Next chapter is very almost done. Will be up shortly, possibly immediately.
Vexen frowned. "Why am I the one who chooses her name?"
"Because you're the smartest out of everybody, of course!" said Xigbar. "The Superior is busy, and he demanded you take his place."
Vexen rolled his eyes. "I see right through your flattery, but I suppose I have no choice." Vexen walked up to the girl in the organization coat. Xigbar let out a sigh of relief. Dodged a bullet there…
Vexen waved his hands in front of the girl, and the clear, glowing letters spelling out "Makoto" floated above. "A new name to reflect your new existence…your new purpose. Whoever you were before holds no significance over you, even if you could remember it. From now on, you are a member of Organization XIII, and nothing more."
The girl nodded slowly. The letters spun around her head, creating a stream of light around her like a halo. Vexen halted the letters as he placed his hand forward, planting a golden X amid the silver letters. She looked at them dully.
"Um…it's backwards…"
"Ugh, are you completely daft!" said Vexen angrily. "It says…Xoaktom…" he frowned and placed a hand at his chin. "Hmm…That doesn't really have a nice ring to it like 'Vexen' or 'Roxas'…Let's try again, shall we?"
The X vanished, and Vexen repeated the process. "Makotox?"
"Hey, that's just plain unoriginal," joked Xigbar. "I thought you were a genius!"
"Shut up!" yelled Vexen. He furiously kept repeating the process.
Otokmax.
Xaokmot.
Aoxokmt.
Xaookmt.
"ARGH!" Vexen slammed his fist into the spinning letters. "TOXKOMA! THAT'S IT! THAT'S YOU'RE NAME!" he shouted angrily, storming off. Xigbar whistled. "Takes talent to get him steamed like that. You do have a pretty exotic name…"
"My name is not exotic! It's Japanese, like Sora's! And my name actually means something! I mean, what is Braig?"
Xigbar backed away. "Easy there, no need to get a temper. You gonna go all Hulk on me?"
Makoto—Toxkoma—walked out of the room briskly. She no longer had a heart to feel anger with. No use in pretending. Xigbar shrugged. "These new girls sure are weird…"
This is an ode to my inability to choose Mako-chan's new name. For a couple I just ran it through a word scrambler. Then there's the organization XIII name generator, that gives you random names that have nothing to do with what you typed. I mean, you put in Sora and you don't even get Roxas. How lame is that?
And I was playing Final Fantasy VI, and I figured out Luxord's somebody: Setzer. I feel a little cheated that they practically just recycled a character and gave him a different name and design, but I suppose that as many characters as they make, it's fair, right? I suppose it could be considered an homage, like Axel looks like Reno, and Riku is just Cloud 'cause Nomura can only make two types of characters...rant over.
