Musing: games - Kingdom Hearts, Orgy XIII?

[wilderthan]

Puns about orgies over with... I've played KHI, CoM and KHII, but something I've never really been able to put my finger on is how to write any of the Organisation. I can see why people would 'ship Axel/Roxas, and I think I could probably write a decent Larxene, but most of them are really a mystery to me (including Axel and Roxas). If they don't have hearts, in the sense that they don't feel, why is anything -- other than perhaps filling that emptiness -- important to them? I read somewhere that each of them goes to extremes with something to feel as if they're real -- Larxene is sadistic, the gambling one gambles... I'm not sure where I read that, though. Roxas seems to feel things in the Twilight Town part -- what's that about, if he doesn't have a heart? Or is he just different because of Sora?

The point is, it's fairly obvious most of them fail to make an impression on me -- and I seemed to have failed to learn much about them in playing the games. How do you go about writing them? Or if you don't, can you give me any insight into their headspace?

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[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

I RAN OVER. BUT I WASN'T DONE!

Basically, I write them:

- As faking emotion based on their memories of having had hearts.
- Having a certain turnicated range of emotion due to their inner darkness and the selfishness of will.
- Sometimes I write them as feeling vicariously through the hearts of other people. For instance, at Axel's death, he is very close to Sora's heart and knows that he does love Roxas, whereas before it was... maybe just an inkling, or something he didn't understand as feeling.

I have scenes from fics I've written that could illustrate all of those things... And I will resist the narcisssitic urge to share them. But I can show through example if that'd help!

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

And I will resist the narcisssitic urge to share them. But I can show through example if that'd help!

I think it would! I haven't read much Organisation XIII fic because... well, I haven't read much KH fic. I don't read much long fic for whatever reason, but I keep meaning to ask people -- if you know of any good one shots that're, for example, Axel/Roxas, link me?

Maybe this is just inspired by a kid's book I had, but I was thinking... in the book, there's an angel made out of metal, made so she can talk and fly and so on. But she doesn't have a heart, and she needs one (I think so that she can smile and look happy while she's flying, though I can't remember). So a little boy tells her that he'll be her heart. So I was thinking that, for Axel, Roxas is his heart in the sense that he seems to remind him how to feel. Like, they do have "hearts", and they're able to feel, they just don't really know how or understand what it is?

I'm also reminded of a set of books I read where people were emotionally stripped of their ties to the rest of the world, and they became emotionless, although they were still intelligent and still had their memories of everything, they just couldn't feel kinship with people any more. But there was a kind of magic that they could feel that seemed to remind them of how they had been, and they were drawn towards people who used it. Which reminds me of how the Nobodies wanted hearts, you know?

Uhh, I can't remember where I was going with that. xD