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Character Name: Vanitas
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Gender:Male
Age: 4, appears 15
Species: He is a being made from the dark half of Ventus’s heart. He is not really human, nor is he a Heartless, Nobody or Unversed.
Appearance: Vanitas is a short boy in a red and black skintight suit with clunky boots and a half skirt held on with multiple crossing belts. He usually wears a concealing helmet with a darkened visor on a silver frame. However, at the time Vanitas is taken to the satellite, the visor has melted away, exposing a face and hair that is identical to Sora’s, save for the hair being black and a pair of sulfuric yellow eyes.
Personality: In a word? A jerk.
Vanitas is a being made entirely from the darkness in another beings heart, thus has not a shred light to speak of in his own heart. Vanitas is cruel and sadistic, the type of person who takes amusement in hurting others and spreading general discord and strife. The boy will take almost gleeful amusement from the discord he spreads, and he can be almost petty in his cruelty. In this regard, he is little more than a glorified bully.
The concept of friends is one that is not only utterly foreign to him, but also one he has absolutely no desire to understand. He is quick to brush someone off for relying on friends, mock them and call them pathetic and weak. The only person Vanitas believes he needs to rely on in himself, everyone else are little more than tools, things to be manipulated, in his eyes, if he even pays attention to them at all.
Because there’s not a shred of light in his heart, it’s not really possible to change Vanitas from the cruel jerk that he is; his heart is full of nothing but darkness and negative emotions.
Since his “birth” Vanitas has been raised for only one thing, creating the X-Blade, which can only happen when a heart of pure darkness and a heart of pure light clash, and furthering Master Xehanort’s plans, not because he cares about helping Xehanort, Vanitas often goes against his orders with little mind of how it will affect things, it was simply out of his own self-interest to create the X-blade. Because of this, he is goal oriented and determined, willing to pass up short-term gratification to see the long term goal succeed.
However, on the flip side, he is not simply determined to fight his counterpart, Ventus, or Aqua, given he deemed her a backup plan, and create the weapon, but obsessively fixated on it. Other than this, though, he has no real goals or motivation of his own.
Well-adjusted the boy is not. As to be expected, a person made of nothing but darkness, groomed to do nothing but forge a weapon of mass destruction is not one to get along with other people on any level whatsoever other than that of predator and prey. For Vanitas, everyone else is below him - he is the hunter, they are the mouse. Not only is he overconfident, but he also tends to underestimate his foes. The only thing that came close to tempering it were his final defeats at the hands of Aqua and Ven, though he’ll still be likely to brush those off as a fluke.
However, without his powers and the ability to reforge the X-Blade, Vanitas will be something at a loss, and rendered little more than very angry, evil four year old. He’ll still be wont to mess with people’s head and spread misery, but because he won’t have a goal to work towards and fixate on, he’ll generally just be in a state of annoyance, confusion, and anger.
History: Once upon a time there was a boy named Ventus. He was a good, gentle sort of a boy. By the time he was 11, he also had become apprentice to a man known as Master Xehanort. Now this Master Xehanort had plans, he wanted to create a horrible weapon known as the X-Blade and live long enough to see the results. Ven, however, would eventually prove himself not fit in Xehanort’s eyes to further his plans, not on his own, anyway. So after a failed attempt to make Ventus tap into the power of Darkness himself, Xehanort took matters into his own hands, and used his Keyblade to extract the dark half of the unconscious boy’s heart. And from that dark half he created another boy, who he named Vanitas. This, unfortunately, weakened Ventus to the point that he was on death’s doorstep, so in an act that was almost kind of him Xehanort took the boy to Destiny Islands, to die in peace. However, Ven didn’t die, because just at that moment, a baby had been born and the newborn heart reached out to Ventus in his hour of need and repaired his shattered heart for him. This, in turn, also affected Vanitas, giving him the face of an unfamiliar boy. Surprised at this development, Xehanort dropped him off to be the apprentice off his old friend, Eraqus.
Four years later, Xehanort put his plans into motion, which required seeds of discord to be planted among Eraqus’s students. Terra, a boy Master Xehanort deemed fit for his new body, failed the Mark of Mastery thanks to doubt Xehanort planted in Eraqus. Meanwhile, Vanitas confronts Ventus, and, to give him incentive to leave home, tells him that Terra will leave him behind, and become a different person. Because of what he said, Ven follows after Terra when he goes on a quest to protect the Princesses of Heart from danger, and Aqua follows shortly after.
Eventually, after Ventus had been to a few worlds, Vanitas ran into him in the Lanes Between and lead him to an isolated world to fight. Not answer the questions Ventus demanded from him. Fight. Not that it was much of one, Vanitas easily overpowered Ventus in the fight, and decided to finish him off, right then and there. Yeah it was against orders, but Ventus wasn’t worth the effort. However, another Keyblade wielder by the name of Mickey intervenes and they team up to fight Vanitas off. Vanitas declares Ven on probation and leaves. He would then meet up with another student of Eraqus’s, Aqua, at Radiant Garden and fights her. Much more satisfied with her show of strength, that Ven’s, he decides to not kill her, but to keep her around as “backup”
He stays in the background for a little while, waiting for the next opportunity to move, which shows itself at Neverland. He intercepts Mickey so Xehanort can use him as bait to lure Ventus to him. Meanwhile, in Neverland, Vanitas taunts Aqua and fights a long, tiring fight with her. Aqua just barley wins and she passes out from exhaustion. Vanitas regroups after this defeat and meets Ventus on Destiny Islands, Ven refuses to fulfill his role in creating the X-Blade, but Vanitas tells him he’ll give him a reason to fight: Fight him, or see Terra and Aqua die.
In the end, the three students make it to the Keyblade Graveyard, and Xehanort and Vanitas attack the three, separating them and getting them into place for their plans to get in motion. First, Vanitas fights with Terra then he goes off to fight with Aqua and Ven, allowing Xehanort to use this to taunt Terra. He lept from the cliff where Terra and Xehanort were, taking aim for Aqua, he knocked her out and took aim to kill her, but Ventus intervened, just as he was supposed to.
So he fought Ventus. And Ventus won, however this wasn’t a happy victory for the lighter boy. No, that’s just want Vanitas wanted, now that he was dying, he was able to unleash the power to create the X-Blade, as his heart joined with Ventus’s.
Aqua comes too to see Ventus’s body possessed by Vanitas’s heart, and holding the X-Blade. She and King Mickey fight with the boy one last time. Meanwhile, inside Ventus’s heart, he was also in the midst of a battle, for control of his heart. Ventus was too strong to let Vanitas take hold of his heart and further his plans.
So they fought, and in the end, Vantias loses both fights.
Aqua destroyed the X-Blade, and Ventus destroyed Vanitas’s heart, and he faded back into Ventus’s once again fractured heart.
Extra notes: Vanitas will be taken from the moment of his death inside Ven’s heart.
Cambot post sample:
[Vanitas comes on the screen, a horrible, twisted grin distorting the familiar face of Sora’s into something markedly unfamiliar. He’s holding a struggling Cambot, who seems to not want to be part of this.]
You can’t hide from me any longer, Ventus, I know you’re here, and I know you think you’ll be able to hide from me forever.
[He leans in closer]
Well, you can’t. I’ll find you again, like I always have.
[He laughs a crazed laugh as the video cuts off.]
Third-person log sample:
This was not at all what Vanitas expected the depths of Ventus’s heart to be like. It was far less ridiculous and light filled than was expected, and it lacked Ven’s incessant cheeriness. But it became quickly apparent that this wasn’t Ventus’s heart
Well, it was a ridiculous sort of a place, but not as ridiculous as that loser Ventus. Still, given the alternative of being effectively dead and being stuck in that pathetic, light-filled heart, for the rest of eternity, being stuck on this… fun house was practically a vacation.
Not that he had any desire to stick around this place, mind you.
Regardless, there was the question of just what drew him here, it had to be something powerful, and deliberate, given the state of being he had been in moments before. Certainly not simply a crazy random happenstance. And if he was here, then there was a very high probability that Ventus was here as well, they were inextricably linked only a moment before, and he doubted whatever it was that brought him here could undo that link.
So maybe, just maybe, he could make this work in his favor, and get back at Ventus for destroying them.
Riff sample:
Consciousness returned to Grignr in stygmatic pools as his mind gradually cleared of the cobwebs cluttering its inner recesses, yet the stygian cloud of charcoal ebony remained.
Just because you know those big, fancy words, doesn’t mean you should use them.
An incompatible shield of blackness, enhanced by the bleak abscense of sound.
Grignr's muddled brain reeled from the shock of the blow he had recieved to the base of his skull. The events leading to his predicament were slow to filter back to him. He dickered with the notion that he was dead and had descended or sunk, however it may be, to the shadowed land beyond the the aperature of the grave, but rejected this hypothesis when his memory sifted back within his grips.
This isn’t writing, this is throwing words at a wall and hoping they stick.
This was not the land of the dead, it was something infinitely more precarious than anything the grave could offer. Death promised an infinity of peace, not the finite misery of an inactive life of confined torture, forever concealed from the life bearing shafts of the beloved rising sun. The orb that had been before taken for granted, yet now cherished above all else. To be forever refused further glimpses of the snow capped summits of the land of his birth, never again to witness the thrill of plundering unexplored lands beyond the crest of a bleeding horizon, and perhaps worst of all the denial to ever again encompass the lustful excitement of caressing the naked curves of the body of a trim yound wench.
You complain that you’re not dead, and then you pine over what you can’t do while you’re dead. Make up your pathetic little mind.
This was indeed one of the buried chasms of Hell concealed within the inner depths of the palace's despised interior. A fearful ebony chamber devised to drive to the brinks of insanity the minds of the unfortunately condemned, through the inapt solitude of a limbo of listless dreary silence.
Well, that was a whole lot of nothing.
-------------------------------------------------------
What do you think, sirs?
He tried to kill me with a for
Character Name: Vanitas
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Gender:Male
Age: 4, appears 15
Species: He is a being made from the dark half of Ventus’s heart. He is not really human, nor is he a Heartless, Nobody or Unversed.
Appearance: Vanitas is a short boy in a red and black skintight suit with clunky boots and a half skirt held on with multiple crossing belts. He usually wears a concealing helmet with a darkened visor on a silver frame. However, at the time Vanitas is taken to the satellite, the visor has melted away, exposing a face and hair that is identical to Sora’s, save for the hair being black and a pair of sulfuric yellow eyes.
Personality: In a word? A jerk.
Vanitas is a being made entirely from the darkness in another beings heart, thus has not a shred light to speak of in his own heart. Vanitas is cruel and sadistic, the type of person who takes amusement in hurting others and spreading general discord and strife. The boy will take almost gleeful amusement from the discord he spreads, and he can be almost petty in his cruelty. In this regard, he is little more than a glorified bully.
The concept of friends is one that is not only utterly foreign to him, but also one he has absolutely no desire to understand. He is quick to brush someone off for relying on friends, mock them and call them pathetic and weak. The only person Vanitas believes he needs to rely on in himself, everyone else are little more than tools, things to be manipulated, in his eyes, if he even pays attention to them at all.
Because there’s not a shred of light in his heart, it’s not really possible to change Vanitas from the cruel jerk that he is; his heart is full of nothing but darkness and negative emotions.
Since his “birth” Vanitas has been raised for only one thing, creating the X-Blade, which can only happen when a heart of pure darkness and a heart of pure light clash, and furthering Master Xehanort’s plans, not because he cares about helping Xehanort, Vanitas often goes against his orders with little mind of how it will affect things, it was simply out of his own self-interest to create the X-blade. Because of this, he is goal oriented and determined, willing to pass up short-term gratification to see the long term goal succeed.
However, on the flip side, he is not simply determined to fight his counterpart, Ventus, or Aqua, given he deemed her a backup plan, and create the weapon, but obsessively fixated on it. Other than this, though, he has no real goals or motivation of his own.
Well-adjusted the boy is not. As to be expected, a person made of nothing but darkness, groomed to do nothing but forge a weapon of mass destruction is not one to get along with other people on any level whatsoever other than that of predator and prey. For Vanitas, everyone else is below him - he is the hunter, they are the mouse. Not only is he overconfident, but he also tends to underestimate his foes. The only thing that came close to tempering it were his final defeats at the hands of Aqua and Ven, though he’ll still be likely to brush those off as a fluke.
However, without his powers and the ability to reforge the X-Blade, Vanitas will be something at a loss, and rendered little more than very angry, evil four year old. He’ll still be wont to mess with people’s head and spread misery, but because he won’t have a goal to work towards and fixate on, he’ll generally just be in a state of annoyance, confusion, and anger.
History: Once upon a time there was a boy named Ventus. He was a good, gentle sort of a boy. By the time he was 11, he also had become apprentice to a man known as Master Xehanort. Now this Master Xehanort had plans, he wanted to create a horrible weapon known as the X-Blade and live long enough to see the results. Ven, however, would eventually prove himself not fit in Xehanort’s eyes to further his plans, not on his own, anyway. So after a failed attempt to make Ventus tap into the power of Darkness himself, Xehanort took matters into his own hands, and used his Keyblade to extract the dark half of the unconscious boy’s heart. And from that dark half he created another boy, who he named Vanitas. This, unfortunately, weakened Ventus to the point that he was on death’s doorstep, so in an act that was almost kind of him Xehanort took the boy to Destiny Islands, to die in peace. However, Ven didn’t die, because just at that moment, a baby had been born and the newborn heart reached out to Ventus in his hour of need and repaired his shattered heart for him. This, in turn, also affected Vanitas, giving him the face of an unfamiliar boy. Surprised at this development, Xehanort dropped him off to be the apprentice off his old friend, Eraqus.
Four years later, Xehanort put his plans into motion, which required seeds of discord to be planted among Eraqus’s students. Terra, a boy Master Xehanort deemed fit for his new body, failed the Mark of Mastery thanks to doubt Xehanort planted in Eraqus. Meanwhile, Vanitas confronts Ventus, and, to give him incentive to leave home, tells him that Terra will leave him behind, and become a different person. Because of what he said, Ven follows after Terra when he goes on a quest to protect the Princesses of Heart from danger, and Aqua follows shortly after.
Eventually, after Ventus had been to a few worlds, Vanitas ran into him in the Lanes Between and lead him to an isolated world to fight. Not answer the questions Ventus demanded from him. Fight. Not that it was much of one, Vanitas easily overpowered Ventus in the fight, and decided to finish him off, right then and there. Yeah it was against orders, but Ventus wasn’t worth the effort. However, another Keyblade wielder by the name of Mickey intervenes and they team up to fight Vanitas off. Vanitas declares Ven on probation and leaves. He would then meet up with another student of Eraqus’s, Aqua, at Radiant Garden and fights her. Much more satisfied with her show of strength, that Ven’s, he decides to not kill her, but to keep her around as “backup”
He stays in the background for a little while, waiting for the next opportunity to move, which shows itself at Neverland. He intercepts Mickey so Xehanort can use him as bait to lure Ventus to him. Meanwhile, in Neverland, Vanitas taunts Aqua and fights a long, tiring fight with her. Aqua just barley wins and she passes out from exhaustion. Vanitas regroups after this defeat and meets Ventus on Destiny Islands, Ven refuses to fulfill his role in creating the X-Blade, but Vanitas tells him he’ll give him a reason to fight: Fight him, or see Terra and Aqua die.
In the end, the three students make it to the Keyblade Graveyard, and Xehanort and Vanitas attack the three, separating them and getting them into place for their plans to get in motion. First, Vanitas fights with Terra then he goes off to fight with Aqua and Ven, allowing Xehanort to use this to taunt Terra. He lept from the cliff where Terra and Xehanort were, taking aim for Aqua, he knocked her out and took aim to kill her, but Ventus intervened, just as he was supposed to.
So he fought Ventus. And Ventus won, however this wasn’t a happy victory for the lighter boy. No, that’s just want Vanitas wanted, now that he was dying, he was able to unleash the power to create the X-Blade, as his heart joined with Ventus’s.
Aqua comes too to see Ventus’s body possessed by Vanitas’s heart, and holding the X-Blade. She and King Mickey fight with the boy one last time. Meanwhile, inside Ventus’s heart, he was also in the midst of a battle, for control of his heart. Ventus was too strong to let Vanitas take hold of his heart and further his plans.
So they fought, and in the end, Vantias loses both fights.
Aqua destroyed the X-Blade, and Ventus destroyed Vanitas’s heart, and he faded back into Ventus’s once again fractured heart.
Extra notes: Vanitas will be taken from the moment of his death inside Ven’s heart.
Cambot post sample:
[Vanitas comes on the screen, a horrible, twisted grin distorting the familiar face of Sora’s into something markedly unfamiliar. He’s holding a struggling Cambot, who seems to not want to be part of this.]
You can’t hide from me any longer, Ventus, I know you’re here, and I know you think you’ll be able to hide from me forever.
[He leans in closer]
Well, you can’t. I’ll find you again, like I always have.
[He laughs a crazed laugh as the video cuts off.]
Third-person log sample:
This was not at all what Vanitas expected the depths of Ventus’s heart to be like. It was far less ridiculous and light filled than was expected, and it lacked Ven’s incessant cheeriness. But it became quickly apparent that this wasn’t Ventus’s heart
Well, it was a ridiculous sort of a place, but not as ridiculous as that loser Ventus. Still, given the alternative of being effectively dead and being stuck in that pathetic, light-filled heart, for the rest of eternity, being stuck on this… fun house was practically a vacation.
Not that he had any desire to stick around this place, mind you.
Regardless, there was the question of just what drew him here, it had to be something powerful, and deliberate, given the state of being he had been in moments before. Certainly not simply a crazy random happenstance. And if he was here, then there was a very high probability that Ventus was here as well, they were inextricably linked only a moment before, and he doubted whatever it was that brought him here could undo that link.
So maybe, just maybe, he could make this work in his favor, and get back at Ventus for destroying them.
Riff sample:
Consciousness returned to Grignr in stygmatic pools as his mind gradually cleared of the cobwebs cluttering its inner recesses, yet the stygian cloud of charcoal ebony remained.
Just because you know those big, fancy words, doesn’t mean you should use them.
An incompatible shield of blackness, enhanced by the bleak abscense of sound.
Grignr's muddled brain reeled from the shock of the blow he had recieved to the base of his skull. The events leading to his predicament were slow to filter back to him. He dickered with the notion that he was dead and had descended or sunk, however it may be, to the shadowed land beyond the the aperature of the grave, but rejected this hypothesis when his memory sifted back within his grips.
This isn’t writing, this is throwing words at a wall and hoping they stick.
This was not the land of the dead, it was something infinitely more precarious than anything the grave could offer. Death promised an infinity of peace, not the finite misery of an inactive life of confined torture, forever concealed from the life bearing shafts of the beloved rising sun. The orb that had been before taken for granted, yet now cherished above all else. To be forever refused further glimpses of the snow capped summits of the land of his birth, never again to witness the thrill of plundering unexplored lands beyond the crest of a bleeding horizon, and perhaps worst of all the denial to ever again encompass the lustful excitement of caressing the naked curves of the body of a trim yound wench.
You complain that you’re not dead, and then you pine over what you can’t do while you’re dead. Make up your pathetic little mind.
This was indeed one of the buried chasms of Hell concealed within the inner depths of the palace's despised interior. A fearful ebony chamber devised to drive to the brinks of insanity the minds of the unfortunately condemned, through the inapt solitude of a limbo of listless dreary silence.
Well, that was a whole lot of nothing.
-------------------------------------------------------
What do you think, sirs?
He tried to kill me with a for