Data Riku [Jiminy's Journal]

Player Name: Daimon
Player Contact: dropitlikeitshod, daimon#1067
Character(s) In-Game: Prompto Argentum

Character Name: Data Riku, Jiminy's Journal, officially. He's also likely to keep using just 'Riku' until he meets the actual Riku.
Age: physically 16
Canon: Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

World Description: Kingdom Hearts Re:coded on the KH wiki

History: Data Riku's entry on the wiki and also the general Jiminy's Journal entry _{I'm so sorry mods}

Death: Once the data was debugged, he had no real purpose anymore, so the digital Riku was simply deleted from the system.

What are your plans for this character in-game? I'd like for him to get to know others better. Despite looking human, he's pretty far from that mentally and emotionally. Also maybe experience Actual Death.

What aspects of this game and/or its setting are you most interested in having this character engage with? Death! He has no real concept of it; he knows that it's a thing and generally it's permanent, but he's never actually died himself or personally known anyone who died firsthand. Also survival, because he's never had to do that.

How does your character generally get along with other people? Usually pretty well! He's a little strange when it comes to interactions with others, as he's not great at reading people at all, and tends to take how they present themselves at face value. He has a moral compass that generally points to good, but what his idea of good is colored by those who have created the data that he draws from, i.e. Riku and Jiminy Cricket. Thus, he tends to reserve judgement on (but ultimately think the best of) most others until they demonstrate otherwise.

What is your character's mental state upon entering the game? Neutral? He's more curious about 'dying' than anything, and will want to learn as much as he can about Beacon and everyone in it.

Skills/Abilities: Another wiki article!

Essentially, Data Riku can use most of the abilities the real Riku demonstrates up to the end of Kingdom Hearts 2, including any dark abilities. This includes Dark Firaga, Dark Aura, dark corridors, and a darkness shield, but does not include elemental or curative magic. He also has the ability to teleport short distances.

It's unknown if he has the ability to summon a keyblade like the real Riku can, and it's likely he can't, as he's only borrowing the memories and appearance of Riku. Instead, he wields Riku's old sword, Soul Eater.

Unlike Riku, Data Riku can, as a digital being, manipulate data. As he wouldn't be in a computer in-game, he wouldn't be able to directly interface with any technology, but he would definitely be able to poke at the innards of something if he can get access to the source code.


Flaws/Weaknesses: He tends towards jealousy, like his non-digital counterpart, as well as a curiosity for things outside of his own world that can border on obsession. Being technically non-human, he has trouble with things like Actual Feelings, problems that don't have a clear cut, black-or-white solution, and Not Taking Everything Literally. He's intensely protective of the things he considers valuable and feels immensely guilty if anything bad happens to those things, even if it's something out of his control.


Personality: Data-Riku is calm and collected, though nearly to the point of emotionless. He’s entirely capable of expressions and emotions, showing worry concern when he encounters a problem he isn’t sure how to solve, or expressing surprise when...well, surprised, but for the most part, his demeanor is very subdued. However, he doesn’t seem to possess much of a competitive streak or arrogance, though he seems to have a fair bit of curiosity for the world and people in it, demonstrated by his mission to figure out what Naminé's message meant.

He tends to be very formal and technical in his speech, most likely because of his status as part of Mickey’s computer, and seems to have trouble when it comes to idioms and non-literal speech. Not to the point that he takes everything at face value, he’ll sometimes miss a joke or take what’s said too literally. He's generally not difficult to understand, unless he gets carried away with a technical explanation, wherein his speech will become more and more computer jargon.

Due to being part of a computer and because the main point of his existence is to serve as the container that holds the entire digital contents of Jiminy’s journal, he feels like he’s responsible for anything that happens to said contents, good or bad. He takes that job very seriously and is very quick to take the blame for the bad stuff, berating himself for letting it happen, and very quick to apologize. In fact, at one point, he’s called out on his self-deprecation and told to stop apologizing because things really aren’t his fault and also it’s obnoxious.

To which he attempts to apologize again.

Because he feels responsible for all that stuff, he also tends to feel like he’s the one that has to fix the problems however he can. This is a trait the real Riku possesses, but unlike Riku, Data-Riku doesn’t hesitate to accept outside help at the first chance he gets. For example, he took the opportunity to pull Mickey, Donald, and Goofy into the computer world as soon as it presented itself and set about helping Sora figure out what to do as soon as he could. Unfortunately, he's also quick to accept the first solution to a problem, even if it's not the best one, such as a complete lockdown on all the journal data because of a security breach, or attempting to sacrifice himself to take down a tough bug in the programming.

And then he apologizes for speaking to Sora in cryptic riddles and also pulling real beings into the datascape without their permission.

In addition to feeling responsible for all the journal data, he's also very protective of it. He's technically part of the data himself, (or at least his vessel; the actual line between 'data Riku' and 'journal' is blurry at best) it's in his best interest to protect it from deletion, corruption, or other mishaps. This includes the people inside, whether he's met them or not.

It's implied that of all the people he knows, he trusts Sora more than anyone else. He (at least as 'Riku') considers Sora his friend and generally defers to Sora's judgement for most problems, unless the problems are out of Sora's realm of knowledge (locked files/sectors/computer junk). He also believes that Sora's capable of getting much stronger than he is at any given time and pushes and encourages him to do so. Most of this relationship with Sora comes from his data-vessel's relationship with Sora, but it's worth pointing out, as he doesn't seem to be 'friends' with anyone else besides Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy. He does mention the other children living on Destiny Islands, but in a slightly disconnected way, as if they're more friends of Sora and not of him.

As part of a computer, Data Riku doesn't know much about anything that isn't either how a computer works or what data he has to work with uploaded from the paper journal. Which is actually a fair bit, as the writer of the journal is supposedly very thorough in his notes, but which also might not even be 100% correct, due to not experiencing everything at all points in time. He knows the basics of human interaction and sword-fighting, but details like illness, injury, most negative emotions, and human biology are things he doesn't quite understand.

He doesn't have much in the way of hobbies, and his main goal in life is to keep what he's been entrusted with safe. This is relatively easy, as the data world is relatively enclosed and simple to protect--keep the necessary things inside, keep the bad stuff out. However, he is curious about the worlds outside of the computer, as both he and the data version of Sora seem interested in meeting their 'real' counterparts. If given the chance, it's entirely possible that Data Riku would attempt to go out into the real world to check it out, or at least request more journals be uploaded so that he can experience new worlds. This isn't explicitly shown, but judging from his reaction to having access to a bunch of new data (stuff that Naminé added), he enjoys discovering things.

He's entirely likely to do stupid things in the name of science research.


Items: Just his clothes (black coat, t-shirt, pants, boots, gloves).

Samples: Recent Test Drive with both kinds of samples.