Drift Fleet: Application

[journeybroken]

Character name: Roxas
Character journal: journeybroken
Series name: Kingdom Hearts
Canon notes: Roxas is being taken from the end of Day 358, before his memory is locked up and he’s thrown into the digital Twilight Town. With mod approval, he will be regaining his lost memories of Xion at a later date!

Species: Nobody; a shell of a once whole person, the remaining willpower of someone who has lost themselves to darkness. Nobodies have no hearts, and therefore cannot feel, but given time they can gain new hearts. Nobodies are also gifted in magic, and have the ability to wield a special weapon and control over an element.

History: wiki link for Days!
roxas’s huge-ass wiki page that details the rest of his history as well

Personality: While at the beginning of his story Roxas is a blank slate with very little personality, this changes dramatically over the course of the game. Roxas is a Nobody, a being born without a heart (though it is hinted very strongly throughout the game that he has one anyhow), and therefore is told he cannot feel emotion. This, however, is not entirely the reasoning for his “zombie-like” state at the start of his non-existence. Unlike the rest of his colleagues, Roxas lacks yet another thing that is vital to defining his personality: memories of his past self.

It’s told to him fairly early on that every other Nobody’s personalities are just running on the fumes of who they used to be. Since Roxas has nothing to go on, his personality is largely based around the influences in his life. See, Roxas is very much an information sponge, constantly soaking in what he sees and what he’s told. He’s an unending fountain of questions up to the very last day he spends in the Organization, and even then, there’s so much left he wants to learn. Every trait he has stems from that need to understand.

Early on as he asks questions, he’s met with immediate explanations to the best (and with a personal flare) of the answerer’s abilities. It’s safe to say that this pattern, established near the start of his life, set the tempo for his problem-solving skills. He tackles obstacles with an open mind, absorbing the surroundings to find the quickest solution. He has a lot of patience for trial and error, and it gets him through the difficult situations with relative ease. However, there’s not always a solution to the problem at hand. In those moments, his ugliest side is apparent.

Roxas has a temper. Now, he’s not an inherently angry person; he’s friendly, curious, and he’s only marginally awkward meeting new people. The issue is that despite his very long fuse, the explosion when it runs out tends to be destructive and massive, although it is short-lived, on average. The only times we’ve seen his anger manifest in canon so far, it’s been the moments where nothing he does works, or when someone stops him from completing the task at hand. He feels helpless and lied to by Axel and can do nothing to fix the situation, so he blows up and runs away. Riku stops him from completing his task of destroying Kingdom Hearts, so he beats him down with every bit of rage-fueled energy he can expend. The life he thought was his starts falling apart and he can’t make any sense of it, so he destroys the computer in Digital Twilight Town. Each time, it’s a quick outburst, he takes the anger out on an object or person, and then… he calms down.

More often than not, when his anger subsides, he shifts into a resigned state, admitting the futility of his efforts and taking a step back to look at what’s going on. In the very few instances this pause in his emotions is not met with an immediate fight or change of situation, he is shown to being able to find a solution that his building frustration had clouded before. He’s incredibly adaptable, even if the big transitions can be a little rough for him at times. The introduction of falsehood in his life was by far the hardest one, but in the end, it taught him that there isn’t just a right and wrong way of doing things. The world isn’t stark black and white; the shades of grey in between are more numerous than he’d ever imagined before. When the dust settles on that conflict, he comes out the other side worlds more mature, and able to process even larger problems. He starts to understand things for what they truly are, instead of their surface.

It’s that growth that lends to his forgiving Axel. Though it’s never outright stated that he says he’s sorry, the silent understanding between them in their last moments together is incredibly prominent. Without a doubt, the thing that matters most to Roxas is friendship. His bond with Axel (and while he has it, with Xion) is stronger than any force that could come up against it. It’s even implied that while the memory of Xion will disappear, the bond with her could never be erased from existence. As always, the underlying theme of “my friends are my power” in Kingdom Hearts stays true.

All in all, Roxas is one of the most blatant examples of character development I, personally, have ever seen. Over the course of a single year, he learns more about life than most people learn in their first two decades. He’s taught friendship, trust, love, emotion, duty, and so much more. No matter where he goes, he’s no-doubt bound to seek out even more information, making every situation into a lesson to be learned.

Abilities: Light control and basic squeenix magic, improved physical abilities (faster/stronger than humans), and the ability to wield a keyblade. He will be retaining the three basic magic skills (fire, blizzard, and thunder) and the physical abilities! Everything else is getting taken away.
Augment Skillset: Civilian: Maintenance
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