Charles Marlow
Marlow's name may be inspired by the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Conrad's father was a translator of William Shakespeare who doubtless would have known of Marlowe's work as well. Some intertextual interpretations of "Heart of Darkness" have suggested that Marlowe's "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" may have influenced Conrad. Charles Marlow describes a character as a "papier-mache Mephistopheles", a reference to the Faust legend. Marlow's and Kurtz's journey up the Congo River in "Heart of Darkness" also has similarities to another work by Marlowe, "Dido, Queen of Carthage", in which Aeneas is stranded on the shore of Libya and meets the African queen Dido.
Characters of Kingdom Hearts
is a group whose creation was orchestrated by Xehanort for his plan to acquire the χ-blade, the members meant to embody the thirteen hearts of darknesses that with seven pure hearts of light form the legendary weapon. The original members of Organization are a group of thirteen Nobodies, its six founding members coming into being when Xehanort removed his heart along with Braig and Ansem the Wise's apprentices with Xehanort's Nobody Xemnas ranked first as their leader. They gradually build up their membership with Roxas ranked thirteenth as the most recent, the group deluded by Xemnas and Xigbar to seek using Kingdom Hearts to become complete humans. With the exception of Xemnas using Ansem's name, each Organization member's name is an anagram of their original self's name with the letter "X" inserted. While Nobodies lack true emotion and morality at first, they gradually grow hearts overtime or are special cases like Roxas.