#i wonder if this misconception about roxas happens because most of his personality is shown in days
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I find it interesting how Roxas is often described as the āangry oneā or āshort-tempered oneā when compared to Sora or Ventus, mostly because I always felt Sora and Ven have a shorter fuse than Roxas.
The association between Roxas and anger is understandable, because many of Roxasā most poignant moments in the series happen when he is very (and understandably) angry, but I also feel like itās a disservice to his character to only reduce him to his anger, especially when itās far from who he is in normal circumstances.
For example, during Days, many Organization members treat him poorly and insult him to his face and, for the most part, Roxas doesnāt react at all. In Halloween Town, Lock, Shock, and Barrel throw bombs in his face multiple times before Roxas finally snaps at them. He senses that many people around him are keeping things from him, but it takes him months before he confronts someone about it. Thatās far from someone Iād consider short-tempered or easy to anger.
The only situation I can think of when we see him get upset quickly is if anyone does or says something bad to Xion and, even then, the most of his reaction is verbally snapping at Saix to make him stop disrespecting her. In Axelās case (when Roxas is upset with him for attacking Xion), Roxas doesnāt confront him at all, he just avoids him altogether. Also, I think itās important to note that every moment in which Roxas is very angry happens when his entire life is falling apart, which is a situation in which, I believe, everyone would be upset.
Roxas seems the kind of person who bottles everything up without much reaction until it becomes too much and he explodes, and thatās when he has a hard time controlling his anger/emotions. Having spent most of his life in the organization probably plays a part in it as, every time he brings up any emotion, his feelings are invalidated and suppressed. Thatās not an environment that gave him the tools to process strong emotions in a healthy way.
Letās compare that to Ventus. Ven is the definition of short-tempered in BBS. Heās ready to throw hands with Vanitas the moment he says something remotely bad about Terra, which was minutes after he met him for the first time. He fought the dwarves without a second thought just because they refused to talk with him. His first reaction when he becomes small and is trapped in a mousetrap is to shout. These are just some examples from the top of my head, but itās clear Ven has a shorter fuse than Roxas.
Ventus usually expresses how he feels in any given situation and has a short fuse. On the flip side, he doesnāt seem to hold on to these feelings at all. He externalises them the moment he feels them, but then he lets it go and it doesnāt bother him anymore. Out of the three of them, Ventus seems the most open about his emotions and, from what I remember, when he opens up about feeling a certain way with his friends, his feelings are usually not invalidated nor brushed aside. In UX, Ventus seems calmer and doesnāt have much anger in him, but heās still open to expressing his feelings of low self-worth and sadness with the other union leaders.
Sora, I think he falls in the middle? He seems to have a shorter temper compared to Roxas, which was especially clear in KH2, where he snaps at the Organization multiple times, but he also bottles up his emotions more than Ven, especially around his friends. This happens mostly with his sadness, which he always tries to hide or brush aside, but in KH3 we can also see, for example, how much heās bothered by everyone constantly bringing up him not passing the Mark of Mastery, even if he tries not to show it.
I think Sora feels like he should always be happy for his friendsā sake, and even during the rare moments when he tries to express his sadness, his feelings are not truly welcomed (āNo frowning. No sad faces. This boat runs on happy facesā), so he just tries to brush it off as a joke. Heās loud in expressing any kind of positive emotion, and he openly expresses his anger against his enemies (and to his friends too, sometimes), but he also doesnāt hold on to that anger and is pretty forgiving. However, he usually bottles up his sadness, low self-esteem and other negative feelings, and then explodes when he canāt hold it together any longer (like it happened at the Keyblade Graveyard when he thought all his friends were gone forever).
#roxas#ventus#sora#kingdom hearts#kh#i wonder if this misconception about roxas happens because most of his personality is shown in days#like in the actual game not in the movie#and maybe people who didn't play days don't know his characterization during the game#even if i would argue sora and especially ventus suffer from the same problem but opposite#where they're often described as always happy and sunshine when there's much more to their characterization#anyway i just wanted to talk about them#sorry for any mistakes#long post
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