| Deathhead Coalition | |
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| Name | Deathhead Coalition |
| Members | 7; Nobodies |
| Role | Protagonists |
| Story | Kingdom Hearts Legacy - Xelak's sidestory |
An organization made up of previously dead Nobodies headed by Xelak Neverowle, La Lutte Pour Presque Rien member number 10.
Story
The Grid
Now, as we've all agreed, Xelak perishes for some noble reason during Kami's retaliation on poor La Lutte Pour Presque Rien.
When he finally comes to himself, he's in a plains-type field that goes on for quite a bit. Needless to say we're all confused at this point. Nobodies don't have a heaven, do they?
Anyway, after facing a group of some new "hollow" Heartless, Xelak realizes he's been messed with. For one, he looks like he's seventeen, not fourteen. And he's a lot more powerful. The Nullblade looks different, too. (more on those later)
After wandering a while he finds himself in a small hamlet-type thingy under a assault from a larger group of the same Heartless. He liberates the town, with the help of a new ally, a bounty hunter named Rez who wields a crossbow that fires bolts of the same material as Xigbar's bullets. Obviously, another Nobody.
After being thanked by the townspeople, Xelak gets the scoop on where he's at from Rez. Turns out everyone here's a Nobody, and they all suffer under the fuedal-style rule of a rather unfair lord named Jherard dePlayero. Rez's been hired by a rebel group to assassinate Jherard, and after learning dePlayero might have a device to transport to other worlds, Xelak decides he wants in on the action.
Their first attempt isn't so successful. After performing a daring week-long cross-country run across the area Jherard controls, Xelak comes up the idea that they might need a little help. Sending out the call for all who have no sympathy for dePlayero, 30 Nobodies end up signing up for the job. After grueling training lasting nearly a month, four remain, not including Xelak and Rez. This little group have no collective name to begin, only calling themselves the Numbered, as each goes by the number the enlisted as originally, starting with #10, Xelak himself, and going to #33, Rez, who prefers to remain rather inconspicuous.
After marching across dePlayero's lands and destroying every Heartless they come across, it is Xelak who notices the slight, raven-haired woman who has an aura of power about her, although her element is unknown. Her name is Stylia, an she makes a meager, insufficient living as a fortuneteller. Armed with only a staff, she views Xelak as a savior, and is pretty loyal to him.
After learning dePlayero's Faceless Army, made of the hollow Heartless Xelak fought, are a crossbreed of Nobodies and Heartless, and freeing the lands right up to Jherard's castle, the Numbered storm the stronghold and fight right up to Jherard's throneroom. After engaging the lord himself, who is completely armored and wields a broadsword, it is during a slow moment in the fight when Jherard breaks the news: this is all a video game, in which he is the player character. In fact, his name is not Jherard dePlayero, but instead is called The Player. Xelak and his company are suppposed to be computer-controlled NPC's, but due to a glitch during their upload and due to to their creations as Nobodies, the Numbered and about one in every 1,000,000 of Jhereard's subjects are sentient and aware. The rest are just computer programs - computer programs of deceased Nobodies on which The Player has gathered data and stored in his harddrive; which is why Xelak remembers himself dying and then waking up on the plains. As for The Player himself, he invented a device to physically digitize himself into the game.
After a grueling battle that taxes all of the Numbered's stmaina, Jherard dies both physically and digitally, he leaves behind the pendant that serves as the terminal between The Grid (as The Player's fantasy world is known) and the real world.
The Welcome Mat
Teleporting back, Xelak and company, now known as the Deathhead Coalition (for they have all died) find themselves in a dank and old castle on the forgotten chunk of a destroyed world. After discovering the part of the castle The Player renovated as his living quarters, the Coalition unanimously votes to make the castle theirs. During their own personal remodeling, they discover a cylindrical, ballroom-like room several stories high, perfect for training - were it not for the gigantic, tree-like Pureblood Heartless taking up most of it. After another battle, Xelak manages to, somehow, establish a psychic contact with the beast - and reveals it to be his own Heartless. After a mental battle that ends up with both of them realizing how stupid they were, the Reverse Gaia relocates to a pot in Xelak's room, as a smaller plant who offers him advice occasionally.
After months of additional renovations, training, partying, and general riff-raff, Xelak and Stylia end up as an item, Xeron holds several concerts with some of his favorite old-timey songs in the living room, Rez and Spectre end up as a great team and Luna discovers she can bake some awesome chocolate-chip cookies (literally). In addition, after Xeron (who is technologically savvy, by the way) accesses some of The Player's files, the group discovers the chunk of dead planet their castle is on is the last remaining remnant of Xelak's homeworld, Reality's Dawn. Also finding The Player's notes on Gummi Ship creation, the Deathhead Coalition build their own intersteller vehicle and eventually make contact with La Lutte.
And thus begins the final campaign against Kami.
Members
The Coalition's members are as follows:
10. - (Superior/founding member) Xelak (Neverowle Forme)
13. - (Second) Xeron
18. - Luna
19. - Sole
21. - Spectre
33. - (founding member) Rez
41. - Stylia