#regularpat

[recusant-s-sigil]

KINGDOM HEARTS FANS!!

RegularPat needs your help! He's recently released a survey about the narrative importance of games in the series and requests that you fill it out. Here's a link to the survey, and here's a link to the community post he made about it on YouTube.

[thetrashthatsmilesback]

Sora, who has murdered people and then laughed about it (maleficent, shan yu, floatsom and jetsum, sinking several ships of actual humans in the Caribbean though to be fair this one IS kh3) when grabbed by two people lightly on the shoulders: this is so unfriendly!

[agentperezbian]

Nomura: Kingdom Hearts isn't going to go on forever and I want to retire someday

Every KH YouTube video title in the last 24 hours: KINGDOM HEARTS IS OVER!!!1

[fisherrprince]

where’s that post that’s like unfortunately I think “ill kill you” is the funniest response to anything. I gotta stop having the ill kill you response to things that mildly shock/annoy me I have to stop saying this

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

kh3 had the fucking nort court and people still insisted it was a bad game

[baladiumdrive]

breathe air? I hardly know her

[kairithemang0]

one of my favorite creators got shat on because he's making "Low effort content" which is the biggest bullshit ever because the stuff that is apparently cash grabby is some of his best stuff because it's clear he loves the series. i would rewatch the video on the best chests in every kh world video again GLADLY. it's great. ily regularpat.

[punkitt-is-here]

I was just watching a RegularPat vod and it gave me whiplash being slightly zoned out and hearing him say your name.

LMAO yeah im a huge regularpat fan, i do a ton of fanart and I've been around since I think his first year of doing KH stuff. if you watch vods you'll tend to hear my name get mentioned a lot!

[tennelleflowers]

you got me hyper fixated on kingdom hearts and I don't know where to go from here. Can you maybe give advice for how to expand on the basics?

I've gotten a few requests to share videos and such, so consider this my answer: Best place is to play the games! And be sure to read the journal! After that, there's a lot to sink your teeth into if you want to know more, like reading the Ultimania's, Character Files, and Novels.

The Manga's are also cute, but generally considered less canon than the novels, for example.

Plus there are DECADES worth of interviews, I recommend using KHInsider as they are a great source :https://www.khinsider.com/dark-seeker-saga (You can click on the game you want to know more about and then look at Interviews, but they also have promo art on there and just a bunch of stuff)

There's also this great playlist made by GamerSpice of CHOICE KH videos, you'll find all my videos there but also all of Howler's vids and SRT vids as well as others: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLROrAtfTLrh6njOkpzREkZXXvCcINa8iO SuperButterBuns has made fantastic KH videos in her "For Beginners" series, RegularPat makes great content all around discussing the games, Damo279 has great videos covering the mobile games, BioRoxas has great videos breaking down the combat of the games, PlayFrame has a couple of great videos talking about how great the animation in KH is ( https://youtu.be/Z8aygr-1xAA), and of course I gotta recommend hanging out in Niku's streams where they talk about KH on the reg: https://www.twitch.tv/nikutsune (You can also watch their vods here: https://www.youtube.com/@nikustreamarchive ) There's so many people I could also recommend following for their art or metas like @blowingoffsteam2, Kipper on twitter (https://twitter.com/kicktwine), @smovs, @nicedracula, jiji on twitter (https://twitter.com/isleofji), aaannd damn there's just so many...

you can also follow my KH-blog @khllentxene, where I reblog a lot of stuff so that's a good way to start following other cool people.

IT'S A LOT! And also doesn't include everything and everyone I could mention, but I think it'll at least give you a good jumping in point!

[keykidpilipili]

RegularPat's DDD world ranking mentioning the idea of a carrousel Pinocchio coachman boss fight with the donkeys snowballed into my incorporation of him into Destiny Islands Folklore the way Santa is. Because he kinda is anti-santa and the idea of the carrousel turning into a sled for some part of the boss phase sounds cool.

Sora: Hmmm wait this reminds me of that horror story at home but that can't be right?

Sora half an hour later seeing partially donkied Pinochio: THE EVIL COACHMAN IS REAL?! AND RIKU WAS WRONG AGAIN!

[verathena14]

i keep forgetting to crosspost this 💀

anyways. soriku gmv. with a 7-minute song. this took me SO long. the wayfinder project was my lifesaver in making this, thank you regularpat!

[thetrashthatsmilesback]

The best part of "a musical for everyone to have a lot of finny fun" is how much Sora looks like he wants to kill himself in the background

[marchcapricekh]

Up Next: RegularPat hosts our annual favorite: Oddly-specific Kingdom Hearts Skribblio, with a bonus Blooket beforehand!

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

sometimes i rewatch regularpat's kh3 trailers video and im so glad that after Aqua Gets Norted i stopped watching them because they literally spoiled EVERYTHING

[majorsomethingdisorder]

REGULARPAT UPLOAD NO LONGER MENTAL ILLNESS

[yzafre]

Okay, wait. I have. A LOT to say about this particular day.

Because this wasn't immediate! He didn't immediately jump to ice cream. He went and talked to Axel and Xion first and that progression of events is Very Interesting, for what it says about each of the characters.

First he goes to Axel, because he doesn't understand what a vacation is. Roxas has never had a day that wasn't planned for him. The idea of... coming up with your own wishes, your own wants, it's not something he's really been... allowed.

(Except ice cream. Except time with his friends. We'll get back to that.)

Axel, when Roxas asks, says he's going to sleep. Which is. Very fitting, on a number of levels.

Firstly, though I'm not sure exactly how old Axel is (they treat them all like semi-peers with a mentoring relationship, but also he might be 25? Kingdom Hearts does not play well with linear time). Regardless, anyone in the span of ages he might be would absolutely respond like that. A day off? Hell yeah, I'm going to sleep in! He's the only one who remembers what it's like to be human, and he responds in a manner fitting of that.

On a deeper level, though... like, I've seen jokes about Axel disassociating (that one RegularPat clip), but he does kind of like to... avoid things! In Roxas's words, he "doesn't like things to be complicated". And, well. A lot of people will use sleep as a sort of... "off" button for life.

Roxas gets left behind so Axel can continue to avoid his problems, so he goes to Xion.

Xion, while also a bit baffled by the concept of a vacation, has already decided what she wants. She's going to spend her day practicing with the Keyblade, and invites Roxas to join her.

When given free time, Xion keeps fighting. And there are... so many levels to that!

See, she's already lost and re-gained her Keyblade, at this point. She's had to stare straight into the face of the fact that, to the Organization, she's disposable. She was literally one day off from getting discovered.

Xion struggles with her identity and value in a way Roxas doesn't - not yet, and even then, I think for him it comes from a different direction. So, practicing with the Keyblade, being good at it, means she has Value, and by having value she is Safe. To an extent.

Also, uh. She's naturally just a bit more... aggressive? Violent? Cut-throat? None of those are quite the right words, but she has sharper edges then Roxas. She's quicker to use threats and fighting as a solution to her problem or outlet for her feelings (see: pulling her Keyblade on Roxas later in the game when he tries to bring her home. Baiting Roxas into a fight so he'll destroy her. When she doesn't want to hurt Axel in kh3, and Sora gets in the way and she goes "oh! Someone I won't feel bad swinging wildly at!" and goes ham).

So yes, she has some extra time, and she's going to get better at fighting, and at using the one tool that makes her Usefull. Valuable.

Roxas, notably... turns her down.

He turns down an invitation from his friend! Because, even though he doesn't know what he wants yet, he is able to realize what he doesn't want.

He doesn't want to fight. He doesn't want to practice with the Keyblade.

That's interesting. He obviously doesn't mind all combat, because he's seen to enjoy struggle tournaments in kh2, but in this context - he doesn't want it. So he walks away.

And THIS is the point we see the scene above. He's had time to sort of sit in his feelings, and now he's thinking about it again. What does he want?

And thus, we get all the conclusions storm-driver made above. All those deeper meanings, in someone who can't communicate them yet.

"He is barely 4 months old, and he knows EXACTLY what he wants," indeed.

we deserved a days remake