Memory #2 - Significant Neutral - Nobodies don't have Hearts.

[lunarpsychole]

Earned Day 99
Form: Small wooden boxes in your team colors. Opening the lid will show you the memory.
Shareable: Yes/unlimited
Shared with: Axel
Taken: Yes

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This is basically an infodump memory of the things we learn about Nobodies from Kingdom Hearts 2 (and maybe a bit of details from 358/2 Days, but mostly KH2). I can argue about how much of this info is factual based on the evidence of Nobody behavior and what is blatantly contradicted in later games, but Saïx believes in the standard definitions, so I'm going with that.

So in KH-verse, every person possesses three elements: a Heart, a Body, and a Soul. The Kingdom Hearts wiki does a pretty good summary of a lot of the Nobody assumptions, so I will just c&p:

"Nobodies are born when a Heart is swallowed by darkness and becomes a Heartless. They are the remaining parts left behind by the heart: the body, giving a Nobody form, and the soul, giving the Nobody life. However, only those with a strong will are actually able to continue on as Nobodies. Those with the strongest wills manage to retain human forms (under special circumstances, sometimes the Nobody is formed with some slight changes to their appearance,) while the rest possess malformed, barely humanoid appearances; such examples as Nobodies like the Creeper and Dusk. Therefore, the more humanoid the Nobody, the stronger its will. [...] All Nobodies vanish from the Realm of Light upon their creation at the loss of a heart and the creation of a Heartless. They are born in a world in-between the Realms of Light and Darkness. However, because of this and their lack of hearts, they are shunned by both Light and Darkness, and do not truly exist. Because of their missing hearts, Nobodies are said to be incapable of feeling emotions by every credible source. Some humanoid Nobodies pretend to possess emotions, fooling others as well as themselves. On the other hand, Nobodies manage to keep their memories of their former lives, but unusual Nobodies lack memories of their former selves. Through these memories, Nobodies are able to remember what it was like to have emotions, thus allowing them to respond correctly to specific situations. [...] Despite their lack of emotions, Nobodies are able to think for themselves and attack with definite planning. [...] When a Nobody is destroyed it fades back into darkness."

A FEW THINGS:
--Details about the Heartless are going to be sort of vague, but the impression one will get from this memory is that they are creatures of pure Darkness.
--Likewise, the Realm of Light is sort of non-specific, but one can make an educated guess about what that is.
--Dusks and Creepers. They're basically low-level Nobodies.

Memory Effects
+ 100 what the fuck happened to me
+ 500 Disgust at own existence
+ 500 Desire for a real Heart
+ 10 "Oh, that's why I can't do Feelings."
+ 5000 Confused angst!? and general feelings of being closed-off and a bit numb
+ 1 boost to will save