Vexen

Character tag

Name: Vexen (he’s kind of just resigned himself to not being known as anything else)

Age: somewhere in his 40s

Height: in the 6 foot rage

BD: Apr 21

Appearance notes:

There comes a point where I don’t see the point in recounting exactly what they look like in canon, epseically when I don’t have any specific thoughts re: their appearance that differs from canon

I guess Vexen has glasses though and that’s noncanon and also important. He doesn’t wear them all the time but he needs them to read better. They’re rectangle, and according to magik, almost seem too small for his face

Personality notes:

- A huuuuuuuuuge coward

- Still kind of coping when it comes to having feelings again after so long, though I think by ATR he’s doing a lot better

- Fatherly Instincts™???? It comes from having such a heavy role in raising Ienzo

- Extremely analytical, a little bit nosy, almost always is in other people’s business. (OR MAYBE HE’S ONLY ALWAYS IN RIKU’S BUSINESS??? I’d believe either)

- When he’s nervous or flustered he just starts blurting things

- In FtPverse Vexen is just,, kind of constantly flustered or awkward or timid, but I’d blame the situations for that more than anything else

- Can get unbearably proud and braggy of his accomplishments if you let him. The worst to deal with when smug.

Other notes:

- TECHNICALLY HE’S NOT EVEN MY CHARACTER I JUST STOLE HIM

- Comes from my sister magik's universe (All the Pieces) which is FtPverse's "KH canon" equivalent.

- Vexen's currently bunking in the FtPverse for an indefinite amount of time. Maybe forever?? Me and magik haven’t discussed this (largely because I’m not even sure if it’d come up before ATR ends)

- You don't have to read AtP to understand who Vexen is because it's just, KH canon up to AtP which was a "KH3 equivalent" fic that he was really only around for half of. (The most important things for him are listed down below in his history section!) It's just important to know that he's my sister's Vexen, technically, even if I stole him and he's also mine now.

- His arrival and probably his reasons for sticking around are documented in Can't Escape, before Can't Escape delves into other things lol.

- Treats a lot of things he shouldn’t as experiments

- Literally terrified of Xehanort and all his forms. FtPverse Xemnas is worse than the other Xemnas he knows because Xemnas Knows Everything Xehanort Did, so,

Misc. 

Likes:

Science

Being right

Knowing every single detail about Riku’s life

Ienzo

Joseph

Dislikes:

X e h a n o r t

Being given absolutely useless tasks for no other reason than to get him out of the way (yes he DID notice, Alpha)

Not being let near the computers

Music taste: I’ve only kept this here to share the concept that he listened to Mozart and Beethoven like, a lot? Especially when building Riku (in part because of the idea that playing Mozart to babies makes them think better lol) and as a result you play a song by one of them and Riku can hum every note and he hates it a little ((ALSO LET’S BE REAL THAT’S DEFINITELY VEXEN’S LIKE, THEMATICALLY CORRECT CHOICE OF MUSIC))

Favorite color: green, probably

Notable Abilities:

Ice powers!!! I play up the Org’s control over elements a lot in FtPverse (and, well, in general). He can kind of just conjure ice whenever, and it's been shown that if he's upset about something he may, accidentally, start freezing the ground around him / whatever's in his hand.

I’m not sure if it counts as an ability, but, more of an achievement? Created the Replica Program and that as a whole sure is something, ain’t it

Fighting Style / Battle Stats:

A REAL COWARD, alright at fighting but, hmm. Lots of using his ice powers to his advantage, usually defends with his shield (I mean, seeing as, coward). His preferred mode of attack seems to be throwing icicles at things, though if he’s against like, a group of heartless ((WHICH IS SURPRISINGLY RARE)) he can do more fancy attacks seeing as he’s rarely cowardly around heartless, it’s fighting people that’s the problem.

History:

- was one of Ansem the Wise’s apprentice!!! Helped raise Ienzo. Did a lot of questionable experimentation on people / hearts to learn more about heartless and junk ((ALL OF,,, THE APPRENTICES DID THOUGH, TO BE FAIR))

- got turned into a heartless/nobody by Xehanort’s hand, probably forcibly

- spend ten years as a Nobody and in Org 13

- CHAIN OF MEMORIES HAPPENED!!!!!! Most importantly: he was actually kind of,,,, awful to Riku,,,, he regrets it but that doesn’t change the fact he definitely said and did a lot of terrible things

- the biggest thing All the Pieces (my sister's fic) had for him was “Xehanort forced him to create Xehanort Replicas” and boy did he NOT LIKE that

- one of his Vexen Replicas (Pi) visited FtPverse and was like OH RIKU’S HERE and he told Vexen and Vexen was like WELL I WANNA BE NOSY AND IN IN RIKU’S BUSINESS (AND ALSO GET AWAY FROM XEHANORT) so he,,, also hopped over to FtPverse

- he hasn’t left since??

- he’s done some helping with the Rebellion but as far as Riku’s concerned he’s just been a pain in the ass

- he keeps being nosy in Riku’s business

- as of ATR all he’s been up to for literally the past 60 chapters is working on translating Riku’s code so that it matches the language of the Replica Program in this universe. It’s, um, going