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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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A note for CR AU applications
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.
Xion | Kindgom Hearts | RESERVED 5 SECONDS AGO | 2/3
Personality: Xion is a relatively simple girl. She can easily be made happy by little things, like a warm breeze, or a sunset, or the beach, or ice cream. She smiles easily in the right company, but when she laughs, it's a quiet sound, somewhat restrained, like she thinks maybe she shouldn't be doing it. If you gave her a bunch of flowers, she'd probably be amazed they were meant for her, then bury her face in the blooms and breathe deeply and remark that they were beautiful. She is sweet, and kind, and extraordinarily pure of heart. She's the kind of person that believes in her friends and would do anything to spend one more day with them or see them smile. She would also do anything to keep them safe - even if it meant never seeing them again.
Xion is a Replica. At less than a year old, many experiences out there in the world are all new to her, and she approaches a lot of life with a strange mix of wide-eyed wonder and firm practicality. Having quite literally been raised to only really notice the useful aspects of the world around her - impressions left by her reconnaissance training - she's not the mooning romantic you might expect from someone so naive, and will approach many new things with a sort of puzzled pragmatism. (What's this thing? What's the point? I don't understand. Can you use it in a fight?) But if she has a free moment or otherwise feels she has been given permission to relax and goof off a little, she certainly does and will happily wonder aloud about the world and how it works, and ask half a dozen questions and try and get her hands on everything, like a child. She is a child in many ways, after all, despite having the body and cognitive abilities of a fourteen year old girl. She has a child's sense of curiosity and adventure - but also a child's tender fear at a great big scary world.
But Xion does have a practical side, a battle ready side. From the moment she wakes up to the moment she dies she is, first and foremost, a soldier. A weapon. She is used this way and knows she is used this way, and for a long time, she's more or less okay with it. She conducts missions, kills Heartless, and does her duty. She performs efficiently and focuses dutifully on her work. She's even exhilarated by it, at times - by the ability to wield the Keyblade, to be of some use to the people around her. This doesn't always pan out - a handful of times in canon, Xion blacks out, faints while fighting, or loses control of the Keyblade entirely, going days or weeks at a stretch without the ability to summon it to her hand. She's shown to be a match for people like Axel and Xigbar in a fair fight - but she ultimately loses to Axel, and is easily struck down by Riku. She's not the most powerful fighter or the most skilled, and the nature of what she is sometimes holds her back and causes her anguish. But when not troubled by the deeper questions of her existence and the ever watchful eyes of the higher ups in the Organization, Xion is mostly content to do her job and hang out with her friends at the end of the day. It almost, sort of, kind of, maybe approaches what it would be like to be a normal teenager. But not quite. Never quite.
Xion is not a normal teenager. She is a puppet built on programming and memories that are not hers, and awful things happen when her coding breaks or her memories overflow. And when she discovers this truth about herself, it sends her into an existential tail spin that ends with her own death. She questions who and what she is, why she exists, what her past is - and these questions drive her crazy. When she sleeps, all she does is dream. Driven by an intense need to know, she defects from the powerful Organization she knows could end her. Xion has a brash, impulsive streak beneath her quiet exterior that can and does lead her into all sorts of trouble. She can even be hot-headed, leaping to the attack or shrieking in anger when properly provoked. Xion can be quite single-minded, even spending her one vacation day (in an entire year) practicing with her Keyblade. Xion is motivated by a desire to get the job done - and when that is no longer sufficient, she's driven instead by the mystery of her life. When she discovers what she is - when Saix's abuse becomes too much - she becomes, if not depressive, somewhat manic and extremely hard on herself. She calls herself a failure, a puppet, taking on Saix's perception that she is trash. She believes it. After all, when you have solid proof you're not supposed to exist at all, and that your sham of an existence is hurting people you love - it's hard to feel any other way. Self-esteem is an alien notion to a marionette.
Xion is a sad kid. She doesn't fit in, and most everyone she's ever met has hated her, aside from her two best friends. She's a mistake and a monstrosity. But she loves her friends so much - and gives her life to restore that of a boy she's never even met. She's got a good heart beneath all that fear and insecurity, a heart driven by loyalty and love. She's got a temper and a teasing side. (Roxas, that's a stick.) She could be a hero, if somebody would just let her.
Background: Here.
Abilities: Xion has a couple of important abilities to note. The most extraordinary of these is the ability to summon and wield a Keyblade, the trademark weapon of the Kingdom Hearts series. The Keyblade can do a couple of special things: it can (in theory) unlock anything that's lock, or lock anything that's unlocked. Doors, worlds, hearts - you name it, the Keyblade can work on it. Additionally, Keyblades are effective weapons against Heartless, Nobodies, Dream Eaters - basically any enemy, but especially ones that have special properties, like an affinity for darkness or magic or what have you. (The Keyblade is probably least effective against normal people!) The Keyblade is also attached to its wielder, and even if Xion drops her weapon, or someone takes it from her, she can recall it back to her hand - or it will return of its own accord, in a flash of light.
Secondly, Xion can use magic! This means the standard compendium of Kingdom Hearts spells, many of which are drawn from Final Fantasy and all of which can be found here. Xion does indeed possess all these abilities, having trained to earn them for a solid year (almost). (I'm flexible with how healing magic actually works outside of KH; typically I go with whatever players want to do, and the inability to heal the most serious of injuries or anything chronic.) Additionally, Xion has access to an element that she can use in battle: Light. Like Roxas, she has a Light-related limit break. This won't get seen very much, and I probably won't use it much, but in an extreme situation/after being injured enough, Xion could bust out a fancy final attack that looks like this (with a bit of the light pillars from the first 15 seconds of this thrown in. Xion and Roxas have the exact same limit break).
Finally, being a Nobody/Replica/Thing associated with the Organization, Xion has the power to manipulate darkness. What does this mean? Darkness corridors! Put simply, darkness corridors are just portals that KH characters can use to get around. I guess they function a bit like wormholes in that they can cut through space and shorten huge distances. In theory she could use this ability to get around the city, but it would be hampered by the same rules that govern teleportation abilities outside of the city. So no long jaunts for her or anything.
Outside of these more extraordinary things, Xion's a fit young lady who, as a soldier, is battle-hardened and pretty handy with a sword. She'd be absolutely awful at hand-to-hand combat, though, and considering she'd be lucky to weigh a hundred pounds soaking wet, she's not hard at all to knock down. She's capable, but capable doesn't mean skilled.
Oh, one final thing. Xion can turn into this thing. Not at will - that's her final boss form. It's less an ability and more like a defect. It will never be a thing unless events somehow bring it about, but it's worth mentioning as a thing that's technically possible.