It's Disheartening Being Heartless

Have you ever tried being Heartless? Heartless 00110 doesn't have a choice. Actually, he really doesn't have many choices at all. For instance, Heartless 00110 would rather have been called Bob, but it's against the rules at the School of Heartless.

Heartless 00110 does in fact have likes and dislikes. For example, he likes the phrase "don't judge a book by its cover" and dislikes the phrase "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree." You can hardly ever judge an entire group of anything based on the majority.

Everyone thinks every single Heartless is mindless and is only after consuming more hearts to create more Heartless. Really, would anyone appreciate being thought of as nothing but a rabbit? Besides, there's natural Heartless, and then the created Heartless. Sure, they're both "born from the darkness in people's hearts," but the created Heartless are made by a machine. Even if a machine can duplicate something 99.99% of the time, there are always gonna be a few glitches.

That's what Heartless 00110 was told of himself. He was different because he was a glitch. They said that while attending School of Heartless that he would learn to fix that glitch and he would join all his brethren in enjoying all the activities that were more becoming of a Heartless. He believed that for a while. He attended Heart Consuming classes and even passed with high marks, but it just didn't seem to be in him.

Heartless 00110 found it difficult to find anyone that was "glitched" like he was. In School of Heartless, you learned to blend in. (No, not into the Shadows, although Shadow Blending was the first class you had to take.) The type of Heartless you were to be was chosen and afterwards you conformed to your role. Only the higher ups got perks, like keeping non-Heartless shapes and figures and being able to control other Heartless. The Taking Orders class was never one of Heartless 00110's favorites.

Although very against the rules, Heartless 00110 would try to seek out others who would understand him or help him through his crisis, but he always met with hardship. After all, a Heartless going towards anyone automatically gets fought and disappears into a puff of smoke. Heartless 00110 did not want to become a puff of smoke. Even after taking a Keyblade and Keyblade Holders classes, he could not help but think that this was someone who might be able to help him.

Try as you may, though, a Heartless has no mouth, and if you stand around making strange gestures as if trying to start a game of charades, you simply get turned into the puff of smoke. So Heartless 00110 continues trying to find answers, but has to stay hidden in shadows. Maybe his story, however, will help you to realize that maybe not all Heartless are after your heart. Maybe, just maybe, that Heartless just really wants a friend.