dataprotector | Application for asgardeventide

OOC Information;
Name; Icey
Personal Journal; iceyly
Contact; AIM - Fortunelady Icey | plurk - iceyly | MSN/Mail - w_nymph1611@hotmail.com

IC Information;
Character Name; Data Riku (Jiminy's Journal)
Canon; Kingdom Hearts (http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Data_Riku)
Canon Point; Post Re:Coded
Age; technically about two years old, since that was when the journal was created, but he has the body and mind of the fifteen years old he is based on.
House; Heimdall
Power; Power Lending

Personality; Made of the memories the journal recorded of the real Riku, Data Riku shares lots of character traits with him. Quiet and confident, his role is mostly one of support and guidance, though he is quick to step into action when he sees a friend in peril. He has the same teasing humor, though it lacks any trace of the competitive edge that Riku shows in the first game.

Something that absolutely differs him from the real Riku is his humility; he seems to lack any of the pride that the real Riku displays. He is very quick to seek the fault within himself and only all too ready to apologize, even if he isn't really to blame at all. He does often enough for even Sora to call him out on it. Though he is quick to react with self blame and guilt, unlike his real counter part, he isn't driven forward by those issues - first and foremost he is motivated by curiosity and the wish to help. Once he decides to help somebody, he will absolutely follow up on that, even if he can't help directly and has to involve others for that task.

Data Riku is absolutely aware of being only data, just memories actually, and therefore not really important in the grand scheme of things. To him, having a body or a heart - the essentials of being a 'real' person - don't really matter, just like his existence; what matters is to be useful and able to help people, even if only indirectly by discovering and solving the mystery behind the message that was left in the journal. If his existence becomes a hindrance to this task and he knows he can do good by sacrificing himself, he is more than willing to do so. However, despite his disregard for his own well being, he is ultimately content with his existence as being of the datascape and has no aspirations to ever visit the real world.

But even though Data Riku is aware of only consisting of a copy of memories, when placed under stress, he sometimes seems to suffer slight identity crises and channel the real Riku as result; commenting for example how he is always attracted to the darkness after being corrupted by bugs thanks to Maleficent and Pete, even though he himself never fell to the Darkness.

It is a little bit unclear, if data beings have hearts, though it's implied that at least Data Sora developed one over the course of his journey through the datascape and due that became strong enough to call for a true Keyblade. The same possibility exists most likely for Data Riku as well, if given enough time and character development. Regardless of heart or no heart to feel true emotion, he acts rather empathetic; he is more than willing to listen to a person's troubles and doubts and then give advice and/or reassure them to the best of his ability.

As the incarnate of the Journal he is primarily tasked with the protection of information, though after being placed in a new environment, he will also try to gather and record what new information he can find, since this is the original purpose behind the Journal. Of those duties, the protection of the data has absolute priority to him, since that is what he has been chosen for. His duties are another part of his motivation as the true purpose of gathering, processing and protecting information is for it to be use for others.