#khx back cover

[artifexvigen]

Decided to redraw that one scene from KHχ Back Cover as a fake screenshot from an anime from the 90s. I'm super proud of how this came out! I could totally see Ephemer as a 90s anime protagonist. COMMISSIONS OPEN

[gracklepopp]

WAR :: ACED

...yet none hold my fear.

What weakness is keeping me from harnessing my supposed strength?

The power that the Master saw in me, to be able to stand at my brother's side, to be able to lead my wielders.

Perhaps inaction is expected.

But if we are to do nothing and wait for it to come crashing down around us, extinguishing the Light from our world and hearts, why can we not stand in solidarity to do so?

Is there no one who will be beside me that day?

Is it wrong to not want to face the Darkness alone?

AO3 Version :: gif by @/cid

[keykidpilipili]

Okay but if it's facinating how many promotion campaigns the chi duology had:

Bravely Default Brague,

Dragon quest Monster Parade,

Niconico town,

Several non playable as of kh3 disney movies,

World of Final fantasy dlc,

A twewy port i cant recall the name of,

Ducktales reboot,

Final Fantasy Record Keeper,

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius,

Kingdom hearts 0.2(oh promo Kairi medal who looked very meh on lauch I will never forget you)

Kingdom hearts 2.8

Kingdom Hearts Freaking Three several times

Kingdom Hearts Three Remind

Kingdom Hearts Melody of memory

Kingdom Hearts Dark Road

And probably more I forgot

[twilightstation]

Based on Luxu's reaction I'm fairly sure whatever is in the box isn't particularly wild, maybe its just a Person of Interest-ass backup of Daybreak Town

[serenedash]

I will GLADLY tell you about khux AND khdr lore! My little disclaimer is that this is gonna be extremely long because I can't help myself. I can not say enough how fucking long this is I just went through the entire game. Sorry I just love these games a lot and to be fair there's a lot going on in khux specifically and this is definitely easier than watching 10+ hours of cutscenes.

If you wanna watch all of khux, watch this! And this for dark road! And also back cover,

We start out in Kingdom Hearts χ/Unchained χ (there is a reason for the name change I will get to it I promise), where you the player (just called Player by fans) are a wielder in Daybreak Town!! This is before the Keyblade War we know about in the current kh timeline so we're in the age of fairy tales when the worlds were still one. Daybreak Town is where keyblade wielders have come to live and everyone is in one of five unions, which are each led by a keyblade master. These masters are called the Foretellers (I'll circle back to them later in more detail). The Foretellers were apprentices under a guy known as the Masters of Masters (MoM for short to make this easier,) and he wrote a book called the Book of Prophecies that has the future written inside! and each Foreteller has their own copy.

So Player joins a union and has a fun cat companion named Chirithy and every wielder has their own Chirithy! The chirithies were created by the MoM to assist wielders and they're tied to a person's heart so if you fall to darkness, so do they, and if you die, they die too. We even get to see a conversation between two chirithies where one says their wielder had succumb to darkness and we literally watch this chirithy die. yeah. Anyway, Player goes on visiting worlds and collecting lux (literally meaning light) and meets a guy named Ephemera! (in english his name is Ephemer. idk why they took the "a" away.) Ephemera is from a different union but you become friends anyway and he tells you that the worlds you travel to actually aren't even real and he wants your help to prove it! Player is severely confused but agrees to help. In fact, Player had a dream the night before about the Foretellers talking to the MoM in a mysterious room and Player and Ephemera decide this must be in the clocktower in the center of town. So then it's time to break into the clocktower! But right when you and Ephemera find the entrance, he says to stop for the night since its late and tomorrow you'll go together. So tomorrow comes and you wait for Ephemera. and you wait and wait and wait and wait and he doesn't come. Instead we see Ephemera going by himself before getting caught by a shadowy figure.

Player continues to wait every day until getting approached by a girl named Skuld. Skuld also knows Ephemera and she's also looking for him! She says that she had a dream with Player in it and thinks she was meant to find you. So you go off and look for Ephemera together! Except every NPC tells you to stop because he's probably dead because wow who would've thought a town inhabited by children fighting monsters was not safe. Anyway, Player and Skuld go to the clocktower and are confronted by [insert the foreteller of the union you're in except if you're in Ava's union then it's someone else]. Insert Foreteller Here says that Ephemera had gotten into the clocktower and that they KILLED THAT GUY!! Totally killed him because fuck those kids in other unions and he wasn't supposed to be here anyway. Player decides to stand up to their master going off on why killing people is wrong because hey that was my friend :( and for speaking out of turn you fight! And then jk its not the master of your union at all it was Master Ava, one of the foretellers all along!!! She has illusion magic so she tricked your ass and she's like "haha sorry <3 I didn't kill ephemera he's fine I just lied <3 he's safe tho I promise I just asked him to take care of something for me," and then she says that there's a war coming that's going to not only kill everyone involved but destroy the world. Ava is currently getting strong wielders together for a group she calls The Dandelions and telling them to run from Daybreak Town before it's too late so light can live on and there's still wielders left to protect the world. Skuld says of course she'll join the Dandelions!!! Player says "no thanks!"

Shit hits the fan pretty fast from here as tensions rise in town. Unions are quickly turning on each other, people fighting in the street, fuck even the foretellers are fighting each other in the street!!! At one point Player even confronts one of these foretellers fighting in the streets and nearly dies fr!! Shit is getting crazy so Player and Skuld decide to look for Master Ava again. She's kinda hard to find tho so instead they go to this other guy Master Gula. At this point, Gula has basically given up, he doesn't give a shit anymore, and just tells Player and Skuld there's no use trying to stop anything especially since Gula reveals to them that there's a traitor among the Foretellers that lead to all of this happening. He says that Ava had went to even figure it out herself by trying to track down their master, who had disappeared before the start of the game. At the same time this is happening, Ava is talking to another guy named Luxu who is also a keyblade master under the MoM but he is not a Foreteller and doesn't have a union or a copy of the book of prophecies. He had disappeared too so Ava is like "wtf where have you been! where is the master! and what is going on!" Luxu answers all of her questions but we don't get to see what he says. Whatever he says makes Ava angry and she attacks him, accusing him of being the traitor, and it's at this moment when they fight that the clocktower rings for the first time and that signals the start of the war. So Gula tells Skuld and Player to be off to wherever they need to be to prepare and they leave.

It's at this point that Player and Skuld run into some weird heartless that look kinda like people and they can even talk a little! A dark Chirithy then appears and tells them that these were once wielders and they've fallen into darkness. Player had actually unknowingly met this Chirithy early in the game where it had given Player a bracelet that "gives them power" (it does not, what it does is collect darkness so this dark Chirithy reveals that Player has unknowingly been using the power of darkness this whole time). Anyway shit gets crazy real fast and this Chirithy absorbs these weird heartless and becomes a huge monster called Nightmare Chirithy. After defeating it, it leaves some ominous words that it wants to meet again in another dream. After this, the Keyblade War finally happesn and Player goes off to fight. You end up fighting every foreteller except your own master and you watch as people die. Yeah. and as Player lays there, literally dying with Chirithy by their side and Kingdom Hearts above, Skuld appears!!! with Ephemera holy shit!!!! Player then wakes up in another world then, saying they had a strange dream, and brushes it off. And mysteriously enough, Maleficent is here now and makes a comment about how Sora can't get to her here. Well that's weird! And this is where χ/Unchained χ ends.

Now I'm gonna backtrack for a second to talk about Kingdom Hearts Back Cover, which is a cutscene movie that shows what the foretellers were up to during All of That (please watch it I love the foretellers so much ;_; ) I won't go into extreme detail but what's important to know is that the MoM had set this shit up very much on purpose. He gave each foreteller a role that was meant to conflict with each other to start conflict so that it would start the war and no matter how hard they tried to stop it, it only got set in stone harder. The big part of Back Cover that's important is that we see the details of Luxu's role: he's given the No Name keyblade with the purpose of staying on the sidelines and watching the war so that the eye on it (the MoM's eye) can see the future and write the Book of Prophecies and eventually pass it down to other wielders to see further in the future. Luxu also gets the mysterious black box (we still have no idea what its for) and MoM tells him to get out. Bye boy,

Anyway now the game is called Union χ [Cross]! I promise later I will explain the titles. So with the foretellers gone, the wielders that are left, who are the group Ava made called the Dandelions, need some guidance. Ava had been instructed by MoM to name 5 specific wielders the leaders of the Dandelions (he had given her a hand written list and circled one person on that list to receive a copy of the book of prophecies. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT REMEMBER THIS). The leaders are: Skuld, Ephemera, Ventus (yes THAT Ventus), a guy named Brain, and-

We see a cutscene of a girl named Strelitzia. She's very shy and sweet and has watched Player from afar and wants to be their friend!! But girl has social anxiety and it's hard. However, we get to see that Ava had approached her and asked her to be a Dandelion leader and she accepts! And now she's forcing herself to talk to Player because she wants to make sure they escape the war. She follows after Player and Skuld when they go to talk to Gula but gets there too late after everyone has gone. So she goes to leave, a little defeated, and surprised she is fucking MURDERED!!!! Yup. Right then and there by a shadowy figure who then takes a book from her that Ava had given her (not The book but it's just a rule book Ava wrote to give to each leader to help them be leaders).

Anyway the 5th leader is a guy named Lauriam. Yes he is Marluxia's somebody. He shows up very late and apologizes because he was looking for something. In fact Lauriam is consistently late to things or just straight up not around because he's "looking for something." So the Dandelions go about their Dandelion business and start going through these rule books from Ava. First order of business: wipe the memories of war from everyone's minds. This is a bit of a debate but the leaders decide that they'll follow the rules. The reason for this is because Ava wanted to prevent darkness growing from sad/hurtful memories. Brain then invents dream eaters. They are so cute :) they literally eat the memories of everyone in town except the leaders. Next order of business: make everyone fight in a PVP arena experience??? Yes this is important I promise. No one is thrilled about this since there was just a fucking war. But Ephemera says that there are these computers in the clocktower that hold data of the entire town and everyone in it so everyone will just fight holograms and not real people problem solved :) In fact he even got this idea from Lauriam who wanted to search the data for.... something.

Speaking of Lauriam, he's meeting up with a girl named Elrena. Yes this is Larxene's somebody. He tells her that his sister Strelitzia is missing!!!! He hasn't seen her since before the war and knows that Elrena is friends with Strelitzia. Elrena hasn't seen her either so they decide to figure it out together. The only lead they get is Elrena's Chirithy saying that according to Strelitzia's Chirithy, Strelitzia was going after. some person. and Elrena's Chirithy saw that person with Skuld (aka the scene where you talk to Gula and then Strelitzia gets murdered but Elrena's Chirithy did not see all that). Lauriam confronts Skuld, she has no idea what's going on, and Lauriam reveals to the others what's been going on and they all try to help him out. Lauriam even meets Player! Player feels bad because they never met her :(

Anyway, it's at this point things start to get... weird. and by weird I mean things are literally glitching out and everyone goes "hey uh why am I seeing buildings glitch and glitches that look like people." Player and Ephemera end up running into these strange glitchy heartless and they run to the clocktower and run to Brain like "hey man what is going on!!!!" Brain is the smart one as you may have guessed. Brain says "yeah actually we're trapped in a data world right now and something is going seriously wrong" and the thing is, they had no idea!! The leaders were aware they had entered but were unaware they never left since the data is so realistic. In order to escape the destruction of the war, the dandelions would go into a temporary dataspace while the world healed and then would leave. This time spent in the data is referred to as an "unchained state" literally unchained from reality-- so while χ (the original 2013 browser game) is the events that unfolded in the real world, Unchained χ (the 2016 mobile game remake) is the dandelions post war reliving their memories and making new happier memories that light can be born from (and Union Cross being the current state of the game where unions don't really matter anymore since the dandelions are all one group so. when the unions. when the unions are crossed. Union Cross was also a multiplayer game mechanic where you could play with real people regardless of union).

Okay here is the ONLY disney thing that matters: wreck it ralph is an original world to khux and it's a data world that was not intentionally made for the dandelions but instead made by "someone else" (it was probably the Nightmare Chirithy yeah remember that guy, it's back again). Well whatever is happening, it's causing everyone to be trapped in the data world now so Brain sets to work on figuring it out as The Computer Guy TM. Brain has a plan (no he doesn't he lied) so he gives into looking inside of the Book of Prohpecies. Yup he was the leader with it all along and actually we already knew this but Brain doesn't make a big deal out of it because he purposefully does not want to read it because he doesn't want to be tied down by a pre-written future. But surprise surprise when he opens it he finds the very list of leaders the MoM gave to Ava!!! See I said it was important. And on that list he sees Strelitzia's name instead of a certain someone (also Ephemera's name is circled he was supposed to get the Book and not Brain). Brain doesn't know what to do so he turns to Ephemera and they decide to confront Skuld and Ventus before going to Lauriam about it. Brain tells them that Ventus was not on the list!!! Ven doesn't understand because he remembers clearly Ava asking him to join (he doesn't actually he has conflicting memories of this moment). No one really knows what's going on especially since thinking so hard literally makes Ven pass out. oops.

While all that was happening- Lauriam was busy inside of the clocktower. Remember I mentioned Maleficent? Yeah she's in the clocktower and in a room that looks just like that one weird room in Hollow Bastion. idk what it's called here's a picture in kh1 and in khux.

Lauriam is here fighting with Maleficent. She's like outta my way I'm getting out of this fucking computer! Lauriam is like haha nice try! (He gets his ass beat and Maleficent hops into a pod and bounces from the data world). This actually is the plothole that ties up how Maleficent returns in kh2 after being killed in kh1. She even reveals in khux she learned time travel tricks from Xehanort and that's how she even ended up in khux in the first place because when she was killed and her heart seperated from her body, she went into the past.

Anyway, Lauriam returns to the where everyone else is and walks in right as Brain is saying that Strelitzia is probably dead. Obviously he flips his shit. Brain had proposed the idea that some kind of darkness was manipulating them and trying to turn them all against each other. Ventus helpfully (read: unhelpfully) enters the room again and says "hey I killed Strelitzia btw" because he fully remembered that. Yeah actually that happened and he was there when it happened-- Ventus was manipulated by a shadowy figure that is just called "Darkness" and took refuge in Ventus's heart to enter the data to destroy the dandelions.

Pausing for a minute to talk about Darkness. In flashbacks we see the MoM explain to Luxu that there's more than just regular ol darkness and heartless but a kind of older, sentient hivemind type of darkness, and this is the Capital "D" Darkness. It's something that keyblade wielders have been fighting for a long time, the MoM explains he's seen many masters killed by Darkness. MoM's whole goal in fact is to kill Darkness for good! At this point, Darkness had split itself into 13 parts. His plan this whole time has been to trap Darkness in order to destroy it. He does this in two ways: the first was to train his apprentices to have insanely strong hearts and reveals to Luxu that himself, Luxu and all the foretellers literally have pieces of Darkness within them. Okay so that's the first 7 pieces; the rest he baited into going into the data world by starting the war and having it follow the Dandelions and then trapping them in the data. How does it work? Well when Maleficient escaped, it started the data locking mechanism that will shut down the data Daybreak Town and after that no one can escape.

Hey that's bad because that's where we're at now lol so back to the Dandelions. Ventus confesses to murder, Lauriam is about to commit a murder, Brain is losing it because he's figured out that's what the darkness wants. Darkness (or at least one piece of it) appears now!! Bursts right out of Ventus and is like "lol hi guys yeah I totally murdered that girl <3 no reason why I just wanted to do it" so the Dandelions (and Player who is also here btw) fight Darkness! It's too strong tho so Ventus decides since this is "his fault" he'll choose to lock the Darkness away in himself and "turn it to light" (spoiler: this is implied to be how Vanitas comes to be). So Ven saves everyone but now the actual issue: the fact that they are running out of time VERY FAST to escape from the data world. Also Elrena shows up again and says she saw Strelitzia with a mysterious figure (maybe Luxu? we don't know). They don't have time to talk about it tho.

Here's the problem tho: with Maleficent taking one pod and one pod getting destroyed in the fight her and Lauriam had, not everyone can escape. What they decide on is Brain, Lauriam, Elrena and Ventus leaving while Ephemera, Skuld and Player stay behind. Brain also hands over the book of prophecies and his keyblade (the master's defender!!) to Ephemera. Ephemera, Skuld and Player get to have one fucking second of peace before just a bunch of pieces of Darkness show up to kill them. Darkness demands to be let out of the data. Ephemera says no. Player says "you fool" and Darkness has taken a hold of Player!!! The final fight in the game is you fighting Ephemera and Skuld. Yes it hurts so much. It also hurts when Ephemera shoots Player right in the stomach and sends your ass back to wreck it ralph along with the pieces of Darkness. And as Player lays dying, they reveal to the Darkness that they just pretended to be taken over by it, and now they're all trapped in god damned wreck it ralph together. So as Player dies and the data world locks itself and presumably destroys itself, we see Chirithy and Player have a conversation about what happens now. We see the other Dandelions who couldn't escape dying, their hearts reform and combine with their chirithies to become dream eaters. Yeah. like in DDD. Those cute animals are dead kids. And Chirithy says to Player they can choose to become a dream eater, or have their heart reborn. Player chooses to have their heart reborn (it's not clear in game but the person Player is reincarnated into is the new Player in Missing Link and goes on to raise Xehanort as their child; we are shown scenes of Xehanort as a baby in Scala ad Caelum being handed off to Old Player 2 by his mom who looks like Skuld idk man).

Back to the Dandelions-- Ephemera and Skuld escape the data at the last minute. Lauriam and Elrena end up presumably without any memories and are scouted in Org XIII by Xigbar (who we now know is Luxu). Ventus is found by Xehanort. Ephemera ends up in the middle of the ocean and goes on to found Scala ad Caelum. Brain ends up in Scala ad Caelum but long after Ephemera has passed and presumably this is where Missing Link begins. Skuld's fate is unknown but there is a strong possibility she's Subject X. Strelitzia is now in Quatratum, somehow, along with the MoM who also purposefully is there bc there's a scene where he tells Darkness that's what he's doing.

But let's circle back to Brain rq-- because when he left the data, he didn't actually go on immediately and instead sent Lauriam, Elrena and Ventus to safety. In fact, Brain was willing to stay behind in destroyed Daybreak Town by himself but he's actually confronted by Luxu of all people!!! Luxu had followed the Dandelions this whole time because he wanted to protect them! And he says it's a shame Brain will die here. It's not clear what happens next but it's implied that Luxu takes Brain as his first vessel (personally I think Luxu sent Brain's heart to the future in Scala ad Caelum while Luxu took his body). We finish khux on a scene with Brain in a black coat, with No Name and the black box.

Okay now let's talk about dark road ITS SHORTER I PROMISE!!!!!!! I PROMISE--

Okay so this is obviously the Xehanort game, you are Xehanort now. Xehanort was raised by Player as I mentioned before and Player tells young Xehanort that he's related to Ephemera (this is not explained idk man) and that Xehanort is going to grow up to be a powerful keyblade wielder that will protect the light as "a child of destiny." Future Xehanort (the brown robe no heart one we see in kh1) shows up and opens the portal that takes Xehanort to Scala ad Caelum where he begins his keyblade training. Okay so there are a ton of characters but I'm only gonna name a few: in Xehanort's class all you gotta know is his classmates Bragi and Baldr and ofc Eraqus is there too. Eraqus is actually related to Brain btw, he's his grandson and we don't know the details but Brain ended up "disappearing" after fighting Darkness. Eraqus does not like to talk about this.

So Xehanort and co. (minus Baldr, he is not here atm) are told by their master that the upperclassmen are missing after setting off on their mark of mastery test and he's going to send all of them to find them (why send children with even less experience? who knows) and also specifically says Baldr isn't coming Baldr is doing something else. This is because Baldr's older sister is among the missing students.

Eventually, Xehanort and Eraqus run into an upperclassman named Vidar! And Vidar says some very strange stuff about darkness and kingdom hearts and then doesn't elaborate but basically Vidar and some of the other upperclassmen are planning on destroying seven pieces of light (which are "important items" from other worlds like the lamp in agrabah and the rose in beast's castle) to summon kingdom hearts. Why? Because the majority of the upperclassmen (including Baldr's sister) are actually dead and the remaining few want to destroy all darkness as revenge. It's not a very good plan tho, and they give up in hopes of finding a better plan.

Baldr shows up now! He's actually aware that his sister and most of the upperclassmen are dead. His idea is to go to the Underworld to speak with the dead students to figure out what kind of darkness killed them. So off they go and Xehanort and Eraqus talk to the dead upperclassmen and Baldr's sister asks Xehanort for a favor (I'll come back to this). Everyone did get separated tho and three underclassmen end up dying because of darkness while Xehanort and Eraqus are saved by their master.

Baldr isn't dead tho! And that's bad actually. Because Baldr was overtaken by darkness and was the one who killed the upperclassmen and the underclassmen AND his sister. Yeah. Baldr says he's always had strong darkness in him naturally while his sister had naturally strong light. While he chased after the light, he could never have it and it could never be him. To him, he was always living in the light's shadow and that's why he had to get rid of it and his negative emotions about light only exaggerated the darkness in him and now he's planning on killing everyone else and summoning kingdom hearts to destroy all light. Anyone left Baldr kills, which just leaves Xehanort, Eraqus and their master left. Baldr tries to get Xehanrot on his side, saying they're the same, and for a moment Baldr's sister appears just like how Eraqus did in kh3 from Terra's heart. Her favor to Xehanort was to let her stay in his heart so she could talk to her brother--- but in the end they still don't see eye to eye and Xehanort feels he doesn't have any choice but to kill Baldr and so he does.

Not long after this Xehanort and Eraqus become masters. We see future scenes throughout the game of them growing apart as their ideologies become opposite to each other. We see the scene in kh3 where young Xehanort meets the MoM and MoM really puts it in Xehanort's head that he's the only person who can make the "hard decisions" in life and his experience with having to kill Baldr for the greater good along with Player telling Xehanort he's a "child of destiny/light" only pushes this idea further and leads to who he ended up becoming.

Hey remember I mentioned that guy Bragi. At the end of all this, we get to see what actually went down in the Underworld. Baldr had gone to kill Bragi like he had with the others but Bragi overpowers him easily. Bragi tells Baldr that he actually doesn't wanna get in his way, especially since he can already tell Xehanort is gonna win in the end, and he makes a deal with Baldr. Basically, Bragi will leave and never come back and Baldr can continue his killing spree. Baldr agrees because he knows he can't win against Bragi. And it's in this scene it's revealed that Bragi was Luxu this whole time!! He even says "as if"!!! And it's assumed he leaves Scala ad Caelum after this.

and that's that!!!! that's the mobile game lore!!!!! please message me if you have any more questions believe me I know it's a lot but this was a massive story told over the course of 2013-2021!!!!

Yeah no I'm fine why (<- guy who is always 2 seconds away from exploding into a million pieces because of Kingdom Hearts Union Cross)

[etrosgate]

Kingdom Hearts Fans:

Still haven't gotten into the mobile games? It's now easier than ever, go watch the fandub!

the story of these games is so interesting (and important to the rest of the series, especially its future), it's a shame that it's been so difficult to get into due to the format. but the fandub really changes that, and i hope it allows many more people to enjoy these games :)

parts 1 and 2 cover the events of khx+khux (with all of back cover intercut), with dark road coming at some point in the future

[chronicbackstabbingdisorder]

PLEASE INFODUMP TO ME ABOUT KH 👀 I love when people share the crazy lore about this series because I cannot keep track of it myself. Pick your favorite topic and go off my liege 👑

Oh it would be my pleasure. So let me tell you about why the stupid fucking mobile game is crucial to understanding the events of Kingdom Hearts 3.

So first off, there's a mobile gacha game called Kingdom Hearts Union X (technically set after the events of a Japan only browser game called Kingdom Hearts X, but it's easier to think of it all as one thing to save yourself the headache) that covers the events that led up to and surrounding the Keyblade War, an event that is referenced in Birth By Sleep, mainly by the game's final stage being the battlefield of said war, The Keyblade Graveyard.

Thing is, of course, the Keyblade War happened so far in the past compared to the rest of the series that a game covering it, while certainly interesting backstory and lore to the setting, didn't ever seem like it would super relevant to the events of future games, especially not when it was portrayed in a mobile game of all things.

And then KH3 came out and it was fucking littered with tie ins to the phone game. The big important connection we have would be Maleficent and her quest for a 'black box' the entire game, the box in question had up until then only been mentioned in KHX. The box was entrusted by a character known as The Master Of Masters to another character named Luxu, along with The Master's keyblade, which contains one of his own eyes and allows him to see whatever the keyblade sees, neither of their faces have ever been shown, but they wear the same iconic coats as Organization XIII. The Master instructed Luxu to keep the box hidden and never open it, as well as to observe the events of the future so that The Master could also witness them through his keyblade and write a book detailing the future. Luxu did just that right until the end of KH3. An extra scene at the end shows a hooded figure in the Keyblade Graveyard holding The Master's keyblade and standing next to the black box and the figure mentions that the keyblade is 'back where it belongs', and of course that keyblade is one we as an audience have seen before, it's the keyblade that our main antagonist, Master Xehanort, wields. Four other characters then appear, the union leaders from KHX, essentially The Master's other disciples and leaders of the different factions the player can choose from. They address the hooded figure as Luxu, though mention that he looks different, when Luxu reveals his face, it's actually Xigbar, the number two of Organization XIII. The way Luxu decided to go about watching over the events of the future was to pass the Keyblade along to someone else, then cast away his original body and instead hop from body to body and observe from the sidelines. The keyblade eventually made it's way to Xehanort and Xigbar was quick to present himself as an ally so he could continue to keep watch. Bascially the entire plot of the entire series trace back to The Master of Masters and his convoluted game of 4D chess.

And like, that's just the Big Thing, there's lots of other things that tie back to KHX. I won'tgo into all of them because we'd be here all day, but my personal favorite is that Marluxia and Larxene's original identies before losing their hearts, Lauriam and Elrena, are shown in KHX, both were keyblade warriors involved in the events surrounding the Keyblade War.

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

assigning RWBY opening songs to kh games! cause why not 🤗

(migrated from twitter in case it goes down in flames)

Since there are only 9 openings atm, I just chose other songs for some games

KHx - Die

Back Cover - Awake

Union Cross - For Every Life

Missing Link - Let’s Just Live

Dark Road - When It Falls

Birth by Sleep / 0.2 - Trust Love

KH1 - This Will Be the Day

Chain of Memories - Inside

KH2 - Time to Say Goodbye

Days - Rising

Re:Coded - Wings (Lo-Fi version)

Dream Drop Distance - The Triumph

KH3 - I May Fall

Memory of Melody - Be Strong and Hit Stuff

[kingdomheartsmusicbracket]

Round 1

Part 1:

Vector to the Heavens - 358/2 Days (1) vs Heart of Mystery - KH3 (167)

Riku - KH2 (5) vs This Is Halloween - KH1 (163)

Master of Masters - Back Cover (9) vs Vim and Vigor - KH2 (159)

Dismiss - Birth by Sleep (13) vs Monster Smash! - KH3 (155)

Organization XIII - KH2 (17) vs Flags of Fury - KH3 (151)

Dearly Beloved - Melody of Memory (21) vs Radiant Garden - Birth by Sleep (147)

Aqua (Mirror Illusion) - Fragmentary Passage (25) vs The Rustling Forest - Birth by Sleep (143)

Traverse in Trance - Dream Drop Distance (29) vs Traverse Town - KH1 (135) vs March Caprice for Piano and Orchestra - Melody of Memory (136)

Disappeared - KH1 (33) vs Makaukau - KH3 (127) vs Waltz of the Damned - KH2 (128)

The 13th Struggle - KH2 (37) vs Another Side - KH1 Final Mix (119) vs The Deep End - KH1 Final Mix (120)

Link to All (Lights of Destiny) - KH3 (41) vs Dearly Beloved Reprise - KH1 (111) vs Final Staff Roll Dearly Beloved - Union X (112)

Destati - KH1 (45) vs Dark Domination - KH3 (103) vs Friendship’s Union - KH3 (104)

Sacred Moon - 358/2 Days (49) vs Fragments of Sorrow - KH2 (95) vs Eternal Moments - Birth by Sleep (96)

Wave of Darkness I - Fragmentary Passage (53) vs Dual Hearts - KH3 (87) vs Kairi III - KH1 (88)

Dawn of Hope - KH3 (57) vs A Pirate’s Freedom - KH3 (79) vs Unbreakable Chains - Birth by Sleep (80)

Forza Finale - KH3 (61) vs Deep Drop - Dream Drop Distance (71) vs Destiny Islands - Chain of Memories (72)

Part 2:

Vector to the Heavens - KH3 (2) vs Shipmeister’s Shanty - KH2 (166)

Lord of the Castle - Chain of Memories (6) vs Monstrous Monstro - KH1 (162)

Cavern of Remembrance - KH2 (10) vs The Promised Beginning - Birth by Sleep (158)

Rage Awakened - KH2 (14) vs Spooks of Halloween Town - KH1 (154)

Aqua - Dark Dive - KH3 (18) vs Secret of Neverland - 358/2 Days (150)

Dearly Beloved - KH3 (22) vs Ventus - Birth by Sleep (146)

March Caprice for Piano and Orchestra - KH1 (26) vs Treasured Memories (141) vs Shrouding Dark Cloud - KH3 (142)

Tension Rising - KH2 (30) vs Heroes’ Gathering - KH3 (133) vs Master Tell Me the Truth - Birth by Sleep (134)

Musique pour la Tristesse de Xion - 358/2 Days (34) vs L’Impeto Oscuro - KH3 (125) vs Destati - KH3 (126)

The 13th Reflection - KH2 (38) vs The Force in You - Chain of Memories (117) vs Beyond the Door - KH1 (118)

Sacred Distance - Dream Drop Distance (42) vs Dearly Beloved - Missing Link (109) vs Dearly Beloved - KHX (110)

Destiny’s Force - KH1 (46) vs The Foretellers - Back Cover (101) vs Fate of the Unknown - KH2 (102)

Aqua - Birth by Sleep (50) vs Enter the Darkness - Birth by Sleep (93) vs Rowdy Rumble - KH2 (94)

L’Oscurita Dell’Ignoto- KH3 (54) vs The Other Promise - Piano Collections (85) vs Another Side - Battle Version - 358/2 Days (86)

Desire for All That is Lost - KH2 (58) vs The Silent Forest - Birth by Sleep (77) vs End of the World - KH1 (78)

Dearly Beloved - Union X (62) vs Missing You - KH2 (69) vs Face My Fears Orchestral - KH3 (70)

Part 3:

The Other Promise - KH2 (3) vs Bustin’ Up on the Beach - KH1 (165)

Edge of Existence - KH3 (7) vs Sunset Horizons - KH2 (161)

Before the Daylight - Union X (11) vs The Underworld - KH2 (157)

Roxas’ Return - KH3 (15) vs A Very Small Wish - KH1 (153)

Hearts as One - KH3 (19) vs Forest of Thorns - Fragmentary Passage (149)

Sacred Moon - KH2 (23) vs  Reviving Hollow Bastion - KH2 (145)

Naminė - Chain of Memories (27) vs Sky of Wonder - KH3 (139) vs Passion - KH2 (140)

Scherzo Di Notte - KH1 (31) vs Chains to Bonds - KH3 (131) vs Guardians of Light - KH3 (132)

Dismiss - KH2 (35) vs L’Impeto Oscuro - Dream Drop Distance (123) vs Memories in Pieces - Chain of Memories (124)

Epilogue - KH3 (39) vs Precious Stars in the Sky - KH1 (115) vs Forze Del Male - KH1 (116)

Anger Unchained - KH3 (43) vs Dearly Beloved - Chain of Memories (107) vs Dearly Beloved - KH1 Final Mix (108)

Tension Rising - Reaper’s Revenge - KH3 (47) vs A Fight to the Death - KH2 (99) vs Fantasia Alla Marcia for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra - KH2 (100)

Sora - KH2 (51) vs Graceful Assassin - Chain of Memories (91) vs Hand in Hand - KH1 (92)

Kairi II - KH1 (55) vs The 13th Anthology - Drammatica Album (83) vs Lazy Afternoons - Chain of Memories (84)

Night of Fate - KH1 (59) vs Always on My Mind - KH1 (75) vs The Afternoon Streets - KH3 (76)

Fragments of Sorrow - KH1 (63) vs Black Powder - Birth by Sleep (67) vs Sinister Shadows - KH2 (68)

Part 4:

At Dusk I Will Think of You - 358/2 Days (4) vs Monster Smash! (Code 72-16) - KH3 (164)

Nachtflügel - KH3 (8) vs Monstropolis Now (Code 72-16) - KH3 (160)

Hollow Bastion - KH1 (12) vs Winnie the Pooh - KH3 (156)

Rise of the Union - KH3 (16) vs Monstropolis Now - KH3 (152)

Scala Ad Caelum - KH3 (20) vs Dive into the Heart - KH1 (148)

Darkness of the Unknown - KH2 (24) vs Magical Mystery - KH2 (144)

Tears of Light - Birth by Sleep (28) vs Destiny’s Union - Birth by Sleep (137) vs Hikari - KH1 (138)

Dark Impetus - Birth by Sleep (32) vs True Darkness - KH3 (129) vs Replicas - KH3 (130)

Roxas - KH2 (36) vs Majestic Wings - Dream  Drop Distance (121) vs The Eye of Darkness - Dream Drop Distance (122)

Hunter of the Dark - Birth by Sleep (40) vs Passing the Power - Back Cover (113) vs Shrouding Dark Cloud - KH1 (114)

Enter the Void - Birth by Sleep (44) vs Dearly Beloved - 358/2 Days (105) vs Dearly Beloved - Re:Coded (106)

Deep Anxiety - KH2 (48) vs Forgotten Challenge - Chain of Memories (97) vs Organization XIII (Mark of Fate) - KH3 (98)

Sora (Orchestra of Toads) - KH3 (52) vs Lazy Afternoons - KH2 (89) vs L’Eminenza Oscura II - Dream Drop Distance (90)

Terra - Birth by Sleep (56) vs The 13th Dilemma - KH2 (81) vs The 13th Struggle - Saïx - KH3 (82)

Enter the Darkness - KH3 (60) vs Friends in My Heart - KH1 (73) vs Dearly Beloved - KH1 (74)

Guardando nel Buio - KH1 (64) vs Stranded Beyond - KH3 (65) vs Graveyard Labyrinth - KH3 (66)

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[romy350-romyakari]

i definitely see you as the expert over Gula!

With the amount of focus I gave to the little guys I do not blame you and I would do it again once we get more than just back cover, kh3 epilogue and khx you are very much to see me at it again +the rest of the crew there ajsjsjajajianska

[xhnrt-x]

Tags:

self - Myself from Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, Birth By Sleep, Dream Drop Distance, and Kingdom Hearts 3

eraqus - Kingdom Hearts Dark Road's and/or Young Eraqus

baldr - KHDR's Baldr

sister of the grey - KHDR's Hoder

luxu - KHX Back Cover's, KHX's, KHDR's and/or BBS's Luxu

old friends - Kingdom Hearts Union X's Dandelions

child of darkness - BBS's and KH3's Vanitas

him - Kingdom Hearts' Sora

vessels - Kingdom Hearts' Lea, Isa, Laurium

checkmate - The game of chess

exploring other worlds - Places I wish to visit one day and/or aesthetically pleasing to me

home - Places reminiscent of the Destiny Islands

kindred - The Owl House's Hunter Clawthorne

[verathena14]

OK SO khx would ideally be the best starting point cuz it came out first but it no longer exists anymore (rip) but Back Cover expands upon the Foretellers specifically during that time period. However, I believe the fandub has Back Cover scenes interspersed throughout in the best order for viewing. So if I remember correctly, the two fandub movies should cover the entirety of KHuX + Back Cover. I believe the same group is working on a KHDR fandub (maybe? i remember hearing that but i'm not sure how accurate that is)

OH WAIT you havent experienced khux yet? ohohoho ur in for a treat when you finally get around to it :)))

if you don't mind me asking, how were you planning on experiencing it? (i would highly recommend damo279's fandub)

OOOOO i mean like, i havent rlly thought abt it! ik the bundle has at least ONE of those games but idk which and if its the first one i gotta play! once i get there ill def consider the dub tysm

[keykidpilipili]

I need Square to publish a X chi saga artbook full of concept art and beautiful references. I need Square to understand i would import the book no matter what.

[goldenchocobo]

Happy 20th Anniversary, Kingdom Hearts!

I’m a bit late, but I’m finished with the redone Foretellers and Flowers! Overall, I enjoyed redoing them as it shows just how much I’ve improved over the last 4 years. Here’s the original if you want a comparison.

I added the flowers on the images if clicked on, but if you want to read more into it I’ve added a small analysis:

Ira: Oak in general represent strength and sturdiness, with Trefoil representing Revenge and feelings of anger due to their claw-like appearance. Gladiolus resemble swords and thus also mean strength and power, but also strength of moral character.

Aced: Juniper generally means protection and warmth, as they germinate after fires. Poppies are now considered symbols of war, but used to aid in sleep and that meaning has been around for centuries.

Invi: Roses come in many different colours, and just as many meanings. Yellow and peachy-orange roses are considered to betray thoughts of jealousy, but also friendship and comradery.

Gula: Hollyhock symbolises ambition and drive, and Mallow- of which the roots are edible if prepared, means ‘consuming’, thus brings the meaning to ‘ambition to consume’- perfect for Gula’s namesake of Gluttony.

Ava: The dandelions are foremost for the lore perspective, but they mean hardiness and overcoming, and the Daffodils represent rebirth, as they’re one of the earliest spring flowers. however buttercup with its deep yellow colour represents Ava’s namesake of Greed.

[serenedash]

something about luxu and loss of identity/death of the self

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[kingdomheartsmusicbracket]

Round 2:

Part 1:

Vector to the Heavens - 358/2 Days (1) vs Guardando nel Buio - KH1 (64)

Dark Impetus - Birth by Sleep (32) vs Waltz of the Damned - KH2 (128)

Organization XIII - KH2 (17) vs Organization XIII - Mark of Fate - KH3 (98)

Rise of the Union - KH3 (16) vs Sacred Moon - 358/2 Days (49)

Master of Masters - Back Cover (9) vs Terra - Birth by Sleep (56)

Darkness of the Unknown - KH2 (24) vs Dearly Beloved Reprise - KH1 (111)

Aqua (Mirror Illusion) - Fragmentary Passage (25) vs Hunter of the Dark - Birth by Sleep (40)

Nachtflugel - KH3 (8) vs Unbreakable Chains - Birth by Sleep (80)

At Dusk I Will Think of You - 358/2 Days (4) vs Forza Finale - KH3 (61)

Traverse Town - KH1 (135) vs Roxas - KH2 (36)

Dive into the Heart - KH1 (148) vs Destati - KH1 (45)

Dismiss - Birth by Sleep (13) vs Lazy Afternoons - KH2 (89)

Hollow Bastion - KH1 (12) vs Wave of Darkness I - Fragmentary Passage (53)

Dearly Beloved - Melody of Memory (21) vs Dearly Beloved - 358/2 Days (105)

Hikari - KH1 (138) vs The 13th Struggle - KH2 (37)

Riku - KH2 (5) vs Dearly Beloved - KH1 (74)

Part 2:

Vector to the Heavens - KH3 (2) vs Fragments of Sorrow - KH1 (63)

Scherzo Di Notte - KH1 (31) vs Musique pour la Tristesse de Xion - 358/2 Days (34)

Aqua - Dark Dive - KH3 (18) vs Tension Rising - Reaper’s Revenge - KH3 (47)

Roxas’ Return - KH3 (15) vs Enter the Darkness - Birth by Sleep (93)

Cavern of Remembrance - KH2 (10) vs Lazy of Afternoons - Chain of Memories (84)

Sacred Moon - KH2 (23) vs Dearly Beloved - KHX (110)

Treasured Memories - KH1 (141) vs Forze Del Male - KH1 (116)

Edge of Existence - KH3 (7) vs End of the World - KH1 (78)

The Other Promise - KH2 (3) vs Dearly Beloved - Union X (62)

Tension Rising - KH2 (30) vs L’Impeto Oscuro - Dream Drop Distance (123)

Hearts as One - KH3 (19) vs Fate of the Unknown - KH2 (102)

Rage Awakened - KH2 (14) vs Sora - KH2 (51)

Before the Daylight - Union X (11) vs The Other Promise - Piano Collections (85)

Dearly Beloved - KH3 (22) vs Ventus - Birth by Sleep (146) vs Dearly Beloved - KH1 Final Mix (108)

Namine - Chain of Memories (27) vs The 13th Reflection - KH2 (38)

Lord of the Castle - Chain of Memories (6) vs The Afternoon Streets - KH3 (76)

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