#at the very least i'd be the wrong person to try and persuade you lol

[tea-of-destiny]

hi friend I meant to send you this ask a couple days ago I think but. I know it isn't really (twewy) canon, but I'd like to hear about the TWEWY characters in KH3D, if you'd tell me about it? I don't have any intention of playing KH myself, I don't think it's my kind of video game in general, but I'm still fairly curious 👀

ajlksjdfhalsjkd I think this is normally a question where I'd go back to the source material to confirm what I'm saying, but this has been sitting in my inbox too long so I'm just going to write off the cuff and pray something worthwhile comes out

Um, as a whole they're pretty fun! Maybe not totally accurate to the canon of their own game, but they're presented in a way that makes you (or at least me) want to check out TWEWY to find out what their story is. I am so determined to play TWEWY for real eventually, but I don't know how soon that will happen since there's... so much else I want to do aha.

Neku's personality is more that of his first week in the Reaper's Game--he's still kind of standoffish and self-centered, which makes him a stark contrast to a protagonist like Sora, but Neku is already in the process of learning how to trust and befriend other people. He evidently cares about Shiki a lot. I don't remember if he's shown to have much attachment to Joshua or Beat yet in KH canon.

Shiki is a part of one of my favorite interactions in the series; it's actually where the quote in my header image comes from! Riku defends Shiki from a swarm of Dream Eaters, and then he's ready to just run off again to finish his mission, but Shiki says something to the effect of "Hey, you can't chat a girl up and then just ditch her! Aren't you supposed to be my knight in shining armor?" To which Riku kind of panics and says, "Knight? You've got the wrong idea!" aro king So they make for an entertaining pair of companions.

I love Beat. He and Rhyme have a great sibling dynamic. Beat makes some rash decisions that put people in harm's way, but he really means well and has a big heart. There's another scene where Beat's acting tough to Riku like, "We don't need your help!" But Rhyme pipes up like, "Really? 'Cause not five minutes ago, you were whining, 'Where's Riku? We gotta find Riku!'" And Beat gets really flustered like, "Gwaah! Don't say that in front of him!"

All I can really say about Joshua is that he's not enough of a bastard in KH canon lmaooo I need him to shoot the ancient embodiment of Darkness or something

One other thing I'll mention is that as of the Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer, Sora has gone to an alternate reality, and he wakes up in a city resembling Tokyo. There's been speculation that he's specifically in the TWEWY version of Shibuya and we'll see Sora reunite with the cast. Some fans are really excited by the possibility of extended TWEWY lore; others don't want it to be the case because they worry that TWEWY will get subsumed into KH instead of standing as its own thing. I'm not sure how I personally feel, except that I really hope whichever path the developers take, they spend the necessary time to make the game compelling and enjoyable.

I hope this kind of answers your question, even if it's been a while? And thanks for asking!

[emin-folly]

Captain Cold for the Character Bingo? 👀

Ooh, I haven't had a chance to talk about him before, this is gonna be fun!

Captain Cold

Unfortunately, this chart doesn't have many options for characters who aren't Obsessively Infesting Your Mind but also who aren't meh to you either

That being said, my thoughts on Captain Cold: I really like him a lot! He's a great character. I heard someone say once that if you're a fan of the Flash, you're also most likely a fan of the Rogues and I think that's definitely true lol

What endears me to Cold and makes him stand out among the sea of other bad guys in DC is how he's like your everyday joe kind of villain who has a firm set of moral principles. He isn't a killer (at least he doesn't want to be) and refuses to hurt women and children. He has a tragic backstory but it doesn't really affect his present goals much, like, he's not out here on some grand mission of hunting down every abusive parent or to avenge himself and Lisa or smth. To him, the past is the past, it sucks but there's nothing you can do about it. All he wants now is some respect and a nice, hefty paycheck. He's flawed and messy but still has a sense of right and wrong, even if sometimes he has to be persuaded into it. A better person than he tries to tell himself he is and honestly, I'm just a sucker for sympathetic villains lol

I'm also a big fan of the modern update of giving him a cold-temperature gun! That's very fun and a fresh twist on a cold-themed powers~

I really love how he's formed a sort of dysfunctional found family with the Rogues. Like, all these guys have problems and they fight, but at the end of the day, they're the closest thing to a home any of these people have. Also his relationship with Lisa is so sweet. He genuinely loves and cares about her and tried to protect her from the trauma and abuse the best he could. For all his faults, he really did try to be a good big brother for her

And of course, we can't not talk about Cold without talking about his relationship to Barry. The way their relationship started out as enemies then to frenemies then to Barry being someone Cold actually considers as family??? Absolutely top tier, messes me up, 100/10

Their dynamic, to me, is at its best when they're more friends/rivals then pure enemies. Cold robs a bank, Barry shows up to stop him, they banter and snark back-and-forth. It's a old familiar routine to them. They're hero and villain and yet they're pretty chummy with each other. They fight but they're also the kind of people who hosts Christmas events for poor children together. Despite all their differences and problems, there's no real malice or hatred between them but instead a deep-seated mutual respect

Also props to Cold for being one of the few people who actively understands just how dangerous speedsters can be. He still provokes Barry/the other speedsters and doesn't pull his punches but he knows he's dealing with a bunch of lions. Now they're very nice lions (most of them, anyway), but they're still very much man-eating lions and there's lines Cold knows not to cross some lines if he doesn't want to be mauled to death

Overall, Cold is a really fun character and honestly, I'd really like to see him regain some of his whimsy again. I don't mean I want him to be a joke villain, no I still want him to be competent but I think he should be allowed to be silly again and let him have more team-ups with Barry from time to time lol