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Riku || Kingdom Hearts || Not Reserved 1/3
NAME: Jessica
JOURNAL:
E-MAIL: HollowRefuge@gmail.com
CONTACT INFO:
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
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CHARACTER NAME: Riku
SERIES: Kingdom Hearts
CANON POINT: The Dark Margin - Pre-Receiving Kairi's Letter.
APPEARANCE: Boom Boom Pow!
DESIRED CLASS & REASONING:
Adept Rouge: He fights using both a weapin as well as magic based attacks. Because of this, I feel that two classes would suit him much better than any one could.
Blade Brandier: Riku is a keyblade wielder in canon, and this is the class that best suits that. He uses his weapon one handed, and although it would be possible for him to dual wierd, he never actuallty does so. He's also rather strong, but not the stronger character in the game, and although he's quick and agile, his slightly bigger size does tend to slow him down. Because of this, this classes skills suit him best.
Macabre Dancer: Riku uses magic with his keyblade. In fact, he has a special set of spells and attacks that are purely magic based that only he uses. His heal stats are also the best in the game. I feel that, because of these two things, this magical class would suit him best.
PREVIOUSLY IN HOLYRELIC: N/A
Riku || Kingdom Hearts || Not Reserved 2/3
During the events of the original game, Riku appears to be a clam, cool, collected type of teenager, who is not afraid to go or push beynd his limits. This is most clearly shown when he shows no fear of stepping into the dark portal that appears on Destiny Islands the night he, Sora and Kairi make their departure. He willingly steps into it while the rest of the island, his home, is being consumed by darkness. It is during this moment when he first states that he's not afraid of the darkness, or what lies within it in a bid to convince Sora to come with him.
He also seems to be quite aware of Sora's more romantic feelings towards their mutual friend Kairi and even goes so far as to tease him about it. A good example of this can be seen in the way he often challenges Sora, making the prize something that he knows will impress Kairi, such as well he sets up a race between himself and Sora, stating at the last minute that if Sora wins, he will become the captain of the raft they are currently constructing. He goes on to say, however, that if he wins, he gets to share a papou fruit with Kairi, something he knows Sora wishes to do. Although he later says he only made the bet to see the reaction on Sora's face, even going so far as to chuckle while he says it.
Early on in the first game we also learn that Riku has a strong competitive streak that can often be mixed with a bit of jealousy. He seems to enjoy showing off how strong he is, often choosing to spar with other kids his age on the island, just to show off. Through out the game, he often mentions that his heart is strong than Sora's, as if everything about him must somehow be better than his best friends. During the events of the game, he also becomes quite jealous of Sora, due to the prodding of Maleficent and her influence over him. This feeling continues to grow, more and more, as he learns of Sora's journey. He's jealous over the fact that Sora possesses the keyblade, when he feels as though he should have been choosen as the rightful keyblade master. The jealousy slowly turns to rage, resulting in him turning his back on his best friend, even going so far as to fight him willingly.
He allows himself to be willingly manipulated by Maleficent and later by Ansem, Seeker of Darkness. This shows a great weakness within him. A need to be wanted and needed by someone, and most namely, Sora.
His traits, unfavorable as they might be in the original game, drastically change as time wears on. In Chain of Memories, Riku comes to a series of important relizations. One of the most important was that he had allowed his heart to become weak. Starting from that moment on, he bagan to shy away from the darkness he contained within his heart. It is after the numerous battles he is forced into during his time within the castle that he comes to another important realization. That he'll never be entitrely rid of the darkness within his heart. But the difference between early on in the first game and now is that he make a decision that will lead him through what ever challenges he may face, and do so without bringing more harm onto those he feels he's already betrayed. He will use the darkness within him, but he will do so without turning away from the light as he had before. It is with this that Riku seems to have matured the most, leaving some of the events of the past behind him, showing a want to move on with his life, and to become a better and stronger person.
During the second game, he shows a great amount of loyalty and care for his friends, although those traits have always been there, just hidden under other emotions. In order to save Sora and wake him from his year long sleep, he does everything that is within his power to bring Roxas to DiZ, the man he had aligned himself with. He does this in order to make Sora's memories whole again, not only because Sora is, in a very real sense, the most important person to him, but because he has come to realize that Sora is in fact the true master of the keyblade. Without him, the work that still needs to be done will never happen. In order to acomplish this, Riku fights Roxas, and looses, but because the weight of what he must do is so great, he chooses to immerse himself within the darkness, a decision which changes his appearance. With the possiblity of being stuck in the body of Ansem forever, and with Sora now awake, he chooses to hide, not wanting to show Sora what he's become. This shows a need to protect his friends from the darkness that lies within him, as well as the darkness that's around him. The perfect example of this protectiveness can be seen while he and Sora are fighting Xemnas in the void. He willingly scarifices himself by throwing his body in the line of one of Xemnas' attacks that had been aimed at Sora. Instead of allowing his friend to take what very well could have been a death blow, he knocks him out of the way, a move that leaves him serverly injured. This also shows that he often puts his friends above himself. He does, however, leave Sora clues along the way, helping him figure out the mystery behind Organization 13, one that Riku already has completed. This shows a want and a need to be by his friends side and help them in anyway he can, even if he has to do so in secret.
When Sora finally catches up to him in The World That Never Was, he shows a great regret for what he has done, even if he does acknowledge that there was no other way. He admits to Sora that he didn't want him to find him, not in that form. Even after he had been returned to his nature form, he expresses a fear of returning to their home because of the mistakes he has made in the past.
Since he was young he has been painfully curious about the worlds outside of his own. Over time it appears that this naturual curiosity has become more of an obsession, leading him to think of his home as little more than a prison surrounded by water. This is why when the Heartless began to invade, he willingly let them into his world through the Keyhold of Destiny Islands, in exchange for a trip to another world. This obsession, as it were, seems to fade greatly during the year of Sora's sleep, more than likely because he has already seen and visited many other worlds. When he finally returns home during the second game, he makes the comment that it's still a small world, but he agrees with Sora when he says that it's part of a much bigger one. This shows that Riku has formed a much healthier view of his home and the life that he would lead there.
Even though he does mature significantly over the course of the series, he continues to maintain some of his more original traits. He has a good, strong sense of humor that allows him to laugh and be the teenager he really is. He also has a strong sense of pride in everything he does, and so he strives to be the best in everything and do the best he can at what ever task he is given. These things can make him appear as being cocky or overly confident, but he is neither. He is confident in himself and his abilities, although he no longer shows off the way he once did. He no longer feels the need to. He's grown in a more nature, cool, calm, collected version of himself.
Riku || Kingdom Hearts || Not Reserved 3/3
FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE:
Anyone seen a short, brown haired kid? Bright blue eyes and spiky hair? Answers to the name of Sora and doesn't listen to his best friend when he tells him the directions he got from the talking duck aren't right? Seriously, who listens to a talking duck over the person who's currently in control of the map? Someone who wants to get lost in the middle of no where and make his best friend and map holder come looking for him, apparently.
This is pay back, isn't it Sora? For making you look for me? I bet you're in Radiant Garden right now, laughing about how it's my turn to come looking for you. I just bet you are. And all because you had to take directions from a duck who pointed south - south east with his tail. How are you supposed to tell the difference anyway? One feather out of place and it changes the direction completely.
You are so going to pay for this Sora. The minute I figure out where I am and how to get out of here, you are paying for this.
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
There had been times where he had wondered just why it was that he was friends with Sora. It could have been that the friendship had started so early on in their lives that he had become attached before he had a chance to realize what he was getting himself into. It was also possible, not that he would ever actually consider it, that it was simply the fact that he liked Sora's presence and company and that was the reason he continused to stay around. Which ever one it was, it had him hiking out into the middle of some snow covered filled, heavy winter coat, thick gloves and scarf and hat in place, making him closely resemble some sort of over stuffed snow man with silver hair. Of course he had only worn them to make the aforementioned best friend happy, not because he actually needed them.
Because apparently Sora took great concern over whether or not his best friend stayed healthy. No matter how much Riku would insist that he was seventeen now and could take care of himself. Apparently, being short and runt like made you an athority on what other's needed to do to keep from getting the ick, as Sora referred to it.
So as he hiked out into the middle of this field, boots sinking into the snow, he couldn't stop himself from calling out to his brown haired companion, the sigh clearly heard in his voice as he spoke. "How does your brain come up with these idotic ideas anyway?"
Because really, this was by far the stupidest idea he had ever heard and actually gone along with, but the fact that those bright blue eyes had stared at him in the typical puppy dog fashion accompinied by the pouting of Sora's bottom lip has sufficiantly reminded him of guilt he still felt over his actions was the only reason he was trapizing out into the snow to build a snowman.
He was never going to live this down, at least not once Kairi found out. He could only hope Sora could be trusted enough to keep his mouth shut. although given just how well he knew the other, he doubted it.
REVISION REQUEST
THANK you for your interest in Holy Relic! We've read your application thoroughly, but there are a few things we'd like to see expanded on or tweaked before we decide on a final judgment. We'd like to ask for revisions on his class picks-- mostly because his spells in-game were almost all elemental and physical. The spells that a macabre dancer wields are buffs and debuffs, as well as status effects and status heals. It would probably be better to re-class Riku as a Blade Brandier/Shadow Warlock mix or something thereabouts, to keep the feel of his spells better. Alternatively, one can buy spell scrolls in towns and learn the basic elemental spells and such without even being an Adept Rogue, so that's up to you. :)
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ACCEPTED
WELCOME to Holy Relic! There are a few things we'd like to ask of you before jumping in, so please read below and head on over to our welcome post with some ideas for journal setup and a slightly more detailed rehash of the steps below.
(one.) Create your character journal if you haven't already done so, and join the following game communities:
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