Rambling? As If.

( Spoilers for Kingdom Hearts II, up to the World That Never Was. )

Demyx, Axel, Larxene, Roxas and possibly Zexion were the only members of Organization XIII (should I call it 'Organisation XIII', because I'm British, or 'Organization XIII', because 'Z' is a more evil-looking letter than 'S' and that's the spelling that appears in the subtitles? 'Organixation XIII' is a possible but silly compromise) in whom I really took any interest before this playthrough, but now I am beginning to notice the others. Xigbar is quite fun, isn't he? And I am sort of intrigued by Luxord, although we see very little of him. (Does he or does he not look disconcertingly like Ansem the Wise?)

Luxord's fight is tremendously irritating, though. 'What? What does "Get four 'O' commands" mean? Can't you explain it a little more clearly?' 'NO. NOW YOU ARE A DIE.' (Note for those unfamiliar with Kingdom Hearts: this is not a misrendering of 'NOW YOU DIE'. Sora is, in fact, turned into a die.)

...hang on.

Luxord has a goatee.

Luxord fights using playing cards.

Luxord, although his voice is not quite the same, speaks with a south-of-England accent.

Luxord takes pleasure in words ('a veritable maelstrom of avarice'!).

Luxord has a general air of smugness.

I think I may have realised why I'm taking an interest in him this time around. (And I just tried drawing Luxord's hair onto a picture of Derren Brown, but the result was too alarming to display openly on my journal. If you feel like traumatising yourself, here is the link. (Here, for comparison, is a picture of Luxord himself. The eye colour differs, obviously, but Nobodies generally differ somewhat in appearance from their corresponding somebodies.))

Oh, dear. I can't write that fic about Drexern if Derren has a canonical Nobody, can I? (You know Derren would amuse himself by turning people into dice and cards if he could, too.)