#{{ aspiring beam of light || modern verse }}

[ofpotsandkettlesx]

𝑉𝐸𝑅𝑆𝐸 𝐷𝑈𝑀𝑃

𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 || 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒

Influenced mostly by book Tink, with inspiration from the 1953 Disney film (and a few other sources, but those are my main point of reference)

𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑦 || 𝑝𝑖𝑥𝑖𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒

A general faerie verse; characterization is as above, but Tink is not attached to Peter for one reason or another at this point in her story. This can be taken as her living in the Hollow before she met Peter, or be used to put her into another place or story. This verse can bend the rules to suit, while the Neverland Verse cannot. This can include changing fae magic rules, allowing her to become “human sized” at will and so on.

𝑇ℎ𝑎 𝑀𝑜 𝐺ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑙 𝐴𝑖𝑟 𝐴̀𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝐴' 𝐶ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑖𝑛 || 𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒

Tink is human in this verse. Tink and the Lost Boys don’t trust pirates, which makes this verse all the more fun. Threads in this verse should be plotted a bit beforehand.

𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 || 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒

21st Century human Tink, known as Tina Bell in this verse. An off-shoot of the Tink I write in @happiestplacehq​ though her background can be tweaked depending on setting, plot and who she is interacting with.

[virtuous-dignity]

Tentative notes on Modern. ( Thank you to @shikaal for helping with this. )

Disillusioned with the state of social services, which she aspired to do good within post her upbringing in the system.

( Lestara’s position within this setting is not solidified. )

Mid 20′s ( tentatively 24 )

Strong capacity for management and accounting, as a parallel to her skill as a merchant. Disillusioned by the roadblocks to change and the culture of “mutually using each other” / “scratching each other’s back”, left the system entirely.

She is one of those people who believes that if some jobs ought to be done by only those who have a passion for it. If you do not care about children, do not work in child services. That ‘obvious’ feeling was proven wrong and left her seriously jaded.

Music is part of her life. Tentatively, she does cooking / music livestreaming. Music is probably what put her through college, but its full impact in her life is as of yet unknown. She’s a little too modest about her skills, but not so humble. She won’t bring it up, but she will honestly state that she’s good at what she does.

After leaving large business and non-profit, she decided to decrease her scale. Rather than the system, just improving the local situation was plenty.

Now does two jobs. She feels slightly guilty for quitting and ‘abandoning people who needed her’ / ‘not having as much of an impact’, but she is just one woman. And she still thinks of community welfare.

Paints murals in the city. Her specialty is bringing a sense of vibrancy and wonder forward, contradicting the greys of urban planning to try and bring refreshing views. Also coordinates with officials ( using her knowledge from city services days ) to organize and procure mural spaces for community use.

Teaches yoga / meditation / self-care in a studio she rents out for classes.  Tentatively functions like this:

She typically gets the aid of someone to help call out any important information and will guide and correct posture as necessary.

After the mandatory yoga / meditation that is part of the class comes ‘pull out the super soft cushions’ time, where people can lie down and just listen and relax for some time. Destressing is important. There’s also time after for talking about problems people are having if they want.

I described this as  "24 year old ex musician & social welfare worker turned painter/yoga instructor"

The biggest, warmest smile that beams upon you when she sees you.

Will cut you out of her life in an instant if you attempt to take advantage of her. She refuses to be used or be anyone’s tool.

Extras / Parallels from mainverse

Her hobby of painting and the murals she painted in her home in mainverse are reflected with painted walls in her apartment as well.

Her skill as a merchant from mainverse is reflected in her work in accounting and management in this verse.

Continues to be someone who believes strongly in “not using others and not being used” and that “being kind is just the right thing to do.”

Lacking the zealotry and ambition to defend Runeterra from the Void, her convictions and relentlessly high standards are lessened.

Her skill as a cook remains. Due to her upbringing and her belief that food brings people together, she knows dishes from a variety of cultures, similar to mainverse.

Still often uses a chalkboard or tablet to communicate with writing instead of using TTS.

Is still the type to invite people over on a whim for a friendly dinner.

Suspiciously perfect. No one’s that well-adjusted, are they...?

Can still make you feel like you’re the most important person in the world.

Her apartment is furnished in such a way as to give her a feeling of liveliness, comfort, and refreshment. I’ll put a quote as I’d described it below the read more. Please give it a read.

From [this thread with shikaal’s Akali]

She laughs the same way the chimes that hang from her curtains do, softly, fading, easily forgotten and almost inaudible. [...] Fairy lights are strung across the walls and ceiling, illuminating the kitchen and living room in a glow as warm as her gaze. Murals cover her walls, depicting the oceans and the furthest forests - even the door to her room is styled as a doorway between two joined trees, a pathway to somewhere magical.

Even the large windows by the far end of the apartment are decorated with hanging pieces of colored glass, filling the floor with shimmering twists and turns of color and light. The music that always plays in her home continues even now, mixing sounds of waves and chimes that seem to melt into something else ethereal and iridescent - perhaps more so than the stained glass. Sona swears it is only because the house gets so silent otherwise, and perhaps for the same reason, her expression blooms. [...]

[bunchill-blog]

RISE AND SHINE, KINGDOM HEARTS FANDOM! The fantastic new opening is up and I’m here to bring you some cool details that may have gone unnoticed with all the hype and questions that are popping up and eating all of us alive as we wait for January 25~29. Thus, I’m here to present you some cool theories (that absolutely no one asked for) based on the eye colours of the characters in the Kingdom Hearts series! Or, as I like to call it, the Rainbow Spectrum theory! Sounds a bit boring, right? But I promise ya it gets better, if not interesting! Okay, so let’s dive deep by starting with the basics.

As many of us have noticed, Kingdom Hearts is a game that most characters have blue eyes, with a few exceptions here and there that scream stranger danger to all of us; yellowish eyes are bad by default and are a sign of darkness, generally of people who got Norted, which means they’re considered one of the vessels of Xehanort, or simply put, golden-eyed people are the villains of the story (take Xemnas, Xehanort, Ansem the Seeker of Darkness, Xigbar, etc, for example) and the blue-eyed people are the heroes (take Sora, Ventus, Aqua, Roxas, etc, for example).

That’s cool and all, but... Isn’t it strange that Kairi is one of the few characters that have purplish eyes? She has indigo eyes, it varies between deep blue and purple, as we can see in the famous KH2 ending and in the new KH3 trailers. Huh, how curious. Then we can notice Sora’s eyes clearly changing colours from KH1 to KH3; the once strong, azure-like blue starts to fade away just so hints of green can begin to appear.

Then we have these two... Who share nothing in common, right? Except for the fact that they’re both considered “anomalies”, people who walk between darkness AND light, The Road to Dawn, as it’s explained in KH Re:COM. Not to mention that Riku’s entire arc is him accepting the darkness as part of himself, controlling it and using both darkness and light as his strength to protect what matters the most to him, his loved ones and his home. But what does this entire rambling mean? Well, I’ll let optical physics be our friend here to let us visualise it better!

The more vibrant an eye colour is, the stronger the connection between the individual and their nature [be them light-based or darkness-based] is. The closer such colour is to red, the closer the individual is connected to darkness. The closer such colour is to purple, the closer the individual is connected to light. (I used hex codes to make this little exemplification since I have some difficulty distinguishing between colours by the way so forgive me if they aren’t completely 100% spot-on!)

Rainbow. Seven colours. Seven lights?! Okay, maybe that’s seeing too much into things, but I had to put this here, my bad, let’s get back into being serious.

When you look into a simple colour spectrum it’s funny to notice that the Princess of Heart, Kairi, a person that supposedly has nothing but light inside their being, is the one to have purple-blue eyes. Meanwhile, Ansem The Seeker of Darkness, an entity that’s supposed to be made out of pure darkness since he’s a Heartless, has orange-red eyes. What’s even more fun to notice is that the colours are commonly divided by blocks of wavelength/frequency intervals, which in exchange makes the rainbow’s colours [violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, red]. Then, you have the dude that managed to control both darkness and light, and was chose to be one of the Guardians of Light and a Keyblade Master, Riku; he has cyan eyes, one of the most distinct eye colours in the whole series. By that logic, that’d explain why he’s still closer to the light even if he has great darkness within himself and a good affinity to it; such can be exemplified and justified when we observe that the cyan block interval is closer to the purple block interval instead of the red block interval. 

Tetsuya Nomura is known for his love for symbolism and little details [the X marks on items of clothing in BBS and DDD is just the biggest example of this I can think of], and I honestly can’t see how all of this can be a coincidence, especially when we have this new KH3 trailer showing a Young Xehanort facing the night sky with purple eyes. It’s something we should take into consideration, in my opinion. What happened to his eyes for them to change colours and turn golden? Is his name even Xehanort? What did he experience that made him follow the Dark Side path?

As it’s shown throughout the series, people can apparently change eye colours depending on their emotional state and current nature [light/darkness, good/evil]. Take Xehanort, Aqua, Larxene, and others! This clearly has a link to their hearts’ stats, so this is also a cue to Sora’s eyes changing colours. 

Literally, Nomura said that Sora will be on the edge of true despair in KH3, not to mention all the hints he left for a possible end to his character since he apparently doesn’t care about him at all, sympathizing with Xehanort way more than his little hero, which to me are pretty good reasons to consider his eyes changing colours in KH3. If this isn’t enough to back it up though, have screencaps of the video KINGDOM HEARTS III – Big Hero 6 Trailer.

Right from the bat, you can see that Sora and Roxas don’t share the same eye colour anymore. Sora’s eyes have major hints of green whereas Roxas’ eyes have hints of navies among shades of deep blue. Roxas currently has bluer eyes than Sora!

Now scroll up and compare to KH1 where Sora’s eyes were absurdly blue, like the summer sky (let’s not forget that Sora’s name [ソラ] is literally written as ‘sky’ in Japanese and that Nomura himself said in the past that that was the reason he named his character as such). I wonder what happens to a polluted sky? Or a cloudy one? Can a sky even get green? Hey, wait a second.

Let’s also not forget that “despair” and “tornado”/”thunderstorm” are constantly used in literature as synonyms or metaphors; you can have H.P Lovecraft (I’ll be exemplifying this with this poem of his, Despair) as a major example, here’s an extract of said poem: “Once, I think I half remember, / Ere the grey skies of November / Quench’d my youth’s aspiring ember, / Liv’d there such a thing as bliss; / Skies that now are dark were beaming, / Gold and azure, splendid seeming / Till I learn’d it all was dreaming— / Deadly drowsiness of Dis”. Please also compare said extract to the end of the poem, the final paragraph of verses, where he talks about oblivion, anguish and agony finally coming after the signs of storm: “Thus the living, lone and sobbing, / In the throes of anguish throbbing, / With the loathsome Furies robbing / Night and noon of peace and rest. / But beyond the groans and grating / Of abhorrent Life, is waiting / Sweet Oblivion, culminating / All the years of fruitless quest.” I honestly think Nomura takes some inspiration out of Lovecraft, but that’s a topic for another discussion.

Other modern authors that use such word-plays on their pieces [despair, torment, tornado, etc] constantly to describe an agonizing sensation are Stephen King, J.K Rowling, John Green, Rick Riordan, G. R. R. Martin and others.

And then we have a screencap from one of Tetsuya Nomura’s interview of this year that I linked before but here’s the link again if you wanna check it out once more. So, green is a hint of despair here.

Isn’t this curiously interesting? I wonder what all of this would mean to Sora, especially since we’ve been told over and over again by Nomura that this is probably the end to his journey as a hero, as exposed on the links above. We have a lot of theories that are based on him getting Norted by the end of the game and ones based on a possible sacrificial/martyr ending. Either way, when it comes to that, the possibilities are endless.

What’s certain is that times are indeed changing and along with it, so is the sky.

And what happens when the sky changes? According to what we learned with Kingdom Hearts, destiny itself changes.

What I’m trying to say is that KH3 ain’t looking so positive for our heroes, my friends. This new song’s lyrics (I deeply believe this song is specifically targeted at Sora, given what Nomura said and this whole context that I wrote) alongside what Nomura said about the KH3 having an ending that will shock or upset most of the fans is really unsettling.

Well, let’s hope for the best! I’ll be probably be writing more posts based on this theory in the future, relating it to the Organization XIII members and more! See you guys next time!

[theartofindie]

‘A Vibrant, Mellow and Melancholy Masterpiece’ We review Claire Pitt Wigmore’s new single, My Nostalgia.

It was a Sunday and I was in dire need of new music that could hopefully release some emotion and integrity. The sun was beaming, my curtains were open and my window had some speckles of dirt. It was a sign for me to start writing and to start listening to a song a dear friend of mine recently released. Claire Pitt Wigmore is a multi-instrumentalist from Margate, Kent in the UK who blows away people on a daily basis with her mad piano skills and breathtaking guitar playing. Having seen Claire play live numerous times, she always had a way with her guitar that made people captivated by her creative light. When I saw she released her first single, I jumped to the opportunity to write about her new adventure. Being in bands, exploring numerous genres and vibes, Claire has found her niche in an indie paradise I never want to leave.  

From the first chord that was struck, I imagined Kurt Cobain bopping his head whilst smoking a cigarette in his Seattle home. Although vaguely reminiscent of 90’s rock, it gave away a modern take on Indie music with relaxed, aspirate vocals that suited the calming verses throughout the song as well as some well spaced guitar chords that set the mood. Imagine yourself in a room with velvet furniture, dimmed lights and classic rockbound posters on the wall. You’ve had a pretty overwhelming day with personal shit and relaxation is the only thing you wish for. ‘My Nostalgia’ is your anecdote. This song is by far one of the most calming, relaxing indie songs I have come across with Claire’s dreamy vocals and intoxicating guitar riffs. The chorus enlightens you with a more upbeat approach in the drums and her vocals expanding in pitch. 

I heard inspirations of Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Wolf Alice and more however it’s originality hit me with the song’s constant melody and rhythm pulsating through my body. You are pulled into a world of haunting beauty no matter in which part of the song you’re in. Claire has created a truly overwhelming piece of music we can all relate to. Her talents are shown through every segment of the piece with her guitar playing and lyrics, having written the whole song herself. I was taken a back, not knowing exactly what to expect. I expected something glorious knowing how talented of a musician she is but I really was addicted to the sound and effortless mastery behind the song. Its simplicity is the most beautiful part of it as it masters a raw take of indie music with emotion. The melodic guitar riff and solos in between really captures the true essence of Claire Pitt Wigmore as she invites you into her mind of musical nature. Claire NAILED it. 

This multi-instrumentalist is one to look out for as she soars through her music career with a humble, professional and imaginative attitude. This single is officially one of my favourite songs of the year, especially to review. It’s a gift that will mesmerise and relax you, evoking all types of emotions which is a songwriter’s loving achievement. Claire also plays in bands such as NIFTY and Squangey Bobbins, based in Kent, as she shares her musical abilities for everyone to indulge to. Thank you Claire for releasing such a great piece of music and everyone wants to hear what you have next in store. 

Follow Claire Pitt Wigmore on the links below and if you haven’t listed to My Nostalgia yet, what are you waiting for?! 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClairePittWigmoreMusic 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clairepittwigmore/ 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZnqYge7KV0n1NmlIbpoxl?si=0-NFuO8ETJWl9iEy9dvh2g 

Single released by: https://www.facebook.com/LazyDazeRecs