Ansem the Seeker of Darkness

Ansem the Seeker of Darkness

> What? It is time to move on, boy... There is more to seek... so go forth now, and seek it...
>
> Ansem.

**Ansem the Seeker of Darkness**, is a Non-Canon member of the Bugzs, originating from *Kingdom Hearts, 2002*. He is a member of the Shadow Attribute.

## History

### Kingdom Hearts series

Keyblade Master Xehanort once possessed another, albeit younger, Keyblade wielder by the name of Terra. After a fight against Terra's old friend Keyblade Master Aqua, Terra-Xehanort was laying on the groung unconsuios and pretended to have amnisia. The sage king, Ansem the Wise would later take Terra-Xehanort in as one of his apprentices. After doing reserch on the Heartless, Terra-Xehanort turned the other apprentices of Ansem into Heartless, along with himself, who would later turn into the Nobodies that forged Organization XIII. Terra-Xehanort's Heartless would resemble a Robed Figure.

At one point, the Robed Figure would traveler back in time and would send a Young Xehanort through a corridoor of darkness and would presumably give him the ability to head into the future in case anything that Master Xehanort planned would backfire.

The Robed Figure would than appear on Destany Islands, where he gave a kid called Sora some cryptic messages. After a while, the Robed Figure would appear to a young boy called Riku, who was embarrased at a loss from his old friend in Hollow Bastion, because of this, Ansem went to possesse Riku, effectively becoming Riku-Ansem. Riku-Ansem would later impower Maleficent and turn her into her Dragon form and mocked her after her defeat. Riku-Ansem would later appear with six of the Seven Princess of Hearts imprisoned and used their Hearts to create an artifical Keyblade and fought against Sora, only to loose, which in turn sent Riku into the Realm of Darkness and gave **Ansem the Seeker of Darkness** a body that nearly mirrored his old forms. At the Heartless world known as The End of the World, Ansem the Seeker of Darkness and a Dark Figure would fight against Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy, even turning into the World of Chaos, only to be defeated and presumably eliminated after the door to Kingdom Hearts was open.

Sora may have mentioned Ansem the Seeker of Darkness when he went inside Castle Oblivion. Ansem would occasionally haunt Riku when he went into Castle Oblivion, although King Mickey would try to stop him, he often trying to make him use the powers of darkness to destroy those around him and helped eliminate some of the members of Organization XIII. After this, Riku went to fight against Ansem and the Dark Figure after encountering a person called DiZ.

Riku, during a fight against a member of Organization XIII called Roxas opened himself to darkness and ended up looking like Ansem for a while.

While Riku was still in the form of Ansem went to make sure that Roxas would return to Sora and after he woke up, Sora would mention Ansem. Riku would stop looking like Ansem when he went to The World that Never Was, where he helped King Mickey, Sora, Donald Duck, Goofy and his old friend Kairi destroy all but one member of Organzation XIII.

King Mickey would later tell Master Yen Sid that both Ansem the Seeker of Darkness, being Terra-Xehanort's Heartless and Xemnas, being Terra-Xehanort's Nobody were both destroyed, leading Yen Sid to beleived that because of these two being defeated, Keyblade Master Xehanort would return.

When both Sora and Riku went to visit sleepig worlds to do an exam, Young Xehanort brough Ansem the Seeker of Darkness from the past to taunt and later fight against Riku. Ansem would later be noted as one of the members of the Real Organization XIII, better known as the Thriteen Seekers of Darkness. He would later hold Riku to the ground when Master Xehanort tried to turn Sora into another Seeker of Darkness, He later went to summon the Dark Figure, only to head back his old timeline.

After this three members of the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness went to notify who each of the members would be, in numural order being: Master Xehanort, Ansem the Seeker of Darkness, Xemnas, Xigbar, Luxord, Larxene, Marluxia, Saïx, Terra-Xehanort, Dark Riku, Vanitas, Young Xehanort and Xion.

After being brough back in a Replica body, a seserved member of the Real Organization XIII, Vexen used some of Ansem's data and placed it into a second Riku Replica called Dark Riku. Ansem would later head to Twilight Town with Xemnas and told Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy that they wanted to see Roxas return, the two later sent an army of Dusk and Neoshadows to fight against. Ansem would later spy on Sora, along with Xemnas and Xigbar. Ansem the Seeker of Darkness would later head into the Realm of Darkness and went to bring Ansem the Wise to Twilight Town, but not before using the Dark Figure to send Aqua into a dark abyys. Ansem the Seeker of Darkness woul try to force Ansem the Wise to look for data about a missing girl that was given the nickname Subject X, but was stopped by Hayner, Pence and Olette. He also noticed that some Dusk was teaming up against him and saw treason, Ansem presumably went to the Keyblade Graveyard after this. Ansem would later fight against Riku, with the help of Xigbar and Dark Riku, only to leave after darkening the battlefeild. Ansem the Seeker of Darkness would later fight against Sora, Riku and King Mickey, with the help of Xemnas and Young Xehanort. After Ansem's defeat he told the three heroes that their is more to seek and to go fourth and seek it.

A year or so after Ansem's last defeat, a group in Radient Garden recreated the Garden of Assemblance, which allowed a ditital version of Sora to fight against a digital version of Ansem the Seeker of Darkness.

When Kairi was going through her memories with the help of Ansem the Wise and some of his apprentices, two memories of Ansem the Seeker of Darkness appeared. one where memories of a team of three had to fight against and after the defeat of a memory of Master Xehanort, showed him turning into Ansem the Seeker of Darkness and the Robed Figure.

### Super Smash Bros. series

Ansem appeared in the Hollow Basion stage, through a mural on Riku's of the Stations of Awakening.

### Non-Canon

Ansem the Seeker of Darkness was seen ready to fight against Cole MacGrath, Golden Queen and Abe, along with the Dark Figure.

## Teams

**I.** Xemnas
**II.** Xigbar
**III.** Xaldin
**IV.** Vexen
**V.** Lexaeus
**VI.** Zexion
**VII.** Saïx
**VIII.** Axel
**IX.** Demyx
**X.** Luxord
**XI.** Marluxia
**XII.** Larxene
**XIII.** Roxas
**XIV.** Xion
*XIII Seekers of Darkness*
**I.** Master Xehanort
**II.** **Ansem**
**III.** Xemnas
**IV.** Xigbar
**V.** Luxord
**VI.** Larxene
**VII.** Marluxia
**VIII.** Saïx
**IX.** Terra-Xehanort
**X.** Dark Riku
**XI.** Vanitas
**XII.** Young Xehanort
**XIII.** Xion
*Related Species*
Heartless
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