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If it seems like enough people care I was thinking about making threads describing a different KH characters and then before 3 comes out I could do one big thread that links all these different threads and brings it all together. Now onto the sad sad story of Roxas.
Let's start from the beginning, Roxas was born when Sora died in KH1 and became a heartless.
Whenever a person with a strong heart dies he becomes a heartless and a nobody and Roxas was Sora's nobody and since he was Sora's nobody that meant he was able to wield the keyblade.
KH 358/2 days
Roxas was recruited into Organization 13 where he met Axel and Xion.
Axel was in the organization longer than Roxas and Xion joined soon after Roxas did. Xion was not a normal nobody, she was created as a replica of Roxas. She later learns that she has a portion of Sora's memories inside her and Sora can't wake up until they are returned. Axel tracks down Xion and this leads to one of my favorite cutscenes in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTNp_0EsAw
Axel wins the fight and returns Xion to the organization. After Xion approaches Roxas and when she removes her hood she looks like Sora because his memories are taking over her. She forces Roxas to fight her and Roxas is forced to kill one of his best friends. As he holds her in his arms and she's slowly dying he starts losing all his memories of her and forgetting who she is. After this Roxas leaves the organization and Axel behind.
KH2
We start KH2 playing as Roxas. Roxas has lost all his memory of what happened in KH 358/2 days and he has a new group of friends, Hayner Pence and Olette.
Things are not as they seem however, this world is not real and is actually just a program. After Roxas left the organization Roxas fought Riku and lost and he was taken to this program. Why did Riku fight Roxas? Without Roxas Riku's best friend Sora can't awaken.
Roxas and his friends start doing normal summer time events in the program when things start getting strange. A nobody appears and Roxas accidentally summons the keyblade and defeats it. Roxas starts realizing something is wrong and then his former best friend Axel appears to bring Roxas back to the organization, but Roxas doesn't remember Axel at all. A strange man named Diz (aka Ansem the wise) also appears. Diz wants to return Roxas to Sora so Sora can wake up but Axel wants to return Roxas to the organization. Both try to convince Roxas to go with them but all Roxas wants to do is return to this fake life with his friends Hayner, Pence and Olette that he thinks is real.
Eventually Roxas meets Namine and she explains how he and Axel are best friends and how he has to return to Sora for him to wake up. The next day Axel appears and tells Roxas if he doesn't go with him then he has to destroy him. Roxas runs away from Axel and eventually enters this mysterious mansion. In the mansion Roxas gets flashbacks about his past life with Axel. Roxas enters the basement and enters a boss fight with Axel.
Roxas beats Axel and enters the next room where he sees Diz with this huge chamber behind him.
Diz mocks Roxas and calls him a tool to antagonize him. Roxas goes to attack Diz but realizes it is just a projection. Diz keeps egging Roxas on, getting him closer to the chamber. Eventually Roxas gets close enough and the chamber opens, Roxas sees Sora and knows this is the end for him with the line "looks like my summer vacation is over..." It's a very powerful scene and I recommend watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKcbSZrGdc
The scene shows Roxas's desire to stay who he is despite everyone else telling him he has to become apart of Sora. At the end Roxas does return to Sora, but that does not mean he is gone. He is alive and remains like a prisoner in Sora's heart.
Kingdom Hearts DDD
I wanna mainly talk about one cutscene in DDD that features Roxas, I want people to watch it before reading further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnzBWRbr0E
When Roxas says "this could have been the other way around" it's just heartbreaking. Showing how much he hates being stuck inside Sora's heart, he wants to be the one that has free will. Then he says "But it really has to be you." and looks down with a sad look on his face. Showing he's accepted his fate, as opposed to how he was in the beginning of KH2.
Also I want to give a mention to Roxas's theme, one of my favorites in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T81VosqjBzc&t=598s
Share your thoughts on Roxas, do you love him? Hate him? Confuse him with Ventus?
Let's start from the beginning, Roxas was born when Sora died in KH1 and became a heartless.
Whenever a person with a strong heart dies he becomes a heartless and a nobody and Roxas was Sora's nobody and since he was Sora's nobody that meant he was able to wield the keyblade.
KH 358/2 days
Roxas was recruited into Organization 13 where he met Axel and Xion.
Axel was in the organization longer than Roxas and Xion joined soon after Roxas did. Xion was not a normal nobody, she was created as a replica of Roxas. She later learns that she has a portion of Sora's memories inside her and Sora can't wake up until they are returned. Axel tracks down Xion and this leads to one of my favorite cutscenes in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTNp_0EsAw
Axel wins the fight and returns Xion to the organization. After Xion approaches Roxas and when she removes her hood she looks like Sora because his memories are taking over her. She forces Roxas to fight her and Roxas is forced to kill one of his best friends. As he holds her in his arms and she's slowly dying he starts losing all his memories of her and forgetting who she is. After this Roxas leaves the organization and Axel behind.
KH2
We start KH2 playing as Roxas. Roxas has lost all his memory of what happened in KH 358/2 days and he has a new group of friends, Hayner Pence and Olette.
Things are not as they seem however, this world is not real and is actually just a program. After Roxas left the organization Roxas fought Riku and lost and he was taken to this program. Why did Riku fight Roxas? Without Roxas Riku's best friend Sora can't awaken.
Roxas and his friends start doing normal summer time events in the program when things start getting strange. A nobody appears and Roxas accidentally summons the keyblade and defeats it. Roxas starts realizing something is wrong and then his former best friend Axel appears to bring Roxas back to the organization, but Roxas doesn't remember Axel at all. A strange man named Diz (aka Ansem the wise) also appears. Diz wants to return Roxas to Sora so Sora can wake up but Axel wants to return Roxas to the organization. Both try to convince Roxas to go with them but all Roxas wants to do is return to this fake life with his friends Hayner, Pence and Olette that he thinks is real.
Eventually Roxas meets Namine and she explains how he and Axel are best friends and how he has to return to Sora for him to wake up. The next day Axel appears and tells Roxas if he doesn't go with him then he has to destroy him. Roxas runs away from Axel and eventually enters this mysterious mansion. In the mansion Roxas gets flashbacks about his past life with Axel. Roxas enters the basement and enters a boss fight with Axel.
Roxas beats Axel and enters the next room where he sees Diz with this huge chamber behind him.
Diz mocks Roxas and calls him a tool to antagonize him. Roxas goes to attack Diz but realizes it is just a projection. Diz keeps egging Roxas on, getting him closer to the chamber. Eventually Roxas gets close enough and the chamber opens, Roxas sees Sora and knows this is the end for him with the line "looks like my summer vacation is over..." It's a very powerful scene and I recommend watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKcbSZrGdc
The scene shows Roxas's desire to stay who he is despite everyone else telling him he has to become apart of Sora. At the end Roxas does return to Sora, but that does not mean he is gone. He is alive and remains like a prisoner in Sora's heart.
Kingdom Hearts DDD
I wanna mainly talk about one cutscene in DDD that features Roxas, I want people to watch it before reading further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnzBWRbr0E
When Roxas says "this could have been the other way around" it's just heartbreaking. Showing how much he hates being stuck inside Sora's heart, he wants to be the one that has free will. Then he says "But it really has to be you." and looks down with a sad look on his face. Showing he's accepted his fate, as opposed to how he was in the beginning of KH2.
Also I want to give a mention to Roxas's theme, one of my favorites in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T81VosqjBzc&t=598s
Share your thoughts on Roxas, do you love him? Hate him? Confuse him with Ventus?
when the theme starts playing uguuuu