#kh on ig

[goldensunset]

i remembered i had this saved and had to do a thing with it

[rice-x2]

let's take ibuprofen together

[bitternace]

and now a silly one. someone's probably done this before

[ID: A redraw of the "oh Ariana we're really in it now" meme with Demyx. The colors are flat and the background is in light blues. Demyx's shown from the hip up, leading slightly forward into utada hikaru's sanctuary cover shown as a poster. on the bottom reads "oh, Utada, we're really in it now." /End ID.]

(extra under the cut)

[ID: same image as above except that instead of Utada Hikaru, it's Hatsune Miku. /End ID.]

[dizzybizz]

ughm i really didnt mean to color this but i blacked out and emerged an hour later with this. .. .....k .. kurahi... kurahi??? kurahi......... ....

[dizzybevvie]

obligatory kh1 Paopu tree scene redraw

og under cut <3

[stophangiingdjs]

been playing birth by sleep

[starfiresky]

I never should’ve discovered video editing

[tharkflark1]

All he do is eat onions and wait for riku to come home from school

(Left bottom doodle is by my lil bro @minecraftcoalblock <3)

[autumn-may]

(Riku voice) I’m so normal. I’m soooo normal im doing great. The last 300-ish days have been fine and I am fine. I am normal

[shinrei017]

What if quadratum fits.......let my boys in kh4 nomura i am knocking on your door they can show up for 5 mins and talk abt going to starbucks for all i care just,,

[gulava]

who said that

[goldensunset]

no cool caption i just really love my blorbo tbh

[ssomepersonn]

[ghostbunnie]

I found this polaroid of us

[thetrashthatsmilesback]

i cannot wait for the next form of anti-form and rage form in the kh4 art style.

i keep having this idea of a scene where Riku finally finds Sora and is trying to get him to listen but just.

"I'm dead Riku."

"What do you mean? You can come back, come with me Sora."

"No Riku, I died. I'm here as punishment. I'm dead, Strelitzia's dead, you can't be here after everything I went through to save you, you can't!"

"Sora, what are you talking about? I'm not dead, Sora. I'm alive."

"If you're here, then you're dead. After everything I did..."

"I'm alive. Sora listen to me, I'm alive!"

Sora looked up at him, a different look in his eyes than Riku had ever seen before.

"Strelitzia and I had a theory. We were going to test it on her - neither of us thought it would work on me because I'm here on punishment, but if it works..."

"Sora, what are you talking about?"

"It makes sense, truly, I wanted to experiment more before trying it but if you're here... you need to go back..."

"Sora, stop, we're both going back, just calm down and listen to me."

"If you die to get here, it only stands to reason that dying in this reality will send someone back to ours."

"What?"

"You'll be sent to the final world, and then you can pass through to ours."

"Sora... what are you doing?" Sora had started walking closer to Riku, splaying his arms out slightly while darkness began to swirl around his feet with each step.

"I'm sorry Riku, but you can't be here. Your heart will be sent to the final world, but then you'll be able to navigate to back through to our reality. From what Strelitzia's contact has learned, the final world acts as the bridge."

"Sora, stop, you're not making any sense, and there's darkness all around you just-"

Sora's eyes flashed gold for just a moment and the darkness began to envelope him the way it did when Xehanort killed Kairi.

"Riku, forgive me." The transformation completed, the dark Sora raising his arms above his head and summoning what looked like the X-Blade but cloaked in the same darkness as the rest of him. His eyes were a brilliant blue. The X-Blade he held split in two as he brought his hands down, the shape of the two shadowy keyblades changing to be reminiscent to Riku and Kairi's new ones.

also yes dual wielding Sora should come back again. I do find Re:Mind's implication that he and Roxas can both still summon Oathkeeper and Oblivion very funny because I'm just imagining them fighting to summon them. Like there's only one copy.

Roxas, in the middle of sparring: take this! *hands suddenly empty* Roxas: ... DAMN IT SORA

Sora, fighting a wave of heartless and nobodies: I need two hands for this *keyblades won't come to him* Sora: what? shit! *finally summons them just for them to be pulled back again* Sora: SHIT SHIT SHIT Roxas, fighting some nobodies: why does Sora keep pulling these!

[catboygirljoker]

only tangentially related but i won't lie the post credits for dark road made me actually a bit upset (in a 'wow, writing!!' good way) like awwwaaahhhh - other moments in it as well were also very good imo (i'll refresh on DR later; it's kh2 time for me atm lol) but blue robe's whole monologue to baby->teen 'nort Got me good. looking forward to whatever missing link and 4 do that'll inevitably destroy my shit

disclaimer that I've only watched that cutscene once a couple months ago but. honestly i love the fact that xehanort is ephemer's descendent. because it didn't matter.

if i can be so tbh with you i am usually bored by family stuff in fandom/media. like, being related to someone is a completely arbitrary connection that has no bearing on who you are or who you can be, and a lot of the time i think "these characters are related" theories/plot developments don't add anything. i'd rather characters be who they are and have the importance they do because of the choices they make--not because they were bred in the Main Character stables like racehorses.

that's something i've loved about kingdom hearts. aside from kairi's grandma and sora's offscreen mother, two characters haven't been canonically related until KHUX (and for the record i do like lauriam and strelitzia being siblings). everyone's relationships develop out of their genuine friendships and organic connections with each other. when i found out that there were gonna be characters who were, like, descendants of other characters, i got pretty antsy--and the series absolutely still has time to disappoint me in this regard LOL--but the biggest "these characters are related!" reveal was deployed in IMO the best way possible.

xehanort being descended from ephemer didn't matter. it didn't mean he would choose the right path. it didn't mean he would save the world. it had no bearing on who he would become or the decisions he would make. the expectation placed on him to be the "child of destiny" [destined by who? i think it's really important to ask that question!] and to live up to his great great great great great grandpappy's legacy...he *failed* those expectations. he made the wrong choices. THAT was what determined who he was.

like i think it's tragic and devastating and i love it for that reason but absolutely when i first saw that scene i was like YEEEAHHHH SUBVERT THE "FAMILY/BLOOD DETERMINES WHO YOU ARE" NARRATIVE YAAAYAYAYYYYAY