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Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
[CANON] Xemnas || Kingdom Hearts || reserved || 1 of 2
Name: Sceadu
Age: 27
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CHARACTER
Name: Xemnas
Canon: Kingdom Hearts
Age: By appearance, somewhere in his thirties. Physically speaking, it’s a bit more complicated. However, as Xemnas specifically he’s existed for about a decade.
Timeline: Post Kingdom Hearts 3D
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: We are expecting at least THREE well-written paragraphs minimum, with references to canon examples of your character’s personality where available. Please provide us with insight to your character and their behaviour, their likes, dislikes and fears, as well as your understanding of them. We would also like to see details of your character's strengths and weaknesses, which may include physical, psychological and emotional.
The simplest way to explain Xemnas is to say that he’s quite thoroughly horrible person, even by the rather skewed standards of Organization XIII. While he may have been somewhat nicer (or rather, less immediately horrible) at earlier points in his life, as he is now he is very much the epitome of a Nobody, for all that he may not actually be one anymore (canon is a little ambiguous on whether he actually is one anymore or not). However, the time he spent as a Nobody was a large portion of his history, as he can consciously remember it, and without his heart, he was unable longer truly feel emotion. As a result, he tends to come off as uninterested at best, and cold and merciless at worst, especially when you add the original Xehanort’s general mindset. After all, he certainly doesn’t care what people think of him, and if a few people need to die in order to achieve his goals, then so be it. In a similar vein, he’s not at all inclined to tolerate either betrayal or failure, particularly in those he leads. Part of this is tied to the requirements for his ultimate goal, but even beyond that, he sees no reason why he should be made to suffer traitors and fools alike.
He also tends to hold himself aloof from not only humanity in general, but also those he directly leads. Much of the Organization’s day-to-day business is filtered down to the ranks through either his second-in-command or the Organization’s seventh, who tends to act as something like his secretary and while this has changed somewhat after the dissolution of the Organization at large, he still prefers to let others keep track of the day-to-day trivialities. This leaves him not only far more able to tend to the more mundane details of keeping things running smoothly but also allows him to keep the true nature of his plans secret - he may have claimed to be after Kingdom Hearts in order to return the lost hearts of the Organization (and may still claim it to be the case, if directly confronted about it), but this is and was nothing more than a lie. His true goal lies much nearer to seeking out Kingdom Hearts for personal power and gain, and this isn’t even the only lie he’s told. He has lied to - and kept secrets from - his Organization and most around him on far more than one occasion without so much as a second thought, and even his occasional habit of pretending to still have the emotions he lost so long ago is nothing more than a carefully calculated lie.
As an incarnation of the original Xehanort, he is also surprisingly good at both being prepared for any eventuality as well as adjusting plans on the fly. To him, the method by which he achieves his ultimate goal is significantly less important than the how, he’s been working to the same ends for more than one lifetime. Admittedly, he can’t remember all of details of this particular fact thanks to having the majority of his memories locked away some ten years ago, but he remembers just enough to be surprisingly effective all the same. His natural patience only increases this effectiveness. After all, it’s hard to be truly annoyed without a heart to care. Or even with one, if you simply can’t be bothered enough to be annoyed.
However, despite the fact that he’s quite thoroughly terrible, traces of the man he used be can still be found in him - a man who was intensely curious about all things, and threw himself head-first into the darkness willingly. It’s simply that this glimpses are rare at best and can be a little hard to see that in the person he is these days, besides. His tendency to be overly verbose at the best of times certainly doesn’t help, either.
In addition, despite his many talents, he is not without his share of failings as well. Like many villains of the series, he is often fairly arrogant especially where his plans are concerned, and while he has the ability to at least not make his failings turn into crushing defeats, they are still defeats and he does still occasionally underestimate his foes, although he does at the very least learn from his mistakes. Likewise, his general demeanor is not exactly the sort to win him many friends (not that he wants them anyway, except maybe to put to his uses), and even his best attempts to pretend otherwise are just pretty lies. In short, Xemnas is a thoroughly despicable person covered by a thin and well-practiced veneer of lies, misdirections and half-truths - and he is well aware of the fact.
Background: Xemnas, and Xehanort.
[CANON] Xemnas || Kingdom Hearts || reserved || 2 of 2
On top of this Xemnas has an element that he controls, like all of the fully humanoid Nobodies and their human counterparts. In his case, he wields the element of nothingness. While canon implies that he’s capable of using this ability to reduce a fully humanoid Nobody to one of the lesser variants, we never see him do this. Instead, he uses it to fuel a wide variety of attacks. In no particular order, these are as follows:
-Shield: while this isn’t technically an attack, it none the less plays a major part in his combat tactics. As might be it expected, it’s nothing more than a simple rectangular shield of magical energy that is capable of blocking most attacks, provided it’s a frontal attack. Since it lasts a mere handful of seconds at best it’s not anything like a long term answer, but it lasts easily long enough to bear the brunt of an attack or two. In fact, one of his favorite strategies as to throw a shield in the way of an attack, before coming in with his own weapons while his opponent is still caught of guard.
-Dark Vines: The least damaging of his attacks, this is little more than thorny vines of darkness. They generally come in batches of a dozen of so and are more of a distraction technique then anything else.
-Lightning: His primary method of attack apart from his weapons themselves, this is once again basically what you’d expect. However, while the most common form he uses is nothing more than a simple blast of lightning, he can also use this to generate ‘cages’ of energy that slowly sap a person’s health. The precise form of these cages varies depending on both his will and what he intends to with the cage. Some of the them will hover around the target as they move, while others simply lock the target in one place (the latter sort also requires more outside help to break free of).
-Lasers: While these could be considered to be an extension of his various lightning based abilities, there are also a few key differences. Most notably, the laser blasts are much more focused on a single point then his lightning is. They also tend to come in sets of two or more, unlike the lightning blasts.
In addition to these, he unlike has a handful of combat-related abilities that do not draw on his innate element. In addition to the floating mentioned earlier, he’s also capable of a sort of short-range teleportation. While it’s not much more than enough to make him more irritating to chase down, it neatly combines with his floating to let him hang in midair far longer than anyone has a right to. This tendency is not helped any by the fact that he can also create copies of himself. These share all of his abilities, but how long they last is largely dependent on how much effort he’s willing to put into their continuing. Since he tends to use them as a distraction technique, they generally can’t take more than a single hit and he never summons more than one at a time. Finally, he’s capable of using some variant on the theme of telekinesis to quite literally throw building at his opponent. However, since the buildings here are much more occupied than the ones at home, he’s not going to be doing any building tossing in-game.
And if that wasn’t already enough there’s also the matter of his weaponry. These take the form of a pair of what canon refers to as etherial blades (collectively referred to as Interdiction) that emanate from the center of his palms and look like nothing so much as a pair of hiltless lightsabers. Like many of his combat techniques, they’re made of the same void that is his element, and he most often wields them in a fast and brutally efficient form of swordplay. However, since they’re made of nothing more than his element, he can also use them as if they were projectiles. Better still, because his weapons are his element made manifest, he never runs out of projectiles, whether it’s simply a matter of enough to create a ring around a person or enough to create a nigh-impenetrable dome of sword-projectiles.
Along with this, word of god has stated that he might also have a Keyblade, and simply chosen not to use it. However, since this is the best we have on the question of whether he retains the use of it he won’t be either using one or displaying any sort of ability to wield one at the moment save in the very unlikely situation that actually requires him to. He’s grown used to his etherial blades, after all, and the Keyblade no longer fits into his battle strategy anyway.
Finally, and just in case he didn’t already have enough abilities to his name, he has one last attack he can only use in times of great strain. Called All-Vanity, it consists of Xemnas surrounding himself with a sphere of his element and unleashing a pair of larger laser blast from his hands. The lasers themselves do heavy damage if they hit, while the sphere itself does a lesser amount of damage on contact.
Just in case all this wasn’t already enough, he also has a few entirely non-magical abilities. Like all of the founding members of the Organization, he is a scientist by trade, with the bulk of his knowledge falling into the fields of biology and chemistry. However, given the natural curiosity of the man he once was and the way he was encouraged to learn, he tends more to the idea of the renaissance man than anything else.
Finally, like many of the incarnations of Xehanort, he has a deep and abiding interest in not only the Keyblade but also the lore surrounding it. As such, he has become something of an expert not only in keyblade lore in generally, but also in the various ancient languages necessary to read the appropriate texts.
First Person: [There’s a moment of silence before the speaker begins. It’s a memorable voice, if not else, quiet but easy enough to listen to. The words, on the other hand, are somewhat less so.] It‘s such a shame, is it not, to be stuck in this city? A gilded cage is no less a cage, and we are thus barred from knowing all there is to know of this world, if indeed it is a world in truth. But perhaps such things are of sharper minds then yours and mine. After all, it is certainly true that we cannot escape this prison on our own.
Does it chafe, I wonder? Are there those of you long to see other worlds and other skies? Or have you simply grown complacent? Uncaring of where and why you have come to reside. I would hear your answers on this matter, if you should care enough to give them.
Third Person: All things considered, Xemnas hadn’t really expected to find himself on a train. They were not unknown, in the various worlds he knew, but all the same, being on a train tended to assume one had gotten on willingly, and as things currently stood he couldn’t quite seem to manage that. Not that he was terribly concerned about either that fact or the question of where he was going. His plans - no, their plans - had not yet come to fruition, but there were certain advantages to planning for the long haul. Namely, there was still time for a slight detour, and perhaps he would find something of use in this new world. After all, it was not yet too late to find new allies.
Still, first there was matter of arriving at the city. For all that he had indeed been to many before there was hardly any sense in assuming anything about a new world. No, for that it was best to first see that which there was, and so he waited patiently until the train arrived. Worry could happen later, as could any other emotion that seemed reasonably appropriate.
For now, however, he simply stepped off the train when prompted to, without so much as the slightest flicker of concern that the train vanished behind him. He had other ways to leave at his disposal (or so he believed, not having quite attempted to leave of his own volition yet). Instead, he strode out into the city at large. There was, after all, more likely to be people then at the train station and he could hardly see if there were any suitable allies present without first speaking to the people in question. The idea of using the pocketwatch he’d been given was something he didn’t so much as even think of, largely because he had certain assumptions about the general purpose of watches.
But he had no qualms about speaking to people face to face. And besides, it was easier to control what people thought of him that way, which was certainly nothing to complain about.
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