Editing Luxord

'''Luxord''', the {{nihongo|''Gambler of Fate''|運命を賭す者|Unmei o Tosumono}}, is Rank X within the original [[Organization XIII]] and a member of the [[real Organization XIII]]. He possesses the power of time manipulation and uses his ability to force his opponents to play timed games, with unfortunate consequences if they cannot learn the rules and lose. He commands the [[Gambler]] [[Nobodies]].

In ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', he harassed [[Sora]] and his friends in [[Port Royal]], playing a game with them involving the cursed [[Aztec Treasure]] there. He later battles Sora alone in [[The World That Never Was]], and is the third-to-last member of Organization XIII to fall.

 

In ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]'', he returns as a member of the [[Real Organization XIII]].

On an unknown world, Luxord's original persona became a [[Heartless]], his strong will allowing his [[body]] to continue on as his Nobody, Luxord. He was later found by an unknown member and became the tenth member of Organization XIII.

|In the ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'' novel, Luxord is shown beating [[Axel]] at a game of cards. Embarrassed, Axel challenges him for another game. At Axel's words, Luxord starts shuffling the cards, laughing, as [[Xigbar]] arrives. Luxord asks him for a game, but he refuses. The trio start to talk about [[Xemnas]] going out of the [[Castle That Never Was|castle]].

When Axel questions the latter, Xigbar replies that the world is moving, though Axel and Luxord are confused by this and Xigbar refuses to tell more, leaving them puzzled. Luxord comments about the original six members having been companions since before Organization XIII was formed and that he doesn't understand what they were planning. Axel drops the subject and the pair started to play cards again.

Luxord is present as Xemnas introduces the Organization's fourteenth member, [[Xion]]. He regularly hangs out in the [[Grey Area]], and will often team up with [[Roxas]] on missions to [[Wonderland]]. Luxord approaches all of his missions as games and tends to comment on them as such to Roxas, often leaving him puzzled with his metaphors.

 

He appears shocked when Xemnas announces at an Organization meeting the truth about Xion being a [[replica]], and remarks, "If only the whispers from the top of the ladder carried to the bottom rung," before vanishing from [[Where Nothing Gathers]]. If Roxas talks to him before leaving on his mission, he remarks that "no game is complete without pawns", seemingly resigned to his own role as a pawn in the Organization.

[[File:Parle from Organization XIII 01 KHII.png|thumb|200px|Luxord orders the destruction of the Interceptor while Sora and his friends are still aboard.]]

Immediately after taunting Sora, the Organization returns to [[Where Nothing Gathers]]. In response to talk about making plans for the future, Luxord states his hope for the boy and his intention to lend a hand to determine Sora's fate. This causes [[Demyx]] to suggest his own method, much to Xigbar's chagrin, and after [[Xaldin]] chastises him, Luxord expresses disappointment, realizing that he needs to wait for his fun to begin.

Upon making second rounds to the worlds in search of Organization XIII's stronghold, Sora and co. join [[Jack Sparrow]] in Port Royal to find [[William Turner]], who has gone missing while investigating the theft of the cursed pirate gold by a man in a black hood. They seek out Will using the ''[[Black Pearl]]'', and find him on the ''Interceptor''. As soon as they recover Will, Luxord appears on the ''Black Pearl'' with the cursed gold beside him, and greets Jack Sparrow. He reveals that he is at Port Royal to assess the value of the cursed gold to the Organization, and summons the [[Grim Reaper]] [[Heartless]]. After the Heartless is thrown overboard, Luxord invokes the right of {{w|parley}} before Jack can get off a shot with his pistol. He agrees to hand over the chest, but takes four [[medallion]]s and gives them to his Gambler Nobodies, who vanish. This reactivates the curse on Jack, as well as placing it on the Grim Reaper.

The Grim Reaper then knocks Sora, [[Donald Duck|Donald]], [[Goofy]], and Jack onto the ''Interceptor'', and has the cannons of the ''Black Pearl'' destroy the ship. Sora and the others survive and track down the medallions, after which they head to Port Royal and defeat the Grim Reaper, lifting the curse on Jack. Even with Luxord's experiments having failed, he manages to bring the [[heart]] that the Grim Reaper was holding to [[Kingdom Hearts]], and promptly flees.

Luxord, wearing his [[black coat]], appears alongside his fellow members of the real Organization XIII at [[Where Nothing Gathers]]. As the heroes advance, the Organization's allotted time expires and its members, including Luxord, retreat to their rightful points in time.

{{Q|A wild card. You've earned it. Hang on to it. Could turn the tables.|Luxord}}

[[File:Strategic Moves 01 KHIIIRM.png|thumb|200px|Luxord grills Xigbar about the importance of the Black Box.]]

As Xigbar finishes observing [[Pete]] and [[Maleficent]]'s search for the [[Black Box]] in [[Olympus]], Luxord appears and presents him with a riddle in regards to the box's location. Deducing that Xigbar was the one who ordered him to search for the box, Luxord inquires on Xigbar's intentions, though Xigbar continues to feign ignorance. Unconvinced by his lies, Luxord throws a card towards Xigbar and questions him on the black box's sudden importance and his true identity, as he believes that he wishes to secure the black box in order to remove any connections to him with it. Though Xigbar gives no answer, Luxord relents, explaining he was content with being silent, before warping away.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind}}

In the [[Keyblade Graveyard]], Luxord appears with [[Marluxia]], [[Larxene]], and Demyx. Larxene asks if his role involved the mysterious Black Box that Xigbar had mentioned to them, though Luxord tells her that the box contains "hope" that the Organization needs. Having no success, just as Xemnas is about to reveal that he, along with Demyx, Marluxia, and Larxene, was initiated into both the first and second Organizations due to their connections to an ancient [[Keyblade]] legacy.  

[[File:Final Confrontations II 02 KHIII.png|thumb|left|200px|Luxord traps Mickey and challenges Sora.]]

Luxord is among the members of the [[real Organization XIII]] who stand beside [[Xehanort]] as he summons a labyrinth spanning the Keyblade Graveyard. He joins Xemnas, Marluxia, and Larxene in battling [[King Mickey]] until Sora intervenes. Shortly into the battle, Xemnas empowers Luxord and departs, allowing Luxord to trap Mickey in a card. He challenges Sora to one final game: to free Mickey, the hero must find Luxord hidden among a circle of cards. Sora finds and defeats Luxord, who rewards Sora with a wild card to help turn the tables. Sora asks to play with him again when they are normal humans, to which Luxord agrees. He fades away, leaving behind another card that explodes and frees Mickey.

Luxord wears the usual all-black attire of Organization members, but his cloak is somewhat different than normal, sporting slightly pointed shoulders and very loose sleeves. Luxord's platinum blond hair is very short and worn in a Caesar cut, and he has blue eyes, which later turn golden as a vessel of Xehanort's heart. He is also the only member of Organization XIII to have facial hair, a goatee with the same blond color as his hair. Luxord wears five silver piercings on his ears; four {{w|helix piercing}}s in the form of two hoops on each ear and one piercing shaped like the [[Nobody]] symbol dangling from one earlobe. The latter piercing hangs from his left ear in-game and his right in some artwork, indicating that both earlobes are pierced.

Luxord is also portrayed as a master of rhetoric, with an advanced vocabulary (for example, describing the Grim Reaper Heartless as "'' a veritable maelstrom of avarice''", meaning endlessly greedy, using it to taunt his opponents). Unlike most other members of Organization XIII, who banter with Sora in some fashion before fighting, when Luxord appears to him he calmly smiles and says "'' I'd rather we just skip the formalities ''", and begins the battle right away. This somewhat contrasts his appearance in ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', where he talks a good deal to Roxas on their missions and other members of the Organization.

Luxord respects those with a talent for games; complimenting their skill regardless of who wins. Upon his second defeat, Luxord acknowledges Sora was a natural-born gambler, granting him a wild card that could "turn the tables" while accepting his offer to play cards again after Luxord is recompleted.

Luxord uses his attribute, time, in unorthodox methods when compared to other Organization XIII members. He shortens the odds originally by dispatching of Sora's companions before attacking Sora himself. Luxord does not have an [[HP]] bar; during the battle, Luxord and Sora each have a "time" bar that depletes over time and when they are damaged. The first to have theirs depleted loses the battle. This means that the player must watch Sora's HP and time gauges to make sure neither is emptied. He can blast his enemies with magic presumably of his element when they are far away, but he mainly uses his cards to fight them.