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NAME: Skyler Veracruz
INCARNATION OF: Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
AGE: 17
HEIGHT: 5'7.5" / 171 cm
BIRTHDAY: August 14, 1996
HISTORY:
Once upon a time, there was a kid named Skyler Veracruz, who lived in a place called Locke City, New Jersey. His mom was a nurse and his dad was high ranking financial adviser for a local company. He grew up pretty happy, even though his big brother Milo was kind of a shut in and never wanted to play. He was even okay with being a middle child after his little sister Arielle was born.
Then the US real estate market burst in 2008 and both his parents lost their jobs. They moved to a much smaller home, Skyler lost all his friends at his old elementary school, and he wasn't really able to make new ones because he had to spend a lot of time at home babysitting Ari because everyone knew that Milo couldn't. By the time he got the freedom to do so, everyone had already sorted themselves into new cliques and it didn't seem like anyone had much time for him. One clique did decide to make time for him, though. All he had to do was play along when the teacher turned her back and the shy kid next to him was drawing something on a piece of paper. All he had to do was take it.
Skyler, much like Sora, would do anything for his friends. He took the piece of paper and helped his new friends burn it after school.
Smash cut to summer of 2013. He was still taking care of Ari, who had grown to be a delightful creature, and he loved her to death. Which meant he kept her away from his... much more high school jock styled delinquent activities. His urge to do whatever it took for his friends and his reluctance to change himself took his behavior from bad to worse; he was, without bars, a fully fledged high school bully. Still, recently, he'd been thinking more about how his behavior made Ari's life much harder, and he'd started the very slow process of disentangling himself from his own crowd - all for Ari, and not himself. He more or less succeeded. He went into his senior year with no one his age he considered a real friend.
A year ago, he'd experienced an odd vision - the image of a redheaded girl with blue eyes startling him into waking him up. It felt like a memory. The numbers began to follow him after that. He hadn't realized before then that they were supposed to be used for anything. And then, one day, he decided to write down the numbers swirling around his head for a year onto his worksheet during Math, and his paper could suddenly scroll.
The Numbers network was filled with other people just as confused about the network as he was. They quickly filled him in: they didn't know what was going on, everyone was getting new powers, and whatever he did, he was NOT to trust the police if they weren't on the network already - they would kill him and him entire family. Naturally, he wanted to protect the only people he cared about - his family, especially Ari. So he made a few important decisions. He didn't tell anyone who he was. He got rid of the last of his weed. And he started figuring out who was going on, and how he could get the most power without turning into another person.
Because that was the other part of this: everyone was getting memories from strangers. And his stranger was a kid named Sora. And the more he absorbed from Sora's memories, the more he realized that having Sora's memories meant more than having a mental next door neighbor. After all, through his patchwork memories, he saw that Roxas never stood a chance. Why would Skyler fare any better?
So, he made some choices that Sora never would, hoping to get as far away from his other as possible. He started bullying people again. He tried to make himself as scarce as possible, refusing to make new friends. He joined a supernatural street gang, the Blood Keys, in order to see if he could leverage them to stop the transition. This supernatural street gang happened to be cyborgs, and they were also the Network's primary targets for violence. Skyler was okay with this. He let Thunder Corp, the company backing the Blood Keys, install cybernetics in him - metal lungs, metal heart, reinforced spine. Then, in secret, he started fighting against the Network and the Keys alike. He set himself up as the enemy as much as he possibly could. When it came to it, and a couple of Network members who had no reason to keep his secrets discovered what he'd done, he tried his absolute best to kill them.
But of course, Skyler, at some level, was just Sora reborn. He couldn't help but make a few new friends. A few people put their absolute trust in him, became friends with him even as other Network members refused to think he could ever change. And slowly, very slowly, he realized that if he wanted to make sure his friends and loved ones, Network and otherwise, would be safe from who he was and danger the Network faced, he had no choice but to become a better person. To do what Sora would do, and in the process let Sora take him.
So one day, sometime after he graduated, during his internship at the police station that one of his friends offered him in lieu of going to college, he decided to just let Sora handle things. He was very tired, after all. He'd done too much fighting. Sora couldn't really pretend to be him, but he was close enough. He was, honestly, the best substitute he could ask for. A good other.
Sora began to live Skyler's life that day, protecting Skyler's family and defending Locke City against more of its disasters. Very few cared to notice the difference, and those who did weren't enough to bring him back. Sora was far from home, in another dimension, and didn't have Yen Sid or King Mickey to explain what to do - he was still missing lot of his own memories. Still, Sora is Sora, no matter which world he lands in. He had a world to save, people to take care of, and someone in his heart who had no body of his own. It was time to get to work.
TRIVIA:
- Locke City born and raised! His family isn't particularly well off but they live comfortably given the times.
- He's on both the swim and lacrosse teams, captain of neither because WHAT IS LEADERSHIP
- He had been in detention almost every other weekend until late Junior year because of his problem with authority figures other than his mom
- He's volunteered every summer at the local general summer camp program and just got back from his first real job as a life guard before hustling his ass into summer school UuU
- He can almost press 200 lbs. uou Still too wiry for power. in the meantime he plateaus around 180 lbs. he's working on it ok
- He went to Manila once to see family when he was 9 it was the best time he has ever had in his life thus far okok
- his fine arts credit is studio art and he doesn't do anything but shit around with oil pastels and text on his phone because he's an ASS
- uh he doesn't know how to dress himself like at all
- but he unfortunately knows the theory behind applying make-up because Ari uses him as a test subject all the time. His life is difficult
- he says he has a six pack but it's actually more of a lumpy four pack MORE SIT-UPS BOY (it actually doesn't look that bad and he doesn't get embarrassed about this but he will straight up lie and say it's a six pack INFORMATION FOR THE GENERATIONS)
- he knows how to cook a bit! filipino, american, a little bit of japanese, but only the stuff that Ari bullies him into making since he was the only one allowed to use the burner between the two of them for the longest time.
- he is also moderately trilingual! english, almost fluent in tagalog, passable japanese due to taking lessons in high school and the fact that jii-san refuses to speak in english these days.
- THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AS I FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE HIM MORE HILARIOUSLY DOUCHEY
- As of December 14, 2013, Skyler is a cyborg affiliated with the Blood Keys. This is not known to the network at large(except for maybe Derek Hale because Skyler cannot keep his mouth shut). This thread has a list of his additional abilities!
FAMILY:
- MR. VERACRUZ (Filipino, does accounting at a local company.)
- MRS. VERACRUZ (Japanese-White, Nurse's aide and homemaker.)
- MILO VERACRUZ (Older brother (20), attends Locke University with a Chem major, builds scale models for fun.)
- ARIELLE VERACRUZ (Younger sister (12), attends the local public middle school, adorable pink princess. BY FAR AND AWAY SKYLER'S FAVORITE PERSON)
- Mr. Veracruz' side of the family is back in the MOTHIRLAND
- Mrs. Veracruz's side mostly lives in California, except for Grandma Elle and Yuuhiko Jii-san, who live in Locke City as well.
ECHO DIRECTORY (note that some echoes are double posted because they fit multiple categories :Db)
- PHYSICAL CHANGES
- POWERS AND ABILITIES
- MEMORIES
- MENTAL
- ITEMS
- CREATURES
LATEST ECHOES (THESE ARE NOT ALL OF HIS ECHOES!! I only have his latest 15 echoes here in chronological order of acquirement because anything more is absolutely ridiculous. Full masterpost here, split arbitrarily into half years.)
- FEBRUARY 01, 2014: Bits and pieces of this bossfight, accompanied by yet another migraine. :)b Not the full bossfight, but lord dat lightning.
- FEBRUARY 01, 2014: The knowledge that there have been a lot of different versions of Sora, and one of them in particular experienced a lot of pain as he tried to reconcile his own identity with Sora's, particularly of the hallucinating Sora's memories and forgetting who you are so hard that your head hurts kind. (Yes, this is the best he'll ever remember about that one part in Days when Roxas went to Destiny Island.)
- FEBRUARY 11, 2014: Genie Jafar boss battle! With a particular focus on Iago, but the entire boss battle is there.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2014: Hercules boss battle!
- FEBRUARY 17, 2014: The knowledge that he's been cured in battle with magic several times before by a very good friend. The knowledge will focus on Donald, and the fact that there was one time he did it when it was very important, but even thinking about when that might have been will give him the warning signs of one of his CoM migraines. He didn't actually get that memory back, but the scene is there for reference.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2014: An upgrade to his Glide ability to the second level - he will be able to glide smoothly and without pause, but slowly - and Air Combo Plus, the first in three upgrades to the ability. It'll manifest ingame as the ability to launch into the air and hover, giving him just enough time to strike his enemy once more than gravity/his speed would usually allow.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2014: From here to 11:05. He gets thrown off of Xemnas's platform and has to fly his way back. Of note: he FINALLY gets context for that "Are you certain you can trust Riku?" quote, Skyler will not be certain that that's that Xemnas everyone's been talking about because WHOA THAT IS A BIG ARMOR, and HOLY SHIT WE ARE LITERALLY THROWING AROUND SKYSCRAPERS LIKE IT'S NOTHING.
- MARCH 09, 2014: Superglide! He goes at his fastest speed, his angle of descent is as gradual as it will ever be, etc. Also, the requirements to summon a Keyblade. One can only summon a Keyblade if they have gone through the ceremony of inheritance - which just means that if you've touched a Keyblade before, one will become available to you if your heart is strong enough. This Echo will give him that prerequisite back. However, Skyler's current personality is not strong enough to summon a Keyblade. He may be able to summon in it small spurts, and if he's really focusing on achieving something that requires strength of character, or the power of his friends' faith and bonds with him, he may be able to summon it for longer, and may even get back to full Keyblade business as usual later if he gets enough character development (which sort of makes this a gradually occurring echo with an additional requirement), but otherwise his bond with it will be very weak. If anyone who has also gone through the ceremony/has a Keyblade tries to take it from him, they will be successful.
- MARCH 09, 2014: Up to 8:32! Xemnas' flightless dragon crashing.
- MARCH 09, 2014: The vague impression that he's familiar with a situation involving someone trying to kill their best friend, the moment where Roxas says "But we're best friends, right?" coming back the clearest. He's also aware that he was the one in danger of getting killed in the memory. Sort of. It's a weird dissociative memory again.
- MARCH 09, 2014: A short burst of memory of Joshua with a pair of wings stretching from his back. Still... no recollection of who Josh is AHAHA
- MARCH 09, 2014: The ability to grab onto ledges and pull himself up in a single leap with minimal effort.
- MARCH 09, 2014: BELLS FROGS BIG CHERRIES PETER PAN MAGIC CHEESE SEPHIROTH. This particular fight and the scene afterward where Cloud and Sephiroth Have At. No context for who Cloud or Sephiroth are hahaha, but at least Skyler already knows about the location?? sobbing
- MARCH 09, 2013: Salvation. It's. A hell of a light spell. OuO
- MARCH 09, 2014: The knowledge that most of his enemies exploded into anime bubbles and sparkles when they died! Sometimes the bubbles refilled his MP! Sometimes they exploded... into... other... things. Like money. And health balls. And. Drive orbs, and Dream fragments, and......... it's a lot of things ok. Most importantly, though, the Heartless usually released a heart after their deaths as well.
INCARNATION OF: Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
AGE: 17
HEIGHT: 5'7.5" / 171 cm
BIRTHDAY: August 14, 1996
HISTORY:
Once upon a time, there was a kid named Skyler Veracruz, who lived in a place called Locke City, New Jersey. His mom was a nurse and his dad was high ranking financial adviser for a local company. He grew up pretty happy, even though his big brother Milo was kind of a shut in and never wanted to play. He was even okay with being a middle child after his little sister Arielle was born.
Then the US real estate market burst in 2008 and both his parents lost their jobs. They moved to a much smaller home, Skyler lost all his friends at his old elementary school, and he wasn't really able to make new ones because he had to spend a lot of time at home babysitting Ari because everyone knew that Milo couldn't. By the time he got the freedom to do so, everyone had already sorted themselves into new cliques and it didn't seem like anyone had much time for him. One clique did decide to make time for him, though. All he had to do was play along when the teacher turned her back and the shy kid next to him was drawing something on a piece of paper. All he had to do was take it.
Skyler, much like Sora, would do anything for his friends. He took the piece of paper and helped his new friends burn it after school.
Smash cut to summer of 2013. He was still taking care of Ari, who had grown to be a delightful creature, and he loved her to death. Which meant he kept her away from his... much more high school jock styled delinquent activities. His urge to do whatever it took for his friends and his reluctance to change himself took his behavior from bad to worse; he was, without bars, a fully fledged high school bully. Still, recently, he'd been thinking more about how his behavior made Ari's life much harder, and he'd started the very slow process of disentangling himself from his own crowd - all for Ari, and not himself. He more or less succeeded. He went into his senior year with no one his age he considered a real friend.
A year ago, he'd experienced an odd vision - the image of a redheaded girl with blue eyes startling him into waking him up. It felt like a memory. The numbers began to follow him after that. He hadn't realized before then that they were supposed to be used for anything. And then, one day, he decided to write down the numbers swirling around his head for a year onto his worksheet during Math, and his paper could suddenly scroll.
The Numbers network was filled with other people just as confused about the network as he was. They quickly filled him in: they didn't know what was going on, everyone was getting new powers, and whatever he did, he was NOT to trust the police if they weren't on the network already - they would kill him and him entire family. Naturally, he wanted to protect the only people he cared about - his family, especially Ari. So he made a few important decisions. He didn't tell anyone who he was. He got rid of the last of his weed. And he started figuring out who was going on, and how he could get the most power without turning into another person.
Because that was the other part of this: everyone was getting memories from strangers. And his stranger was a kid named Sora. And the more he absorbed from Sora's memories, the more he realized that having Sora's memories meant more than having a mental next door neighbor. After all, through his patchwork memories, he saw that Roxas never stood a chance. Why would Skyler fare any better?
So, he made some choices that Sora never would, hoping to get as far away from his other as possible. He started bullying people again. He tried to make himself as scarce as possible, refusing to make new friends. He joined a supernatural street gang, the Blood Keys, in order to see if he could leverage them to stop the transition. This supernatural street gang happened to be cyborgs, and they were also the Network's primary targets for violence. Skyler was okay with this. He let Thunder Corp, the company backing the Blood Keys, install cybernetics in him - metal lungs, metal heart, reinforced spine. Then, in secret, he started fighting against the Network and the Keys alike. He set himself up as the enemy as much as he possibly could. When it came to it, and a couple of Network members who had no reason to keep his secrets discovered what he'd done, he tried his absolute best to kill them.
But of course, Skyler, at some level, was just Sora reborn. He couldn't help but make a few new friends. A few people put their absolute trust in him, became friends with him even as other Network members refused to think he could ever change. And slowly, very slowly, he realized that if he wanted to make sure his friends and loved ones, Network and otherwise, would be safe from who he was and danger the Network faced, he had no choice but to become a better person. To do what Sora would do, and in the process let Sora take him.
So one day, sometime after he graduated, during his internship at the police station that one of his friends offered him in lieu of going to college, he decided to just let Sora handle things. He was very tired, after all. He'd done too much fighting. Sora couldn't really pretend to be him, but he was close enough. He was, honestly, the best substitute he could ask for. A good other.
Sora began to live Skyler's life that day, protecting Skyler's family and defending Locke City against more of its disasters. Very few cared to notice the difference, and those who did weren't enough to bring him back. Sora was far from home, in another dimension, and didn't have Yen Sid or King Mickey to explain what to do - he was still missing lot of his own memories. Still, Sora is Sora, no matter which world he lands in. He had a world to save, people to take care of, and someone in his heart who had no body of his own. It was time to get to work.
TRIVIA:
- Locke City born and raised! His family isn't particularly well off but they live comfortably given the times.
- He's on both the swim and lacrosse teams, captain of neither because WHAT IS LEADERSHIP
- He had been in detention almost every other weekend until late Junior year because of his problem with authority figures other than his mom
- He's volunteered every summer at the local general summer camp program and just got back from his first real job as a life guard before hustling his ass into summer school UuU
- He can almost press 200 lbs. uou Still too wiry for power. in the meantime he plateaus around 180 lbs. he's working on it ok
- He went to Manila once to see family when he was 9 it was the best time he has ever had in his life thus far okok
- his fine arts credit is studio art and he doesn't do anything but shit around with oil pastels and text on his phone because he's an ASS
- uh he doesn't know how to dress himself like at all
- but he unfortunately knows the theory behind applying make-up because Ari uses him as a test subject all the time. His life is difficult
- he says he has a six pack but it's actually more of a lumpy four pack MORE SIT-UPS BOY (it actually doesn't look that bad and he doesn't get embarrassed about this but he will straight up lie and say it's a six pack INFORMATION FOR THE GENERATIONS)
- he knows how to cook a bit! filipino, american, a little bit of japanese, but only the stuff that Ari bullies him into making since he was the only one allowed to use the burner between the two of them for the longest time.
- he is also moderately trilingual! english, almost fluent in tagalog, passable japanese due to taking lessons in high school and the fact that jii-san refuses to speak in english these days.
- THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AS I FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE HIM MORE HILARIOUSLY DOUCHEY
- As of December 14, 2013, Skyler is a cyborg affiliated with the Blood Keys. This is not known to the network at large
FAMILY:
- MR. VERACRUZ (Filipino, does accounting at a local company.)
- MRS. VERACRUZ (Japanese-White, Nurse's aide and homemaker.)
- MILO VERACRUZ (Older brother (20), attends Locke University with a Chem major, builds scale models for fun.)
- ARIELLE VERACRUZ (Younger sister (12), attends the local public middle school, adorable pink princess. BY FAR AND AWAY SKYLER'S FAVORITE PERSON)
- Mr. Veracruz' side of the family is back in the MOTHIRLAND
- Mrs. Veracruz's side mostly lives in California, except for Grandma Elle and Yuuhiko Jii-san, who live in Locke City as well.
ECHO DIRECTORY (note that some echoes are double posted because they fit multiple categories :Db)
- PHYSICAL CHANGES
- POWERS AND ABILITIES
- MEMORIES
- MENTAL
- ITEMS
- CREATURES
LATEST ECHOES (THESE ARE NOT ALL OF HIS ECHOES!! I only have his latest 15 echoes here in chronological order of acquirement because anything more is absolutely ridiculous. Full masterpost here, split arbitrarily into half years.)
- FEBRUARY 01, 2014: Bits and pieces of this bossfight, accompanied by yet another migraine. :)b Not the full bossfight, but lord dat lightning.
- FEBRUARY 01, 2014: The knowledge that there have been a lot of different versions of Sora, and one of them in particular experienced a lot of pain as he tried to reconcile his own identity with Sora's, particularly of the hallucinating Sora's memories and forgetting who you are so hard that your head hurts kind. (Yes, this is the best he'll ever remember about that one part in Days when Roxas went to Destiny Island.)
- FEBRUARY 11, 2014: Genie Jafar boss battle! With a particular focus on Iago, but the entire boss battle is there.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2014: Hercules boss battle!
- FEBRUARY 17, 2014: The knowledge that he's been cured in battle with magic several times before by a very good friend. The knowledge will focus on Donald, and the fact that there was one time he did it when it was very important, but even thinking about when that might have been will give him the warning signs of one of his CoM migraines. He didn't actually get that memory back, but the scene is there for reference.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2014: An upgrade to his Glide ability to the second level - he will be able to glide smoothly and without pause, but slowly - and Air Combo Plus, the first in three upgrades to the ability. It'll manifest ingame as the ability to launch into the air and hover, giving him just enough time to strike his enemy once more than gravity/his speed would usually allow.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2014: From here to 11:05. He gets thrown off of Xemnas's platform and has to fly his way back. Of note: he FINALLY gets context for that "Are you certain you can trust Riku?" quote, Skyler will not be certain that that's that Xemnas everyone's been talking about because WHOA THAT IS A BIG ARMOR, and HOLY SHIT WE ARE LITERALLY THROWING AROUND SKYSCRAPERS LIKE IT'S NOTHING.
- MARCH 09, 2014: Superglide! He goes at his fastest speed, his angle of descent is as gradual as it will ever be, etc. Also, the requirements to summon a Keyblade. One can only summon a Keyblade if they have gone through the ceremony of inheritance - which just means that if you've touched a Keyblade before, one will become available to you if your heart is strong enough. This Echo will give him that prerequisite back. However, Skyler's current personality is not strong enough to summon a Keyblade. He may be able to summon in it small spurts, and if he's really focusing on achieving something that requires strength of character, or the power of his friends' faith and bonds with him, he may be able to summon it for longer, and may even get back to full Keyblade business as usual later if he gets enough character development (which sort of makes this a gradually occurring echo with an additional requirement), but otherwise his bond with it will be very weak. If anyone who has also gone through the ceremony/has a Keyblade tries to take it from him, they will be successful.
- MARCH 09, 2014: Up to 8:32! Xemnas' flightless dragon crashing.
- MARCH 09, 2014: The vague impression that he's familiar with a situation involving someone trying to kill their best friend, the moment where Roxas says "But we're best friends, right?" coming back the clearest. He's also aware that he was the one in danger of getting killed in the memory. Sort of. It's a weird dissociative memory again.
- MARCH 09, 2014: A short burst of memory of Joshua with a pair of wings stretching from his back. Still... no recollection of who Josh is AHAHA
- MARCH 09, 2014: The ability to grab onto ledges and pull himself up in a single leap with minimal effort.
- MARCH 09, 2014: BELLS FROGS BIG CHERRIES PETER PAN MAGIC CHEESE SEPHIROTH. This particular fight and the scene afterward where Cloud and Sephiroth Have At. No context for who Cloud or Sephiroth are hahaha, but at least Skyler already knows about the location?? sobbing
- MARCH 09, 2013: Salvation. It's. A hell of a light spell. OuO
- MARCH 09, 2014: The knowledge that most of his enemies exploded into anime bubbles and sparkles when they died! Sometimes the bubbles refilled his MP! Sometimes they exploded... into... other... things. Like money. And health balls. And. Drive orbs, and Dream fragments, and......... it's a lot of things ok. Most importantly, though, the Heartless usually released a heart after their deaths as well.
PHYSICAL CHANGES
- DECEMBER 08, 2013: His eyes are now blue. Like, really blue.
POWERS AND ABILITIES
MEMORIES
MENTAL
ITEMS
CREATURES
GENERAL INFORMATION
- AUGUST 15, 2013: A shot of the mainland Destiny Island as seen from the treehouse of the play island!
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2013: The memory of the innermost chamber of the Cave of Wonders with a bonus visual of a certain Genie!
- NOVEMBER 30, 2013: He remembers a bit about Tinkerbell the fairy.
- DECEMBER 02, 2013: The concept that yes, an entire world CAN be limited to the realms of that city, and that the dark city he vaguely remembers from August is one of them! Also, the name of the city, Traverse Town, and the idea that these worlds are what are seen as stars in the sky in Sora's universe.
- DECEMBER 08, 2013: A random soundbite of himself saying, "I'm Sora! And these are my friends Donald and Goofy."
- DECEMBER 18, 2013: The fact that Cenabell actually a Dreameater! Nightmares are different things entirely. Also the fact that Cenabell's species is called Meow Wow.
- DECEMBER 22, 2013: A memory of Halloween Town! Specifically, the memory that all of the inhabitants are dead, including the leader of the populace, and they lead perfectly ordinary, if spooky lives. He gets vague feelings that he knew a Pumpkin King, his dog, and his Frankenstein's Monster girlfriend, but that's about it.
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: He gets the name of the Fire spell! Which is Fire, naturally.
- DECEMBER 28, 2013: Battle information on the Assassin Nobody, but not necessarily exactly what it is.
- DECEMBER 30, 2013: Those monsters are called HEARTLESS. oh my god six whole months
- JANUARY 06, 2014: He is now aware that the black clothes that he got last year are made by fairies (whom he doesn't remember; he just remembers that they were fairies!), magical, and give him the power to transform into not one, but six forms! Unfortunately the clothes are not magical just yet. :(
- FEBRUARY 17, 2014: The knowledge that he's been cured in battle with magic several times before by a very good friend. The knowledge will focus on Donald, and the fact that there was one time he did it when it was very important, but even thinking about when that might have been will give him the warning signs of one of his CoM migraines. He didn't actually get that memory back, but the scene is there for reference.
- MARCH 09, 2014: The knowledge that most of his enemies exploded into anime bubbles and sparkles when they died! Sometimes the bubbles refilled his MP! Sometimes they exploded... into... other... things. Like money. And health balls. And. Drive orbs, and Dream fragments, and......... it's a lot of things ok. Most importantly, though, the Heartless usually released a heart after their deaths as well.
PRE-KHI/BBS ERA
KHI
- AUGUST 15, 2012: Memory of waking up to Kairi's face on Destiny Island before his first adventure started.
- AUGUST 02, 2013: A memory of some jackass tossing him a paopu fruit, along with him hearing himself say the words, "A paopu fruit?"
- AUGUST 15, 2013: A memory of himself in a cave, scratching a picture into the wall with a rock. He's adding a hand with a paopu fruit extended towards a certain girl...
- AUGUST 26, 2013: A memory of Kairi and him in the Secret Place from the first game. She turns around and flies straight for him, and from his perspective, it will appear as though Kairi flew through him.
- DECEMBER 28, 2013: A memory of fighting a bunch of Shadow Heartless on a small island! The sky is black with a coming storm, and Sora feels awful when this is all going down. It's almost like the world is ending...
- DECEMBER 28, 2013: From here to 2:22. The most unnerving conversation with Winnie the Pooh. Ever.
- AUGUST 01, 2013: A memory of seeing a castle projected onto a brown tarp. It seems familiar...
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: Memory of fighting another small teenage girl - the great ninja Yuffie, to be precise! (Although he won't remember her name) He also remembers another person being there at the fight, and the way the arena looks - the interior of the Olympus Coliseum, to be exact - but mostly, his attention will be on fighting and beating her before turning to fight his next opponent... He also gets the feeling that this is a tournament, not to the death!
- FEBRUARY 11, 2014: Genie Jafar boss battle! With a particular focus on Iago, but the entire boss battle is there.
- FEBURARY 17, 2014: Hercules boss battle!
- DECEMBER 30, 2013: This. Please try to ignore the commentary.
- DECEMBER 30, 2013: From here to 2:18! THERE CAN'T BE TWO KEYBLADE MASTERS HUH [canned laughter].
- OCTOBER 02, 2013: He remembers that silver haired douchebag from one of his echoes wearing a VERY EVIL BODYSUIT turning an entire area dark and phasing in and out of the walls, flying STRAIGHT AT HIM. NO ONE LIKES DARK AURA. (also what is that thing he is holding WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT A GIANT KEY)
- DECEMBER 14, 2013: Memory of this entire scene OuO
- DECEMBER 29, 2013: The memory of being a heartless. :( Since the mechanics of KH run on emotions, it's as good as if Skyler's experienced being turned into a heartless himself once before. Not nice. Sora describes the feeling here.
- JANUARY 25, 2014: Ice Titan info! Basically the boss battle, the fact that it was in the coliseum, and the fact that it is not a Heartless!
- MARCH 09, 2014: BELLS FROGS BIG CHERRIES PETER PAN MAGIC CHEESE SEPHIROTH. This particular fight and the scene afterward where Cloud and Sephiroth Have At. No context for who Cloud or Sephiroth are hahaha, but at least Skyler already knows about the location?? sobbing
- JANUARY 06, 2014: From here to 5:08. A bit of Riku characterization, who the fuck is THAT, the nature of the heart, and most importantly, there is a light in his heart that never goes out!
KH COM
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2013: A memory of some conversations from Castle Oblivion about the loss of identity. These memories are very damaged and are impossible to access without experiencing physical pain. details here
- FEBRUARY 01, 2014: From here to 2:32! Right before the name reveal. As with all of his Chain of Memories echoes, this memory comes severely damaged, with only the basic parts coming across (The fact that he's forgotten someone and has been carrying something from her the entire time, Larxene is BAD BAD BAD, general mind fuckery).
- FEBRUARY 17, 2014: The knowledge that he's been cured in battle with magic several times before by a very good friend. The knowledge will focus on Donald, and the fact that there was one time he did it when it was very important, but even thinking about when that might have been will give him the warning signs of one of his CoM migraines. He didn't actually get that memory back, but the scene is there for reference.
- FEBRUARY 01, 2014: Bits and pieces of this bossfight, accompanied by yet another migraine. :)b Not the full bossfight, but lord dat lightning.
POST KH COM AND PRE KHII
- FEBRUARY 01, 2014: A vague recollection of someone saying something along the lines of, "He looks a lot like you". This memory is very weak, more like a feeling of deja vu than anything.
- AUGUST 15, 2013: The feeling he's heard someone say the phrase "filling me with memories" right before that person turned into another person.
KHII
- MARCH 09, 2014: The vague impression that he's familiar with a situation involving someone trying to kill their best friend, the moment where Roxas says "But we're best friends, right?" coming back the clearest. He's also aware that he was the one in danger of getting killed in the memory. Sort of. It's a weird dissociative memory again.
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: The notion that he's faced a fire bombardment before... Again, since this is technically not his memory, it will stay a vague feeling!
- AUGUST 15, 2013: The impression that he said or someone like him said that he belongs to himself before getting fused with another person. Who is also himself. It's kind of a complicated emotion.
- DECEMBER 02, 2013: The memory of this fight! He knows that that's Cerberus, but he doesn't know what's up with the dog or the duck or the guy in red.
- DECEMBER 11, 2013: Skyler now knows the entirety of "Under the Sea", and can remember performing it with Ariel, Flounder, and Sebastian. All he knows is that Ariel is a redheaded mermaid princess who is friends with Flounder and Sebastian.
- JANUARY 06, 2014: The memory of a certain pirate getting knocked into some moonlight, turning slightly undead, and rolling a medallion (that Skyler actually has in his possession in keychain form) across his fingers in response. Also, the distinct impression that they were working together, but they didn't exactly get along.
- DECEMBER 31, 2013: From here to 28:37! Lots of technobabble, meeting Tron, talking about Hollow Bastion and the MCP, figuring out how to get out, and Goofy telling him that the Keyblade can unlock that door!
- DECEMBER 28, 2013: The exposition dump right before the fight he had echoed back the day before. Of note: Nobodies, the Organization, and some Demyx characterization!
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: DANCE WATER DANCE. Basically just the fight, no context - no names, nothing!
- DECEMBER 08, 2013: Full memory of the 1000 Heartless battle. (He still doesn't know what a Heartless is, rofl.)
- DECEMBER 28, 2013: From here until 48:35. Of note: The mouse looking fucker going after the guy who was called Xehanort, IMMENSE DISAPPOINTMENT, X-E-M-N-A-S, Skyler's SECOND sight of the castle at Hollow Bastion (although he still doesn't know its name lol), Xemnas' master plan, the purpose of the keyblade, ya kidnapped KAIRI ya SHIT
- DECEMBER 28, 2013: Up till 1:05. Of note: The guy with spiky hair bangs and black coat is Xehanort, and they've got a teacher student relationship! There's a dude named Riku who looks like no Riku Skyler's seen yet... And there's a giant mouse named Mickey? what
- DECEMBER 25, 2013: From here to 4:04. TOTAL SAP
- MARCH 09, 2014: Up to 8:32! Xemnas' flightless dragon crashing.
- DECEMBER 18, 2013: The sense he's heard the phrase, "Are you sure you trust Riku?"
- FEBRUARY 22, 2014: From here to 11:05. He gets thrown off of Xemnas's platform and has to fly his way back. Of note: he FINALLY gets context for that "Are you certain you can trust Riku?" quote, Skyler will not be certain that that's that Xemnas everyone's been talking about because WHOA THAT IS A BIG ARMOR, and HOLY SHIT WE ARE LITERALLY THROWING AROUND SKYSCRAPERS LIKE IT'S NOTHING.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2013: He's seen Xemnas in zebra-disco form now ;D
POST-KHII AND PRE-KH3D
KH 3D
- AUGUST 15, 2013: The impression that he's seen this guy in a dark town with bright lights. No names, no sense of location, just an impression.
- MARCH 09, 2014: A short burst of memory of Joshua with a pair of wings stretching from his back. Still... no recollection of who Josh is AHAHA
- DECEMBER 02, 2013: From here to when Joshua puts his hand on the team break. He does not know who Shiki or Joshua are. (Interestingly enough, this is the first time he's heard the name Sora.)
PERSONALITY
RELATIONSHIPS
- DECEMBER 11, 2013: The feeling that he's seen and interacted with talking animals. He connects the names Donald and Goofy to the duck and dog he's seen, and he knows he's seen more... Also, the feeling he's been a talking animal.
- DECEMBER 22, 2013: A memory of Halloween Town! Specifically, the memory that all of the inhabitants are dead, including the leader of the populace, and they lead perfectly ordinary, if spooky lives. He gets vague feelings that he knew a Pumpkin King, his dog, and his Frankenstein's Monster girlfriend, but that's about it.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2014: The knowledge that he's been cured in battle with magic several times before by a very good friend. The knowledge will focus on Donald, and the fact that there was one time he did it when it was very important, but even thinking about when that might have been will give him the warning signs of one of his CoM migraines. He didn't actually get that memory back, but the scene is there for reference.
ATTACK
MAGIC
↳ SALVATION ■ ᴍᴀx ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ!
FIRE ■ □ □
CURE ■ □ □
AERO ■ □ □
BLIZZARD ■ □ □
REFLECT ■ □ □
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2013: Depowered version of the spell Spark. He can charge his hand with light and punch someone with it for extra oomph, or use it as a nightlight.
- DECEMBER 18, 2013: Skyler has the ability to cast Cure! Let's see how long it takes for him to figure that out.
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: He gets the Fire spell! (For reference, I like to think that Fire could completely burn up a barstool, and Fira could engulf a dinner table. Firaga could catch the entire living room on fire in one go!)
- JANUARY 04, 2014: Aero! First level defensive air spell. UuU
- JANUARY 15, 2014: Spark is now Sparkra, and he gets the Cosmic Chain!
- JANUARY 06, 2014: Blizzard! A first level ice spell.
- JANUARY 06, 2014: Reflect! A shield made of light that lasts for a few seconds and then disappears. Explodes and damages upon contact with an enemy.
- MARCH 09, 2013: Salvation. It's. A hell of a light spell. OuO
SUPPORT
GUARD ■ ᴍᴀx ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ!
BERSERK ■ □
SECOND CHANCE ■ ᴍᴀx ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ!
LEAF BRACER ■ ᴍᴀx ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ!
DODGE ROLL ■ □
AERIAL RECOVERY ■ ᴍᴀx ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ!
HIGH JUMP ■ ᴍᴀx ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ!
AIR COMBO PLUS ■ □ □
- AUGUST 26, 2013: Partial Gliding ability. He has to already be in midair for it to take effect. Since he only has control of it for a few seconds, if he were to, say, fall off a sky scraper, he'd have to activate it again and again, or alternatively, activate it right before he hits the ground for the ability to save his life. Otherwise he'll just resume acceleration from 0. ADDITIONALLY, he must be thinking a very happy thought or of a very good memory for it to trigger.
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: A more heightened ability to Guard when he's got a weapon - instead of moving like a self-taught amateur to guard, he now moves to block attacks like a pro. He still can't exactly see moves coming in from behind, but it's better than flailing around trying to hope he'll just happen to defend himself.
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: Berserk! An ability that boosts his attack when his overall condition is generally low. It only triggers for a brief amount of time, then fades out, instead of lasting through the time he's on his last legs.
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: Second Chance! He can take a single fatal blow and not faint/die!
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: Leaf Bracer! He is invincible while casting Cure!
- DECEMBER 27, 2013: Dodge Roll! A short, quick roll that is somehow faster than running if spammed. He is not invincible while executing this move.
yet- DECEMBER 27, 2013: Aerial Recovery! If he's got his wits around him, he can right himself land on his feet after being knocked into the air!
- JANUARY 05, 2014: High Jump! The ability to jump twice as high than his normal ability. He can even fit in a fancy backflip. This means that, plus his cybernetics, he can clear a height of a little under four times his own height, a total height of about 22 feet and a half. Jiminy Cricket.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2014: An upgrade to his Glide ability to the second level - he will be able to glide smoothly and without pause, but slowly - and Air Combo Plus, the first in three upgrades to the ability. It'll manifest ingame as the ability to launch into the air and hover, giving him just enough time to strike his enemy once more than gravity/his speed would usually allow.
- MARCH 09, 2014: Superglide! He goes at his fastest speed, his angle of descent is as gradual as it will ever be, etc.
OTHER
- MARCH 09, 2014: The ability to grab onto ledges and pull himself up in a single leap with minimal effort.
KEYCHAINS
- NOVEMBER 30, 2013: The keychain for Fairy Harp.
ARMOR/CLOTHES
- DECEMBER 23, 2013: See that stupid frucking frowny t-shirt? Skyler gets that t-shirt. Amazing
ACCESSORIES
- JANUARY 15, 2014: Spark is now Sparkra, and he gets the Cosmic Chain!
OTHER
MEOW-WOW
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2013: He gets a Meow Wow! It can't do anything but follow him and look cute. Actually, since it's a dream (a literal... dream...), it's basically intangible to everything but, uh, copious amount of pettings and scritches. It can also eat! But it can't go through walls or anything. Any time it tries to attack someone, it'll just pass right through. No attacks, no powers. Just weird doge. Dreams can be selective like that.
- DECEMBER 18, 2013: Cenabell has the ability to cast Cure! Cure can heal superficial cuts, bruises, general stress related injuries (such as lightly twisted joints), and not much more than that.
OTHER