#Zack Island

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HITOMI OR KOKORO?

who wins?

[arendalphaeagle]

A handful more things from the Milo Mikey Murphy's Law pitch bible:

[strayheartless]

So I don’t know if I’m ever really going to be able to write it coherently because it’s a mess of an idea but I need it out of my brain box. But I have an idea for a fic I’ll probably never write -because as I say ✨coherency✨- and it kinda goes like this:

Cloud is a pretty lonely kid. Even when Tifa tries to include him, he struggles socially and the others don’t really like him. As a way of coping with this Cloud falls back on his imagination and essentially creates the entire universe of kingdom hearts in his head like a maladaptive daydream to cope with his situation.

He has drawings of Sora and the gang all over his room and every note book is filled with complicated plots and backgrounds and ideas for characters. His Ma worries that he spends too much time in his own head. However, she quickly realised that moving his drawings and Writing causes him great distress so she tries to leave them be.

For Cloud Sora is an extension of the outgoing hero he wants to be. The kid who wasn’t necessarily the chosen one but is the best version of himself and is the hero because he’s good.

Riku is his sephiroth type character. He’s the cool kid that everybody wants to be like, and just like us he lives for torturing his blorbo. What Clouds not really aware of as he writes though is that Riku becomes more and more like an extension of himself. There’s an intense loneliness to his character and a repression of something Cloud is really not ready to look at.

Kairi is probably his romanticisation of Tifa and an extension of Clouds own desire to protect the people that matter to him most. Sora wants to protect kairi in the same way Cloud wants to protect Tifa. But like Tifa as the Kairi develops she has a certain strength of her own and a story worth telling.

More characters develop along the way and by the time he joins shinra military he’s got a whole fantasy world (or worlds in this case) planned out in his head that consumes his every waking minute.

Cut to being in the army and Clouds usually got a small field journal with him that he uses like an ideas book that’s full of scribbles and drawings. He’s incredibly territorial about the notebook and has gotten into altercations over it multiple times.

By this point he’s established some other stories. Sora feels really distant to him and he can’t quite reach him. It’s upsetting but around the time he meets Zack Ventus sort of emerges from nowhere.

Ven is quirky, he’s a bit silly and a lot sarcastic. But he’s smiley and friendly and exactly the person Cloud is around a certain second Class soldier…

Hiding his sketches from Zack was never an option. He was never going to get away with carrying his journal around without Zack popping up over his shoulder to ask “whattcha doooin’?”. Once Zack got a little snap shot into Clouds world(s) he wanted to grill Cloud about it every time they hang out. What Zack doesn’t really get though, is that for Cloud it’s not a story… not really.

These are Clouds friends. This is where he feels safest. Being able to talk of them makes them more tangible more real and when the Genesis war starts to get that bit more tense Cloud is stuck in his head As Sora and Riku make a reappearance.

Waking Dreams and nightmares plague Cloud for hours to the point of exhaustion because there’s someone on his island! Someone who shouldn’t be. Zack suddenly gets the feeling that maybe there’s something a little off about Clouds stories. He unfortunately gets his answer when he opens the door to Clouds room in the barracks and finds him crying into his knees and rocking.

“He opened the door, he opened it Zack! He shouldn’t have done that!”

“Who? What door Cloud? Where’s your head at bud?”

“Riku! He opened the door to darkness”

From that point on Zack is very careful about how he approaches Clouds stories. He notices Clouds staring; the times when he will start crying for no reason; nights when Zack will come to get him for dinner and find him scribbling out drawings of dark little shadows and a sword that looks like a key… The night before sephiroth burns down Nibelhiem Zack leaves Cloud scribbling a drawing of Ansem rising up covered by a monster gagged with bandages.

…..

When cloud dreams in the Mako pod it’s confusing. He dreams of Sora Trapped in a white room. He dreams that none of his friends know him and that Riku isn’t what he remembers. He dreams of some of his lesser characters in Black coats and his brain confuses Ventus and Sora to make Roxas.

He dreams that Lea is no longer Lea he’s Axel. He dreams of Kairi with Black hair and Blue eyes but she’s not Kairi she’s- shes…. Xion? He dreams that there’s a girl that’s making Sora forget things, and he’s struggling to remember things himself.

He dreams that Riku won’t show anybody his eyes. What’s wrong with his eyes?! He dreams and dreams and dreams of Sephiroth, in the colosseum, in Radient Garders… no Hollo- hollow bastion… why are you here?!

Get out get out get out get out!

GET OUT!

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When Cloud wakes up in the sector seven train station the first thing he registers is that summer vacation is over. No that’s not right. They were going to the beach right? Roxas and Heyner and Pence and Ollette. They were going to the beach, to get pretzels and watermelon and…

Sora?

He blinks and he’s lying on his back in a bed on stargazer hights and When Sora Cries so does he. Why is Sora crying? Where is Roxas?

There’s a tower surrounded by stars, and a wizard who tells Sora that the darkness still exists. He tells him about Nobodies that are the husks of people who have lost their hearts and Cloud wonders if he is a nobody too…

There’s a black feather in the underworld. And one on Mount Olympus when Sora parks the Gummi ship. Cloud thinks someone should be running to meet them with a big smile and questions about Terra… no that’s not right?

There’s a figure in a black coat in hollow ba- radient- hollow bastion. And another one in the underworld. Half way up a mountain in the land of dragons there’s another one, different from the others who won’t fight back.

As Avalanche reach Kalm Cloud makes a beeline for an art supply shop and suddenly there’s flowers in radiant garden again.

When he gets splashed with Mako in Corel he’s sees Riku and Roxas in loveless avenue. No that’s not right. What… what is this place.

“Come on sora, you can do better then that!”

“Oh yeah look which one of us is winning!”

“Stop by once me and him are both hero’s!”

“Oh so never come back!”

… Hello?

This is where I got up to with this idea and I can’t figure out the rest of it, but it’s been bugging me for months. So ✨here✨

[albino-parakeet]

Ben was 2 steps away from becoming one of those kids from Lord of the Flies. Like isolate him on that island for maybe an extra month or two, I’m sure you’d find one of the Monolophosaurus’ heads on a pike.

[not-buffalo-marshmallow]

We don't give enough credit to Milo's plotline in The Island Of Lost Dakotas. Milo's shoelace gets so extremely knotted that it ties the trio together and this is so ridiculous that even Milo himself questions how tf this could've happened. Fucking funny plotline tbh.

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what about wildfire

I think Wildfires are supposed to be engineers... or something.

I can't decide if Daphne Dreadnaught is Wildfire or Seraphim.

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Zach Bryan - Oak Island

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*BEACHFIGHT!*

[brave-symphonia]

A friend of mine is making her way through One Piece and she sent me a photo of the end of the Drum Island arc and it got me thinking about that arc a lot, in terms of the themes of the story.

I never really thought about just how big a part it plays in really bringing attention to the whole "Inherited Will" theme to One Piece.

Like, that's something that's such a major part of One Piece, and it was a part of the series before then in some ways, but it really feels like it was the first arc to really bring focus to it.

i mean, one of it's chapters is called "Inherited Will", if I'm remembering right, Hiriluk's speech is all about how people live on after they die, so long as people remember them, carry on their will and who they are with them.

And Chopper is such a good example of that, he's someone who's carrying on Hiriluk's dreams long after his death, bringing about freedom from Wapol and the realization of Hiriluk's dream of showing everyone something beautiful.

And speaking of Chopper, it just occurs to me that the arc really shows how he's the perfect combo of Hiriluk and Kureha.

There's two doctors in that arc, Hiriluk, someone with the passion and desire to help as many people as possible, with no actual knowledge of how to help them, and Kureha, someone with all the medical knowledge she could need, but who doesn't really go out of her way to help in the way Hiriluk would.

Like, Hiriluk's whole idea of showing the people of Drum Island cherry blossoms feels like it relates to showing them something hopeful, because hope and beauty are so important to turning things around.

And Chopper has the ideals of Hiriluk, wanting to cure everyone, but he studied with Kureha, so he actually has the knowledge and skill to back it up, and he's not a danger to his patients.

I don't know what more I really have to say, I just was thinking about Drum Island, and the role of it in the story, along with the three doctors present in the arc, how they tied into each other, all of that.

[emeraldblonde]

I don't often draw anything, and when I do, it's usually some small doodles like these.

Anyway. Let me introduce you to Silly Gongaga Man who made it back home from the war in one piece, met his parents, embraced them warmly, got a nice orange tan and life was just peachy for him. ✨ He finally reunited with his girlfriend as well and they lived happily ever after