset and conflicted, she does not turn to even her best friends for support, and instead she closes herself off in her room to think.
Perhaps in this way, she is more like Sora than one would normally think; Sora never talks about his own problems, instead holding them inside and putting forward a cheerful face. Xion keeps her problems inside as well, she just handles the external interactions with people differently, and perhaps moreso like her friend Roxas. She needs the space to think, and she will grow distant or even cold if she is being held up from her Quiet Time. Also like Roxas, she can get lost in her thoughts and her personal issues, and her tendency to keep her thoughts and secrets close to her (non-existent) heart coupled with her surprising personality 180 can sometimes make her hard to understand.
She has been described as emotionally fragile, and because of her insecurity, she certainly gives off that vibe -- of something small, soft, easily broken, something to protect and cherish -- but it is more like there are some very sensitive areas that, when breached, make her react in very emotional ways (for while she is a replica and replicas do not have hearts, she has a strong connection with Sora, and, like Roxas, this allows her to feel emotions despite not having a heart). She is very insecure about who she is as a person. The knowledge that she is just a replica, created to be controlled like a common puppet, makes that subject especially sensitive. Although she is a "turn inward" type of person, she is also, like Roxas, a "lash out" type, and so when she feels strong emotion, she cannot stop it from showing.
She is also especially sensitive to failure. Just one will send her spiralling into a panic -- Failure is unacceptable, as it means she's pointless and therefore dispensable. Because she is so insecure about her role and purpose in life, the concept of being useless terrifies her; if she's worthless, what good is she? She wants to be important, not only to her friends, but to everyone else and herself, too. She feels a need to prove herself because if she doesn't... she's nothing.
She flocks to kindness like a moth drawn to flame. Be kind to her, and she will return that kindness with (first surprise, but then) her own. This is the quickest way to earn her trust, and once her friendship is earned, it is very difficult to break. Breaking promises and betraying friends just isn't in her nature, and it's hard for her to cut off a friendship, even if she has a very good reason for needing to do so. She loves her friends with every fiber of her being (or, well, as much as a being without a heart can), and she needs them to have any state of stability, even though she doesn't turn to them for help and advice very often. (She's more likely to turn to people she looks up to for advice; in Days, she never, never tells Roxas her innermost problems or goes to him for comfort, instead turning to Axel with questions and then going off to her room to think by herself.)
Do not mistake her quiet and shy nature to mean that she is meek and mild as well -- She is quite the opposite. Like Kairi, she has a sisterly attitude towards her close friends. She worries and looks out for them, and she is always ready to protect and support them. Like Sora, like Roxas, her friends are her everything, and she is loyal to them to a fault. Around them, she relaxes and opens up, and she will laugh and jokes around and tease her friends, and it is perhaps here that she acts the most like Sora, playful-competitive and almost bouncy with optimism and cheer.
Like Kairi, her personality is very grounded and she is logical, though, and when she is comfortable she can be even confident in herself and her abilities. She is a very determined individual, and when she has made up her mind to do something, she follows through with it, even if she is double-guessing herself. She is also curious and observant, taking delight (like Sora) in exploring new worlds and things, noticing little details and drawing conclusions from them; she was taught this for reconnaissance missions, but it carried on into the way she watches people, too. It can be said that she is empathetic like Kairi and, in some ways, smarter than Sora and Roxas, for she processes information and details quickly and can see the different sides of an issue, especially when it comes to emotional subjects.
Even in the face of the truth that the people she considered almost family manipulated and used her, that not all was as well as she thought, that in order to set things right and save her friends she had to give up not just her life, but everything she ever was and would be remembered by... She did the right thing. She saw the big picture -- well, "big" as in "Xemnas is messed up in the head, don't let him get Kingdom Hearts, he has to be stopped, and Sora is the only one who can do it" sort of way -- and recognized that. Although she wanted to be with her friends forever, what needed to be done needed to be done, and she made the ultimate sacrifice for it. Her death is concrete evidence of her determination and altruistic nature. She will do the right thing... once she figures out what it is, anyway.
Abilities: Xion has the ability to absorb the life energy/power/magic/etc. from people, but slowly, over time, and it's seemingly initiated at first by touch. It's up to speculation whether she can only do this with Roxas or if it can be done to other people, but since Riku Replica could absorb the life energy of Zexion, who is not linked to his original, I'm going to say it applies to other people, too, but it only happens when she's having physical contact with someone. (She didn't need to have constant physical contact with Roxas because of their connection with each other and with Sora. Between the two of them, Xion and Roxas hold half of Sora's power, and so when Xion is strong, Roxas is weak, and visa versa. However, because of both the nature of Mayfield and their existences there, this balance of powers doesn't even matter, since that connection won't exist.)
With this absorption ability, she took enough of Roxas's that she is able to wield an imitation Keyblade, and it functions like any other would. She also knows the typical array of spells (Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Aero, Cure), low and high level, from Kingdom Hearts. All other abilities are drawn from her "panels," an example list of which can be found here. In canon, her stats are evenly split between physical attack and magic attack, making her a balanced fighter, like Roxas and Sora. However, because the Keyblade wasn't her original default weapon, she started out just using magic, so it can be assumed that she is perhaps even more comfortable using magic as opposed to physical attacks, the "mage-fighter" to Roxas's all-out offensive.
She also has her limit break and final limit, Event Horizon (identical to Roxas's), which she can only activate when in low health. From the KH Wiki article: "During Event Horizon, Xion rapidly darts around the field while her Keyblade enveloped in light, slashing away at enemies with great strength. ... During her Final Limit, Xion summons four thin pillars of light to quickly move in straight paths to ends of the field, dealing heavy damage to any enemies in their path."
Oh, and it's not really so much an ability, but... As a replica, Xion doesn't actually have a heart. She has a connection to Sora, though, that allows her to feel emotions, anyway. I suppose her connections to Sora and Roxas could be considered powers, too, maybe?
Sample Entry: Here's her intro post at rpgthatneverwas.
Family Request: We've worked it all out beforehand, so is it all right if Xion's placed in a family with Vexen (frozen_pride) as father, Bayonetta (bulletartist) as mother, Zexion (pintsizescience) as oldest brother, and Asa (faaaake) as twin brother? Oh, and could our house be 848 Goldberg?