Series	Kingdom Hearts II (Not 358/2 Days. Bite me.)
Gender	Male
Age	about 16, sort of, ish
Species	Nobody
Sexuality	Probably straight
Character Journal	halfthesky
Player	Squeak

Current -

Location: Currently the Bryant Park Hotel.

Weapons: Whatever blunt instruments he can get his hands on (usually two of them)

Attire: Usually a hoodie, jeans and sneakers. Roxas doesn't have the outfit he arrived in Manhattan with any more, but he still has the cross that he wears on a chain around his neck and his black and white checkered wristband, and he's almost always wearing those.

Facial expression:  >:\

 

 

Sora's Nobody: the leftover, heartless shell born when the Keyblade hero (temporarily) lost his heart. Unlike other Nobodies, Roxas came into (sort-of) existence with no memory of his previous (Sora's) life, meaning Sora's past experiences had no bearing on the development of his personality. He's withdrawn where Sora is outgoing, cynical where Sora is optimistic, selfish where Sora is altruistic, sarcastic where Sora is friendly. He resists being affected by other people and he's wary to a fault of taking anything at face value; he approaches everything with a pinch of salt, prepared to accept the worst possible outcome, and trusts no-one absolutely – not even his friends, although sometimes they come close.

 

Lacking a heart makes Roxas more than a little emotionally stunted. Just how much, in his case, is debatable, but he believes himself to be without emotion even when evidence indicates otherwise – probably thanks to having been raised entirely by sociopaths who repeatedly told him he was incapable of feeling and that if he thought he had feelings he was wrong; Roxas hates being wrong, so he's told himself again and again that all emotion is beyond him, just to make sure he doesn't end up hoping for something that isn't true. He can certainly feel anger, though, or at least something like it, and he does care for some people, if just a few, but he has a great deal of difficulty actually admitting this, both to others and to himself. He finds it easier to admit that he cares about things that aren't people. He values the truth, for instance, rather highly (if only as far as it concerns him), and his determination when it comes to maintaining his independence would put some people with hearts to shame.

 

The areas where Roxas truly is lacking are empathy (with a few exceptions) and morals. Apart from a tiny handful of individuals, Roxas does not care about other people's feelings, and, when it comes to that handful of individuals, he has difficulty working out how to approach the matter when he does care, because he can't work other people's feelings out. He has literally no inner sense of morality. Although he knows vaguely what Sora considers right and wrong, he doesn't feel it, and he only cares in the sense that he knows doing things Sora thinks are wrong would make Sora upset. It is perhaps helpful to bear in mind that when Roxas first came into existence, he didn't know what morals were, and when he had them explained to him it was by Axel.

 

The last thing he knew before Manhattan was being back in Sora's heart; arriving in Manhattan somehow split them up, and Roxas was initially not pleased about it at all. He wanted only to find Sora and rejoin with him; when that didn't seem possible, Roxas made do with keeping close to him. Over time, though, he has come to resent the influence Sora's emotions have on him and grown irritated with the idea of accepting his fate as a part of his Somebody, and, after Keyblader's Court was demolished, he left with Axel. When the monster was killed and returning home seemed, briefly, a real possibility, Roxas admitted that he wouldn't want to go with Sora if it meant that they'd be reunited the way they were before they came to Manhattan. However, when the heating shut off and Axel volunteered to light the fireplaces in Bryant Park Hotel (the new residence of Sora & co.), Roxas went with him and, for quite some time, showed no particular keenness to leave, even once the heating was working again.

 

After Pence arrived in Manhattan, Roxas asked Naminé to erase his fake memories of Twilight Town, but changed his mind after she erased one memory and he realised he didn't want to have anything removed. He's now gradually starting to edge towards the conclusion that those memories make up a part of who he is even if they are fake, but it's slow going and he's not quite there yet. During the Double Monster Attack, Roxas broke his leg (it was quickly healed by Sora) saving Pence from a falling building, but he's in denial about it and is still not ready to start treating Pence like a friend. He's not in denial so much about having saved Naminé from Marluxia after he lured her to an abandoned theatre using a disguised Dahlia Hawthorne as bait, but that's different.

 

When Russel Tringham told the city that Axel had attacked him and threatened his brother in order to steal several crates of vegetables during a food shortage, Sora was furious, and more furious when he found out that Roxas had known the whole time. Perhaps fortunately, he didn't find out that Roxas had told Axel that he should have killed Russel, but he was angry enough as it was, and their confrontation led to Roxas and Sora being merged for the first time since they'd both arrived in Manhattan. They weren't joined very neatly, and Roxas wasn't happy about it at all, but they managed to reconcile inside Sora's heart, and Sora let him go so that he could stop Axel, who, in the mistaken belief that Roxas was back inside Sora for good, had decided to kill Russel.

 

For a time Roxas kept his distance from civilisation – partially because Axel needed to keep a low profile, and partially because, having recently been reunited and then separated from Sora, it was harder than ever for him not to want to rejoin with him when they're close. When Axel and Naminé disappeared, though, he came back to Bryant Park Hotel, where he is currently, as ever, trying to work out where he belongs.

 

In his free time Roxas slopes around having an identity crisis and looks for crab parasites to fight. He possesses a chronic suspicion that everything he sees around him is an elaborate computer-generated illusion. Although this theory is not entirely without merit, the persistence with which he will argue it can be kind of frustrating.

 

 

 

Skills

Roxas's only real talent is fighting, but boy is he good at it. He can't summon Oathkeeper and Oblivion in Manhattan, but, although he fights mostly on instinct rather than thought, the months he's been in the city have taught him to break old Keyblade habits and make do with whatever weapons are to hand – usually blunt instruments. (He considered trying to find some edged weapons, but really, as Axel put it, he's "more of a basher".) He's stronger and much faster than he looks, and although he definitely enjoys fighting, he takes it deadly seriously.

Although he's Keybladeless, locked doors tend not to stay locked around him for very long if he doesn't want them to, and he has some limited access to his light powers – he just tends not to use them very often because normally their only practical application, in this weakened form, would imply he didn't like the dark. And of course he likes the dark. He's from the dark. His elemental affinity for lighdoesn't mean it makes him uneasy or anything what are you talking about. Shut up.

He can also do improbable things with a skateboard, but because this is a skill left over from his Twilight Town programming he tends to avoid putting it to use.

It is rumoured that he can sing okay, if you like that sort of thing.

 

Weaknesses

Roxas has a lot of these. For instance: his excessive pessimism, his impractical stubbornness, his pride (which he sometimes prioritises over his well-being), his selfishness, and his lack of empathy and compassion (and the failure at normal human interactions that result from it).

His combat style is somewhat raw and thoughtless; he prioritises attack over defense, generally relying on being fast enough for it not to matter too much. He likes to think he's less impulsive and more sensible than he actually is, but it's not just battle where he's prone to leaving himself unguarded: he's fairly easy to manipulate if you know what buttons to push, but if he finds out about it he'll be furious.

 

Likes

Roxas likes ice-cream, hitting things with sticks, and reading (usually philosophical sci-fi or H.P. Lovecraft). He enjoys spending time with people he cares about, as long as he doesn't feel obliged to make conversation – he prefers comfortable silences. He has a weak spot for stars and night sky motifs, but no-one knows about his rocketship underpants and he likes to keep it that way.

 

Dislikes

Above all else, Roxas hates being lied to, but condescension and humiliation come a close second and third. He also really, really doesn't like musicals. Or eggs. Eggs gross him out.

 

 

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Character Relations

 

Sora

Whether Roxas likes it or not, Sora is the most important person in his world. Roxas is a part of Sora, and it's only accident that he ever existed separately in the first place. Roxas knows this. That doesn't mean he has to like it, or that he doesn't sometimes resent his Somebody.

Roxas doesn't consider Sora his friend. Nonetheless, when they're on good terms, they get on well, and Roxas cares about Sora about as much as he can care about anything; he'd go to greater lengths to protect him than he's probably willing to admit. He just wishes Sora would understand his desire for independence.

When they're near each other, Roxas can feel Sora's emotions as if they were his own. For this reason, Roxas both craves and avoids Sora's company: even second-hand emotions are better than emptiness, but it's hard to be your own person when all your feelings are someone else's.

 

Axel

Roxas's best friend. Sort of. Insofar as Nobodies can have or be friends. Not having a heart makes the whole friendship thing kind of abnormal. Still, Roxas is more comfortable and secure in himself in Axel's company than in anyone else's; he's more likely to say honestly what's on his mind to Axel than to anyone else, and he knows that Axel knows him better than anyone else does. Roxas also takes a certain amount of comfort from the fact that his relationship with Axel isn't influenced by Sora in any way, because it's proof that he can have bonds and memories of his own without Sora. (As a result, he's sometimes a little ticked off when Sora's friendly with Axel, but that's also because he's pretty sure Axel is the only person in the universe who prefers him to Sora and he can't help worrying that might change.)

He does kind of take Axel for granted, though. Axel has always been there for him and, although it's hardly as if they never fight, Roxas more or less knows he means the world to Axel, and rarely stops to be grateful. Roxas has, however, come to the conscious realisation that he needs Axel, to a certain extent, as a kind of anchor for his existence separate from Sora, and is perhaps beginning to come to terms with admitting that he cares about him.

It is obvious to anyone with eyes that Roxas is something like sad that Axel is gone, but he absolutely will not talk about it.

 

Naminé

The only person besides Axel who Roxas will call a friend, although their friendship is different in a lot of ways simply because Roxas will make an effort to be nice to Naminé where he never bothers at all with Axel. The problem is that Roxas has all the social skills of a sack of old potatoes; he's never had to try to be nice to anyone before and he's really, really bad at it, so he's often pretty awkward about talking to her. Naminé is the one person around whom Roxas seems to possess anything approaching morals, although really it's just a desire not to upset her combined with poorly-articulated concern for her feelings and wellbeing. (He'd want to hurt someone who hurt her, for instance, not because he feels it is wrong to hurt her or out of any sense of justice, but out of revenge, to make sure they wouldn't do it again, and because he just wants to break heads when people he cares about get hurt.)

He sometimes resents the fact that so many other people seem to care for Naminé so much, because it means he's not often the one to help her out when she's in trouble, and he gets the impression he's kind of inadequate – but, where in other areas that might mean he wouldn't even bother trying, this just makes him even more determined to do anything he can for her. 

Since his feelings for Naminé are largely influenced by Sora's feelings for Kairi, it's highly likely that Roxas has some kind of crush on her – but since he's as freaked out by caring about people at all as normal teenage boys are by crushes, and he hates the idea of being affected too much by Sora's feelings, it's hard to say if he'll ever acknowledge it, let alone act on it

Naminé's absence, like Axel's, has hit Roxas pretty hard, but he's a lot more willing to admit to worrying about her or caring that she's gone.

 

Kairi

Because she's the other half of Naminé – and because he's the other half of Sora – Roxas quite likes Kairi. Sometimes he's rather bitter about Sora's feelings influencing him in this regard and he'd make a point of not talking to her at all if it weren't for the fact that generally speaking he just finds her (comparatively) easy to get on with, especially after she joined him and Axel for a while when they left the ruins of Keyblader's Court.

Roxas is kind of disappointed that Kairi is gone, but mostly kind of annoyed that Sora's feelings make him more upset than he knows he would be if it was just him.

 

Riku

On the other hand, Roxas really can't stand Riku. He knows that the only reason he wants to forgive Riku for his part in imprisoning him in Twilight Town is that Riku is Sora's best friend – and knowing that those are Sora's feelings and not his own makes him all the more determined to be unforgiving. Talking to Riku about it has not really helped. The only things stopping Roxas from hating Riku are Sora's feelings and the fact that he isn't technically capable of hating.

 

Pence

Although Roxas insists he wants nothing to do with Pence, because he doesn't like having memories of Twilight Town stirred up, he's slowly coming to realise that, even if they're fake, those memories make up a part of who he is now. He's only taking baby steps, though, and he's still quite hostile towards Pence, who doesn't actually know him at all while Roxas remembers him like a close friend. These memories have driven him to put himself in harm's way to save Pence from having a building fall on him, but if questioned about it Roxas is more than a little reluctant to admit it. 

 

Megan Gwynn (Pixie)

One of a handful of people Roxas has ever held a proper conversation with who he didn't know before coming to Manhattan (this is impressive, because Roxas has been here for like nine or ten months). He wants to ignore her, but he can't help but be kind of curious about things like her comparing Nobodies to Mutants, or having a hole in her soul that apparently doesn't make her any less of a person. And even though he wants to dismiss her insistence that he shouldn't think he's not supposed to exist on the grounds that she obviously doesn't know what she's talking about ... well, what if she's right? Roxas's interest in Pixie is currently almost entirely selfish - he wants to find out what her point of view can lend to his own understanding of himself - but he seems, at least, to not want to be cruel to someone he's trying to get something from. Which is progress. I guess. Too bad he sucks so hard at trying to be nice.

 

Goofy

Sora's friend, so Roxas can't help but kind of like him – when Goofy tries to cheer him up, though, Roxas usually ignores him.

 

Russel Tringham

Roxas does not like Russel at all.

 

Organization XIII

As long as it's understood that he has no intention whatsoever of rejoining the Organization, Roxas is a little glad to have a few of them around: it reassures him that there are people about who know him first and Sora second.  Although he'll tolerate and sometimes appreciate the company of some Organization members, though, he absolutely does not trust any of them at all. The only one he will not tolerate in the slightest whatsoever is Marluxia. As long as he keeps upsetting Naminé, he's firmly in Roxas's bad books – he's the only person in Manhattan who Roxas will go out of his way to harm. Larxene isn't doing herself any favours either.