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Roxas ([personal profile] chosennobody) wrote2018-03-29 02:35 am

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Player
Name: Cloudy
Age: 30
Personal Journal: [personal profile] cloudymirage
Contact: [plurk.com profile] Lycole
Other In-Game Characters: N/A

Character
Name: Roxas
Age: 513 days (physically 15, mentally/emotionally an adult)
Gender: Male
Canon: Kingdom Hearts
Canon Point: Post DDD

Former Game: [community profile] ryslig
Canon History: Fandom Wiki Entry
Game History: A not-so-brief history of Roxas' time in Ryslig.
Or the briefer-ish but disjointed version?

Personality:
Given that he is Sora's nobody, a lot of what makes Roxas who he is comes from Sora. It shouldn't be surprising, at all, that he's just about as naive as they come. He's a child forced to do an adult's job, and he sometimes just isn't sure how to handle the seriousness of what is happening around him. Then again, given he's part of Organiztion XIII, most of the time he just has no idea what's going on anyway. He looks at everything like it's a new adventure with new things to learn and has a childlike wonder towards most of it. Every world he goes to is just as fascinating to him as the last. He looks to the older members of the organization to teach him how to function, especially since he has no memories of his own, and takes bits and pieces of all their personalities in order to become the person he is now.

One thing that also carried over from Sora is how ridiculously loyal Roxas can be. He'll do pretty much anything that is asked of him, without question, wanting to prove that he's not useless and that he has a place within the organization. At least, that's how he started. While he began with a devotion to the organization as a whole, it evolved into a devotion to his close friends and companions. He feels a drive to help and protect them, no matter the nature of the threat, even if it's from something else that holds his loyalty to a lesser degree such as the leaders of the Organization. Along with this loyalty comes an eagerness to please and make everyone happy. He's usually the first to jump at a chance to do something if it means making others happy and is like an adorable puppy that will run off wagging his tail without really thinking things through completely.

With the good always comes the bad. There are a small handful of dark traits which Roxas has found himself with that seem to be more his than Sora's. He's very temperamental, which is strange for someone that supposedly doesn't have a heart. Most of the organization members simply 'ghost' emotions, while Roxas seems to actually experience them. Even with as happy go lucky as he is, Roxas is very quick to anger. His anger melds more with frustration a lot of the time, growing into something of a determined rage. Much of this often spawns from being unaware or unable to comprehend the depth of events unfolding around him, or his own nature. Sometimes his anger and confusion leads him to brash decisions and sends him down unorthodox paths. Unlike Sora, Roxas finds himself actually hating some individuals and holding grudges. Thankfully, time spent chilling in Sora's heart has calmed his temperament some, and given him some insight into the way the world looks.

Even with his ever-onward attitude, Roxas does find road blocks in life in the form of insecurities. He doesn't know who to trust or what to believe at times, and that makes him fumble quite a bit. He finds himself unsure of whether or not he's actually a real person and that makes it hard for him to move forward sometimes. It's these insecurities and doubts that make him bitter and resentful, hating the organization for what they made him into and what they were using him for, and even making him hate Sora for a time. Roxas is able to accept what he is and what his purpose is wholeheartedly. He knows, deep down, that being a part of Sora is what he's meant to be and he goes willingly, allowing himself to rest and finally feel whole, even if he's not his own person anymore.

Ryslig was a mixed bag for Roxas. For the first time he had a whole heart of his own, and he had to learn to deal with full emotions and terrible situations. He learned fear from other monsters and his war with the gods. He also learned caution and prudence from those interactions. He learned to think before he spoke, to consider actions before taking them, and to always prepare for and expect the worst. Several people showed him that not everyone would be kind from the start, that some people were evil in their core and only wanted to harm others.

But beside all the negative things that happened to him, the things that impacted Roxas the most were the positives. He learned what it was like to have a family when Snow and Serah more or less adopted him. He learned to trust his friends and go to them when he needed help, or when he needed to express an emotion he was unsure about. They made him feel safe and warm, and that is something he's found himself seeking from that point forward. Even after Snow and Serah disappeared he made another family of sorts for himself, a support network to keep him moving in the right direction.

Eventually he found himself being the supporter, protecting and offering information to those that were new or weak, throwing himself into tasks to help complete strangers because he wanted to see a positive change in the monster community. In an unexpected twist, Roxas found that his emotions and energy could inspire others to action as he sunk into the role of the leader, though reluctant, of the revolution against the gods.

Interactions with Maya, Beat, Vanitas, and many others taught him that first impressions can be deceiving, or at the very least people can change. A deep conversation with Maya, someone he'd at first considered an enemy, opened his eyes to his own self-worth and position in the world. Roxas found he didn't need to be a shadow of Sora, or devote his life to his Other. He was freed from the shackles he had put on himself and allowed to spread his wings so to speak and venture out on his own with his own interests and projects.

Samples:
A conversation with Sora on the Truth meme
Various TDM threads

Vaikuntha
Moogle Name: Yes
Moogle Gender: Female

First Job: Freelancer
Second Job: N/A

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