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I find it interesting how Roxas is often described as the “angry one” or “short-tempered one” 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 Roxas’ most poignant moments in the series happen when he is very (and understandably) angry, but I also feel like it’s a disservice to his character to only reduce him to his anger, especially when it’s 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 doesn’t 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. That’s far from someone I’d 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 Axel’s case (when Roxas is upset with him for attacking Xion), Roxas doesn’t confront him at all, he just avoids him altogether. Also, I think it’s 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 that’s 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. That’s not an environment that gave him the tools to process strong emotions in a healthy way.

Let’s compare that to Ventus. Ven is the definition of short-tempered in BBS. He’s 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 it’s 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 doesn’t 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 doesn’t 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 doesn’t have much anger in him, but he’s 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 he’s 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 friends’ sake, and even during the rare moments when he tries to express his sadness, his feelings are not truly welcomed (“No frowning. No sad faces. This boat runs on happy faces”), so he just tries to brush it off as a joke. He’s 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 doesn’t 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 can’t hold it together any longer (like it happened at the Keyblade Graveyard when he thought all his friends were gone forever).

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The 2nd piece I did for the cancelled zine

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little christmas gift!

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Day 2:

Eyes on me - Like the sky is new

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oath to return

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I dunno I'm just kinda thinking about the little mermaid again.... I'm just kinda thinking about Riku again... I'm just kinda putting the two together again..

Here's my other little mermaid posts: x, x, x

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it's a soriku angst night 🙂‍↕️

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Keep your light close✨

(Legit need to draw more SoRiku)

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SorikuWeek Day 5: My Star

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I present my Soriku week art:

"Sora and Riku's Endangered Love"

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2024 Soriku week day 2 - eyes on me/when the sky is new

explanation/interpretation under the cut :3

I love when Sora and Riku banter, its like my favorite thing ever, and I wish they got more moments to be silly together!! When they were really little, bantering was fun and didn't have any negativity associated with it but insecurity and doubt grew between them by the start of KH1, leading to their eventual falling out. After kh3 though, both of them have grown a lot, especially Riku, and neither feel the need to be better than the other, and their bantering/teasing can be fun instead of bitter once again :)

In this specific case, I imagine Riku was pranked by Sora into believing he could fly without pixie dust while in Neverland as revenge for Santa, and/or Sora was carrying Riku while flying and dropped him after giving him a lil smooch :3

eyes on me - Gonna be real, did not think much about this, but Riku always has his eyes on Sora even when he's being pranked XD

when the sky is new - I featured a large amount of sky in this illustration, and the "new" part being sort of a fresh/happy start for their relationship in my mind after the events of k1/com/kh2

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Years and years ago, when I was a wee baby that couldn’t remember anything (because it was my… second Christmas, ish) my mother dearest was stuck alone in her new house with four young toddlers and 9 feet of snow around us. so, to entertain her children, my young mother dug tunnels through the snow and let us sled off the roof.

the town would also take all the snow off the roads and push it into the local church parking lot. Us children would take picks and shovels and make tunnels through the ice

Fun snow day

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Sketches from the Soriku Day stream with Niku!

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soriku week 4: Day 2

eyes on me / like the sky is new

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SorikuWeek Day 3: Melodies of Life

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My doodles from Soriku Day stream! Soriku Mice and Soriku Sleep…

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SorikuWeek Day 2: Eyes On Me