#keyblade spirits au

[tharkflark1]

Oops Keyblade yaoi

(BraveHeart x Kingdom Key)

[sparklingsora]

Hi. I would like to know many things about your roleswap au bc I love it very much but I have no idea what to ask I just want to know many things bc my brain has been consumed already

uhhhhh I guess can you lore dump a little bit on backstories? Idk I just wanna know everything about this au

I will be back in your ask box for this au several times most likely

-Spaghetti Brain Anon

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK!!! i am SO glad that i could get this au to live in someone else's brain rent free too. all i could ever ask for in life tbh i guess i'll infodump about character backstories, dynamics, character arcs, all that juicy stuff putting it under cut because HO BOY THIS IS GONNA GET LONG

as a heads up, take the timeframes i give you with a grain of salt, because i still havent completely figured out the timeline so first of all, vox!! he's a sinner, died in the 1950s, as per canon. he's a businessman, but less stable than in canon. he's always jumping from job to job, business to business, which results in him having a lot of connections with various people around hell. soon after arriving in hell, he met and became friends with alastor. cut to, i'd say around 7-10 years before the events of the story? alastor disappears without a trace during an extermination and vox assumes him dead. having now been personally touched by the effects of the extermination, the idea to try and solve overpopulation another way is planted in his head, but wont come to fruition until much later. in the meantime he meets velvette - finds her bleeding out in an alleyway after getting too cocky and trying to fight back to an exorcist (bad idea). he nurses her back to health, they become friends and eventually start dating, yada yada yada. one day vox and velvette find a funky little cat (keekee). keekee takes a liking to them and leads them to the old ruins of a building up on the hill on the edge of pentagram city. they figure out that the cat turns into a keyblade that can be used to magically build shit (only the hotel though, as keekee is the spirit of the hotel or??? whatever the hell the canon lore is idk???) vox finally decides to realize his idea to try and solve overpopulation more humanely - through redeeming sinners! his reasoning is, if angels can fall (as proven by lute and charlie), then demons can surely ascend, right? though he's not as sure or idealistic about it as charlie is in canon. he simply thinks it has a chance of working, and opening up a hotel means a bigger sample size than if he were to just try and get into heaven himself or something like that. besides, he wouldnt wanna go to heaven, he likes it here. also, im not sure where this is situated in the timeline yet, but he was in a band with adam, lute and possibly eve at some point? the band is called brimstone eden, as mentioned in the comic i posted. im not sure yet whether he was in the band prior to eve's disappearance or after it (eve disappears 7 years before the story starts to mirror canon lilith). swap!vox, like his canon counterpart, is a very reactive person. he follows trends, he's extremely go-with-the-flow to a fault. he never really had any strong beliefs until the hotel - his character arc mainly involves him gaining something to believe in and learning to fight for that belief, 'ready for this' being more or less the culmination of his arc. jesus christ i cant believe i wrote that much JUST on vox. *slaps the top of his head* this boy can fit so much lore in him

now, velvette... she's how you'd expect her to be. same old brave, arrogant velvette. she's a fashion designer and seamstress and runs a moderately sized business which she promotes on sinstagram. she's mutuals with val there, which is how he finds out about the hotel. there's not much to write home about when it comes to val - it's insane how similar angel and him are. like literally barely anything changes when you swap them, it's very clean. he's a prn star, sold his soul to angel dust, yada yada. though a bit on his dynamic with vox - vox is very good at reading people, and doesn't like being lied to (he's a bit of a hypocrite in that regard - he puts on a facade all the time when in professional settings). he can clearly tell val isnt doing as good as he pretends he is, and wants to help him really badly, but val just sees it as vox pitying him and rejects his help (its what they fight about in ep 4, as a counterpart to the whole "charlie going to the studio" thing bc vox wouldnt do that) and now here's the fun part - ALASTOR! oh, alastor, you beautiful stuck up bitch! so turns out, he's not so dead after all! he ALMOST died in that fateful extermination, but husk found him and offered him a "give me your soul right now or bleed out in this alleyway" type deal. of course alastor chose the former, but boy he's not happy about it. he's extremely ashamed of how far he's fallen. so ashamed, in fact, that he hid from the world for those 7-10 years! yeah! he's only pulled out of hiding when husk summons him to be the bartender for the hotel. vox is of course, extremely bewildered and demands answers. alastor doesnt give them and avoids him instead. it takes a sincere conversation with valentino in ep 4 for alastor to finally talk to vox again and explain himself. alastor is basically in extremely deep denial of just how fucked his life is. he clings onto his radio demon persona like a lifeline bc its the last thing that can help him feel some semblance of control over his situation. his tension with valentino is twofold - first they butt heads because of opposing personalities, and second because they both see the other's bullshittery. it's a clusterfuck it eventually bubbles over in ep 4, they both admit how absolutely fucked they are and are friends now. wish i could say more on al & val bc i love them very much but it seems ive run out of eloquency for now. though i know i'll draw some comics of them eventually so maybe it'll come across better in comic form. anyway as mentioned above ive run out of eloquency and im honestly not sure how coherent this whole thing is so you'll have to come back for the other characters some other time, dear anon! until then, thank you so much for the ask once again, and have a nice day/night :)

[rosie-kairi]

*Walks in with a slushie* hey so after I sent that ask it made me come up with a whole idea I've come to call the Ghost AU:

Picture this, Ephemer and Brain are the only ones from the original 5 to rebuild keyblade society and live actual lives growing up getting married, becoming masters, and having kids. Yet despite that they're both weighed down by the guilt and despair believing they abandoned their friends to die when escaping the digital daybreak town.

So at the end of their lives all they want is to reunite with their lost friends. When they die Brain and Ephemer do find each other in the afterlife (or the final world) and they're so happy and they missed each other soooooo muuuuuch. Except there's one problem, they can't find the others. So they go searching the afterlife to find them.

This eventually leads them to Strelitzia who goes on to explain that actually they're all still alive. Ven, Skuld, and Lauriam ended up in roughly the same time period just spread apart from each other but worse than that they're all in a pretty bad situation. Determined to right their wrongs Eph and Brain go back to the mortal world to take care of their unfinished business. But of course, being spirits they can't directly affect or interact with anything so they can only do so much.

Ephemer goes in search of Ventus and Brain for Lauriam, and then they plan on finding Skuld together. Ephemer unfortunately finds Ven in the clutches of Xehanort and is helpless to stop the neo shadows from ganging up on him. He reads Xehanorts heart and tries to whisper in his ear this is wrong, you know this isn't right he's just a little boy please don't. Whether Eph recognizes Xehanort as his descendant or not is up to you (personally i think it should be riku but we're not talking about that) but fails to stop the split and can only watch in horror as Ven is ripped apart and left in a cationic state on the near brink of death.

Desperate to save him Ephemer searches for a light strong enough to help, and guess who he finds? On the night of Sora's birth as his heart makes its way to the destiny islands Ephemer guides him to Ven and asks for his help knowing that a pure light will give Ven time to regather his strength. You can also imagine his surprise when he sees Ven dropped off at Eraqus' residence. The only real way for Ephemer to interact with the wayfinders is to go in their dreams and ask them to look after Ven and succeed where he failed. His messages are cryptic on purpose to keep Ven's true identity safe but also forge the subliminal suggestion to keep the younger keyblade wielder safe. And then Ven decides to journey on his own and Ephemer would've had a heart attack if he wasn't already dead and tries and fails to get Ven to go back to LoD. Only to regret that when he sees Eraqus draw the keyblade he once wielded and left to Brain be turned on Ven (it's a real good thing Brain wasn't here for this because ghost or not things would've gone from bad to worse seeing his grandson pull a stunt like that).

All the subliminal messaging pays off when Terra and Aqua go all out to protect Ven but it's still not enough. Ephemer tries to stop Ven from sacrificing his heart in the meta battle pleading for him to stop but if he couldn't stop Ven at 11 he wasn't going to have much luck with him at 16. When the battle draws to a close all Ephemer can do to stop Ven from fully fading away is to once again guide him to a heart that will keep him safe. He whispers to Sora's heart take him and protect him and over the next 10 years visit his dreams encouraging Sora to be strong and save him which unintentionally feeds into his savior complex (whoops).

Meanwhile Brain successfully locates a much older Lauriam but is unable to stop him from becoming a Nobody (and as a ghost he tries to throw hands with Luxu who he clocks instantly but he's dead so all he can do is yell insults and curses). Brain can only communicate with Marluxia when he's standing in front of a mirror or a reflective surface it's the only time he's visible and can get Marluxia to hear him. He keeps trying to get him to remember who he is, a dandelion, a union leader, a keyblade wielder. He tries to apologize over and over for failing to help him when he needed it. For giving Lauriam hope of finding his sister and then not following through with his promise to help find her.

This obviously does not go well for Marluxia too ashamed to fully face what he has become and what he has done. His heart is in turmoil and anytime Strelitzia is mentioned has him storming away or breaking the surface Brain is reflected in. This all comes to a head in CO, where Brain keeps trying and failing to get Lauriam to wake up and stop his schemes, and even though Ven's heart is currently with Roxas at that time the bond is still there and it's the closest Brain has gotten to getting through to Marluxia. But all it does is bring more anger and despair so instead of waking up he buries himself deeper and succumbs to darkness fighting Sora.

Now Ephemer and Brain truly feel like they've messed up. Ven's heart is damaged and not in his body, Marluxia is gone but Lauriam didn't show up in the afterlife so they didn't get him back, and they still haven't found any sign of Skuld. Standing in the CoW even though Ven is asleep and can't hear or feel them the boys can't help but marvel at how big he is now, they smooth down his hair and readjust his jacket and cup his cheek and even though neither can actually feel anything it just feels so good to see him again. Occasionally they both enter his dreams just to check on him and make sure he's okay but they can't bring themselves to actually talk to him.

They realize Ven is likely the key to bringing their lost friends fully back so they split up once again this time Brain trails Xigbar to see what plans he has while Ephemer tracks down Ven's heart and has the talk from the previous ask with Roxas so when Sora wakes up Ven will be safe.

When Marluxia comes back and meets Sora it's much more intense. Even though Sora doesn't remember he now has Ven's heart and his presence is reaching out trying to connect with Lauriam deep inside. Ephemer is still whispering to Sora to free him, bring him back over his shoulder which just confuses Sora. And when trying to unleash the power of waking Ephemer can directly speak with Sora guiding him through the process to release Ven's healed heart. Both Ven and Eph thank Sora for keeping him safe all these years but Sora won't remember that part.

It all comes to a head in the keyblade graveyard where both Eph and Brain try to use their keyblades to divert deadly attacks just off course enough to miss giving the others but mostly Ven more openings to attack. When Marluxia is defeated for a final time he finally remembers everything and the gold bleeds to blue and he smiles and cries realizing that he didn't completely fail and sincerely thanks Sora for "protecting him" which he doesn't understand.

Then the big attack happens with all the keyblades getting launched and Ephemer appearing proper he lends his strength to Sora and again thanks him for "keeping him safe" which just confuses Sora even more (weirdo cryptic guys never explaining anything to him story of his life).

So in the end they finally managed to save Ven so one day two more to go. They now have to find Lauriam all over again because Streli confirmed he's still not dead and he finally got his heart back so he's all complete and continue their search for Skuld. Unfortunately, 5 very unwanted individuals materialize outta nowhere 4 of which should not look like no time has passed for them at all. So despite being departed souls Ephemer and Brain ready themselves to try and stop old enemies from hurting their friends, they somehow have to find a way to make more direct contact and likely jog some old painful memories.

How the rest of this plays out depends entirely on what holes Missing Link and KH IV fills going forward.

Ephemer and Brain when the Nightmare is never-ending.

FR that sounds like it would suck soooo bad for these guys. Universe just does NOT want them to win.

[jemtokall]

Hi! Can I ask about Eph/Rep I'm super curious if you wanna ramble lol

HELLO!!

Reph is a ship that me and my boyfriend came across while rping post kh3. I'll try to keep my rambling coherent :)

There's a lot of conflict and comfort to find with these two. For example-

Memories— Ephemera was against the Dandelions losing their memories of before the war, but after seeing the pain that Player was in, he decided that it was best to erase their memories. Not all memories need to be kept. This contrasts with how I hc Repliku. Rep believes that all memories are important (even his fake ones Namine gave him), and doesn't believe that there's any reason to forget a thing. So this is a fun conversation for them to have since they're both passionate about their stance and give each other new perspective. (In me n my boyfriends au Ephemera had amnesia for a time, but Repliku argues that it's not the same as having your memories tampered with)

Dark vs Light— Repliku leans on the side of darkness, while Eph leans towards the light. And after what happened to Player in khux, Eph's distaste for darkness is stronger than ever. So when Repliku fights with darkness or encourages it, Eph is fairly unsettled (Player flashbacks.) It's another fun conversation for them :)

Explorer vs Hermit— Ephemera is a curios spirit and now that he lives in the present time, he loves exploring all the worlds! He's always out there, a new adventure a day. And the way I play Repliku is that he's not used to leaving the castle, so he stays at Hollow Bastion and rarely goes into town. A bit of agoraphobia (fear of going outside). So Ephemera will come home at the end of each day to tell Repliku a stories about the day, which eventually inspires Repliku to leave the world and see it all for himself.

World simulations— Repliku was born in Castle Oblivion, world simulation galore. He never experienced a real world until kh3, so the majority of his world experience is simulations. The same could be said for Ephemera! In Daybreak Town the worlds they visit are all simulated projections from the Book of Prophecies.

Broken Heart— Ephemera had a painful goodbye with Player, someone he was very close to. And he had to say goodbye to them forever while thinking that their feelings were never genuine. We like to hc that Eph had romantic feelings for Player. And with Repliku, his heart was literally broken by Namine when she told him to stop fighting Sora. So while canon could be totally different for Namine, we like to hc that she avoids Repliku out of guilt for her actions and thinks his feelings for her are not genuine because she planted those memories in him that made him care for her. So Repliku and Ephemera can relate to the feelings of a broken heart.

-It's not how they met in our rp, but I like to imagine that they met in the Keyblade Graveyard since they were the only two ghosts there. I wrote the first chapter on ao3

-Repliku has ptsd from white walls in C.O, so when Eph tries to introduce him to Scala it usually leads to hurt/comfort

-Speaking of, their fun mutual friend Lauriam/Marluxia :) also leads to fun conversations

-Eph and Blaine are like brothers in this au, so Blaine always acts as the protective older brother to Eph and antagonizes Repliku which is a fun side dynamic.

Ok I've rambled enough LMAO thank you for taking an interest <33 it was fun to write this all down!

[peebls]

What if Sora, Donald and Goofy went to MDZS?

A threadfic based on a Tumblr post suggesting I crossover the first and last fandoms I wrote for.

sora, donald, and goofy disembark in a forest. sora recognizes the local flora and says, "hey, do you think this is mulans world?" 

donald: could be. 

goofy: where should we start?

sora: like we always do. walk until we find people or we find heartless.

heartless spawn everywhere.

sora: i guess we found the heartless.

in this au the heartless are used in the place of fierce corpses. they look like cartoon zombies. heartless local to this world also include wen spy birds and sword spirits.

so they defeat the heartless and this npc is there, looking dazzled.

"i was hiding over here and watching! i've never seen someone who could defeat them before! what sect are you from?"

and they look to one another and eventually fumble out that they're just traveling.

"oh cool so you're rogue cultivators? if you need a place to stay, i've got an inn."

on the way they ask about mulan. he doesn't know her, because the events of mdzs predate the legend of mulan. don't ask me questions about the way time functions in this level relative to the kh universe.

the inn the npc leads them to is the same inn the jiangs are trying to stay in, and the inn that the jins have booked.

so luo qingyan is there and she's like oh are you here for the lectures? cool that the lans let us study in their sect like that. can't wait to learn! what kind of cultivation do you guys do?

sora: uh i can do this? 

~keyblade reveal~

eventually somebody will ask if it has a name and he doesn't get it. he says it's a keyblade, so the characters refer to it as 'keyblade' as if it were a name. never "the keyblade" or "your keyblade" but simply as keyblade.

luo qingyan: 😍 which clan do you study under?

sora: we're ... *glances as donald and goofy* rogue cultivators?

she's basically like alright keep your secrets, i'll see you in class.

sora: i don't know what these lectures are about, but i'm curious to learn more about cultivation! maybe we can learn new magic.

mianmian: don't forget your passes!

trinity: shit we don't have those.

they acquire the jiang clan's passes somehow. 

on their way up the mountain, they meet wei wuxian, who is backtracking to retrieve the lost passes. only, they don't speak to one another, because pluto is with them, in that way that pluto only is when it's handy for the plot.

so wei wuxian sees pluto and obviously screams shijie save me at the top of his lungs and runs for his life.

"ok pluto i guess maybe you should wait in the car for this one?"

trinity meets the jiang clan at the gates, where the disciples are camping out and waiting for wei wuxian to come back. the situation becomes apparent very quickly, and trinity decides easily to return the passes they picked up.

so jiang cheng is all "ok esteemed second jade, here are the passes." 

and the guards are side-eyeing trinity. "and them?" 

let me make something absolutely clear. trinity does not get any disguise outfits for this level. they look like they always do. 

some kid with blue eyes and two anthropomorphic animals wearing colorful underwear with no sense of etiquette whatsoever are standing with this group of disciples making puppy eyes while jiang cheng is replying, without so much as a threat of an expression, "they're with us."

the lectures are mini games or something. unimportant. include cutscene of clans introducing themselves and giving gifts to establish character names and that wens are bad. moving on

trinity goes to biling lake, because the waterborne abyss is a swarm monster and it would make a good boss

wei wuxian introduces himself cheerfully to the gang, saying something like, "hey we met before sorry you had to see that side of me. i'm just very afraid of dogs but don't let that get out, ok?"

and he walks away and goofy, perplexed, says: "oughh, should we tell 'im?"

donald: no.

they must also speak to wen ning, because it will be relevant later. archery mini game.

this is largely cql verse but i’m ignoring the yin iron plot because i don’t like it, which means the next plot point is the wen's ambush on cloud recesses

i think this would be kind of cool. so far we've had the spawn room, in the woods, which with the exception of the first wave of heartless, is a safe room with a save point.

we have the path to town, hostile screen. town and inn, safe rooms. mountain path to cloud recess, two hostile screens. within cloud recesses are safe rooms but the back hills are hostile. 

the exception is when the wens attack. the cloud recesses becomes a hostile zone, and the rooms are the same but they are on fire, like olympus. 

but this au is running on kh2's engine so it's nothing big and cinematic. it's just. on fire now. 

wei wuxian is already gone bc he punched jin zixuan (off screen, because this game already has 25 hours of cutscenes) so trinity kind of ends up reporting to xichen and xichen is like you shall help my brother.

and wangji is like i hate you. 

and he's a party member but his tacturnity is awkward and even somewhat imposing. his kh2 flatface is abysmal. they don't work very well together (because they are missing wei ying) but they push back the wens.

the boss is a large heartless, controlled by wen ruohan, who is there personally because we like fun in this au.

and that's the end of sora's first trip to the land of cultivation. again, this is running on kh2's engine, so there will be another return.

in the meantime, though, in accordance with a Major Series Plot Point that i haven't made up yet, riku finds his way to the land of cultivation shortly after sora's triumphant exit, and he walks right into the wen clan's indoctrination.

literally he just shows up. this sounds like lazy writing, but lan wangji shows up wherever the chaos is and by god so do kh characters. so riku disembarks, and is immediately ushered with other disciples.

he becomes acquaintanced with wei wuxian between arriving to the indoctrination and the tortoise of slaughter. 

also the wens have a battle mini game, because this level requires gameplay, under the premise of the wens evaluating his cultivation level. even in this world's endgame after the wen sect is eliminated, you can come back to this place and fight battles

he's very helpful in fighting off the wens as he can summon his keyblade and use magic but ultimately he chooses to help jiang cheng and the rest of the disciples escape.

then, riku fights the boss with them. he weaves the darkness around him with comfort, blends it with light seamlessly. wei wuxian watches him with burning eyes.

but before that he's just chilling with these guys, these bros, in a dark cave, 0 feet apart because they're all gay. 

i think riku gets along very well with lan wangji. strength to protect what matters. they get each other. 

riku sees it all. wei wuxian sleeping in his lap, lan wangji singing to him. he knows that they are in love and wei wuxian is clearly a mirror of sora. 

so they don't spend a week underground. they kill the monster immediately, carry out wei wuxian  shortly after he loses consciousness. 

riku doesn't see lotus pier fall. he gets a g rated escort mission instead. something about taking some disciples home.

and then, we speedrun the sunshit campaign. time is meaningless. 

riku finds his way to the cloud recesses and jiang cheng is already there with wangji, agreeing to search for wei wuxian. riku helps.

he sees wei wuxian's turn to darkness. he feels it and he knows it. wei wuxian is standoffish with him, feels that riku's experience with darkness does not set the precedent for his own. 

they fight the sunshot campaign. think battle of 1000 heartless, except there are also heartless on your side. it's ridiculous, worse than fighting with dream eaters. 

riku receives an invitation to the first cultivation conference following the war as an honored guest. this is the conference that wei wuxian will barge into demanding wen ning's location. 

seeing that wei wuxian's darkness is taking a turn for the worse, riku follows him to the jin encampment to find that the unspeakable has come to pass: wei wuxian has turned wen ning into a heartless.

riku is like okay i need reinforcements Now, and because i like the gummi phone from kh3 i am importing it. he calls sora

((or, perhaps, since this is still ostensibly a kh2 au, he seeks sora out and intentionally leads him back to the land of cultivation. point is, he needs sora. he knows the power of sora's light.))

except, when sora arrives. he is too late. far, far too late. they ask around about wei wuxian, and the vendor they speak to shows them the ugly drawings. 

they find out that wei wuxian is known by another name now: the yiling patriarch, and that he has been dead for 16 years.

disbelieving that it could be the same wei wuxian , sora heads for the cloud recesses. they meet the juniors along the way. 

they're doing that statue thingy. statue fun mini boss. wei wuxian calls wen ning. sora hasn't seen wen ning like this. it's horrifying. 

wei wuxian, lan wangji, and jiang cheng alll do their thing. for all these mdzs characters they have either never seen wei wuxian or it's been 16 years since they had done so. 

sora saw him a few days ago. he confirms with trinity that the masked man is wei wuxian.

sora chases wangxian away from the scene and just bluntly says hey we heard you were dead. 

lan wangji dismisses them and asks them to please escort the juniors.

going forward sora mostly hangs with the juniors. he goes to coffin town. gets kidnapped with them and shows up for battle of a thousand fierce corpses part 2 but this one is significantly more fun because your allies have pretty hair and flashy robes and you won't stand there swinging fruitlessly at a non enemy for 5 minutes. i hate dream drop distance. 

((this is getting rough. why is mdzs so long. i forget every order of this plot. aiyo))

trinity gotta be there for the golden core reveal. cause they gotta it's important. they're on the boat too. they share in wen nings awkwardness when wei wuxian is flustered to notice them there. sora doesn't get it. 

they accompany wangxian into the guanyin temple, knowing at minimum that they're tracking xue yang's benefactor and the one who framed wei wuxian.

wei wuxian: lan zhan! lan wangji! hanguang jun! i... i really love you!

trinity, in equal tandem,

goofy: huh?

donald: wah!?

sora: whaaaaaaaaat???

then they're hugging or whatever and jiang cheng shows up and all that bit goes on while sora is sitting quietly, reeling over his newfound awareness that it is possible for men to like each other. 

jiang cheng is yelling but sora is watching the couple. his eyes follow lan wangji's hands where they grasp at wei ying soothingly. 

nie mingjue is kind of a gimmick battle. something about needing wei wuxian's whistling to make him vulnerable or some dumb reaction command that you can only activate within a certain pixel next to wen ning. maybe even both. for flavor. 

we have to make this pg rated somehow, so we'll skip the whole brotherly stabbing and go straight for seal breaking and whatever it was that got jin guangyao tossed into the casket. 

so that's that. following the end of the guanyin temple, we get a cutscene of trinity walking through the woods. they see wangxian in the far distance, standing close to one another and speaking, and then a nice chaste little disney kiss. 

"good for them," sora says, lacing his fingers behind his head. his smile drops. he looks into the middle distance. he thinks of riku. 

“oh! i almost forgot!” he exclaims.

he shatters the moment. he approaches the couple and asks them if they've seen riku. lan wangji recognizes his description and confirms that they have seen him, although it had been 16 years ago. 

sora is full up of hope.

they say goodbyes. lan wangji presents them with a jade token and tells them they are always welcome in the cloud recesses. they bow like cultivators and it's silly and adorable. 

the token also acts as a keychain, giving sora a nifty new keyblade.

[ventuszx]

So here it's Izuku from my Kingdom hearts Xover Au and Is Keyblade's "Unchained Dreams". This outfit is from the events of Kingdom hearts 1.

"Unchained Dreams" is a Blade that focuses more on magical power that the User's strength.

Backstory

Izuku's day had been an unpredictable whirlwind. He had a bizarre dream and overslept, then witnessed the debut of Mount Lady en route to school. He managed to arrive just in time for class, only for his teacher to call him out on his aspiration to attend UA, and Kachan to mock him and tell him to jump off a building after class. On his way home, despite the meteorologist's forecast of sunshine, a storm began and he was attacked by shadowy creatures. Fortunately, All Might came to his rescue, but Izuku made the foolish mistake of grabbing onto him, resulting in a shocking reveal of All Might Skinny and injured form. But All Might's response to his question "Can a Quirkless person could be a hero?" shattered Izuku's spirit. Despite all of this, when he saw a commotion in the streets, he couldn't resist investigating. He witnessed Kachan being consumed by the same shadowy creatures that had attacked him earlier, and when the heroes failed to intervene, something inside Izuku compelled him to throw his backpack at the creatures and rush to Kachan's aid. A mysterious key-shaped blade appeared in his hands, and with it, he was able to defeat the creatures and save Kachan. However, the situation rapidly deteriorated, as more shadowy creatures emerged and an explosion rocked the area. Izuku and Kachan found themselves in a ruined arena, confronted by a colossal shadow creature. They fought valiantly, but ultimately, their world was consumed by darkness. When Izuku finally regained consciousness, he found himself in a strange place called Traverse Town.

[atomic-taco-muffin]

Jessica being a new keyblade wielder pacifist au:

Aced: *walks up* love is that you?

Jessica: *smiles as the spirit of his wife takes over* yes my light

You can choose who his wife was

Aced: *tears up*

[momochiiee-reblogs]

This are the outfits that my boy has rotated among the most

The first being his signature clothes, and his accessories tended to change depending on the season

Second was the grinding clothing. One could not simply tarnish his finest outfits fighting massive heartless! He had a guild full of children to be a role model for!

And then he died, but even in death he's a fashionista

I don't remember taking this screenshot but apparently this is the last in-game picture of my boy, his real name was Dylan, but DR changed it apparently

He was 25 when he died, so he's not as much a keykid but a keyoungadult(?) He constantly adopted children into his guild, so he was like a disaster gay dad for them

And here's his Spirit pet Lushu and his posible Nobody AU from that is blind because he lost his glasses in the battlefield during the keyblade war

He liked being extravagant, so he could be seen wearing horn and wing accessories like beast's horns or chernabog's wings when he was alive, so in the AU in which he becomes a Nobody, he sticks with the edgy side of his extravagance

Funny detail is, His name (Dylan) can appear in KH3, so he canonically died there LOL

Have ya'll saved/still have pics of your key kids from Union Cross? If you'd be willing to share, I'd love to collect some for a project...

[skytroops]

prince skye ref ft. his honedge

[tharkflark1]

More keyblade spirits for the AU! Feat. Braveheart and (most of) Way to Dawn

[luimagines]

Hello! This is Keyblade!Anon.

So first things first. My autocorrect changed AU to qu for some reason, but I have gotten it fixed now.

But to answer your question on elemental magic. I have provided a link to a video that shows how magic works, now this will be KH3/ReMind magic as it's the most recent in the series.

https://youtu.be/jXHXAPkDXLY

(It doesn't show Stop or Magnet, as you can't use them in KH3/ReMind if I remember correctly.)

You can use magic multiple times, inside or outside of battle, so long as they have the magical energy to do it. Magical energy builds over time, and can recharge, even in battle.

During the recharging process, they are unable to use any magic, but they can use items like Ethers to replenish their magical energy.

They can still use the keyblade without magical energy and during its recharge period.

Now the choice of what type of magic a person uses is left up to the individual, in KH3's DLC ReMind, we get a chance to see three other characters in the universe's magical preferences, one thing that they all have in common is that they have some level of Cure (Healing magic) on them.

Now, I wasn't able to before in my last ask, but I'd like to mention one more thing before I move onto Forms and Medals.

Keyblades are... Picky on who wields them. Keyblades are drawn to those who A. Have a strong heart and will, and B. Forged one themselves, there is an inheritance ceremony but that doesn't mean you're guaranteed a keyblade, it just means you have qualities to use one.

Hope that answers some questions and explains some things. If you have more questions, please ask! I'm happy to clear up any confusion and answer questions!

so basically to have a keyblade you have to be chosen or make on of your own and "cheat" or just have one... honorably.... in spirit so to speak.

Form and Medals though? Are those items to help with the magic?

[h-didanart]

:D

Lore!

LBM— I… they’re just a miserable little beetle with the powers and rage of god aren’t they? /… pos? He concerns me is the point (She hasn’t laughed in years? Their twin is dead?? The permanent lunar eclipse illusion possibly referencing his past as BM I on that one time the twins saw a lunar eclipse??? You’re dropping concerning lore about their mental health. Please keep it coming)

LKC— you actually got me curious enough to look at some of this aus stuff! It looks really really cool!!! I like the princes’ names, very neat- anyways— hey! I also have a transfem character who’s the child of a really powerful figure that doesn’t know she’s transfem for a great majority of the story, can they be friends with Thorn? She’s an oc, their name’s Desirée, I just call her Des- UH- UHM BACK ON TRACK— “incident”… sounds ominous, glad Crimson stays silly. More ominousness! Heck yeah! And huh, interesting

Pop star au— I had no clue you had this one, I don’t know much about it but you implied BM is the pop star in question and the main character and so I love it already. Lmao, I can see that :P (I’d probably be part of their fan base tbh) Poledancing is indeed cool, you need lots of strength and flexibility for it, and it actually looks like fun! :O neat! I like it!

Ohhh. Hmm, yknow what understandable, I often forget some as well.

Very well I shall provide one out of context lore for every single one of my aus… that I’ve shown here, I don’t want to keep you reading for half a day 😅

The Sunset and Moonlight Show— the plan to defeat Lunar Eclipse can be summarized with the song Guns and Ships from Hamilton

Quiet Throes— Bloodmoon’s roommate’s kinda adopted dog is actually an emotional support dog. It spends a lot of time next to Bloodmoon

Get in Losers— imagine breaking the standard timeline so much that you get not one, not two, not three, but nine whole Interdimensional family members

Sprout and Blood Adventures— Jack can tell when Original is lying, this usually leads to heart-to-heart talks Original is nowhere near prepared for, but it’s ok, Jack won’t judge him

This is What You Wanted— after half a day of trying to find a food Red would eat Eclipse got exasperated, so he threw a box of pasta to boil, put butter on it, and gave them the whole pot. You will never guess what food they ended up discovering was their favorite

Magical girls— Lunar’s weapon is a Keyblade, Kingdom Hearts style; Sun’s is mostly a sword but can change into other things CoTL style; Bloodmoon’s is anything but it is made of obsidian; Moon’s is either a bat or a gun depending on where in time you see him

Ocean Currents— the mers have no clue how human lifespans work. They were all (minus Lunar) promptly horrified to learn Bloodmoon had been a preteen when Sun shot them

The Sun and Moon Tales— Computer is a set of spirits that guard The Daycare, the Editor is a spirit that dedicates it’s time to record Sun and Moon’s lives

The Family Behind the Camera— the original Eclipse accidentally made a new one during the start of KillCode’s arc, the original became (and started playing) Solar while the new one kept the Eclipse name (and is V3//4)

Everyone is Alive?! What the Fu—— bad and naughty Celestials are sent to the Minecraft server to atone for their crimes

God of Doom— Antho, Monty, and Jack had to have someone to keep an eye on them for a few days after Morpho’s fight, turns out getting used to the feeling of dying can really mess up your scale of pain

UT crossover— Eclipse and Snow’s tails are poisonous, Snow’s less so but Eclipse’s is very much. Solar too has this trait with his spines

RTC crossover— they’re all wearing clothes that they’d rather wear instead of what they died on

Horror Attendants— all Macabro siblings and their extended family have Halloween specific clothing to wear during their time of the year, Eclipse, Dear, and Sharks like to change their clothes often, while the Bloodmoons, Solar, and Nex have exactly one thing to wear, and they keep it like that

Withered Hopes— Eclipse is a God

Overlord!Bloodmoon— the best way to seal an alliance//truce//peace treaty with the Overlords is to gift them with a unique weapon for them to add to The Hall of Death

Bloody Brotherhood— the siblings will get cells next to one another in Parts and Service whenever they’ll get captured

The Chaos House— the house keeps growing the more Bloodmoons arrive, no one knows how but they aren’t gonna question it, they’ve already got a huge forest, pool, balcony lounge, and cavern basement out of this incessant grow

Sunrise Arc Theatre— the cast for ‘the Sunset and Moonlight Musical’ are big fans of the cast of ‘Get in Losers; the Musical’

Animal Rescue City— Sol made Buck’s prosthetics himself, buying ones would take too much time and his feral little friend needed new legs as fast as possible

EAH Crossover— Principal Sunrise barely ever wears formal stuff, he’ll just walk around the school in a hoodie, sweatpants, and slippers

Mystery au????????????— the Celestials actually have a healthy family dynamic because of who they are here

And one that isn’t SAMS related at all but I’m trying to show you all anyways:

A Little Villainy— DeepFry’s memory Sucks, but somehow they can remember the gang’s favorite dishes, they try to make them whenever the others seem sad… if they don’t set the kitchen on fire that is

Aaaand I think that’s all of them!

… I think

I wish to know out of context lore

I have some myself if you’d be more inclined to a trade, any of my Bloodmoon— I mean- aus

Pretty please?

:3

*bats eyelashes*

HI!!! okay okay,,, hmmmm i mostly have them for lbm right now because ive been thinking about him the most so. whoopsies,,,,,,

lord bloodmoon au:

they make squeaks when scared/mad, its one of their tells (which ive mentioned before but never explained? the whole beetle thing makes them very vocal i suppose :) if i were to use this in a animation id end up using moth squeaks instead because sound bites of beetle sounds are very hard to come across pfft-)

she usually laughs a lot like eclipse, all deep n' sinister like, but he has a real laugh thats more of a snort in reality (mixed with the squeaks usually)! he doesn't like it very much and tries to cover it up, they haven't genuinely laughed in years.

the whole "permanent lunar eclipse thing" is more of an illusion than anything, a simple manifestation of a distent memory clawing to get out

^adding on to this, real eclipses do still occur, which usually would be a net postive for most bloodmoons, but not this one.

also a little jumpscare for you,, believe it or not, Lord bloodmoon is more of a lunar than a bloodmoon. he also.. hasnt met a single lunar i think???? i will elaborate later but for now this is all you get :3

lord kc au

THORN LISTENS TO WILL WOOD. THORN LISTENS TO WILL WOOD. THORN LISTENS TO WILL WO-

thorn is transfem which i dont think ive mentioned? for most of (if not all?) of the story, she's unaware of that though unfortunately

crimson is just a little guy,, a little fella even,,, they straight up dont remember anything before the "incident" so they're literally just a child if you couldn't tell HAHSG

kc has a full fucking bunker for her kids that they use like.... scarily often lmao

star is kinda just doing his own thing tbh. he doesn't actually interact with his siblings very often aside from when hes bored and wants to be a bit of an asshole FJSNBFBS

and LAST BUT NOT LEAST! popstar au

the bm twins regularly kill people in the alleyway behind the venue after concerts, and they get literally no backlash for it FHAHGD. their fans are fucking feral and will defend them all the way. also i mean what are you gonna throw two INSANELY popular animatronics in jail for killing people? yeah actually NO! our justice system isnt good enough for that!

the whole focus of this au is on the twins BUT!! the others are there too, and they all have their own careers/hobbies!

solar and lunar are poledancers (BECAUSE POLEDANCING IS COOL GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER)

also sun and moon were like indie rock i think??? maybe a bit of folk/forestcore for earth in there

AS FOR LORE TRADE,,,, im gonna be so honest i dont anything about know many of your aus? uhm uhm but id be up to learn!!!! share whatever you want!!!!

okayyy thank you have a good day :3

[belovedblossoms-m]

Etc. & Muse Tags

( CROSSOVER. )┊new navigations to follow great minds. ( MAIN. )┊something familiar to delve into new discoveries. ( THREAD. )┊sharing a brand new story. ( CH. STUDY. )┊observations to improve & master the skills. ( ROLEPLAY. )┊fantasies transform. ( AU. )┊traverse amongst new dimensions.

( HIYORI. )┊half-ayakashi with a moral compass. ( BOTAN. )┊motormouth grim reaper. ( GISELLE. )┊dreaming of a true love’s kiss. ( MAKOTO. )┊tactical queen drives for success.  ( MITSURI. )┊love hashira with the hair of sakura mochi. ( VANILLE. )┊not just smiles and sunshine. ( LETTUCE. )┊DNA of the finless porpoise. ( BELLE. )┊most peculiar mademoiselle. ( GLIMMER. )┊princess sparkle bomb of brightmoon. ( MIRABEL. )┊the one who became a miracle. ( ANNA. )┊more than a spare. ( ELSA. )┊spirit of ice & snow. ( RIKA. )┊cursed to the repetition of her fate. ( STOCKING. )┊angelic saccharine bitch. ( NENE. )┊radish legged girl. ( XION. )┊puppet full of memories. ( FRISK. )┊heart full of determination. ( CHIAKI. )┊ultimate gamer. ( KAEDE. )┊ultimate pianist. ( OCHAKO. )┊zero gravity: uravity. ( MOANA. )┊wayfinder & chief of motunui. ( BLAZE. )┊flaming force not to be reckoned with. ( LADYBUG/MARINETTE. )┊clumsy spotted heroine. ( AMY. )┊lovesick girl boss. ( SORA. )┊chosen keyblade bearer. ( SONIC. )┊he’s the fastest thing alive. ( MARKUS. )┊he who shapes the future of androids. ( MELODY. )┊born of sea and shore. ( EMERALD. )┊illusionist ninja. ( HOMURA. )┊time traveler to protect her wish. ( NONON. )┊conductor of deadly symphonies. ( TALIA. )┊popstar & princess of xeris. ( KIKI. )┊witch in training & delivery girl. ( CATHERINE. )┊alluring succubus. ( RIKKU. )┊al-bhed sphere hunter.

[daybreak-academy-fanfic]

BBS: Sabrina Remix: Fragmentary Passage

Keep Moving Forward

Summary: In which Aqua takes a minor detour before starting the events of KH 0.2 BBS: Fragmentary Passage proper (AKA, the tutorial that never was).

[I love this oneshot the most, and I think it was the first I worked on for the AU. Which means it gets to be posted first. LOL (if I posted it before, then I want to apologize now. I really do love this one. 😅)]

-Sabi Mix Master Post-

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At this point, all Aqua knew was that she had to keep moving forward. She wasn’t even sure if her heart was guiding her, or if her feet moved on their own accord. Time was hard to measure in this realm. Thinking on how much she had travelled (and how many creatures of darkness she had destroyed) became a dizzying one. So many of the landscapes all looked the same. Aqua wouldn’t even be surprised if she was going in one big circle.

That was why, when she first saw the figure, she thought it was her eyes playing tricks on her. Just standing there, the figure was dressed in long, elegant robes that seemed more ethereal than tangible. But there was also a sense of familiarity that Aqua couldn’t quite place. It was the hair, Aqua realized, that seemed familiar; raven black, reaching a little below the figure’s shoulders, with light waves throughout that became more prominent toward the end.

Then a memory came back to Aqua. Warm evenings in the realm of light, in the Land of Departure, brushing out that same hair after a long day of training. Gentle teasing on getting the other to open up more, while likewise being scoffed at for being narrow minded on the situation. Then the days when those waves were pulled into a ponytail to keep them away during training. That determined look on her face as Master Eraqus tested his pupils in equal measure...

“Sabrina?” Aqua asked. Her voice cracked slightly from being used so rarely now.

The figure did not respond.

The lack of movement truly made Aqua think she was just seeing things. But something still drew her closer. Was it the light coming off the figure? Aqua couldn’t remember the last time Sabrina had looked so beautiful. At the same time, something about this appearance didn’t feel right. The closer Aqua got, the more she came to realize that Sabrina’s eyes lacked pupils or iris. The sclera occupied the entire eye, and even had a faint, light blue glow to it.

Aqua paused when she was just within arm’s reach of Sabrina. The presence of her friend seemed far more real than before, while likewise being even further away.

“Sabrina?” she ventured to ask once more. “Is it you?”

For a heart wrenching moment, the figure still didn’t seem to acknowledge Aqua. Then, when Sabrina did turn around, Aqua nearly jumped back in shock. In a phenomenon that looked a lot like vitiligo, there were blotches of light brown stone across Sabrina’s face and neck. Aqua looked down to realize that the anomaly also applied to Sabrina’s fingers. Combined with the emotionless stare from those glowing eyes, the whole thing was incredibly unsettling.

“Aqua.” Sabrina spoke. In her voice was the echo of seven other voices, all of various ages and genders that Aqua couldn’t discern. It only brought more credence that this was not truly Sabrina. “So it is true- your light is now in the realm of darkness.”

Aqua had been so surprised at this turn of events that she tried to summon her Keyblade, but couldn’t.

“You… are not Sabrina,” was all she could manage to say. This… thing that looked like Sabrina only gave a tilt of its head. A small frown was pressed on its lips as if it were disappointed.

“We are, and yet we are not. The princess is a part of us for the time being, if that is what you truly wish to know. The princess’s heart resonates with the heart of water -yours-, so we will make ourselves known to you for now.”

“Um… Thank you?”

The spirit only offered her a nod.

“You are safe in this portion of the dark realm.” the spirit then informed her. “We have made it so under the princess’s insistence. You have been traveling awhile, have you not?”

“I’m not sure.” Aqua carefully admitted. “Time doesn’t pass in the realm of darkness the same way as the realm of light. It’s hard to know just where I’ve been and where I haven’t.”

“And of the natural dwellers?”

Aqua refused to answer. The spirit seemed to take it as one, regardless.

“You may have noticed that fighting feels different. Yet, it is not completely unfamiliar. While you are in a guarded place, let us test you.”

The spirit looked over its shoulder to an empty plain. It gently raised its hand to be at level with its shoulder. Giving a tight clamp of its hand, the landscape near them started to change. Pillars of darkness lifted from the ground before taking on a more stone-like texture. Various obstacles in the form of freestanding orbs littered the path- cracks within them emitted a soft glow, not unlike the glow from the spirit’s eyes, that faded from light blue, to light green, and back again.

“Show us what you know.”

Aqua gave a nod before rushing into the training area. Taking down the orbs had been an easy task. Much kinder than the creatures of darkness she had encountered before now. It was almost enough for her to believe that this was a safe spot.

Almost.

“Good.” the spirit nodded when she had cleared all the orbs. It raised its hand to change the landscape again. “Once more, but with your magic.”

Aqua gave a nod as her surroundings changed. It wasn’t unlike the first course; this time, the only main difference was that the orbs had different colors assigned to them. This was their element, and Aqua had to use her magic to counter each one. Again, another easy, simple task for her to complete.

“You are just as skilled as the princess remembers.” the spirit approved, appearing right next to Aqua without warning. Suffice to say, the Keyblade master jumped a good bit in the air before wildly turning to the entity. It was even more unsettling than before.

“If you don’t mind me asking,” Aqua carefully asked, “Just… what are you? You’re not just Sabrina, but she’s a part of you? That doesn’t make any sense.”

“We are the heart of Wasteland. Its ultimate spirit. The princess sleeps within us so we can heal from our hurt. She has promised us this since the beginning of our time.”

“I didn’t know individual worlds could form a heart of their own.”

“Many can not. They are simply a reflection of the hearts that occupy that world.” the spirit told her. “But Wasteland is a world both tainted and molded by darkness. It was made differently. To keep on the side of light, it needs to take… unconventional methods to heal after an imbalance. Our hearts must be as one for now. This is our fate. We can not sleep while we are awake, and vice versa. The princess has agreed to sleep, while the others remain awake.”

“I see.” Aqua agreed with a nod.

The spirit offered a stiff nod in return.

“As you continue your fragmentary passage through the dark realm,” it then said to her, “You will find that your fighting style may change depending on the situation. Don’t be afraid of these changes. Embrace them. This is the one advantage you have over the creatures of darkness- the power of change.”

Once more, the spirit raised its hand to change the landscape around them. It created a pathway far more complex than the last.

“Prove that you can change.”

Aqua nodded as she entered the new area.

The way she saw fighting in this realm had changed. Maybe it was because a familiar face was with her. However unsettling it was, a part of Aqua still missed having the physical companionship of another heart shining with hers. The thought that this moment would change was not lost on her. She was going to be wandering in the darkness again soon.

She was not ready to walk alone again.

Aqua came out of her style change with a small sigh. She looked back from where she had been and found a dull surprise in how far she had come.

“We want to know something.” the spirit spoke, once more appearing at her side without warning. “If you are here, where is Terra and Ventus?”

Aqua unconsciously shuddered. She had figured their conversation would come to this eventually. Sabrina was still a part of the spirit, she would have wanted to know regardless.

“What is the last thing you- I mean, what was the last thing Sabrina remembers?”

Now it was the spirit’s turn to recoil. It was a hollow comfort to know that Aqua wasn’t the only one who had memories hurt twice as hard in this realm.

“The princess returned to her second home, but we still called out to her. When the princess heeded our call, she made the master angry. This anger was nearly unleashed against his fears for the wind. It ended with a fight against the earth.”

A sudden pit hit Aqua’s stomach. Her thoughts went into a terrified loop of ‘She doesn’t know.’ that only made the nausea grow. She must have looked more pale before the spirit carefully turned its head to look at her. The spirit gave an expression that must have mirrored the one Aqua was showing. It was an expression of pure fear. Of true hurt.

“Sabrina…” Aqua tried to say, speaking specifically to her sleeping friend and not to the spirit as a whole. “Terra, he… He struck down Master Eraqus. Master Xehanort had played us all for fools. We tried to fight him, but Ven and Terra barely made it through.”

“Wh-what?” a small voice belonging only to Sabrina questioned. A single tear rolled down the spirit’s face. “How could they both…?”

“Terra is somewhere within the realm of light. I know this because it’s the reason why I am here. Ven I know for sure is safe. He’s sleeping back at home, waiting for me to help wake him up.”

“He must have a heart like ours.” the spirit said, speaking with the other voices once again. “It needs another to repair itself. The only question is- whose heart is connected with the heart of Ventus?”

“I don’t know.” Aqua sighed, giving a small shake of her head.

“Interesting.”

Aqua tried to think on the situation more, but her thoughts were interrupted when the ground started to shake. Both her and the spirit’s attention was drawn to something erupting from the earth. Like ink running uphill, a creature started to take shape. It was almost a pretty thing too- standing a bit smaller than Aqua, with what appeared to be an asymmetrical dress placed on its slender form. The extremities of this creature formed large clumps in the air before disappearing altogether. It gave Aqua a glance before letting out an ear splitting screech.

“I thought you said this area was protected.” Aqua questioned, calling her Keyblade without hesitation.

“It is.” the spirit replied. Its eyes narrowing at the creature. “We did not call it forward. The princess’s grief must have summoned it instead.”

“I’ll take care of it.” Aqua decided. The spirit cocked an eyebrow at this as she entered battle.

“We do not have the ability to help her.” the spirit said to itself, almost chastising. “We can guide the terrain, but not much else. This is the price of half-sleep.”

A grimace still etched itself onto the spirit’s features.

If Aqua had any reason to assume that the heart of Wasteland had been going easy on her, this would have been the time to thank them for it. The monster that had appeared was a tough one. It knew a lot of Aqua’s older techniques, and was able to find easy counters to them. She had to switch her fighting style and take on situational effects in order to take the creature down.

When it disappeared as the other creatures of darkness did, it reached out to her. A crying wail on its lips before disappearing. Aqua could feel a lump in her throat. This monster had been one of Sabrina’s making- however unconscious it was.

“Anyone’s fear can take form here.” Aqua decided to herself. “Will I be subjected to the same fate?”

This time, the spirit appeared right in front of Aqua. Its glowing eyes looking at Aqua’s with a faint sense of determination.

“You are a Keyblade Master.” it told her, rather bluntly. “You have already come this far, and you will reach the dark margin because your heart is strong. But do not be complacent. Your heart will be tested here, Aqua. Your memories, your connections, even the deepest darkness you hold in your heart.” The spirit seemed to catch itself here. It let out a small sigh before saying, “We would offer you more of our help, but…”

“No. You’ve done more than enough.” the Keyblade master insisted. “I’m glad that Sabrina is safe. A part of me will stand taller because of it.”

The spirit offered a small smile. “We’re glad.”

Knowing that she had to get going again, Aqua gave the spirit a smile and a polite bow. She then carefully made her way around the spirit before going on her way.

“Aqua, wait.” the spirit called out. Once more, Aqua was sure she heard Sabrina’s voice only. The Keyblade master turned around to notice that the spirit was holding something in its hand. She didn’t recognize the object at first, but when she did, she started to cry.

It was Sabrina’s Wayfinder.

The spirit seemed to enjoy this reaction- it was Sabrina’s smirk, Aqua realized, that was quite clearly on the spirit’s face.

“We are still connected.” the spirit told her. “One day we’ll wake up, and we’ll all be together again. Me, you, Ven. And Terra too, I guess.”

Aqua let out a shuddering chuckle before wiping a tear away.

“Yeah,” she agreed, “We will. I wish you nothing but sweet dreams, Sabrina.”

“Don’t die.” came the cheeky answer. With that, the spirit burst into thousands of small blue and green sprites. They danced around the area, twirling around Aqua in an act of kindness, before forming a guiding pathway out into the unknown.

Aqua gave a small smile. For now, all she had to do was keep moving forward.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

You Found Me

Summary: Because of a lack of replica bodies, Roxas doesn't come back during the Keyblade War. AU. RokuShi. Written for RokuShi Day 2022. Starts out angsty, but doesn't stay that way.

You Found Me

There hadn’t been enough replica bodies to bring Roxas back to life after the final battle—the only extra one at all was the one that the Riku Replica abandoned so that Naminé could live—and when Xion had first learned this fact, she’d first tried over and over to give up her new body for his heart, the way that Riku Replica had for Naminé.

But it was as if all of her friends had known that this was exactly where Xion’s mind would go, because one of the Guardians would watch her on a near twenty-four-hour basis (which was so annoying and insulting, and the former fourteenth member of the Organization made certain to tell everyone this as often as she was able), and if they saw her trying to leave her new form, they would push her spirit back into her body. So it really was no use.

Xion wanted to be happy that she meant so much to Axel, Riku, and Kairi already, and so many of these other pure souls—even as they dealt with the pain of losing Sora—but she found she couldn’t fully embrace that feeling. Not when the person she would have wanted to spend her life with wasn’t here, and when she had once chosen to return to Sora before Roxas, so Roxas could live just a little bit longer, she loved him so much.

And so Xion found herself falling into a depression… something that her friends tried their best to pull her out of in their own ways: Axel by introducing her to ice cream cake, Naminé by trying to teach Xion how to draw out her feelings on paper, and Goofy with his sage advice… but it just wasn’t enough, even though Xion would never let the Guardians of Light know that. She offered each of their attempts at saving her with as wide a smile on her face as she could manage, and wondered if she at all looked like Sora (another wound in her heart, in having lost him… in all of theirs), as she regarded them in such a way.

But since she was dealing with so much in being recompleted—a time that should have been the greatest of her short life—Xion supposed it wasn’t too surprising that she ended up trying to cope in a very strange way: she would go to funerals for boys who looked like Roxas (and only later would she regret that she had unintentionally intruded on another family’s pain). Because a part of Xion wished that somehow, some way, one of these boys would be him… And that if she could go up to the casket and cup his cheek, or something like that, True Love’s magic would bring him back to her.

But deep down, Xion knew it wasn’t that simple and that she was wasting her time. After all, Roxas hadn’t actually died. His heart was still within Sora’s, and he didn’t even have a body of his own, and that was the problem.

It was when Xion was once again at another funeral and wondering how she’d gotten there (could this perhaps be a good sign? That she was now awake enough to wonder that, when usually she was too numb to wonder such things and usually just went with the motions?), that she felt a presence sit down beside her, though Xion didn’t look to see who it was.

She figured that it was one of her friends, of course (probably one of the guys, since the form seemed bigger than that of Kairi or Naminé’s). So probably Riku or Axel, Xion would guess. And she assumed the boy—that she still did not look at, but she could kind of see them out of the corner of her eye—would either chew her out for being so inconsiderate here (and she wouldn’t even be able to blame him, if he did). Or he would lie and offer her his sympathy and support here, because of all of her trauma, even though he didn’t fully mean it.

The brunette was preparing herself for either option, and thus she was completely unprepared for it when the wise and seasoned voice of the Fairy Godmother said, “I fear there are too many forms I haven’t been able to restore lately. …But Roxas. I think he was always destined for another chance. Especially if it would lighten the heart of one so young like you. Would you like me to try and revive him?”

“Can you- can you do that?” Xion choked out. And then she wondered if that was the question she should have been asking here. Surely it was something about the World Order she should have been uttering, but then again: maybe not. Xion recalled now that everything about the Fairy Godmother seemed to be about if one believed in dreams. So, perhaps, there was a part of her that would want people to see magic, and even to again see the delight in all the worlds having once been one.

“Oh yes, my dear! I think I can. Though I’m afraid we must go to the Final World to make it happen. Sora’s heart may be lost to us for the moment. But when Sora began to disappear, for having abused the Power of Waking, I believe Roxas held tight to everything he held dear in the Realm of Light to keep him tethered here, and that led to his heart seeking shelter in the Final World. Now, come, come!”

Xion didn’t have to be asked twice. And the moment she saw the Fairy Godmother pull out her magic wand and begin swinging it over her head, the girl instantly closed her eyes—hoping that the next time she opened them, she might be wherever Roxas was at.

And she was.

When Xion blinked her eyes open, she saw a lovely world that was full of nothing but sea and sky—so very much like what Kairi had described to them all when she had recently gotten back from here a second time—and a massive blue star directly in front of her, that seemed to be calling out to her.

Xion wasted no time in running to it, and didn’t even wait for the Fairy Godmother who oddly didn’t seem to be here quite yet.

“Roxas, is that you?!” Xion asked, with a hand cupped over her mouth so Roxas could hear her better. But then she had to wonder why she was shouting, when this world seemed pretty quiet, all things considered. No, that wasn’t it. It was peaceful here, serene. And Xion could understand why hearts would choose to stay in this location instead of going On… but Roxas didn’t belong here. The former Replica knew it with every fiber of her being, and she wouldn’t allow him to stay here any longer.

“Yes, Xion. It’s me.” And there were tears in the Organization XIII member’s eyes now, that she hastily tried to wipe away, so that Roxas wouldn’t think she was upset to see him or anything like that. “I tried to come here when Sora broke a nature taboo and was sent away, since I didn’t. I thought maybe if I could separate myself from him, maybe I could later find a way to save him. But now… now I think I made a mistake and I just left him to suffer alone.”

There was a part of Xion that wanted to tell Roxas not to think like that at all—that if anyone was the nature taboo, it was her—that it had always been her—and she would gladly give up her body for him now, so that he could have one and go look for Sora right now, like he so desperately wanted to.

But she didn’t.

Because suddenly, it dawned on Xion how wrong it would be for her to give up her freedom for him, as much as she thought it would be for Roxas to be stuck in Quadratum with Sora, when it would help no one.

So instead, she laid her hand against this most precious star and made a rebuttal. “No, Roxas. I think- I think I’ve found a way for you to be your own person, too. Like you always should have been. And when you’re free, the two of us will look for Sora together. And we will find him. I promise.”

And right after Xion said the words, the Fairy Godmother finally appeared beside her in this land of Sea and Sky, grinning from ear to ear. “Thank you, my dear Xion. While I do mean to make your dream come true, as I think a massive injustice has been done you and poor Roxas here, it has to be a pure dream. The right dream. And I’m so glad you discovered what that is in your heart.”

“Yes,” Xion agreed, understanding now. Though she’d never fault Sora for what he’d recently done in saving Kairi, their group did have a bad habit of self-sacrifice, didn’t they?

And Roxas seemed to read her mind about that, as his star twisted in the air. “Why do I get the feeling your original plan to save me was something with self-sacrifice? Xion, I could have never stood it if you died in my arms again, or anything like that!”

“And you’ll never have to,” Xion reassured her best friend now, fighting against the guilt his words sprung up in her. Until his platonic love for Sora had made her see the light, she would have tried to find a way to throw herself under the bus for him again, if it had come down to it.

But all of that was past now. And thank the Light of Kingdom Hearts that it was.

“Xion, whenever you’re ready, put your hand atop mine, and Roxas should turn into the form you remember him as,” the Fairy Godmother encouraged her now with a wink.

“O-Okay!” And though Xion was suddenly a bit nervous that she’d mess this up, she also knew that she was positively glowing at the prospect about what was about to happen. Because she also knew that she would never let herself screw this up.

She placed her hand over the elderly woman’s, and let her mind think back to so many of her favorite memories with Roxas… the first time she’d ever seen him, and later when his name was the first thing she’d ever said… when he had let her use his Keyblade in order to protect her from Xemnas and Saïx… when they all had promised to go to the beach together to make her feel better… and so much more.

And then suddenly, Xion could feel that she wasn’t standing before a twirling star that would cast wind on her as it moved… but rather in the arms of a boy she loved. And it was certainly better than when they’d been this close together in Agrabah, when she’d unknowingly been taking his strength away from him. “Roxas?” Xion tried. A little uncertainly now, despite herself.

And to that, it seemed Roxas could only chuckle. “Don’t worry, Xion. I’m back. And we’re going to eventually go home after looking for Sora.”

And now it was Xion’s time to laugh, as she held Roxas all the tighter—with the thoughts of the Fairy Godmother completely forgotten—“That we are, Roxas. That we are.”

Author's Note: Happy RokuShi Day, everyone! :D

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