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Actually, from my watching cutscenes, I think that Saix did at least remember his friendship with Axel, and kept trying to revive it, but his sadistic attitude, which in turn came from a piece of Xehanort, wrecked all chance of that happening.

My thoughts are that Nobodies, except for Roxas, do remember their original's memories; that's how they can show emotions even before growing new Hearts.

@Letter Bee

Oi... *rubs temples*

This is why I hate the Org 13 plotline. It's just so needlessly confusing.

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So, like, do Nobodies remember who they were or don't they? I mean, Xemnas and Xigbar seem to clearly remember their previous lives as Xehanort and Braig. On the other hand, we have Nobodies like Axel and Roxas who don't seem to recall any of their memories. Now, Xemnas and Roxas I can understand since both of them are special cases. Hell, I can even explain away Xigbar by saying the piece of Xehanort he has gives him exceptions to the rules. But then... what about Axel? Or Saix for that matter? If either of them retained any of their memories, they'd have been a hell of a lot more chummy since, you know, they were best friends before becoming Nobodies.

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Slight change in my CS. The role of Rei's predecessor will now be played by his mother instead of his grandfather.

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Name: Mackenzie Little
Nickname: Mach (the name is in reference to both his love of going fast and his name being shortened)
Appearance:
Mach
Wheelchair
Suit
Keyblade: Cyber Striker
Age: 17

Skills: Before the accident, Mach was an accomplished triathlete described by his teammates as "a human blur on the race course". An exaggeration, of course, but he earned his nickname for a reason after all. His lesser known talent was in the field of robotics, his participation in triathlons was primarily to get him into San Fransokyo Institute of Technology via scholarship. Since the accident, however, Mach started putting all of his focus into robotics, even able to outfit his wheelchair with some... unique customizations. Given enough time and resources, Mach can invent just about any handy little gadget for any circumstance. While in his "suit", Mach is able run, leap, and move as if he were an athlete again, only with advanced prosthetic legs designed to increase his legs' physical ability ten fold thanks to a combination of thrusters and shock absorbers. What Mach has absolutely no talent or skill for, however, is magic. In fact he barely even believes in magic, instead boasting that his tech can do anything a spell can do, only better.

Personality: Before the accident, Mach had several friends, either from the triathlons or the laboratories. Ever since getting put on the wheelchair, though, he's been having less and less to do with his former friends, becoming increasingly absorbed into his own personal projects instead. One thing between then and now that hasn't changed is Mach's absolutely snarky attitude. Imagine having a constant commentary of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and that's pretty much Mach's personality in a nutshell.

Bio: Starting out, Mach had promise, both as an athlete and a robotics expert. He was entering triathlons, even managing to score a scholarship for San Fransokyo Institute of Technology. It was practically like living a dream, so of course something had to happen to wake Mach up from it. When he was 16, and got his first car, Mach became involved in a car accident. It was nothing overly dramatic or sinister, just a standard hit and run by a drunk driver. Mach's car, however, was ran off the road, kind of a bad thing since he was driving on an overpass at the time. The simple fact that he even survived at all was a miracle, but his legs on the other hand? Well, they were essentially crushed, along with whatever hope he had of ever participating in the triathlon ever again. After the accident, Mach started focusing all of his energy into robotics, his second passion. He started becoming more and more absorbed with his personal projects and essentially cut himself off from his former friends.

One day Mach had an idea. What if robotics could be applied to medical practice? He'd heard the story of Tadashi Hamada inventing a robot capable of giving first aid, but what if more could be done? What if robotics technology could be applied to a prosthetic? He began working, more obsessively than ever, on trying to realize that idea. It was no secret that he wanted his legs back, and after many hours and sleepless nights, Mach invented his first set of legs. Well, considering it was the first physical test, it didn't exactly go perfectly, but Mach refused to give up. After several more weeks, he finally got a robotic prosthetic working, but quickly realized that with robotic tech, the prosthetic could not only give him his legs back, but could make him faster and better than he ever was before. Remembering the news story about the six young heroes who saved the city, Mach decided to take a page from their book and suited up. Obviously he would never be able to publicly use his new prosthetic, since the best way not to be identified as the new hero was to remain in the wheelchair when not doing hero stuff.

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World Sheet
Name: San Fransokyo
Summary of History: It is, for the most part, exactly like the original world. Well, except for being a bit ahead in the technology level. The only big difference is that, in the aftermath of the Earthquake of 1908, Japanese immigrants were integral in the rebuilding of San Francisco. As a result of this, the city took on a plethora of Japanese architectural styles and ended up becoming a center of a vast amount of varying cultures, both Eastern and Western. It also became a center for technology as well, most notably the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and Krei Tech, though the latter has been in decline for a while now since the portal incident.
Important Nations: San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, Krei Tech, Akuma Island
Overall Technology Level: Being a technological center, San Fransokyo's technology level is quite high.
Map:
Important Note: World was accepted not for being Disney, but because it's a counterfactual history that just so happened to develop into the world of Big Hero 6.

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Rei just... crossed his arms. The pointy-eared girl made the mistake of going off on some rant against the Emperor and, predictably, his bodyguards all responded in kind, training their guns on all the visitors. Oh and, they outnumbered the guests by quite a margin, so in a straight fight they would win by sheer force of numbers. This was all becoming rather annoying, people puffing out their chests and going at each other half-cocked, they may as well have been asking for a disaster to happen.

The one of them, the wizard, said something that really caught Rei's attention. According to him, everyone who had been killed by the Heartless would come back if Leo were successfully stopped. Normally, Rei would be questioning how such a thing was even logistically possible even with the involvement of magic, but it made him realize something. His predecessors, the previous wielders of his Keyblade, had all perished fighting the Heartless. Would they all be brought back if Leo was defeated? More importantly, would they all still retain their ability to wield the Keyblade? If so, the City of Shadows could stand to gain quite an advantage against the Heartless menace. After all, a dozen Hunters would obviously be a superior fighting force than a lone Hunter.

"Right," he finally said, having grown tired of the arguing and decided to take it upon himself to make it stop, "if we're all done acting like a bunch of children, might I suggest we actually do something productive instead wasting our time with squabbling?" he stepped forward, approaching Tocsax specifically. Something about the kid's story was suspicious and, true to his blunt nature, Rei intended to get answers, "So tell me, how exactly does one go about surviving all the crap you went through, Ascot?" he asked, calling the kid Ascot. Rei wasn't an idiot, and wasn't about to let anyone treat him like one. By simply removing the X and rearranging the letters, Tocsax's name would spell out Ascot, the name of the person from the story. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the rest.

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Rei, unaware of the protective quality of the black coat given to him, proceeded to ditch the thing immediately after exiting the portal. Again, he preferred his own white coat for its sentimental value, and besides, the other one didn't seem like his style anyway. Before him stood a palace, of what culture he didn't know. History was never his strong point, but the architecture certainly seemed... old. It was definitely built a long time ago, only recently adding modern attachments like security cameras. Still, that wasn't his main focus. Instead, his attention was drawn to a group of others that the boy led him to.

It was here that he finally gave his name, Tocsax. Well, he gave his name after introducing the world itself to the group. He called it Renovation, and the palace itself was apparently in a place called Constantinople, Byzantine Empire according to Tocsax. Constantinople... Byzantine... both names sounded vaguely familiar. Perhaps those places existed in his own world's history though, again, history was not Rei's strong point, so he couldn't be sure.

At this point, Tocsax had been guiding the group through the palace, presumably to wherever this Emperor of his was waiting. Eventually they were in a throne room. And on the throne sat... another kid. And he was flanked by... two more kids. Wait, what? Was this the Great Children's Empire or something? So far, Rei hadn't met a single adult other then the other strangers since coming here. There... were adults in this world, right? Otherwise how could...? Rei just shoved those thoughts away, deciding that he probably didn't want to know. Anyway, Tocsax proceeded to introduce them, using a gratuitous amount of titles for the Emperor in question. Yeah, there was no way in hell Rei was ever going to remember all of those, so he'd just stick to the name Michael, at least that part sounded normal. Then the other two were introduced and... they had names that he couldn't even pronounce, much less remember. For future reference, he decided to mentally remember them as Jim and Bob, respectively, because seriously, how was he supposed to remember those names and titles?

When the Emperor finally spoke, Michael introduced himself as a fellow Wielder of the Keyblade. He then summarized the reason for summoning the group. Apparently there were 13 entities calling themselves Seekers of Darkness out to try and control the Heartless and that was why they were suddenly acting more organized. They were led by a traitor from this world, named Leo, who also had some strange title... because of course he did. Anyway, their apparent goal was to gather seven "Princesses of Heart" which would supposedly let them create a super weapon that would essentially turn them into God.

"In other words..." said Rei, bluntly, "...this Leo is trying to become a god." and to be honest, as simple and laconic as the response was, it was probably not that far off, "Well, he doesn't want much, does he?" he asked, the inherent absurdity of the story causing him to snark a bit, "Look, whoever this is, he's probably dangerous, I'll grant you that. But unless there's some super urgency here, I'd rather stick to defending my city which, I should probably mention, is currently being left completely undefended without me there to hunt Heartless."

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I get that Tocsax having an "X" name is supposed to brand him as a Nobody, but it does raise a bit of a question. In Canon KH, Xemnas used "X" in all the Organization members' names as a reference to the X-Blade. Is that also the case for Tocsax? Because if not, the presence of the X is a bit confusing.

D&D 3.5 Adventure

I submitted a Warmage a while back. Assuming it's still accepted then, no, you two aren't the only ones.

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It was night time, though one would be justified in asking when it was ever not night time in a place like this. An eternal night sky, lit up only by a handful of stars and a moon in the distance. On this night, however, the moon was not visible, in fact the whole of the night sky was blanketed by dark clouds. Some kind of storm was about to fall, according to the weather experts, and the sudden chill in the air was an indication of such. But the weather wasn't important, it was the incident taking place that was. Outside of Police Headquarters, a slew of Heartless dotted the streets. How convenient that they would be targeting the Police and not some mob hideout somewhere. In fact it was a little too convenient.

Rei had not failed to notice the increased level of... organization the Heartless attacked with. Usually they were like packs of wild animals, but lately they were becoming more and more strategic with their attacks. It was like someone was pulling the strings, but how was that even possible? Heartless were basically a force of nature, not something someone could just control or command. Moogles often spoke of individuals who just jumped head first into the Darkness in the hopes of taking control of it, but Rei had always wrote those stories off as people being stupid. But what if they were on to something? What if there was something to gain by willfully submitting to the Darkness? An investigation for another time, Rei decided. For now, he had a Police HQ to rescue.

From his perch atop a nearby rooftop, Rei literally leaped into the fray. He dove from his spot and clung to the flag pole outside the HQ and let gravity slide him down it safely. Once at the bottom, he jumped clear over a line of police with riot shields to put himself between them and the Heartless. Without a second to lose, Rei silently charged into the oncoming Heartless with his Keyblade. His training was paying off, he could tell. He was able to cut them down with surprising efficiency, and was even getting better at sensing incoming strikes so that he could better counter them. Magic may have given people like the Police a viable weapon to use against the Heartless, but this little battle was proof enough that Rei's Keyblade was still the best suited weapon for destroying them. Rei's timely appearance seemed to give the Police more courage, as some of them began using the Magic they'd acquired from the Moogles to give Rei support from behind their defensive lines. In time, the Heartless were gone.

Rei heard a cheer from the police behind him, but he said nothing to them, because something else caught his eye. The ground in front of him darkened into a pitch black spot, and then the blackness began to take shape. It looked... it looked almost human, at least in shape anyway. It was still a pitch black creature with bright yellow eyes to serve as the dead give away that the thing was indeed a Heartless. But since when could Heartless take on such a human-looking shape? The Heartless was just as efficient as Rei himself, for the creature wasted no time and lunged at Rei with such speed and agility that it Rei was barely able to defend himself. He had to quickly pivot his body to avoid having his face clawed off by one of the Heartless's hands, and then he had to swing at the Heartless just to keep it at bay before it could make another move. This Heartless... it was different from the others. It was faster, stronger, and smarter. But just as Rei was about fully engage it in battle, the Heartless suddenly decided to retreat, vanishing in a similar manner to how it appeared. In the distance behind where the Heartless once stood, there was an open portal of some kind, that appeared to just be oozing with Darkness. He'd heard of these, the Moogles mentioned them once before. Then someone stepped through, a kid of some kind, barely a teenager.

Rei's first instinct was normally to attack something or someone that came waltzing out of Darkness, but something about this kid caught Rei's eye and he stayed his own hand. The kid carried a Keyblade. The Moogles did say there were others, but Rei thought they were each confined to their own world, unable to travel between them like the Moogles could. The Kid tossed Rei a cloak, and announced that someone called Basileus wanted to see him. Rei had never heard of the person, but the kid did seem to know a thing or two, so maybe Rei could at least question him along way. He unfolded the coat and wrapped it around his shoulders like a cloak. Rei had no desire to lose his current white coat, as it used to belong to his grandfather and thus held sentimental value to the hunter.

"Good..." Rei finally said in response to the kid, "...because I've got some questions of my own."

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"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil

Name: Rei Shibuya
Appearance:

Hider

Keyblade: Dark Abyss
Age: 20

Skills: More of a straight fighter than anything else, Rei often prefers the simplicity of cutting his enemies asunder with his blade. He does, however, still possess a certain amount of Darkness inside him, due perhaps to prolonged exposure to the Heartless he has devoted his life to hunting.

Personality: Rei is almost always straight and to the point, never caring much for mincing words or beating around the bush. People often interpret his bluntness as coldness when they first meet him, but he is in fact not as cold as he may seem. His life as The Hunter is a sort of double edged sword. On one hand, he is the city's only true protection against the Heartless, but on the other, he is always surrounded by them and endures prolonged exposure to the Darkness as a result. This doesn't necessarily justify his seemingly cold and apathetic behavior, but it does go a long way in explaining where it comes from at the very least.

Bio: Rei wasn't always The Hunter. After all, The Hunter has been protecting the city since the Heartless first appeared, and that was long before Rei was ever born. In truth, many people have been called The Hunter over the years, becoming the city's protector when they become chosen by The Hunter's weapon, the Keyblade. Rei's predecessor was his grandfather, who eventually became overcome by the dark forces he was battling against. A grim fate, but one shared by virtually everyone who has wielded the Keyblade as The Hunter, since battling so close to the Darkness carries with it the risk of being swallowed by it. Originally, Rei's father was supposed to inherit the Keyblade, but he adamantly refused it, not wishing to suffer the same fate. So instead the Keyblade chose a 12-year-old Rei. Both Rei and his father learned to wield a blade from Rei's grandfather since a young age, so when the Keyblade came to Rei he at least knew how to properly use it as a sword, but everything after that was a trial by fire. His grandfather taught him some things about the Heartless, but never taught Rei any of his advanced skills. Rei would have to figure those out on his own, and to this day is still trying to master some of them.

World Sheet
Name: City of Shadows
Summary of History: It is a timeline where the world seems to have developed into a single, large city spanning it's entire landmass. It also seems to be perpetually nighttime in this city, which is undoubtedly how it earned its name. Heartless stalk the dark alleyways and other dangerous hotspots, preying on their victims and multiplying as a result. However, the city has also been under the protection from a being known simply as The Hunter. For as long as the city itself has existed, The Hunter has watched over it, using his mysterious weapon, the Keyblade, to destroy the Heartless wherever he may find them.
Important Nations: WIP
Overall Technology Level: The City of Shadows is a pretty standard modern metropolis. Cars, skyscrapers, almost like something out of a Film noir.
Map: WIP