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well Larxene was a chef-in-training at a local restaurant. Her favorite gift was the expensive knife-set her father imported from another world for her to begin her culinary arts career. The knives could cut just about anything without much pressure at all, yet were as small as a nail file and could be worn inbetween the knuckles. She spends her weekends reading deep romance novels and scoffing at their corny plot twists, and learns the secrets of fine dining and how to properly prepare every sort of steak dish in Radiant Garden.
Larxene was soon invited to Ansem the Wise's luxurious castle to cook for his guests, apprentices and subjects. She became renowned throughout the town for her special dish, a tender Wagyu filet marinaded with her special sauce and slowly cooked in expensive Macademia nut oil.
Demyx was a starving artist on the streets of Radiant Garden's "East-Side", learning how to play the sitar since he was 3 years old and performing in ratty street clubs for munny. His first sitar was something he constructed in his father's violin shop out of spare parts and a lack of blueprint. After weeks, he finally had something that he could strum and play, but it certainly wasn't a violin. His father let him keep it, hoping he might discover fondness in the violin some day. Demyx kept playing it, though. He grew fascinated and intrigued with its sound, and began to make larger, more complex instruments until he ended up with the sitar he plays today.
As a desperate musician, Demyx often used his charm and humor to sway people at small clubs or restaurants to allow him to play. Demyx was awfully nimble with his fingers, but his style of play was very dull and soporific. People grew bored of his sitar lullabies fairly easily on stage, asking him to play something more lively (of which he knew no tunes), so he'd resort to knock-knock jokes and puns to save the show. Needless to say, after he performed at a club, he was rarely asked back.
Demyx's big break came during an important dinner Ansem the Wise was planning to have with all the most important people in Radiant Garden. Demyx's cousin Larxene put in a good word to allow him to play at the dinner with his sitar, even though he didn't keep in touch with her often, which is why it caught him off-guard when he was invited to Ansem's party.
Demyx's soothing lullabies were accepted with great relief and cheer after the very large, filling dinner. Ansem's guests were amazed by his melodic licks and picks on the sleepy-stringed instrument. Demyx was asked to perform at every major event Ansem held thereafter.
Marluxia was a complicated man with a complicated past. As a child he was orphaned, and forced to live with his grandmother on her ranch in the countryside of Radiant Garden. His grandmother told him that when we die, we return to the earth and become flowers, so we can brighten someone's day when they walk past. Marluxia never forgot his grandmother when she soon passed away, and inherited her country home. At her funeral, he kept one of the flowers at her grave and planted it at home where he knew his grandmother would always be with him.
As an adult, Marluxia was a very reserved and intellectual man, yet so incredibly polite and courteous, those around him thought he must have been incredibly well-brought-up. Despite his complex personality, he feels that flowers simplify his nature into a small, beautiful icon.
So he planted flowers, lots of flowers, many flowers. Eventually people from all over Radiant Garden came to visit his beautiful home laced with a garden of spectacularly-colored fauna.
Ansem the Wise heard of his gardening talents and asked him to come decorate for his palace, and though hesitant to leave his home, Marluxia acquiesced hoping that he could find more inspiration for his gardening at the palace. The only thing he brought with him was a scythe he found in an old toolshed at the ranch he thought might be useful someday.
Saix grew up in an extremely wealthy household, living in the lap of luxury without a care in sight. Quite snobbish, as a boy, if he heard the other children talking about gifts they got for their birthdays or Christmas, he would come to school the next day with two of them just to assert his superiority. His mother, although in love with his father, detested her husband's lust for money and lived her days miserably married in that incredible mansion.
Saix's father never quite knew the word "no", being a wealthy real estate tycoon in Radiant Garden. Saix's grandfather could be credited to the establishment of the city, as he saw the empty land as valuable property based on only one feature: it gave a lovely view of the moon at night.
Saix was a man of many words that restricted his opinions to as few words as possible, for efficiency purposes. He hardly knew of positive human sentiment, and rather kept his mind focused on a thirst for knowledge, money and superiority.
One day he ran into a young woman in the marketplace, a low-class worker of sorts, with a radical beauty unusual for someone so commonplace. Her grace snagged his eye so tightly that he couldn't help but ask for her name, but by this time she had already slipped into the crowds.
He came back every day, and noticed her there everyday. They would stare at each other for a few moments until he regained his composure and acted like nothing happened.
This continued for months until he decided to finally take a step forward.
Saix confronted her and asked if she'd like to meet him at the beach sometime. She told him "The night sky kissing the horizon is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen", and slipped back into the crowds.
He knew his father would never approve of him taking fancy to a commoner and ruining their family name, so he dared not tell him.
One night he was at the beach alone and saw her approach him from the distance.
He invited her to come sit in the sand with him.
They sighed and stared that full moon that night, larger than ever before.
Saix felt an urge he had never felt for a woman before, and leaned into her lips.
Before they could touch, the woman scrambled to her feet and regained her composure. She said very calmly "I am not one of you.." as she ran away into the darkness and was never seen by Saix again.
Saix grew into a cold, resentful man in addition to his greed that day. It was the first time he wasn't able to keep what he wanted, and he held those feelings of rejection and despise against everyone who wasn't him.
He eventually inherited his father's business and grew wealthier by the year, focusing his sharp desires into shady, crafty real estate deals.
Ansem the Wise employed Saix to purchase land around his castle to further renovations and building of more laboratories.
As for Axel, Axel was was a black-belt in taekwondo living in a run-down apartment in downtown Radiant Garden. A heavy drinker by heart and a strip-club customer by night, he took joy in the simple pleasures of life, spending his weekends alone training for a fight he'd never compete in. He always seemed to juggle the odd job here and there, delivering letters via skateboard or pushing bags full of junk uphill, to survive paying next-month's rent. Despite his passive nature and easy personality, he had a sharp will for the martial arts and a skill unseen in the town of Radiant Garden.
One day the town was holding a free-style martial arts tournament that Axel became interested in. The winner was promised a set of razor sharp, custom-crafted chalkrams imported from another world.
Axel trained day and night, even skipping on the booze and tits every once in a while in anticipation for the competition.
The day of the match came and Axel faced his first opponent. One by one, they were left unconscious on the ground by Axel's lightning-quick arms and legs.
Eventually all that was left was the other finalist, a small man with a black face, blue coat and a tall hat.
Moments into the fight, the small man was left broken on the ground by the hands of Axel.
Axel claimed his prize, the coveted chalkrams and was caught off-guard by another surprise. The winner would get a private dojo and training grounds provided by Ansem the Wise to train whenever they wished.
Axel was ecstatic about not having to pay for apartment rent anymore, and hastily canceled his lease with his landlord who informed his landowner, Saix, about the contract violation. Saix was infuriated, but reconsidered and let Axel go after he promised to teach Saix martial arts on Tuesdays.
So yeah I'd say they've been pretty busy.
