They're simply means to an end...
I.
He never intended to have an entire Organization.
It was going to simply be he and his five fellow schemers, scientists all, grouping together to figure out the mysteries of the heart from their current states.
That was until the day the results of their research emerged. They were Nothing.
II.
Though he's number 2, Xemnas doesn't particularly like Xigbar.
Too laid-back. Not murderous enough.
He once asked if Xigbar would be willing to fight off the Apocalypse to get his heart back.
Xigbar just smirked and smoothed the air with his hands. "Dude. Chill."
Now Xemnas uses him as bait.
III.
Xaldin's reputation wasn't exactly earned by normal means.
He was at one point a sociopathic serial killer.
Xemnas was afraid of Xaldin. Afraid of that unpredictability that could easily be his downfall.
So he made him a kidnapper.
IV.
Xemnas still trusts Vexen. Even though the old man seems a little batty.
Vexen is capable of amazing feats, if your taste in feats involves creating soulless puppets.
Xemnas likes keeping the old man locked in the labs.
In the end, the Chilly Academic is simply a prisoner.
V.
Lexaeus is a physically intimidating beast of a man.
But his most exercised muscle, perhaps is his brain.
Brute strength and intelligence make Lexaeus the only other Member Xemnas truly fears.
So he uses the man as a bodyguard, a protector of those whom he sees superior. A decoy.
VI.
Xemnas won't admit it, but Zexion is his intellectual superior.
Far less ambition gives him more time to scheme, to build his thoughts.
Xemnas doesn't like anyone being better than him at anything. He's envious.
And so, in a fit of rage, he lashed out and took Zexion's eye.
But Zexion is still better.
VII.
Saix may be the only Member Xemnas has complete trust in.
He's mad, crazy, berserk.
He possesses the rage Xemnas only wishes he had.
And he's loyal.
Like some sort of crazed, deranged pet animal.
VIII.
Xemnas isn't sure why he took Axel in.
The man is two-faced as they come. Snarky, sarcastic one moment, chuckling and cheerful the next.
He always seems like he's plotting something.
And that he was so quick to gain the Key of Destiny's 'friendship' makes him even more suspicious.
But he has other members to deal with. Axel is simply a trifle.
IX.
Demyx is different from the other members.
He's always smiling about something.
Xemnas thinks he's a fool and an idiot incapable of tying his own shoelaces.
But there's something in the way Demyx is always able to pull a smile from any situation.
Like he's somehow gotten some part of his heart back.
Like he's somehow back to being whole.
X.
Luxord frightens Xemnas, but in a way that Xaldin and Lexaeus do not.
It's not his philosophy of 'all life's a game' that gets to Xemnas.
He gambles with much more than just money and prizes.
No one should be able to gamble fate but somehow...
Someone has figured out how to tame it. And that's something Xemnas is even incapable of.
Luxord may be the only true immortal.
XI.
If there's one Member Xemnas doesn't trust, it's Marluxia.
The man is mad.
Not like Saix.
Not like Xaldin.
He is simply mad.
And his obsession with flowers makes it that much worse.
Xemnas needs to get rid of him.
So he makes Marluxia lord of Castle Oblivion. A king of nothing.
XII.
He hates her.
Hates. Because she can do something to the other Organization Members he can't.
And she laughs right at him the entire time she's got her lips against Marluxia's neck, hand down Zexion's pants, Demyx on the ground worshiping her.
She's the only one who's got everyone's undivided attention.
She lives up to her name and title.
The temptress, succubus, sadist.
XIII.
Xemnas is especially unsure of his decision surrounding the acceptance of Roxas.
He's not devoted to their cause.
He's not intimidated by Xemnas' constant show of power.
Roxas may be the only one of them that's not someone else's puppet.
0XIV0
They're simply means to an end.
He uses them as bait, as a decoy for him while he gets to kidnap the treasures the Heartless hold prisoner, a bid to make himself immortal, to make himself whole. He tosses them out like they're puppets to his whim, to his sadist's sense of humor, not wanting to get his hands dirty with such trifle manners. He treats them like they're all some strange breed of animal. He's trying to make his Nonexistence bearable, to make himself feel better. To get his heart back, so he no longer has to be nothing.
He tells them that buy tricking the Keyblade Master into defeating many Heartless they'll get their hearts back.
But perhaps Xemnas is the only one whose heart is still missing.
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