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1. Her personality is perfect; she lacks personality faults, a common trait of Mary Sues. Any \\\"mistakes\\\" she makes are all completely justified and do not count as character flaws. Her personality stays this way for the entire game and all subsequent games.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant [=BFFs=] with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there would be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitly says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
7. Any bad things that happen to her are never her fault and the game treats it this way as well, with all but the [[BigBad big bads]] sympathizing with how badly she\\\'s treated (her bad treatment, by the way, is usually done \\\'\\\'by\\\'\\\' the [[BigBad big bads]]).
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner. And the bad things that happened to her are either unrelated to her Sue traits or not caused by them.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant [=BFFs=] with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there would be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitly says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
7. Any bad things that happen to her are never her fault and the game treats it this way as well, with all but the [[BigBad big bads]] sympathizing with how badly she\\\'s treated (her bad treatment, by the way, is usually done \\\'\\\'by\\\'\\\' the [[BigBad big bads]]).
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner. And the bad things that happened to her are either unrelated to her Sue traits or not caused by them.
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1. Her personality is perfect; she lacks personality faults, a common trait of Mary Sues. Any \\\"mistakes\\\" she makes are all completely justified and do not count as character flaws. Her personality stays this way for the entire game and all subsequent games.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant [=BFFs=] with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there would be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitly says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
7. Any bad things that happen to her are never her fault and the game treats it this way as well, with all but the [[BigBad big bads]] sympathizing with how badly she\\\'s treated (her bad treatment, by the way, is usually done \\\'\\\'by\\\'\\\' the [[BigBad big bads]]).
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant [=BFFs=] with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there would be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitly says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
7. Any bad things that happen to her are never her fault and the game treats it this way as well, with all but the [[BigBad big bads]] sympathizing with how badly she\\\'s treated (her bad treatment, by the way, is usually done \\\'\\\'by\\\'\\\' the [[BigBad big bads]]).
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner.
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1. Her personality is perfect; she lacks personality faults, a common trait of Mary Sues. Any \\\"mistakes\\\" she makes are all completely justified and do not count as character flaws. Her personality stays this way for the entire game and all subsequent games.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant [=BFFs=] with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there would be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitly says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
7. Any bad things that happen to her are never her fault and the game treats it this way as well, with all but the BigBads sympathizing with how badly she\\\'s treated (her bad treatment, by the way, is usually done \\\'\\\'by\\\'\\\' the BigBads).
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant [=BFFs=] with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there would be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitly says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
7. Any bad things that happen to her are never her fault and the game treats it this way as well, with all but the BigBads sympathizing with how badly she\\\'s treated (her bad treatment, by the way, is usually done \\\'\\\'by\\\'\\\' the BigBads).
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner.
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That\\\'s the thing, though: She\\\'s NOT portrayed as one. Bad things happen to her, but none of it has to do with her Mary Sue traits. Her Sueish traits are never brought into question or taken apart in any of the games, plots, stories, etc.
To clarify to anyone else reading: I am NOT ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike. I love Xion a lot, I just don\\\'t think she qualifies as Deconstruction.
1. Her personality is perfect; she lacks personality faults, a common trait of Mary Sues. Any \\\"mistakes\\\" she makes are all completely justified and do not count as character flaws. Her personality stays this way for the entire game and all subsequent games.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant BFFs with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there\\\'d be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitely says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner.
To clarify to anyone else reading: I am NOT ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike. I love Xion a lot, I just don\\\'t think she qualifies as Deconstruction.
1. Her personality is perfect; she lacks personality faults, a common trait of Mary Sues. Any \\\"mistakes\\\" she makes are all completely justified and do not count as character flaws. Her personality stays this way for the entire game and all subsequent games.
2. Very early on in the game, she becomes instant BFFs with 2 of the most popular characters of the series (Axel and Roxas. While the friendship between those 2 characters later becomes rocky, their friendship with Xion never wavered. When she died, it was established that because she would no longer exist (see point 4 below), none of the characters would be able to remember her because there\\\'d be no her to remember. That is the only reason her friendship with Axel and Roxas ends, because they can\\\'t remember... except that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance shows that they DO remember her somewhat, just not completely, even though Days explicitely says that this cannot happen ever. Why it did is never explained or taken apart.
3. Speaking of friendships, allow me to bring up Riku, one of the most popular characters for fangirls of the series and Sora\\\'s best friend. Roxas and Xion are both part of Sora, who is comatose during almost the entirety of Days. The only way Sora can wake up is if Roxas and Xion return to Sora. Kingdom Hearts 2 shows us that Riku, while feeling pity for Roxas and Roxas\\\' situation, was willing to take Roxas by force to wake Sora up. In Days, he does not do this to Xion. He lets it be HER decision, even though if Xion refused, Sora might never wake. In Kingdom Hearts 2, this was not a risk he was willing to take. For reasons unexplained, it\\\'s a risk he\\\'s willing to take for Xion and Xion only. This is never taken apart in-story. He remains this way to her right up until he loses his memories of her.
4. Her death. She died because she was added into a midquel which was developed AFTER the first 2 sequels. The sequels, of course, did not have her in them. She HAD to die in the midquel or the sequels wouldn\\\'t make sense. And even then, she got a pretty sparkly death (as opposed to another clone who died in darkness while receiving pity from the person he was cloned after) and somehow managed to continue being a character past that. In Deep Dive (Deep Dive was a very popular trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 and was redone as a scene in Kingdom Hearts 2, which of course didn\\\'t have Xion in it; 358/2 Days added Deep Dive as part of the ending), she became a Keyblade for some reason and showed Riku some of his memories of her that was losing thanks to her death. Her inclusion in Deep Dive is never expanded upon.
5. Days explained that, because Xion\\\'s existence was comprised completely of the memories of the main character Sora, when Xion gave the memories back to Sora she would stop existing altogether. Yet she remains a sentient entity through the series thereafter and is almost guaranteed to returned despite the game she debuted in specifically stating that \\\'\\\'this was impossible\\\'\\\'. Why this happens is never properly explained, despite 3 games having been added to the series since then.
6. Her Keyblade. A Keyblade is a very special weapon in the games that, despite quite a few main characters having one, is still pretty exclusive. The Keyblade has a few powers, but the one I want to mention here is the capturing of hearts. One of the main enemy monsters of the games are Heartless, beings that steal people\\\'s hearts (not physical hearts, mind you; in the games, a heart is where our emotions and most precious memories are stored within us and largely makes us who we are). Anybody can slay a Heartless, but the hearts it captured will just find their way into other Heartless. The Keyblade, however, can prevent hearts from going into other Heartless. In essence, a Keyblade is the only way to truly kill Heartless. Xion is a clone of the Keyblade wielder, Sora. Her Keyblade is fake, yet it\\\'s able to doe everything a real Keyblade can do. This SHOULDN\\\'T be possible, as only genuine Keyblades can have that power. Once again, Xion is a sole exception to the established rules of the games and it\\\'s never explained why.
Xion is treated as an extremely special character with no explanations as to WHY. She just IS, end of story. And the games never tear ANY of these things apart or present them in a realistic manner.
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That\'s the thing, though: She\'s NOT portrayed as one. Bad things happen to her, but none of it has to do with her Mary Sue traits. Her Sueish traits are never brought into question or taken apart in any of the games.
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That\\\'s the thing, though: She\\\'s NOT portrayed as one. Bad things happen to her, but none of it has to do with her Mary Sue traits. Her Sueish traits are never brought into question or taken apart in any of the games, plots, stories, etc.
