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==Story==

===''Kingdom Hearts''===

Roxas is born when Sora stabs himself with the [[Keyblade of heart]], forged from the hearts of six of the seven [[Princesses of Heart]], in order to free Kairi's heart at the cost of his own. However, Sora spends little time as a [[Sora's Heartless|Heartless]], as Kairi's light fetches Sora's heart from the darkness, restoring him to his former self shortly after he becomes a Heartless.{{storylink|Secret Ansem's Report 12}}

During his frequent visits to Twilight Town, Roxas observes three regular kids, Hayner, Pence, and Olette, and wishes to befriend them, and he even has some conversations with them.

When Axel is sent to [[Castle Oblivion]] to interfere in [[Marluxia]]'s plans to control Sora and overthrow the Organization, Roxas is placed in charge of [[Xion]], the newest member of the Organization and a girl about the same (physical) age as him. Though emotionally distant at first, Xion soon opens up to Roxas, revealing her ability to wield the Keyblade, and the two become close friends. Roxas falls into a coma for several weeks, linked to Sora being placed in suspended animation by [[Naminé]]. After awakening, Roxas attempts to spend time with Axel and Xion. However, he begins experiencing strange dreams and visions, due to Sora's memory restoration. As Roxas spends more time serving the Organization, he begins to question why he wields the Keyblade, and expresses doubt as to the Organization's true motives.

Roxas works actively to help the Organization in their plan to complete Kingdom Hearts, using the Keyblade to release the Heartless' hearts. Roxas, Xion and Axel begin a habit of meeting at Twilight Town's clock tower to talk and eat sea-salt ice cream after their missions. However, Roxas grows increasingly frustrated about unanswered questions concerning him and his friends' identity and role within the Organization. Xion, seeking answers to her own questions, departs the Organization. Roxas and Axel find her, and eventually convince her to return. Not long after her return, Xion leaves the Organization again, in an attempt to return to Sora.  

The next day, Roxas, while searching Twilight Town, encounters Xion, who has discovered the truth behind her own birth, and has been reprogrammed by Xemnas. To Roxas's shock, Xion has taken on the appearance of Sora. She tells Roxas that she wishes to become the "real" Sora, and aims to absorb Roxas, fulfilling her purpose of her creation (her Secret Reports reveal this to be a ruse). Xion and Roxas could not coexist, as such would cause Xion to steadily weaken and endanger Roxas. She understands this, and decides to willingly disappear instead of letting Xemnas succeed. She relates this fact as she fades away following her defeat.  

Knowing that Roxas would not be able to eliminate her (in Axel's Secret Report, he admits that he could not either), Xion forces Roxas to fight her instead. Xion transforms into a giant armored monster, and attacks Roxas. After a long and grueling battle, Roxas defeats Xion, who regains her original appearance before fading away. Roxas loses all of his memories of Xion after the battle. In her final moments, Xion informs Roxas of the true motives of the Organization, and tells him that she is glad they had been friends. As a dying wish, she pleads with Roxas not to let Xemnas acquire the power Kingdom Hearts. At this moment, Roxas suddenly remembers Xion and wonders out loud who else he will have ice cream with. He weeps as Xion's body crystallizes and disappears, leaving behind a single [[Thalassa Shell|thalassa seashell]].

After Xion's demise, Roxas awakens Ventus's Keyblade, allowing him to dual-wield Keyblades which quickly transform into the [[Oathkeeper & Oblivion]]. Xion's absorption into Roxas, along with the knowledge of Xemnas's true plans, only further strengthens Roxas's determination to find Sora and the answers that he seeks.

Struck with grief, Roxas returns to The World That Never Was, planning to "set Kingdom Hearts free", in compliance to Xion's last words. He also desires to save Xion from within him, hoping that freeing Kingdom Hearts would bring her back. Then, they could go back to Axel and all have ice cream together. Upon his arrival, Roxas is attacked at [[Memory's Skyscraper]] by countless [[Neoshadow]] Heartless, which surround him. Roxas draws out his Keyblades, ready to defend himself, However, even after slaying many Heartless, he realizes there are too many to fight alone.

Luckily, Riku suddenly appears at the scene on top of the Skyscraper, and Roxas, influenced by Xion,{{fact}} throws his Oblivion Keyblade at him as he runs up. Riku manages to catch it, however, and they both defeat the Neoshadows once on the ground. After the dark remains clear, they immediately turn on each other. Roxas beats Riku at first, but Riku taunts him by calling him "Sora" and saying that he should be "stronger than this", causing Roxas to reflexively answer with, "Get real. Look which one of us is winning!", something that only Sora would say.

Realizing he cannot beat Roxas on his own, Riku willingly unleashes his inner darkness and takes on the physical appearance of [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]]. Riku-Ansem disappears and reappears in front of Roxas, surprising him, before the Guardian grabs him and squeezes him hard, making him lose consciousness. While being squeezed, Roxas begins to forget his final memories of Xion's existence and his memories of past events with Xion are changed due to her erasure. DiZ arrives and pities Roxas, affirming his belief that a Nobody can not feel anything. Riku-Ansem says things might have turned out different if Roxas had met Sora. Xion's voice is heard telling Roxas not to be sad and how she, him and Sora will connect each other.

===''Kingdom Hearts II''===

{{q|You're lucky... looks like my summer vacation is...over.|Roxas to a sleeping Sora}}

Somehow, likely with the use of Naminé's ability to manipulate memories, DiZ was able to alter Roxas's mind to cause him to believe that he lives a normal life in the [[Simulated Twilight Town|digital Twilight Town]]. He has become best friends with three kids - Hayner, Pence, and Olette - and even writes [[Roxas's Diary|a diary]] of his time in town. Roxas has lost all memory of his life with the Organization.

Along with the Nobodies, Roxas comes into contact with Naminé several times, who seems to know things about Roxas that he himself doesn't and once saves him from the outbursting darkness resulting from the defeat of the [[Twilight Thorn]] inside Roxas's [[Dive to the Heart]]. Furthermore, as observed by DiZ, Naminé's contact with Roxas connects his heart with Kairi's, who Roxas remembered as a friend of Sora. He also meets a mysterious man in a [[black coat]], later revealed to be Riku, who at one point asks a cryptic question: "Can you feel Sora?" Roxas later meets another mysterious figure masked in red bandages, DiZ, who was responsible for his imprisonment.  

Though the intentions of these characters are enigmatic to Roxas, Axel soon appears with a more straightforward goal. Axel needs to  bring Roxas back with him under the orders of Xaldin and Xemnas. However, Roxas remembers nothing of Axel, whose claims of his relation with Roxas only confuse him. Axel is soon forced to attack the young boy to accomplish his goal. He battles Roxas in the midst of the [[Struggle]] tournament, but only DiZ's timely interruption spares Roxas from defeat. After the Struggle Tournament, Roxas falls off the Station Tower and somehow mentally attempts to contact Naminé, only to end up reaching Kairi, Naminé's true counterpart, instead. He recognizes her name from his dreams of Sora, and when Kairi inquires Sora's name, Sora himself, despite being asleep at that time, talks to Kairi through Roxas and gives her Sora's initial as a hint.

In addition to these mysterious people, Roxas also begins to see strange anomalies due to the nature of Digital Twilight Town. Time often freezes, and only he and select people seem to be unaffected. He also sees strange "glitches" around town that he could not explain. For some time, Roxas continues to be befuddled by all these events.

That all changes when summer vacation comes to a close, and the truth is revealed: Naminé informs Roxas that he is a Nobody, and that he is supposed to meet with Sora, the boy in red from his dreams, in order to complete him. Along with that, Roxas discovers that he is living in a digital Twilight Town, and that his friends aren't real, just data. He encounters Axel once again, who had been ordered to eliminate Roxas if he refused to return. DiZ, however, manages to freeze Axel in his tracks, along with the rest of the world, thus saving Roxas. DiZ then tells him to go to the abandoned mansion. He does so, and there he encounters Naminé.  

She reveals to him information on Organization XIII and states that reuniting with Sora would not cause him to disappear, but make him whole. However, she is interrupted by DiZ, but before she is taken away, she promises him that they would meet again, even if they won't recognize each other. Desiring to see Sora, Roxas makes his way through the mansion and begins to recall his former life. In doing so he realizes that he had been captured and placed into the digital world by DiZ and the mysterious cloaked man. Roxas then destroys DiZ's computer in anger, even though it was just a digital copy.

Roxas then meets with Axel one last time, but despite the fact that Roxas has regained his memories, Axel states that it is too late. The two battle once more, but this time Roxas is able to call on all of his dormant abilities, including summoning his two weapons: Oathkeeper and Oblivion, and soundly defeats his old friend, though with great regret. Roxas hopes that they will meet again, though Axel chuckles and responds that only Roxas has a next life. Axel then retreats into the darkness, failing in his mission to capture or kill Roxas.

Roxas then enters the pod room where Sora is kept, but not before seeing [[Donald Duck]] and [[Goofy]] slumbering in their own pods. DiZ is there to greet him, revealing his intentions and fueling Roxas's rage with cutting remarks about Roxas's purpose and nature. In a blind rage, Roxas tries to cut down DiZ, but sees that this DiZ is only a hologram; even after this, Roxas continues to attack DiZ.

DiZ vanishes, and the pod in the center of the room opens. Roxas's anger drains away when he sees Sora slumbering in the pod. Sadly smiling, he says to Sora, "You're lucky... Looks like my summer vacation is... over." With those words, Roxas respectfully accepts his fate and rejoins with his original self. Sora hears Roxas call out to him, and wonders who it is before hearing Donald and Goofy do the same and waking up.

Despite Sora having never seen or met Roxas before, he immediately recognizes his name. When Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Mickey enter the digital Twilight Town, Sora calls it "Roxas's Twilight Town", and sees a memory of Roxas destroying the computers. When Sora and his friends arrive at Betwixt and Between, they are overtaken by a swarm of Nobodies, but Axel jumps in and blows them away with a kamikaze attack. As he fades away, he apologizes for hurting Sora's friends in his quest to retrieve Roxas. The Organization, observing from their castle, deduces that Axel has managed to connect with Sora's heart, rousing Roxas.

Roxas makes his move when Sora reaches Memory's Skyscraper, where he had once fought Riku. His [[Samurai]] appear and surround Sora as Roxas, cloaked, confronts Sora and pulls him to the [[Station of Serenity]] within their hearts. Sora is surprised by the cloaked, Keyblade-wielding figure, believing him to be Riku, but Roxas scoffs and demands to know why Sora was chosen to exist over Roxas. After looking at the Station and realizing that Sora's strength comes from the bonds he shares with others, Roxas makes one final attempt to conquer Sora, but Sora is able to assert his control over Roxas's Keyblades, taking them from the Nobody and dealing the finishing blow. Roxas falls to the ground, satisfied, and acknowledges Sora as a good "other", as his memories begin to finally assimilate with Sora's. As the last pieces of Roxas's individuality fade away, his "heart" connects with Axel's in a facsimile of Twilight Town's clock tower. They are happy to see each other one last time, and place their hope in Sora to find the salvation they had been seeking as they wistfully fade away. Sora continues to ponder what Roxas said as returns to Memory's Skyscraper, but Donald and Goofy assert that Roxas never even appeared to them, and that as a member of the Organization, Roxas was probably just trying to confuse Sora and could not be trusted. Sora is confused, but continues on.

He managed to bring Roxas back so that he may join with Sora in order to awaken him from his sleep. However, Riku realized that Roxas had left in the first place because he really wanted to meet Sora, and thus Riku didn't have to fight him. Sora sadly expresses that he wants to meet Roxas as well, not knowing that he had already met him during their battle at Memory's Skyscraper. Riku then points out that Roxas rests within him. On their way to fight Xemnas, DiZ (now revealed to be the real Ansem, [[Ansem the Wise]]) apologizes to Roxas for his mistreatment of him, though he didn't know whether or not he could hear him.

After Xemnas's seeming defeat and the demise of most of the Organization members, Roxas and Naminé reunite, with Roxas projecting himself through Sora after Naminé joins with Kairi. They are happy that they met again, and say that unlike other Nobodies, they got to meet their original selves and become whole.

===''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''===

Roxas later appears before Sora in his dreams in The World That Never Was. He tells Sora that "it has to be you", even as Sora says that Roxas deserves to be his own person. Roxas shows Sora his memories, making him feel his pain, before fading.

==Design==

Roxas looks identical to [[Ventus]], due to Ventus's heart having been within Sora's heart when Roxas was created.<ref name="RoxVenLooks"/> He has bright blue eyes, a muscular build, and golden blond hair. His hair is spiky, as the front concentrates the spikes on the right side of his head as if windswept, while the back is smoother and more flaky.  

==Personality==

{{Q|You should share some of that hatred with Sora. He's far too nice for his own good.|DiZ, to Roxas}}

Due to retaining Ventus's heart, Roxas was able to feel emotions shortly after his creation,<ref name="RoxVenLooks"/> unlike typical Nobodies who must first regrow their own heart over a long period of time.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''''', '''Xemnas:''' "A heart is never lost for good. There may have been variances in our dispositions, but a number of us unquestionably showed signs of a burgeoning replacement. Once born, the heart can also be nurtured. Our experiments creating Heartless were attempts to control the mind, and convince it to renounce its sense of self. But understand, one can banish the heart from the body, but the body will try to replace it the first chance it gets, for as many times as it takes. And so I knew, even after we were divided into Heartless and Nobodies, it was just a temporary separation."</ref>  Being Sora's other half, his personality is similar to that of his counterpart, with some differences. For example, when Riku confirms that Roxas is Sora's Nobody after they meet in Dark City, Roxas's statement, "What are you talking about? I am me! Nobody else!" is nearly identical to Sora's later reactions when the Organization XIII members address him as Roxas.