#screaming about kh

[xhda1449x]

OMG

it wasn't 13 Xehanorts VS 7 Soras. It was 13 Xehanorts VS Sora and his friends........

that's from the great "why kingdom hearts matters" video I can't open youtube right now so I won't tell you who made it but it's amazing

but they're RIGHT. Xehanort is essentially alone at the end. Completely alone, except for his clones who ARE HIM. So he might as well be on his own

but Sora, aka the "I don't need a weapon, my friends are my power" protagonist, literally did the unthinkable and brought EVERYONE back just based on the connection he had with them. His greatest power comes from his friendships with everyone. And he even defeats Xehanort, not alone but with the help of everyone he helped save

Idk I just think it's interesting

[firestorm09890]

today I learned that Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days has rings that represent each Organization member so I'm going to list them for easy convenience (English name then Japanese name)

Xemnas: Nothing to Fear/Beyond the Nothingness

Xigbar: Space in Its Place/Shaking of Space-time

Xaldin: Flagging Winds/Wings of the Wind

Vexen: Ice Breaker/Smiles of Ice and Snow

Lexaeus: Down to Earth/Sorrows of the Earth

Zexion: Lose Your Illusion/Temptations of Illusion

Saïx: Sighing of the Moon

Axel: Tears of Flame/Tears of Crimson

Demyx: Parting of Waters/Rolling of the Sea

Luxord: Test of Time/Stillness of Eternity

Marluxia: Flowers Athirst/Grief of the Lotus

Larxene: Stolen Thunder/Roaring of Thunder

Roxas: Dying of the Light/Yearning for the Light

WAAAAAAAAUGH WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE TITLES?!! sorrows... grief... yearning... these bitches sad!!! ice and snow are cold killers, but isn't that eternal sleep so inviting? can't you hear the celestial bodies themselves sighing? do you feel the way the wind and waves carry on without a care for what it might destroy? when the sky is angry and destructive instead, do you listen? what about when life and blood and fire and the planet itself screams and cries with a terrible pain?

does space-time shake because it knows you shouldn't be here? what lies beyond nothing, anyway? where does your mind go as you wait forever in utter stillness to find out?

don't you wish you could live in the beautiful visions you see?

don't you feel hungry for all that you wish you had?

[serenedash]

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)

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

FUCKING

REWATCHING CUTSCENES (AS USUAL) AND REALIZED THAT WHEN RIKUS ABOUT TO DIVE INTO SORAS HEART, HES LITERALLY IN THE EXACT SAME POSE AS PRINCE PHILLIP WHEN HE WAS WAKING AURORA (BENT DOWN ON RIGHT KNEE WHILE LEFT ARM RESTS ON LEFT KNEE)

AND THE SHOT IS FRAMED THE SAME WAY TOO???????

ADDITIONALLY,

(IMAGE SOURCE)

HELLO????? HELLO?????????????????

[masterfuldoodler]

girlbossed too hard.... unless...

[ok4ru]

What if they're Gothic fashion in Scala and Brain is so happy that Ephemer and his bloodline got into some nice fashion for once then learns that it's not called Gothic and something stupid like "Steampunk E-core fashion" even though it's CLEARY Gothic and Brain is so upset about it they just want to cry.

[scalacaelumx]

"Don't upset the order," huh? That's what we were taught too.

Day 3 of KHtober

[yoroshiu]

There's something so cruel about how Sora had to carry the weight of multiple people's feelings alongside his own.

We, as people, already struggle to handle our emotions but imagine feeling two, or three, or four or more people's emotions as well. Like in Dream Drop, imagine taking in Roxas's grief and trauma within a single moment. Or feeling Ventus's own urges to save his friends throughout KH3. It's not shown as much with Xion or Vanitas, but I'd like to imagine that he felt echoes of what they felt in waves. And heck, while we're at it, how about anyone who was in his heart for some time, like Kairi.

Even if Sora wasn't feeling all of those feelings constantly, could you imagine being just overfilled with others' memories and the emotions they felt directly as if it was you experiencing it?

I think about that moment with Roxas a lot and remain in awe that Sora could keep moving forward after that. That game had him getting hit with a barrage of people and emotions, and he still kept fighting until it literally broke his heart enough to make him susceptible to being possessed by darkness.

That one quote from Xigbar about putting too much power (or in this case, feelings) in one place might break it haunts me in my dreams.

[storm-driver]

kh4 fanfic scenario where roxas somehow manages to meet up with subject x and she calls him ventus over and over, but every time roxas tries to correct her, she sinks a little further into denial, insisting he must remember his past and the sacrifice he made for them.

and roxas, not really knowing who ventus is besides having a close tie to sora, has to start putting pieces together himself since the wayfinder family is in the realm of darkness

[kutyozh]

WORST PARASOCIAL CRUSH EVER

[qourmet]

drawing gula thinking about how the foretellers have parallels to the seven sins WHATEVER and how people keep drawing conclusions to luxu being Lust in this equation but i had an epiphany and MAYBE this has been discussed already, idk i try to stay away from kh lore because it's all Ridiculous, anyways luxu isn't fucking!! lust! lux means GLORY! glory falls in line with PRIDE! which means the Master of Masters would default to Lust and my ass is over here, looking and carding through all the synonyms of Lust, digging through latin dictionaries trying to find some way to connect the anagram DEMY to it im SO fucking convinced demyx is the master of masters at this point

[lostandbackagain]

you guys ever wake up evil

[yzafre]

The longer I think about Coded's story, the weirder it gets to me, especially the Castle Oblivion arc. I didn't really care about it for a long time because it didn't actually impact the character arcs of the Original versions, and the data characters weren't set up to come back ever, so What Was The Point, but - but -

When I actually sit down to look at what's happening, it just gets Weird. And reveals some interesting things about the characters in a strange, sideways-direction.

Like... You've got an imprint of KH1!Sora, constructed by the Disney crew, in this extended stand-off with an imprint of KH2!Roxas, being master-minded by an imprint of Namine, both of whom were presumably pressed into the journal during the prologue-week when she had access to Roxas's data.

Which, there's my first point: Namine, what the fuck. She felt she needed to pass on a message, okay, but like... Okay. Okay, so if we just had the CO segment, then we could say this is, like... just a recording of her. Don't think about it too much. Except, the first arc was sort of showing that these data-versions are/become their own people. With their own hearts?

So, for someone who has angst about just being a shadow of someone else, to then purposefully create an offshoot, that's just supposed to be a shadow of herself.... Huh.

That's not even getting into the Roxas copy. Because what. WHAT.

Like, she made a copy of Roxas at his worst emotional state to help her in driving a point home to Sora. That's... hm. She needed help, but also that cannot be fun for this poor guy. (Don't get me wrong, I love Namine, but I love her as well-intentioned but distinctly flawed in execution, like everyone running around during the Days time-period)

And if I'm right about when she grabbed his data, then this is a Roxas who never saw Axel come try to find him, never saw Axel die. Because, okay, okay. Here's what real-world Roxas has by the time he confronts Sora at the end of KH2:

Saw Axel try to get him back, even if in a very questionable way and he had no idea what was going on at the time

Got a sort of closure with his friend with that fight (and, like "see you in the next life", did he think Axel was actually dying there?)

Possibly seen Axel doing... something? In the background through Sora's eyes?

Definitely saw Axel die for Sora, which is implicated to wake him up and prompt their confrontation

Also seen... everything Sora's done. All his friends, the worlds he's touched, the things he's done.

All this colors that final fight in KH2. But this Roxas. This Roxas presumably copied from before all that. He's just. Stuck there, in that horrible moment.

That's such an interesting what-if! What if Roxas really got to rail against Sora in person, and speak all the bitterness that was festering at the worst point in his life. Absolutely no catharsis of any type before he walked in - no seeing his best friend again, no symbolic end-of-vacation, just... this. An empty white space, and the guy everyone wanted more.

And he's so aware of being data. A copy of a copy. Like, Namine, I know you've internalized DiZ's propaganda on nobodies and turned it into a weird self-destructive peace, seemingly passing that on to your imprint, but this guy has not, and he is not handling it well.

And sure, here he gets some kind of resolution with Sora in the end - but it's not even a Sora that matches up with him!

Because! Okay! In KH2 Sora and Roxas are sort of, like, on the same track in the story. They've been alive through the same events, been impacted by the same-ish people. Sora is missing a lot of pieces, but he's aware of the Organization and Nobodies, and... honestly, he's in an entirely different mental & emotional state than he started in.

But this Sora? This is KH1 Sora! Younger! Has accumulated much less baggage! His real-world corollary may not have even reached the point where Roxas is a thing, if that makes sense!

So you've got an echo of Roxas at his most ragged, who hasn't gotten any of the things that helped real-world!Roxas to start processing things, versus an imprint of Sora at his freshest - his brightest, you could say.

It's just.... it's just such a strange "what-if" story, you know? In the end, data-Sora makes a very mature choice regarding hurt, and this version of Roxas gets... some kind of closure, thank god, but...

Well, for me, I wonder if this really accomplishes what Namine thinks it accomplishes? She wanted to see if Sora was ready to handle the 'hurt' of everyone connected to him. But, the Sora that made this decision... is not the Sora that will be making in the real world. They may share the same... base personality, soul, if you will, but a huge point of CoM is that memories make up so much of who you are. Your experiences change you, even subconsciously. So, the Sora stepping into KH3... Would he reach the exact same conclusion as data-Sora? Or would it be... slightly to the left?

I don't know. I don't know! I don't think my thoughts on this game have really solidified yet. The whole set-up is just so weird, it exists in this weird space where it has such little impact on the main arc of the series, I sometimes have to just sit and turn it around in my head. What does it tell us about the characters? Or maybe, what does it tell us about the themes of this world? I don't really know. Sure is interesting, though.

[ruerock]

🧸 ?

[raepritewrites]

Anyone wanna come scream at me in my ask box? I'm home sick might as well make the most of it

[inevitablesurrender]

Dub good.  Good dub good.  Dub.  Good.  Yes.

Next week’s will kill me.