The curse of awareness,
There's no peace of mind.
There's no peace of mind.
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≤ мɑяℓuxιɑ ≥
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As your true colors show
A dangerous sign.
On Aramuil Schaefer, the Other of Marluxia, XII, the Graceful Assassin
Aramuil Schaefer was born in Germany, to a relatively normal family. He was your average kid, teased girls, rough housed with boys, et cetera. He probably would have grown up to be an average teenager, except three things happened:
1. He was gay, and had a secret boyfriend to prove it.
2. His father was secretly Jewish.
3. The Nazi Party gained power and found out both of the above.
Now, because he was only half-Jewish, Aramuil might have been safe, but being gay as well, he was shipped off to a concentration camp at 16-17. That's when his extraordinary stubbornness and strong heart really showed. Determined not to die, he reluctantly did what he was told, although it was fairly obvious via his eyes what Aramuil really thought of the Nazis. He kind of learned to duck his head a lot. However, his strength of heart eventually called another strong heart, that of another prisoner: Bridgette Tenenbaum.
Bridgette was also Jewish, but she was also a genius. A Nazi scientist saw that and made sure it didn't go to waste. Luckily, they needed a more manual laborer kind of assistant, and Bridgette nominated Aramuil after brief eye contact in the yards. It helped that Aramuil was a very hard worker. A lot of that spite was channeled into work.
The scientist was called Dr. Vogel, and he had blond hair and green eyes. Gee, this sounds familiar. He and Aramuil hated each other at first sight. Being a douch and in control, he basically treated Aramuil like s**t.
Bridgette was his only source of decent company, having her own brand of confidence and a sharp wit. She was often the one keeping Aramuil alive and out of trouble. Later, she would help him with his first assassination.
Life as an unwilling assistant to a crazy douche of a Nazi scientist was ******** terrible. Aramuil saw lots of horrible things and thus kind of grew to hate many people's idea of 'science'. He even once witnessed a suicide, and he would later liken Larxene's own '******** you' smile/attitude to the nurse's. However, he refused to give up on living or hope. He managed to do this in a number of ways. The first is that he's a Determinator, so of course he's not going to go down. the second is that he had Bridgette, perhaps his best and only friend as the years went on and who was always there for him, in her own special way. tha last was that he planted a seed.
Way before Days or BBS, me and Sev theorized on how a Nobody got their element. The theory that we went with for Aramuil/Marluxia is that as their Other, a Nobody (even if only for a moment) makes a strong connection with an element that kind of stays with them forever. Somehow, Aramuil was lucky enough to find a seed and decided to plant it, giving it his own water. Miraculously, it managed to grow successfully despite the harsh environment, helped when Bridgette found out and thought Aramuil to be a ******** idiot but helped him out anyway. Aramuil saw the plantling as a symbol of his hope and determination. It really helped him out mentally.
Now, for Aramuil's first assassination, which did indeed take place in the concentration camp. He witnessed a pair of twins get sewn together while still conscious, and had continuous nightmares about them. Wanting to do something about it, he managed to somehow win over Bridgette and have her sneak him some drugs which would kill the twins. He snuck out, using lots of lies which kind of traced back to him and bit him in the a**, and got to the mother of the twins, giving her the drugs so she could kill the kids. She did, and Vogel was not pleased. Aramuil got beat the ******** up, broke an arm, got a bunch of cuts... and still had to work. This didn't do well for his health, and he eventually got sick while on 'duty' with Bridgette. Luckily for his poor a**, that's when the Allies arrived at the camp and freed them all. While some left, they stayed behind so Aramuil could recover, which meant that he was able to receive a letter from his mother since he wasn't moving all over the place.
Turns out, she had managed to escape to America, and managed to convince someone to send a letter to her son with money to get him across the Atlantic. Aramuil didn't want to leave, because he was fond of Bridgette and wasn't exactly happy with his parents. He was really bitter, actually, but Bridgette told him not to be a ******** whining b***h and miss this chance. So, Aramuil took a train, then a boat, to New York City. There, he discovered his mother had another child while he had been gone, his little sister Rose Mary (Romy), and that his mother was also very sick. Aramuil wasn't sure how to react to this, as he still kind of hated his mother but didn't want to be a bad son. He never quite got over this.
While in New York, he moved in with the nurse who had been taking care of his mother and her sister. The nurse's sister was Julie Langford, a brilliant botanist who had just moved out of California. Aramuil grew interested in botany thanks to her and was her assistant, not to mention taking care of both Becky, her daughter, and Romy, his sister. One day, however, Julie's sister and daughter were both killed in a robbery while grocery shopping, and Aramuil's mother died shortly after. Julie took it pretty hard, so it was up to Aramuil to watch over things. He got used to being a leader, as he was the only man in the house. Eventually, a famous super rich guy named Andrew Ryan comes into the picture and says he wants help from Julie and Aramuil in building his dream.
His dream is building an underwater city free from religion, communism, and the U.S. government. Obviously, he needs super skilled botanists so that they have an air-supply down in Rapture. After talking it over with each other, Julie and Aramuil accept. They leave the states to go work on and live in Rapture. Things seem to be going well. One day, however, some punk dock workers (mostly young guys) come to the (rightful) conclusion that he's gay and start jeering at him and making his life miserable. One day, they try to pick a fight with him. Aramuil, ******** sick of his life hitting bumps in the road, shows them he is not one to ******** with. After losing a tooth and breaking a guy's jaw, Aramuil is left alone, bloody and beaten but ultimately the winner after having chased them off. Another docker, who had witnessed all of this, becomes interested in Aramuil and offers to teach him boxing.
Aramuil is now proficient in interacting with almost anyone of any class, from the super rich people that he and Julie sometimes have to interact with to the super poor workers down on the docks and everywhere else. By this point in his life, he's very attractive looking due to good genes and working out so much. He boxes, he takes an active role in caring for the plants... Also, he's decided to grow his hair out a little, more than the social norm would really approve of. This is because it gives him a sense of freedom; his time in the camps found him usually devoid of hair because they were bastards, so he kind of revels in being able to control himself (and kind of others, because he's a charmer). Remember how Tuna said that people who love power are often ones who've had it taken away from them? Yeah. Aramuil, however, isn't a bad guy (yet), he's just a normal guy working down in Rapture. After years of trying, he even manages to contact Bridgette and get her down to Rapture. They reunite, and it's very happy.
This doesn't last long.
To show why, I'll be talking spoilers, so watch out!
Bridgette stays with Aramuil for a while, and usually accompanies him down to the docks. This is where she discovers the strange slug which leads to the creation of Adam. She eventually gains backing from Fontaine, which Aramuil doesn't necessarily like because of the stories he's heard. Still, he trusts Bridgette to do the right thing, but even then, they begin to drift apart. This whole 'Adam' business sounds suspiciously a lot like what happened at the camps, and he doesn't like it one bit. Still, he ends up doing odd jobs for Fontaine anyway, especially when the whole war goes up and he's sent to do assassinations on certain figures because Fontaine realized Aramuil isn't phased by any of this s**t. The camps kind of gave him a strong stomach as a parting gift.
The whole thing with Fontaine and Ryan happens, Ryan gets Fontaine Futuristics, et cetera... And this leads to Aramuil's little sister being taken away. Why? To become a Little Sister, the things which draw Adam out of corpses and are accompanied by their Big Daddy protectors.
To say Aramuil is not happy with this is a ******** understatement.
He next gets involved with Atlas, doing more and more assassination work. Due to his knowledge of plants, he's good at poisons. Eventually, the whole ******** city gets ******** over, and Aramuil does one last ditch effort to go find his little sister. Instead, he finds Bridgette, who saves his a** and drags him to her secret hidey hole to hide from all the ******** up Splicers.
Over the years, Bridgette has changed due to her work with the Little Sisters, and is even almost maternal to them. Feeling remorse for her actions, she asks Aramuil to help her. Aramuil says he will after he finds Romy, to which Bridgette agrees.
So! We have Aramuil and Bridgette stuck in Bridgette's little hidey hole. They still have to find Romy, which Aramuil is determined to do. Bridgette, still kind of caring for him, gives him a surprisingly different kind of Plasmid. This, Bridgette claims, can revert the Little Sisters' status and make them normal again. Now, Aramuil despises needles. He despise drugs, alcohol, and anything weird in his body. This is another trait that he picked up in the camps. After a while, he got over the alcohol, but he never got over anything else, and he does NOT use any plasmids.
However this is the one chance he has to get his sister back, and Aramuil is the type of guy who's willing to take risks in order to get what he wants.
So, Aramuil takes the Plasmid and a makeshift little handscythe that was really Bridgette's only weapon. He has a gun, but it has NO ammo, and he eventually loses it anyway. So off we go into the hellhole that is Rapture! Whee!
Aramuil first runs into a Splicer trying to get a Little Sister. It's not Romy, but Aramuil sinks his scythe into the back of the guy's neck anyway and heals the kid because Bridgette had asked him, and they're kind of on good terms once again. As he goes deeper, however, he eventually runs into a big group of splicers. This isn't good, and there's no way he can fight them ALL off, so Aramuil runs like ******** to the bathyspheres (little subs which take people from one part of Rapture to another). He makes it, luckily... Except it's full of Heartless. With nowhere to go, Aramuil loses his heart.
As we all know, it doesn't end there.
At the next stop, Arcadia (the big garden place), the Heartless scatter, with Aramuil left unconscious. A splicer finds him and drags him by the hair through the gardens, which is around the time Aramuil wakes up. Panicking and basically in "kill everything to stay safe" mode, Aramuil taps into his element. This is very good, as he's in Arcadia. The Splicer dies a slow painful death by crushing, and Aramuil can't feel anything at all except this need to survive and the idea that everyone is an enemy.
This applies to Xigbar and Xaldin when they come in and realize that he's a Nobody as well.
There's a big epic fight, with Aramuil pointedly not listening, and Xigbar eventually manages to tranq him. Rather cheerfully, he christens him 'Marluxia', making it as girlish sounding possibly as revenge for being a pain in the a**. They then take him to The Castle That Never Was and Vexen's labs.
So! Waking up in a lab with a blond, green-eyed guy over him. What do you think Marluxia thinks of?
....Vexen's infirmary gets trashed, needless to say.
Zexion is soon called in to use his magical powers of "Calm the ******** down" and is the first to introduce Marluxia to the whole 'life in the Organization' thing.
After a long while, Marluxia gets the idea of killing Xemnas, but this is for later, when he finds his perfect partner of crime: Larxene.
It's in your eyes, what's on your mind.
I see the truth that you've buried inside.
A dangerous sign.
On Aramuil Schaefer, the Other of Marluxia, XII, the Graceful Assassin
Aramuil Schaefer was born in Germany, to a relatively normal family. He was your average kid, teased girls, rough housed with boys, et cetera. He probably would have grown up to be an average teenager, except three things happened:
1. He was gay, and had a secret boyfriend to prove it.
2. His father was secretly Jewish.
3. The Nazi Party gained power and found out both of the above.
Now, because he was only half-Jewish, Aramuil might have been safe, but being gay as well, he was shipped off to a concentration camp at 16-17. That's when his extraordinary stubbornness and strong heart really showed. Determined not to die, he reluctantly did what he was told, although it was fairly obvious via his eyes what Aramuil really thought of the Nazis. He kind of learned to duck his head a lot. However, his strength of heart eventually called another strong heart, that of another prisoner: Bridgette Tenenbaum.
Bridgette was also Jewish, but she was also a genius. A Nazi scientist saw that and made sure it didn't go to waste. Luckily, they needed a more manual laborer kind of assistant, and Bridgette nominated Aramuil after brief eye contact in the yards. It helped that Aramuil was a very hard worker. A lot of that spite was channeled into work.
The scientist was called Dr. Vogel, and he had blond hair and green eyes. Gee, this sounds familiar. He and Aramuil hated each other at first sight. Being a douch and in control, he basically treated Aramuil like s**t.
Bridgette was his only source of decent company, having her own brand of confidence and a sharp wit. She was often the one keeping Aramuil alive and out of trouble. Later, she would help him with his first assassination.
Life as an unwilling assistant to a crazy douche of a Nazi scientist was ******** terrible. Aramuil saw lots of horrible things and thus kind of grew to hate many people's idea of 'science'. He even once witnessed a suicide, and he would later liken Larxene's own '******** you' smile/attitude to the nurse's. However, he refused to give up on living or hope. He managed to do this in a number of ways. The first is that he's a Determinator, so of course he's not going to go down. the second is that he had Bridgette, perhaps his best and only friend as the years went on and who was always there for him, in her own special way. tha last was that he planted a seed.
Way before Days or BBS, me and Sev theorized on how a Nobody got their element. The theory that we went with for Aramuil/Marluxia is that as their Other, a Nobody (even if only for a moment) makes a strong connection with an element that kind of stays with them forever. Somehow, Aramuil was lucky enough to find a seed and decided to plant it, giving it his own water. Miraculously, it managed to grow successfully despite the harsh environment, helped when Bridgette found out and thought Aramuil to be a ******** idiot but helped him out anyway. Aramuil saw the plantling as a symbol of his hope and determination. It really helped him out mentally.
Now, for Aramuil's first assassination, which did indeed take place in the concentration camp. He witnessed a pair of twins get sewn together while still conscious, and had continuous nightmares about them. Wanting to do something about it, he managed to somehow win over Bridgette and have her sneak him some drugs which would kill the twins. He snuck out, using lots of lies which kind of traced back to him and bit him in the a**, and got to the mother of the twins, giving her the drugs so she could kill the kids. She did, and Vogel was not pleased. Aramuil got beat the ******** up, broke an arm, got a bunch of cuts... and still had to work. This didn't do well for his health, and he eventually got sick while on 'duty' with Bridgette. Luckily for his poor a**, that's when the Allies arrived at the camp and freed them all. While some left, they stayed behind so Aramuil could recover, which meant that he was able to receive a letter from his mother since he wasn't moving all over the place.
Turns out, she had managed to escape to America, and managed to convince someone to send a letter to her son with money to get him across the Atlantic. Aramuil didn't want to leave, because he was fond of Bridgette and wasn't exactly happy with his parents. He was really bitter, actually, but Bridgette told him not to be a ******** whining b***h and miss this chance. So, Aramuil took a train, then a boat, to New York City. There, he discovered his mother had another child while he had been gone, his little sister Rose Mary (Romy), and that his mother was also very sick. Aramuil wasn't sure how to react to this, as he still kind of hated his mother but didn't want to be a bad son. He never quite got over this.
While in New York, he moved in with the nurse who had been taking care of his mother and her sister. The nurse's sister was Julie Langford, a brilliant botanist who had just moved out of California. Aramuil grew interested in botany thanks to her and was her assistant, not to mention taking care of both Becky, her daughter, and Romy, his sister. One day, however, Julie's sister and daughter were both killed in a robbery while grocery shopping, and Aramuil's mother died shortly after. Julie took it pretty hard, so it was up to Aramuil to watch over things. He got used to being a leader, as he was the only man in the house. Eventually, a famous super rich guy named Andrew Ryan comes into the picture and says he wants help from Julie and Aramuil in building his dream.
His dream is building an underwater city free from religion, communism, and the U.S. government. Obviously, he needs super skilled botanists so that they have an air-supply down in Rapture. After talking it over with each other, Julie and Aramuil accept. They leave the states to go work on and live in Rapture. Things seem to be going well. One day, however, some punk dock workers (mostly young guys) come to the (rightful) conclusion that he's gay and start jeering at him and making his life miserable. One day, they try to pick a fight with him. Aramuil, ******** sick of his life hitting bumps in the road, shows them he is not one to ******** with. After losing a tooth and breaking a guy's jaw, Aramuil is left alone, bloody and beaten but ultimately the winner after having chased them off. Another docker, who had witnessed all of this, becomes interested in Aramuil and offers to teach him boxing.
Aramuil is now proficient in interacting with almost anyone of any class, from the super rich people that he and Julie sometimes have to interact with to the super poor workers down on the docks and everywhere else. By this point in his life, he's very attractive looking due to good genes and working out so much. He boxes, he takes an active role in caring for the plants... Also, he's decided to grow his hair out a little, more than the social norm would really approve of. This is because it gives him a sense of freedom; his time in the camps found him usually devoid of hair because they were bastards, so he kind of revels in being able to control himself (and kind of others, because he's a charmer). Remember how Tuna said that people who love power are often ones who've had it taken away from them? Yeah. Aramuil, however, isn't a bad guy (yet), he's just a normal guy working down in Rapture. After years of trying, he even manages to contact Bridgette and get her down to Rapture. They reunite, and it's very happy.
This doesn't last long.
To show why, I'll be talking spoilers, so watch out!
Bridgette stays with Aramuil for a while, and usually accompanies him down to the docks. This is where she discovers the strange slug which leads to the creation of Adam. She eventually gains backing from Fontaine, which Aramuil doesn't necessarily like because of the stories he's heard. Still, he trusts Bridgette to do the right thing, but even then, they begin to drift apart. This whole 'Adam' business sounds suspiciously a lot like what happened at the camps, and he doesn't like it one bit. Still, he ends up doing odd jobs for Fontaine anyway, especially when the whole war goes up and he's sent to do assassinations on certain figures because Fontaine realized Aramuil isn't phased by any of this s**t. The camps kind of gave him a strong stomach as a parting gift.
The whole thing with Fontaine and Ryan happens, Ryan gets Fontaine Futuristics, et cetera... And this leads to Aramuil's little sister being taken away. Why? To become a Little Sister, the things which draw Adam out of corpses and are accompanied by their Big Daddy protectors.
To say Aramuil is not happy with this is a ******** understatement.
He next gets involved with Atlas, doing more and more assassination work. Due to his knowledge of plants, he's good at poisons. Eventually, the whole ******** city gets ******** over, and Aramuil does one last ditch effort to go find his little sister. Instead, he finds Bridgette, who saves his a** and drags him to her secret hidey hole to hide from all the ******** up Splicers.
Over the years, Bridgette has changed due to her work with the Little Sisters, and is even almost maternal to them. Feeling remorse for her actions, she asks Aramuil to help her. Aramuil says he will after he finds Romy, to which Bridgette agrees.
So! We have Aramuil and Bridgette stuck in Bridgette's little hidey hole. They still have to find Romy, which Aramuil is determined to do. Bridgette, still kind of caring for him, gives him a surprisingly different kind of Plasmid. This, Bridgette claims, can revert the Little Sisters' status and make them normal again. Now, Aramuil despises needles. He despise drugs, alcohol, and anything weird in his body. This is another trait that he picked up in the camps. After a while, he got over the alcohol, but he never got over anything else, and he does NOT use any plasmids.
However this is the one chance he has to get his sister back, and Aramuil is the type of guy who's willing to take risks in order to get what he wants.
So, Aramuil takes the Plasmid and a makeshift little handscythe that was really Bridgette's only weapon. He has a gun, but it has NO ammo, and he eventually loses it anyway. So off we go into the hellhole that is Rapture! Whee!
Aramuil first runs into a Splicer trying to get a Little Sister. It's not Romy, but Aramuil sinks his scythe into the back of the guy's neck anyway and heals the kid because Bridgette had asked him, and they're kind of on good terms once again. As he goes deeper, however, he eventually runs into a big group of splicers. This isn't good, and there's no way he can fight them ALL off, so Aramuil runs like ******** to the bathyspheres (little subs which take people from one part of Rapture to another). He makes it, luckily... Except it's full of Heartless. With nowhere to go, Aramuil loses his heart.
As we all know, it doesn't end there.
At the next stop, Arcadia (the big garden place), the Heartless scatter, with Aramuil left unconscious. A splicer finds him and drags him by the hair through the gardens, which is around the time Aramuil wakes up. Panicking and basically in "kill everything to stay safe" mode, Aramuil taps into his element. This is very good, as he's in Arcadia. The Splicer dies a slow painful death by crushing, and Aramuil can't feel anything at all except this need to survive and the idea that everyone is an enemy.
This applies to Xigbar and Xaldin when they come in and realize that he's a Nobody as well.
There's a big epic fight, with Aramuil pointedly not listening, and Xigbar eventually manages to tranq him. Rather cheerfully, he christens him 'Marluxia', making it as girlish sounding possibly as revenge for being a pain in the a**. They then take him to The Castle That Never Was and Vexen's labs.
So! Waking up in a lab with a blond, green-eyed guy over him. What do you think Marluxia thinks of?
....Vexen's infirmary gets trashed, needless to say.
Zexion is soon called in to use his magical powers of "Calm the ******** down" and is the first to introduce Marluxia to the whole 'life in the Organization' thing.
After a long while, Marluxia gets the idea of killing Xemnas, but this is for later, when he finds his perfect partner of crime: Larxene.
It's in your eyes, what's on your mind.
I see the truth that you've buried inside.
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I just have to know, while I still have time.
Do I have to run, or hide away from you?
Do I have to run, or hide away from you?
