#realm of darkness

[luxmoogle]

°⋆༻⋆。 °⛧Darkness.. is eternal..⛧°。 ⋆༺ ⋆。

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Realm of Darkness

[endlessskymaster]

This panel from the KH3 manga is funny to me.

[firestorm09890]

so something that I feel like is often forgotten- even in kingdom hearts itself, when Aqua is pissed at Mickey in kh3 for making her endure 10 years- is that in the Realm of Darkness, the passage of time does not exist normally. I’m not entirely sure what that means, but it must be different from how the flow of most kh worlds work, so it isn’t just going at a different rate from other worlds, it’s something much more fucked up.

my headcanon is that Aqua’s jaunt in the darkness was not actually ten years long, physically. It was probably a pretty short period of time, which is why she didn’t appear to age at all; a short amount of time in the Realm of Darkness, and 10 years in the Realm of… other places. different worlds having different flows kinda breaks this actually, why are all the important kh original worlds passing the time exactly the same? that doesn’t seem right. personally I think Castle Oblivion and Twilight Town are both flowing differently from The World That Never Was but this is not the post for that.

ANYWAY the kicker is that while it might not have been physically a very short period of time, psychologically it was much longer, similar to… hey, The Jaunt by Stephen King. Though instead of being trapped in a blank void with only your own thoughts for a million years as an instant passes outside, the Realm of Darkness is a lot nicer, in a way. Your conscious mind is keeping up with the “physical” time, allowing you to fight and travel and think normally without it feeling like you’re stuck with your thoughts for a bajillion years, but your subconscious mind is absolutely going through it. I think? Ansem started losing his memories because of his big kingdom hearts laser but it’d be fun if it was because his unconscious mind was erasing things with mental time passage.

He (on his FIRST trip to the Realm of Darkness) and Aqua kept thoughts of people they knew in the forefront of their minds so the fucked up time stuff happening in the back wasn’t hitting as hard. But if you're mentally aging rapidly without realizing it you’re gonna get tired… if you’re stewing in hate for so long and that hate is maintained on its own in the back of your head for even longer through time magic you start to lose yourself in it while simultaneously acting remarkably sane… idk if any of this makes any sense at all

[fleshosphere]

Though I know there's no undo What do I have left to lose?

[artirific234-blog]

Devoured World Idea.

i kinda wished that during Aqua's journey through the Realm of Darkness, we could have seen more of the worlds that fell to the darkness thanks to the Heartless, like Beast's Castle, Prankster's Paradise, The Grid (in a World Within-type of situation), Symphony of Sorcery, La Cite de Cloches, Country of the Musketeers, Pride Lands or Land of the Dragons; and see how the Darkness manage to twist these worlds due to the corruption it has inside too.

Like for example, having the entire of Beast's Castle world being twisted like how the Shadow Stalker/Dark Thorn did to the Ballroom

Like can someone imagine the same but not just the Ballroom, but the entire Castle AND the forest too?

Like the area would be like the Valley of the Dark, but much more frightening. Like the Dark Forest in Dwarf Woodlands, but much more organical and shadowy. Plus this would bring a new type of Pureblood Heartless based on the Wolves of the film too. It could even be like a parallel to what happened to Belle's world in Mirrorverse as well too:

Stellar Magic has transformed the Mirrorverse world of Beauty and the Beast into a place where the woods and wilderness are savage and dangerous, and where all manner of terrifying beasts claim the forests.

It would be like that, but theses beasts would be Purebleed Heartless themselves, in their hometurf too.

I feel that the Mirrorverse's desings of Gaston's pelt would make for good Wolf Heartless designs, since not only would they fit the Realm of Darkness aesthetic, but there can be much more dangerous like the dark hyde, only this time there won't be bosses, but just a wolfpack of Heartless too.

I feel that an area like that would be called: Castle of the Dark, or Where Beasts Dwell, or a name like that to fit with the Realm of Darkness's nature.

[agermanpotatoe]

Some old drawings I made of Aqua, drawing her the way I had imagined her after 12 years of being stuck in the Realm of Darkness. Ngl., I didn't like how she didn't change at all during that "time".

[corfidbizna]

KHIII Chapter 31 (Eng): https://www.mediafire.com/file/2yv0thqllh8pdl1/KH3_Ch31.zip/file Chapter List

We're saving Aqua now, apparently.

[keykidpilipili]

So...

What do you think a Kingdom Hearts Roguelike would look like?

I would like to preface this by saying that I only had an extremely vague of what qualifies as a rogue like and looked it up on wikipedia.

I don’t think the permadeath angle would work extremely well but hey the Mystery Dungeon genre started by Chunsoft featuring the pokemon and final fantasy chocobo spinoffs dont have permadeath. So it’s not that mandatory, it’s more the idea of being put back on floor 1 in their cases. Final Fantasy 14 also has special dungeons of this style in which you have to start over from floors 1/21/51 if your party dies.

In universe setting wise that would be a great way to explore the Realm of darkness again. 0.2 already featured the world drastically changing appearance and structure so the randomly generated floors would feel normal. Heck the devs could invent that some worlds stayed there for too long and the post KH1 reset wasn’t enough to resurface them. As of player resource management, Kingdom Hearts X chi limited the number of enemies you could attack each trip into the dark corridor trials unless you used an item. That’s what the beads of light bracelet was for, the white riding hood version of the organization coat being a item that refilled the beads. It could be expanded upon given hunger or sleep is not a thing in the rod.

[leo-x-u-raptor-fan]

King Mickey fighting the heartless in the realm of darkness ( I can't draw the keyblade and the Wayfinder) for a friend Aqua

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Forest of Thorns

[endlessskymaster]

Yes, Riku, you have been there before with Sora at the end of the KH2 manga.

[mythicalartistx]

KH Japanese Translations Part 3

Series where I discussed changes dialogue using correct translations that I found online

The first one is in the Realm of Darkness where Mickey and Riku are talking.

The scene in general confuses people because in the localization Riku makes a big reaction and says

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT

In the localization Mickey just tells Riku, Aqua is like Sora. It actually was Aqua looks like Sora which still is kinda confusing because he doesn't look like her?

But it would explain the reaction.

Mickey reassures him and then in this scene Riku says something,

"Okay, if you look like Sora, you'll feel safer."

However the English version does this, "Okay... Good. Then, I guess she's gonna be all right."

It completely takes away the fact he said Sora. Like why??

Why did you take that away?

Like is it because it's trying to hide something?

Then later in KH3 when you are saving everyone from defeat,

Namine says this:

Kairi is holding it up. Hurry and go.

Surely the fates of defeat can be changed.

However the English one makes Namine say,

It's because she is holding you together. Go.

Maybe that'll be enough to tip the scale in the other direction.

And that's kinda.. yeahhh it's very false and trying to be more romantic than the original line.

Like okay maybe she is a little bit, but it is Riku too since Riku is the light and all part of that lore.

But I don't understand why the English one has to make everything Hetero.

Part 1 - Various Translations KH2

Part 2: Incorrect Romance relationship

Part 0.5: Chikai translation is about Soriku

[holleighgram]

Shitty KH Canon Divergence #12

At the end of KH2, Sora and Riku arrive at the Dark Margin to see Aqua, Ansem the Wise, and the ghost/remnants of Riku Replica playing hangman in the sand.

[crowns-and-keys]

Trapped in Darkness AU

I know this pic is showing KH3 Sora and Riku, but the first thing I thought of was an AU where they don't escape to the realm of light at the end of KH2.

And Riku, who has more experience staving off or balancing out the dark with his light, is there for Sora as the environment forces his friend to confront his inner darkness while slowly trying to corrupt him.

Sora being aware of and trying to keep anti or rage form from Riku would definitely be a thing. Like, the boy accepted Riku as he paraded around in the Ansem ensemble. But having a form of darkness himself and potentially disappointing Riku of all people - there's no way!

Will post more for this if I can string thoughts together. Right now I'm just fumbling around with the "why are these two like this" phase.

[wombocombo4x3]

【SURFACE PRESSURE | Kingdom Hearts Animatic】 -「March Caprice 2023」