#kh xehanort's mom

[rosie-kairi]

Thinks about that one Nameless Star in the final world where it's heavily implied regret keeping them stuck in the Final World was leaving behind a child/baby..... Mamanort vibes perhaps

[luxmoogle]

I would die to see Xehanort’s mom in your style,,,

[nepstarsz]

scene redraw !!

[kwoojii]

Meeting the kids who’ll carry your legacy (probably)

[moonlightkitkat]

This was originally for an rp with my friend and I but no, I need to go more in depth about it.

Kairi from Kingdom Hearts is so TRAGIC to me. Specifically about dreams and dreameaters.

Sora and Riku are stepping ahead once again, and as they journey to become masters, they get adorable little pokemon dream eaters, who protect their dreams and stay connected to their hearts. Not only that, but Riku BECOMES Sora’s dream eater due to the forces after him.

But Kairi?

Kairi doesn’t have anyone to protect her dreams.

This is especially tragic to me when I remember that in KHMoM, she’s asleep throughout it. Yes she’s traveling through her memories, but her dreams, the realm of sleep, that’s what is allowing her to traverse her memories. And what does she discover while she’s in her dreams?

The unfiltered terror of her past. From the time she closes her eyes to when she opens them, she suddenly realizes that she truly never had any agency in her life. As a child she was kidnapped, experimented on if we go off of the novels (which I DO), and shipped off to a new world all by herself. Her memories locked themselves away because the poor girl was chased and attacked by MONSTERS before she was kidnapped. If the novels are taken into consideration, she was one of the subjects in the experiments of the heart, led by Xehanort. She was so LITTLE when she went though all of that, and this time, there was no caring older woman to protect her.

Kairi realizes that her entire life has been puppetted by Xehanort. She was sent to the islands, specifically so he could track down future keyblade wielders. Less than ten years later, her heart has been seperated from her body, and her kidnapper is tormenting her friends, and is hellbent on killing them. She wakes up and doesn’t even realize she’s looking at Xehanort, but he knows EXACTLY who she is. And what does he say?

“So you’ve awakened at last Princess. You’ve served your purpose, but now it’s over.”

And Riku’s soul fights back, screaming that his body won’t be used for… whatever Ansem was gonna do. I genuinely believe Ansem would have killed her. That realization, that horror about what he’s about to do, gives Riku the strength to fight back and beg for Kairi to run.

Then, a year later, she’s kidnapped again. She’s locked away in a floating cage, mocked and told that her only use is to make Sora angry. Once again, though she doesn’t realize it, she’s being used to lead Sora into danger.

Finally, less than a year after she’s been given the keyblade, her life is cut short by the same man who’s caused her so much grief. Even if Xehanort didn’t “really” kill her, her body shattered. Her “death” is why her best friend is no longer with her. For the final time. Xehanort used her to hurt Sora.

Then, in her desperate attempt to do something, because Sora had been right there. His hand had held hers, and then suddenly he was gone, and it was all her fault. In the midst of her grief and shock, she agrees to dive into her dreams and memories, obsessively searching for any clue to where he might be.

And then she unlocks her memories.

And then she faces the memory that exists within her, that always existed there, haunting her from within her own mind. I see this as how Ansem the Wise managed to keep his memory alive within Sora’s heart in DDD.

Yes Kairi’s finally getting the answers she’s longed for, answers to where Sora is, but she’s also overwhelmed with grief. Her entire life has been puppetted but she had no idea. Her friends, her home, her life, had been toyed with and destroyed over and over again by this man. So she unleashes her anger, her hate, her rage, and she FIGHTS.

But she’s no match for him, even in her dreams. I see her weakness to him being solely because she has no faith in herself. In KH3 her battle lines are “Please work!” She is the only fighter in KH that doesn’t believe in her strength, or that openly doesn’t. That, along with the trauma of when she was little, and the memories and pain that have resurfaced, memories of herself being weak and helpless, is the reason why she cannot defeat the memory of Xehanort.

And so the memory of Sora takes over, for just a moment, and does the job for her. Because Sora wins every fight, and Sora was always there to save her. So here, in her dreams, she’ll pretend he’s here and will save her once more.

When she wakes up, she doesn’t tell Riku about her memories. She doesn’t give herself a moment to process it, instead shoving the memories away and sharing what’s important. Not herself, not the past the three of them always wondered about, even though it’s the whole reason Sora and Riku wanted to leave the islands. No, it’s Sora’s location. Because she isn’t important, not to herself always. Sora is.

Riku leaves, and once again, Kairi’s all alone. Shes not really, she has Aqua and the others, but the two halves to her heart are gone, and she can’t reach them. Shes not strong enough.

Back to the dream eater bit.

Kairi’s had this sudden resurgence of memories, ones that she’s helpless to defend herself from. In her dreams, those memories, along with all the other terrible moments, are sure to resurface. With no dream eater to gently guide her, to remind her it’s all a dream, she’s helpless, and is trapped reliving them again and again.

She has no fluffy bat, no bouncy unicorn kitty, not even a Chirithy of her own. Perhaps her one chance to have one, being Riku, the living dream eater, has left her, and now she’s alone.

Alone in the waking realm, alone in her dreams, Kairi’s once again separated from her friends in more ways than one.

Stripped of agency, confidence, comfort, and protection in her dreams, she truly is all alone.

I find that so very tragic.

[dullahandyke]

one thing i love about kh 'family tree' diagrams is it rlly drives home how little of the confusing 'who is who and there's two copies of this guy' stuff is related to family, which is i feel where a lot of that stuff comes from in other stories. you don't have a long lost dad, you've been possessed by this old guy. oops! there's no family legacy but you ARE a clone so gl with that! bbs eraqus situation obviously exists but even then it's not blood ties. the fact that blood ties almost universally mean fuck all is actually rlly endearing to me

[gulava]

its interesting to me that the person who faces similar depreciation from others to sora...is demyx. sora himself calls demyx a wimp in kh2. but then xigbar calls sora a wimp in 3d. larxene refers to sora as a toy and "it" in com. larxene refers to demyx as a "thing" in kh3.

although the two ARE different in that demyx may never be taken seriously but he uses that to his advantage. and if it turns out hes mom, theres a layer of deceit in all of his actions. he allows people to look down on him bc it allows him to hide in plain sight.

however, this doesnt mean it wouldnt hurt.

[ok4ru]

I have a question, WHO NAMED XEHANORT THAT??? Like his name X-No heart??? I’M HOPING HIS MOM DIDN’T OR PLAYER DIDN’T TOO. My only guessing is that people in Scala named him that since darkness was bound to find him if he stayed there.

Now that I’m thinking about it that’s horrible, to carry a child for 9 months just to be a child of prophecy, and that prophecy is that darkness is gonna be after them their whole life, and the only way they can be safe is to be raised on the island.

Then my hometown started calling my unborn No Heart, If I were Xehanort's mom I would hate that town.

[hitinmiss]

💛 King(s) of Hearts ❤️

[zxal]

"What if baldr was one of the thirteen" sketch dump because this post has not left my mind for even a moment

[goldensunset]

ok i’m clearly bored and also hiatus stir crazy so new crack theory is skuld and ava are relatives (hence the narrative pointing out them being similar) and xehanort and his mom are descendants of ava and that’s how they’re still related to skuld and the whole ‘bloodlines’ concept like nomura said remains relevant while subject x skuld remains real

[rosie-kairi]

Idk if the drawing characters thing is still open but if so can you draw Xehanort's mom, please?

Who is she?

I love mamanort's design so much, needed an excuse to draw her <3

[visionj-journal]

I don't think I posted this meme I drew (drew over) here, which is a damn shame, because people deserve to know!

So I'm posting it now!

[no-context-kh]

[dewdlebot]

Khux player being a replica created by MoM is such a good theory but it also indirectly means that if ya squint,

MoM was convincing his grandson to commit crimes

[lucemferto]

Hey, Kingdom Hearts-fans.

What if Ephemer just settled? What if Xehanort's mom looks like Skuld because Ephemer had a type? Did we ever consider that?

Food for thought, I'm just saying.