Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days - Blog Posts

8, 17, and 20 for Xion :)

We meet Xion when she's like an empty husk baby so we actually see several of her firsts lmao

8. First time they took a risk, or the biggest risk they've ever taken

Her first time running away from the Organization. Early on, due to Sora memory shenanigans or amth, she loses the ability to use her Keyblade and doesn't return to the castle for several days so no one will find out. For someone who has never known anything outside the Organization and the absolute authority it holds over her, that is kind of an insane thing to do. It's also very much like a kid breaking something and lying about it so they won't get punished. And she is consciously avoiding punishment; Xion says with certainty that if the higher-ups find out, they'll turn her into a mindless Dusk. Now, this might be a bluff on Xemnas' part, since we never actually see this punishment carried out on anyone, but it's apparently not an unprecedented threat, since Axel gets threatened with it too later on. Regardless, she knew it was a risk, and it was probably a bigger one then she even thought it was. Xion's position in the Organization is secured only by the fact that she is a unique Replica. If she proved to be, in Xemnas' eyes, not only useless, but unpredictable and hard to control, they would have no reason to keep her alive. I think the only reason they keep trying with her is because all the members who know how to make Replicas die at C.O., so they can't just pull another blank off the line and slot it in her place.

It's quite sad, in that way. She's just a kid having the same hide-and-hope-for-the-best reaction that lots of kids do to getting a bad grade, or getting in trouble at school, and for most kids their feeling of it being a life or death situation is just catastrophizing. With her, it probably would have been, if they didn't still want to make use of her.

17. First favorites - favorite color, animal, movie, etc.

Favorite food: I mean, ice cream, but tbh I'm not sure if that counts because it seems ro be the only thing she's ever eaten??? I don't thinks she needs food so idk what she would have eaten otherwise

Favorite color: Blue. The color of sea salt ice cream, the color of the ocean, the color of the sky, and, assuming she sees herself how we do, her own eye color. She likes that she shares it with Roxas, too, and for her, she just kind of likes that she. Has eyes. Like they're the window to the soul and if she has them that means she has a soul idk what I'm saying

Favorite animal: I think she likes fish. Particularly pretty, decorative fish like brightly colored goldfish or koi. I can imagine her walking past some kind of stall in the Twilight Town commons and seeing a beta or smth for sale and being enchanted by the bright colors. The one she likes the most are those kinds of angelfish with the wavy fins you always see in like dentist office fish tanks

Favorite place: you'd assume the Clock Tower, or just Twilight Town, generally, but I think she likes those more for the associations then the place in of itself. I think her favorite place for its own sake is the beach. There may have been some Sora influencing her, but when she starts bringing back seashells for Roxas when he's in a coma for a while, she seems to come up with that on her own. She could've gone with like. Pine cones from the woods outside Twilight Town or ice cream sticks or something, but she goes apparently out of her way to stop by the beach after every mission to grab a shell, so I think she just likes the beach

20. First time they felt accepted/welcomed by another character

The first times Roxas and Axel call her their friend verbally, and I say times bc it was on separate occasions and i think she probably interpreted them differently (Axel's away for a good chunk of time and they don't meet until after she's known Roxas for a while.) With Roxas I honestly don't know that it was feeling accepted so much as like. Baby duck imprinting on him, because it happens on the same day she tales her hood off for the first time and it seems to be the first time she's truly conscious of her surroundings. She's more curious or intrigued about the idea of friends then anything else, and when she observes that Axel and Roxas are close she asks if she can be their friend like she's asking if she can try a bite of food.

When Axel also calls her his friend, I imagine her world opens up a little because it informs her that friendship is something she can have with everyone and not just Roxas. She's also more alive at this point so she's probably more aware that someone claiming her as a friend means something deeper then just a name, you know?

Xion does have to deal with isolation and even outright hostility later on, but at the beginning, she thankfully didn't have much trouble finding a place she was welcome, at least for a while.

the way Jesse McCartney voice acts like rent is constantly due the next day needs to be studied

dude you gotta eat the ice cream it's melting

Forget Me Not

they got bored and followed him to moogle walmart

based on a prompt website

putting my thoughts under a cut since my friend who knows nothing about kh will probably see this post:

Thinking lots about Roxas and Xion post Kingdom Hearts 3, though this is more focused on Roxas.

They're both just children who came into the world at (supposedly) fourteen with no memories, and therefore no knowledge or experiences, and now they're thrust into as normal a life a Keyblade Wielder can get after being trapped for so much of their short lives. Xion became almost nonexistent until suddenly becoming two people against her will, only becoming whole when Sora rejoined her minds. Roxas had his ENTIRE LIFE replaced, only to suddenly remember his previous life in a fit of rage.

He clearly remembers both lives at the same time, shown with Sora being sad when leaving Twilight Town and saying goodbye to the real Hayner, Pence, and Olette. As well as appearing in a black coat in the fight in The World That Never Was and the snippets of memories we get to see afterwards. So his mental state must be a disaster, remembering two very conflicting lives and a one of them wasn't even real. But it was real to HIM.

Four kids living in Twilight Town enjoying their summer vacation, but now Hayner, Pence, and Olette don't even personally know who he is. They're willing to befriend him, clearly, but these aren't the people Roxas knew, and so much of his normal, fake life is overlapping his life as an Organization Member, and vice versa.

It's probably also practically impossible for this fifteen year old with one year of TRUE life experience and no real memories to process this to explain the horrors he went through to others. Even his friends. Only Xion would really understand what it feels like to be two people at the same time, surrounded with nothing but reminders of everything he is and isn't. But would she truly?

I headcanon the Days Trio +Saïx/Isa made the abandoned mansion their home, so it must be even more torture to Roxas. Probably to Xion as well, but I doubt as much since she made her choice willingly; though she did kinda force Roxas to kill her but that's neither here nor there. Oh but he definitely remembers her body crystallizing in his arms as she shatters into truly nothing, not even memories remaining, it all being his fault.

Man, can't wait for that Psychology of Roxas video :)

My thoughts on Xion aren't all that organized and I feel I put down the gist of what I have for her so far in my ramblings above. I just really feel bad for her and hope she gets to have a role in Kingdom Hearts 4. I do headcanon she's extremely touch starved and will hold Roxas' or Axel/Lea's hand as much as she can though. Also that she avoids Isa as much as she can, out of fear, anger, and pure spite.

A clone of Roxas, a replica, also kind of a clone of Kairi and also another clone of Sora in a sense. Sora will have a totall identity crisis when he should meet all his clones at once. Removing her at the end of the game “358/2” should actually create a ton of plotholes where different characters should wonder why they had longer conversations with empty air besides other stuff but what do I know?