#kh III

[madasthyhatter]

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gang I might sound cringe for this but

Getting into kingdom hearts and just witnessing the story and like just EVERYTHING about this series is just amazing.

If this series has taught me anything, it’s taught me how important connections with others are, how important friendships are; even more so as we age. Granted not all friendships last forever, and unfortunately, are lost with time—and sometimes that’s just how it is.

this series has genuinely made me value my friends in life, if I’m being completely honest. Because it made me realize, at the end of the day, those who choose to actively be beside me in someway [without making me doubt if they truly are my friend] are truly those who matter most to me.

[holly-natnicole]

Kairi's canon abilities & skills

As a Princess of Heart:

Together with the other 6 Princesses of Heart, Kairi's Heart reveals Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden's Keyhole. Their Hearts of pure Light are 7 of the 20 pieces of the χ-blade.

Kairi was born with a Heart of pure Light. This makes her able to sense Darkness, able to hold Darkness back temporarily (but it's draining to her), and immune to Corridors of Darkness' corrupting influence since she has zero Darkness in her Heart. Losing her Heart wouldn't have resulted in Naminé's (Kairi's Nobody's) creation if her Heart hadn't taken refuge inside of Sora's; being a regular Somebody, Sora had a small amount of Darkness thus resulting in Naminé when he freed Kairi's Heart from Sora's own by using the Keyblade of Hearts. When she had lost her Heart, Kairi's body (&, presumably, her Soul) was comatose 'til Sora's sacrifice.

It's kinda unclear whether Kairi stopping Sora from fading away in K.H.3 was a Princess of Heart power or solely a Kairi power. The same goes for Sora in K.H.2 reading Kairi's letter opening a Corridor of Light from the Realm of Darkness to the sky above Destiny Islands. And for Kairi in K.H.1 transforming Sora from a Shadow Heartless into either a Somebody (therefore creating a body for Sora) or into a human-looking Heartless same as Ansem the Seeker of Darkness a.k.a. Xehanort's Heartless is (I prefer this one since it'd mean Sora still needs a Replica or a Nobody to become complete). I'm more inclined to see all 3 as Princess of Heart powers, but it's not explicitly confirmed in the videogames.

As a Keyblade-wielder:

Kairi starts out weak for the 1st 15 years of her life, unable to do better than any other non-combatant civilian. She doesn't summon her Keyblade when she gets it; instead, Riku is the one who gives Destiny's Embrace to Kairi.

However, the instant it's given to her, she easily destroyed 2 Shadow Heartless on her own with a single slash each. And, right before Riku gave Kairi her Keyblade in K.H.2, she jumped off a very high up balcony & landed in a squat with no injury.

But Kairi then (instantly after her landing) froze in fear when a bunch of Shadow Heartless surrounded her thus they easily piled up over her. In K.H.3, she froze again when Xehanort-possessing-Terra's-body was 'bout to slash down at her face with his Keyblade; possibly due to P.T.S.D. from the time he grabbed her face with his hand when she was age 4 or 5.

Kairi's main issue is her emotions. "Please work!!" she pleads her Light when using Flower Shoot (a ball of Light) or her magic when casting elemental spells; her self-confidence low or non-existent even after training with Lea, Merlin being their teacher. Understandable, considering the times Kairi had faced enemies she could barely run away from and who easily dragged her around by the wrist. Kairi knows that even after training she isn't strong enough to fight World-ending threats the way Sora and Riku can.

However, after being trained by Merlin, Kairi (despite her troubles) is a competent enough fighter to go toe-to-toe with much more experienced and powerful enemies; e.g. Xion, Saïx, and Xemnas. In that last one's case, she even breaks his Ethereal Blades with her Keyblade and forces him on the defensive 'til he uses Nothingness to drain her energy. With Sora's help, Kairi in K.H.:ReMind kills Armoured Xehanort. Shown in each fight she's in (including when the redhead fights her memory of old man Xehanort in K.H.:Melody of Memory), Kairi focuses on speed & quick attacks that repeatedly cut the enemy thus accumulating damage instead of killing them with a single powerful blow or a single massive magical attack. She's agile enough to dodge the enemy's hits and spells in mid-air, maneuvering herself without Gliding. Kairi also is strong enough to block the enemy's strike at least for a little while, causing a temporary stalemate. She can dismiss & fast re-summon her Keyblade in K.H.:Melody of Memory to keep attacking Xehanort, having learned from when Xemnas grabbed her wrist & twisted in K.H.3 (she stopped moving at the oain whereas her Keyblade being grabbed instead of her wrist prompts Kairi to dismiss Destiny's Embrace then quickly re-summon it). Kairi in K.H.3 can easily slash a Shadow Heartless in half same as she did in K.H.2, but has improved into using Spiral Bloom (a spinning attack) to rapidly cut the enemy several times in a row. She's also able to cast Cura to heal her friends. Kairi in K.H.:ReMind can cast Firaga, Blizzaga, Thundaga, Curaga, Waterga, and Aeroga. Her Shotlock is Heart of a Princess, which allows her to rain down orbs of light on the battlefield. When Kairi is a certain distance away from the enemy, she can use Strike Shift to quickly teleport to them by throwing Destiny's Embrace at them. She can also telekinetically spin her Keyblade around her, then catch it to give the enemy one final slash. With her Seven Wishes attack, she dashes towards the enemy 7 times with Destiny's Embrace held in front of her; it kinda stabs & slashes the enemy as Kairi goes (or tries to go) through them fast then whirls around to do it 6 more times. Same as Terra, she uses Slide to dodge the enemy's attacks when on the ground. Like Riku and Aqua, Kairi uses a hexagonal barrier made of magic to defend herself and she can use her unique counterattack Starcracker to shatter her barrier into a bunch of thalassa seashell shaoes that cut the enemy who is attavking her. With Sora, Kairi sometimes does the team attack named One Heart where each gains a golden wing made of Light & memories whilst they hold hands then together Kairi and Sora fly towards the enemy before using their wings to cut the enemy several times before their wings fade away in a shower of magical feathers displaying memories and they let go of each other's hand to land on the ground.

Kairi at the end of K.H.:Melody of Memory asks for Keyblade Master Aqua to teach her, as she wants to become stronger to fight beside her best friends Sora and Riku.

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🌄Riku's bracelet is now officially up on my Etsy shop! And it's also my first bracelet of the year!🎉🎉🎉 (Wow this one took a while to come out.😬) You’ll be able to walk the road to dawn with confidence while wearing this bracelet, but you probably won’t be able to smell the darkness. Or get a free haircut from a bunch of Heartless.

Now that the second member of the Destiny trio has been added, all that's left is the member who's totally not in another reality. I do plan on making a bracelet for him, but he won't be in the works just yet. Up next is actually a certain dorm led by a certain third-year who really should've graduated by now.

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Originally I was going to wait until I had made a Sora bracelet before I put together a KH bracelet showcase, but as you can see, I went and did it anyways. :3

So, my current stock for both of these bracelets is:

🌸SIX for Kairi and

🌄SIX for Riku!

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I'll probably make another showcase once the Destiny trio's finally together, so that should be pretty neat.✨✨

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[zolupine]

KINGDOM HEARTS X HITACHIIN TWINS : WHY

heres something absolutely no one asked for. this is crossposted on twitter i just need to know someone else understands . my vision? my delusion? whatever. ENJOY! ___

i wanna talk about this because its been on my mind all fucking day.  thus begins the insane hitachiin kingdom hearts thread.

i gave kaoru's keyblade the name twin blade of the early spring in reference to his spring birthday, his ending of his arc with hikaru (two huge flowers will bloom) and the fact that he's considered the mature brother despite being younger. thats just the simple explanation.

moreover the keyblade hes holding is not the one id give him, i drew this in class and literally only know what the kingdom key looks like off the top of my head minus the chain because ive been thinking about the papou fruit a lot recently, but thats besides the point

i kind of go into it in the margins but there are a lot of "twin" narratives within kingdom hearts, or i suppose quintuplets? if we count xion. this will take a minute to explain so i'll do my best to simplify it. the main dude in kh is named sora, in kh one he tried +

to kill himself kind of not really but did anyway and separated his heart and his soul. his HEART became a heartless (which was retconned because kairi- another of the destiny island trio member was like wow i love you bro bro come back to life and he did.) and his nobody-

became a seperate being that will soon be known as roxas. the reaason why he's roxas and not "sora's nobody" is because basically he was manipulated by this dude named Xemnas whos High key EVIL and put a tracking x in his name yes that is the reason behind the x's in all the +

organization XIII members because thats just the way it goes. Thats why axel is lea, etc. MOVING ON! Roxas as Sora's nobody, possesses a striking resemblance to a guy named ventus. this is where it starts to get messy. ventus is ANOTHER parallel to sora, but like way in the past+

hes the protag of one of the games called birth by sleep which contextualizes a lot of the lore in kingdom hearts but whatever thats not important right now, the important thing is that ventus has his "Darkness" extracted by him and thus forms vanitas- who looks suspiciously +

like sora. So now we've established our parallels. Ventus and Sora are the "True" bodies so to speak, and Vanitas and Roxas are offshoots of their original selves. Got it memorized? I would explain more but this is turning into me reciting basic information about kh and not ouran

im also skipping xion because . im Sorry. i dont know where they fit in the narrative im making up on the spot. ok back to hitachiin land i think that it would be completely unfair and a disservice to their characters to make them a nobody and a heartless respectively

also quick note, hikaru also has a keyblade called the twin blade of the late bloom (similar reasoning to kaoru, spring birthday, the tie in to the ending, and late bloom representing hikaru's late development within his narrative, his obliviousness, his rashness, etc.)

i dont think either of the twins parallel any of the residents of sora's heart hotel, but that doesnt mean i can't try. on one hand i could go the route that kaoru is sora and roxas is kaoru. although they no longer posses the "identical" twin trope, something thats very common

within roxas's narrative is that he's constantly confused for sora because he technically, IS sora, he's not real. this mirrors the line in the manga "the one not me is hikaru and the one not hikaru is me. we are seperate individuals, this is absolute"

ok continuing the roxas shit, i think its uber funny because finally there's something outside of the manga that i want to touch on and it's both kaoru's and roxas's  desire to keep their found family despite knowing it'll all fall apart.  that's right. the carriage.

Episode 21 of Ouran, titles “Before it Becomes a Pumpkin,” is all about kaoru and his relationship with the people around him, providing an introspective look on his relationship with the rest of the host club and his reference to cinderella in possibly the best possible way.

kaoru understands more than ANYONE that this isnt permanent. this different with roxas is, is that roxas is forced to forget due to being placed in a simulation, watching xion die, etc. he too experiences that idea of realizing change must come but through his own death

roxas's carriage so to speak is his summer vacation, as seen at the end of kingdom hearts too in which "I guess summer vacation is ... over." in which summer vacation is his idealized life with axel and xion- even as a member of organization xiii, they were his family above all +

else, just in the way that kaoru has his family within the host club, and he doesn't want to let that go. "but still, one of these days, it'll all turn back into a grubby pumpkin again." i think these lines parallel each other ENOUGH to draw a connection, but not something

definitive. its almost a reverse of their narratives which. is pretty goddamn cool. and about hikaru being sora? it's more of a reach than roxas. i think that hikaru is too impulsive and Mean Spirited and self isolating to be sora, who believes his friends are his power

hikaru does too, but he doesn't like opening up to ANYONE. except for mori i guess. i mean if we're taking into consideration the start of hikaru pursuing haruhi arc he doesnt talk to kaoru, tamaki, and does his whole schitchk with haruhi so its whatevs. but yeah

and little sidenote, i think that if haruhi HAD to play a role in this silly narrative ive created, it'd be kiari, or xion : ) yay i'm very tired and this thread is very long! ive you've made it this far- awesome follow me if you like kingdom hearts and or ouran

[bluedancingkittykat]

what i say: sora was used as a sora ex machina in kh iii and i didnt like it

what people hear: lol you don't like it when the hero does heroic things?? idk what you were expecting, sora is the hero???

[wombocombo4x3]

True Hayner Kick - Kingdom Hearts 3 Animation

[the-blue-wraith]

Characters: Sora (Kingdom Hearts) Additional Tags: Post-Kingdom Hearts III, Post-Canon,  Longingness, Mentioned Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts), Mentioned Kairi (Kingdom Hearts), Mentioned Riku (Kingdom Hearts), Mentioned Yen Sid (Kingdom Hearts)

Summary: After using the Power of Waking repeatedly, Sora landed in an unknown world and wandered in solitude. Perhaps this was the price to pay for doing such a forbidden act.

[holly-natnicole]

[Image Description: a digital drawing of Sora and Kairi from 'Kingdom Hearts III' (2019), 'Kingdom Hearts: ReMind' (2020), and 'Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory' (2020) videogames. Only their arms, chests, shoulders, necks, and heads are shown. They're in a cartoon heart. Below it is text: 'HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY']

Happy Valentine’s Day!

[balimaria]

one day, I will set this right

[madasthyhatter]

How to rise from the floor, When it's not you I'm rising for, Just do the next right thing

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[leafiatheneko]

Tiny Aqua with a pencil…

Whatever will she do?

[xyrishi00]

anti-aqua

[ends-of-the-wayward-storm]

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Next up in the great art migration of pieces that I'm fond of.