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powerforfriends) wrote2012-08-25 03:44 pm
powerforfriends) wrote2012-08-25 03:44 pm
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Character History
Once upon a time the world was full of light, peaceful and beautiful. However - as it's human nature - people started to fight over it. Jealousy, anger and fear started to cover their hearts and eventually the world succumbed to darkness.
But there were still little bits of light left; inside the hearts of the world's children and together they defeated the darkness and recreated the world. However the world was still fractured into many, kept in a precious balance between light and dark. Those were the Keyblade Wars.
Now the Keyblade Masters are almost the only ones with knowledge of the pathways between the worlds and safeguard them and the balance of light and darkness to keep the world order.
At young age Terra becomes apprentice to Master Eraqus, living with him and his fellow apprentice Aqua on the small world named 'Land of Departure', training to become a Keyblade Master. One day another Keyblade Master, Master Xehanort appears together with a young boy without memories, Ventus, and requests Eraqus to train him.
Ventus (nicknamed 'Ven') became the third apprentice in the Land of Departure and started to learn alongside the other two. Though originally quiet and sad, over the time Ven turned into a cheerful teenager, who loves being together with others and is very attached to Terra in particular, while Terra and Aqua have become very protective of him.
Time passes and eventually Terra and Aqua are ready to take the Master Exam. Just the night before the exam Aqua gives self-made good-luck charms ("Wayfinder") to the other two, claiming that they would intervene their destiny forever.
On the next day, Terra and Aqua take the exam, under the watchful eyes of Master Eraqus and Xehanort. Later manipulates the first trial of the exam, in order to be able to examine the skills of all three apprentice. In the last trial, Terra and Aqua are pitched against each other in combat. In the middle of the fight for just a second Terra falls back on the 'darkness in his heart', which is the reason why Eraqus decides to deny him the title of Master.
Disappointed Terra leaves, ignoring Aqua's and Ven's attempts to cheer him up and contemplating upon the meaning of this darkness inside him, thinking that it doesn't matter since he had the power to stand against it. He is joined by Master Xehanort, who tells him not to fear the darkness and that he simply had to add to his power. As the old master leaves, the bells of Eraqus' castle call Terra back inside. Eraqus reveals that Master Yen Sid had just warned him of a threat to the 'Princesses of Light', creatures that feed on negative feelings called the Unversed. Since he had not been able to contact Xehanort, Eraqus orders the two older apprentices to destroy the Unversed and to reestablish contact to Xehanort. He also tells Terra that this could be his chance to be found worthy of becoming Master after all. Just as Terra is about to leave, Ven appears and unbeknown to Terra follows him to the other worlds.
However Terra's overconfidence in his own power comes back to bite him and as he travels he finds himself sliding more and more into it, despite his intentions. It doesn't help that he keeps meeting the wrong kind of crowd in whichever world he enters (Maleficent, Captain Hook, Hades, to name a few). However his travels aren't fruitless and eventually Terra hears about a masked boy, who is somehow connected to the Unversed. After he consults Yen Sid, Xehanort makes contact with Tera and calls him to a strange, bare world. There Xehanort admits being responsible for the boy in the mask, Vanitas. Vanitas was created when he extracted the darkness of Ventus' heart - in order to protect the boy, he claims. Now he is out of control and so, Xehanort beseeches Terra to destroy Vanitas to end the threat and sends him to Radiant Garden, the world where he feels Vanitas will strike next.
Once arrived at Radiant Garden, Terra does not find Vanitas, but is shortly reunited with Ven and Aqua. There Aqua reveals that she had been following Terra at Master Eraqus' order and that she thinks Terra is edging to close to the darkness. Feeling betrayed by both of them, Terra replies that his mission hasn't changed and that he is simply walking a different path in order to defeat the darkness. Telling both Aqua and Ventus not to follow him as they all have their own paths to walk, Terra leaves, only to run into a mysterious man named Braig who claims to have captured Master Xehanort. Terra fights him to free the old master (not knowing that the fight itself is actually a set-up in order to awake his darkness) and leaves Braig scarred and without his right eye.
When Terra is devastated by his use of darkness, Xehanort comforts him, saying that Eraqus, Aqua and Ventus have too much light for Tera not to have darkness since both of those must balance. He offers to become Terra's new master instead so that they may protect balance between the worlds together. He instructs Terra to visit more worlds and find and destroy Vanitas, naming Terra a Master. Just as Terra is about to leave Radiant Garden, Ven finds him once again, pleading him to let him come along. Terra denies his request but muses that Ven will eventually end up saving him.
However during his travels he starts to realize how much Aqua and Ven's friendship actually mean to him and how much he really misses their company. Eventually he finds himself drawn to Destiny Islands, where he meets young Riku. When Riku tells him that he wants to leave to other worlds in order to become strong enough to protect 'the things that are important to him' (ie his friends), Terra performs the Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony, which grants Riku the ability to wield a Keyblade, and tells him to seek him out when he leaves Destiny Island, promising to teach him once the meet again.
Once again traveling, Terra notices Ven somewhere ahead of him. Just as he is about to call out for him, Xehanort contacts him, saying that they need to speak immediately. Xehanort reveals that Ven has learned the truth about Vanitas and is about to question Eraqus on the matter. He sends Terra to follow them in order to protect Ven. Terra returns to the Land of Departure just in time to see Eraqus attempt to erase Ventus and jumps between them to protect his friend. Desperate when confronted with Eraqus strength and his own powerlessness to protect Ven, Terra reaches for his darkness. He sends Ven away from the Land of Departure and battles Eraqus, defeating his Master in the end, only to plead for forgiveness as he comes back to his senses.
Eraqus assures him that there is nothing to forgive since it was him who had also given into the darkness and raised his sword against Ven and Terra. Just as they are about to reconcile the weakened Eraqus is struck down from behind by Xehanort, who now reveals his true colors. Telling Terra to forget his grief and turn it into hate instead, Xehanort destroys the Land of Departure, stating that non of Eraqus' apprentices had need for a home anymore and tells Terra to come to the Keyblade Graveyard.
When he arrives at the Graveyard, Terra swears to use his power for the sake of his friends. Finally reunited with Aqua and Ven, they confront Xehanort and Vanitas. In the middle of the battle, Xehanort calls out Kingdom Hearts, hoping to see what lies beyond the Keyblade Wars with its and the χ-blade's (the ultimate key that is made of pure light and pure darkness - created by reuniting Ventus and Vanitas) help. Terra eventually battles Xehanort while fully relying on his darkness, but as the old Keyblade Master is about to exhaust, Ventus defeats Vanitas - unwillingly creating the χ-blade. Xehanort, delighted by that turn of events, stabs himself with his own Keyblade in order to release his heart and possess Terra (which was why he had encouraged the young man to rely on the darkness in first place). In the last second Terra activates his armour to protect himself, but Xehanort is successful and takes over Terra's body. However Terra's mind still resides in the armor - becoming later known as the Lingering Will - and battles Xehanort once again.
Even though he defeats Xehanort, the body is blown away by the blast of the χ-blade's destruction and the Lingering Will stays behind in the Keyblade Graveyard, waiting for the day of Xehanort's return.
Terra's heart remains inside his body, dormant until Aqua battles Xehanort and awakens Terra long enough for him to stab himself with Xehanort's keyblade in order to expel his heart. However instead, Xehanort's mind is rendered amnesiac and his body is almost drawn into the realm of Darkness. Only through Aqua's sacrifice Xehanort (in Terra's body) is able to return to the realm of light, where he is found by Ansem the Wise and becomes his apprentice, hoping to retrieve his lost memories.
Meanwhile Terra's heart is still alive and battling Xehanort's with the help of Eraqus, swearing not to lose against the old man - no matter the costs.
But there were still little bits of light left; inside the hearts of the world's children and together they defeated the darkness and recreated the world. However the world was still fractured into many, kept in a precious balance between light and dark. Those were the Keyblade Wars.
Now the Keyblade Masters are almost the only ones with knowledge of the pathways between the worlds and safeguard them and the balance of light and darkness to keep the world order.
At young age Terra becomes apprentice to Master Eraqus, living with him and his fellow apprentice Aqua on the small world named 'Land of Departure', training to become a Keyblade Master. One day another Keyblade Master, Master Xehanort appears together with a young boy without memories, Ventus, and requests Eraqus to train him.
Ventus (nicknamed 'Ven') became the third apprentice in the Land of Departure and started to learn alongside the other two. Though originally quiet and sad, over the time Ven turned into a cheerful teenager, who loves being together with others and is very attached to Terra in particular, while Terra and Aqua have become very protective of him.
Time passes and eventually Terra and Aqua are ready to take the Master Exam. Just the night before the exam Aqua gives self-made good-luck charms ("Wayfinder") to the other two, claiming that they would intervene their destiny forever.
On the next day, Terra and Aqua take the exam, under the watchful eyes of Master Eraqus and Xehanort. Later manipulates the first trial of the exam, in order to be able to examine the skills of all three apprentice. In the last trial, Terra and Aqua are pitched against each other in combat. In the middle of the fight for just a second Terra falls back on the 'darkness in his heart', which is the reason why Eraqus decides to deny him the title of Master.
Disappointed Terra leaves, ignoring Aqua's and Ven's attempts to cheer him up and contemplating upon the meaning of this darkness inside him, thinking that it doesn't matter since he had the power to stand against it. He is joined by Master Xehanort, who tells him not to fear the darkness and that he simply had to add to his power. As the old master leaves, the bells of Eraqus' castle call Terra back inside. Eraqus reveals that Master Yen Sid had just warned him of a threat to the 'Princesses of Light', creatures that feed on negative feelings called the Unversed. Since he had not been able to contact Xehanort, Eraqus orders the two older apprentices to destroy the Unversed and to reestablish contact to Xehanort. He also tells Terra that this could be his chance to be found worthy of becoming Master after all. Just as Terra is about to leave, Ven appears and unbeknown to Terra follows him to the other worlds.
However Terra's overconfidence in his own power comes back to bite him and as he travels he finds himself sliding more and more into it, despite his intentions. It doesn't help that he keeps meeting the wrong kind of crowd in whichever world he enters (Maleficent, Captain Hook, Hades, to name a few). However his travels aren't fruitless and eventually Terra hears about a masked boy, who is somehow connected to the Unversed. After he consults Yen Sid, Xehanort makes contact with Tera and calls him to a strange, bare world. There Xehanort admits being responsible for the boy in the mask, Vanitas. Vanitas was created when he extracted the darkness of Ventus' heart - in order to protect the boy, he claims. Now he is out of control and so, Xehanort beseeches Terra to destroy Vanitas to end the threat and sends him to Radiant Garden, the world where he feels Vanitas will strike next.
Once arrived at Radiant Garden, Terra does not find Vanitas, but is shortly reunited with Ven and Aqua. There Aqua reveals that she had been following Terra at Master Eraqus' order and that she thinks Terra is edging to close to the darkness. Feeling betrayed by both of them, Terra replies that his mission hasn't changed and that he is simply walking a different path in order to defeat the darkness. Telling both Aqua and Ventus not to follow him as they all have their own paths to walk, Terra leaves, only to run into a mysterious man named Braig who claims to have captured Master Xehanort. Terra fights him to free the old master (not knowing that the fight itself is actually a set-up in order to awake his darkness) and leaves Braig scarred and without his right eye.
When Terra is devastated by his use of darkness, Xehanort comforts him, saying that Eraqus, Aqua and Ventus have too much light for Tera not to have darkness since both of those must balance. He offers to become Terra's new master instead so that they may protect balance between the worlds together. He instructs Terra to visit more worlds and find and destroy Vanitas, naming Terra a Master. Just as Terra is about to leave Radiant Garden, Ven finds him once again, pleading him to let him come along. Terra denies his request but muses that Ven will eventually end up saving him.
However during his travels he starts to realize how much Aqua and Ven's friendship actually mean to him and how much he really misses their company. Eventually he finds himself drawn to Destiny Islands, where he meets young Riku. When Riku tells him that he wants to leave to other worlds in order to become strong enough to protect 'the things that are important to him' (ie his friends), Terra performs the Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony, which grants Riku the ability to wield a Keyblade, and tells him to seek him out when he leaves Destiny Island, promising to teach him once the meet again.
Once again traveling, Terra notices Ven somewhere ahead of him. Just as he is about to call out for him, Xehanort contacts him, saying that they need to speak immediately. Xehanort reveals that Ven has learned the truth about Vanitas and is about to question Eraqus on the matter. He sends Terra to follow them in order to protect Ven. Terra returns to the Land of Departure just in time to see Eraqus attempt to erase Ventus and jumps between them to protect his friend. Desperate when confronted with Eraqus strength and his own powerlessness to protect Ven, Terra reaches for his darkness. He sends Ven away from the Land of Departure and battles Eraqus, defeating his Master in the end, only to plead for forgiveness as he comes back to his senses.
Eraqus assures him that there is nothing to forgive since it was him who had also given into the darkness and raised his sword against Ven and Terra. Just as they are about to reconcile the weakened Eraqus is struck down from behind by Xehanort, who now reveals his true colors. Telling Terra to forget his grief and turn it into hate instead, Xehanort destroys the Land of Departure, stating that non of Eraqus' apprentices had need for a home anymore and tells Terra to come to the Keyblade Graveyard.
When he arrives at the Graveyard, Terra swears to use his power for the sake of his friends. Finally reunited with Aqua and Ven, they confront Xehanort and Vanitas. In the middle of the battle, Xehanort calls out Kingdom Hearts, hoping to see what lies beyond the Keyblade Wars with its and the χ-blade's (the ultimate key that is made of pure light and pure darkness - created by reuniting Ventus and Vanitas) help. Terra eventually battles Xehanort while fully relying on his darkness, but as the old Keyblade Master is about to exhaust, Ventus defeats Vanitas - unwillingly creating the χ-blade. Xehanort, delighted by that turn of events, stabs himself with his own Keyblade in order to release his heart and possess Terra (which was why he had encouraged the young man to rely on the darkness in first place). In the last second Terra activates his armour to protect himself, but Xehanort is successful and takes over Terra's body. However Terra's mind still resides in the armor - becoming later known as the Lingering Will - and battles Xehanort once again.
Even though he defeats Xehanort, the body is blown away by the blast of the χ-blade's destruction and the Lingering Will stays behind in the Keyblade Graveyard, waiting for the day of Xehanort's return.
Terra's heart remains inside his body, dormant until Aqua battles Xehanort and awakens Terra long enough for him to stab himself with Xehanort's keyblade in order to expel his heart. However instead, Xehanort's mind is rendered amnesiac and his body is almost drawn into the realm of Darkness. Only through Aqua's sacrifice Xehanort (in Terra's body) is able to return to the realm of light, where he is found by Ansem the Wise and becomes his apprentice, hoping to retrieve his lost memories.
Meanwhile Terra's heart is still alive and battling Xehanort's with the help of Eraqus, swearing not to lose against the old man - no matter the costs.