Xalatine

Original Name: Talanie/ Natalie

Nobody Name: Xalatine

Alias: The Time and Space Ninja

Alliance: Exiled Order

Hometown: Radiant Garden

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Quote: "Even Darkness can offer a warm hand in times of utter dismay." –Xalatine’s remarks on Nobodies

Appearance

Age: 22

Clothing: Xalatine, under Darthex’s command previously sported a black robe. Currently she dresses in the robe of the Exiled Order.

Dominant Hand: ambidextrous

Eyes: Dark Green

Hair: Short and Dark Grey

Height: 5’2”

Weight: 79 lbs

Sex: Female

Personality

Xalatine is one of the Exiled’s more mature and intelligent members. She is strict and serious about everything she does, and this is how her lifestyle has maintained a sense of perfection. However, she is not overly aggressive and is calm to the point of being stoic. She also has some very sweet maternal qualities about her, making her easy to get along with and adored by younger members.

Abilities

Weapon: A pair of Blue Khukri daggers with Turquoise highlights

Fighting Style: Xalatine specializes in the art of ninjitsu. She is able to strike quickly and elegantly with deadly accuracy. When fighting in close combat, she does so effortlessly and gracefully, while maintaining an aggressive offensive and impenetrable defense.

Lesser Nobody: Clockwork Angel

Nobody Description: An extremely large Nobody that can manipulate time for short periods. It is very persistent in attacking opponents and is quite fast despite its size. This Nobody though can be easily confused once it his hit in the pendulum on its belly that helps it to maintain balance.

Element: Gravity/Demi

Element Description: Xalatine has refined her ability to control her element to make up for its seemingly minimal variations and powers. She can alter the Gravity in certain locations, causing objects to float or to weigh down. By quickly manipulating the Gravity in an area, she can make objects float in the air, increase their momentum and attacking force or weaken it significantly by eliminating weight. She can slow down opponents, and speed herself up, and can even fly in a manner of speaking. Because of her intelligence, she is able to use her element in numerous ways to her advantage.

Background

Xalatine was at a time, a lonely young woman who lived in Radiant Garden. Because of all the grief she had once suffered, she lived in isolation, feeling that she might be discovered by her past and be reminded of more painful times. However, by a pure coincidence, her past had eventually caught up to her. The same mysterious creatures that destroyed her previous life had reached Radiant Garden, attacking and taking the hearts of some of its denizens. Xalatine had been among the many who fell victim to the claws of a Heartless. However, just as her Heart was about to be lost in Darkness, an unknown individual had saved it, and returned it to her body before it could fade away entirely.

Thus when Xalatine was born in the Realm In-between, she had little to no memory of who she was. Lost and confused, Xalatine was easily manipulated into becoming one of Darthex’s disciples, under the contract in which Darthex would help her learn who she truly is in exchange for her missions. Xalatine was somehow already well-versed in martial arts; a memory fragment left over from her Heart’s separation, and was of valuable assistance to Darthex’s cause.

However, on one particular mission, in which she was to locate and eliminate Darthex’s Heartless, Xalatine found something unexpected of a Nobody; a feeling of camaraderie and friendship towards Marx, her employer’s Heartless. Like her, Marx was confused. He had no idea who he was or why he was here, and through this understanding, the two developed a close bond. However, Xalatine was expected to kill Marx, but for some reason couldn’t. This was probably due to her friendship with him, but might also have been triggered by a coincidence, in which this child greatly resembled someone she knew from Talanie’s past.

Regardless of what the reason truly was, Xalatine wanted to spare Marx’s life. Darthex used this weakness as an advantage and began to threaten Xalatine to carry out his orders; else he would personally kill Marx. Seeking a means to escape his wrath, Xalatine arrived at a conclusion. He would have to kill Darthex before he could kill her friend and eventually her.

Xalatine sought out the power of the current keyblade wielder of the era, Sora. He possessed the power of light, and was possibly strong enough to do what she couldn’t. Xalatine tested Sora, coaxing him into carrying out her own plans. Unfortunately, this act of treason eventually reached Darthex’s ears, and with his plan coming into full circle, he felt he no longer needed Xalatine or his Heartless. He manipulated his own Heartless, threatening to kill Xalatine unless he defeated Sora. This would in turn, cause Xalatine to attempt to defeat Sora herself, and whoever survived would then fall at the hands of his other supporter, Myromex. By doing this, he would have more than enough time to attain his own goals.

Sora confronted Marx at first, but was stopped by Xalatine, who was willing to sacrifice her own life to save his. Eventually, Myromex was growing impatient of all this, and proceeded to attack them all himself. But with Sora, Marx and Xalatine realizing who the true enemy was, they worked together and were able to defeat Myromex.

Sora then proceeded to defeat Darthex with the help of another Nobody and keyblade wielder, Selvix. After the battle, Xalatine thanked the both of them and apologized for involving them in a problem she alone could not handle. Selvix then reveals that he knows who Xalatine was before she became a Nobody and that the person was living in Radiant Garden. She, alongside Marx returned to her home where she finds her past self, trapped in a coma, awaiting the return of her Nobody. Marx is happy that Xalatine can finally return to being who she was, but Xalatine becomes hesitant of this decision. She has come to realize that what she wanted was not her past life, but a new one. After further remembering the painful memories, Xalatine for a while did not want to return. However, in a conversation with her Heart, they arrived at a compromise. Talanie needed Xalatine to be complete, and Xalatine desired a Heart so that she would be able to appreciate her own life. Thus, the two made a deal. Xalatine would stay by Talanie’s side, though not completely reuniting with one another, such that she is able to exist in her own right. In return for her assistance, when Talanie will one day die, she will instead give her Heart to Xalatine before this happens. Thus the two lived as one under these pretenses.

Several years later, as Talanie grew old while Xalatine, as a Nobody, did not age, it eventually came to the point in which her Heart would now belong to her Nobody. However, Xalatine once again realized something; to take Talanie’s heart would cause her to continue living well past what her mortality was capable of. She would be cursed to an eternity of living alongside her other self, and forced to remember her own painful memories. Not wanting this for her Other Self, Xalatine did not accept Talanie’s Heart, and so she managed to die peacefully.

Xalatine continued to walk about, often regarded as being a ghost of her Other Self. She no longer had a Heart, and was beginning to lose her feelings for everything. Her friend, Marx, having a Heart as well, also eventually expired. His death caused the last bit of emotion left in Xalatine to fade away, and she was left without anything inside. Empty, though not grieving the loss of emotions, Xalatine began to wander aimlessly, burdened with memories that only confused her. Soon, she had been discovered by Zhymarx, who at the time was a member of the Exiled Order. Offering her shelter and consolation for her losses, Xalatine became a member of the Order herself. Desiring a new purpose, she agreed on being eternally faithful to the Exiled and aiding it in its times of need, as it did for her.