Nobody
ANobody (ノーバディ, Nōbadi?) is thebody andsoul of a strong-hearted individual whoseheart has become aHeartless. While this enemy type makes its first appearance inKingdom Hearts II, members ofOrganization XIII appeared inKingdom Hearts Final Mix andKingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, albeit as unclassified opponents.
The Nobody emblem is a splintered, upside-down heart that resemblesTerra's Mark asXemnas remembers it.[1] It appears for the first time inKingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, in which it is emblazoned on theSpecter's head and designatessleights used by theRiku Replica and members of Organization XIII.
Story[edit]
BetweenKingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep andKingdom Hearts[edit]
Needing vessels for his plan to create thirteen darknesses,Xehanort tricksAeleus,Dilan,Even andIenzo into giving up their hearts as part of their research into the nature of the heart and the Heartless, using hisKeyblade to extract their hearts. WhenBraig questions his intentions, Xehanort simply extracts his heart next. Following this, he turns the Keyblade on himself and extracts his own heart. This creates the first six members of Organization XIII, who are commanded byXemnas, Xehanort's Nobody, to recruit more members into their ranks.
Kingdom Hearts[edit]
Sora becomes aHeartless inHollow Bastion. This creates two Nobodies:Roxas andNaminé. The former appears inTwilight Town and joins Organization XIII, while the latter finds herself inCastle Oblivion and in Organization XIII's custody.
On a return trip to Hollow Bastion, Sora battles and defeats Xemnas.
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories[edit]
Marluxia, the Organization's Number XI, leads Sora and his friends to Castle Oblivion. There, he forces Naminé to tamper with Sora's memories in an attempt to gain theKeyblade's power. WhenRiku awakens in Castle Oblivion's lower levels, he faces some of the Organization's founding members and learns Nobodies belong to neither the light nor darkness.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days[edit]
Organization XIII uses Roxas andXion to collect hearts. This is in accordance with its plan to createKingdom Hearts, which will enable its members to become whole again. The Organization also searches for theChamber of Waking and develops theReplica Program.
Roxas, who discusses being a Nobody with his friendAxel, battlesDusks andSamurais in a series of three trials atThe World That Never Was:Mission 10,Mission 33, andMission 71. He confronts more when he attempts to abandon Organization XIII.
Kingdom Hearts II[edit]
After Roxas is placed inThe Other Twilight Town, Axel is ordered to retrieve him. The Organization's Number VIII teams up with several lesser Nobodies in an attempt to get his friend back.
Sora,Donald, andGoofy learn about Nobodies fromYen Sid at theMysterious Tower. They clash with these foes multiple times, and they destroy the surviving members of Organization XIII: Xemnas,Xigbar,Xaldin,Saïx,Demyx, andLuxord.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance[edit]
In The World That Never Was, a resurrected Xemnas tells Sora that Nobodies can grow new hearts and feel emotions. It is revealed this fact was deliberately kept from the other members of Organization XIII, who were meant to inheritMaster Xehanort's heart through Kingdom Hearts.[2]
Ienzo reveals to Lea that when a Heartless and Nobody are destroyed and their hearts find their vessels, they are returned to the place they became a Heartless and Nobody. However, if that world is unavailable or otherwise destroyed, they would appear in Traverse Town.[3]
Kingdom Hearts III[edit]
Xigbar,Saïx,Vexen,Demyx,Luxord,Marluxia andLarxene return to Nobodies to become members of thereal Organization XIII;Xemnas's heart is extracted from the past and placed in areplica, so he may also serve as a member. Xigbar, Luxord, Marluxia, and Larxene encounter Sora throughout the worlds on their respective missions to find and protect theNew Seven Hearts and to find theBlack Box. Two new breeds of High-ranking Nobody:Reaper andNinja are also introduced as adversaries.
At theKeyblade Graveyard, swarms of Nobodies are called in by Xemnas to help the Heartless and Unversed wear down theSeven Guardians of Light. AfterTerra-Xehanort is repelled by theLingering Will, another wave of Nobodies is summoned byDark Riku and Xigbar along with more Heartless. Thanks to the combined efforts of the traitorous Vexen and Demyx, along withAnsem the Wise,Roxas is revived using a replica body. Luxord, Marluxia, and Larxene are defeated, beginning their re-completion again.
Design[edit]
Lesser Nobodies are humanoid enemies that are primarily grey in coloration. They possess a certain elasticity that enables them to contort their bodies into a variety of shapes. An often overlooked feature of lesser Nobodies is their lack of eyes; though some such as theDragoon andSamurai emulate eyes. This means low rank Nobodies are blind and rely on their other senses. Lesser Nobodies bear the Nobody emblem. InKingdom Hearts III, Nobodies have a metallic sheen.
Nobodies whose original selves possessed the strongest of hearts, like the members of Organization XIII, are able to retain their human forms. Their bodies lack the Nobody emblem, but they can have minor cosmetics changes from their original selves, such as Axel's tear marks.
Gummi Nobodies come in a variety of colors and have streamlined, machine-like bodies. Like lesser Nobodies, they also bear the Nobody emblem.
Unlike their Heartless counterparts, the Nobodies are not classified by method of creation, but instead by rank. High-ranking Nobodies generally serve a specific Organization member, while low-ranking Nobodies are used by all members. Another distinct difference is that Nobodies are all naturally born, unlike the Heartlless who have the artificially-created Emblem variety; thus this makes the Nobody emblem a natural feature on lesser Nobodies.
Nature[edit]
Usually, when a heart is lost to darkness and becomes a Heartless, the body and soul it shed fade into the Darkness too, leaving no trace. Nobodies are created when strong-hearted individuals refuse to fade. The bodies that remain give Nobodies their form, while the abandoned souls give them life. People with the strongest hearts are able to retain human form when they become Nobodies. Despite being formed by the discarded body, it appears that Nobodies are primarily defined by the heart that leaves said body; Naminé is considered the Nobody of Kairi due to being the result of Kairi’s heart leaving Sora’s body when he became a Heartless, and Xemnas is made of Terra’s body and soul, but is more strongly tied to Xehanort due to Master Xehanort’s heart having left when Terra-Xehanort gave in to darkness.
While Nobodies resist fading into Darkness, they are not embraced by Light. This leaves them in an in-between state where they do not really exist. This trait is what gives Nobodies their name.
Nobodies, lacking their heart, do not feel emotion. While they tend to retain the memories they made as humans, the feelings they display are merely an act based on these recollections. All Nobodies are intelligent and are thus capable and strategic enemies; as opposed to Heartless who possess only instinct and tend to swarm their prey. Nobodies feel physical pain, and in theKingdom Hearts Chain of Memories manga, they are seen reading, cooking, or doing jigsaw puzzles in an attempt to fill their emptiness. Despite claims that Nobodies don’t age, existing as they were at the time of becoming a Nobody,[4] it's evident that humanoid Nobodies can still age, as shown withZexion, who became a Nobody as a child, andNaminé.
It is possible for Nobodies to grow new hearts.[5] Master Xehanort and Xemnas use this to their advantage, and Sora learns this when he experiences Roxas's pain first-hand at the end of his hijackedMark of Mastery exam. In Sora's words, one must "have a heart to cry." Should Nobodies without memories like Roxas and Naminé regrow hearts, they become entirely new, whole people from their original selves.
When defeated, Nobodies fade back into darkness as they were originally meant to. Once the corresponding Heart and its body are returned to Darkness by defeat, they rejoin into their original whole self and emerge, generally, into the Realm of Light. Completed once more, the Nobodies' memories remain intact. However, the destruction of their nobody form seems to leave lasting trauma or harm on the rejoined human. .[6] Because Roxas developed his own Heart before rejoining with Sora, Sora does not possess any of his memories.
Nobodies born in special circumstances such as Naminé and Roxas are able to exist at the same time as their original selves, however they can experience unexpected physical reactions when in close proximity to them, as when Roxas is overcome by fatigue and passes out when near Sora's location in Castle Oblivion.[7]
Beings with hearts of pure light, such as thePrincesses of Heart andVentus, are unable to produce a Nobody when their hearts leave their bodies, except in the aforementioned special circumstances (as is the case with Naminé). This is because their hearts lacked darkness within them, so their bodies and souls were unable to leave the Realm of Light. Their bodies were instead left comatose.
High-ranking Nobodies can be reduced to a lower rank. Members of Organization XIII consider being turned into a Dusk a form of punishment.
List of Nobodies[edit]
- All high-ranking Nobodies are named afterJobs from theFinal Fantasy series.
- Nobodies listed inbold serve as bosses.
Organization XIII[edit]
High-ranking[edit]
Low-ranking[edit]
Gummi[edit]
Special[edit]
See also[edit]
Notes and references[edit]
- ^Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania,Interviewer: "Where did the Organization's coat and mark come from?" /Tetsuya Nomura: "One year afterBirth by Sleep, Xehanort, as well as five other apprentices toss aside their hearts. Then the Nobody Xemnas was born, and the Organization which he creates take a lot of things from his memories, as a human. But as Xemnas had two people who he was, Terra and Master Xehanort, he takes from both of their memories. [...] The Nobody mark used by the Organization is a similar shape to the mark Terra used."Translation via Lissar.
- ^Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance,Xemnas: "A heart is never lost for good. There may have been variances in our dispositions, but a number of us unquestionably showed signs of a burgeoning replacement. Once born, the heart can also be nurtured. Our experiments creating Heartless were attempts to control the mind, and convince it to renounce its sense of self. But understand, one can banish the heart from the body, but the body will try to replace it the first chance it gets, for as many times as it takes. And so I knew, even after we were divided into Heartless and Nobodies, it was just a temporary separation." /Sora: "Why, then? Why did you lie to them and tell them they had no hearts?" /Xigbar: "Xemnas and Xehanort formed the Organization for a specific reason—round up a bunch of empty husks, hook them up to Kingdom Hearts, then fill them all with the exact same heart and mind. Translation—they were gonna turn all the members into Xehanort."
- ^Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance,Ienzo: "When someone who's lost their heart is recompleted, they should return to the place where it happened. And if that world is unavailable for whatever reason, a refuge is made for them in the realm between—a world called "Traverse Town". They would be sent there."
- ^KHInsider: "New Famitsu Interview with Tetsuya Nomura!",Nomura: "Nobodies don’t age; they exist as they were at the time of becoming a Nobody."
- ^Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance,Xemnas: "One can banish the heart from the body, but the body will try to replace it the first chance it gets, for as many times as it takes. And so I knew even after we were divided into Heartless and Nobodies, it was just a temporary separation."
- ^Kingdom Hearts III Ultimania, p. 688: "The shock of a Nobody's defeat seems to affect their physical condition when resurrected as a human being"
- ^Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania,Interviewer: "Why did Roxas faint in Castle Oblivion on Day 297?" /Tetsuya Nomura: "Because he had gotten too close to both Sora and Ventus, his 'real self'."Translation via Lissar.
| Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory |
|---|
| Characters |
| Party members |
| Kairi -Sora -Roxas -Aqua -Riku Donald Duck -Goofy -Axel -Xion -Terra -Ventus -Meow Wow -Komory Bat -Mickey Mouse Hercules -Aladdin -Ariel -Peter Pan -Beast -Fa Mulan -Simba -Stitch |
| Antagonists |
| Xehanort -Ansem, Seeker of Darkness -Xemnas -Maleficent |
| Non-playable characters |
| Aeleus -Ansem the Wise -Even -Fairy Godmother -Ienzo -Nameless Star -Terra-Xehanort -Yen Sid |
| Locations |
| Worlds |
| Mysterious Tower -Radiant Garden -The Final World |
| Terms |
| An Oath to Return -Another Key -Key Art -Keyblade -Museum -Music Stage -Rhythm Points -Story Scene -The End -VS Battle -World Tour |
| Music |
| Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Special Disc -Unnamed tracks |
| Archives |
| Artwork -Bosses -Enemies -Items -Trophy -Songs |
| Nobodies |
|---|
| Organization XIII |
| I.Xemnas | II.Xigbar | III.Xaldin | IV.Vexen | V.Lexaeus | VI.Zexion | VII.Saïx | VIII.Axel | IX.Demyx | X.Luxord | XI.Marluxia | XII.Larxene | XIII.Roxas |
| Enemy Nobodies |
| Sorcerer -Sniper -Dragoon -Berserker -Assassin -Dancer -Gambler -Reaper -Ninja -Samurai Dusk -Creeper -Twilight Thorn -Fake Vivi |
| Special Nobodies |
| Naminé -Absent Silhouettes -Organization XIII's Replica Data -Anti-Saïx -Data-Roxas -Data-Naminé |
