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Thoughts on Lucky?

Still Lucky.

The dating thing was a bit of a surprise, but honestly, if Haruto has both survived more than a week, they're undoubtedly well suited to each other. She's still oddly easy to talk to, and oddly enough, one of the people he strips away most of his masks for. There's no other way to retain her respect than to be honest about exactly how much of what he's doing at any given time is outright manipulation rather than open generosity.

He's . . . rather honestly surprised that she died and stayed dead, though. Even if it was Venna.

So what are Excel's thoughts on not-quite-Enigma?

Hahaha :')

She doesn't get it and therefore doesn't care. YOU'RE ENIGMA ENOUGH, MAKE ME SOME DAMN TEA. :U Though just as he's surprised at her and Haruto, she's super weirded out about Prussia. She was also sad that he moved out but isn't taking it personally in the same way Dera is so much as seeing it as a symptom of the tragic dissolution of Hydracula.

Can you give me the cliff's notes version of Zexion's adventures?

Yes. Yes I can.
A TIMELINE:

Canon!
- Once upon a time there was a little orphan named Ienzo who grew into a bright kid who apparently helped another stray do horrible things and eventually destroy their world (mostly).
- Zexion was what was left after Ienzo's heart buggered off to be eaten by daaarkness.
- Being without a heart sucks! So he joined a group that was trying to fix that.
- Unfortunately, being without a heart means you don't always play nice with others, so some forces of cosmic goodness kind of took offense to members of his group kidnapping and brainwashing hero types.
- And in a right political mess, one of the Nobodies Zexion thought was on his side turned around and stabbed him in the back. And by stabbed I mean 'fed him to a rogue experiment to keep him from talking'.
- And later the aforementioned heroes wiped out the rest of the head Nobodies and it was all good, unless, of course, you were a Nobody, in which case it sucked.

Camp!
- Yay I'm not dead!
- Crap I'm surrounded by Nobodies and heroes who kind of want me dead. BE POLITICAL POSE AS A NICE GUY. OKAY. I'VE GOT THIS.
- Crap it's the experiment that ate me. Maybe if I feed it real food and send it on its way it'll leave me alone.
- Wait why's it following me
- ..... why is it calling me Mom
- And then Zexion was assigned to live in The Cave That Gokudera Built and eventually the mafia and a gang of skate punks taught him the true meaning of friendship, and it was all very touching except for how he was pretty (unsure) about this whole feeling feelings thing.
- He even made up with some of his old Nobody pals when they all found out their world and people had been pretty well toasted by The Hero and his plucky friends. Heck, they even kinda made up with the hero, and arranged for maybe patching up the toasted bits with their newfound Friendship And Being Decent skills.
- Then the hero and his friends all got Camp-reset. Crap. Back to square one.
- And just before Zexion left, this nonexistent country showed up and pinged Zexion in the Nobody place. So Zexion stalked him for a while (like you do), decided he was passable, and took him home with him so that Prussia could get a heart again like all the other Nobodies.

After camp!

- In an alternate timeline, Sora and Kairi remembered the five Camp Nobodies that returned to the World That Never Was. This was not that timeline.
- In this timeline, five Nobodies and one slightly-broken replica fought a very losing battle with a near-unending wave of Heartless, and it sucked. They were too stubborn to call it quits entirely, but they were back to the research drawing board without a lot of options.
- Worse, Prussia was pretty well fading out, and Zexion had become rather attached to that idiot country, not to mention that he considered seeing him safely into existence to be an unspoken promise to Ikki.
- ...... and then Gambler showed up and offered him a deal he honestly couldn't refuse. Zexion's only provision was that time wouldn't pass while he was gone. Gambler agreed (or at least, guaranteed it in the event Zexioin actually MADE it back), and off they went.

..... Sabra
- Hahahahahahaha.
- Joined Hydra as a blank, impressionable dusk. Got enough of Ienzo's memories back to function, started getting attached to his team, got REALLY attached to his team, and then the Old Man ate the one of them he'd relied on most.
- Tried to limit break her out. It didn't really get her out so much as it got him in, which honestly wasn't an ideal resolution to that issue at all.
- And then the Old Man ate him for a few generations. Suck.
- Finally gets out, rejoins Hydra as, again, an impressionable dusk, and then gets someone else's soul downloaded into him.
- ALL THE IDENTITY ISSUES and friendship and abandonment and stupid people issues. His grumpy bitchy levels go over 9,000, and he maybe almost breaks Gokudera a bit when he realizes Gokudera sees dying as a completely acceptable option and that he's eventually going to get himself killed and eaten and there is absolutely no way for Zexion to stop that.
- Eventually makes it to good end and gets his wish—weapons that will act as pseudo-keyblades, letting him and the other Nobodies finally finish their Kingdom Hearts and make their world a real ~~boy~~ thing.
- Also gets his original Hydra brosis' well-chewed soul in a bottle. Bonus!

After Sabra
- With King's control broken, Zexion took a dark portal home and got back to his city just in time for his locked memories of Camp to hit.
- bluescreen bluescreen bluescreen fzzzzzt
- WELL. THAT'S A LOVELY THING TO REPRESS good thing there's all these heartless to deal with.
- And so it was, after a period of level grinding that would have made a Disgaea character proud, The World That Never Was's heart grew from a size zero to a far more respectable small-or-maybe-medium-if-we-like-you, and in one of those epic, climactic, sweeping AMVs, all of the former Nobodies crawled and wriggled out of their suits, greeting the first dawn of their world as real, complete people.
- The world outside their city took its form from Gilbert's memories; open countryside, fertile farmland, the distant blue of a sea. Cornflowers and linden trees. Their world took his name, too, and his language, and his culture merged in with their pseudo-Japanese own.
- As for Zexion, the questions in his life shifted from 'will I cease existing if I don't believe in myself' to 'what size of sewer pipes do we need to support the city's population' and he was honestly pretty content. He spent his time on the menial bureaucratic things Marluxia wasn't interested in, gummi ship designs, and repairing the replica's heart.
- Blade's memories were fucked beyond retrieval, but with her soul in a replica body things worked out well enough. Much to the Riku replica's eternal not-always mock ire, Zexion ended up adopting her too (like he does).
- And everything was pretty okay until the day Zexion was crushed under a landslide.

BONUS DISK

- He totally programmed a data replica into the castle's mainframe just in case something like this happened, which probably lasted right up until Prussia got Jenova'd. Or Lavos-spawned, but you know, after a while those world eaters all look the same.

So what happened with Venna?

So in the Bad End timeline, when River wigged out and turned into a monster, the blanks actually killed him. Scowl completely lost it, yoinked Queen's keystone, and A-T'd straight out to Venna. Lucky was worried about him doing such a reckless and stupid thing without her and immediately took chase. Haruto tried to stop her but she was in a hurry so she shanked him and kept going.

Despite this, she still managed to catch up with Scowl at the dragon's nest. Instead of STOPPING him, however, she decided to help him out with it, and both of them ended up getting hardcore Queen-touched. In their hungry and emotionally-heightened state, they decided it would be a good idea to try and eat Venna.

It was not a good idea.

I can't remember, has Zexion ever seen Excel waving her core around? I'm curious what a Nobody thinks of that.

No, no he hasn't, though I believe the reaction would be

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No, no he hasn't, though I believe the reaction would be <i.very disturbed</i>. Don't take that out, you need it!!

Though maybe it could be explained as her innate weapon which would be a bit more okay.

So why Eizon?

Where everybody else sees a knock-off King, Excel sees a knock-off Il Palazzo. It's a good match, really. He wants someone who will be loyal and hard-working, and she wants somebody to tell her what to do and think. And in general his missions piss her off the least, since he doesn't make her do anything she really doesn't want to (like make friends). Also, he offers some really sweet powers.

She still makes a point of disliking the other gods on principle, but she's already warmed up to Eizon.

Which gods do Zexion dislike the most? Or like, if there are actually any applicable cases.

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