Our 5th feature, for Aragorn1014 on her Kingdom Hearts fan-characteer Riiya.
I asked her to tell us about her character and this is what was said.
"When Riiya was little she once lived in Traverse Town with her parents but she was so little she can barely recall them and doesn't know what they look like. One day, she waited outside of the hotel as her parents were inside and discovered the secret waterway that lead to the Magician's Study. She made her way inside and found no one there, and discovered a book. As she opened it, a bright light flashed and she was soon transported inside the world of the Hundred Acre Wood with no way out of the book. Completely clueless as to what happened since she was so young, Riiya wandered around and came upon Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, Kanga, Roo and Owl all together and they took her in.
As time passed and she had grown up, Riiya one day ventured to Pooh's house as she always did but then looked beyond it and discovered that there was a place that she had never seen in all of her years in the Hundred Acre Wood...a large empty meadow. She also realized that at the same time everyone besides Pooh had disappeared! She quickly ran to the open place and was shocked to discover there was someone else there as well!
Just as soon as she saw him a key much like the one the boy had appeared, only with a different yet somewhat similar design. After a few moments of watching the boy talk to Pooh, she went up to Pooh and asked who he was.
Pooh told her that his name was Sora and that he came to find the disappearing worlds of the Hundred Acre Wood, and found also that he came from another world. Riiya hadn't known any other world outside of the Hundred Acre Wood, so as she made a split-second decision, she hugged Pooh and ran after Sora vowing one day to return and help Sora restore the worlds.
She followed Sora outside the book and asked if she could follow him, Donald and Goofy along on their adventures. And so Riiya's journey began as along the way she met the rest of the gang(Sakurie, Sayoko, Elena, Faith, Hikari, Misha, Kotori, Rika, May, Kiyoko and the others), as she travelled to find the origin of this mysterious weapon, her past and future to come."
Other info: Name: Kawazoe Riiya (Riiya of the Riverside, hence the symbol)
Birthday: September 14th
Age: 14
Hometown: Hundred Acre Wood
Weapon: Zodiac
Favorite colors: Blue, red/pink and white (favorite color combination is blue and silver)
Favorite foods: Anything having to do with berries!
Hobbies: Singing, drawing, writing, reading, and playing around with her friends. She likes to train a lot with Kotori, and considers her to be her older sister.
Specialty: Straight-on fighting, though her best points come in defense. She can use a little magic, but only to cure.
Abilities: Learns from Sora and Kotori the ability to fly or at least glide, and can hide herself with invisibility for very short periods of time.
Weakness: Magic attacks
Crush: She has trouble deciding who she likes...at first it was Sora but she notices how strong his feelings are for Kairi and gives up. Though he never likes her back she falls for Cloud when she meets him for the first time and rather than liking her back they remain just close friends. She also is very respectful of Leon.
Personality: Shy at first when you meet her, but very easy to get to know. Her persistence usually leads to success and she doesn’t give up easily. She tries to work hard at everything she does, but isn’t exactly leader material. She wonders a lot about her hometown in hopes of returning the worlds as they once were as she was a child, and about who she is really in love with. She can be pretty out-of-character but that just shows how much she holds inside.
Q: "How and why did you create this character?"
A: "Well, I was actually driven by the people on theOtaku themselves and Kingdom Hearts, of course. There was once a huge debate on Mary Sues and Fan characters and the whole issue made me want to create a fan character that was different from the others, but at the same time would be able to fit in as well. And hence Riiya entered the realm of Kingdom Hearts fan characters."
Q: "Is there a story available?"
A: "No, not yet. But I do plan on creating a manga soon-after I've developed my skills more, that is."
So there is no story available to read at the moment but if you would like to learn more about Riiya and Aragorn1014's characters please visit her page for details.
