Larxene

**Larxene**, the *Savage Nymph* (非情の妖姫, *Hijō no Yōki*, lit. *Callous Vixen*), is the Nobody of Elrena, Rank XII of Organization XIII, and Rank VI of the real Organization XIII. Larxene is the original Organization's only female member, and also has a very sadistic nature. She controls lightning, and uses it to thrash opponents with rapid attacks while also attacking them with her weapons: electrified throwing knives. She commands the Ninja Nobodies.

She is one of the members stationed at Castle Oblivion during *Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories* and is part of an internal struggle between the senior and rookie members. However, her ploy to overthrow the Organization with Marluxia is derailed by Axel, and Larxene is ultimately destroyed by Sora, making her the second member of the Organization to fall. Larxene also appears as a playable character in the non-canonical Mission Mode of *Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days* and is the first playable female character in the series.

Despite the role she played in attempting to overthrow the original Organization, Larxene is brought back to become a member of the real Organization XIII, having joined in order to follow Marluxia. Larxene was sent to Arendelle, where she was tasked with overseeing Elsa and Anna, as they were two of the New Seven Hearts, a group of new princesses who would be used in place of the guardians of light should they fail to assemble their ranks. Once the guardians and the Organization completed their ranks, the two factions met at the Keyblade Graveyard, where a new Keyblade War began in the Skein of Severance. Larxene would participate in one of the battles in the Trail of Valediction, and would fade away at the hands of Sora and Mickey following her defeat.

## Appearance

Larxene wears the normal Organization black coat and gloves, but her black boots are more feminine and are heeled. Her bright, blonde hair is slicked back and about jaw-length, with two long strands styled into distinctive antennae-like strands. Larxene's eyes are Emerald Green, and she is very slim with an hourglass figure when compared to other members due to her gender, though this belies her true strength. In her appearance in Jiminy's Journal in *Kingdom Hearts II*, Larxene looked a bit different, as her hair was lighter, almost white, and she seems to be wearing lipstick. After gaining a fragment of Master Xehanort's heart in *Kingdom Hearts III*, her eyes turn golden-yellow as opposed to her usual Aquamarine.

## Personality

Although Larxene is normally smiling in-game, she can be undoubtedly cold, ruthless, and uncaring, and appears to love nothing more than to bring other people down. Described the most as a domineering woman of strong personality, who does not ask, but tells, she has sharp wit and sardonic remarks ready to spite others on purpose. Her jokes tend to be more ill-humored as well, enabling anyone to successfully get irritated, and sometimes if pushed far enough, yell or charge at her in anger, a reaction which she seems to find humorous. In the *Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories* manga, Larxene was seen reading a book about the infamous French writer Marquis De Sade, the namesake of sadism, which is clearly related to her sadistic nature.

Along with the callousness, however, she oddly displays childish and playful behavior, laughing and giggling excessively. She, although recognizable with her overall behavior. Laid back and almost passive to those she likes, or refers to as good company, Larxene expresses herself in a dramatized manner, constantly making outrageous expressions and hand movements.

She taunts Vexen incessantly after he is threatened with charges of treason and incompetence from Marluxia, though that could be connected to her personal dislike of the man, and toys with Sora before fighting him the first time. In fact, she even leads Sora to believe that she is a nice person, just trying to help point him in the right direction: "The bad guys are holding her deep within the castle. And you, the hero, have to go save her." She then smiles and attacks him, sending him flying with a powerful kick and informs him that she is a "bad guy", mocking his failure to remember Naminé.

After she discovers Axel's unexpected betrayal and sees that Marluxia's and her plans have fallen apart, while affected negatively and almost seemingly disappointed when speaking of it, her friendly manner vanishes and she attacks Sora in a rage. Nevertheless, surprisingly in death, she sounds out a cry of what appears as sadness as she is fading instead of what is expected to be a usual villainous end, especially with her acts throughout the game. It showed a different side of her that had yet to be seen before that compares to Saïx's own demise. This brings to question if she truly is what she has presented herself to be the whole time, or if there is more to her.

In what may be a connection, written in one of the many *Kingdom Hearts* novels that correlate with the series, she meets Marluxia for the first time and has just joined the Organization as the sole female. The topic of the Organization's goal is spoken of. Being that she was the newest recruit and was asking questions, complaining that there was nothing to do around the castle, and that it was "boring" all the more, Marluxia repeated to her what Xemnas once told him; which was that they were here to regain back their hearts. She had gone silent in thought at the answer, before saying that a heart was not really necessary. She felt having one was painful, and she was fine with the way things are now, perhaps implying that she was hurt emotionally for most of her original self's life, and that lacking a heart keeps the pain at bay.

When she becomes a member of the real Organization XIII, Larxene seems more and more sarcastic to her enemies, though her temperament has not changed significantly; however, she is still as sharp and rude in her meetings with other members of the Organization. After being defeated, she slightly opens up, revealing that she had no interest in Xehanort's plans and that she was merely "along for the ride". When Sora implores Larxene on who she was with, she smiles and fades into darkness, saying "my secret".

## Powers and Abilities

Larxene, despite her sarcastic nature, is still a powerful member of the Organization XIII. She has proven to be an incredibly strong an fast hand-to-hand fighter, as in both times she talks to Sora, albeit granted both times she did have the advantage of Sora being either confused or angry and in their last fight weakened from being attacked by Riku Replica, she could easily pressure him without even using her claws and disarm him of his Keyblade with a single kick and the second time she does this, she injures Sora enough to the point that he can barely stand. She is also strong enough to hold the Riku Replica by the head, and easily toss him across the room with one hand. Her strength is clearly known by many of the characters, such as the Riku Replica who claims to fear nothing, yet cowers at Larxene.

Larxene's physical fighting skills resemble that of a ninja. She uses her knives between her fingers to act like claws, and is able to infuse them with electricity and throw them at Sora. She is easily the fastest and most agile member of the Organization with only Xemnas rivaling or surpassing her in that regard, often using quick kicks and jabs to produce extra pain to the opponent. Along with her manipulative nature, this sadism earned her the title "Savage Nymph".

Larxene is a powerful user of thunder magic, able to call down multiple strikes or a single bolt of lightning upon the battlefield and can empower her knives with lightning to increase their power when thrown along with also able to have them fire beams of lightning, as well as to perform levitation and local teleportation. Her sleights and special abilities all involve her use of these abilities.

In *Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix*, she can be battled as an Absent Silhouette and as data, but this time she uses completely different tactics. She can split herself into multiple copies that attack Sora individually or in concert, and her attacks focus more on physical strikes than magic.

However, she still uses some thunder magic, the strongest of which is a revolving wall of ball lightning similar to Hades's wall of fire. By using the Reaction Command "Other Break", Sora can stun her by throwing her "back into herself". This battle makes Larxene one of only five Organization XIII members shown to be able to make full-body copies of themselves, the other four being Marluxia, Vexen, Zexion, and Xemnas.

In *Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days*, Larxene has a Limit Break called Voltic Rush. During Voltic Rush, Larxene rapidly slashes away at her enemies, dealing lightning damage.

During Larxene's Final Limit, Larxene darts around the field while enveloped in lightning, making her even faster. She also deals even more lightning damage to enemies.

## Role in Sora’s Adventures

She appeared in Sora’s Adventures in Pixie Hollow, Sora’s Adventures in Saint Canard

## Trivia

* Larxene is the first female playable character, with her appearance in Mission Mode in *Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.*
* Larxene's knives are often thought to be Kunai, but they are actually French knives called Foudre (Lightning in French).
* Larxene can create pocket dimensions using raw material as the basis. Using Elsa's ice wall, Larxene channeled her lightning into it to block in Sora's group until the Labyrinth of Ice was created.