Xigbar
Xigbar, the Freeshooter, is number II in Organization XIII. He is both one of the last to be defeated and the first to speak to Sora in Kingdom Hearts II, although he does so hooded at first. Xigbar fights with two elaborate guns, capable of firing many different types of shots, the most common of which are laser arrows.
Appearance at Hollow Bastion
Not long after arriving in Hollow Bastion and reuniting with Aerith, Leon and Yuffie, Sora engaged a number of Dusk Nobodies in battle around the city. After being led away from the main town, Sora, Goofy and Donald heard voices mocking them, but could find no source for them. After Sora demands that they show themselves, the remaining Organization members (having lost 5 members due to deaths and two others due to desertion) materialize, laughing. Though they are hooded, they are recognizable as the Organization from the description given to Sora and his companions by Yen Sid.
The Organization eventually departs, but Xigbar, still cloaked and hooded, stays behind to taunt Sora further. After Sora becomes aggression and draws his Keyblade, Xigbar tells him that he is no match for him, since he is "not just any old dude", but a member of Organization XIII, making nothing about him "old" at all. Xigbar goes on to imply that Sora has a history with the Organization and reminds Xigbar of someone who used to give him a similar look. Sora replies that he can't be deterred by random gibberish, and Xigbar vanishes with a laugh.
Land of Dragons
In Sora's second trip to the Land of Dragons, Sora tracked a black-cloaked figure into the mountains. The two fought, Sora using his Keyblade and the figure using the Soul Eater that belonged to Riku. The mysterious figure fled shortly and, suspecting that he was Riku, Sora followed him. When Sora arrived at the Emperor's Palace, the site of his earlier battle with Shan Yu, he entered to find a man in a black cloak near the door the the Throne Room. Sora called out Riku's name, and the man unmasked himself, stepping back from the doorway.
It was not Riku, but Xigbar, who was under the cloak. Remarking that he had never heard of anyone named Riku, Xigbar summoned his Snipers to distract Sora while he escaped. The diversion worked, althought the Nobodies were defeated, and Xigbar was able to continue his mission of summoning an enormous Heartless to harvest hearts for the Organization's plans. He managed to set the Storm Rider on the city, but it was soon destroyed by Sora, Mulan, Donald and Goofy.
The World That Never Was
Xigbar's final appearance in the game was in The World That Never Was inside Organization XIII's stronghold. After Riku and Naminé helps Kairi to escape from the Organization, they head for the Hall of Empty Melodies, a large, open-air room leading further up into the castle. Sora and his party arrive there, but are stopped by Saïx, who calls out swarms of Shadow heartless to attack the intruders. Maleficent and Pete also arrive, expressing interest in taking the Organization's castle for themselves.
Eventually, Maleficent and Pete leave to formulate a plan for taking the castle, and Saïx heads up to rejoin Xemnas. Sora and Kairi remain seperated as Riku and Kairi remain above Sora on a balcony, fighting off the Heartless gathered there. Many Heartless attack Sora as well, but they are all dispatched in a rain of arrows from Xigbar.
Xigbar leaps off the balcony and lands in front of Sora, where he squares off to do battle with Sora, calling by the name Roxas. He then attacks, teleporting out of range and sniping at Sora from the balcony above; after Sora reflects his shots back at him, he returns to the floor area and uses his fast-firing guns combined with manipulation of gravity to eliminate Sora and his friends. Ultimately, however, he is defeated and begins to fade into the darkness. Before he disintegrates completely, Sora asks him why he called him "Roxas", but the downcast Xigbar only replies "wouldn't you like to know?", and fades away.
Personality and Combat
Xigbar has a laid-back and cocky attitude, and likes to taunt Sora to put him off-guard, though with limited success. Despite his high rank, he is not given high authority like Saïx, but instead is sent on missions and confrontations with Sora. He relies heavily on instinct rather on intelligence for both decision making and fighting, making him adaptable and unpredictable in battle.
Xigbar fights by shooting rapidly from his twin guns, earning him the title Freeshooter. He can manipulate the space around him to teleport and hang suspended upside-down in midair to give him a height advantage over Sora without costing him a clear shot. As the battle progresses, he begins to teleport faster and shift the ground on which they fight, and will occasionally go into a frenzy, becoming invincible and firing torrents of laser arrows before relenting and returning to normal without pause.
The reaction command while fighting Xigbar is "Warp Snipe", the same as the one for Sniper Nobodies, which he controls. Sora can use it to deflect gunfire back at him. Using Warp Snipe is the only way to get Xigbar to descend from the balcony and engage Sora directly. Gunfire can also be blocked with the keyblade's Guard ability.
Quotes
During Battle
- "Arms, reload!"
Trivia
- During Sora's battle with Xigbar, he says "Arms, reload!" whenever he reloads his rifles. However, he says it so quickly that to many it may sound like "R, reload!" In first-person shooting games and similar aspects such as Star Wars Battlefront, the R Button is commonly used for either reloading a weapon or switching to a new weapon.
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