#lost kingdom hearts pilot

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Parallels.

[xrystazenith]

🌸🌸best part🌸🌸

+holy grail 1k+ notes 😭 first time yeeey!!!! 💙

[skywardkey]

Riku's delivery for that last line is sending me

[pedrobrvs]

After Seth Kearsley released the animatic I got obsessed with the idea of an actual Kingdom Hearts cartoon, but like, instead of trying to copy the game's japanese style wholesale, just embraced that it is a western cartoon. So I took the trio's hair gel away and shuffled their outfits a little bit.

[rock-a-noodle]

MAGIC LANTERN

[mischiefmaverick]

So the lost Kingdom Hearts animated Series Pilot just dropped on YouTube and I have so many thoughts

The kid they got to do Sora was actually pretty damn good.

Kairi kicked the shit out of a Heartless! Can’t believe the series made Kairi a badass girlboss.

Dad!Goofy moment!!!

Maleficent just fuckin’ YEETS Jafar out the castle door im dying

Oh no. They dumbed down Donald and Goofy even more.

Donald doesn’t talk a whole lot during this which is weird because he wouldn’t shut the fuck up in the first game.

OHHHH THE MUSIC IS AN ABSOLUTE BANGER!

SORA RIKU HUG SORA RIKU HUGG!!!

Goofy: “MY NAMES GOOFY!” Riku: “yah you sure are…”

“MAgiC LaMp!”

Ah there it is. You can’t have a KH show without Simple and Clean. Weird placement tho.

Riku: “YOU’RE NOT A HERO YOU’RE JUST A KID!” Bitch you are too dafuq

Wtf is this face!? LMAO

Sora: “No……I am a hero” *MATRIX MUSIC PLAYS*

Since when does Riku ever call Maleficent “my queen” he was always a little punk to her lol.

I honestly can’t tell if this show would have been a hit or miss since this was only a rough draft pilot (although I can tell we would have got some amazing meme worthy things out of it) but that was definitely an interesting thing to see and I’m glad we finally got to see it.

[jazbell]

oh my GOD they got kingdom hearts vcast to work

[archvillain]

of course disney took down the pilot, cuz we can't have nice things. 🙄 did anybody manage to save it while it was up? if so, could you direct me to a download?

[unintentionaloracle]

Thank you, Lost Kingdom Hearts Cartoon Pilot Animatic, for saying Plucky/Scrappy Kairi Rights.

[xx-amphibian-puke-xx]

My followers when I don't post One Punch Man/ Twisted Wonderland content

[saverecoverydatabase]

The Lost Kingdom Hearts Pilot Has Been Found!

Disney animator Seth Kearsley revealed to the world he would digitize the previously-unseen Kingdom Hearts pilot animatic on September 27th of this year. It came to a shock of many in the community, as the pilot had been known to be in Kearsley’s possession since 2014 but had not been digitized before due to fear of Disney retaliating. According to Kearsley, he decided to digitize the pilot after surviving a terrible car accident--because the world had to see what he had created. Kearsley’s reveal tweet went viral, word spreading around the Kingdom Hearts community that they would finally be able to see the lost pilot from the pilot’s director himself. Unfortunately the pilot couldn’t be shown at the time, since the only copy was on a VHS and Kearsley needed time to digitize it. On October 11th, the digitized pilot was uploaded to Kearsley’s YouTube account. Thousands of fans flocked to see the upload, which at its peak reached over 300 thousand views. The hype didn’t last long, as a few days later on October 14th Kearsley was asked by “an old friend at Disney” to take down the pilot.

Thankfully many viewers of the pilot have found ways to save the original upload and preserve this important piece of gaming history. The Kingdom Hearts pilot was an attempt by Disney to turn the then extremely-popular standalone videogame into an animated series. The reason the series never got made was due to SquareSoft (the developers for Kingdom Hearts) deciding to make sequels for the videogame. The franchise then took off in a direction that Disney decided was not compatible with an animated series. At the time, Kingdom Hearts was thought to be a one-and-done game. No one could have expected the franchise would grow into a 14 game behemoth with a story rivaling that of its famously-convoluted sister series FInal Fantasy.

A reupload of the pilot is up on YouTube at the time of writing this. Go check it out for yourself for a goofy and delightful piece of videogame history!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r62c6it7Qc

Also check out this video by RebelTaxi on YouTube. He did an interview with Seth Kearsley himself about the Kingdom Hearts pilot, which you can see 16 minutes in.

https://youtu.be/cLE9FBQFgbQ?t=960

[oveliagirlhaditright]

A lot of people see Kairi as the Ventus in the Destiny Trio, or Ventus as the Kairi in the Wayfinder trio, so here's a parallel between them.

[gamesline]

The Bulletin: Perils Beyond the Pit

[jidblogger]

HOLY MOLY! THE HOLY GRAIL HAS BEEN FOUND 

[trinitymage]

Y'all it happened! The lost Kingdom Hearts Pilot Animatic was found!

[sapphicseasapphire]

Once upon a time, there was a Princess and a Knight.

There were others as well: Champions hailing from the far corners of Hyrule, innocent civilians, soldiers for the crown…

And a world ending evil.

The kingdom of Hyrule knew of their impending doom, they knew of the Great Calamity that threatened their lives. And so, the Princess prepared to protect her people by offering her prayers to the Goddess Hylia, giving every last ounce of herself in order to unlock the sealing power that she supposedly possessed.

Around her, the kingdom of Hyrule made its own preparations. Ancient automatons were discovered deep in the heart of the land and, piloted by the Champions, would be an asset to the Hyrulean Army. Guardians would act as foot soldiers, Divine Beasts would deal a heavy blow.

All in all, the kingdom hoped. They were well equipped for the battle ahead of them. The Princess’s knight wielded his sacred sword with confidence. The Champions piloted their Divine Beasts with valor. The Princess continued to pray for a power that would never come.

It would end up being their downfall.

Faceless bodies, nameless faces, all lost to the maw of the Calamity. The Champions had perished, their weapons becoming deadly prisons. The soldiers had fallen, slain by the very Guardians meant to protect them. Though, in her desperation, she tapped into the wellspring of power within herself and managed to save herself, it was not enough. In her lap was her knight, and he was not breathing. She had lost.

She had lost everything.

The blade of the Master Sword, tarnished in blood and muck where it rested in her knight’s limp fingers, reflected her tears as she cried over his lifeless body. All was silent, save for her sobs and shaky pleas. She begged the Goddess for forgiveness, for her knight to magically start breathing once more. She cursed Hylia for allowing this to happen, for ignoring her all these years, for taking the lives of so many.

The Goddess had ignored her in the past, and she had no qualms ignoring her now.

For the first time in her life, surrounded by the skeletons of corrupted Guardians, by the lifeless forms of the fallen, the princess was alone.

She was truly alone.

After the battle, the princess was discovered by the Sheikah, who ushered her to safety. The Kingdom was lost, buried somewhere beneath the ruin and carnage that surrounded her. She brought her knight with her, one last escort, she told herself. The princess could not bear to leave him there, alone with the emotionless automatons that had stolen his life away.

She walked beside him as he was carried from the battlefield.

When it was safe, she laid her fallen knight to rest in a quiet forest near his hometown, where the mountains had shielded the village from the worst of the Calamity and the sea breeze rustled through the leaves on the trees. The static sound was a comfort to the princess as she placed a blue and white flower onto the mound of upturned earth. Six feet under an unmarked grave lied a young man- just a boy- who deserved better. He had defended her until his very last breath, cursed to bear the responsibility of wielding the Blade of Evil’s Bane, destined to fight an impossible battle.

It was always going to end like this.

The princess did not have time to mourn. She entrusted the Great Deku Tree with the Master Sword, her heart aching with the knowledge that the sacred blade would no longer be wielded by her brave knight. Hyrule would have to wait for the cycle to begin anew, but in the mean time…

She had a job to do.

With nothing left to loose, the princess marched straight to bones of Hyrule Castle, where the beast of Calamity Ganon circled ominously above. With her sealing powers finally available to her, the princess was ready for one final fight.

But there’s an intrinsic magic in the balance of nature. The more religious Hyrulean citizens might even say they see Hylia herself in the glorious orange and pink sunsets, in the gentle hum buzz of the forest, the rolling majesty of waves. Life thrums under one’s feet if they walk too far off the paths across Hyrule.

It is no secret that there are spirits that roam the wilds. A select few claim to see lively children of the forest, playful little gremlins with the face of a leaf. More commonly seen are spirits called Blupees, mysterious, their eerie blue glow visible to everyone in Hyrule. No one quite knows their origin, but it is said that they’re the result of pure earthly magic bursting at the seams with heavenly light.

And such light, such divine grace, needed a place to go. It worked its way into the fallen knight’s lifeless body, slowly but surely revitalizing him. Some might say Hylia herself cradled him in the palms of her hands and breathed shimmering life back into his lungs.

The process of revival changed him fundamentally, though it only took a month at most. The knight was robbed of his memories, his body becoming almost unrecognizable. His hair became ghostly white, his skin flowed a gentle bluish hue. He had become a forest spirit with no recollection of the Hylian he once was.

Hyruleans citizens might occasionally see him in dense forests or scorching deserts. He wandered about the lava pools of Eldin for a time. Aimlessly wandering the wilds. Those that saw him called him the Child of the Mountains, believing he had a connection to the elusive Lord of the Mountain that he so closely resembled.

Years passed, and the Child of the Mountains was spotted less and less often. A century after the rise of the Calamity, no one remembered the knight that had fallen in battle. No one noticed the upturned earth of that unmarked grave. No, the nameless knight was lost to time.

The Child of the Mountains remained the topic of folklore all across Hyrule, an otherworldly presence that was so rarely spotted. But things began to change for the forsaken kingdom. Divine Beasts stopped their rampaging, towers and shrines went from vicious orange to soothing blue. Still, no one connected the dots until Calamity Ganon itself was defeated and the fabled Child of the Mountains was spotted after the battle bearing a familiar blessed sword.

He disappeared completely after the war was won.

Somehow, the princess had survived the century long battle against the malice, and she had been quick to order a search for her knight. But that’s the thing about spirits: if they don’t want to be found, there’s just no finding them.

Still, the princess would not give up on him. Not again. She’d seen him, briefly, after he’d slain the monstrous Calamity. Her knight was still in there, she was sure of it. She will stop at nothing to bring him home.

. . .

Some notes!

• Wild is kind of sort of immortal. He can’t die unless he’s killed. (He’s been alive for a century and is vibing)

• Wild spent the entire century between waking up and fighting Calamity Ganon just… wandering in the woods like a lost child. Freaks out the locals but eh, he doesn’t really care.

• Of all of the Links, Wild is the least… human. He has no memory of ever being Hylian. All he knows is the wilderness.

• It sounds like bells and chimes when he walks, just like a Blupee!

• LOVES shiny things! Distracted very easily

• Mostly nonverbal. He communicates mostly with his antennae, though he doesn’t really have anyone to communicate with. He can speak telepathically with other spirits and the Great Deku Tree.

• Flora never expected him to come back. He was dead for good. But when a spirit with the same face as her fallen knight suddenly arrives at the castle after a century to kill the thing she’s been fighting, she was in disbelief. She recognized him which freaked him out and he ran away.

• He’s been wearing the clothes that he was buried in this WHOLE TIME.

• Subject of Hyrulean folklore, everyone has different thoughts on what he is. They all know he’s a spirit. But is he friendly? A protector to the people? Guardian of the wilds? He’s seen pretty rarely and encounters are short and quiet. Sometimes he’ll stare at the person, sometimes he’ll try to fight them, sometimes he’ll just run away.

• Chaos gremlin

• I love him very much

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