Audition

[gouki]

Username: Akuma
Current canons: Pete, Tidus
Canon you're auditioning for: Roxas
Media canon is from: KH2
Is the current canon taken?: Nope
Audition post (400 words):

Surrounded by four Dusks at the top of Memory's Skyscraper, Roxas looked at each one of them with an angry and annoyed expression on his face. "Don't you guys have something better to do?" he said as he summoned forth his Keyblade. "Why don't you go bother the one who has the real Keyblade instead?"

The Dusks ignored the young Nobodys comments and went to attack him all together, they crept around him each in their own strange ways. Finally one got in close enough and went in for the first strike. Roxas spun behind it avoiding the Dusks strike and began whacking away at the Dusk until it vanished away. "I told you already I'm not Sora!"

Moments later Roxas delivered the last blow to the last remaining Dusk watching it vanish away into nothingness. These random attacks by the Nobody's was beginning to really annoy Roxas. As he took a few seconds to take a breather he couldn't help but look at his Keyblade and became almost disgusted with it. He threw it off of the building trying to just rid himself with that constant reminder of just who he was. Roxas couldn't bare to accept his fate as a Nobody of Sora anymore. He would find Sora himself and prove once and for all that he was his own being.

As he looked over to the Castle That Never Was he knew this decision meant that he could never return to the Organization. He knew what consequences would occur if he were ever caught. He had seen this before with another....

No, he shook his head trying to not recall those past events and instead just turned his back from the building. He didn't care about any of that stuff anymore, he couldn't anyways he had no heart. At this time, confronting Sora was his top priority, screw whatever the other members had told him about doing this. What was wrong about meeting with him? A part of him wondered if it was such a good idea after all. But he knew he had to do this if he ever wanted closure in his life. Once he met Sora and settled things with him he could finally live a normal life. Maybe he could go back to that world here he was first found and live there. He remembered seeing kids who looked his own age living there, maybe they would be friends with him.

It was not the time though to be thinking about that kind of stuff. Roxas had to go and find Sora now. He remembered from his memories of Sora that he lived in Destiny Islands. That would have to be his first stop. Hopefully he could find him there and not run into Kairi or Riku. For some strange reason he just felt that meeting them wouldn't be right. As much as he knew about them due to Soras memories going up to two complete strangers whom you have known all your life was way too complicated. He just wanted to meet Sora and the two of them could get on with their lives after that.

As he continued wandering the streets of the dark city Roxas looked over and saw an all too familiar face standing at the corner. He had hoped that he wouldn't see him again under these circumstances. But he didn't have time to say his goodbyes or talk to him. It would just be another anchor on his journey.

[High's .Valentine.]

Seriously, what a moody little brat...ugh, I hate him. >.>

Spite aside, I find this a VAST improvement from the first audition, though I find it funny that the first is all about action and this one seemed to be all focused on how much of a moody bitch Roxas can be. XD No offense against you, I think you did great compared to your first audition.

I'm a bit confused about the timeline of this audition, but I'm going to ignore that.

Roxas is a really popular canon, and because there are two auditions here for the same canon, I am going to be honestly blunt.

If it were entirely up to me, I would have denied both your audition and Angie's.

Why?

Well, though your audition was an improvement, I found it lacked a certain depth to it. Sure, the audition was personal, which I liked, but it really was just the same thing over and over again. 'Find Sora, settle things, find Sora, settle things, ugh I hate Sora' However, there is certainly a dark Roxas feel to it. While I find it a bit too glum, I still think it fitted the situation and setting just fine. So aside from the repetition and lack of the depth I wanted, I think your audition passed the mark.

And I'm going to assume the familiar face Roxas saw at the end is Axel. Again, like with Angie's audition, the lack of amity feeling between the two disturb me. Isn't the reason that the two of them are so special and important is because they're such good friends? I mean, at least you can mull over that part a bit. Sure, Roxas is angsty and bitter in this audition, but variation in personality helps better capture the fact that you can play this character. :\

Still given the situation, I will once again slide that over...tentatively.

So, I'm going to 1/2 accept this audition.

Why? Because I don't ever want to read another damn audition about Roxas.

Because I think you can play Roxas. And very big plus that put me on your side was that you have a moderate grasp of this canon without using too many other characters to muddle and confuse in the audition. While I think it would have been much better if I can just...take your audition and Angie's and mold these two together, I think you have the capabilities of working towards a more balanced Roxas.

Have fun with the little bugger.

[Iris|Kairi]

Honestly...Roxas wasn't that nice to Axel, sometimes. XD Roxas is a handful. Quick tempered...with a bad attitude. Well, the Roxas that remembers everything. The Roxas who was happy with friends in virtual Twilight Town was much more pleasant..though it was all a lie. XD

IMPORTANT!!! When Roxas left the Org, he didn't know Sora in the depth you display, so technically this scenario isn't canon for a flashback. Just so you know for the profile, not knowing who Sora was was what drove Roxas to leave the organization to begin with.

It was like this, as it was told to me by our Forum Adviser:
"Sora regained his heart quickly after losing it, so Roxas was "born" with no memory of his old self, which made him easy for Xemnas to recruit and manipulate. But not knowing became too much for him as he had dreams of Sora during Sora's "memory restoration" time between CoM and KH2, so he left the org and was captured by Riku. Then DiZ erased his memories of the organization and replaced them with fake Twilight Town life memories. Then Roxas remembered everything by the time he faced Axel the second time in virtual Twilight Town and understood who Sora was by then as well."

Seeing as I generally don't judge auditions by the situations or settings or accuracy of those, I don't see this mistake as worthy of denial simply because I was looking more for the character personality, which you have displayed.

I liked the lack of talking, since it didn't seem that Roxas spoke much unless he had to respond. Usually we want more Dialogue..but in this case it was more in character, as was his "rawr"ness.

2/2 approved. You know what to do. Just stay active! :K We haven't had an active Roxas in forever. And make sure you research all you can about him as well, so you can be more correct in the future.