Ficka Ficka Paradise

Flectere si Neqeuo Superos [If I can't move Heaven]
ACHERONTA MOVEBO [I'LL RAISE HELL]
An Organization XIII FST

Just about everyone and their uncle has heard of Kingdom Hearts at this point, and one of the most prominant things in the fandom around it is the band of baddies from Chain of Memories and KHII: the Organization. A group of Nobodies, hollow shells of humanity, they exist, and yet don't. In fact, by all rights, they shouldn't. But they do, and they'll do whatever it takes to become whole again. Like the Pinocchios from Hell, they will become Real Boys and rip out your throat on their path to doing so.


But there's a problem for the Organization. A little boy named Sora, with a big key and a bigger destiny, has come along, and could wreak epic havoc for their scheme. Because while his mystical weapon is making their penultimate goal, the eponymous Kingdom Hearts, he'd probably have no qualms about destroying them, too. So they do their best to wrap him to their side. Unfortunately, Castle Oblivion, where they trap him, is full of snakes and traitors, and while the group is in uproar, he cuts through them with no mercy.

Organization XIII, in what must be a matter of days, is brought down to Organization VIII. And it doesn't take long for one to run away, leaving them VII. They fight and scratch and keep trying to get Sora to bend to their will, but he's been told that they are nothing but empty, inhuman, monstrous shells with nothing resembling emotions. They're fair game, and they're trying to hurt his friends and all the worlds. So one by one, they fall.

And while the leader of Organization XIII may have been in it for the power, for the glory, FOR DARKNESS!!!!, the rest just wanted their hearts back. Twice they've died, and never gotten to feel life again. The Nobodies are left an ultimately tragic group even if it was hard as all hell getting some of them to stay down.

I. Le Chante Por Passer le Temps - Giovanni Mirabassi
[Instrumental]
Xemnas, Number I in the Organization, the one who started it all, who made the very Heartless who would eventually destroy him. Xemnas, once Ansem, once Xehanort, past unknown. Smug, devious, and caluclating, he is the epitome of pride gone awry. From his dark seduction of his comrades, to his rebellion against the authority of Ansem the Wise, to the way he half-unwittingly turns the world to Hell to get his own power, he is a Satanic character of the highest calibur. But he's also elegant, cold, and a chatty sonuvabitch, so a lengthy piano piece suits him. And like how they were instrumental in the creation of Heartless, Nobodies, and the Organization, the six apprentices have been given instrumental pieces.

II. Pistolero - Juno Reactor
[Instrumental]
Xigbar, Number II, the Freeshooter. Battle-scarred and graying at the temples, with an eyepatch and twin guns, he seems like every soldier-gone-wrong you've ever seen. But then he starts busting out surfer slang and dancing on the walls, and you know that Xigbar is like nothing you've ever encountered before. He's insane, raucous, clever, and a dead-eye with his light arrows. So he gets the South-of-the-Border techno jam that introes with gunshots and has Gunslinger as its only lyric.

III. Beyond the Wasteland - Nobuo Uematsu
[Instrumental]
Xaldin, Number III, the Whirlwind Lancer. Xaldin entered Beast's Castles an enigma, but in short order had the Beast under his thumb, his servants in the dungeon, and Belle fearing for her life. Cold and brilliant, sly and devious, he slowly earns your trust while humming with silent menace, just like the slow cello that underscores the delicate piano. But once crossed, and pushed to his limit, Xaldin unleashes in a flurry of lances and wind, a deadly dynamo of storm and spear, echoed in the rapid violins and pounding drums. He is one Nobody you never want to cross.

IV. Kanyl - Tarmvred
[Instrumental]
Vexen, Number IV, the Chilly Academic. Icy, aloof, and lurking in the background with mysterious plots for much of Chain of Memories, Vexen deserves a song that gives off that sense of looming danger, of frozen detachment. However, he eventually steps into the ring, twice, and shows that he's more than just as scientific mind as he unleashes his deadly ice, freezing the ground beneath Sora's feed to rush at him with his jagged shield. He attempted to make one last stand and undercut Marluxia, the traitorous neophyte he despised, but met his own end at the hand of double-agent Axel.

V. In Silence - Datach'i
[Instrumental]
Lexaeus, Number V, the Silent Hero. Stoic and reserved, Lexaeus looked like your typical juggernaut at first - big muscles, big weapon, small vocabulary. But as Marluxia plotted to overthrow the Organization, Lexaeus worked with Zexion to undercut him, seeking out the other Keyblade master who stood within their walls: Riku. Lexaeus' quiet power is matched by the rough bass and vageuly scientific sounds of this song, which echo his Other's past endeavours. And it doesn't hurt that a song called In Silence fits the Silent Hero.

VI. Curfew - Hiromitsu Agatsuma
[Instrumental]
Zexion, Number VI, the Cloaked Schemer. As the song delicately invites you to listen closer, so does Zexion gently pry at your mind, pulling out your fears and hopes, playing with them as he would a Rubik's cube. A solitary mind, and a clever trickster, he fits the hauntingly lonely tone of the song, finally dying in betrayal by those he had thought comrades, and failing in his mission to save not only the Organization, but himself.

VII. Das Tier in Mir (Wolfen) - E Nomine
[It is the animal in me
It wakes the greed in me
I have the desire to eat you.
Can you feel my demand.]
Saix, Number VII, the Luna Diviner. Honestly, I feel a bit embarassed putting this song on here since, frankly, it's about a werewolf and I generally hate the Werewolf Saix stereotype. But, at the same time, it's about going insane on the full moon and killing lots of people. Which is kind of what Saix does. He is the berserker, the warrior of the moon, and quite possibly completely insane behind his cool facade.

VIII. Bulletproof Skin - Institute
[Until you come into your soul again,
We'll be the worst of best friends.
Does it feel like Christmas in Hollywood?
Does it feel like we're ever gonna make it home?

Burn baby burn.
Strung out on the wire.
Heart in a cage,
Your soul for our desire.
You need fast hands to deal with all the liars.
Bullet-proof skin to keep you alive.
So don't burn baby burn baby burn.]
Axel, Number VIII, the Flurry of Dancing Flames. When he first stepped on the screen of the GBA, Axel was a snarky, manipulative, cold-blooded bastard, and that's the bottom line. He killed one of his teammates, orchestrated the death of at least two more, and never showed a lick of remorse. All he seemed was amused. But then we reach KHII, where he became less vicious, less amused, because he was focused now. Focused on finding his best friend, who frankly seemed to not even remember him. To save his own skin, he'd turn Roxas into ash, but that didn't mean he didn't want him back first.

IX. Hello Darkness - Shocking Blue
[Between the grey and red shadows of twilight
The time stands still.]
Demyx, Number IX, the Melodious Nocturne. Like a lot of the Organization in Kingdom Hearts II, we don't see very much of Demyx. He seems like a goofball, the patsy of the Organization even. But when Sora calls him Heartless, he snaps into a deadly serious side, showing that its true that human shaped Nobodies must have had strong hearts. Trapped in the twilight, and appearing only long enough for you to fall in love and watch him die, Demyx is a lovable guy who really got shafted.

X. Time - Pink Floyd
[And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death]
Luxord, Number X, the Gambler of Fate. With possibly the mostly painfully obvious song title of all, Luxord gets hit with some good old fashioned Pink Floyd, which suits his cynical, cultured Englishman style. He commands the strings of time, and yet he can't help it from ticking away on his life as well as everyone else's. In the end, his clock runs down just like everyone else's, and he meets his demise at the hands of the Keyblade.

XI. Flor de Mal - Tito Larriva/Tito and the Tarantulas
[Llueve, llueve por años
dentro mi corazón
mi amor, mi amor sin luz
perdida, perdida sin corazón]
Marluxia, Number XI, the Graceful Assassin. Delicate and effite in appearance, but with an icy mind and a deady blade, Marluxia was the genius who planned on overthrowing Organization XIII by roping in Sora and using Namine as his tool. For all the crap he gets in fandom about being nothing more than a catty, walking sack of gaytastic stereotype, he was deadly, brilliant, and looked damn good. Honestly, Marluxia was the hardest track to choose of them all. I just could not find one I liked. Until I remembered the song from Once Upon A Time In Mexico, with the title that meant "Flower of Evil," and the line in it that whent "Searching, searching without heart." It really is the best I could do, I'm afraid.

XII. Rev 22:20 - Puscifer
[She'll suck you dry
But still you'll cry, to be back in her bosom
To do it again
She'll make you weak
And mourn and cry, to be back in her bosom
To do it again]
Larxene, Number XII, the Savage Nymph. Larxene was Marluxia's "attack dog" of sorts in his coup, serving as his right hand woman. She took twisted pleasure in playing with Sora's mind, breaking his confidence and mocking his slowly crumbling memories. Sadistic, brutal, and unyielding, she has earned a song to suit it. She's the woman your momma warned you about, but you still want to be with. And she'll use you, abuse you, and make you love every minute of it until she runs you through.

XIII. How Can I Live - Ill Nino
[I am your mirror image
I’m all you left behind
You made me what I am
But who the hell am I?]
Roxas, Number XIII, the Key of Destiny. When Sora's world, Destiny Islands, fell to the darkness, his childhood friend Kairi lost her heart. It made its way inside his, which he eventually unlocked, rendering himself a shadow. This spawned Roxas, and the short duration of his life left him confused, alone, and at the mercy of Xemnas' silver tongue. But as he began to wonder what he was, who he was, he eventually split the scene, leaving the Organization [and his best friend] behind at what might cost him his own life. With a chip on his shoulder, a grand-scale identity complex, and more issues than Time Magazine, this is the song for Roxas.

XIV. Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones
[I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black]
The Organization. Their hearts rended, their identities stripped away, their lives promising nothing but the eventual return to the darkness which claimed them once before. They are empty, they are miserable. And so they will paint the world with their darkness, spreading their inner hatred while trying to get their hearts back. It isn't revenge, it's fair play. And besides, the sitar fits Demyx.

XV. The Nobodies - Marilyn Manson
[We are the nobodies
we wanna be somebodies
when we're dead,
they'll know just who we are]
The Nobodies. Oh, how painfully obvious this song was, and yet how fitting. After all, they are the Nobodies [especially the inhuman ones], and they're going to be Somebodies, no matter what they have to do in the process. Besides, that little "When we're dead/they'll know just who we are" is a nice reference to the grave stones in the World That Never Was.

XVI. In Between - Collective Soul
[In between us
Hope we've yet to see
We long for healings
But the scars never leave]
The Nobodies. The Nobodies long for some way to heal themselves, to become more than just half-beings, on the cusp of existence. And yet, still they stand, locked between light and darkness, good and evil, alive and dead. Trapped in an eternal, empty limbo. Their messiah was false, their dreams all for naught. Now, there is nothing left, but to stay in between.

XVII. Gravedigger - Dave Matthews
[Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger]
Death of the Nobodies. In the end, all they wanted was to feel. Do they get a taste of it on the other side? Only they can know for sure. All that's left are the grave stones in the World That Never Was, and the memories we have of them.

XVIII. Possession - Sarah McLachlan
[Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed
trying to find an honest word to find
the truth enslaved
oh you speak to me in riddles
and you speak to me in rhymes
my body aches to breathe your breath
your words keep me alive]
Namine. I actually have used this song on an FST before, for Axel, but it didn't fit quite as well there as it does now. Possesison, for all its pretending at being your standard love ballad, is a song about desire, emptiness, and fierce obsession with something you can't have - everything Namine was. She wanted so much to have something in this world to hold onto, that she let herself be used by Marluxia, and usurped Kairi's place in Sora's heart to have some connection.

XIX. Hurt - Johnny Cash
[What have I become,
my sweetest friend,
everyone I know,
goes away in the end,

and you could have it all,
my empire of dirt,
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt]
DiZ. While not a Nobody himself, DiZ, formerly Ansem the Wise, is one of the key players in the drama that is Organization XIII. He was the one who trained the first six, and he is the one who was betrayed. Cast into darkness, he used Roxas and Namine, guided Sora on his path to destroy the Organization, and let revenge consume him nearly until the end. Ladened with guilt for what he had let happen, filled with shame for what had become of his dearest pupil, he let himself die in the blast that was supposed to end Xemnas' schemes. But in the end, his death was in vain, and hew as left as hollow as the Nobodies he's tried to destroy.

XX. Hotel California - The Eagles
[Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
but you can never leave!]
Castle Oblivion/The Organization. On the one hand, Castle Oblivion, like the titular Hotel California, is a place that at first seemed welcoming but soon trapped you in its darkness and mystery. But, by the same token, so does the Organization, bringing you into the fold and never letting you leave - or, at least, you're never supposed to. Roxas slipped past, but there was a permanent mark on his life after that. Leaving the Organization, and leaving Castle Oblivion, marks you for death.

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