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Originally founded by Audo
Who gave us a place to rant and a banner to fly
May teh lulz be forever perpetrated
In your name.​

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Other threads of interest:
Did anyone dislike Xion?
Did Xion do justice to the series?
Xion discussion: love/hate
Opinions on Xion​

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this is a HATE club btw.
just in case you didn't know xD

However!

We (And I hope more members than me) try to ensure that Xion fans are allowed to post what they feel in here without pressure (this is before any mods told us to, contrary to what lies some people would say.)

Criticizing our reasons for "hating" Xion(with some thought put into it) and debating here is just fine.

The only thing this place really isn't for is just plain-ole Xion appreciation art or comments. The "non-serious" posts that go here are usually the mock posts and bash posts, since not everyone wants to have a super-serious discussion of a character all the time.

Mindless "you guyz suck for hating Xion" isn't liked here either (I assume you wouldn't like that in the FC either).

If we required everyone to absolutely hate every aspect of Xion in order to post here, well, that shows poor understanding on our part. This place isn't as "hostile" as some people think it is, so post freely.

No person who does not intend to cause hostility him/herself regardless of his/her opinion on any character should feel hesitant to post in this club under the notion that he/she will be intimidated, insulted, looked down upon.

His/her argument may be thoroughly addressed, but this is not intended against the poster him/herself and strictly targets the argument without any intention to make the poster look bad.

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More...
Xarmy Sue (comic)
Xion: was already a sue.(img)
Most boring, effortless cosplay (photo)
She's so deep (comic)
Roxas leech (img)
MARY SUE HIJACK LOL (img)
Get outta my fandom, bitch (icon)
Another 'Xion' that was already a Sue (img)
YouTube - Hitler has a KH Dilemma (vid)
Tet-SUE-ya Nomura: The Ultimate Suethor. (img)
Xion moping montage from just one manga chapter (img)
At least there's no Sue category... (img)
Xion's theme =/= Xion's tragedy (vid)
Hagrix: Ye're a Sue, Xion. (img)
Ye're a Sue, Xion. (comic)
Wheel of fortune (img)
First impressions of the new member (comic)
If only (img)
If only she really did turn batpoo insane in the end, like they originally planed... (comic)
XION IS TWILIGHT(img)
iMope (img)
Xion's weapon (comic)
Give it a good smack (comic)
Reika's essay
AAAIAAAIAAAAAAH (vid)
HUUUUURRRG-AAAAHHUH + lulz (vid)
cock block fail (gif)
*smacks Xion* Axel: yaaay (gif)
Sokairona frankenstein (comic)
ffff sand in my bed (comic)
Consolation fishing fail (comic)
Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? Parody (video)
*DONKEY SCREAM* for reals. (video)
Ice cream > Xion (comic)
"Axel would have been a far more interesting main character." (img)
ANOTHER OC named Xion! (img)
funny OOC Xion hate comic by Duncanheart page 1 (comic)
Oblivion D: (img)
Tainted Keyblade (img)
Nomura ruined a whole game, just so that his love could be revealed for the world to see. (vid)
I am disappoint (img)
Why are you here?(img)
Roku/Shi in a nutshell(comic)
Xion vs Aqua (img)
DeviantArt Picspam (montage)
Xion hate cookie (img) and reaction (comic)
Trollface Xion (img)
Xion Play Arts Tutorial (comic)[/img]
RAN > RAX (comic)
KH girls take a stand (img)
the little replica by reika (gif)
DDD trailer reaction by luna1017 (img)
what if it had been donald... (img)
the real game cover (img)
the face of tragedy
KH1.5 achievements? Shallow Dive and You Scream: managing to watch the cutscenes

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This is a very good article about Mary Sues! Just for you to use if people ever try to tell you that you don't know what one is!
click--> 150 Years of Mary Sue, by Pat Pflieger <--click
[presented at the American Culture Association conference, March 31, 1999, San Diego, CA]

.Our Reasons.​

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** Xion is more or less, a watered down version of Kairi with more angst. Her personality was bland. Boring. Nothing new we've seen, and nothing compelling. Nothing extravagant, and nothing original. Being cute does not constitute as a reason: why in the world would it? I'll be propping up a million female characters in my favorites list if that was the case. Especially when the truth on whose appearance we see, and who, in fact, "she" really is. I'm not so fond of Kairi either. I'm neutral until she is able to come out and be able to stand on her own. But I can at least give Kairi some appreciation because she seems to have flaws as a character (being impulsive, stubborn, and sort of asking for trouble when she can't really do much at the moment to defend herself. Kairi haters can give you a lot more). Xion has no flaws in personality. Absolutely none. The only problems she causes are on the thought that it's for the sake of everyone and her friends, and forcing Roxas to kill her is more or less a die or die situation of choices to the point where there isn't a good escape. So we have this sweet, kind, spunky, nice, giggly, perfect angel who oh so much suffers such travesties and tragedies. And who still, by the end of the game, remains this sweet, kind, spunky, nice, giggly, perfect angel, only more brave or something. Of course, give her more positive aspects, why don't you. If there is a perception of Mary Sue that she fits, is perfection. There's nothing wrong with the girl. Being a clone is circumstance.

I wouldn't have a problem with Xion hanging around good-looking guys (or else I wouldn't love Larxene)...if she hadn't kept fainting all the time, and in "coincidence", all three (Roxas, Axel, and Riku) where there in time to capture her faint, weak self in their arms, hold her (or in Riku's case, brush her bangs too), or save her. That's where the line blurs. If this wasn't canon, I bet people reading this in fanfiction would immediately stop reading.

** Her tragedy. Don't get me wrong, I don't usually bash people who end up with sad fates. It's when the game forces it on me that I have a problem. And I said this before somewhere else. The whole game felt like Xion was merely created to be pitied, and we had to see how much she suffered, how a pathetic scream and tears got to her when Riku was a complete and utter stranger, whose words shouldn't even be trusted. Then the nightmare, how the evil villains (except the main characters, naturally) were so cruel to poor Xion, especially Saïx D:. Lord help us all for this sweet little girl, let's cry us all a river, shall we please? It's a ploy to get us all to like her and forget the fact that she came out of nowhere. So, please, fall for it. And all this wrapped up in her sparkly, more long than needed, death. The whole thing seemed so shoved down my throat that my response was negative, especially when the game actually stated "poor Xion" (which, if it didn't turn me off by that point, permanently did there). It couldn't get as more obvious as it was then what they were trying to do to the audience. And from what I see, it worked. To some, anyway. Roxas nor Riku Replica never made me feel like this, neither did Naminé. Their stories were pretty passive, and while you feel for Roxas, he was more angry than a moper, and Riku Replica is just full of antagonism. Naminé we didn't see much of her until the end (where, yes, it was possible for her not to steal screen time), but it was enough to understand her feelings. Both three of these people did not take over the story, plot, or overall game just to explain the reason of their angst. That's where Xion fails. Let alone the fact that when Xion isn't there, there is either the topic of her being discussed, or Roxas worrying about her. Or constant mentions. It's like impossible not to have her name in the topic long enough. I'm surprised the game wasn't called Kingdom Hearts: XION and leave it at that. We instead had some unneeded difficult title like Three Five Eight Days Over Two when it turned out it was really just...days. Go figure.

It's okay for you to love this. I don't.

And, seriously. Take out the music or drown it out, and her death isn't exactly so great. It was more of Shimomura's talents that made the scene close to worth it.

My Organization development and depth other than the one dimensional characteristics they kept throughout the game was forsaken for this wangstfest? :/ As if the series isn't turning into the greatest wangsfest of all.

** Of course, since Nomura couldn't screw up the sequel, with no one mentioning her in any way whatsoever in the series, they made everyone lose the memories. The cop out didn't sit well with me at all, because if you were aware of the plot hole, why create it? For the sake of some story that could've been anything else? (or couldn't have been at all, actually. Unless people were so needing to know the "daily lives of the Organization", lulz Nomura, which the game wasn't even about that anyway except them being wallflowers in the end with half of them wiped out from the beginning, then there's nothing an interview question or two couldn't answer. Or even a line in the game, to be honest) That's another one of my main gripes. And it isn't even starting.

** Roxas himself has proceeded to mature on his own, and with the probability of him having a heart, the "emotions" that are quoted are more or less possible to be real and have a life of their own.

The truth is: it all started with Axel and Roxas.

Sea salt ice cream, which was Axel's idea, was way more important, more meaningful, and more symbolic to the situation. It's even the icon that you see in the DS screen. It's what Roxas constituted as what friends do, to the point where it was his words as Xion was dying. You mean to tell me he learned how to care, worry, and defend a friend because of her? His attitude? His personality? All that he's shown since the very beginning? Smart-aleck words like "I could've done that blindfolded" and speaking back to Vexen wasn't Xion's doing. And feeling alone when eating ice cream by himself was her cause? So Axel has no role, right? Roxas never mentioned him, of course. And yes, I'm not being serious. Aren't these natural feelings in themselves? Just like he was feeling sick about whether or not Axel was dead?

In reality, from what I see, Roxas (and her, if we have to) learned a lot more from Axel, who not only taught him many meanings, but solidified what friends do the most. He was the teacher and the adult figure, the person that was most went to when he wanted answers. The other half was covered by the Disney worlds Roxas visited. Most of the questions, if not all, stem from what he witnesses every moment he goes on a mission and the people there. Which was even made a point of by Nomura before 358/2 Days came out about what role the worlds play in an interview. And these said questions hauled over to the Organization and their motives. Even before Xion ever died or he discovered the truth, I remember a conversation with Axel very clearly where he inquires a lot about what Organization XIII does. I'll find the quote if I have to.

Xion didn't change Axel either. Axel doesn't even remember Xion and he has, like Roxas, no problem recalling anything else as to what made him different. He wouldn't have stated Roxas made him feel like he had a heart, was the only one he liked, and basically got through the whole of KH2 trying to protect and bring him back. As it was originally. Again, natural reactions to people you care about. Xion also wasn't in Castle Oblivion, where notes of Axel changing began to be said in the game after his return. In the secret reports, he also doesn't alienate Roxas when he said they remind him of his childhood memories. It was both, but if you wan to take Xion out, we all know it could have been Roxas only as well if she didn't exist (which, let's face it: she didn't). To be truthful, he never alienates Roxas when concerning his views. Xion just sort of tacked on.

So don't peg all this growth solely on her part, because that's not true. There were other forces at work. I can safely even bigger ones.

** Xion had no purpose. Anything that had to do with BBS didn't concern her, and the only part that did was more or less the fact that Xigbar saw her as Ven at one point (and that rests on Sora and Roxas, considering that was more of a reaction to Sora's memories that Xion only holds, not her exactly).
2. Dual wielding can be easily explained by Sora or Ventus. You know it's true.
3. The Deep Dive scene....did anyone notice the fact that Riku was already there waiting in the skyscraper? What was going to happen, a peaceful talk? Tea party? So you mean to tell me he wasn't there in any possible way to stop Roxas, when Diz came right after Roxas was defeated, and had Data Twilight Town all set for this moment? Did Xion went into everyone's mind, then? That was perhaps the biggest slip of the whole game. Sorry, don't buy it, can't buy it. Especially since Roxas throwing the keyblade could be explained in pure action that he was surrounded by heartless, succumbed, jumped out of the way and looked around the swarm (honestly, why make it look this way if it wasn't going to serve anything?), and saw the hooded figure on top, and asked silently for his aid. Granted, we don't know the reason, but Roxas and Riku did meet in the game before. Something else could've went on. Or it can be the Sora inside Roxas, which also appeared when Riku was taunting him, and when he finally admitted, "You really are his Nobody." Done deal.
4. Roxas turned out to be needed regardless of whether Xion had been there or not. It's not like Sora recovered when she died, after all, even though his memories either returned to him or Roxas (still confused on that aspect). Take it this way - if Sora's memories did leak, and it was made a plot point still, it would go to Roxas if Xion was nowhere in the game (considering the interview with the creators stated that Sora's memories went through Roxas and into her...after) like 358/2 Days finished with. If Sora's memories didn't leak, they will remain with him or a part of Roxas like 358/2 Days finished with. Spot a pattern? KH2 wouldn't have changed, in other words. Roxas was more of the rightful key, no matter how it went. Xion exists? Xion does not exist? Makes no scratch, end of.

So it was back to square one anyway. I mean, does anyone actually see the sense of this? Honest answer?

358/2 Days basically made a simple explanation more complicated, confusing, and convoluted.

** As if all this wasn't enough, we'll take the "impact" she had on Roxas. It's one thing to not remember somebody, even when some memories of your past life comes back, like Roxas's time in the Organization's did. Except that, for Xion being this GREAT, IMPORTANT REASON for Roxas to leave, and the "main", he finds no problem as to why he abandoned his former comrades when the supposed "source" of it is gone. Especially when you consider his argument with Axel in 358/2 Days and the "no one would miss me" scene. If someone had this much influence, wouldn't you think a huge part or piece is missing? Wouldn't Roxas think that there are some dots not connecting? He didn't question it, and whatever he did figure out, was fine with him as good reasons to have ditched Organization XIII, apparently. Which brings to question Xion's role as a whole. If you have an explanation, please, do so. Other than it was made up, because, that's as obvious as the computer screen you're staring at.

Overall, it was a big waste of time. 358/2 Days was probably the most filler I have ever seen of a side game, and most of what happened isn't even remembered. ALL of it. It's not just Sora who forgets (who even was hinted to possibly have gained it back in KH2: FM+). ALL. And the reason why was the cop-out said above. Was Xion advertised and made to be important? Maybe. Was she really? Not in the spam of things. She's a 'clone' of Sora/Roxas, created by the Organisation that nobody mentioned by out of something-about-Sora's-lost-memories-complicated-mumble-something contrived and convoluted because they apparently needed an extra keyblade user cause is whatever contrived and convoluted (and it's funny, considering that Nomura never had come up to what Xion would be, so I wonder what he thought about having only Roxas be the Organization's prime keyblade wielder. What? Couldn't have done it without her?). Nomura finds it clever, I find it nonsensical.

Yet, I've already lost faith in the director (this isn't even accounting to his meddling in the FF series and FF7 compilation). Too many asspulls to account for, and it keeps multiplying. I don't know how many people Sora can have inside him (because, apparently, no game is ever without a "Sora" or some trio poo, it's impossible) without somehow breaking apart or have his soul be completely firetrucked up by this point. Seriously. It's ridiculous. He's not even just Sora anymore: he's the physical body bin out of all the Sora selves he has within. Whether it be his memories, his heart, his soul, his hair, his boots, his face, his energy, his arm, his ass, his blood vein...

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From my interpretation of KH2 and the FM+ scenes, Roxas was in the Organisation because he wanted to know who he was, why he had the Keyblade, and to eventually get a heart. The Organisation lied to him, seemed to have told him that if they stuck with him he'd find out what he wanted to know, and get a heart. They needed his Keyblade so that they could make Kingdom Hearts. The truth of the matter was, though, that Roxas would never get a heart or find out anything through Kingdom Hearts or the Organisation; they already knew who he was, and his heart was inside Sora. So, I always thought that Roxas either figured it out through dreams or perhaps Riku, or even Axel might have let something slip (having met Sora), and then Roxas was angry. They lied to him. He would never get his answers with them, and he would never get his heart. His heart and answers were with Sora. He would have been angry or even just turned indifferent to Axel for lying to him, and his reasons for being with the Org were gone. So, he left.

Maybe that doesn't sound like a good enough reason to you, but it never sounded weak or plot-holey to me at all.

To your original question: Well, obviously she can't be a real Sue because she's actually in the game, and not fan-created. But, she does share a lot of traits with a lot of Sues, in my opinion.

150 Years of Mary Sue, by Pat Pflieger <---I've done a lot of looking around, and this seems to be the best analysis of Sues, which I found linked to on TVtropes. If you don't believe this is the correct description, then of course you won't think Xion's a Sue, but here are some traits:

+She's very close to Roxas, Axel, and Riku, who risk themselves and their important goals (in Riku's case) for her sake.
+When she's off-screen they are almost always talking about her or asking where she is or worrying about her or planning to go look for her (and don't say that this is not her 'fault' because she has a very sad and troubled life, it is the fact that the story is about this that makes it similar to a Sue story).
+She is mistreated by Saix, who is set up as a 'bad guy', and then subsequently defended and comforted by Roxas and Axel.
+She has a keyblade. And yes, I know that many of the characters in this series have Keyblades--but it is pretty much a staple of KH OCs (and I have read a tonne of badfic in my time) for the Sues to have Keyblades. And her Keyblade is explained by her being a clone of Sora with his most important memories of Kairi so she looks like a girl... letting her use a 'fake' Keyblade... if you ask me (and you did), this is pretty contrived. It's a stretch of the imagination.
+She swings between badass ("don't worry about what Saix says, I can handle him", *kills darkside in one hit*) and curling up in a sad little ball on her bed and needing comforting.
+She has a generic, sweet, caring, selfless, noble personality. Everything she does, she does for her friends, right up until she dies. Even when she runs away to find out who she is, part of it is because she is affecting Roxas.
+She faints/collapses nine times in the game, and lies in the arms of all three of the games main bishies.
+She looks like a generic Japanese girl with no special physical features; she's an easy place-holder.
+Roxas' over-protectiveness of her causes him to fight with Axel, and then it's her mediation that brings the two back together. (Sues often are the ones who solve problems between the popular characters).
+Her whole story (her creation, her life, her death) is dogged by tragedy. Just listen to her theme music.
+She turns out to have actually been the drive behind everything that happened in Deep Dive, which was a pre-existing scene (Sues can turn out to have been the important influence behind well-known events all along, in fanfic). She also makes certain plot holes: when Roxas left, why did he say 'why did the keyblade chose me? I have to know', and not mention Xion, or lies? And if everyone forgot about her when she died, what did the Org think they had been doing for a whole year? She was such an integral part of their plans.
+She has a beautiful, sparkly, death scene which occurred because of her nobleness--she chose to die so Roxas could live, despite knowing he would forget her.
+She is the reason for everything Roxas does (even the reason he leaves the Organisation and the reason he met Riku in Deep Dive; he was off to avenge her), and the circumstances around her drive the entire plot. In fact, you cannot take her out of this story the way it is without it collapsing. Every other plotline has to connect to her in some way. I mean, this is the plot in a nutshell:

Plot arc 1: finding out what Nobodies, Heartless and Keyblades are
Plot arc 2: Axel goes to CO, missing him, meeting Xion
Plot arc 3: Xion goes missing, looking for Xion, helping Xion with her Keyblade
Plot arc 4: Xion fights Riku and loses, Xion is depressed, Roxas worries about Xion
Plot arc 5: Xion goes into a coma, Roxas worries about Xion, Xion's health is shaky and she faints again soon after waking
Plot arc 6: Xion runs away to find out who she is, Roxas worries a lot, Roxas and Axel defy orders to look for her, Xion is saved by Riku and runs around with Riku
Plot arc 7: Axel knocks Xion out to bring her home causing Roxas and Axel to fight, Xion helps them resolve it
Plot arc 8: Xion keeps stealing Roxas' power, her guilt, his confusion
Plot arc 9: Org pits the two against eachother to fight to the death but axel interferes. this plot could have been epic, but it lasts one day
and is resolved on the clock tower that afternoon
Plot arc 10: Xion runs away again, to sacrifice herself, Roxas is angry with Axel for letting her go, Axel is torn, the truth comes out and Roxas is even angrier
Plot arc 11: Roxas runs away from the Org, Axel stops Xion and brings her back, Xion sacrifices herself by forcing Roxas to kill her
Plot arc 12: Roxas sets off to avenge Xion and free Kingdom Hearts like she asked, loses to Riku.

After the initial setting up of Axel and Roxas' friendship and the basic world of KH, Xion's tragic story and her decisions drive absolutely everything, and for most of the game, all Roxas does is worry about her or chase after her. I mean, wasn't Roxas meant to be the main character of this game? Why can't he drive it himself? Oh wait, because a special girl is the most important thing in the world to him, of course she drives everything...

A before-unheard of young girl with a generic or no personality who is the absolute focus of a popular main character to the point of being unreasonable (see how he treats Axel sometimes when their conflict is about her) is pretty much what I call a Sue, if I see it in a fanfic.

Feel free to disagree, but I'm not really going to change my opinion any time soon.

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GAIZ, I PRESENT TO YOU NOMURA PRE-XION BULL (oh, Nomura, you got so lost along the way):

On the subject of characters, all the mysterious XIII Organization members finally appeared in KHII. Was it you who thought up of their settings?
Nomura: No, I didn’t completely decide on everything; a few people were also part of it. But Xemnas as #1 and Roxas as #13 has always been in the initial settings of the creation of the XIII Organization.

So, let’s talk about this new story, which doesn’t have Sora as the main character. What sort of story will it be?
Tetsuya Nomura: Well, I need to start with the story depicted in a Birth by Sleep. Aside from that, there’s the story of how the King found his keyblade in the world of darkness and other things like that. Myself, one of the things I most want to do is to give Roxas more of a role to play. I think it would be interesting to flesh out more of the year he spent between his birth and disappearance. Or making Riku the main character, and writing about his desperate fight while Sora was asleep, and things like that. You get the impression that Riku summoned Roxas to a place of shadows, and that Riku is a master of shadows, so I would like to give him more exploration in the game.

Where the hell did this all go? And where's Xion? I thought everything was her behind it .

When was Organization XIII founded?
Nomura: The timing is when Philosopher Ansem's 6 disciples turned into Heartless. Organization XIII is only called like that because it has recruited 13 members, but it doesn’t matter if it has “XIII” in its name or not. All 13 members were already gathered in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories but the members that were in Castle Oblivion still called it "The Organization".

What triggered Roxas’ separation from the Organization?
Nomura: As he kept having recurring dreams of Sora, someone he didn’t know, he felt he needed to leave the Organization to find out who these people he didn’t know were. As Axel didn’t want him to go, he didn’t tell Sora about Roxas in Castle Oblivion, did he?

Whoa, whoa, but I thought Nomura had it in mind that Roxas is so passive that he could never act by himself without Xi-Xi-chan. Isn't this what we've been hearing lately? IT IS NOT POSSIBLE! Dx

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On May 30, 2009, tragedy struck the Organization XIII, as three of its members were betrayed by their own creators and sacrificed to the ravenous demon known as “Plot Device the Terrible.” (Another popular name is “Xion.”) Their names were Xaldin, Demyx, and Luxord, and they became the victims of Plot Device after they were deemed unworthy of depth and further characterization.

Xaldin was a scientist who studied the mysteries of the heart along with Xehanort and the other four apprentices to Ansem the Wise. He was last seen in the area known as Beast’s Castle, before the Great Xion arrived and quickly diverted everyone’s attention to sea-salt ice cream before she devoured him. Although we do not seek to minimize the tragedy behind any of these deaths, the fate of Xaldin was particularly painful, as he had hoped that close contact with Xehanort, the main villain of the series, would be enough to spare him. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

Demyx was a musician who intrigued his fans with the notion that he did too have a heart, and also stood out as one of the only members that reacted to everything with fear or a strong sense of dis-motivation. His apparent lack of strength, aside from initiating an epic boss fight that left gamers writhing in agony, seemed to directly contradict the proper definition of a Nobody. A Nobody, after all, requires a strong heart in order to exist, so logically, he should have possessed some strong traits as well. Sadly, Demyx never got the opportunity to demonstrate the qualities that allowed him to become one of the rare, human Nobodies. He was lured to the Altar of Naught, where Plot Device the Terrible was waiting for him. His death came much too soon.

Luxord was a gambler who enjoyed talking about everything in terms of luck and chance. In his life, he managed to do what few others could accomplish: outsmart the legendary Captain Jack Sparrow. Though his snarky attitude charmed many, he also respected Roxas as a fellow colleague while they went on missions together. At least, we think he did. The world will never know who Luxord was or what his motivations might have been. Though he should have been protected from death by the cursed Aztec gold that he had stolen in Port Royal, the Great Xion considered herself above such petty things as laws of nature, plot holes, and established canon. At least his death was quick.

Xaldin is survived by his Original Self, Dilan, who at least appeared in Birth by Sleep for a short period of time. Demyx and Luxord are only survived by their mourning fanbases, who will always keep the memory of their potential alive. Long may their legacies continue in the world of fanfiction!

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Where I Belong
a xion/bed fanfiction by HeartSeams, goldpanner, Virgiltheart, NumverVIII Reika, and 8298906

After another long day of being ridiculed by Saix, Xion once again wept all night long on her precious bed, a gift from her favorite author, Stephanie Meyer. She weeped and weeped and weeped. Then moaned a little. She stroked the bed. The bed.... was the only thing that could understand her pain. It too was a TOOL.

Xion sighed and stroked the soft cotton sheets of her bed, using the corners of them to wipe the tears from her eyes.

"Oh, bed," she whispered, "I'm so glad you're always here for me. I know I can always count on you to be there for me, because I'm too sweet and caring and considerate to bother my friends with my silly little life. Even though they said I should come to them, I know it's better to shut them out and run away to you. They'll love me no matter what I do, so this is best for everyone." Then she curled up in the blankets and cried herself to sleep.

It truly was a horrible day. Saix had nagged and berated her as often as he could today, because she had wet the bed. But how could she tell him that the soaked material-covered mattress were merely wet with her tears? No doubt he would call her useless, a tool, a mistake, the usual.

"W-we tools.... must stick together," she whispered to the white sheets, grasping the flat pillow and bawling into the feather-stuffed cotton.... again.

So the two spent the night together, like they had every night since fighting Riku. She knew it was wrong, and she always hated herself for it in the morning, but, being the glutton for punishment that she was, she continued this like a nightly ritual. The bed never complained, of course. Typical beds. You could trust them as far as you could throw them. Not that she's ever tried; she's much too weak, sometimes, from depression to even lift it, let alone throw it. Nevertheless, the bed was still always there to comfort her when all of her boy toys just weren't enough.

Xion woke up the next morning wrapped in her cotton bed sheets.

"HAAAAAAAAA," the young girl sighed with joy. "I'm always the happiest when I'm with you!"

She tossed and turned in her sheets before realizing there was work to be done. She got up, put on her coat and her high heeled boots, and then made her bed.

She sat on her bed and began to stroke the sheets. "You've always been with me haven't you," said Xion sincerely. "Through my highs and lows, you've always been there to show me the good in life!" The girl stopped and started to whisper. "I love you. Though I may be away from you at times, I'll never forget you. Goodbye bed."

Xion started to walk to her bedroom door, but before she could get over the threshold, she looked back at her bed and began to tear up.

The girl waved goodbye to her bed, then ran through the halls of emptiness with eyes full of tears.

"Yo Xion!" said Xion's redheaded BFF, but she just ran past him in tears, face in her hands. He rolled his eyes and grunted. "What the hell happened this time!?"

Xion/Bed screenshot by Cherryjuice

Hey guys, when Xion broke into the Organization's computer, she left this on the cache:

http://www.myfutonstore.com/catalog/images/pacifica-bed.jpg

NOTES:
+No transphobia.
+Keep ship bashing (if you have to) to ships with Xion in them, please. I don't mean you can't mention you personally don't like a pairing, I mean please don't be offensive. Use discretion.
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You can dislike other people's opinions, but that's where it ends. There should be no name-calling, insulting, what-have-you.

So, no insults targeting individual Xion fans, kay? If you've got something to say, PM, please.
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+If you like Xion and still decide to come in here, that's fine! We love civil and intelligent debate, and you're welcome to browse without responding. But if you get offended and decide to post 'U GUYS ALL SUCK XION IS BETTER THAN U', you're not going to get much out of it.

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Useless plot device, amirite?

So... are we supposed to call Xion a sue or a stu?

I hate how everyone only loves her because she's "better than Kairi". Like seriously, is that the only reason people like her? =___=

Xion is a filler character guys, she seriously is >~>

she ruined the game for me..

she was really firetrucking useless for the sake of all...only benefited her own story. pisses me off.

Quite bland, and boring. In the beginning, anyway. Then it got interesting in a bad way with the wangst. I don't know which one is worse.

If Xion was real, while safe to be with, I'll start to wonder if she's an alien at the same time, or if she was even real. It's like the Stepford Wives.

with or without her, KH2 would have turned out the way it did no matter what happened. Dual wielding could easily be connected to Ventus, if it isn't already, and they actually could have emphasized that further as part of the plot. Better than a nonsensical idea of a clone made of memories, erm, yeah. What other piece of Sora is going to be used next? Energy? It was completely stupid and ridiculous to add Xion in Deep Dive as well, considering it ruined it. You expected some sort of sole Roxas time with Riku, you know? But, of course, we didn't get enough of Xion yet. Roxas's connection to Sora could have made Roxas throw Oblivion (like when Riku taunted him and he answered like Sora would, for one). Or, take the other example with Roxas needing help to defeat the heartless (which is very obviously presented in both the secret trailer, and the in-game scene), and he spotted Riku for extra hand. I mean, they did meet at some point during the game, and, other than what it did turn out to be, who knows what else could have occurred.

And what sealed the deal? Roxas gained back memories of Sora, or at least, everything was returned to the proper place. Regardless. None of these were even plot holes, just not furthered explained. So, basically, we went 200 or so days doing nothing plot worthy, then comes the wangsting (the whole firetrucking game turned into wangsting). The whole "who I am?", stuff about existence, that we went through with Roxas back in KH2, and with Riku Replica (Nomura, you and your lack of originality sucks. One point of more dislike there). Xion is easily replaceable. You can write her out, and KH2 will be left just the same (which was maybe the point, but then no one should have created Xion in the first place if they knew it was going to contradict with the sequel). Everyone forgetting about her made it permanent (gee, I wonder why, Nomura? Because it was bull poo and you had no other way of explaining your ass pulls?).

Xion didn't start to be irritating until she began fainting every second when I got to the part (if you're going to say you're fine, then keep up with it), and apparently, every attractive boy who's a main character, is either there to capture her in their arms in the nick of time, carry her, or save her. In fact, that was the start where my roll of eyes became extremely constant. The most out there Mary Sue trait I have ever seen were placed in those moments. Not even Kairi or Naminé get the treatment. And on top of that, this is also where the "poor me" Xion pity starts with all the nightmare, moping, bowing heads, her sad self, etc. takes the whole plot. So...if anything, that's actually my main pet peeve. I truly dislike, and this is from the get go of my life, when I feel like something is making me feel something. Forcing it. I do it myself. I was alright with Roxas, he wasn't in my face. Riku Replica wasn't either, and yet, their story got through just fine. Xion felt like the whole point of her existence was to be pitied and be sympathized with.

the whole clone of memories was nonsensical. Nomura called it clever, yet, I honestly question his thought process. Was he thinking of what else to take from Sora? His energy? His leg? His hair? How to make everyone forget Xion, pretend it never happened, clean the slate, and basically cover up his made-up ass pull? And now Naminé technically chained up "Xion" with the rest of the memories, and put it back...so now who knows what part went where? Riku Replica made more sense because he was a normal clone, real body, DNA taken off data, but nothing eccentric.

(THIS was the post in which she actually joined. That always makes me laugh XD)

It's one thing when you have an unavoidable fate, but to drag it out about how sad, how the rest except the main characters(lawl) are mean to her, how she's crying, how Riku owned her ass and said a couple of things, and that got her to bring some pathetic, stupid, ridiculous scream (both English and Japanese) that made me actually bark a laugh at how WTfish it was. I mean, Gawd, it wasn't that big of a damn deal...especially to a guy...no, a stranger, that's being a dick in the first place >.>. Does...that make sense to you? Oh, your keyblade is fake. Boo-hoo, cry me a damn river and cut my wrist. A good "stfu unknown dude. Your blindfold is fake, bitch" would suffice. Done and done. Yet, Xion is spineless in the midst of things. Then the nightmare, where she was writhing or something. The fainting. I was basically waiting for the clock to tick to see what else they come up with next to write her all tragic or whatever.

Twinkle twinkle little shard,/How I wonder what memory you are./Floating up the world so high,/Like your death cheers people in the sky.

I find that Xion fainting every second with some bishie waiting there to catch her and do some poo like brush her bangs is a far worse offense.

to the protagonists, 'she's' a flawless un-hatable Sue in the game-verse. As a real person looking at her as a character that was created by someone, I think she's a mark of terrible writing. Whether you like 'her' or not isn't the question, it's whether you care about bad writing or not.

I was wondering about it randomly the other day. I was wondering if she has any genitals. Cause, it's not like a clone would need them. Why would Vexen build her with any? Besides, it makes no sense, if she looks different to different people. So... let's just say Xigbar and Axel both saw her naked at the same time. Would Xigbar see Ven's d**k and Axel see Kairi's p***y? And, are they seeing an illusion each or is it physical?? WHAT IF THE THREE WERE HAVING SEX. HOW WOULD THAT EVEN WORK. IT BREAKS MY BRAIN. (Things I think about while mopping floors orz)

And if you step back and take a look at the scene... she's pretty much a Japanese girl (with Sora's eyes) being held in the arms of the pretty boys... doesn't take a genuis to figure out what they're aiming for there.

I thought the whole other/nobody thing was cool, and the Ansem/DiZ/Xehanort/Xemnas/Riku/??? mindfiretruck is very interesting and complicated. Well... this is how I feel pre-BbS. If it gets stupid, I may feel differently. It got stupid with Xion.

I do kind of agree that Roxas had a few flaws in Days, though. Namely, his always jumping immediately and irrationally to Xion's side. But that's just what happens to male leads when they are in the vicinity of a Sue; it's a reflection of the horrible writing surrounding Xion rather than a reason to dislike 'Roxas'.

The poor Sue had so many plot device problems to need all that ~consolation~ and ~worry~ :/

I cannot comprehend liking or hating Xion as a character. There's nothing real there. Hating her as a piece of atrocious writing now... that I understand.

I hate her because everything about her entire story and personality is an example of the most noob retarded badfic.

I don't truly hate characters based on their personalities. For example! I hate Vexen, he's creepy. But, I recognise that he was written to be creepy, and it was pulled off well, so I like him for being a good addition to the story. This love of goo writing balances the hate of the character. However, Xion is one big piece of fail writing, and I cannot STAND that. I hate the bad writing, and this in turn causes all the little scenes in which we are meant to get to like her to fail on me, and instead make me hate her more. The hate of bad writing fuels the hate of the character.

RokuNami already saddened me... like, Roxas was forced to live as a copy of Sora, even in girlfriends. RokuXion is even worse, because that's before Namine messed with his head.

I don't think she had much character development at all, in that she didn't really learn or change, as far as I can see. She had a lot of screentime, and a lot of character interaction, but she didn't really develop. Sues DON'T need character development. In Xion's case, it is because her personality fits whatever the plot calls for; she's a plot device. Therefore, her core character has no need to learn or change.

Xion is a whiny ass little failed experiment that went horribly wrong. I LOL'd like hell!!!XD

SHE IS THE ONLY CHARACTER THAT MADE ME ANGRY THAT SHE EXISTED! IT RUINED THE STORY! IF NOMURA WANTED A STORY LIKE DAYS TO OF BEEN MADE IT SHOULD NOT BEEN IN THE KH UNIVERSE! SHE DIDN'T FILL PLOT HOLES AND SHE DIDN'T MAKE PLOT HOLES! SHE DID NOTHING FOR THE STORY! GAAAAAAAAAAH!

Thats the reason Axel commited suicide because he started getting memories of Xion again

I LOL'D when I heard her "scream" after she got beaten up by Riku.

When I first heard that there was a "fourteenth member", I got excited. Then I saw her in a screenshot. I didn't really like her. She was just "ok". So I went on with other people agreeing that (forgive me) Xion was awesome because she had a keyblade and fought better than Kairi. But when I saw the Jap trailer with Xion rambling and being emo(not that there's anything wrong with being emo), the first thing that came into my mnd was "I think some people are gonna hate her." I didn't really have the right words since at that time I didn't know what a Mary Sue. So I saw more vieos and screenshots, found out her role and soon played the game. Before I knew it, I was murmuring "Sue!!" and laughing whenever a character said something mean to/about her or whenever she was in pain.

she's like hate-glue. or hitler. nobody liked hitler so even countries that hated eachother joined together.

I hate Xion just as much as I raisins *yuck!*

I have this horrible habit to hate all the KH-females (Larxene is an exception though), so I decided to give her a chance. I kinda wanted to like her. It seems like the game is completely centered on her. She didn't exist before 358/2 Days was announced, there weren't even hints about it, but suddenly, she's there skipping, wielding a keyblade and being more important than Roxas... I'm not a huge fan of AkuRoku, but they we're so special as a duo, in a friendship way. And then this USELESS, EMO KAIRI-A-LIKE (*hates Kairi from the very bottom of her heart*) HOPS IN AND RUINS EVERYTHING AND MAKES ROXAS WIELD A WOODEN STICK. ARGH. She made such wonderful friends like Axel and Roxas, and then goes backstabbing.
I probably had something more and smarter to say but I brainfarted.
I had a fun time killing her. *mashes buttons*

-Mary Sue
-No Personality
-Ultimate fail at trying to add a lovable character
-for some, a total cockblock
-Everyone loves her from the start
-she has no flaws, apart from her severe emo and self-centredness that can hardly be considered one.
-Useless addition to the plot
-BUTT ugly
-Just all around a major pain to look at

I feel that bringing Xion was just an un-necessary and not so subtle way of pushing SoKai down our throats.

Roxas game you say Nomura. Really? You sure, because I saw something quite different. Why did the entire plot, even after her death, revolve around her? Why were mostly all the secret reports, dialogue, even between the head hochos in the org, roxas diary entries etc about her if this was indeed his game? He was more like a side character in this, and if he( the so called main character) was actually a side character then the rest of the org were wallpaper. Which brings me to my next point.
Not only was this supposed to be Roxas's game, but an organization game as well. Roxas/Axel screen-time revolved around Xion. The rest of the freaking 11 characters barely showed up. What happened to the character development that they so desperately needed? Of course Nomura gave a bunch to Axel, but that was eye-rolling expected since he's been d*ck-riding him for a while. However, Nomura claimed that Xigbar is supposed to be important to BBS and people think Xenmas is Terra and yet the character development for both is basically none-existent. Of course Saix got a bit of screen-time because who was he being mean to. That's right Xion. Who was in almost every scene he was in. Axel.
Why make 13 characters if only two, plus one that came out of nowhere, were the only ones that were going to get any thing resembling character development? What about the other apprentices, Diz, these oh so important, mysterious rooms that were said in the vein of a passing afterthought etc. So sure she had character development, but it was a double-edged sword for me. On one side she's now a character, and thus she needs development. She got that. So that's a plus. However, on the other side it was at the expense of other established characters. Xion took their development and ate it. Didn't even leave a crumb.
Pointless- So she made Roxas learn duel-wielding. Who seriously cared? I just thought he could because of Sora. That would have been a perfect explanation. I mean he is his nobody.
She's a replica. So the whole plot was just a more in-dept Re:Com?! A whole plot, and character development wasted on another replica storyline. Which became even more pointless when just like Com everything went back to ground zero.
Xigbar knew Ven? Of course he did because he actually alluded to knowing other wielders himself in Kh2. We didn't need Xion for that. We didn't need Xion in Days period.
Faux Action Girl- She showed promise when she took down that darkside, and then again when she destroyed that heartless in argabrah, but between those times and the end nothing. She got a beat down from every fight she was in. Girl Sora? Please. Keyblade wielder my ass. Sora is a god-mode sue. Xion wasn't even half that, and don't get me started on the fainting. I mean I know it was a story reason why she did,but please explain to me why she fainted way more times then Roxas did. He also didn't have the pretty bishies all over him when he did either. She was more like a damsel in distress then an action girl.
Sympathy Sue- From beginning, middle, and end her story felt like a deliberate trauma congo line. It's like Nomura thought well I know some of the fanbase will be pissed about this (asspull) 14th member so let's make her story real sad to pull at their heartballstrings. Then they'll like her and forgive me! He won and loss with me. Sure I felt sorry for her. Mostly at her death and the beautiful piece that was playing through it,but I would have felt more genuine emotion throughout the game instead of annoyance if her whole story didn't feel like it was screaming feel sorry for me NOW combined with all the other things that bothered me about her. If done right a trauma conga line can turn characters into woobies. However, if done wrong you get sympathy sues like Xion.
Marysue- Not only did this 14th member of organization 13 come out of oblivion she just had to look like Kairi didn't she.What number are we on now? While wielding a key-blade,and being instant BFF to the two most popular bishie org members. Then she has a forced takeover sob story to boot. Why does this sound like a fan-fiction character?
Hmm, how odd my annoyance list is longer than what I like about her. Uh Oh....

the real w.t.f moment came for me with Riku. Last time she saw him she was lying on the ground screaming like a donkey from the ass-kicking he gave her. The next time he's rubbing her bangs while she has another sympathy sue nightmare. Then she wakes up in his arms and is like wanna be my BFF? It's like the beat down didn't happen.

More reasons from first 30 pages~

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So I tried a little experiment recently.
Two points of interest:
- Xion's theme genuinely pulls at my heart strings every time I listen to it.
- And I found Xion's death scene to be sad.
This is odd, given that I never cared for her. Why all of a sudden would I feel something Xion had never evoked within me throughout the game, despite her many attempts to do so.
After thinking about this for some time, I thought, what if the first point influences the second? That is, the only reason why I felt sad during Xion's death was because of the music.
So I checked out Xion's death scene again, this time with the volume so low that the voices were practically the only thing audible (still had to tune the music out in my mind somewhat).
As expected I felt nothing.
And then I tried the opposite: superimposing Xion's theme on to other sad events, like Axel's death (hell, even some non-KH scenes). Lo and behold, they all seemed exponentially sadder.
This may just attest to the fact that I am an emotionally shallow being who is more moved by what I hear than my fellow man, but it still proves I don't care for Xion.
You should all try it, pretty fun.
Or moar liek
Pretty sad D;

I could have tolerated the sueness, and the eye-rolling let's pull at the viewers heartstrings plot if she was more like a background character. Which she should have been since she was a retcon asspull. I don't like that the majority of the dialogue, dairy entries, story itself, the fmv cutscenes, and secret reports were about her. This was supposed to be Roxas, and by extension the already established organization members, game. Not hers, and there lies me biggest problem with Xion.
Oh Xion I could have loved you. If you wasn't such a monopolizing, ass-pulling edition to an already set canon. Her being a sue( a sign of bad writing as is) just threw the putrid icing on an already bs cake.

When did she have time to tell Riku " Hurr dur Riku I'm about to let Roxas kill me. So be at TWTNW at around 9:00 pm so I can tell you( even though she's supposed to be in Sora at the time) to stop Roxas from fighting Xenmas." She didn't even know she was going to have to fight Roxas and die by his hand in the first place. Her initial plan was to let Namine re-merge her with Sora. Everything just bullshitted into place way to conveniently.
Riku was going to take Roxas whether Xion interfered or not. It had nothing to do with stopping him from getting to Xenmas. He didn't just happen to be there so he could have tea and crumpets with him or something. The whole freaking thing was planned by Riku and Diz from he start! Wait for Roxas(maybe he was coming from a mission for all Riku knew) and kidnap him so Sora could wake up. I mean we even see Riku scoping out TWTNW even before DD came to fruition!

I don't really hate Xion, but I do think she is extremely underwhelming as a character and a poor addition to the cast. The part that was most aggravating about Xion, IMO, was how it was shoved down our throats at every given moment that we are supposed to pity her. So, I guess it would be more accurate to say that, while I don't hate Xion, I hate how she affects the story.
And don't even get me started about how they added her into Deep Dive. Ugh. That was almost painful to watch.

As blacksamurai2 said on the BBS spoiler thread... 'so glad they didn't Xion this game' XDDDD
DAYS, WHY WHERE YOU NOT LIKE THIS?? Oh wait. Cause you didn't have a plot that centred around several characters and how their personalities drove it. CARRY ON. orz

Xion needs to fall off a cliff and into shark-infested waters. D:

There are two reasons why I didn't like Days.
1. Camera rotation.
2. Xion.

98% of KH fans would try to save Xion if they saw her on a cliff over shark-infested waters, about to jump. Copy and paste this to your sig if you're part of the 2% that would PUSH her off.

I don't think I can say anything anyone above me had said that wouldn't be repetitive as to why. The whole game felt like Xion was merely created to be pitied, and we had to see how much she suffered, how a pathetic scream and tears got to her when Riku was a complete and utter stranger (but next time he was brushing her bangs, so suddenly all is good), the nightmare, how the evil villains (except the main characters, naturally) were so cruel to poor Xion (there really isn't anything in her personality that draws me in. If there's any Mary Sue term that she fits, as long as it revolves into perfection, it's her character. Nice, sweet, kind, selfless, actions centered on the sake of everyone and her friends...it can go on), and all wrapped up in her death. The whole thing seemed forced...just to utilize the word, especially when the game actually stated "poor Xion" (which, if it didn't turn me off by that point, permanently did there). It couldn't get as more obvious as it was then what they were trying to do to the audience. Her story isn't anything we haven't seen with Roxas and Riku Replica (they even died the same way) either. Of course, since Nomura couldn't screw up the sequel, with no one mentioning her in any way whatsoever in the series, they made everyone lose the memories. The cop out didn't sit well with me at all, because if you were aware of the plot hole, why create it? For the sake of some story that could've been anything else?
Other things that have been pointed out in places, and I agree with, it's that Xion had no purpose. Anything that had to do with BBS didn't concern her, and the only part that did was more or less the fact that Xigbar saw her as Ven at one point (and that rests on Sora and Roxas, truly). Dual wielding can be easily explained by Sora or Ventus. The Deep Dive scene....did anyone notice the fact that Riku was already there waiting in the skyscraper? What was going to happen, a peaceful talk? So you mean to tell me he wasn't there in any possible way to stop Roxas, when Diz came right after Roxas was defeated, and had Data Twilight Town all set for this moment? Did Xion went into everyone's mind, then? That was perhaps the biggest slip of the whole game. Sorry, don't buy it, can't buy it. Especially since Roxas throwing the Keyblade could be explained in pure action that he was surrounded by Heartless, succumbed, jumped out of the way and looked around the swarm (honestly, why make it look this way if it wasn't going to serve anything?), and saw the hooded figure on top, and asked silently for his aid. Granted, we don't know the reason, but Roxas and Riku did meet in the game before. Something else could've went on. Or it can be the Sora inside Roxas, which also appeared when Riku was taunting him, and when he finally admitted, "You really are his Nobody." Done deal.
Take her out, and you have to wonder. Was it made to look like she had a point? Maybe. Did she really? As of the moment, zero. I apologize, I don't take being cute as a reason to like a character.
With people questioning that if she was a guy, she wouldn't get this much hate, same thing could be said by her being female. Even though the truth is that "she" isn't. Would you feel sorry for her if the appearance was male as it died?
I accept that she now, while previously she didn't, exists. Don't accept this "importance" or have to accept said character. 358/2 Days as whole didn't give much compared to other side stories, to be truthful. It stands completely out on its own.
And, the whole death scene was made grandiose because of the melody/music that was playing. Silence it, and it isn't as effective, which should be tried once. Xion can thank Shimomura.

I was actually willing to overlook the WTF-ness of including a new nobody who was a walking fanfic cliche if I ended up liking her/her story, and when I first started playing, I did. I liked her spunk and some of her quotes, as well as the trio dynamic (plus she's adorable, imo). Then as the story started progressing it all became about "poor Xion" and how tragic and selfless she is (and don't even get me started on the fainting). There are plenty of other characters in the series who suffered a tremendous amount, but for some reason it's only Xion whose sympathy is shoved down our throats. Even now I still like certain aspects about her character (I guess you can say I'm more indifferent towards her/dislike how she affects the other characters more than anything else), but thinking about the pity parade makes me want to roll my eyes.

You know what else I dislike about Xion? What she brought out in Roxas.
I don't mean his generic pretty-boy defense of the sue, I'm talking about his actual personality.
After the initial slump where he was devoid of memories, he was absurdly Sora-esque. Maybe a bit deeper, and certainly more angsty, but Sora-esque nonetheless.
That is not to say he was relatable, or even likable at that, but it's not the Roxas I had envisioned in Organization XIII. I found it to be disappointing that the other half of Sora, what was supposed to be the darker half, had, in actuality, a cheery disposition for nearly his entire existence.
The Roxas of Organization XIII I had seen in KH2, while the cutscenes of him were few and far inbetween, was cold and, yes, heartless, like a Nobody should be. Or maybe I had just interpreted them wrong, but everything, right down to his mannerisms, seemed to be the antithesis of the happy-go-lucky Sora.
And that's not to say I didn't want to see the Sora side of Roxas either. In fact, I would have much preferred a progression of character development that led Roxas to ultimately become like his Somebody.
That is, his experiences in the Disney world, his bond with Axel, and his memories of Sora would steadily turn what was an apathetic being into a caring one. Note that when I say "apathetic," I don't mean emo or hardcore, just genuinely and definably "apathetic." We only got to see this side of Roxas when he was devoid of memories and roughly as dense as concrete. By the time he meets Xion, yeah, he's coherent and he's Sora.
Couldn't they have expanded more on that progression between uncaring and caring? What does it truly feel like to feel anger, sadness, happiness, etc. as if for the first time?
To be fair, that's a fault of the game in general, but had Xion never existed (which she might as well not have), you can certainly imagine how Roxas would be different. By throwing Xion into the mix, it would be impossible for Roxas to be anything other than what he was from the get-go, or rather from the moment he met Xion. He had to be the Sora to her Kairi, otherwise she'd be even more useless than she already is. So, in sum, she pretty much epitomizes everything that was wrong with Roxas.

358/2 Days was the perfect example of convolution that was not in any way, form, or prospect, needed whatsoever. Pointless. Making Sora's memory restoration really more complicated than it needed to be for no other reason than to give a nonsensical plot about a Sora clone with whatso-memories-thing-whatever. Gawd, that was awful. It honestly shouldn't have been that hard.

What truly bothers me on this problem is that the Sora clones aren't the only males in the series who can be of actual importance and contribute to character development, while the Kairis are. With the lack of original KH females in general, having the constant Kairi face shoved down on you in every damn game as the only source of forefront girls can get tiring when the others who don't look like her barely scratch screen time. It's unfair. And biased. And unoriginal.

for an Action Girl, she sure did spend a lot of time fainting into bishie arms... orz

I'm kind of wondering what makes people actually like her, though. She certainly seems to inspire strong feelings on both sides of the spectrum (actually the Xion issue pulled me out of a general sense of apathy towards KH and made me more invested into the fandom), but I really can't fathom what's so appealing about an emo Mary Stu Faux Action Girl(?). The self-insertion factor, maybe? I'm sure a lot of female fans would love to be in Xion's place, alway swooning in the arms of the bishies. =/

people don't usually realise they're self-inserting. Housewives reading romance novels don't think 'oh I am SO imagining myself as her getting ravished by that studly muffin'. No, they just find the situations appealing and enjoy hearing about them... and deep down, they are subconsciously putting themselves in her place. That's why those books are first person.

The only kind of people I can imagine who would like this sorry excuse for a new "female" character are these ones:
1) People who have their own/original characters to the KH series that is similar to Xion aka Mary Sue/Gary Stu writers.
2) Perverted & sick fans who likes the bone Square Enix threw gamers when they inserted a freak show like Xion into the series.
3) People who truly don't know what a Mary Sue is & how it applies and STILL wouldn't know even if it diddlyed them in the ass.
4) People who loves guy x guy pairings but don't want to be placed in the same boat as those annoying & sexist fan girls that dominates the fandom so they hop on the "bandwagon" to appear brighter.
5) People who is mainly defending Xion simply because she LOOKS like a female (even though she was replicated from a guy but only appears as a female cause of Sora's strongest memory) and the fandom is known for hating anything with a vagina which also includes Larxene who is not even weak like Kairi, Olette or Naminé.
6) People who THINK they know what a Mary Sue is (typical Twilight bashers) yet when it comes to a series they are attach to - Kingdom Hearts - they go into denial.
7) People who likes the fact she can fight better than Kairi for obvious reasons.
8) People who loves "AkuRoku" aka Axel x Roxas and enjoys the fact the little gender bender didn't cock block the "oh so canon boy love" like they originally thought would happen; in other words, because they got enough Axel x Roxas moments, Xion isn't so bad afterall.
I would say the fact MANY people are mainly protecting this bitch simply because she looks like a female is really sexist all in itself; while yes it's stupid that Ven could pass for Roxas' identical twin and his clothes lacks originality just like Xion's character design... AT LEAST the little diddlyer comes from a game that is before Sora's time as the hero we all are accustomed to already aka a NEW GAME instead of one that is set before KH II (just like Chain of Memories) yet nobody (including the memory witch) in that game, the Final Mix version, the mangas... hell, even the official novels many point out EVER implied/mentioned her existence; in short, Xion never made sense.
Everyone forgetting about her is a HUGE cop out because that card right there pretty much says loud and clear that the little bitch was pulled from the ass and is UNNECESSARY.
Square Enix realizes the original Kairi sucks balls & is really an insult to girl power that is why they TRIED to fix the problem by inserting a black/blue haired Kairi clone which ended up as epic failure.

Alright, I need to rant over my thoughts on the new character in Kingdom Hearts....Xion. Right away, she is a mary-sue up the ass that Square-Enix pooped out. She is a poor plot device to the new Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days game; which personally, would have been better without her. I say this as a Kingdom hearts fan. I actually feel sorry for the yaoi fans of Akuruku; AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE THAT PAIRING! Xion is just screwing with everything I ever believed in Kingdom Hearts. I never hated a character this much in my life.
Alright, getting out of track here. Xion can't be any better than any other Kingdom Hearts character. She's in the Organization when she's not even a Nobody! D: She's just a damn failed clone of Sora, who looks like Kairi because she was the most powerful memory he had! Techinally when you think about it, Xion is actually a boy! You might even go and say she's a she/he!
I don't mean to bash on a character, because it's not my thing. But, Square-Enix really disappointed me with her character and video game. I actually looked forward to this game and now that I have played it; I can't even look at the game and feel the love I ever had for the series. But now, I'm looking forward to Birth by sleep to redeem Square-Enix. 358/2 days and Xion seems to me as nothing more but a poor filler game. I mean, nobody even remembers her in Kingdom Hears 2 because Namine wiped their memories out of her; so it's like she never existed in the first place! Why bring a character when she is only in one game with no real purpose but to be a pain in an ass Mary-Sue that is best friends with Axel and Roxas; which btw is bullshit!

Xion is not liked here because she's a monopolizing sue, and so utterly pointless to the mythos it's not even funny. Especially with some BBS revelations in the mix. I don't care that her story was sad. That's not the point. The point is her sad story monopolizes the entire plot, dialog, fmv scenes, regular cut-scenes, diary entries, and secret reports. This was supposed to be Roxas game( and by extension the other established members) not her's. This game was only the freaking main character's in name only because in actual execution it was Xion's. A character who has almost the exact story as the Riku replica, and who also came out of nowhere,but did a huge takeover in something she shouldn't have existed in to begin with.

The reasons I hate her:
- it's nearly impossible to like the story of Days without loving or at least "accepting" Xion. I would have ignored her, but she is so "important" - no, lets say "present" - in Days' Oh-so-dramatic plot, there is NO way she can be ignored. I mean: you can like KH I + KH II + CoM and hate Kairi (or else, the Fandom wouldn't be what it is shamisen) and you can like CoM without being a Namine-Fan.
- came out of nowhere and faded away because of her *sobsob* "tragic, but brave" fate (and i seriously hope she stays wherever she is now), without doing anything (good) to the KH universe
- she was nothing new at all: some weird mixture of Kairi/Namine, with bits of Roxas and Replikus Story, some angst here, some nasty-VA-giggle there, tons of ice cream... over all: one of Vexens experiments that went terribly wrong...
- the thing that was mentioned above about pushing Roxas in the "Sora-role". Roxas had an interesting character, having some of Soras quirks, but just more extreme. When he fought against DiZ's hologram knowing that its pointless, constantly woundering about whats going in TT and with him, making his own decisions, being selfish for completly understandable reason (if I were told, that I don't have a heart and to vanish for another girls good I would be exactly the same) and so on... In Days he wasn't as fleshed out as in the beginning of KH II. And Days was supposed to be Roxas' game... He friended Xion as soon as he saw her, making the AkuRokuFriendship thing meaningless to me, her constantly worried about her, ran after her when she vanished etc.
- and she fainted and cried and fainted and sobbed and cried for Rikus help and ran away just to faint a few days later in a bishis arms and being tortured by the bad, bad other members and comforted by her (constantly worried for her safety) friends... poor little poppet...
- Deep Dive with Xion. When I first saw the scene I was like "WTF? Is this for real?" Deep Dive was always Roxas' and Riku's scene, and that Deep Dive feat. Xion was just... wrong, as if Riku was on vacation in the WTNW, accidently ran into Roxas and was told by Xion to "Stop him!"
- the VAing. The Japanese wasn't good at all. Risa Uchida was okay for KH1-Kairi, but not that good for KHII-Kairi and absolutly NOT fitting for Xion. The english one was fitting at some parts (death scene) but sucked at others (DI.scenes)
- the amount of screen time she had - the majority of cutscenes where about Xion, i was SO pissed. Three scenes were showing her lying in Rikus arms at DI. There were so many other scenes, that would have been awesome as a cutscene, but no.... we have to watch three times the same crap. Argh....!ffffuuu (<-- I really wish there would be a Hulk-Smilie!)
- the death speech. It's just pathetic. To me real heroes die silent, without any fame. And when there really is no way for a character to die silent, I like death scenes full of regret (AtW, i might be one of his few fans) or anger and fear. This is what i call dramatic. Not something like the show Xion pulled off.
- the whole RAX-trio - that wasn't real, was it? It was SO forced. And when I see sth like this:http://forums.khinsider.com/fanclubs/main-ser...os-better.html
... no seriously, how can anyone fall for this made-up, forced, wanna-be-SRK trio? I know, the KH-Fandom is... quite special in many ways, but liking RAX?
I somehow liked the Roxas-Axel-Namine-Trio. Its more in the background, they where never shown as a trio, maybe it's just my weird Fan-imagination, but it would have been nice to see the three of them together just once.
- And then there is this wierd reason for liking her: "because she is better than Kairi". Whats this? Noone likes Goofy because he is better than Donald. How cheap and superficial is this?
I was so exited, when i read, there would be a game for my beloved DS.
When i first heard about the "mysterios new member of Org XIII", i thought, that someting like that was quite predicable from the start.
When i first saw the face, i thought "Anothe Kairi? This starts to get old, Nomura...", but i thought that she might be okay. I didn't want to judge her just by appearance.
A few weeks later i watched the trailer. And the moment i heard "Who am I?" and "I want to... I wanna be... with you two." "But what would it take for me to be like you?" I was like: ffffuuu
I hate things like this in general, but that was way over the top.
Am very disappointed of Days. Seriously was expecting more. That was our last chance to get to know more about the Org. members. (I hope, they are not brought back in any way in any of the games...)
At least their original names should have been revealed.
And you can't blame the DS for the bad story. I loved CoM. CoM had a good story, interesting characters (the Marluxia/Larxene/Axel - Trio, was so awesome). It was touching and dramatic at some parts, had a gameplay that was not as stoic as in Days where you go from mission to mission to torture the A button (although the gameplay wasn't that bad. thebatman for Panel-system).
I even liked the card system, i mean, the GBA had just too few buttons to make a KH-like-gameplay. And all this with only a tenth of the space of a normal DS-game, on the GBA with worse sound and graphics.
I really am thinking about buying a PSP for BBS, which looks very promising. Days just sucked a lot. Sorry Nomura, you failed. Creating lots of Kairis is sure a way to win naive young fans who don't care about good plot and authenticity, but a lot of older fans with somewhat "higher expectations" regarding plot and originality start getting really upset. At least I got that impression...
I don't hate Kairi, no, actually I like her (Not in the meaning of "OMG! My absolute favorite character!"), she has a promising character and some interesting quirks. Although I can understand when you hate her for being useless. It's true, there were some situations, where she just should have been done more.
Namine is different, I love her. She has her very own power and knows how to use it. Her story is sad in many ways and not that emo and angsty. Of course she is a damsel in distress, but it's bearable. I like how she develops to someone, who learns to make her own decisions.
Larxene is great anyway. And pretty (am the only one, who thinks she is pretty?). I love characters like her, she is a sadist and a femme fatale, flirting and... she is just made to be an antagonist. I like her for being such a bitch! I am not sad, that she died, she was just entertaining as long as she was there.
And Olette is... just love. And she wears trousers. thebatman The HPO-Trio is a REAL trio for me. Or SoraDonaldGoofy. Not something so fake like RAX...
Wow, now I'm feeling better! This club is great...

seriously, could she BE more annoying? Her character is EXTREMELY Mary-Sue/ I am so mysterious and misunderstood etc. etc.
She muscles in on Axel and Roxas' Relationship/ Friendship [However you want it] and then acts sweet and mysterious, GAH. I can barely play 'Days right now as Roxas is all 'OMG WHERES XION I MISS HER SO MUCH EVEN THOUGH I ONLY SAW HER AN HOUR AGO' and whenever Axel talks to Roxas, all he can think about is Xion. Jeesh Roxas, way to lose a good friendship. By constantly whinig about Xion's whereabouts.
If I was Axel i'd roast them both alive.

I think Xion would have been more bearable if she wasn't such a damn spotlight thief. It's the unnecessariness that grates on me the most; the story would have proceeded perfectly if she hadn't been there. Roxas would come over time, through his interaction with Axel and the Disney worlds, and his unexplained memories of Sora, to become discontent with the Organization and then leave. A nice plot, albeit rathe subtle and nuanced. Probably too much for Nomura's liking (or abilities, now that I think on it), so they had to create some convoluted crappy plot device to completely muck up the story and add in a twist purely for shock value. Some twists I can handle (like a few of the better ones in BBS) because they're done well and add to the plot. Xion is neither.
That's another thing that I despise so much about Xion--she doesn't only draw focus away from the other Org members, but the other Disney characters as well! Unlike a lot of fangirls who like to pretend that the Disney aspect of KH doesn't exist, I actually really love it and it's part of what makes the games so enjoyale to me--and it's dearly lacking in Days. It doesn't strike me as a stretch that Roxas, through exploring Disney worlds and observing and even interacting to a degree with the characters, would slowly come to see that there's more to the world ts than the dreary Org, and maybe what the Org is doing is wrong. That would have been a much nicer game than plot device spotlight stealing Xion forcing sympathy in the characters and player in one fell sad swoop as she dies tragically. It grates on me a lot that Nomura felt he needed that one single tragic moment to utterly change Roxas' resolve, when he could have handled it better and more naturally with a plot that involved Roxas gradually changing over time. Character development, basically. Roxas has none in the actual game because, as so many of you have said, Xion forces a Sora-like change in him from the get-go.

GRRRR!!!!! XION MADE DAYS A BAD FANFICTION THAT SOUNDS LIKE I WROTE IT WHEN I WAS NINE!!!!

Anyways, while I'm still a member of her FC, I just saw something that I wanted to rant about and figured this was the better place to do it. *clears throat* I give you...the official summary of the second novel adaption of 358/2 Days!
"Found on Heartstation"
“The time has come… The shape of the great heart has finally appeared in front of us…” Atop the castle where the Organization resides, the shape of Kingdom Hearts has finally appeared. When Xion gazes up at the bright glowing shape, she feels something strange. Also… Though Xion continues her missions collecting hearts, questions concerning her own existence begin to intensify. Tied together with the Kingdom Hearts series, the second volume tells the story concerning the time of Roxas during the Organization XIII!
Wow, sounds really exciting! I can't wait to read all about Xion's amazing journey of self-discovery! And speaking of the castle where the Organization resides, Nomura, I hear that you're making a game all about Roxas and his journey of self-discovery with Organization XIII! Could you let me know when you're going to release THAT game, Nomura, because I'm REALLY looking forward to playing it!

As soon I saw her, I had a bad feeling. She looks like Kairi, she has a Keyblade...
I thought if I played the game, I'd like her.
After playing, I hated her more than before. I was waiting for a game about Roxas and the Organization, I had the tragiiiiic story of a character from nowhere. It was like a bad fanfiction turned into game ...

if Square took that summary of the new novel and replaced "Xion" with "Demyx" I'd STILL think it was stupid!

I HATE how the inclusion of Xion sucks out any possiblity for screentime of other characters. I mean, even when they get screentime, they don't get any character development. They're just scenery. This is the game where they don't have to be shadowy villains; they could have been real characters. But no. URGH.

To elucidate how much better Aqua is than Xion
(Major BbS spoiler)
Hey Aqua, you've been wandering around in the Dark Realm for 12 years while one of your friends is possessed by darkness incarnate and hell bent on power, and the other has part of his heart destroyed and is in what could be an eternal slumber. What do you say to that?
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993y9jUFcvI#t=7m02s]YouTube - Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - Secret Ending Part 2 Subtitled[/url]
Oh, hey, Xion, your keyblade is fake.
YouTube - Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days English Cutscenes Part 5: Xion's Defeat
Case in point: Who do you think is overreacting, ie trying to be more sympathetic, especially given their circumstances?
I keep seeing all of these comments on YouTube saying that Birth by Sleep isn't as sad as Days.
What. The. diddly.
Just because Xion moped more doesn't make it sadder. In terms of what actually happened,uh, no contest. Was Riku doing emo shit when Sora had to close the door on him in KH1? No. In fact, he was grinning. Didn't make it any less emotional. And what happened to Aqua at the end of her scenario? Why, just like Riku, she was stuck in the Dark Realm, but remained hopeful. This is made exponentially more depressing given that we know that, in spite of her optimism, she's in there for [i]12 years[/i], while the situation gets no better for Ven and actually worsens for Terra.
PLOT TWIST! In BbS Final Mix, we will in fact find out that Terra, Aqua and Ven are all thinking about Xion when they fight Master Xehanort and Vanitas. What was depicted in the KH2FM secret ending and BbS was not the entire story!
Seriously, I was pretty rip shit that they altered Deep Dive. You don't touch that. It's an infamous piece of the story, now and forever tainted by what they did to it in Days.
They didn't even have to throw Xion in there, they could have done it with anyone and I would still be upset.
Now, it's like I consider it a separate canon. There's the actual Deep Dive... and then there's Xion Deep Dive.
People were all like, "Well now we know why Roxas threw Oblivion at Riku?"
Really? You know that, uh, in the original secret ending, Roxas was using Strike Raid on Neoshadows further up the building and Riku sorta, um, stole it right?
But they noticeably took out the neoshadows, so in KH2 it looks like Roxas is throwing the keyblade to Riku... which is fine. There were a lot of heartless, maybe Roxas, you know, threw it to Riku so that he could help defeat the Heartless? We couldn't just leave it at that?
Instead we get a convoluted answer from Nomura saying that a piece of Xion within Roxas lingered and that she was trying to stop him by throwing his keyblade to Riku.
Do I even need to take that apart and analyze how retarded that sounds?

no bit of Xion was supposed to be in Roxas in the first place. Those little crystals she evaporated into were suppose to go to Sora weren't they? I could have sworn nomura said in the same interview that Roxas did not absorb Xion. So how the fig was she there to re-con herself into Deep Dive in the first place? Wait.. Don't freaking tell me she was in the key-blade?!

I wanted nothing more than to jump itot he DS and strangle her and bring her to the island of Xion-hate where the ressistance group(that's us) had a secret headquarters under teh volcano and behind a waterfall of lava and torture Xion and bash her infront of her face.

2% of KH fans will push Xion off a cliff into shark-infested waters. Copy and paste this into your signature if you are part of the 98% that will force the Xion Hate-Club into the Chamber of Waking and seal them away.

At least we would be stuck with Ven, a much better developed character who is more substantive asleep than Xion is awake.

Xion's donkey scream is hilarious and random. It's like, the epitome of forced sympathy. "PITYYY MEEEEE"

Q: How do we fit a random new character into an established series?
Homer Simpson:One, Poochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Poochie"? Three--
Nomura: IAWTC

Gold: I saw that whole plot line as a mirror of something along the lines of: 'Xion is the new girl at Destiny High! Someone nasty steals her memory stick, and it looks like she can't save any of her work--the horrible maths teacher Mr. Saix will have her expelled for sure!! But then Roxas, the cutest guy in school, who took an interest in her and invited her to hang out with him in his special spot, says she can use his whenever she likes! They then have to be computer buddies for every lesson, and being forced together like this makes them even closer than before!'
Pretty much, any lame story which has a plot device that forces male leads to protect/help females, making them inseparable and get closer. (I'm not saying this doesn't happen in male/male stories, but even then, one of the 'males' is always incredibly 'female' )
Axel is the cool older kid who smokes behind the toilets with the delinquents, but whose snarky, prickly demeanour disappears like ice in the summer sun when they spend time together.
Org_42: Awwww! So is Riku the jock who accidentally embarrasses her in front of the whole school, but then once she gets to know him she sees through his troubled soul and they form an unbreakable bond??
Gold: YES LOL ahhh. And she makes such bonds with all the hot guys in school... and they all take care of her, listen to her when she's upset, protect her from nasty Mr Saix, chase after her when she runs away from school...
It's exactly what happens in Sue fic.
Xion is the new girl at Destiny High! One day, she bumps into a hot guy in the hall. They have a misunderstanding and hate each other, but the very next time she sees him, he realises he loooves her...
Srlsy how many bad romance novels have that plot? They hate eachother, swear off eachother, end up together...
But even then, it usually takes more than two encounters to get there...facepalm
lol maths teacher saix
Org_42: Mean ol' Mr. Saix! What sort of awful things will he and Principal Xemnas do next???
Gold: Wait, Axel can't be a kid if Saix is a teacher...
Org_42: ...I guess he's the hot teacher who gives her lots of sage advice then? HOWEVER, there are times when he must give her detention or risk being fired by Principal Xemnas, causing much drama between him and his two favorite students! OH NOES! O_O
Gold: LOL YES YES and HE USED TO BE BEST FRIENDS IN COLLEGE WITH MR SAIX LOLLOOL

You can't mistake exposure for development, though. I can't see how Xion grew or changed as a person at all, really. The decisions she is making by the end of the game seem like the same sort of decisions she'd make at the beginning. I mean... even the friggen Riku Replica grew more over the course of his life than she did, and he was a random side character in a side game.

Gold: Back when I thought I was the only person who seriously didn't like Xion, it felt like that book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The majority of fans seem to have been brainwashed into liking her. Even mentioning that you don't is enough to get you attacked in places like dA, and even here, you'd become a target. XION IS IN DEEP DIVE. XION WAS ALWAYS IN DEEP DIVE. Some of the fans seem capable of doublethink; they can know she's a plot device, and yet at the same time think she's 'written well'.
And one day they'd strap me to a chair and put rats in my face and I'd break and be like 'NOOOO DO IT TO ROXAS INSTEAD' and THEN I WOULD MINDLESSLY LIKE XION.
That's the atmosphere over in the FC sometimes, and geez, sometimes it's not even funny.
Org_42: Soooo...would Xion be "Big Brother" or "Big Sister?" Kairi is obviously Goldstein, and her FC is the Brotherhood! And don't worry, I shall save you before you are taken to Room 101!!
Gold: <333 ;___; I'M COUNTING ON YOU
NO NO SAIX IS GOLDSTEIN LOLOLOL and this place is the Brotherhood ;D (Kairi lovers are allowed to love Xion, right? But Xion haters don't, as a general rule, love Xion XD;;
Org_42: AND XION IS WATCHING YOU!
No problem. I already know my way around the Ministry of Love, remember? It should be easy to bust you out!
Good point; yes, there are quite a few Kairi fans who love Xion too. Awww man, I wanted to be in a top-secret Brotherhood!
There was once a time when Axel and Roxas tried to rebel against the writers' nefarious schemes to mess with what they'd already established, but then the poor boys were discovered, sent to the Ministry of Love, and got subjected to the horrors of Room 101. And...*gets choked up*...I think you can figure out what happened from there...
Gold: When did that happen?
Org_42: Right before the game was released. I would know; I shared a cell with them at one point. *sniff* They got through to Roxas first, naturally, but Axel refused to accept the writers' new teachings until several sessions in Room 101 got them to betray each other. Riku fell too, poor guy. And Demyx, though he recovered pretty fast and just accepted what he was being taught. (He's like that guy that was Winston's neighbor until his creepy demonic children had him arrested by the Party...I forget his name...)
Only Saix stood firm.
"NO! NO! DO IT TO LEA! OR AXEL! I DON'T CARE, JUST DON'T LET THE HEARTLESS GET ME!"
The cage of Neoshadow Heartless stopped moving towards Saix, and the writers appeared from behind it, looking immensely satisfied. "And here I thought he'd be the hardest to crack," said one.
"Wait...what are you talking about?" asked Saix blankly. Now that the Heartless were being put away, he was starting to think rationally again.
"We got inside your head and made you betray your closest friend!" said one Days writer triumphantly, "Now you'll have no choice but to submit to the Party and love Xion!"
There was a long pause as Saix stared at them. Finally he asked, "And why would I do that?"
The writers' triumphant smiles vanished as they stared at each other uneasily. "Ummm...because you feel ashamed of yourself for betraying a close friend? And you feel utterly hopeless because you realize that the Party defeated you?"
Saix blinked. "Why? I can't feel ashamed. I don't have a heart. You of all people should know that!"
"But...but...but Axel and Roxas folded!" they stammered, "They're eating ice cream with Xion as we speak!"
"Well, Axel and Roxas were always foolish like that, weren't they? That doesn't change a thing for me. I'm not going to love Xion. Can I go now?"
Instead of answering him, they formed a huddle and said in panic-stricken whispers, "It's okay, we can just rewrite his character...make him look evil and then that'll just make everyone love her more...dang it, we can still fix this...!"
*quick disclaimer- note that this is meant to be a joke and in no way am I suggesting that the writers of Days would do something so despicable!
Gold: OH MY GOD I AM DYING. WHY ARE YOU SO HILARIOUS WHY
OH LOL DEMYX AS PARSONS (I THINK??) AHHHHH
AND LOLOLOL EVERYTHING
THIS IS THE BEST EXTENDED METAPHOR EVER
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Org_42: YES, PARSONS!! THAT'S IT!!!! I freakin' love this metaphor, not only because I love 1984, but because...well, wow, it just fits so perfectly! Xion is the worshipped Big Brother, Roxas is the curious/semi-rebellious Winston who is ultimately forced to submit to loving Xion, Axel is the rebellious, cocky, male version of Julia (having a PLATONIC relationship with our Winston, mind you! ;D), Demyx is the lovable naive Parsons, Kairi is the not-so-naive but ultimately helpless Mrs. Parsons (and they DON'T have a platonic relationship! ;D), Saix is Goldstein, and...would Xemnas be O'Brien? Oh yeah, it all fits beautifully.
Wait a sec...who's Riku???
Gold: Riku is... kind of like the guy who sold them out, isn't he?
And if the FC is the Ministry of Love, I'm not sure that Xemnas is O'Brien >:3
AND WINSTON AND JULIA DO NOT HAVE A PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP OWO they have lots and lots of sex outdoors
Org_42: Oh yes, the fake prole. But we mustn't judge him too harshly; he was once a prisoner of Room 101 himself. Why else would he have put Sora's awakening on hold for Xion?
THIS WINSTON AND JULIA HAVE A PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP! They eat lots of ice-cream instead!
Gold: I KNOW. Oh god, that is just STUPID. He met her once. ONCE.ffffuuu
NO NO NO THE METAPHOR IS PERFECT AS IS shamisen
Org_42: IN THAT CASE, I WANT TO CHANGE IT TO AXEL AND LARXENE! Or Demyx and Kairi. I know they're not as dark as Winston and Julia, or anything close to Winston and Julia, but I wouldn't mind THEM hooking up in a meadow!
Gold: NOOOO NA NA NA
Roxas has to be Winston. And Axel has to be Julia. They forsake each other cause of Big Xion.
Gold: Days is the story of a Sue, and Riku is a bishie. He is destined to cherish her. I had high hopes when he punched her and left her on the ground, but no, next scene... ffffuuu
Org_42: You mustn't blame him, Goldy. That scene outside of Beast's Castle, the one where he fights her and says he's dedicated to making sure his best friend wakes up? Yeah, that scene happened right before he got kidnapped and sent to Room 101.
Gold: RIKUUUU NOOOO
Riku: NO DON'T LET THEM GET ME! DO IT TO SORA!! DO IT TO SORA!!!

But she did the same friggen thing every time. Run away, don't tell your friends why, let them worry about you and chase after you... right until the end. She never learned.

And it's not like there was anything to explore in any of them! Take Demyx, for instance.

Let's see, here... 'If the subject fails to respond, use aggression to liberate his true disposition'... Right. Did they ever pick the wrong guy for this one...
Implied pacifism, in a heartless, apathetic being such as a Nobody. What a boring concept to expand on!

Oh, we do too have hearts! Don't be mad...

Denial? Why? What kind of person would his other have been? HURR HURR DEAD END TOPICS, AMIRITE??
I can totally see why they just slapped a 'lazy bum' bandaid over 'pacifism', cause 'lazy bum' is soooo much simpler to portray, needs no wasted development on this waste of a dead end character!
Leaves so much more time to develop this new, Keyblade-wielding 14th member!! WHEE~

There are two kinds of KH2 novels: The proper game novels, and then a book of short stories.
The first game novel was released in May 2006, and when KH2FM+ came out in March 2007, it used a few scenes from the novels. The book of short stories was released much later, in June 2008; this one has many references to Days, and no wonder; the author had been working on the game for a long time by then. (I know these dates cause I have these novels right here and I'm reading the information on the jackets; idk if it's on the web somewhere XD
The original KH2 novels, on the other hand, are completely different. They were written before Xion was even thought of, and she isn't even hinted at. They do, however, hint that Axel might come back as a whole person. And since it's these novels that were the first place the extra FM+ scenes were ever shown, I've always held them with a little bit of respect. They're not canon, but the extra things in them can't be dismissed completely....

I was watching my brother play the other day. He's not very far. He got up to the part where they're looking for Xion in Twilight Town after she ran away the first time when her Keyblade stopped working, and when Xion ran onto the screen during the chameleon fight he's like, 'oh! it's Useless!' and I laughed. Then she got pwn'd by the chameleon tongue and my brother is like, 'I get smacked by that thing heaps during the battle, and she goes down in one tongue move??'

Ugh, this reminds me of something else:

Because Mary Sue is the projection of the fan who writes her, she often has incredible insights into the characters of the show. Like many pieces of fan fiction, Mary Sue stories allow the author to express what she's thought about the characters and the show, with the character herself often expressing to the reader everything fans of the show say to each other. [...]This preternatural insight is often at the crux of the relationship between the Mary Sue and the media character; she understands everything. Looking into Saraid's eyes, Duncan "felt that he could tell her anything and she would understand, and forgive. Right now. Anytime. Forever."
The insights stand Mary Sue in good stead, for both nineteenth- and twentieth-century versions spend much of their time fixing things: broken hearts, broken spaceships, broken lives, broken episodes, broken series.

Of course Xion is the go-between for Axel and Roxas :/ Neither of them are angry at her!! That's why Axel has to end his monologue with 'but you're no puppet in my books. Chu mah BB4EVAAA

Yeah, you can't imagine how often I was like raitohahaha during playing. When Axel kicked Xions ass with his evil ninja art, Roxas was SO mad at him, as if he had nearly killed her. And kind, kind Xion had to ask him, to forgive Axel.
And Axel's never mad at her either, and of course Riku isn't either.
The thing is: Everybody seems to understand her and reasure her "You will do the right thing!" "You always find the correct answer." Which absolut Mary-Sue-ish. She never does something wrong, she is always the innocent victim. ffffuuu

Even JK Rowling didn't revive her characters. And she did a lot of crappy things.

The problem is that she exists to begin with. She's such an obvious retcon. Everything that she cleared up( I say this with extreme sarcasm) was already done so in other games or could have been done differently with characters that were already canon.

Because Nomura proved with Xion, that he doesn't care, whether his ideas have been used in far too many fanfics.

Even IF she comes back, even IF she has relevance to future games...
That won't change a single thing. She'll still be a sue. Her role in Days will still be exceptionally bad writing. That is why I hate her, and that is why I regret with every fibre that a character like this was ever made canon, and that's not going to change.
Another topic~
My 11 year old little brother finished the Japanese version of Days without being able to read a word of Japanese. This is what he had to say:
"I don't see the point of having Vexen* in there. She fights exactly like Roxas. She's just Roxas with black hair."
*he thought her name was Vexen. He also thought Marluxia's name was Larloosh, and called Xaldin 'Mr. T'.

I've been replaying Days and she just... I dunno, started to annoy me? I just hate the fact that she's Miss I'm-So-Innocent-and-Perfect and it's just so Sue-ish how one second she's a Keyblade warrior and the next second she's a damsel in distress. "OMG NOOOO! XION FORGOT HOW TO USE THE KEYBLADE!

I can barely stand to play 'Days anymore because of her whimpery little self wandering around Axel and Roxas the whole time. She's such a Sue. If I save and the picture is Xion, I have to re-save until it's Axel or Roxas. There's no WAY she's skulking behind MY save data. XD

Don't forget that she gained the ability to use the keyblade back, because of... uh... uhm... Roxas gave her his keyblade (while fighting with a stick....) for one mission.
What I want to say: There is a reason why she cannot summon it, but then she lends it from Roxas for one mission and SUDDENLY remember how to use it? Huh? What is this?
(If there was an actual reason mentioned in the game: I'm sorry, must've completly ignored it while facepalming during playing.)
And she is not THAT powerful to begin with, when she is alone. She starts "lending" Roxas' abilities by the end of the game performing some super awesome attack to kill the heartless at once... thats why she s so "powerful". While we have to fight with a Roxas, who has just his half energy.... Urgh...
And how the bad guys refer to her as "it" and "puppet" and calling her "broken".
POOR POOR XION. *sobsob*

Xion forgetting how to use the Keyblade is just plot device so Roxas can worry over her - again, SUE D:< and poor writing. diddly you, Days.

The more Saïx called her broken, the more I fell in love with him.

She looks like a male and I'm not just talking about the end of the game.

I also love how Xion's art there has her wangst face.
We can never get tired of that one, you know.
NEVUH!
That's her whole reason for existing, after all. That, and her angelic traits.

I am always enjoying my time when I am here. Considering there was a time I thought, I'd be the only one not liking Xarmy.
But now I know:
Hating Xion is not wrong. IT'S RIGHT!♥♥♥

I find it funny that he drove the tutorial in KH2 more than he did his own game. Or so it was said to be his game. LOL Nomura, you never fail to crack me up.

I was having a bad day then when I saw the words "Xion Hate club"(the first thread, made by Audo) then my day became the greatest.

Cherry: I always wondered, why Xion never noticed, that there is no seat for her. After all she knows, that the room exists.
Gold: you can't get around the lack of a seat. This means she wasn't present for important meetings and stuff, I suppose... unless she sat on the floor?
Cherry: Yeah, and somehow this is bugging me. I mean, there is no way, she could have ignored that. Xion is a lot of things, but not dumb.
*lol* Maybe she had a seat, but she screwed up so many missions, that it sank into the ground? (Like in multiplayer where the seats go up and down.) I mean she fainted and failed a lot, didn't she?
luna: The dirtiest, hardest, coldest, most deppressing corner thay have.
Gold: HANG ON. But then she will cry and emo and Roxas and Axel will have to comfort her and promise to ask Saix about getting her a seat!! And then Roxas will lend her his seat!! And he will be forced to sit on the floor!! And then she will run away ANYWAY and then RIKU will have to comfort her and hold her in his arms!! And Axel and Roxas will worry about her and ask 'where's Poochie--I mean Xion?' every 5 seconds and then they will chase after her, worrying, and...
I know how this works :/
f8: Has an image of Xion moping around the org thrones. While they laugh down at her Saix teleports down, and stomps before she knows what hit her. * slaps self stop being violent.*
Gold: Saix: The puppet has broken once too often. We'll put it on cleaning duties from now on.
Dusks: <yaaay>

hooded Xion. Nightmare fuel because you just know some changing face thing is underneath it.

- Her character is just depressing, and because of this, I prefer having the ice cream scenes with just my boys, Axel and Roxas. Ice cream at the clock tower is supposed to shed light on a really sad storyline. Whenever it's just Axel and Roxas, they talk about the usual stuff, like girl troubles, but when Xion's in there, it just makes everything depressing, which is not what the ice cream scenes should be. So yeah, I prefer Axel and Roxas just as a duo, not with some random chick who decides to come in.
And it's not just the ice cream scenes, her tradegy just seems so... forced on me :/
tl;dr: OMG XION SO SAD WAAAAAAA *throws a rhino* Yeah, right.
- When you think about it, she's pretty much a watered-down version of Kairi, with just more angst and pretty fighting powers. Her personality is bland and boring. Being cute isn't even close to being a reason, why the hell would it? I would even consider Kairi having a few cute moments, and hell, I don't like her. And I give Kairi props for actually having flaws (though her flaws are what I don't like like about her xD; you could say I'm being hypocritical) and making her a bit more believable character*. Speaking of flaws, we shall proceed to the next reason, no?
* Don't get me wrong, Xion overall is a much better character than Kairi. Then again, it's really not that hard to be better than her. But yeah.
- Okay, Mary Sue much? Xion's not a believable character for this particular reason. She's practically flawess - generous, caring, selfess, beautiful, I could go on. And then one minute she's a "badass" Keyblade wielder and the next minute, she's a damsel in distress. "OMG, XION FORGOT HOW TO USE THE KEYBLADE!!". Then you got Xion fainting just for Roxas to worry over her - that's where the bad writing comes in. And then at the end - oh, how heroic! She sacrifices herself and dies in the hands of her potential lover's arms! (sarcasm) Her being a Mary Sue is just annoying and employing the use of something like this is just bad writing. Then you got Xion fainting in Roxas, Axel, and Riku's arm - all good looking men (and Riku brushing her bangs*) If that's not a Mary Sue, I don't know what is.
*Oh yeah, by the way, Riku/Xion makes Riku look bad.
Riku risks his best friend, SORA, for this girl he barleys knows and met twice?
tl;dr: OMG IT'S MISS I'M-SO-INNOCENT-AND-PERFECT! *throws a rhino* Yeah, right.
- She takes away the spotlight from undeveloped members who need development. Half the time, it's Xion, Xion, Xion and Xion. It just gets SO annoying. What happened to Roxas' story? No, Days really seemed more like Xion's story than his. For all I care, we might as well call the game Kingdom Hearts: XION XION EVERYBODY LOVES XION
- Xion has little to no purpose in the overall storyline. She's not even hinted in BbS or Coded. And dual-wielding could've been easily explained through Sora and Ventus, you diddlying know it. Not to mention ALL of Roxas' problems could've been explained easily without Xion, too. Yeah, you know it, I know you do. >:[
Also, if Sora's memories did leak, they would go to Roxas, no? So it wouldn't matter if Xion wasn't there, KH2 would still be unaffected. And then there's the old thing where KH2 doesn't hint about Xion at all. Even if everyone did forget Xion, you know she would be hinted somewhat. This may be Nomura not thinking of Xion at the time, but uhhh, you're still pointless. Oh yeah, there's also the fact Xion hasn't changed Axel. At all.
Axel doesn't even remember Xion and he has, like Roxas, no problem recalling anything else as to what made him different. He wouldn't of have stated that Roxas made him feel like he had a heart and was the only one he liked. He never alienates Roxas when it comes to his views, where Xion was just stuck on.

I just noticed. The sure way for fanfiction writers to get away with Mary Sues, and not get flamed for the overall character, is to make her die a tragic death. Listen, fanfictioners, and listen well. Despite that the death will add to their Mary Sueness, let's block our minds from that for awhile...let's just block it...for everyone's sake. Blow everything away. Even any fainting in a guy's arms, any canon main bishonen people you love worried and centered on you, owning the Keyblade, the 14th Organization XIII member (excuse it that she isn't really part of them, it will go so much easier on you, I assure it), a sweet angel, altogether very brave, and according to Smile, better than Roxas, more of a special snowflake than he is, and more powerful. Because, who wouldn't idolize such perfection? That's what you ask yourself, do you? Why does your character named Xion (Important Note: not to be confused with the one in 358/2 Days. Unfortunately for past authors, the name wasn't copyrighted legally), gets people so wary? It's not her fault that the guys care for her, you say, that the story is the focus of her life and struggles. But that's why you have to drift it all away into the sea, to rest from thinking. Now that you concealed the terrors into the darkness depths that surround you, how about thinking on that courageous tragic death and heroic sacrifice suggested? Even when you're gone, you can still have a voice inside people's heads to tell a guy to stop a person that was going to be stopped by him anyway. And to tell Diz to come right after and whisk them to the prepared and worked on Data Twilight Town that was never built to put Roxas in until your ominous presence excelled. You're just so important, t-t-t-that it needs to be there. Man, add...add in some sad Shimomura music while you are at it, damn you D':, and immediately, people will forgive and forget.
If canon can do it, you can too! Just make sure to somehow disguise that it isn't fanfiction, because as long as that's stapled there somewhere, people will still flame cause it wasn't SE that did it. However, you might get lucky if you go to Japan and meet Nomura, as he'll certainly think on the proposition. After all, everything is wangst, wangst, waaaaaaangst and perfection. Done once, he cannot be afraid to do so again.
You might have a future ahead of you, after all. Congratulations. Pursue your dreams, and never give up. It can happen one day, all you have to do is trust and have faith in what I say.
Now...the power is yours.
*hails Mary Sue flag as little fragments of pretty crystals sprinkle down*
DON'T FORGET TO ADD GLITTER!

But even if he is like that, it doesn't excuse the fact that Xion makes him do it 24/7. He is constantly worrying about her, asking about her, chasing after her...
And why? So little girls at home can know deep down that he would do the same for her. Which I think is a cheap and nasty ploy to make money out of wish fulfilment, just like Twilight. Except Twilight was a lulzy package deal from the start; this is like whoring Roxas out. It makes me very cranky.

Xion depresses me and ruined so many things for Roxas >.>
BURN ZE WITCH/BITCH!!! BURN!!!!!!!!!

(Oh yeah, and I probably failed the exams.
It's because I became unable to use the calculator. But I am an important tool to my course only if I am able to use the calculator. I guess, I'll be all emo now and cry and mope into my room, hugging the pillow, until my absolutly adorable bishi friends come and suggest, that I can work with them until I remember how to use the calculator again.... POOR POOR ME! *sobsob*
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Lol, so the Xion-self-insertion thingie is true. I knew it.

Me: *bows head down and looks sad*
Hot Friend #1: Hey, what's wrong? You okay?
Me: Yeah...it's just...*bows head even more*
Hot Friend #2: It's fine, you can tell us *worried*.
Me: *depressed expression* It's just that...some stranger told me mean things. While he might be lying, since I don't know him, it still made me upset, and made me cry in my room all alone after a painful, hurtful donkey scream that's suppose to show me suffering.
Hot Friend #1: *puts hand on shoulder* Well, whatever it is, you shouldn't listen to that guy. Especially since he doesn't know you like we do.
Hot Friend #2: Exactly. Just give him some time, and before you know it, you'll be fainting in his arms and he'll be brushing your bangs, because you will ultimately understand your ever growing plagues and troubles.
Me: *smiles slightly* So I will have another hot guy concerned for me. Thanks guys ^^. You're so sweet.
Hot Friend #1: *grins*
Hot Friend #2: * scratches head embarrassed*

Some guys like to take advantage of depressed girls so they can hit the jackpot a.k.a. get in her pants. Ewwwwwwwww I just had a mental image of Axel and Roxas trying to get in Xion pants for some funny fun time. OMG!!!! Someone pass the BRAIN BLEACH!!!!!!!!ffffuuu

when Kairi was in a coma, she was a new character. And so were Sora and Riku. This was their established story from the start, and we grew to know and love them through this story.
And, she didn't keep on fainting over and over, causing the boys to go into a panic every time. And, she wasn't established as an action girl.
Having an entirely new retcon character fainting into the arms of ALL THREE BISHIES who are already established popular characters is whoring them. THOSE BOYS ARE NOT WHORES >:/

Vexen is a horrible person but he works as a character. Xion is a flawless person and fails at being a character.

The moment Diz learned about Xion, he should have enforced it, considering his character. But it seems that he also waited some time for the decision that she should make (because, you know, that was basically the whole plot of the game), which appears off to me. Before the atrocity that was 358/2 Days, I always believed that Roxas, for the whole year, wasn't caught because he was heavily guarded and protected by the Organization for his use. More so when Xemnas sensed "that man", or is able to sense him. Cue Xion running away everywhere with Riku, and annoyingly leaving all the damn time off from anyone watching over since they didn't even know where she was. AND IT WAS STILL UP TO HER.
Everything is turned around for her just so we could watch her wangst. Yet, when Roxas himself runs off, he gets caught immediately without his decision to take into account. And he was the one that actually fought his fate and wanted his own life.
Baffling.
Or not. It's Xion.

No, its not a bad idea, except the only reason they came up with that idea was so they had an excuse to force a female 14th member in there.
Writer 1: To make this game sell, we need a new character. We need a little girl to be best friends with Roxas.
Writer 2: Why a little girl??
Writer 1: Cause girls are going to be buying this game for the bishies, duh! And they have no self-reference point as it is! Who are they gonna insert themselves into... Larxene?
-everyone laughs-
Writer 2: Good point. Uhh... well, do we want to make her a human in a world he visits?
Writer 1: NOT SPARKELEH ENOUGH
Writer 2: Uuuuh... what do little girls like? *reads some fic on ff.net* OMG I HAVE IT! A female keyblade weilding 14th member of Organisation 13!!
Writer 1: Yes! This way we can come up with a cliche plot device to make them work together all the time!
Writer 2: Hmmm.... and it would be extra bonus points if they worry about her all the time. Ask about her when she's not there. Comfort her when she's sad...
Writer 1: Then of course we make her fail and faint and run away all the time!
Writer 2: YES! This way we can make her have some tragic story to milk sympathy, too!
Writer 1: But what is a tragic enough story that would cause her to do that?
Writer 2: Cancer?
Writer 1: No that's too obvious. And besides, we have to make this tragedy someone's fault, so we can make them antagonise her.
Writer 2: Of course! The more she's picked on and treated like dirt, the more pity and sympathy she can milk!
Writer 1: Not to mention, she can cry on the shoulders of the pretty boys! And they will swear to protect her!
Writer 2: OH GOD THAT'S GENIUS. So... we have to make her have some tragic situation that isn't her fault, but makes her useless and sad a lot, and will result in her death and getting forgotten so KH2 still makes sense.
Writer 1: Hmm... oh, I know! How about she was created as a tool for the Organisation? But she's imperfect... but not to the pretty boys, of course! And it has to have to do with memory.
Writer 2: Then let's recycle something from Chain of Memories! Tool of the org... tool of the org... OH MY GOD I HAVE IT! A MEMORY CLONE!
Writer 1: OF SORA!
Writer 2: But why does this mean she is fated to die...
Writer 1: That's easy! We'll recycle something else. Roxas was fated to die to wake Sora up again, right...?
Writer 2: Yeeeeah?
Writer 1: So she is too! She can have important memories inside her or some bs.
Writer 2: OH MY GOD AND THIS IS WHY SHE IS A GIRL, RIGHT? SHE HAS HIS KAIRI MEMORIES!
Writer 1: I'm getting it... I'm getting it... SUBPLOT WITH FAINTING INTO RIKU'S ARMS. The organisation members aren't the only bishies in the game!
Writer 2: YES! Now we just have to come up with an actual plot for the game.
Writer 1: What do you mean? That is our plot. It's good enough. I mean like, can you be bothered to think of a plot that fleshes out all thirteen existing members...?
Writer 2: Good point. Well... let's add a Saix and Axel sub plot in there just in case.
Writer 1: But make sure all those scenes reference the sora clone girl in some way. We can't miss an opportunity to talk about her.
Writer 1: Done and done. Wow, that was easy.
-they smoke pipes-

Even Kairi isn't guilty of any of these counts (neither is Naminé for that matter). Yes, she was in a coma for the rest of KH1 (and it was in reality, one guy taking care of her as to not leave her behind. Xion had him, and Axel + Roxas. Not only doing that, but prying their attention. Xigbar, for that matter too, with his whole "oh Poppet, you're so cute", oh, Poppet you're so sweet", "oh, Poppet, you're this and that". Seriously, STFU. We don't need any more prove of her perfection), but that was it. We didn't get to see her as much, and she remained that way. She wasn't an annoying hindrance. Not get up, and fall again, get up, and fall again, get up and fall again, saying she's better, then get up and fall again like Xion. And for that reason, we have guys come to save her when she's in danger of losing consciousness, hold her closer than necessary, brush her bangs, defend her, or do everything for the poor suffering wittle child. To those idiotic tools, in my head, I was shouting on my screen to abandon the imp in the damn concrete to die and walk off. Problem solved, and no need to put up with her shit. Nor do I need to put up with her shit. It was like those kids who kept throwing bombs at Roxas. Since I couldn't smack Xion up yet like I eventually did with those brats, when we went on missions, I threw her off the cliff or building, and let her get hurt or killed by the Heartless. It was unfortunate she didn't stay dead in the story, but that's a plague you have to live with. It was like each guy had to have their turn a certain day. Along with also chasing her or finding her. That was when the game became a joke. In fact, that is the game. It was all this, and Xion's wangst about what to do. Hello. Roxas didn't even have a chance to have a choice. Appreciate the fact that the plot was turned around for you and so were the characters to keep you contemplating for the 357 days you were unfortunately existing. Thank you Xion, thank you for being depressed when you were given the opportunity on what to do and weren't forced or knocked out to do so.

Like I mentioned before: if any of you, if any one, read this in fanfiction, you would completely run off with your tails between your legs to find a better story, if you would even bother reading something with an OC. Completely. That, or flame the author for the character and how much of a Sue she was. Just because it's canon doesn't mean it's any different. That just makes Xion a Canon Sue.

Not to mention we never saw Riku do to Kairi, or Naminé, what he did for Xion in any matter whatsoever (as in, holding that type of romantic connotations)...and he's only known her for like, what? Few minutes, if him being an asshole to her carries over (and yet certain people bitch about RokuNami being forced and too fast, and without basis...er, yeah, look at dear Rion). Maybe because in the DI scene it reminded him of Kairi, yet, why not do it to Kairi? In fact, why not show the same understanding to Roxas? (which is why I added the two replies together) Why not wait for him a year to see what he decides? Diz? What the hell got Diz, you know, the Diz who hates Nobodies, and anyone, and whose goal was to revive Sora regardless of who is sacrificed, to even last this long? The second he learned the truth he should have started his move. Especially since Xion was running off, and didn't have the Organization's protection. No, she was on Riku's side. And he didn't do anything. Because she's a special angel.

I like people saying she gave a plot to 358/2 Days. But 358/2 Days didn't have to exist or be made in the first place. No leftovers interviews couldn't answer. The only reason it even came about was because Nintendo wanted it.

His story was way more tragic overall (just because he wasn't a good boy, and a perfect nice, sweet, kind holy being doesn't detract from the crap he went through, thanks). And it was done without stealing the spotlight or plot. I mean, this shows a lot about 358/2 Days that they have to depend on Xion's wangsting her ass off to make the game go further. CoM had all kinds of things going on, and every member had their equal share.
That, my friends, is called good writing.
Play it. Live it.

Maybe if I'm bored one day, I could look back in fanfictions, and see how many Xions there were before one of them found their way into canon.

Exactly! And even then, I remember when Namine broke the Repliku's heart and Sora thought it was Riku, he turned on her. 'What did you do to him?? D:<' Imagine Roxas yelling at Xion like that. What brainwashing witch powers does Xion have? PROXIMITY TO SUE?

*XI XI XI XI XI XI XI XI donkey scream*

XION IS THE JAR JAR BINKS OF KH!

BAW
XION SUCKS ASS

HER HAIR IS SO FLAT
IT LIKE STICKS TO HER diddlyING HEAD
NO VOLUME WHATSOEVER
NAMINE AND AQUA HAVE VOLUME!
THEY GOT HEALTHY NATURAL HAIR

XION LOOKS LIKE A GUY.

Aqua.: she was giving birth to new found annoyance and emoness
which where inserted in her by riku's MEAN words.
luna: XD that's a good one.
It'll probably look like an uglier version of her.

I like many people believe days was a pointless filler. But it had the potential to not be. When I first heard of Days I thought it would be interesting to see Roxas's and the rest of the ORG. But when I heard about a 14th member in ORG. 13!!!! I was like *Really Nomura?* I didn't think that 3/4th of the game would revolve around her I didn't think that Nomura would go the amnesia route either I thought that at the end of the game Xemnas was going trap the 14th member somewhere in order to bring Roxas back or something and commence deep dive scene.

Chinese netspeak espression for laughter; a silly and naive giggle.

Note: xixi is also the Portuguese word for pee, so one needs to be careful of the context in which it is used.
AznGrl1: omg, ur online!
AznGrl2: xixi!!
AznGrl2: of course I am!!
AznGrl1: lol...

AsianGirl: ur great! xixi!!!
BrazilianGuy: WTF?

How apt.

*TN*: It was like each guy had to have their turn a certain day. Along with also chasing her or finding her.
Org_42: ROFL, now I'm picturing the Organization in their meeting room, before getting their missions, to see who's turn it is to "pity and be nice to Xion" today!
Xemnas: Saix, it is your turn to comfort Xion, love her, be nice to her, and/or aid her in her journey of self-discovery.
Saix: Does any of that allow me to call it a broken puppet who was a mistake we shouldn't have made?
Xemnas: No.
Saix: O_O Ohhhhh...I'm NEVER going to make it through today...
Gold: LOLOLOLOL THIS IS WHY SHE DOESN'T HAVE A SEAT, SO SHE NEVER FINDS OUT

Because Xion is fanfiction, I'm inclined to believe her/him/it's real name is in fact, FanfiXion. Xemnas felt sorry for her(yes, even HE felt sorry for her) and decided to change the name to No i. instead.

No, Xion is not messing up the "beautiful yaoi"(I was under the impression that it was mostly guys that get turned on by two chicks pairing but damn y'all women have taken it to a new level with male pairings) she's messing up the ENTIRE organization. They were nice and engimatic in CoM, KH2 was the time to get the development doing, KH2 failed at developing them well(Luxord has 3 lines or something?).
This was an opportunity to do a lot with the Org, instead they pop in with a new character and its aaaaall about her.
Think about it, if you want an adventure game, instead of doing
mission
ice cream with xion
mission
ice cream with xion
You could have Roxas, after defeating the Heartless, gain some insight on malevolent activities the Organization is doing in each world, even check the computer in Hollow Bastion and gain some shocking news that prompts him to eventually leave them. But nope, no development on the org, just one-dimensional obsession with a riku-replica rehash that keeps fainting and screaming.

Yaoi shield? Check Xion's pants again.

There is not any possible way that Days could have incorporated the org members from their status as wallpaper. I mean of course talking about Xenmas and the rest of the apprentices would be boring. I mean who wants to know the thoughts and doings of the nobody versions of the six people who put the KH series into motion. Saix and Axel's friendship? Please. Who wants to know about their plan. Or why they decided on it in the first place. Or how they were as humans or how they became nobodies.Why go into detail with these things? It's not like the first 8 are interesting. Of course Roxas wanted to leave for a replica Sora with Kairi's face. I mean it couldn't be because he saw that the org were a bunch of unfeeling assholes now could it. Especially when he went to the Disney worlds and saw how it should be or how they treated him. Or that he wanted to find who he was since everybody was keeping the truth from him like Kh2 stated. I mean that's silly talk.Roxas thoughts on the other members? Please. Apparently Xion and Axel are the only members of the org.

Also who wanted to know some more BBS hints that weren't thrown around like an afterthought. I mean let's not even legitimately try to link Days with BBS. Let's keep it pointless. That's the right way to go. Oh and Demyx.It's not like he has a large fan-base or anything. Who wants to know a tad bit more about his background. Marly and Larxene wanted to take over the org? Who cares. I mean yea a whole game was spent on it, but we never know why. Or what drew them to each other to even come up with this. Or even see them talk to one another because in re:com they didn't for some strange reason.

YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. If they were going to make a trio that were in pretty much every scene, they should have had the third person have a different personality to the others, so the character interaction would have been lively and progressive. Look at Sora, Donald and Goofy and how they work: a charismatic and enthusiastic one who drives things, an easily annoyed one for comic relief, and a kind-hearted simple one to even them out. Axel could have been the teasing joker one, Roxas the huffy and cute one, and then Demyx to be the laid back one. Instead of Axel being the protective one, Roxas being the emo and protective one, and Xion being the very emo one... and none of them knowing much or doing much or talking about much. Big fail.

I totally know what you mean. I was reading over my old journal entries and I found this post where I wrote my thoughts on all the cutscenes, and geez, I had a totally different mindset back then. I cried when she died because Roxas was crying. I felt bad for laughing when Axel attacks her in TT because Roxas was so upset. While I watched the scenes, I was dragged in by Roxas' character... but while I was not watching them, thinking later, I was able to separate the characters as people I love, and the characters as pieces of writing.

That's where things go downhill for Xion.

Riku: You suck.
Xion: No YOUR mama!
Riku: I know you are, but what am I.
Xion: AW;SLKGJ YOUR SNAPPY COMEBACKS ARE TOO GOOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-HUUURGH

The thing about Kairi is, she's only a plot device in KH1 (as in, things happen to her to drive the plot instead of her own actions or personality pushing the plot, and the things that happen to her don't have much to do with her individual personality), and although her personality and actions help drive the plot in kh2, she doesn't have much screen time.
But you know, being a plot device isn't necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes for a certain plot to work, you just need a character to fill a certain role. However, if you want to go and make that 'character' the star of the story, then you really need to go back to school. Characters. Drive. The. Plot.

I think they did okay as enigmatic in KH2, just so long as Days finally treated them right. But no.
Srsly, people say 'but you CAN'T write about these characters! They are liek, so undeveloped! Xion was NECESSARY'
...They are villains in the other games. Mysterious villains. Of course we're not going to see a lot about their personal lives. We're meant to want to kill them.
In a game that's about them, though, there's no excuse. Oh wait--that game wasn't about them. Sorry.
If you NEED Xion to make a story, you don't need to hear this story :/

In my own head canon, she has 'mixed gonadal dysgenesis'... DO NOT google that unless you're very sure you can handle it ;D

I do have friends who think along these lines, and I'll try to explain it...
For example, Kairi isn't 'getting in the way', cause she was always there. Same for Namine, Larxene, and Olette. You always knew they were there, and so you never had a chance to think anything different. But Xion is a retcon, and to some fans, it being retconned in IS actually getting in the way. In the fan's minds, it wasn't there before, and now it is.
Akuroku fans went for years thinking there was no girl, and building up their own understanding of the characters and how they interacted (that's not only true for akuroku fans, though! I'd bet almost every fan of the Org did). To many of them, Xion getting randomly added in with no warning was very shattering. Days was shattering. For all the reasons you find it so; the deep dive bs, what they did to Riku, what they did to Axel and Roxas' characters, the teeth-grindingly frustrating plot... but then they have one extra hurt that you don't, which is having a giant cockblock (or so some think) right in their favourite timeframe to play with.
Call it butthurt if you want, but I do understand. Imagine if they released a re:re:CoM and suddenly there was this OTHER girl who went to CO with Axel, who was never mentioned before, who became best friends with him, and made everything you thought he had with Larxene meaningless. All their interesting little interactions are suddenly nothing in the face of this huge, random, forced relationship with a new character that rapes his personality. It would kind of suck. Especially if it was written really horribly, which made it impossible for you to try and like Axel's new girl, despite canon bashing you in the head telling you to accept it over Larxene.
This isn't how I react to Xion (I think Bullshit is so deep and inherent in everything in Days that I don't even bother to accept anything it tried to add to my original view of riku or axel or roxas or ANYTHING), but I can understand that way of thinking.

I seriously think this is the only reason. Let's give Riku a girlfriend. Sora has one. Roxas has one( even though that doesn't make sense either) so poor little Riku is all alone. We can't have that. Ohh here comes Xion. A Kairi for him. Yay! Opps she really doesn't have real lady bits. Oh well it looks like a girl so that's enough.facepalm

She's actually a contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race

The only way you can enjoy Kingdom Hearts is to not question its logic, and eat everything up without critical evaluation, or else you'll hurt your brain, or be brainwashed into thinking this actually makes sense. A series being made of asspulls, retcons, Xion, every main character being some sort of clone for some reason, every friendship group consisting of two guys and a girl in the entire universe, eating ice cream for a year and not being put in a hospital for diabetes, and basically everything that's wrong with this game.
And Xion.

 

[Aqua.]

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I want to help<33

here is a BB code page in case you need help:

[url=http://forums.khinsider.com/misc.php?do=bbcode[/URL]]BB code list!

it really comes in handy!! D

lol saix. LOL wouldn't it be funny if sora where our mascot?
he'd be chibi.. and he'd say "i don't like having a girl me! >~<" or "that's enough me's!" cuz like as a little boy i bet he wouldn't like having a girl version of him! O:

wowo.. must have taken forever to copy and paste and clean it up huh? O: xDD

if you need any help decorating the OP's and stuff, feel free to ask! D id be glad to help!

 

[Goldpanner]

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Haha thank you~

I'm still having trouble with stupid

things that wont go away ^^; but i will prevail! *stabs*​

 

[Aqua.]

Re: {%}|<~THE Xion Hate Club~>|{%}

oh i know what you can do!

edit it, and on the corner of the whole writing thingy.. there's a button...click it, and everything will look like normal but instead of stuff looking like this
XION HATE CLUB

it will look like this:

[B*]XION HATE CLUB[/B][/COLOR*] w/o the * though xDD

and then you can look at it, most likely it's that you have like two of the

thingies.. or you forgot to put one or it somehow got deleted xDD

hope this helps!! "D​

 

[Goldpanner]

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I was doing that, and it still had that ONE there. akjlgqlrg i think im just tired and hungover from last night ^^;

ps. i fixed that tag about aquas boobs

 

[*TwilightNight*]

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LOL. Our (there it is again) tags traveled with us xD.

Well, before I reply, to the big reply -

A REMINDER TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE XION HATE CLUB BANNER, NEED TO CHANGE THE LINK.

Phew, that took a while. Any suggestions/crit on the new OP?

1. You should ask someone to close the old one, that way, it's permanently over, if you hadn't already.
2. Do you know how to do the TABLE that Audo has, where you add the members? It's going to help you in the long run instead of having SPOILER tags.

i know! like what's the reason for her having such a low neck line? :I it's not like she has anything to show besides a dick! >~>

I have no idea why. Larxene would have done better with that if they were aiming for fanservice.

Then again, there's lolicon...

 

[Aqua.]

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what's lolicon? :]

ohhh.. what does the aqua tag say now? [i looked for it couldn't find it idk XDD]

wow! you even brought over the tags!!

+rep for such hard work.. xDD
EDIT: damn need to rep more ppl >~>

ILL REP TN! D

 

[Goldpanner]

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LOL. Our (there it is again) tags traveled with us xD.

Well, I wasn't going to do things halfway!! XD I did take the liberty of fixing some spelling, and deleting ones that I thought were offensive to transexual people.

A REMINDER TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE XION HATE CLUB BANNER, NEED TO CHANGE THE LINK.

*FACEPALM* Arrrgh. I fixed the OP, too ^^;

2. Do you know how to do the TABLE that Audo has, where you add the members? It's going to help you in the long run instead of having SPOILER tags.

LOL @ my fail table. ORZ

what's lolicon? :]

Um... fanservice for pedos?? Lol

ohhh.. what does the aqua tag say now? [i looked for it couldn't find it idk XDD]

It says, no boobs unlike aqua lol

 

[CLOUD!!]

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yay xion died by roxas[should have been freddie kugar]

 

[Goldpanner]

Re: {%}|<~THE Xion Hate Club~>|{%}

You joining, cloud? :3

/////

 

[*TwilightNight*]

Re: {%}|<~THE Xion Hate Club~>|{%}

what's lolicon? :]

What goldpanner said. Pedophilia. Kind of with fascination on a girl younger than 12. Since Xion can pass for one...

ILL REP TN! D

ZOMG THANK YOU! :'D

Well, I wasn't going to do things halfway!! XD I did take the liberty of fixing some spelling, and deleting ones that I thought were offensive to transexual people.

The funny thing about it is that I kept thinking whether someone or not would put the tags and remake them. Guess it happened.

LOL @ my fail table. ORZ

Checked.

1. First problem it's that you only need one TABLE tag, really.
2. You need to choose how many rows to keep it nice and square. For example, one row will have, if you want five, five members (you've seen mine, and how it goes by five, right?). However, a tip I give is that when you skip (press ENTER, in other words) to make another row, don't let the last member before that have that stick.


Try that. It took me awhile to get it myself, but I was determined >/.

 

[Goldpanner]

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Our tags seem to be an annonymous way to express hate, too.

Argh, the table still looks weird, but at least it's one table now 8D

 

[*TwilightNight*]

Re: {%}|<~THE Xion Hate Club~>|{%}

Our tags seem to be an annonymous way to express hate, too.

Makes you wonder who actually placed them xD.

Argh, the table still looks weird, but at least it's one table now 8D

At least you got the hang of it :3. And why it still looks weird is easy. The CENTER tag around the TABLE TAG to put it in...the center xD. Not inside it. If you want to quote me, and copy and paste the example:

Watson|goldpanner|Amata|Aqua.|Azrael
luna1017|Vexen o3o|Monkey|Kibamaru18|luap911
Asir|leonidus|silentmusic16|Lord_Marluxia|Staleforce21
loke13|pumpkinhead|tornribbon|*TwilightNight*|8298906
*~BlackCat~*|fantasy08|jdeib963

 

[Raz]

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Nah, not ugly. Come on, the only ugly girl in KH is... Maleficent.

Aw, come on. I don't think she's ugly, either. She's pretty... just in an elegant way. IMO. :v
But that's neither here nor there.

 

[Amata]

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What happened to the old thread? :/

 

[WarpChaos]

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seriously, xions like an emo kairi.

 

[*TwilightNight*]

Re: {%}|<~THE Xion Hate Club~>|{%}

What happened to the old thread? :/

Audo, apparently, is not coming back.

 

[Goldpanner]

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Yep, since the OP could no longer be updated, I made this one. But I made sure to copypasta most of the points we made in the last thread into this one~

 

[luna1017]

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Audo, apparently, is not coming back.

So he's permabanned?
Hello fellow Xion haters!