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...why yes, Des is doing a second quest! xD This is a quest for Leviathan, conflicted Keyblader-to-be! Why? First of all, she adores his parents. Secondly, KHII is teh best game evar and her fangirlism requires a tribute to it and third...she just loves her Leviathan.

Wish me luck, dearlings~ heart

All these are in game references, and the best I could find describing hearts and Keyblades and Keybladers...so...hopefully this is pretty good?

Long and short of it, Heartless are spawned from darkness and could be created artifically, which lead Xehanort to believe he could create hearts artifically. Juno read these reports and first created Rook and Angelique, without hearts, as synthetic Nobodies were easiest. Saint was reborn from Heartless and his heart was closely studied. The same machine used to create Rook and Angelique was used to try and create a 'pure' heart. Once the heart was created, it needed a vessel, so Juno took the DNA of the lab tech he so enjoyed torturing and some of his own (after all, every great mind needs an hier). Now, all the child needs is a body and soul...and that, dears, is where the Cabbage Patch comes in.

Juno sends Rook for the papers and Rook so sneakily slips them into Sable's pile. Sable, always in a hurry, signs them without looking and Rook returns them as told. Sable receives a cabbage, and he very well can't give it back! Excellent, thinks Juno. He opens the cabbage (the cabbage suffers substantial damage, oh dear) and proceeds to insert the heart he created while the child is still 'incubating'. The child will be left with a scar over his 'heart'. Despite Juno's tampering, the child will arrive, seemingly unharmed.

And behold, we shall call him Leviathan!

Personality

[cabbage]; Typical cabbage. It will like sun and water and would prefer not to be eaten. Please to be protecting from deer!

[toddler]; Leviathan will be very curious by nature. Both his ‘parents’ are scientists, and Levi will inherit this thirst for knowledge. He will venture off by himself even if Sable tells him not to, going on exciting adventures in the stairwell or the garden outside the apartment. His imagination will be wildly overactive, but it won’t be full of fantasies. Everything will be well grounded –according to toddler’s logic, that is- and have a reason. Similarly, when he asks a question, he wants an explanation, not a simple answer. ‘Because’ is not a satisfactory response to the question ‘why is the sky blue’. Given, he is incredibly gullible and he would accept ‘the gods liked their blue crayon the best’ as an answer. When he gets older, he will continue to be naive, but he will start figuring out when someone might be trying to pull the wool over his eyes.

What comes with curiosity but a generally outgoing disposition? On his quest for knowledge, Levi will undoubtedly run across people he doesn’t know. Instead of getting shy and withdrawn
like his father, Levi will happily introduce himself and promptly ask this new person all about themselves, unaware people might not want to disclose all their personal secrets. Leviathan is a sucker for secrets, but he’s not very good at keeping them. He doesn’t mean to spill the beans, it just sort of comes out. Sable will take it upon himself to teach the boy to be more careful, especially if he’s going to grow up in a very scientific (and thus, dangerous) environment.

At the time, Leviathan knows no fears or boundaries. He’s blissfully unaware of the problems between his parents and of the world in general. Any problems caused by his creation have yet to be discovered and Leviathan will continue on his merry way.

[child]; Already, things will start to change. First and foremost, the troubles between his ‘parents’ are bound to erupt before he grows into a child, thus changing his life dramatically. Levi will be forced to endure screaming arguments (the screaming one being Sable) he doesn’t understand and the aftermath of foul emotions. Juno will be cold and cruel, Sable teary-eyed and wishy-washy. This change in his basic home life will teach Levi to dislike his father with great intensity. Sable is the one who has always taken care of him, so it is only natural for him to side with his guardian. The situation also takes away a great deal of the boy’s immaturity at a young age, exposing him to cruel truths such as disloyalty, dishonesty and the human desire to look out only for one’s self. Sable starts coming up short along the lines of parenting, but Leviathan forgives him and simply blames it on Juno, his scapegoat.

Despite the rather dark cloud settling over Levi’s family, he is still a generally cheerful kid. Nothing can quench his curiosity and once he discovers the wonders of books, he simply can’t put them down. He likes to accompany his father to his lab sometimes, eager to help him with the experiments. He is also probably one of the few children who really, honestly enjoys school. As luck would have it, Sable too was a bit of a ‘nerd’ as a child, and warned his son against the dangers of rubbing it in other kids’ faces. Hopefully, Levi will heed this advice. It’s not only academics that pique the boy’s interest, however. He wants to learn everything, how to draw, how to paint, how to play soccer, anything. He’ll try anything once, and if he doesn’t like it, he simply settles with never trying it again.

Leviathan is not a dominant personality. He comes up with witty ideas, but he’d rather let the other children make the decisions, even if it’s the wrong one. First, this lets him observe his peers to learn reactions and how they differ between children and the grownups. Secondly, and far more important, it keeps the boy out of trouble. Staying out of trouble will be a large portion of the boy’s personality. Juno has a wrath and one of Sable’s charges, Rook, has an even more formidable one. Keeping on their good side is a must, so Levi quickly learns the benefits of lying (when he can get away with it, that is). He is not by any means impulsive when it comes to making a decision, he weighs the pros and cons to the best of his knowledge. This process, of course, is easily abandoned by the urging of his peers. As stated earlier, he is a follower, not a leader and will happily follow the crowd simply for the sake of it. Peer pressure, man. He just gives in.

The little change in his genetics has started to rear its head. He seems to have a very keen sense of right and wrong (given, he’s a little boy, he doesn’t always listen to this innate sense) from a young age. Juno could not create a real heart genetically, so the one Leviathan has is mostly made up of light. It’s a ‘pure’ heart, if you will, even if it’s completely fake. Sable does not have the heart to tell him, so Leviathan remains, once again, blissfully unaware.

[pre-teen]; Leviathan continues to harbor harsh feelings towards Juno. He refuses to forgive him for what he did to Sable, even if Sable forgives him. However, he’s slowly losing his outgoing touch and becoming more introverted, and never offers his opinion as such. He keeps up with what friends he already has, but makes no effort to gain any more. He’s unwilling to go to social events unless a large group of his friends are going and he never invites anyone over to his house. EVER. He’s embarrassed with the way things work, even if Juno rarely makes an appearance at Sable’s house, and refuses to let anyone know about the problems. It’s not their business. He tries to put on a front like nothing is wrong, typical of most children facing this sort of problem.

Sable and Juno aren’t his only problems at home. Leviathan and Rook -the eldest of Sable’s charges- butt heads like wild animals. Levi blames Rook for the problems with Juno. Rook is a synthetic Nobody and his emotions are…unpredictable. Technically, they don’t exist. (When Juno created him, he just didn’t give him a heart. Nobodies don’t have hearts.) He is, however, incredibly sadistic and enjoys causing anguish for Leviathan and Saint (Sable’s other charge, a Neoshadow reborn, who’s heart is mainly dark. See a pattern?). Naturally, Levi isn’t willing to let all the problems he’s called the mismatched family go and calls him out periodically. Rook is built to fight and a full grown adult. Leviathan is a preteen and has the fighting skills of a newt. He loses every time. Saint takes pity on him and will start teaching him how to defend himself, if nothing else. Levi will make himself one of Rook’s adversaries and thus, he is forced to continue his lying if he wants to survive.

While still interested in learning, Levi isn’t as parched for information as he was before. His love has shifted slightly. He’s learned how very wonderful books are, and seems to have his nose in them quite often. Having become an avid reader, he’s also started to try his hand at writing. He tries all types of writing, essays, stories, poems, whatever he can find. He’ll probably find a peer to be his ‘editor’. He also takes great pleasure in illustrating said stories and poems, though right now his art talent extends to doodles and sketches, and that’s it.

As for his heart, Leviathan seems to have an ever-growing sense of righteousness, which helps nobody. He’s frustrated with both parents for mistakes they’ve made and starts holding that sort of thing against people. He needs to realize mistakes are just that, mistakes. He’s at the age where nothing can touch him, and his pure heart makes him look down upon those who don’t do good. This does not mean Leviathan is perfect, or that he never does anything wrong. He makes plenty of bad choices and promptly feels really guilty afterwards.

At this stage, Leviathan will gain a Keyblade. It will appear one day when he’s defending himself from Rook. He’ll have no idea how to use it and he won’t tell anyone he has it. He can’t summon it at will, so to speak. It only comes as it pleases, so he can’t really practice unless he’s defending him. Since his heart isn’t ‘real’, he can’t control it. On the same note, he comes down really hard on himself when he feels he didn’t do the right thing, and the Keyblade fails to come to his aide.

[teenager]; Oh, lucky boy, the hormones have hit. With these hormones, he, like every other teenager, will become more rebellious, prone to wild mood swings and a victim of lust. This is nothing special. What is special, however, is the way he reacts to his heart. He’s finally been told the circumstances and seems to have a hard time grasping the situation. What does having a fake heart mean?

He’s becoming more concerned with his fake heart than the problems in his family. Hopefully, Sable’s situation has settled. With a Keyblade at his disposal, Leviathan’s encounters with Rook have lessened in frequency, but are much more violent. He refuses to tell anyone these problems because they are his problems and he can solve them. It wouldn’t be right to burden someone else with them. Leviathan continues to have a growing sense of right and wrong, and the teen’s slowly becoming more and more driven to do the right thing. Like his father, when he does something wrong, he feels horribly guilty and will probably do something stupid and not well thought out.

Leviathan’s also becoming a pretty accomplished writer. Much to his father’s dismay, he shows much more of an interest in writing and art than science. This is not to say he doesn’t care about school, for he definitely still cares to bring home excellent grades. He just takes the most pleasure from English, especially writing. He’s found a home in writing fantasy stories and drawing small sketches to accompany them. It could almost be called an escape from his less than pleasant reality. He also loves to read; he’ll read anything that’s handed to him. Reading is his favorite way to learn, though hands-on is a close second. He really doesn’t like sitting and taking notes. Listening to someone drawl on his boring, and his notes are probably littered with little doodles.

Not too much can be said about his personality at this stage, because it’s subject to change after RP.

Note: That being said, his entire personality after toddler stage is subject to change if given a reason in RP. I suppose this is given, but I thought I oughta include it anyways.

Note Number Two: If ye read the Secret/Ansem Reports, you probably wonder why Leviathan gets along with Saint better than Rook. While Heartless are slain by Keybladers, it's always been Rook going after both Leviathan and Saint. When Levi gets his keyblade, I'm sure things will get rough. However, they will probably remain in each other's good graces. After it, it is the lesser of two evils. They have bigger problems.

Appearance

All I want is mismatched eyes and a scar over his heart. The rest is up to the artist and should be based on Juno’s and Sable’s appearance. Also, in child or teen stage, he should be getting his Keyblade, so I’d appreciate that in the picture too…but that’s it. Really. I like surprises.

Name: Sable Hazard
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Nationality: British
Occupation: Lab Technician/Student


Appearance: Sable is, most noticeably, a shrimp. He’s only 5’ 1” and pretty thin. His skin is fair and his hair is black and down to his nape. It’s horribly messy, brushing it in the morning is basically running his fingers through it. He wears black-rimmed glasses with a prescription that’s too weak and the glasses themselves are too large (they usually slide down his nose). His eyes are brownish, the same hue as coffee with cream. He usually has a pencil tucked behind his ear and he’s usually wearing his white lab coat. He is, after all, working in Juno’s lab a good deal of the time. When he’s home, he’s in very casual clothing, jeans, a t-shirt and a sweatshirt, and when he’s out, it’s always a button-down shirt and a pair of khakis. He does try to make good impressions.


Personality: Sable is a complicated person. He’s got shy, stuttering Sable, which usually comes out with new people, and headstrong, short-tempered Sable, which is reserved for the lab. Sable does not have multiple personalities. He’s simply a shy person, and it takes a while for him to come out of his shell. Before he does, he’s very easy to fluster and make blush. He’s very easy to tease and he won’t fight back. He stutters and stammers quite a lot and has a hard time making eye contact. He has to get a feel for someone before he figures out how to interact with them. He’s generally very objective and tries to stay out of people’s business, especially if he doesn’t know them well.

Once he gets to know people, he’s a lot more smiley and open. In fact, he’s rather loud and naive. He’s book smart, not people smart. He usually voices his opinion, and if he finds it’s not the one he wishes to favor, he’ll be very open about the once he does support. He takes pride in being quick-witted and quicker tongued and is always very sharp when dealing with Juno. It’s a vicious game they play, and while Sable always ends up on the losing end, he’s determined to take a chunk out of Juno with him as he goes. Sable isn’t a leader, and he’d much rather take the orders and follow them to the best of his ability. Being put in the spotlight makes him squirm no matter how well he knows the people.

Sable’s very worried about people he cares about, and it’s not hard for him to get attached. He wants nothing more than their well-being and gets very hurt when he’s put off for it. Sable is easily hurt, however, so that’s not much of a feat. He gets over it quickly. As for the bigger hurts, he denies it ever happened, but we digress. Sable is also a very, very guilty person. He’s always ready to accept the blame for an accident and always beats himself up over it, even if it wasn’t preventable.

It should be noted that Sable is very weak when it comes to Juno. No, the two are not in a relationship, no, they will not be raising Leviathan together. Sable's devotion to Juno is unhealthy. Juno enjoys bringing him down, and Sable lets him do it. Sure, he bites back, but the whole thing is rather odd. Sable continues to have faith in Juno nevertheless.

Likes: Work, the lab, learning new things, hanging out with Mercury and Nereus, reading, hanging out with his charges, doing experiments, Saint

Dislikes: Being teased, faithlessness, being lied to, being tricked or otherwise taken advantage of, idleness, stupidity, Rook’s attitude


History: Sable has one older brother, Jenos, and one younger brother, Valen. As the middle child, he was generally the invisible. It suited him just fine. When he was young and home-schooled, Jenos picked on him terribly. Sable learned the best defense was to act like he didn’t care. It worked fairly well and Jenos left for boarding school when Sable was six. Valen was born when he was seven. He didn’t get to know his younger brother too well, as he was also shipped off to a boarding school in the US at age ten, like his brother and his father.

Sable enjoyed boarding school, to be blatantly honest. He was an intelligent kid. He was not extraordinary, but understood what it was to apply himself. Good results came from hard work. He didn’t have too many friends, but enough to keep him company. Life at the boarding school was nothing interesting. The school was well-known enough and his grades were good enough to get him into a fairly well-known school and he started his degree in the sciences.

Once he hit his junior year, he found himself at a roadblock. Sable didn’t know, and still doesn’t know, what science he wants to major in. So, instead of wasting his time and money pursuing courses he may not settle on, Sable left school for the real world. He got himself a job as a lab tech, he could save up money to continue school and he could experience the different sciences and pick the one that suited him best. He’s also been on an expedition to China. Currently, he cares for two of Juno’s experiments, Rook, who hates him, and Saint, who’s pretty nice.

NPC Blurb: Lab Research Assistant » Sable was the middle child of a fairly wealthy British family. He came over to the States at age ten for boarding school and rarely left. He was a hardworking student and graduated on the high honor roll. He got into a good college, but he didn't finish his degree. Instead, he's currently working for various scientists, trying his hands at the different types before settling himself in a profession for good. He doesn't want to be stuck with something he hates! besides, being the assistant, not the man in charge, is a much more comfortable position for him.
NPC Type: Restricted, please.

Name: Rook Hazard
Gender: Hermaphrodite
Age: Technically five, biologically twenty-two
Species: Nobody
Element: Smoke

Appearance: Rook is a strange looking fellow. Most noticeable are his ashen skin and the white Nobody symbol tattooed on his face. He was born that way. His hair is a lighter shade of grey and his eyes are also grey. He dresses in monochromatic clothing and is almost always wearing a scowl or a nasty smirk. He is usually followed by a small shroud of low-lying smoke. He stands much taller than Sable, about 5’ 9”, and he’s built much more substantially as well. He’s got muscle, he is, after all, a creature made to fight as well as experimented on fairly often.

Personality: Rook is heartless…literally. He listens to no one and doesn’t give a damn if he hurts your feelings. The only one he considers obeying is Juno, and there’s reasons behind that. Juno created him and draws Rook in like the porch lamp draws in insects. In fact, it could be said Rook enjoys causing strife. Once he finds a weak point in someone’s personality, he’ll pick and prod and aggravate until the point of collapse. He can’t help it, he’s naturally a hunter and aggressive ‘personality’. That’s what it takes to survive. Juno did not create him to fail.

Once Rook discovers and exposes the hurt, he leaves his victim to suffer after he creates the most possible damage. He never has thoughts of fixing it, or of regret. That would require him caring. Because of this, he never thinks of the consequences of his actions. Punishments have no effect on him, because he honestly does not care. Sable can’t control him and as a result, Sable gets hurt. Saint is a lesser being (Nobodies can command Heartless), so he fears him. Rook senses the light in Leviathan’s heart, so he feels driven to strike out at it. Once the boy becomes a Keyblader, a natural sort of fear is instilled in him. A Keyblader did wipe out the originals, after all.

Rook has no goals. Rook lives to serve, he is what would be classified as a neophyte, a ‘lesser’ Nobody. He, while aggressive, has no desire to lead. Juno tells him what to do, what to attack, what to bring back, and that’s what he does. That’s how he was created. Since he never had a past life with a heart, he does not have any memories for which to base proper responses to other people off of. He is a socially inept creature, so Sable tries to keep him home.

Name: Rylenn McGreggors
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Nationality: Irish/Greek
Occupation: Student

Personality: Rylenn is a generally untrusting individual. He fears being rejected so he has developed a dislike for most people. He keeps people at a distance so he won't have to care about them and get hurt again. Once you get under his skin, though, he is fiercely protective. He can even have severe bouts of jealousy which force him to distance himself further from people.

Likes: drawing, magical beings, magic, books, fantasy
Dislikes: Catholics, most women, pornographic materials, prostitutes, drugs

Sable met Rylenn in China and became very good friends with him. As it were, you must be wondering why Sable would ask him to be Levi's godfather. Well, to be quite frank, Sable would not want care of Leviathan to go to Juno should he ever become unable. (Not that I ever plan to give Leviathan away. EVAR. It's for the sake of his story. Sable asking Rylenn to be godfather would also be played out, not assumed.)

NOTE: All info about Rylenn is taken from his journal at Shinkami School of Saviors. Teh Bunnah Ninja is aware that I listed this here, I asked her about it beforehand, of course.

Levi, Sable, Rook and Saint are mine.
Juno belongs to Teh Pandy.
Rylenn belongs to Teh Bunnah Ninja and he belongs to Shinkami School of Saviors, which belongs to tooaya.
The art of Sable and Rylenn are done by dtokki.
The art of Saint is done by Teh Bunnah Ninja.
The art of Rook and Juno are done by Teh Pandy.
Oh right. Kingdom Hearts, Nobodies, Heartless and Keybladers and all that belong to Square Enix.
The Secret Ansem Reports and Ansem Reports are from Kingdom Hearts II and can be found here or here.
I think that's all. >_>;; Subject to change!

Hmm. *supposes that's what she gets for editting late at night and being far too lazy to check things that late at night*

Well, thank you very much for that little catch~! *shall go edit*

heart for zige~