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cloudcastor · 1 year ago

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Alright everyone AU down below!!!

I’ve been tentatively calling it “Destiny Islands AU”

On the surface, it’s a slice of life AU.In the general context of kingdom hearts, they never left the islands, Sora is just a regular school boy and all he’s worried about is what’s he gonna do once he graduates and how he’ll keep his childhood friends post-high school.

But underneath that, this is a post KH3 AU. Sora is stuck in a (wow! so original!) simulation a lá KH2. We get the “bad” and “true” end post Yozora fight, however, this AU follows the belief that the bad ending still happens. This is while Sora is asleep and in his crystal state. Using his powers, Yozora creates this as a way to keep Sora busy and ensure he doesn’t wake up any time soon to spoil any plans.

Sora’s connection to the Real World is through Riku, who has the power to reach out to him via Dreams, however, this starts to cause discrepancies. There is a “Dream” Riku and a “Real” Riku that unintentionally swap places. As Sora’s real memories start to come through, there’s hiccups in the simulation as well. Sometimes he’ll remember an experience that he knows he didn’t go through, he’ll see a ship in the sky where he once saw a boat, and sometimes people don’t remember…..Riku.

As these memories continue to surface, Sora constantly finds himself wondering what’s a dream and what’s reality.

As an aside, there’s a bit of added lore to the islands that goes as follows. The motto is Destiny Islands: of Fate, Fortune & Future.

This is thematically relevant:

FATE (memories): Play island; Where things are predestined to happen

FORTUNE(simulation): Main Island; prosperity from land, community, and tradition

FUTURE (reality): Big Island; Where those go who want change

How does this relate to Sora?

The Play Island is where the discrepancies start, and it’s where Riku first shows up. It’s a place that isn’t tied down to whatever rules the rest of the simulation is running on. A bit of a limbo if you will. This is where Sora starts to regain his true sense of self.

The Main Island is the simulation at large. It has the town, his family's shop, the school and the grocer. It’s as close to normalcy as you would imagine. If Riku hadn’t shown up Sora would probably still be stuck in the routine of it all…

The “Big Island” exists as more of a vague threat. Sora doesn’t realize that “Riku graduating and leaving the main island” means “Riku is somewhere where I'm not” to him. At least not yet. It’s also his feelings manifesting of Riku having left the islands already, except this time he has no way to follow.

Okay but where is the soriku?

It’s the Vibes™

My initial thoughts are that this is a place that’s familiar to Sora, but since it’s a world without “conflict”, it leaves him bored and reflective. Life has only ever been this hometown. Even before Riku shows up, Sora is slowly unlocking thoughts and emotions he hasn’t had the time to sit and think about for quite some time. We know he has feelings of sadness, anger, and hopelessness. Without the constant threat of the worlds falling to darkness, or friends being in danger, how would he deal with these emotions without the context. I’m sure it has him feeling confused and at a bit of a loss. The desperation starts to kick in as he imagines this dull life without Riku, he’ll do anything so he won’t get left behind(….again). It starts to break the simulation even more.

On Riku’s end… he has no idea what’s going on! Seeing Sora constantly “Dream” about the islands makes him feel guilty that he isn’t searching hard enough or that he’s not bringing him home fast enough. He truly believes Sora wants to “return home” and since he never sees himself in this simulation (because he takes his own spot) he believes it to be a home where he doesn't belong. A home he’s not welcome to return to.

However, that doesn’t stop him from at least trying to get Sora back. It’s the least he could do after all. He tells himself it’s strictly his responsibility and nothing more.

Buuuuut….. As they catch themselves meeting up from time to time, lines begin to blur. Sora thinks Real Riku is actually Dream Riku. Riku thinks Sora is simply stuck in a dream world cycle and unaware of what he’s doing. They let themselves be more honest, not knowing they are talking with each other and idk maybe they get to kiss as a treat…

The rest is a bit more of a secret since I might do something with this in the future (looks at my hands….i wanna make a comic. so bad…) but for now that’s the gist of it!

Thanks for lookin :-)

#kh au #destiny islands au #soriku #annnnd that’s it i’m not putting it in the main tag lol

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someplace-that-is-else · 6 years ago

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States of Grief: A Writer’s Goal for Entering 2019 Part the Second

I admit…I had been putting it off.

It was the winding down of the holiday season. I had set a few things in motion. One of those things was I had books ordered for my Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss giveaway. Another one of those things was a new laptop.

As I mentioned in my last blog (‘You Think You Know…What’s to Come…’: A Writer’s Goal for Entering 2019- http://someplace-that-is-else.tumblr.com/post/182330195413/you-think-you-knowwhats-to-come-a), my old laptop appeared to be done. So…I decided to head back to status quo. There were things that I needed for that. One of those things…was a TOSHIBA laptop.

Annnnd it arrived. I was super excited. Now if I only had time to open it. LOL!!!

In any case, I was ready. Once it was ready, I could keep on with my plans. After all, I had books to self-publish.

It was then that I noticed it.

I couldn’t find my recent flash drive.

Ugh.

DENIAL

I ignored it at first.

It was pretty easy to do. While the holiday season was winding down, there was still work for me to do. I really wanted to get back to my normal routine. My routine that involved me getting up, heading to work, heading to the gym, heading to work, and then home. If I was lucky, there would be time to write.

It was then that I thought about my writing. After all I had been hoping by the end of 2018 to have Darkened Soul: The Breaking of Circles and Book 3 in my Darkened series out. And we knew how 2018 ended.

My gym routine was quite easy to get back to. At first, it was not. Between my work schedules, the amount of time I would use for the gym…which was located in a separate location from where I lived or my work places…it could not be worked. But where there was a will, there was a way they said. I had considered during December having to change my gym schedule around. While I had been known to work out from home when need be, I would also been expanding what I did. I managed to take up jogging downtown and other general leg exercises. Yes, I am not a fan of Leg Day. LOL!!! So after debating it, I started to slowly move my gym time to really early morning. I was not at all a morning person, but if I was committed to my gym time as I claimed to be, that appeared to be the only time I could make it over there to the gym.

Some weeks I made it. Other weeks I was just too tired from the shenanigans over at one of my jobs to get there. In those cases, I would have to adjust my schedules accordingly. So thankfully, gym routine was on the up and up. And if I could do that for my gym routine, surely I could do that for my writing time, right?

I saw something on television. I had to binge watch Game of Thrones. I had to head to work. I would be tired from work. I noticed that I would do anything to not search for my flash drive.

There was one day I was getting ready for work. I was always a multitasker in the morning. Part of it was to be able to get that good ole coffee to kick in. Part of it was my Gemini nature. In any case, I was reading, ironing, and cleaning a bit at a time. It was then when I saw it.

No, not the flash drive. A few days ago, I was in a rush to get to work and knocked a thing of tape under my bed. I figured that I would remember it when I was less busy. However, I saw it along with one of my many name tags. I frowned at that.

How had that name tag gotten under my bed? That far under my bed? When?

And…I hoped. I hoped that that was a sign. A sign that maybe my flash drive was under my bed or somewhere I would find it in my room.

So was it hope…or just denial?

ANGER

So it was time.

It was time to get back to writing. First up…I had to work on my blog.

I had managed before the end of the year to become more frequent. I used to be so frequent when I started out. Like any writer, it was so simple. All one had to do was make oneself interested. If you make yourself interested, others will be interested. If you built it, they will come.

So I alternated. One blog would be about my writing progress and/or process. The next blog would be about something pop culture related. The next one was about my writing progress/process. And vice versa. Somewhere in there, there would updates on what I’m writing in that moment. Not to mention gifs and pictures. In a matter of time, I had a much-needed online presence for my blog. And that was awesome.

Then December slowed that down.

So here I was. Back at it again. This week it was working on a writing blog. It started slow. Once I made connections to Buffy the Vampire Slayer…it all was good to go. While I did not have my flash drive, I still had room on my old one enough that I could work on a blog. For that I was grateful.

Then…blog done. Blog posted. My mind immediately started to wonder what to do next.

But…another thought occurred to me. I had nothing to work on in between blogs. Usually that would be my books. But…no flash drive. So…what to do?

First, I tried to retrace my steps. The last time I used my flash drive that I could think of was at one of my jobs. I had some forms that I needed to print out and fax. Once I realized that I left it there that day, I called and asked for it to be put away. And I’m sure that I picked it up. Still, I looked around my workspace. And…nothing.

Next up…I figured it would be in my bag. I had already looked in it. However, I did have a tendency of putting it in odd places in my bag. Whether it was conscious or subconscious, my flash drive never winded up where I thought I put it. Sounds like my gym membership card in that regard. Annnd…NOTHING. After multiple tries and cleaning out every inch of my bag as best I could, there was still no flash drive.

Then I started searching the odds and ends in my room. There were the spots where I had been known to put my flash drive if I decided I was not taking it with me that day. Or I decided I was going to bed and didn’t want to leave it on the bed and thus crack it or something.

And I searched.

And I searched some more.

NOTHING.

Flipping out would be an understatement. As I stared at my room, it looked like a tornado had hit it. And my nature as a pack rat probably did not help the case. Papers here. Bags there. An old laptop that no longer had a connection between its charger and battery. Clothes. Magazines. It was all just scattered around my room. And…STILL…NOTHING.

I was about to throw something. I needed to throw something.

How could I be so frakking stupid and lose my flash drive. I mean…really?

BARGAINING

It was still on my mind. The fact that I had been so stupid. That I had been oh so absent minded.

I thought…perhaps if I had simply kept myself focused. If I had not allowed my jobs to take up so much of my time during December. Maybe if I just focused on what I was doing. So I decided that I should just…start working on my writing again, perhaps it would show up again. That if I just focused on working on Book 3 which was already waaaaaay behind, maybe right when I needed it my flash drive would fall out from some stray place that I had not even thought about.

Book 3 had come along nicely from where I stopped. All of my plot threads were in the same room now. They were converging. While something was nagging at my gut, the plot threads were there. Humans, Nosferatu, witches, I even had some hunters pop in…I did not think there was a part of the Darkenverse that was not touched on.

Yet…something was in my gut. Something was making me pause in my mind. I had learned when it felt like something was off, a character was trying to tell you something.

I knew how this chapter would end. And that ending would lead into the last half of my book. So I was pretty excited. And yet…there was one plot thread that was important to my main character that was starting to not feel like it would be finished by the end of this book. It was with that realization that I felt that there was another book waiting in the wings. Otherwise, my gut was screaming that this would be a rushed book. And that I did not want.

This would have been so much easier if I had my flash drive still. But…

I had to shake myself. I had been like a song on repeat for the last few weeks. If my flash drive was this. If my flash drive was that. Eventually, I had to stop acting like it would turn up at any second if I just tried. If only I had time enough. If I could accept that I did not have time to do all of what I would like to do, then I could accept the truth.

My flash drive…if not randomly stolen…was gone.

ACCEPTANCE

I finally made it home. I got some sandwiches in me. Then I collected my stuff. From there it was off to Starbucks.

I got my last flash drive out. Then I looked through it. From there, I backed up all my pdf files and files I felt I might need later on…like those transcripts for writing applications for example.

Then…DELETE, DELETE, DELETE.

I looked at how much space was left. A smile crept onto my face. It looked like that did the job.

I had available space again on that flash drive. That was about to be useful.

I had taken the time to see what I had lost from my other flash drive when I lost it. I had hoped…to no avail. The majority of Darkened Soul: The Breaking of Circles had been lost. In my case, the novella and the epilogue. Not to mention apparently Fredrick’s first story. I would simply have to type it all out again.

I know, I know. Ugh.

On the good side, not entirely from starch. So yay for me for some backup…no matter how slow I had gone about doing it. I guess I could make frequent backups a New Year’s resolution then.

So…now I had a starting point. Somewhere to start and build up to. I had a deadline for all of this. So it was time to get back to some forward motion.

December might have taken a lot from me. But I guess in the end it had not taken my will. But to get it back, I guess I had to really go through some stages of grief…

#statesofgrief #states #grief #goals #2019 #writer #thewritinglife #writing #nye #partthesecond #part #second #denial #anger #bargaining #acceptance #darkenedsoul #breakingofcirles #breaking #circles #laptop #darkenverse #thingstocome #gameofthrones #buffythevampireslayer #toshiba

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cupcakeshakesnake · 8 years ago

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Watching SU for the first time: Season 4 ep 11~15 (part 2)

This post reacts to Season 4 episodes 113~15 (Gem Heist/The Zoo/That Will Be All).

I feel like my brain’s got a blue screen of death... jfc

Gem Heist

-*’I have a bad feeling about this’ intensifies*

-THERE’S A FUCKIGN RED EYE

-WTF?? AMETHYSTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THAT BIG??

-NO WONDER JASPER CALLED AMETHYST A RUNT, BUT SERIOUSL, I LIKE SHORT AMETHYST BETTER, THIS IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE

-How the hell are they not able to see through the window from outside

-WHY DOES THE AMETHYST SOUND LIKE JASPER

-who the fuck is that cat ear haired dudette and why won’t she stop punching people

-This is so uncomfortable

-Sapphires must be pretty high-ranking in Homeworld society

-I never liked the homeworld society and I don’t like it now. Fucking hierarchy and bullshit.

-Are those jail cells

-i still haven’t gotten over that hair

-Please hold it together Ruby

-That does bring up the question, do gems speak English or is there some TARDIS translation circuit shit going on in there, like the CG’s can communicate with humans because they’ve been on Earth and there linguistics immediately adapted to their environment, but the gems in the zoo have never been exposed to Earth surroundings and therefore cannot understand the language of a native?

-I only just realized the zoo ship looks like those diamonds people put on rings.

-Oh and hold it together Amethyst...

-FUCKING RUBY

-HOLD IT TOGETHER RUBY

-Maybe it only opens for diamonds?

-I W A S R E A L L Y E N J O Y I N G T H E T O U R

-The gem at the back of Holly’s head makes her look like she has a permanent drop of cartoon sweat

-”NO RUNNING IN MY LOBBY”

-*shouts “WE DO NOT RUN OR SHOUT IN THESE HALLWAYS”* sounds legit.

-”Assimilation bay”? Assimilation: the act or process of assimilating, or of absorbing information,experiences, etc. Assimilate: to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb ...Uh oh.

-HEY PERIDOT I FOUND YOUR FINGERS

-Reminds me of that one time I took an MRI scan. It was really loud and sounded uncannily like hardstyle music. Scanning with sick beats.

-STEVEN DON’T GIVE IN TO THE HUMILIATION

-But seriously what’s with the undressing that’s disturbing

-and there’s a giant eye watching

-Me too Steven, me too. Loincloths are one of the worst human inventions to ever exist. And now you look like some farmboy from medieval Japan.

-HE’S NOT OLD ENOUGH FOR FUCKING EAR TAGS

-Welcome to space Hawaii.

-”Your weird appearance, your strange jewels... I know what you are. YOU’RE HIPPIES!"

-the fuck

-did that episode seriously just cut off there

-I will now put my voice, specifically trained in the ways of the Whovians to scream the name of Moffat, to an unconventional use, to scream...

-REBECCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!1!!!!11!!

-*insert JonTron saying “What, What the fuck”*

The Zoo

-SKIP THE THEME SONG

-’TIS A PRETENTIOUS FACADE OF RAINBOWS AND FLOWERS PLANTED TO DISGUISE THE INFERNO THAT IS CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE

-Space Hawaii... with Minecraft grass.

-”Gareg”

-That name sounds kinda Star Wars-y

-And now I have conflicting feelings about the zoos we have on Earth, I mean, is that what animals think of zoos, but only way worse? No grass, no trees, just concrete and spectators? (I mean, some zoos are really nicely set up but others are not so good.)

-Annnnd introducing people from all over the world. KIDNAPPED humans.

-Now imagine Steven freeing all those humans and bringing them to Earth and Peedee just waking up and going to work one morning to find 20+ people in loincloths chanting “The buts, the bits”

-What the fuck, glowing earpieces

-For a moment I thought it was gonna say some 1984 shit “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”

-Well that still sounds like brainwashing to me

-MINECRAFT FRUIT

-MINECRAFT QUILT GRASS

-Reminds of the scene in Kungfu Panda 3 where all the pandas roll downhill.

-HOW THE FUCK IS THAT VOICE WATCHING

-SHE KNOWS EVERYTHING THEY’RE DOING

-I BET IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT SPACE EYE

-IT REMINDS ME OF THE CYBERMEN EARPODS FROM DOCTOR WHO SERIES 2

-*WHAT THE FUCK INTENSIFIES*

-”What if I don’t want to smell the flowers?” Then you will be EXTERMINATED.

-But seriously, this is really unsettling.

-By “refreshing bath” you mean sitting dramatically in a fountain with all your clothes on

-Without even wetting your hair

-CANNONBAAAAAAALL

-”Raised in captivity”

-That sun is really bugging me for some rea-WHAT THE FUCK

-I kid you not, I legitimately yelled “WHAT THE FUCK” when it started eclipsing

-I thought it was gonna turn into a giant eye or something holy shit

-Now it just reminds me of the night light in Bo’s room on Spirited Away

-How the fuck do they all get tired at the same time and how do they not get tired or bored of the same routine (from what I gather) every day. There is something seriously wrong with this. Or it’s just because they were indeed raised in captivity and i’m just overreacting.

-”I sure am tired from doing a whole lot of nothing”

-”It’s the door!”

-I mean there were literally like three banana leaves covering it

-That’s creepy

-you sure Greg, Steven has superhuman stregth, he can punch an arcade robot out of its stall...

-Maybe they just assume everyone’s asleep at night and don’t care what happens

-The WHAT?

-This is ominous

-U12, F3... they’re fucking numbered

-Wait but why do gems use human alphabets

-”choosened” Much grammar. Such wow.

-Wait is this some sort of breeding ritual Is this how those humans were born in the first place

-what the fuck

-THE FUCK

-what the fuck

-fucking fuck

-what the FUCK

-GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, THE DOOR IS OPEN

-Amethysts working emotional support.

-So do they understand zoo humans but not Greg/Steven, or does it work differently?

-uh oh

-shit

That Will Be All

-*bad feeling intensifies even more*

-*Han Solo voice* I’ve got a baaad feeling about this.

-Well at least they’re out of the enclosure

-Are those Jaspers

-in... boxes??

-Are soldier gems usually kept in cat towers?? How do they even get up there?

-NOOO AMETHYST

-THANK FUCKING GOODNESS you had me scared there for a moment

-Like, thank fucking goodness. I’d really hate it if Amethyst went through even more shit than she already did.

-SKINNY JASPER

-LOL WUT

-what the fuck

-*in that screaming voice when you turn a corner in a horror game only to find the same monster that’s been hunting you down for the last twenty minutes patiently waiting for you* THEY’RE STILL THERE

-those cat tower holes are supposed to look like Kindergarten holes.. so that’s what they do?? Just stand in there??

THEY WERE EAVESDROPPING

-Except Ruby. She was prepared to punch someone.

-Who bubbled all these gems that look nothing like the one in my belly?

-”Oh no I’m crying, the enemy is near”

-WHAT THE FUCK

-Good to see YD lost some of that neck

-And apparently her trench coat/skirt thingy too

-*LOUD WALKING NOISES*

-Like seriously the diamonds are fucking HUGE ASS FUCKING GIGANTIC WTF

-Well, so much for the guy who theorized that Yellow Diamond is not huge and that Yellow Pearl is just tiny.

-I’m surprised that the pearls didn’t get accidentally squished already

THAT FUCKING SMUG ASS FACE

I cOulDn;T heLP MYSELFF

-AND NOW I’M CACKLING LIKE MAD

-I WAS CACKLING ALL THE WAY WHILE I WAS PHOTOSHOPPING THIS AND I AM SO GLAD I WAS ALONE AT HOME

-(Except for my dog. maybe he thinks I’m crazy now/)

-Anyway, back to the episode.

-destroy the WHAT NOW?

-Wait, did Homeworld bubble all the Rose Quartzes because of the one that defected?

-”Pearl, do something. Sing for her.” Yellow Pearl: “someBODY-”

-Yellow Pearl: “NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN”

-Yellow Pearl: “What is love, baby don’t hurt me, baby don’t hurt me no more”

-Yellow Pearl: “Turn down for WHAT”

-Yellow Pearl: “bobok bok bok bok bokbok bok bokbok bobok bok bok bok bokbok YEE”

-Yellow Pearl: “And I said HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA “

-Yellow Pearl: “ROUND AND ROUND LET THE CITY TURN, PARTY IN THE HILLS WE CAN PARTY IN THE BURBS”

-Yellow Pearl: “SIE SIND DAS ESSEN UND WIR SIND DIE JAGER”

-Yellow Pearl: “wE, ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS”

-Now I want a compilation of Yellow Pearl singing ridiculous things

-maybe I will make them myself.. but I only have Windows Movie Maker

-Shh, Steven, don’t sing along.

-HOLY FUCK IT’S THE SONG

-Makes sense that YD’s voice actor is a musical actress.

-AWW THEY’RE ON HER HANDS

-why do those pearls have such squeaky voices

-it’s certainly something different to see the main antagonist’s feelings being shown, and having her own song that isn’t about conquering and being evil, instead they’re shown to have feelings and caring about their friends and lost ones. I like that. Steven Universe makes it hard to really hate any character, because none of them are one-dimensional, they all have their own stories and personalities, there’s more sides to them than their first impressions.

-(I’m silently kinda thinking it would have been even more better if it was a duet but hey what we already got is great in itself)

-fucking holly agate

-dictionary agate

-Ruby is discomforted

-AND I GET WHY. THEIR PLAN’S ABOUT TO BE BLOWN

-o shit o shit o shit o shit o shit o shit o shit oshit

-DAMN BLUE DIAMOND WENT FROM GLOOMY TO EDGY SASS IN 0.1 SECONDS FLAT

-And Yellow Diamond just standing there like ‘wtf is going on’

-PHEWWWW

-I hope we get to see more of them in the future, it’ll be an interesting story arc. I’m curious as to what their positions and roles will be in the upcoming episodes.