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Roxas: why does Saix call you babygirl
Axel: how about we stop talking for a little while.
#kh akusai#kh axel#kh saix#kh roxas#Source: twitter#incorrect organization xiii quotes#incorrect kingdom hearts quotes
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Absolutely love your akusai analysis stuff its so good omg.
Do you have any more thoughts on them?
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it! As for my thoughts on Akusai, well, after beating Fire Emblem Three Houses recently, I do have a few thoughts. I know, I'm late to the party on 3H. (I actually loved 3H and would love to write metas about those ships lol). But anyways, regarding Akusai. It's a bit of a rant and there's minor spoilers for FE3H, so I'll put it under the cut.
Okay, so Sylvix felt like it was everything Akusai was supposed to be. It touched on all the same themes, too. In 3H, you've got a childhood friend trio. The standard two males and a female. On the surface it seems like the girl and the outgoing redhead goofball are a thing. But they treat each other more like bros. He and the quiet blue-haired sword guy had a much more intimate bond with each other, complete with a special promise™ to always be together and redhead being protective of blue. The redhead never wants to grow up and change because he doesn't wanna fulfill the heteronormative life script of getting married and having kids.
He is longing to go back to his childhood days but is sad at how much blue has changed since they were kids and has apparently outgrown their closeness. He hides his angst behind a smile and womanizing. Blue was once a meek clingy crybaby but now he is surly and obsessed with growing stronger. Deep down he is still an uke who secretly longs to be redhead's waifu. But he has a lot of shame related to his sensitivity and gender nonconformity. He distances himself from others, but boy does he get irritated if redhead flirts with anyone else.
I do wish the game would have just come right out and tell you that they're gay for each other (and so does this gaming site). I get why it didn't. Still, it didn't really hide it too much. They have a paired ending where they spend their whole lives playfully teasing each other like just when they were kids, never get married, and die together in each other's arms. It's the most romantic ending in the whole game, if you ask me. And Sylvix is SUPER popular and well received by the fandom. Both in Japan and the West. They have soooo much fan content. There are still some dudes who say they're just friends because ew icky gay. But most people in the fandom are able to tell they're queer-coded and are fine with it. In fact, the fandom was so fine with it that they released an overtly queer dude in the DLC, strictly due to popular demand.
3H is not a slam dunk with gay romance since much of it (particularly MLM) relies on subtext. But it still had more balls than most JRPG series and it definitely was a step in the right direction. We all know that Soriku is the most popular ship. The end of KH2 was total fujoshi fuel. But Soriku never had any chance in hell of being canon. KH is a video game shonen anime. Sora/Riku bromance is "safe". They can capitalize on shipteasing them to their female fans, but they won't alienate their male fans because Kairi is still very obviously the love interest for Sora. I found Akusai to be a lot more compelling because it was legitimately queer-coded.
Axel was queer-coded from the very beginning. His close friendship with Roxas in KH2 made people question his sexuality all the way back in 2006 and Akuroku rivaled Soriku for a time. And I do think that Axel always meant to be queer. Although personally, I did not get the impression that he was in love with Roxas. I got the sense that he probably had a best friend back when he was a human. And it was this dead best friend that he truly yearned for. The sweet and innocent Roxas reminded Axel of his human best friend and he latched onto him to help him forget the memories of days long past. That was my headcanon back in 2006 when KH2 first came out.
So, I was really happy when Days/BBS came out and it basically confirmed my theory that Axel was truly hung up on his human best friend and saw Roxas as a kind of replacement for him. And Isa was also very queer-coded. BBS!Isa has a more distinctly feminine design than any other boy in the series. He had very girlsh eyes and lips, small hands, long hair. And Saix's Mystery Gear is very cutesy-looking. Traditionally, the moon is viewed as a feminine symbol. And Saix's weapons in 358/2 Days were named after moon goddesses. They could have easily picked male moon gods, but they chose female goddesses like Selene and Artemis. It signifies to the player that, "Hey, this character does not follow the conventional gender stereotypes."
When you play 358/2 Days, and you get to the part where Axel is talking about love, you realize he's talking about his most precious memories from his human life, just like with all the other stuff like summer vacation and the red sunset. Akusai was not just superficial fujobait. Even if it was all subtext, it was a genuine depiction of two queer male characters who loved each other romantically. Axel is not straight. That’s a big reason why I was so mad that KH3 pushed their relationship off to the side and treated saving Isa as so much less important compared to saving Roxas. And it was so annoying how Saix had to mention Subject X whenever he might have seemed a little too obsessed with Axel otherwise.
Last year, Nomura said that he intended to show more of Lea and Isa's backstory in the future, so I've just been waiting for more content. I hope that we can get their story without Subject X overshadowing them like she did in KH3. I'm...cautiously optimistic. I expect this subplot to be included in Missing Link, since it is quite literally a missing link of the story. Axel is super popular and a queer-coded backstory with his childhood best friend would be very well received by the modern KH fandom, IMO. People are a LOT more accepting of gay content than they were in 2006. We've come a long way. And personally, I just love the idea that the tough cold asshole Saix's human self was actually a super sweet cutie who was in love with Lea. I really think the KH fandom would love that idea, too, if the writers were ever allowed to actually explore it. And a niche mobile game is probably a safer medium for that type of content than a mainline console game overseen by Disney, I guess. At the very least, if they ever put an Isa figurine into ML, I will whale for it if I have to.
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Happy akusai day!!!!
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terrisas really funny ithink
#kingdom hearts#kh#my art#image id in alt#kh fanart#Saix#saïx#isa#terra#kh terra#terrisa#Moonrocks#<-? I think people call them that sometimes. I think its cute#Kh saix#kh saïx#kh isa#Not tagging this xemsai because its only a little bit about it. I mean xemsais the joke but ykwim#Ok for real though ive been thinking about them these last few weeks and actually they're really cool 2me#Like theres whole “came back wrong” dynamic since isa remembers everything and terras basically a whole different person#And adding onto that saix and xemnas relationship wasnt exactly. Normal. So i could totally see something like isa-#-subconsciously reverting back to how he acted in kh2 while terras like ‘? You dont have to do that?” And like theyre both AFFECTED by-#-xemnas but in different ways and terra can see how xemnas was through isa and augh#Anyway. This is still an akusai house but i think isa can have an unhealthy one sided attachment to a person he barely knows out of their-#-resemblance to someone he ‘sacrificed himself to’ (kh character files words not mine).#It improves the biodiversity.#terraisa
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what if axel was called freaxel and instead of betraying the organization he got 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 with saïx
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I needed to make some cool experimental fanart before school starts back up again and I don’t have the energy so!!!! Enjoy. :) I love these two they are just the worst it rules.
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That's a tall order to ask of him and you know that, Axel
#kingdom hearts#kh#axel#saix#kh 358/2 days#358/2 days#kingdom hearts 358/2 days#akusai#leaisa#that man is incapable of being 'straight with you'#he spent this whole game antagonizing your kids because he simply could not 'be straight with you'#isa#kh isa#lea#kh lea#my sister sent me this screencap while she was playing days and said she was really immersed in this scene before this was said#took her out entirely
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*re-enters kh fandom after 4 years
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see you later
#artist on tumblr#my art#kingdom hearts#kh#lea kingdom hearts#kh saix#leaisa#akusai#1 year anniversary present for my partner 🧸#kingdom hearts 3
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Axel: Being gay is a constant battle between "I wish to sit on a window bench with my lover, our legs tangling as we listen to the birds" and "Hey, let's go throw rocks at fascists" and I think that's very sexy of us.
Saix: If the window's open and we time it right, we can do both.
Demyx: You know I finally get what Xion meant when she said that you two are perfect for each other.
#Source: ?#incorrect organization xiii quotes#incorrect kingdom hearts quotes#kh akusai#kh axel#kh saix#kh xion#kh demyx
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...leaning heavily into Gravedigger!Isa & Corpse!Lea...
#kingdom hearts#halloween#akusai#isalea#leaisa#axel#lea#isa#saix#gravedigger!isa#corpse!lea#my art#kh
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save me organization xiii, save me
#sora#ansem the apprentice#vanitas#demyx#saïx#lea#riku#organization xiii#larxene#roxas#leaisa#akusai#soriku#kh#kh text post#text post meme#text post#vexen
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Kh2 saïx was kinda hilarious in retrospect
#kingdom hearts#kh#my art#Sora#kh sora#saix#saïx#kh saïx#kh saix#Akusai#sokai#<-both implied#Kh2#kingdom hearts 2#Kh fanart#Image ID in alt
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Outfits Lea would wear; crop top edition.
Feat. Isa
I will not be taking criticism, thank you.
#no there’s no other edition don’t @ me#Lea wears whatever sparks joy#I don’t make the rules#sketch#lea/axel#axel/lea#kh#kingdom hearts#kingdom hearts 3#kh3#fan art#axel#lea#Isa#isa x lea#leaisa#lea kh#kh fanart#kh axel#axel kingdom hearts#lea kingdom hearts#axel kh#Lea in a crop top#inkwitch111#akusai
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Isa's face when the other three kids show up. That is all.
#kingdom hearts#akusai#leaisa#kh isa#kh lea#kh saïx#kh saix#kh axel#kingdom hearts lea#kingdom hearts 3
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