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when people refer to canon story-relevant kingdom hearts games as ‘spinoffs’ it makes me sad not only for the obvious reasons i always say but also bc like man i WISH this series had spinoffs. imagine what they could do if they had permission from nomura to truly go off the rails and ignore the greater canon for a second and just do some fun whimsical plotless thing in an alternate universe. imagine a fishing/boating game on destiny islands. kh fighting game. it is an injustice that we have been deprived of kingdom karts. can anyone hear me
#in terms of alternate gameplay and lack of reliance on plot#i feel like melody of memory is the closest thing kh has actually had to a spinoff#but even that is important in its own way in the end#union cross to a certain degree as well what with being an online multiplayer gacha type game#its original concept i would definitely classify as a spinoff game#bc it was set in a totally different world and time period and was supposed to be about customization and fun with friends#and nomura or someone said it wasn’t meant to be connected to the plot#but then like. he did very much go and give it a plot. like he went back on that almost immediately#and even then. given that the game is still very much combat and exploration#even from the beginning can it really be called a spinoff? it’s just kh in a different format#i’m talking like a game in which the objective is something totally different.#racing game or cooking game or fighting game or (another) rhythm game#ace attorney style detective game. dancing game. dude i don’t know#there are so many different flavors they could go with here#alas nomura is allergic to genuine whimsy which is hilarious given that this is a disney series#like he apparently was like ‘ohhh should we really let sora in smash? would it make sense in the story?’#my brother in christ surely we’re not supposed to interpret this as canon to kh right? right????#i guess it’s just that the kh franchise has a very specific pristine vibe he wants to maintain#which is disney shenanigans as a seasoning on top of a main dish of Stone Cold Serious Anime Plot#kingdom hearts#kh#mine: kh
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#kh is insane!!!!!#kingdom hearts#soriku#enchanted#playing into the expectation of a Big Special Connection between the ‘prince’ and the ‘princess’ just to subvert it#the bitten poisoned apple also rolls to robert who picks it up like how riku is the one in sora’s dreams#they are set up to be the non-traditional hero/rescuer/‘prince’#and if it’s true that sora wakes up/kh4 starts as soon as riku uses the power of waking to reach him…#then it is kind of like his ‘kiss’ is the one that works
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#kingdom hearts dream drop distance#khddd#sora#riku#nightmare's end#mirage split#my gif#i was going to write up a whole thing in the tags about my thoughts on this keyblade#but i just know it'll be an incoherent essay because i can't properly articulate my thoughts#the x-blade must be forged through a clash of light and darkness#but i find it so highly significant that sora and riku can create their own keyblade which is so unheard of#this keyblade isn't created with a clash but rather through harmony and balance#not with conflict but with understanding and connection and love#and i always felt as though that's how the x-blade SHOULD be forged. that master xehanort went about it all wrong#because balance and connections are such important themes in these games#it has two handles and looks so regal when combined. all of the shapes feel reminiscent of the x-blade too#it shines so brilliantly with both sora and riku's symbols. the heart and crown which is the iconic logo for the entire series#also the way stained glass is always used to represent hearts. it's so significant!#and yeah the paupu fruit keychain is its own thing to unpack#okay so i ended up writing something anyway but there's still so much more#i just really hope we get to see more of this in future games because it would be shocking if it was nothing more than a cool combo attack
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“Sora? Funny… Just hearing that name kinda makes me wanna smile”
“Yeah, That’s how he is”
“Whaddaya know… Riku and Sora, The Sound Ideas you two set free joined together. And when they did, they made a great and powerful harmony”
“Sora can find the brightest part of anything, and pull off miracles like there’s nothing to it. It’s pretty hard to not smile around him”
“Wow! No wonder the music sounded like so much fun”
#kingdom hearts#kh#riku kh#kh sora#kingdom hearts fanart#soriku#kh ddd#I LOVE HOW THEY TALK ABOUT DEARY BELOVED IN THIS SCENE AND JUST THEIR CONNECTION LIKE CMON#LIKE YES IT SOUNDS LIKE SO MUCH FUN#ITS A SONG OF PURE LOVE AND CARE
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Wanted to play around with how the characters have similar features hehe (Yap session in notes)
#riku is there#Vanitas and Namine are just straight up copies of Sora and Kairi while Xion is a mix of both#also I really like drawing Xion a bit gender ambiguous hehe#also tho I know Xion is supposed to canonly look more like Kairi I’ve always felt like she has a strong connection to Sora#also oh my god Ventus/Roxa’s stop being so hard to draw AAGGHHH#I’ve always felt like Ventus has lighter colors compared to Roxas#Roxas’s hair is also a bit longer#also also aaallso society if Ventus had green eyes📈📈#also I came up with a fun thing for eyes with nobodies where their pupils are a lighter shade#art#digital art#my art#fanart#kh#kingdom hearts#Roxas#Sora#Kairi#Ventus#riku#Namine#xion#Vanitas
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This song and lloyd… ourgh my heart hurts
#this video is about lloyd not misako !#when i posted this on tiktok i had multiple people try to argue that misako is a bad mother like that is not the topic here#its about lloyd its about lloyd reconnecting with the mother he was missing for most of his childhood#itsabout how much he loves her#its about how he looks like her its about how he talks like her#its about how he is willing to die for her#its about how he is terrified to lose her as he lost her once before and how he lost his father#and it’s about the grief of possibly losing her to the merge in dragons rising#being all grown up and taking on the responsibility of being there for Sora and Arin#and still missing his parents#this video is through the eyes of Lloyd#this video is about Lloyds connection to Misako throughout his life#anyway wow that ended up being longer than I expected#Lloyd garmadon#Lego ninjago#ninjago#ninjago fanart#Lego ninjago fanart#ninjago lloyd#lloyd garmadon fanart
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Ink October day 21: Reduplicate
To repeat over and again; redouble.
#roxas#kh xion#kh sora#kh roxas#kingdom hearts sora#kingdom hearts xion#kingdom hearts roxas#xion kingdom hearts#roxas kingdom hearts#sora kingdom hearts#sora kh#roxas kh#xion kh#kingdom hearts#kh#kingdom hearts days#kh days#blue boi draws#ink october#ink october 2024#ink October 2024 day 21#they literally make me insane#something something Xion gets a lot of her stuff from Sora VIA Roxas she’s technically Roxas’ replica too#so much of who they are is because him. they are extensions of him they are their own people#they never actually met him. for most of their live ‘Sora’ is nothing but a name#he is the connection between them he is the keyblade they fight with he is a distant Spector#he is with them always and they feel his absence achingly#he is the reason they were born he is the reason they die. he had no choice in either decision.#he doesn’t really exist to them. he is just this blindingly bright figure looming over them.#I think they idolise him ‘Sora will figure it out’ ‘that’s why it has to be you’
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“All paths are connected somewhere. When I arrive at where you are, we may not appear to be as we were. But we’ll make another promise to keep.”
Yozora fulfilling Riku’s role in this poem and thinking Sora must be the person he made this “promise”, progressed to an oath, to because of the memories of Riku from the broken pieces of Sora’s heart eclipsing and entangling with his own real memories of his promise to protect/oath to save Nameless Star, because he’s in the middle of his own Chain of Memories arc in this essay I will
#soriku#com poems#Yozora looks like Riku for much the same reason Xion looked like Kairi#except it’s worse because it’s not just memories entangling with his own#it’s Sora’s heart#or pieces of it anyway#that’s the theory at least#but yeah…. Sora is Yozora’s Namine except of course it’s completely unintentional on Sora’s part#the question as always is why Yozora? why did he end up with pieces of Sora’s heart?#did MoM Choose him or were Sora and him already intrinsically connected somehow#kh theory
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soriku kh4 reunion angst thoughts
#ff#clerith#kh4#soriku#last reblog prompted me to bring this here#cloud losing his taisetsu na hito 🤝 riku losing his taisetsu na hito#both continuing to look for them and hopefully both getting them back in future games#both of them connecting in dreamlike states#and Cloud and Sora having sky themed names while Aerith and Riku have earth themed names#hearing Aerith be described as Cloud’s taisetsu no hito made me scream in soriku#also I love how in the Riku episode in remind Aerith is beside him during all the cutscenes#cause I was getting screenshots of Sora and Cloud and Riku and Aerith together to make a post and I noticed they were always close#earth themed second protagonist solidarity + them being friends is neat I think#and regarding Sora and Cloud my fave scene with them is in coded when Cloud and Herc praise data Sora and he blushes and panics ndjsjs#its got nothing to do with this parallel but it’s iconic to me djjsjs#Sora’s type is strong men
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The Astral plane is a world connecting existance and non-existence
This is a city of Light and Darkness.
Unreality is not of light or Darkness.
Meaning, if the keyblade wielders of Scala ad Caelum found a way to connect their world to the world beyond, those secrets may lie in Scala ad Caelum now.
#kingdom hearts#khml#kingdom hearts MoM#melody of memory#Kingdom Hearts Missing Link#khux#khdr#Sora#This is how we save Sora#This may also be how characters from KHML connect to KHIV#Kh4#KHIV#Riku#Vexen#Evan KH#Astral Plane Kingdom Hearts
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Watching Larxene’s cutscene and taking in how Sora thinks about Naminé, in this scene and everything before, and I’m putting a Soriku twist on it.
Concept of KH 4 Sora losing his memories and he doesn’t understand what the crown necklace he wears is. He’s constantly wearing it, feeling the need to NEVER let it out of his sight, but he cannot remember why it’s so important or who gave it to him. He tries so hard to recall, but he can’t. Yet when he thinks about taking it off or some people mention it, he argues about it. He says it’s too important and that…he just can’t take it off or lose it.
But sometimes when he thinks really hard, he gets an image in his mind. A man. A man with silver hair looking at him sadly. He wants to wipe that sad look off of his face and make him smile instead, make him look happy. But he doesn’t understand why. Why does he care for this man? He can’t even remember his name! He goes through the KH 4 plot trying to remember the man’s name and others he sees in his mind! But mainly the man. And sometimes in dreams, he sees flashes of memories. The more he digs in his mind, the more he finds.
All but his name and where this necklace came from.
And then Riku finds him, and it’s a lot. Sora feels a pressure in his chest when he sees him and his head feels heavy. He then realizes he looks just like the man in his head! He asks his name, desperate to know, and it’s Riku.
Riku’s here.
And then the whole breakdown happens which throws Sora off. Riku does the “I looked for you. I looked everywhere for you!” and crying like Sora did and such. Sora doesn’t understand and it hurts him because WHY DOESN’T HE REMEMBER??? If this man cares this much for Sora, then they must have a close relationship!! And Sora feels a little bit of it!!! So why!! CANT HE REMEMBER??? I imagine it would basically bother him until he gets his memories back bc he can see the way Riku looks at him, feels emotions towards him but doesn’t know why, and the necklace!!! The necklace is still in his head like WHY???
And maybe, just maybe, Riku would tell him about it and how he gave it to him and talk about the meteor shower and something something that makes his memory come back bc it’s one that’s been pushed down and into the back of his mind but Riku finally fishes it back for him and it’s so important that it brings things back. He helps him find that memory again and get his memory back and yada yada confessions are made and things somehow end okay :).
#soriku#kingdom hearts#riku x sora#sora x riku#Chain of memories making me think guys. their lines in EVERY world have been giving me ideas like#talking about connections and their hearts and true memories and losing but finding it DRIVING ME INSANEEEEE#IM GOING FERAL GUYS#my writing#and I hope everyone heard the ‘It’s Riku. Riku’s here’ in Sora’s voice just like I do#everytime I read it I literally hear SORA SAY THE LINE!! it’s so good ugh
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What if…..?
What if…. Sora would have fought with Taichi and the others ? I always thought that it didn‘t feel right for Sora not beeing there. Even with all her inner conflicts ( like finding herself, maybe loosing biyomon ), I always interpreted Sora more selfless and more courageous. So somehow this didn‘t really felt like her. …for me.
So..what if Sora would have come to Taichi and Yamato… taking Taichis hand and beeing like „come on Taichi, we can do it.“. ( ..and here I am lost in my Taiorahead again xD) …so this is how it could be ..IF.. ;)
This also is the very first time I tried to color different….and used a very thin outline…I orientated myself a lot on the colors from the kizuna movie and on the style ….at first it felt very strange but I think at the end I am happy with the way it turned out….I‘m not sure if I will color more in this way or not…maybe :)
#taiora#sora takenouchi#taichi yagami#taichi x sora#digimon#digimon adventure#digimon adventure last evolution kizuna#couple#love#connection#what if#digital drawing#digital art#xnananko
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#rewatched enchanted and realized what this reminds me of#kingdom hearts#enchanted#the stereotypical fairytale expectation that is set up to be subverted#as the characters grow beyond classic disney tropes#these characters are Not on the same page anymore. if they ever really were#this scene also starts with an emphasis on robert and giselle’s connection#much like in kh the scene starts with an emphasis on riku and sora’s connection#relationships that have seen significant development#in contrast to those that are pretty static and rely heavily on trope expectations
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For the character ask meme, what about Vanitas?
Okay so here's where my knowledge of KH anything dwindles, I only have a light grasp on whatever occurs in Birth By Sleep. Or whatever occurs in-between and before. So like... everything then. I see. ;;
Send Me a Character
And I will tell you my:
First impression So he's like an evil Sora, but also like not an evil Sora? I'll take it.
I know he's tied to Ventus, it's just funny to see an "evil Sora".
Impression now There is supposed to be more to him but I am too afraid to ask.
As much as it is funny to talk about how everyone is everyone in KH, it is kinda fun to see how non-blood bonds are depicted by visual similarities. I am admittedly someone who does this too, though I try my best not to make it so obvious-- I'd hope.
That said, this overlap on "Soras" makes me wonder how I can draw the others, like Roxas, Ventus, and even Xion, to show that connection while still showing it's "them". Just start with an "S". ;V
Honestly the rest of my responses aren't anything remarkable. I don't have so much of a history with this guy to say that much.
#I appreciate every question I've been asked especially when they require me to think so hard#but I'm sorry when after all that it still comes out with “ah idk”#really though I had wondered how I could try to connect all the soras to the sora#I have a possible idea but I'll need to jot it down first#when I do :T#Asks#Ask Mew#that1randomnerd#kingdom hearts#vanitas
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The Kingdom Key's shape makes all the more sense if Riku truly did give Sora the crown necklace since that was his original keyblade too
#slay#this is probably incredibly obvious but i only connected the dots right now#thanks to the unrelated activity of trying to get the design of sora's kh3 clothes into my head. Whack#mytext#soriku#video games#kingdom hearts
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My first time drawing a full Sora in his canon outfit! Depicting more or less what I imagine him moving towards Unreality at the end of KH3 to look like.
#kingdom hearts#fanart#my art#sora kh#the background was weirdly fun to make#basically just messed around with colours and effects until I was happy#also#this is vaguely connected to a fanfic I have yet to write#but this image was stuck in my head and I needed to get it out
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