#I'm just starting kh3 and idk it's just so different

[baladiumsdrive]

hot take: kingdom hearts dream drop distance - last good KH game

[xekutozoren]

Dumb Doodlepad

idk, ish pretty random ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Some ideas I had in an AU where KH3 wasn't a mess, Sora didn't disappear, and our heroes go on missions in their local team headed by Master Aqua. Lea slept in and Naminé is fixing something behind the scenes. That's the excuse I'm going with for them not being in the group shot. - 3- And Sephiroth's there. Bc this is the Aquaroth AU keke

I had originally planned to do fully coloured pieces for all of these but just lost motivation along the way and wasn't really enjoying it. But I also didn't want to just let them sit there so this is what you get.

This is Kairi admiring byootiful and graceful Master Aqua. Aqua deserves more in-verse recognition in general, the poor thing. Despite Kairi getting pretty much screwed over by the games, she was at least made out to be super important.

I don't know if anyone pointed this out but this was my first reaction to hearing Aqua's theme. I thought Square Enix was gonna do something cool and link the two characters somehow but they didn't even interact so... lost opportunity. Again. I also just realised Roxas is way too tall here. Ah well, he's standing on a rock or something, idk

And finally, the two coloured pieces. Why am I putting them at the very bottom where people are less likely to see if they don't expand the post, you ask? Well, frankly, I don't think it makes much of a difference given my low note counts. :P

Some Ven and Aqua appreciation! Because Ven loves his blueberry mamma and could stand to show it more. There's also very little artwork of the two together so I felt the need to do something about that. I'm imagining him being clingy to her here after she starts to get more attention.

Aaaand my favourite piece!

Xion being a sweetie and wanting to befriend Sephiroth after noticing he's a bit of a loner when Aqua's not present. Her two bodyguards are behind her being dorks.

Thank you for reading and viewing all the way to the end~ \(>w <)

Credits for MMD backgrounds:

edRevolutionnaire

Square Enix & Disney

Vianesta

Hallow

[nyctospoilers]

You had mentioned in your Scala ad Caelum ask about the debate of whether the ending scene before the credits was happening literally or figuratively and I'm curious as to what your honest take is on that. I'm convinced it was literally happening for a multitude of reasons but I definitely understand those in the "it's symbolic" camp for sure. It's so intentionally vague though, I don't think there's a 100% right answer.

The weird fucking thing with Nomura and some of the cinematic scenes he does is that even if they start off being figurative, they tend to end up literal in the end LOL. Like Deep Dive was supposed to just show off possible ideas for future KH, and now look at it, it’s literally a scene in KH2 and Days haha! So far the only cinematic scene I can think of that never actually happened was the BbS trio pulling Sora, Riku, and Mickey’s keyblades in vanilla KH2′s secret ending.

Nomura does have a better grasp on KH’s future though then he did at the time of KH1 and KH2′s secret endings, so maybe he won’t change his mind this time around.

I think, it’s a weird mixture of both. I think at one point, Sora does fade away while talking to Kairi, maybe it’s just in a different setting right after he saves her. Perhaps it’s like 0.2′s opening of Sora grabbing Aqua’s hand and him actually doing it in KH3. They’re similar shots of course, but one is more abstract, not happening in a particular area (and it’s KH2 sora) while the other is literally happening IN the realm of darkness. So perhaps there will be a time in KH3′s DLC or the next KH game overall that Sora and Kairi are talking, and Sora literally fades away this time.

And another idea that struck me a couple days ago (though i have NO hard evidence for this so take this with a grain of salt, just throwing the idea out there) is that perhaps if Kairi actually did die, and her heart went the Final World, which is a place Sora can actually go to on his own without dying as we know from KH3, it’s possible he went there to retrieve her. But maybe he could only do it if he switched places (a life for a life), or maybe he did abuse the power of waking like Young Xehanort warned him against and his fading is his punishment, idk! But that is a possibility if that scene is more abstract and not as literal.

But in all honesty my mind is completely open for other possibilities, so if you have a post or want to make a post on why you think it’s literally happening i would LOVE to read it!!