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Xemnas

Name: Xemnas
"Real" Name: Morgan Sheen
Room Number: M21
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Hair Color: silver
Eye Color: amber
Other Characteristics: Xemnas has a tanned skin.

Backstory
Xemnas is the respected but feared leader of a group called Organization XIII. This group exists out of Nobodies, creatures without a heart and eternally seeking their heart for completion. They are the body and soul that are left after the heart is consumed by darkness and a Heartless is born. Because they have no heart, they don’t belong to either light or darkness, but they are beings that live in-between, in Nothingness.

Xemnas hasn’t been a Nobody forever. Previously, he was a man named Xehanort, one of the six apprentices of Ansem the Wise. In order to explain how Xemnas became a Nobody, I’ll start with Xehanort’s history.

Xehanort’s past remains a mystery, but he somehow wound up at Radiant Garden, and Ansem took him under his wing. Ansem the Wise began experiments on the human heart at some point. Eventually, Ansem realized he shouldn’t have messed around with human hearts and chose to abandon these experiments. Xehanort continued these experiments along with Ansem’s other assistants. During these, Xehanort took the name ‘Ansem’ and wrote his findings and ideas in the false ‘Ansem Reports’. He eventually discovered the ‘Heartless’, creatures who had no hearts.

During his study, Xehanort also learned that worlds also possess hearts, and that keyblade wielders are able to lock these hearts. Eventually, Xehanort cast away his body in order to learn more about the darkness, the human heart and Kingdom Hearts. His soul and body became the Nobody Xemnas, while his heart became a Heartless.

(I will not continue about the part of Xehanort’s heartless – I don’t think it’s too important since we’re talking about Xemnas here, and I tend to view them as two different people.)

Ansem’s other five assistants did the same and they became the original six Organization XIII members with Xemnas as its Superior. A Nobody is a being without a heart; a leftover after the heart left the body and soul and became a heartless. Having no heart, they can’t feel anything. They are nothing, don’t exist, so hence the name ‘Nobody’. The members of Organization XIII are the most powerful of all Nobodies and control the lesser ones.

Like all Nobodies, they sought their original heart. Nobodies eternally long for completion which is only achieved with a heart. Nobodies will do anything for this completion.

It is exactly what Xemnas, and the Organization, was after. Xemnas’ plan was to collect hearts in order to complete Kingdom Hearts. He wanted to use its power to create a kingdom where said power is shared with all Nobodies in order to become whole. In order for more hearts, more Heartless were needed. Which each destroyed Heartless, a Heart was set free that went to Kingdom Hearts. The Organization mainly focused on creating Heartless that could be destroyed. The keyblade-wielder, Sora, unknowingly aided the Organization in this process. Sora eventually found out about this.

As the game progressed, Sora and Xemnas eventually confronted (after the entire Organization was destroyed save for the Superior himself), but not before Xemnas confronts Ansem the Wise who tried to interfere with Kingdom Hearts. Xemnas says that Ansem was the source of all Heartless because he started with the experiments. He also claims he had surpassed his former master, that he did things Ansem wouldn’t dare because he was restricted by a heart. Ansem, on the other hand, says they were both fools and that the Nobody has learned nothing and that he will fail. The machine Ansem tried to encode Kingdom Hearts with exploded, partly destroying Kingdom Hearts and many hearts rain down which become heartless. This hindered Xemnas’ plans – he had to start all over again.

Sora and Xemnas fight one-on-one, a fight the Superior loses. Realizing he needs rage in order to defeat Sora, he enters what’s left of Kingdom Hearts. The heroes manage to defeat Xemnas yet again, but the Nobody manages to separate both Riku and Sora from the others and tries to turn the two boys against each other. His attempts fail as he is defeated yet again and fades into darkness.

Xemnas’ thirst for knowledge, his selfish desires and his misunderstanding of the heart eventually led to his downfall. He thought he needed rage and sorrow – both negative emotions (which he can’t even feel), but that wasn’t all what a heart was about to quote Sora in the game. It’s full of all kinds of feelings – both positive and negative. Ansem the Wise was right; Xemnas hadn’t learned anything about the human heart despite his efforts.

Personality
Despite him being a Nobody and being completely lacking emotions, Xemnas has a dramatic attitude. He exaggerates emotions he doesn’t even feel, he makes (dramatic) hand gestures when he speaks and his face is also very expressive.

Also, Xemnas is both curious and ambitious. It was what drove his Somebody far enough for him to abandon both body and soul. And as a Nobody, completion is the only thing Xemnas wants and cares about. His curiosity can be explained by his scientific background. And if I look at some cutscenes in the game, Xemnas isn’t past mocking and sarcasm either, as the scene in Hollow Bastion where Sora meets the Organization for ‘the first time’ proves. And, Xemnas’ second hobby besides Kingdom Hearts seems to be ‘rambling’. The Nobody sure loves to talk – and perhaps manipulate others while he’s at it (he tricked Sora into aiding him destroying Heartless without said kid knowing what damage he was causing, I can draw the conclusion that Xemmy can be quite manipulative).

Nonetheless, he’s a Nobody, meaning he’s not able to feel any emotions, and one that suits his element of ‘Nothingness’. He’s basically the best example of a Nobody you could wish for, an empty shell. Even though he’s dramatic, exaggerating emotions, he knows very well he doesn’t have them. Besides his dramatic gestures, he actually has a very cold personality. He’s distant with the other Organization members. He’s self-centred. He basically doesn’t even care. All the care he has (or might have) is reserved for Kingdom Hearts and his completion. Almost to the point where one could call it an obsession. And even when that was ruined, he remained calm, just stating he’d have to start all over again. It proved his inability to show emotions, and it proved that his dramatic act is fake. He’s merely a nonexistent being acting like he exists.

At Landels

Roommate: Cid Highwind (Final Fantasy VII)

Current equipment:
- the stuff he started off with.

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