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darkremnantOOC Information:
Name: Tru.
Are you over 15? Yes, indeed.
Contact: Plurk: Starbound
Aim: Trulystarbound
IC Information:
Name:
Preincarnation: Vanitas
Reincarnation: Van Sullivan
Canon: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by sleep
Age:
Preincarnated: It’s unknown but, he spent about 4-5 years separated from Ven’s heart, and he looks somewhere around 14-15.
Reincarnation: 18.
Preincarnation Appearance: Close up.
Full body.
Any differences: Nothing major, aside from having a little less muscle mass. He’s in decent shape from running and scaling fences but since he’s not Keyblade training 24/7 he’s not at muscled as he was in his past life. He also still has messy hair but it’s slightly less gravity defying. He’s a bit older looking, has some ear piercing as most teens do and his eyes are less yellow and more light brown.
Preincarnated History: Vanitas’ story on wika.
General info on Kingdom Hearts: Birth by sleep.
The significance of Darkness in Kingdom Hearts.
Xehanort was an old keyblade master who had one goal: To create the χ-blade. A blade created from the perfect balance of darkness and light. The man experimented, on his apprentice-- a boy named Ventus-- trying to create a person with such a heart. One day he had the boy attacked non-stop by Heartless, forcing Ventus to fight for his life for hours. Still no matter how long he fought he couldn’t tap into his darkness. While pleading for his Master to stop, he was caught by surprise and knocked out.
In that instant Xehanort devised a plan. If the boy wouldn’t embrace his darkness, he’d make him face it. He used his keyblade to unlock boy’s heart and extracted the darkness from it, giving it a life of its own. This fracture he named “Vanitas” and it was meant to be a life with a heart of pure darkness. The idea was to make Ventus with his heart of now pure light fight his darkness in hopes of achieving that perfect balance, but the process left the boy unconscious and his heart shattered. He was unmoving and now useless to him. So taking his failed experiment away he sought to ditch Ventus in his home world, the Destiny Islands. But just as he was about to leave, Ventus heart connected with a newborn heart on the island and his body showed a spark of life by summoning his keyblade. There was hope again that he could make this boy fight his Darkness. So Instead of leaving him, he took the boy to his fellow Master, Eraqus, and left him there to recover, while he took Vanitas as his new apprentice. In the instant when Ventus’ heart connected with the newborn light on the island. Vanitas’ heart connected as well. The once faceless creature, now had the form of a normal teenage boy.
((Not really headcanon, but from the Kingdom hearts novels instead of the game.))
With the other half of his heart gone Vanitas started to feel sad and incomplete. He started contemplating his existence and what would become of him. This sadness turned into anger and hatred, he felt weak for his sadness and desired a purpose. These emotions started to manifest themselves into weird creatures called Unversed. Vanitas hated these creatures, to him they were just displaying his weakness. He attacked it and upon the moment of it’s death, Vanitas felt what it felt. The pain and sadness from it’s death caused him to create another. He continued attacking the newly created creatures forming a vicious cycle. In his time of pain and hatred, Xehanort simply watched until the boy was too tired to fight anymore. This is when he gave him his purpose. He told him he had to fight with his Ventus and form the χ-blade.
A few years later, during Eraqus’ apprentices, Terra and Aqua’s, mark of mastery exam, Xehanort brought Vanitas to the world where Ventus was being stored. After the exam Vanitas snuck off to find Ventus. He had hoped to start a fight and antagonized Ventus, but the boy was still too weak for the fight Vanitas wanted. So he convinced Ventus to leave his world with a few ominous words about his friend Terra, thinking the journey would make him stronger. He used his power to create Unversed and dropped them on various planets, giving Ventus things to fight.
After the boy had saved a few worlds, Vanitas decided to check his skills. While traveling to a new world, Vanitas lead Ventus to the Keyblade graveyard. However, Ventus was easily overpowered, to Vanitas’ disappointment, the boy was still not strong enough to forge the χ-blade. This frustrated him and in a burst of anger, he declared the boy too worthless to be of use and intended to kill him, despite his master’s orders. But before he could deal the final blow, Mickey Mouse appeared and came to the boy’s rescue. Vanitas was clearly outmatched and after declaring that Ventus was on probation, he opened a dark pathway and vanished.
He wasn’t seen again until the trio reunited in Radiant Garden. To distract them, Vanitas let a large Unversed loose in the city. The trio defeated it together, but tensions still ran high, splitting the trio apart again. While Aqua was vulnerable Vanitas went to her, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to slow down the woman’s pursuit. The two fought and Aqua knocked Vanitas unconscious... or so she thought. Just as she was about to unmask the boy, he started to laugh hysterically and hopped back to his feet. Congratulating her on her victory and making an ominous comment about her being a good backup, indicating the whole thing was just a test of her skill. Then he opened another dark corridor and vanished once again.
Vanitas was seen next in Neverland, kidnapping Mickey Mouse under Master Xehanort’s orders and using him to lure Ventus back to the keyblade graveyard for another test. Again Ventus was defeated, but the boy showed improvement so Vanitas didn’t kill him. He returned to Neverland to confront Aqua once again, snapping Ventus’ cherished wooden keyblade in half. He claimed that with the boy’s growing strength, he had outgrown such toys and that he (Vanitas) had outgrown the need for her as a backup. Aqua was victorious but collapsed in exhaustion, allowing Vanitas to escape.
After that, Vanitas crossed paths with Ventus on Destiny Islands. Vanitas tried to incite Ventus’ anger to unite with him and forge the χ-blade. Ventus refused and Vanitas responds by insulting him and threatening Ventus’ friends. Seeing that he now had Ventus’ attention, the boy vanished again into a dark corridor, leaving Ventus to think over his lack of options.
At the Keyblade Graveyard, where the trio had reconvened, Xehanort froze and threw Ventus off a cliff. Aqua caught him, but was soon knocked unconscious by Vanitas. Just before Vanitas impaled her with his Keyblade, however, Ventus found the strength to break out of the ice and attacks Vanitas, triggering the clash Vanitas had wanted. The two were transported to Ventus’ heart where the battle takes place. While the two fought in Ventus’ heart, Mickey found the unconscious Aqua and revived her, just in time for her to see the now possessed Ventus with the χ-blade. Having full control of Ventus’ body, Vanitas fought Aqua. However, the combined efforts of Aqua and Ventus finally defeated him and he fell into the light of Ventus’ heart where it’s assumed he and the unversed were destroyed for good.
Reincarnated History
Van Sullivan didn’t come from a very rich family, in fact, if not for his father’s skills in conning and thievery, and his mother’s slight talent in art, they’d of been living on the street. So when a baby was brought into their lives, they were very unprepared. Their life wasn’t easy and most of it was spent either on the run in cars or hotel rooms. Van’s mother couldn’t take their way of life and when Van was still a baby, she took him and left his father.
For seven years they lived a rough life in small rented apartments, struggling to just get by. Still Van's mother worked hard and provided as best as she could for him, but one night one her way home, the woman's car was hit and swerved off the highway. In the weeks following the accident, she was in a coma and Van was given to his father. The man didn’t really want a child, but he was never one to overlook an opportunity. He found that people let their guard down around a child, so for the first few months he learned to exploit that. He would purposely lose the boy to draw people’s attention when he started to cry while the man would pick pocket or steal from stores while people and security were tending to his child. He even went so far as to sell Van then steal him back from couples looking to adopt but not wanting to deal with the tedious paperwork. When Van’s mother finally passed away, he realized this arrangement could be permanent. So he stopped leaving Van alone in hotel rooms while he was off “working” and started to take the child with him and show him the tricks of the trade.
As Van got older and became better at lying, his father taught him the art of deceit, which he used for cons of his own, making him a bit better at manipulation and cunning. He started educating the boy and encouraging him to go to school when he didn’t need him. After all a dumb kid wouldn’t be much use to him and though Van’s father wasn’t the warmest of people, he knew how to keep things interesting. He made a game out of who could steal the most in a day. He started leaving the boy to steal on his own and disappearing for longer periods of time until Van got better and better at taking care of himself and more resourceful. When Van started winning their little game he’d raise the bar, teaching the boy to steal more complicated and bigger things, such as appliances and cars. Over time he was molding the boy into the perfect partner in crime. By the time he reached his teens, he was making deliveries for the local crime rings, stealing cars for a chop shop and learning the ropes of credit card fraud.
Cockiness became his fatal flaw in the end. One evening when he was 14, his father was away for a week and Van ...got bored. So he did what most teens would do and decided to have a night out! Of course nights out for Van weren’t normal evenings of underage drinking and smoking. No for him, that meant drinking and finding the nicest car in richer part of town and going on a little joy ride. This of course ended badly... namely with Van crashing the car into clothing store window. After a few days in the hospital, charges were pressed and Van’s father never showed up to post bail, so Van was put into juvie.
Feeling abandoned and betrayed Van grew angry and juvie did nothing but exacerbate Van further. Most of his time there was spent getting into fights or stirring up trouble for the guards, but since no one was hurt in his transgression and this was his first charge, he was out within the year and put under probation. (I really don’t know what the full penalty is for theft, destruction of property, and underage drinking. So this can be changed upon request.) But with his father still MIA he had no one to claim him, so Van was turned over to his mother’s parents in Locke City. They were an elderly couple and couldn’t seem to calm or discipline the youth, they also saw too much of his father in him and no love for the man that made them disown their daughter.
Van was still angry and defensive when he came out of juvie. His issues with authoritative figures only worsened. Still, since they were his mother’s parents, so he treated them with a cool indifference while waiting for his probation to be up. He’d sometimes go to school when home was too boring, but most of his time was spent cutting class and just scraping by on his probation. Van liked to test his limits and took joy in finding ways to bend the rules. By the time it was all over, he was 16 years old. When Van decided to move out, his guardians didn’t put up an argument or try to file a police report, they even helped him pack.
At seventeen, he tried again at bigger criminal activity to see if he was ready to pull his father’s work on his own. He teamed up with a group and tried to rob a jewelry store, but Van never worked well with groups and things got messy when someone tripped an alarm. Van barely escaped the incident, but since then he has toned down his thieving. He’s currently scraping by with odd jobs and lighter criminal activity, saving up for his own place. For now he’s living in hotels and staying on the move, wondering if in time his father will show back up.
First Echo: His first echo happened when he was having a fight with a former ex-girlfriend that turned venomous. He ended up breaking something important to her. She screamed and called him a freak before hitting him.
This incident gave him an echo of a memory where a similar event happened with Aqua. Up until she charges at him.
Scene here.
Preincarnation Personality:
Being the dark half of a heart, meant there was no light in Vanitas’ heart. Though there is no formal definition in Kingdom Hearts, ‘Darkness’ is clearly a negative energy that feeds off negative emotions and desires. We see numerous examples of this throughout the series. For example, jealousy and lust for power triggered Riku’s fall into darkness in Kingdom Hearts. Maleficent displayed both greed and anger in Birth by Sleep and Sora’s downfall in Dream Drop Distance was made possible through emotional hurt and self doubt. All of these negative feelings are what make up the dark side of one’s heart and Vanitas was full of them.
As a being of Darkness, Vanitas seemed to take great joy in other people’s anguish and anger, often saying things like: “Show me anguish.” or “Suffer!” during battles. He spent the bulk of the game antagonizing or hurting the trio of heroes. Vanitas knew just what buttons to press to get a reaction. Such as how easily he manipulated Ventus into leaving his home world by playing on his doubts about Terra or how he enraged Aqua into a fight by breaking Ventus treasured keyblade. His malice was willful and he knew exactly what he was doing, expecting the negative reaction and relishing it. However, for all Vanitas understood about negative emotion, he didn’t understand positive ones. Warmth, kindness, friendship and family gave his other half strength, but he viewed them as weak and useless, often laughing at Ventus whenever he claimed to find strength in his friends.
It’s when he doesn’t get the expected reaction that he even shows surprise. But he rarely shows when stuff takes him by surprise, usually quick to cover it up with an insult and condescending compliment. He’s cunning and a quick thinker, so he easily bounces back with a new plan.
The anger and fear in Ven’s heart made Vanitas very aggressive. This was only encouraged by the training from Master Xehanort. He wasn’t a kind man in the least and through cruelty and negligence he believed he could strengthen the dark creature he’d cleaved from his apprentice.
Strength was of great importance to Vanitas. It’s one of the few, if not only things he seemed to respect. Vanitas and Ventus growing stronger were a crucial part of Xehanort’s plan so strength is integral to Vanitas’ being. Vanitas praises strength even when it’s shown by his enemies. He even went so far as to laugh and congratulate Aqua for defeating him. Despite his ego, Vanitas didn’t seem to show frustration when defeated. When defeated by Aqua or Mickey, he may laugh or remain fully composed then retreated calmly to regroup. To him, defeat might be a minor setback, but not irreversible if left alive.
His views on weakness though were far simpler. He found weakness to be disgusting and mocked it, even grows frustrated by the sight of it every time he saw it in Ventus. Vanitas was very driven and egotistical. Despite repeatedly being defeated by Aqua, he still returned confident and cocky. He even berated himself if he believed he was showing weakness. Like the destruction of his own Unversed despite the pain. Weakness was just something to be ignored or eliminated.
But most of Vanitas’ action were fueled by a need for purpose. Like any creature he was lost without one, but when Xehanort gave him a goal in forming the χ-blade, it became his obsession. Though he held little to no respect for the man, he was determined to get stronger and help him reach this goal. He fulfilled his orders, but on his own terms and in the best way to serve his own interest. For example, he showed no qualms in disobeying orders when his frustration over Ventus’ weakness brought him close to killing the boy, despite how important he was to his ‘Master’s’ plan, but was relentless in achieving his personal and their ultimate goal.
Any differences:
Crafty and quick thinking are traits that stay with Van in his new life. A life of crime and tricks left very little room for slip ups, and Van’s survival of the fittest attitude served him well in it. While he respects strength, it’s strength of the mind that impresses him now more than brute force. You can be a muscled freak that can rip a phone book, but if you don’t have any brains to put that strength into proper use, Van is uninterested. He will likely ignore you if he can not find a use for you.
One of Vanitas’ main differences in this life, is that now he is no longer half of a heart. He’s a complete human teenager, which leaves him open to the emotional mess, joy and vulnerability that is humanity. Unlike in his past life where if he felt any kind of emotion he could turn tn into an unversed and destroy it, here he is forced to feel every one of his moods and being a human teenager makes him very prone to mood swings. He still views his hurt and pain as weakness, but since his only choice is to bare it, he takes it out in the usual teenage way. Getting into a fight, acting out, property damage, a piercing, etc. There is also sadness. Sadness over the loss of his mother, which even in their poor living conditions, he felt were the best times of his life. Unlike his former self, there was a time (though brief) when Van knew what it was like to have a loved one. So he can understand how the warmth that comes from a mother’s love can feel like it gives you strength. Though he’ll never admit to it and never speak of his mother. Those times are his own and he isn’t at all willing to share them. He’ll often make up things or joke about his past to shock, confuse or just make people feel plain awkward to avoid the subject. It’s very hard to get the truth out of him unless he wants you to know it. Like his canon counterpart, Vanitas is very secretive and will even go so far as to give people a fake name when asked.
Van is still proud and arrogant, but while he likes to push peoples buttons he’s aware of his limits and small stature. Meaning if you are a giant muscled jerked he’s smart enough not to challenge you to a fight. Though don’t think this means you’re safe from his mockery. Instead in true bullying fashion, he prey on your other weaknesses. If you’re dumb he’ll take joy in making sure you know just how dumb, if you’re brainy he’ll respect it, but still call you a friendless know it all. Van likes getting a reaction from people and very little throws him. Except genuine kindness. Though Van has experienced love in this life, that was still the love of a mother. Kindness just sorta came with the job description. People that show kindness out of the goodness of their hearts are foreign to him. He’ll suspect of course that they’re up to something and grow hostile trying to make them slip and show their agenda. If there is none, he may actually become speechless and at a loss. In which case he’ll leave. Fully composed, but still retreating.
Another difference is that while his past self was chaotic and cared very little of the pain and trails of destruction he left behind. This Van has years of planned crimes in his new life. It has made him more careful about messes and evidence of his deeds. The boy is fairly neat and well organized. He likes to know where his thing are in case he’ll need them at a moments notice and like any good thief he likes to leave the scene without a trace of his presence. Unless he’s angry or property destruction was the intent. While not OCD about organization, he still likes a clean work space.
Last is his way with words. While living under the guidance of an aged keyblade master had given him a decent vocabulary, the Van with the silver tongue con artist for a father has a smoother way of manipulating words to turn things in his favor. While sporadically home-schooled by his father and attending public school, wasn’t the best way to strengthen the mind, his father put more attention in it than Master Xehanort did. After all a dumb partner is worse than no partner. It made the boy clever and actually enjoy reading. But the defenses he put up while in Juvie made him sarcastic. He’ll often make snarky comments or sarcastic statements when he wants to defuse attention or get on someone’s nerves for his own amusement. This reflects in his speech. He can be very well spoken for a street kid, but he’s still gruff and not above cursing, unlike his Disney counterpart.
His mannerisms are still calm and composed, rarely showing when he’s bothered or feeling something. Most situations he regards with smirk or a laugh. He takes very little seriously, making him less driven in this life. The clear lack of a goal is evident. Van’s aware he’s been dealt a bad hand, but he doesn’t complain about it. Though he may resent and mock people that complain who have lives that are clearly better. Like his defeats in Kingdom Hearts, he bounces back and moves on, waiting for the next thing life will throw him.
Welcome to humanity Vanitas.
Abilities: His main weapon was his keyblade, Void Gear. Keyblades are often used like swords when battling depending on the wielders style of fighting. Vanitas style was more like fencing. His movements were quick and light hitting, because his blade was smaller and allowed fast movement. He’s often one handed unlike Sora who fought in a heavier style as if wielding a broadsword.
Skilled sword fighter. For years with in Ventus he was trained under a keyblade master and when they were separated that training continued for 4 or 5 more years. This also gave him great agility and speed, he’s often darting around the screen during a boss fight. He also has the ability to levitate which can also make him harder to catch, but if that wasn’t bad enough, he also has his most infamous move, Leave-split, which is a move where he leaves an image of himself behind while he teleports behind his enemy in the blink of an eye.
Dark elemental spells - Like the normal fire, ice and thunder spells in Kingdom hearts but with dark energy added. Vanitas shoots several fireballs, ice spikes or thunderbolts surrounded by darkness at his opponents with these keyblade spells.
Darkness/Dark portals - Like most things from the darkness he can manipulate it and use it to attack people. He can also use it to open pathways between worlds with the use of dark portals. This portals open corridors between worlds and allow him to teleport great distances. He can also will and model the darkness to surround his body in it, forming a darkness suit of armor.
Unversed - They’re red eyed creatures made up of darkness, but filled with emotions. Vanitas emotions to be exact. Each Unversed is created when Vanitas feels something. Weather it be anger, sadness, jealousy, they all become Unversed that Vanitas can control at will or release to let them do their own thing. Each Unversed has their own elemental power or ability that they’ll use to attack people (One of which has the ability to make rare candies... but that’s Kingdom Hearts weirdness for you).
List of Unversed can be found here.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
This job wouldn’t be so hard. Van didn’t particularly like working with groups, but these were the kind of jobs that required a little help. He would’ve preferred that this help was coming from his dad, but, well if he wasn’t planning to come back, he needed to figure these things out on his own. “Mask on.” He hissed a reminder to one of his fellow goons, who was about to walk up to the store with his mask still folded up.
Van was starting to regret this already, but it was too late to turn back now. He set to work cutting the alarm. He could get to the power line, which he would have preferred, but this could at least buy them some extra time. “Make it quick.” They filed in and started breaking cases to grab and swipe, filling bags and a few already high-fiving. “We’re not out of here yet, you idiots.” Van rolled his eyes and bent down to open another case, when he noticed a light flashing. “...Shit!” He cursed when he realized it was a silent alarm.
“Ugh, what is it now?”
One of his teammates asked and Van opened his mouth to tell them, but then realized if the cops were coming, he’d need a distraction. “Nothing. Keep going. We got this. Imma check that the coast is clear.” He said cheerfully as he placed his bag on the ground and calmly headed out. He faintly heard the blare of sirens in the distance and from the murmurs coming from inside the store, they were starting to hear them to. Van drew up his hood and got ready.
“Are those sirens, Eric?!”
Van wasn’t around to answer to his fake name. He was already taking off up the street.
The sirens grew louder and Van saw one of the cars stop up ahead. ’Shit. Shit!’ He skidded to a stop as one of the cops climbed out of the car. ’Okay, he’s a fatty. This might not be so bad.’ He thought and smirked under his mask as he took off across the street, barely missing being hit by a ca-- “JARED!”
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“Jared! Get back to work!”
Van blinked out of his thoughts and realized he was doing it again. Going over his mistakes and failures of that night. He could almost hear his father’s condescending tone pointing out each and every slip in excruciating detail. ’Where are you...?’
“Jared!”
“What?!” Van snapped sharply at his manger and was greeted to a disgruntled look and he visibly flustered. He was a portly man. More bark than bite. “Well?”
“Table 5 has been in need of clearing for 10 minutes now! I hired you to bus, now do it!” He barked back.
“And that couldn’t wait 10 minutes for me to finish my thought? You had to scream at me over that? There’s no one here anyway. What’s your damn rush! I could’ve been thinking of something important!”
“And what could you be thinking of that’s more important than your job?”
“Well now if I start listing the things I could think of that are less pathetic than tables, we’d be here all day and those tables would never get clean.” He said calmly as he he pushed past him to get to the table. “Now you get any closer, man, Imma have to file a sexual harassment suit.” He said when the man refused to move. The man gave a disgusted grunt and quickly moved away.
“That’s it, you’re fired!”
Finally. “Whatever.” He swept his arm over the counter and broke some ketchup bottles as he walked out. “I’ll be back for this weeks paycheck.” He was getting bored of this job anyway. ’Maybe I’ll try something in mechanics next.’
Roleplay Sample - Network:
((He just trolling for the sake of trolling so I’m just naming random popular thing on social networks since I’m not sure what the ingame network is like. Also no sure how big or small the echo numbers are, so again, guessing!))
[Van has been trying for days to figure this number out. He can’t even remember where it came from. It was too small for a phone number, yet too big for an address. He sighs in frustration then picks up his phone, pulling up a google search on the numbers.] ...What the fuck? What is this? Facebook? I never signed up for this...
[He rolls his eyes, then starts recording.]
So, I’m not really sure how I got signed up for this thing, but might as well make use of it. Pink haired girl with the terrible singing video? Stop it this instant. Your voice it like someone trying to drown a bag full of kittens. People are long over that song and your screeching isn’t going to bring it back.
Oh, and you, big nose. I really have no idea what you're posting about, but I’m assuming it’s about something pathetic and how the world must hate you. and how you can’t get a girlfriend... or boyfriend. If so, then yes, yes it does and no, no you won’t. Ever.
And you girl in the towel. Stop being a tease. Either go for the nude shot or get the hell of the internet.
As for anyone else? I couldn’t make it much further, but I’m pretty sure it’s similar all the same pathetic whining.
Whoever signed me up for this and put this number in my head? Fuck you very much, but I don’t want what you’re selling. [He smirked before cutting the connection.]
Any Questions? No, think I'm okay. :oa
Name: Tru.
Are you over 15? Yes, indeed.
Contact: Plurk: Starbound
Aim: Trulystarbound
IC Information:
Name:
Preincarnation: Vanitas
Reincarnation: Van Sullivan
Canon: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by sleep
Age:
Preincarnated: It’s unknown but, he spent about 4-5 years separated from Ven’s heart, and he looks somewhere around 14-15.
Reincarnation: 18.
Preincarnation Appearance: Close up.
Full body.
Any differences: Nothing major, aside from having a little less muscle mass. He’s in decent shape from running and scaling fences but since he’s not Keyblade training 24/7 he’s not at muscled as he was in his past life. He also still has messy hair but it’s slightly less gravity defying. He’s a bit older looking, has some ear piercing as most teens do and his eyes are less yellow and more light brown.
Preincarnated History: Vanitas’ story on wika.
General info on Kingdom Hearts: Birth by sleep.
The significance of Darkness in Kingdom Hearts.
Xehanort was an old keyblade master who had one goal: To create the χ-blade. A blade created from the perfect balance of darkness and light. The man experimented, on his apprentice-- a boy named Ventus-- trying to create a person with such a heart. One day he had the boy attacked non-stop by Heartless, forcing Ventus to fight for his life for hours. Still no matter how long he fought he couldn’t tap into his darkness. While pleading for his Master to stop, he was caught by surprise and knocked out.
In that instant Xehanort devised a plan. If the boy wouldn’t embrace his darkness, he’d make him face it. He used his keyblade to unlock boy’s heart and extracted the darkness from it, giving it a life of its own. This fracture he named “Vanitas” and it was meant to be a life with a heart of pure darkness. The idea was to make Ventus with his heart of now pure light fight his darkness in hopes of achieving that perfect balance, but the process left the boy unconscious and his heart shattered. He was unmoving and now useless to him. So taking his failed experiment away he sought to ditch Ventus in his home world, the Destiny Islands. But just as he was about to leave, Ventus heart connected with a newborn heart on the island and his body showed a spark of life by summoning his keyblade. There was hope again that he could make this boy fight his Darkness. So Instead of leaving him, he took the boy to his fellow Master, Eraqus, and left him there to recover, while he took Vanitas as his new apprentice. In the instant when Ventus’ heart connected with the newborn light on the island. Vanitas’ heart connected as well. The once faceless creature, now had the form of a normal teenage boy.
((Not really headcanon, but from the Kingdom hearts novels instead of the game.))
With the other half of his heart gone Vanitas started to feel sad and incomplete. He started contemplating his existence and what would become of him. This sadness turned into anger and hatred, he felt weak for his sadness and desired a purpose. These emotions started to manifest themselves into weird creatures called Unversed. Vanitas hated these creatures, to him they were just displaying his weakness. He attacked it and upon the moment of it’s death, Vanitas felt what it felt. The pain and sadness from it’s death caused him to create another. He continued attacking the newly created creatures forming a vicious cycle. In his time of pain and hatred, Xehanort simply watched until the boy was too tired to fight anymore. This is when he gave him his purpose. He told him he had to fight with his Ventus and form the χ-blade.
A few years later, during Eraqus’ apprentices, Terra and Aqua’s, mark of mastery exam, Xehanort brought Vanitas to the world where Ventus was being stored. After the exam Vanitas snuck off to find Ventus. He had hoped to start a fight and antagonized Ventus, but the boy was still too weak for the fight Vanitas wanted. So he convinced Ventus to leave his world with a few ominous words about his friend Terra, thinking the journey would make him stronger. He used his power to create Unversed and dropped them on various planets, giving Ventus things to fight.
After the boy had saved a few worlds, Vanitas decided to check his skills. While traveling to a new world, Vanitas lead Ventus to the Keyblade graveyard. However, Ventus was easily overpowered, to Vanitas’ disappointment, the boy was still not strong enough to forge the χ-blade. This frustrated him and in a burst of anger, he declared the boy too worthless to be of use and intended to kill him, despite his master’s orders. But before he could deal the final blow, Mickey Mouse appeared and came to the boy’s rescue. Vanitas was clearly outmatched and after declaring that Ventus was on probation, he opened a dark pathway and vanished.
He wasn’t seen again until the trio reunited in Radiant Garden. To distract them, Vanitas let a large Unversed loose in the city. The trio defeated it together, but tensions still ran high, splitting the trio apart again. While Aqua was vulnerable Vanitas went to her, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to slow down the woman’s pursuit. The two fought and Aqua knocked Vanitas unconscious... or so she thought. Just as she was about to unmask the boy, he started to laugh hysterically and hopped back to his feet. Congratulating her on her victory and making an ominous comment about her being a good backup, indicating the whole thing was just a test of her skill. Then he opened another dark corridor and vanished once again.
Vanitas was seen next in Neverland, kidnapping Mickey Mouse under Master Xehanort’s orders and using him to lure Ventus back to the keyblade graveyard for another test. Again Ventus was defeated, but the boy showed improvement so Vanitas didn’t kill him. He returned to Neverland to confront Aqua once again, snapping Ventus’ cherished wooden keyblade in half. He claimed that with the boy’s growing strength, he had outgrown such toys and that he (Vanitas) had outgrown the need for her as a backup. Aqua was victorious but collapsed in exhaustion, allowing Vanitas to escape.
After that, Vanitas crossed paths with Ventus on Destiny Islands. Vanitas tried to incite Ventus’ anger to unite with him and forge the χ-blade. Ventus refused and Vanitas responds by insulting him and threatening Ventus’ friends. Seeing that he now had Ventus’ attention, the boy vanished again into a dark corridor, leaving Ventus to think over his lack of options.
At the Keyblade Graveyard, where the trio had reconvened, Xehanort froze and threw Ventus off a cliff. Aqua caught him, but was soon knocked unconscious by Vanitas. Just before Vanitas impaled her with his Keyblade, however, Ventus found the strength to break out of the ice and attacks Vanitas, triggering the clash Vanitas had wanted. The two were transported to Ventus’ heart where the battle takes place. While the two fought in Ventus’ heart, Mickey found the unconscious Aqua and revived her, just in time for her to see the now possessed Ventus with the χ-blade. Having full control of Ventus’ body, Vanitas fought Aqua. However, the combined efforts of Aqua and Ventus finally defeated him and he fell into the light of Ventus’ heart where it’s assumed he and the unversed were destroyed for good.
Reincarnated History
Van Sullivan didn’t come from a very rich family, in fact, if not for his father’s skills in conning and thievery, and his mother’s slight talent in art, they’d of been living on the street. So when a baby was brought into their lives, they were very unprepared. Their life wasn’t easy and most of it was spent either on the run in cars or hotel rooms. Van’s mother couldn’t take their way of life and when Van was still a baby, she took him and left his father.
For seven years they lived a rough life in small rented apartments, struggling to just get by. Still Van's mother worked hard and provided as best as she could for him, but one night one her way home, the woman's car was hit and swerved off the highway. In the weeks following the accident, she was in a coma and Van was given to his father. The man didn’t really want a child, but he was never one to overlook an opportunity. He found that people let their guard down around a child, so for the first few months he learned to exploit that. He would purposely lose the boy to draw people’s attention when he started to cry while the man would pick pocket or steal from stores while people and security were tending to his child. He even went so far as to sell Van then steal him back from couples looking to adopt but not wanting to deal with the tedious paperwork. When Van’s mother finally passed away, he realized this arrangement could be permanent. So he stopped leaving Van alone in hotel rooms while he was off “working” and started to take the child with him and show him the tricks of the trade.
As Van got older and became better at lying, his father taught him the art of deceit, which he used for cons of his own, making him a bit better at manipulation and cunning. He started educating the boy and encouraging him to go to school when he didn’t need him. After all a dumb kid wouldn’t be much use to him and though Van’s father wasn’t the warmest of people, he knew how to keep things interesting. He made a game out of who could steal the most in a day. He started leaving the boy to steal on his own and disappearing for longer periods of time until Van got better and better at taking care of himself and more resourceful. When Van started winning their little game he’d raise the bar, teaching the boy to steal more complicated and bigger things, such as appliances and cars. Over time he was molding the boy into the perfect partner in crime. By the time he reached his teens, he was making deliveries for the local crime rings, stealing cars for a chop shop and learning the ropes of credit card fraud.
Cockiness became his fatal flaw in the end. One evening when he was 14, his father was away for a week and Van ...got bored. So he did what most teens would do and decided to have a night out! Of course nights out for Van weren’t normal evenings of underage drinking and smoking. No for him, that meant drinking and finding the nicest car in richer part of town and going on a little joy ride. This of course ended badly... namely with Van crashing the car into clothing store window. After a few days in the hospital, charges were pressed and Van’s father never showed up to post bail, so Van was put into juvie.
Feeling abandoned and betrayed Van grew angry and juvie did nothing but exacerbate Van further. Most of his time there was spent getting into fights or stirring up trouble for the guards, but since no one was hurt in his transgression and this was his first charge, he was out within the year and put under probation. (I really don’t know what the full penalty is for theft, destruction of property, and underage drinking. So this can be changed upon request.) But with his father still MIA he had no one to claim him, so Van was turned over to his mother’s parents in Locke City. They were an elderly couple and couldn’t seem to calm or discipline the youth, they also saw too much of his father in him and no love for the man that made them disown their daughter.
Van was still angry and defensive when he came out of juvie. His issues with authoritative figures only worsened. Still, since they were his mother’s parents, so he treated them with a cool indifference while waiting for his probation to be up. He’d sometimes go to school when home was too boring, but most of his time was spent cutting class and just scraping by on his probation. Van liked to test his limits and took joy in finding ways to bend the rules. By the time it was all over, he was 16 years old. When Van decided to move out, his guardians didn’t put up an argument or try to file a police report, they even helped him pack.
At seventeen, he tried again at bigger criminal activity to see if he was ready to pull his father’s work on his own. He teamed up with a group and tried to rob a jewelry store, but Van never worked well with groups and things got messy when someone tripped an alarm. Van barely escaped the incident, but since then he has toned down his thieving. He’s currently scraping by with odd jobs and lighter criminal activity, saving up for his own place. For now he’s living in hotels and staying on the move, wondering if in time his father will show back up.
First Echo: His first echo happened when he was having a fight with a former ex-girlfriend that turned venomous. He ended up breaking something important to her. She screamed and called him a freak before hitting him.
This incident gave him an echo of a memory where a similar event happened with Aqua. Up until she charges at him.
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Preincarnation Personality:
Being the dark half of a heart, meant there was no light in Vanitas’ heart. Though there is no formal definition in Kingdom Hearts, ‘Darkness’ is clearly a negative energy that feeds off negative emotions and desires. We see numerous examples of this throughout the series. For example, jealousy and lust for power triggered Riku’s fall into darkness in Kingdom Hearts. Maleficent displayed both greed and anger in Birth by Sleep and Sora’s downfall in Dream Drop Distance was made possible through emotional hurt and self doubt. All of these negative feelings are what make up the dark side of one’s heart and Vanitas was full of them.
As a being of Darkness, Vanitas seemed to take great joy in other people’s anguish and anger, often saying things like: “Show me anguish.” or “Suffer!” during battles. He spent the bulk of the game antagonizing or hurting the trio of heroes. Vanitas knew just what buttons to press to get a reaction. Such as how easily he manipulated Ventus into leaving his home world by playing on his doubts about Terra or how he enraged Aqua into a fight by breaking Ventus treasured keyblade. His malice was willful and he knew exactly what he was doing, expecting the negative reaction and relishing it. However, for all Vanitas understood about negative emotion, he didn’t understand positive ones. Warmth, kindness, friendship and family gave his other half strength, but he viewed them as weak and useless, often laughing at Ventus whenever he claimed to find strength in his friends.
It’s when he doesn’t get the expected reaction that he even shows surprise. But he rarely shows when stuff takes him by surprise, usually quick to cover it up with an insult and condescending compliment. He’s cunning and a quick thinker, so he easily bounces back with a new plan.
The anger and fear in Ven’s heart made Vanitas very aggressive. This was only encouraged by the training from Master Xehanort. He wasn’t a kind man in the least and through cruelty and negligence he believed he could strengthen the dark creature he’d cleaved from his apprentice.
Strength was of great importance to Vanitas. It’s one of the few, if not only things he seemed to respect. Vanitas and Ventus growing stronger were a crucial part of Xehanort’s plan so strength is integral to Vanitas’ being. Vanitas praises strength even when it’s shown by his enemies. He even went so far as to laugh and congratulate Aqua for defeating him. Despite his ego, Vanitas didn’t seem to show frustration when defeated. When defeated by Aqua or Mickey, he may laugh or remain fully composed then retreated calmly to regroup. To him, defeat might be a minor setback, but not irreversible if left alive.
His views on weakness though were far simpler. He found weakness to be disgusting and mocked it, even grows frustrated by the sight of it every time he saw it in Ventus. Vanitas was very driven and egotistical. Despite repeatedly being defeated by Aqua, he still returned confident and cocky. He even berated himself if he believed he was showing weakness. Like the destruction of his own Unversed despite the pain. Weakness was just something to be ignored or eliminated.
But most of Vanitas’ action were fueled by a need for purpose. Like any creature he was lost without one, but when Xehanort gave him a goal in forming the χ-blade, it became his obsession. Though he held little to no respect for the man, he was determined to get stronger and help him reach this goal. He fulfilled his orders, but on his own terms and in the best way to serve his own interest. For example, he showed no qualms in disobeying orders when his frustration over Ventus’ weakness brought him close to killing the boy, despite how important he was to his ‘Master’s’ plan, but was relentless in achieving his personal and their ultimate goal.
Any differences:
Crafty and quick thinking are traits that stay with Van in his new life. A life of crime and tricks left very little room for slip ups, and Van’s survival of the fittest attitude served him well in it. While he respects strength, it’s strength of the mind that impresses him now more than brute force. You can be a muscled freak that can rip a phone book, but if you don’t have any brains to put that strength into proper use, Van is uninterested. He will likely ignore you if he can not find a use for you.
One of Vanitas’ main differences in this life, is that now he is no longer half of a heart. He’s a complete human teenager, which leaves him open to the emotional mess, joy and vulnerability that is humanity. Unlike in his past life where if he felt any kind of emotion he could turn tn into an unversed and destroy it, here he is forced to feel every one of his moods and being a human teenager makes him very prone to mood swings. He still views his hurt and pain as weakness, but since his only choice is to bare it, he takes it out in the usual teenage way. Getting into a fight, acting out, property damage, a piercing, etc. There is also sadness. Sadness over the loss of his mother, which even in their poor living conditions, he felt were the best times of his life. Unlike his former self, there was a time (though brief) when Van knew what it was like to have a loved one. So he can understand how the warmth that comes from a mother’s love can feel like it gives you strength. Though he’ll never admit to it and never speak of his mother. Those times are his own and he isn’t at all willing to share them. He’ll often make up things or joke about his past to shock, confuse or just make people feel plain awkward to avoid the subject. It’s very hard to get the truth out of him unless he wants you to know it. Like his canon counterpart, Vanitas is very secretive and will even go so far as to give people a fake name when asked.
Van is still proud and arrogant, but while he likes to push peoples buttons he’s aware of his limits and small stature. Meaning if you are a giant muscled jerked he’s smart enough not to challenge you to a fight. Though don’t think this means you’re safe from his mockery. Instead in true bullying fashion, he prey on your other weaknesses. If you’re dumb he’ll take joy in making sure you know just how dumb, if you’re brainy he’ll respect it, but still call you a friendless know it all. Van likes getting a reaction from people and very little throws him. Except genuine kindness. Though Van has experienced love in this life, that was still the love of a mother. Kindness just sorta came with the job description. People that show kindness out of the goodness of their hearts are foreign to him. He’ll suspect of course that they’re up to something and grow hostile trying to make them slip and show their agenda. If there is none, he may actually become speechless and at a loss. In which case he’ll leave. Fully composed, but still retreating.
Another difference is that while his past self was chaotic and cared very little of the pain and trails of destruction he left behind. This Van has years of planned crimes in his new life. It has made him more careful about messes and evidence of his deeds. The boy is fairly neat and well organized. He likes to know where his thing are in case he’ll need them at a moments notice and like any good thief he likes to leave the scene without a trace of his presence. Unless he’s angry or property destruction was the intent. While not OCD about organization, he still likes a clean work space.
Last is his way with words. While living under the guidance of an aged keyblade master had given him a decent vocabulary, the Van with the silver tongue con artist for a father has a smoother way of manipulating words to turn things in his favor. While sporadically home-schooled by his father and attending public school, wasn’t the best way to strengthen the mind, his father put more attention in it than Master Xehanort did. After all a dumb partner is worse than no partner. It made the boy clever and actually enjoy reading. But the defenses he put up while in Juvie made him sarcastic. He’ll often make snarky comments or sarcastic statements when he wants to defuse attention or get on someone’s nerves for his own amusement. This reflects in his speech. He can be very well spoken for a street kid, but he’s still gruff and not above cursing, unlike his Disney counterpart.
His mannerisms are still calm and composed, rarely showing when he’s bothered or feeling something. Most situations he regards with smirk or a laugh. He takes very little seriously, making him less driven in this life. The clear lack of a goal is evident. Van’s aware he’s been dealt a bad hand, but he doesn’t complain about it. Though he may resent and mock people that complain who have lives that are clearly better. Like his defeats in Kingdom Hearts, he bounces back and moves on, waiting for the next thing life will throw him.
Welcome to humanity Vanitas.
Abilities: His main weapon was his keyblade, Void Gear. Keyblades are often used like swords when battling depending on the wielders style of fighting. Vanitas style was more like fencing. His movements were quick and light hitting, because his blade was smaller and allowed fast movement. He’s often one handed unlike Sora who fought in a heavier style as if wielding a broadsword.
Skilled sword fighter. For years with in Ventus he was trained under a keyblade master and when they were separated that training continued for 4 or 5 more years. This also gave him great agility and speed, he’s often darting around the screen during a boss fight. He also has the ability to levitate which can also make him harder to catch, but if that wasn’t bad enough, he also has his most infamous move, Leave-split, which is a move where he leaves an image of himself behind while he teleports behind his enemy in the blink of an eye.
Dark elemental spells - Like the normal fire, ice and thunder spells in Kingdom hearts but with dark energy added. Vanitas shoots several fireballs, ice spikes or thunderbolts surrounded by darkness at his opponents with these keyblade spells.
Darkness/Dark portals - Like most things from the darkness he can manipulate it and use it to attack people. He can also use it to open pathways between worlds with the use of dark portals. This portals open corridors between worlds and allow him to teleport great distances. He can also will and model the darkness to surround his body in it, forming a darkness suit of armor.
Unversed - They’re red eyed creatures made up of darkness, but filled with emotions. Vanitas emotions to be exact. Each Unversed is created when Vanitas feels something. Weather it be anger, sadness, jealousy, they all become Unversed that Vanitas can control at will or release to let them do their own thing. Each Unversed has their own elemental power or ability that they’ll use to attack people (One of which has the ability to make rare candies... but that’s Kingdom Hearts weirdness for you).
List of Unversed can be found here.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
This job wouldn’t be so hard. Van didn’t particularly like working with groups, but these were the kind of jobs that required a little help. He would’ve preferred that this help was coming from his dad, but, well if he wasn’t planning to come back, he needed to figure these things out on his own. “Mask on.” He hissed a reminder to one of his fellow goons, who was about to walk up to the store with his mask still folded up.
Van was starting to regret this already, but it was too late to turn back now. He set to work cutting the alarm. He could get to the power line, which he would have preferred, but this could at least buy them some extra time. “Make it quick.” They filed in and started breaking cases to grab and swipe, filling bags and a few already high-fiving. “We’re not out of here yet, you idiots.” Van rolled his eyes and bent down to open another case, when he noticed a light flashing. “...Shit!” He cursed when he realized it was a silent alarm.
“Ugh, what is it now?”
One of his teammates asked and Van opened his mouth to tell them, but then realized if the cops were coming, he’d need a distraction. “Nothing. Keep going. We got this. Imma check that the coast is clear.” He said cheerfully as he placed his bag on the ground and calmly headed out. He faintly heard the blare of sirens in the distance and from the murmurs coming from inside the store, they were starting to hear them to. Van drew up his hood and got ready.
“Are those sirens, Eric?!”
Van wasn’t around to answer to his fake name. He was already taking off up the street.
The sirens grew louder and Van saw one of the cars stop up ahead. ’Shit. Shit!’ He skidded to a stop as one of the cops climbed out of the car. ’Okay, he’s a fatty. This might not be so bad.’ He thought and smirked under his mask as he took off across the street, barely missing being hit by a ca-- “JARED!”
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“Jared! Get back to work!”
Van blinked out of his thoughts and realized he was doing it again. Going over his mistakes and failures of that night. He could almost hear his father’s condescending tone pointing out each and every slip in excruciating detail. ’Where are you...?’
“Jared!”
“What?!” Van snapped sharply at his manger and was greeted to a disgruntled look and he visibly flustered. He was a portly man. More bark than bite. “Well?”
“Table 5 has been in need of clearing for 10 minutes now! I hired you to bus, now do it!” He barked back.
“And that couldn’t wait 10 minutes for me to finish my thought? You had to scream at me over that? There’s no one here anyway. What’s your damn rush! I could’ve been thinking of something important!”
“And what could you be thinking of that’s more important than your job?”
“Well now if I start listing the things I could think of that are less pathetic than tables, we’d be here all day and those tables would never get clean.” He said calmly as he he pushed past him to get to the table. “Now you get any closer, man, Imma have to file a sexual harassment suit.” He said when the man refused to move. The man gave a disgusted grunt and quickly moved away.
“That’s it, you’re fired!”
Finally. “Whatever.” He swept his arm over the counter and broke some ketchup bottles as he walked out. “I’ll be back for this weeks paycheck.” He was getting bored of this job anyway. ’Maybe I’ll try something in mechanics next.’
Roleplay Sample - Network:
((He just trolling for the sake of trolling so I’m just naming random popular thing on social networks since I’m not sure what the ingame network is like. Also no sure how big or small the echo numbers are, so again, guessing!))
[Van has been trying for days to figure this number out. He can’t even remember where it came from. It was too small for a phone number, yet too big for an address. He sighs in frustration then picks up his phone, pulling up a google search on the numbers.] ...What the fuck? What is this? Facebook? I never signed up for this...
[He rolls his eyes, then starts recording.]
So, I’m not really sure how I got signed up for this thing, but might as well make use of it. Pink haired girl with the terrible singing video? Stop it this instant. Your voice it like someone trying to drown a bag full of kittens. People are long over that song and your screeching isn’t going to bring it back.
Oh, and you, big nose. I really have no idea what you're posting about, but I’m assuming it’s about something pathetic and how the world must hate you. and how you can’t get a girlfriend... or boyfriend. If so, then yes, yes it does and no, no you won’t. Ever.
And you girl in the towel. Stop being a tease. Either go for the nude shot or get the hell of the internet.
As for anyone else? I couldn’t make it much further, but I’m pretty sure it’s similar all the same pathetic whining.
Whoever signed me up for this and put this number in my head? Fuck you very much, but I don’t want what you’re selling. [He smirked before cutting the connection.]
Any Questions? No, think I'm okay. :oa