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[cardoperatedboy]

Name: Harukami
Age: 23
Character: the Riku Replica
Series: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Character age: 15 (or, more accurately, a day or so old with a fifteen year old's body).
Canon: The Riku Replica has only had one day of life, and it has been a No Good, Very Bad, Truly Awful Day. Said day has included but not been limited to: Being made by a mad scientist off the real Riku's data, being mindraped to think he's the real Riku, having his heart literally broken by his fake girlfriend, waking up fully aware he's a replica, quite possibly devouring a Nobody for breakfast in an attempt to become powerful enough to prove himself as 'real', and losing not one, not two, but SIX boss fights to Sora and/or Riku. Some days it's just not worth getting invented out of bed.

The Replica is sarcastic and full of attitude, particularly towards Riku (whom he refers to by 'Real Thing') or towards other darkness-inclined creatures. He is very protective and defensive of people he considers good, and, if one wins his loyalty, he is completely devoted. He's proud of using the power of darkness, but is also extremely insecure about his actual (lack of) identity. Sometimes he spazzes out. Overall, he acts like the darker sort of shounen retard.

Special note: One of the ways he's 'tricked' into believing he's Riku is by owning a good luck charm that Namine supposedly gave him in his childhood. In the manga, after he revives, he tries to replace his now-missing charm with a piece of half-eaten chicken that he thinks Namine chewed on (he's incorrect; it was actually Larxene's).

Sample Entry:

...You know, Real Thing, when I died and you said my heart would probably go the same place yours would, I was expecting, I don't know, more fire and brimstone. Fluffy clouds and white robes were a dim possibility, I guess, but I'd put my money down on eternal suffering, maybe a pitchfork or two. I gotta say I never imagined the stinking swampland I've found myself in. Vines worse than the ones back home, goats who've been making waaaaay too free with my clothing, and the shambling dead? I'd expect better of you than that.

Hey! Paws off that, ugly! Tch, wasn't I poked and prodded enough when I was made? You're not so lucky that I'd put up with that now too. -- Trying to eat Namine's Chicken Charm isn't any better. This is the one thing that I have that's my own. You think you can get away with that? Hell no. My turn!

Tch, you're so weak. Taking you down is a piece of cake -- just a little darkness is enough to blow you into bits! Creatures of the night? You have no idea what the power of darkness can do! Are you even real zombies?

...

Not that you need to be "real". You're just pathetic either way. Any of the rest of you want to try?!

Hah, good to see that you're smart enough to avoid your friend's fate. You -- ... why are you trying to give me its skull?

What? The reason's... because I've always wanted to "get ahead" of my enemy? I don't need your help for that! Do you think you're funny? I don't need anyone to give me head as some sort of consolation gift. One way or the other, I'll become someone.

Just wait. You'll see.


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