#sorry I’ve been gone I went on an epic quest and came back forever changed

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Shattered Crown Chapter 11

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Summary: After disaster strikes in Prince Roman's kingdom, he must go on a quest in order to take back the crown that is rightfully his. He will travel with three companions on an epic adventure, gaining many friends and enemies along the way. Those three companions are an intelligent inventor with a mysterious past, a cheerful wizard with a dark secret, and... the assassin who was sent to kill him two years prior.

Pairings: Logicality, Prinxiety

Word count: 3,835

Author's Notes: I don't have much to say about this one, honestly. I like how it turned out, there's just not much to talk about.

Three days had passed since the incident. Three days of the same exact thing, Roman lying in bed looking worse and worse every day, and Virgil sitting with him hoping he'd wake up.

On the first day, the day after it happened, there wasn't much of a change. He was still in the exact same condition.

On the second day, his breathing was getting more even, and his heartbeat was getting stronger. Logan, Patton, and especially Virgil thought things were looking up. But the day ended, and nothing happened.

The third day was the worst by far. There was barely a sign that Roman was even alive. Virgil held on to the small shred of hope that he had left, because Logan said it would take a week for anything permanent to happen.

Logan and Patton had been attending the festival every day. It was a nice distraction, sure, but it didn't do much to cheer them up in the long run. Because whenever they came back to their room, they'd be working as hard as they could to help Roman.

The sun rose on the morning of day four, and Virgil woke up in the same chair he hadn't moved from for the past three days. Logan and Patton were already awake.

"Morning." Virgil muttered, not bothering to look at them. He would usually have wished them a good morning, but this was most definitely not a good morning.

"Ah, Virgil. You're awake." Logan walked around to the other side of the bed so he could look at Virgil while he talked to him. "We wanted to ask you if he's made any progress, but you were asleep when we got back."

"Nope. Same as always." Virgil hadn't been sleeping at all for the past few days, the first rest he'd gotten was the previous night. And you could tell. His hair was tangled, he had dark circles under his eyes that were so intense they almost looked fake, and his voice was quiet at all times. "I really miss him."

"We all do, Virgil. We all do." Patton nodded, going to stand next to Logan and holding his hand.

"You guys just don't get it. I should've known that something was wrong, I should've done more to help, I should've-" Virgil cut himself off as tears started rolling down his face. "I should've done more."

"Virgil, you did everything you could." Logan assured him. "And there's still a chance he'll be okay."

"Well then someone's got to make it a bigger chance." Virgil scowled.

"We can't. I've already tried all my spells, Logan's read all about this, and you've been here with him the whole time." Patton told him. "We've been doing all we can."

"Don't be ridiculous, Patton!" Virgil shot him a glare. "We're not doing everything we can! We could be… we could be at least trying to find a cure for this! But no, apparently there isn't a cure! Yeah, I don't believe that for one second!"

Patton stood still, his eyes widening. That was the only time Virgil had raised his voice at him. Logan could obviously tell how Patton was feeling.

"This is hard on all of us, Virgil. But that's no reason for you to lash out at us for things we can't control." Logan glared at him.

Virgil took a moment to collect himself. "You're right…" He sighed. "I'm sorry, I'm just so tired, and I'm stressed, and I'm not in my right mind right now."

"It's okay, Virgil. I get it." Patton circled around the bed and stood next to Virgil's chair. "If this had happened to Logan so soon after we'd gotten together, I'd be just like you are now."

"Yeah, I know…" Virgil nodded. "I think I might just need some time alone."

Usually this would mean that Virgil would leave, but not in this case. Logan and Patton knew exactly what he meant, and left the room to go find something else to do.

Once Virgil heard the door close, he got out of the chair for the first time in days. But he didn't move very far. He stood by the edge of the bed.

Roman looked so normal, that if you hadn't heard about what happened you would've thought that he was just asleep. But Virgil couldn't believe that, no matter how hard he tried to.

He sat on the edge of the bed, with his back facing Roman. Everything was dead silent for a moment, before Virgil started talking.

"I don't think you can hear me. I don't even think you know I'm here. But if… if there's any chance that you can hear me, I just want to say I'm sorry." Virgil rubbed his eye to try to get rid of the tears that were forming. "I feel like, in a way, this is my fault. Because if I'd just said yes like I wanted to when you'd asked me to dance, you wouldn't have gone outside in the first place. But it's too late now, and there's nothing else we can do. Not even an antidote. But I promise, you're going to be okay. You have to be okay. And we're doing all we can to make sure you are."

Virgil heard a small, barely audible sound from behind him. He turned around to look at Roman, a spark of hope appearing in his heart. But that hope left almost as quickly as it had appeared. It seemed like all that had happened was that the prince had let out a particularly loud breath.

The assassin reached out to him and took his hand, happy to just hold it even if he knew Roman wasn't going to-

He felt the non-existent grip on his hand tighten the slightest bit, but only for a second before the weak hold went away. Almost like it never happened. But Virgil knew it did, and immediately brought his free hand up to his mouth as if that would stop the tears from escaping his eyes.

While the light squeeze wouldn't have meant more than just what it was to other people, to Virgil it reminded him of the night when Roman had gotten a nightmare. When Virgil had squeezed his hand. And what he'd said… 'I just wanted to let you know that I'm still here'.

Could… could Roman hear him? He didn't think it was possible, but how else was he supposed to explain that? There were probably actually a lot of other ways to explain that, but Virgil liked thinking that maybe Roman could hear him.

Hours later, Logan and Patton came back. They seemed to be deep into a conversation. At the sound of the door opening, Virgil looked up to see his friends.

"Virgil!" Logan leaned on the chair, which both he and Patton noticed Virgil wasn't sitting in. "Patton and I have been talking, and we have a plan for what our next step is going to be after Roman wakes up."

"Yeah? And what is it?" Virgil asked.

"So, you know how we don't know where the last relic is? The crown?" Patton began to explain.

"I do know that, yes. But if we don't know where it is, how are we going to find it without checking every kingdom in the area?" Virgil stood up from where he was sitting on the bed. "I mean, that would take months, maybe even a year."

"Yes, and we took that into consideration while forming this plan." Logan told him. "To further explain, I feel like looking at the map is necessary. You know where it is, right?"

"Yeah, hang on, I'll grab it." Virgil speed walked over to where his cloak was hanging on a hook and reached into a pocket on the inside, taking out Patton's journal and bringing it back over to the group. He opened it up to the map on the first page.

"Okay, so we've been here, here, and now here too." Logan pointed to each of the kingdoms they'd visited in order before pointing to the two other remaining ones. "We haven't been to either of these. Now, since this map is of every kingdom in the area, we know that one of these must be Roman's."

"I already know which one it is. This one." Patton pointed to the kingdom that was outlined in red (all of the different kingdoms were outlined in different colors). The other one was outlined in light blue. "The other one's mine."

"That makes sense, that makes sense…" Virgil seemed a bit lost in thought as Patton spoke, but as he replayed his words in his head, he was snapped back to reality. "Wait, yours?! What do you mean it's yours?"

"Did I say mine? I must've misspoken, it's not mine!" Patton laughed awkwardly, clearly trying to cover something up. Logan took his hand.

"Patton, I think you should tell him. We've come all this way, he deserves to know."

"But what if… what if it makes him hate me? What if it makes him hate me?" The first time Patton was addressing Virgil, but the second time he was talking about Roman.

"Come on guys, what is it? You're kind of freaking me out right now." Virgil tugged on his sleeve out of nervousness.

"Well, here goes nothing I guess…" Patton took a deep breath. "I am… Ethan's brother."

Virgil looked like he was preparing to say something, but froze suddenly. His eyes became a bright yellow for a single second before fading back to their normal color. He took a moment to collect himself before speaking again.

"I…" Patton held his breath, preparing himself for whatever Virgil was about to say, and fearing the worst. "Know. I know, I remember now."

"What? Did you already know?" Logan raised his eyebrow.

"No, I didn't… not until you said it, at least." Virgil shook his head. "But then you said it, and suddenly all these blank spots in my memory got filled in. Like when you're missing puzzle pieces, and finally find them after looking for them for forever."

"Oh my goodness!" Patton gasped. "The spell, it was the spell! Virgil, I don't know if you'll be able to remember this now, but when Ethan banished me, he cast a spell on the whole kingdom and made them forget that I existed. Were you there when he did that?"

Virgil thought for a good minute. "I think I was, yeah. I remember, you used to help cheer me up when he was being especially hard on me. You were my best friend."

"You really do have your memory back!" Patton clapped, smiling brightly. "This is- oh, wait, we got off track. We should get back on task, shouldn't we."

"Well, I suppose we do, but I was going to let you finish your thoughts." Logan told him.

"Oh, thank you." Patton smiled at him appreciatively. "But I was pretty much done anyway."

"Alright then, I guess we should get back to the task at hand." Logan directed the group's attention back to the map. "So anyway, as we were saying. The only two kingdoms we haven't checked are Patton's and Roman's. And Roman would know if he had the crown."

"But, since I was also a little affected by the memory spell, I wouldn't remember if it was in my kingdom or not." Patton finished for him. Virgil was surprised at how in sync they were.

"So we thought we would check for the crown there." They finished the thought together.

"Sounds good." Virgil said after hearing the whole thing. "But… as much as I hate to even begin to think about this, we have to have a plan for… if Roman doesn't wake up."

"We still go back." Patton answered simply. "We can't just let Ethan get what he wants. We'll defeat him, and rule the kingdom ourselves. It's what Roman would want."

"Yes, that does make the most logical sense." Logan agreed.

Virgil nodded. "So it's decided. We've got a plan A, and a plan B. I'd say we're prepared."

"I think we should get some more supplies. Like food and stuff." Patton said.

"Tomorrow. It's getting late, we should get some rest." Logan pointed to the window. The sun was already setting. Virgil opened his mouth to protest, but Logan stopped him. "You have to sleep, Virgil. I understand that you've had trouble doing so since Roman hasn't been here, but that doesn't change the fact that you have to try."

"Fine." Virgil muttered.

"Wonderful. Now, really this time, we need to go to sleep." Logan insisted.

Logan and Patton shared a bed, and Virgil used his own. But he still didn't move the chair away from Roman's bed. He was planning on going back there when he woke up.

The next morning, Virgil woke up to Logan and Patton already being gone. He saw a note stuck to the door, written in Patton's messy handwriting that he recognized from the journal. The note read:

'Went out for supplies! Be back soon. -Patton'

Virgil took the note off of the door and threw it away. He'd already read it, there was no use in keeping it there. And after that he sat down in the chair, just as he had every morning for the past four days. He realized he'd forgotten to tell Patton and Logan about what Roman had done while they were gone. But he didn't see why he had to, it was probably insignificant anyway.

Roman was completely inactive, as usual. And Virgil was really tired, even though he'd slept the previous night, and the night before. Two nights of sleeping didn't make up for the three nights he'd spent awake. So he figured he might as well just sleep for a little while. He closed his eyes and tried to clear his mind. But when he was just about to fall asleep, something woke him up quicker than he'd ever been woken up before.

"Virgil…?" He heard a small, quiet voice from nearby. He opened his eyes to see Roman, looking as if he'd just woken up from a long nap. The prince was leaning on his elbows to hold himself up, his eyes only half open. "What… what happened?"

"Roman…" Virgil almost couldn't believe what he was seeing. Roman was awake. He was awake, and alive, and okay. Tears of joy appeared in Virgil's eyes. He launched himself at Roman and hugged him tightly, tucking his head under his chin. He didn't want to let go ever again. "I love you so, so much."

"I know, I love you too…" Roman sat up a little more and wrapped his arms around Virgil. "I don't remember anything from after we started  to go back to the castle… all I remember is feeling really light-headed."

"You were poisoned, and you wouldn't wake up for a while, but I really hoped everything would be okay. And now… now it is." Virgil explained briefly, closing his eyes.

"How long was I like that?" Roman asked, running a hand through Virgil's hair.

"Four days. I missed you a lot. I didn't sleep for the first couple nights." Virgil told him.

"Four days…" Roman repeated. It hadn't felt like that long at all. His tired brain was still trying to process all of this. He looked around the room, noticing the absence of two people who he thought would've been there. "Where are Logan and Patton?"

"Getting supplies for when we leave the kingdom. They should be back in a bit." Virgil thought about how happy Logan and Patton would be when they got back.

"Okay… Do you think it would be alright if I got up? Maybe walked around a little bit?" Roman asked.

"I don't know. You just woke up, so you might be a little unsteady, but there's no way to fix that if you don't at least try to get up." Virgil let go of Roman and moved back a little bit, but still held his hand, because he didn't want to let go entirely just yet.

Roman turned himself so he was sitting on the bed with his legs hanging off the side. He stood up, wincing as he did. Virgil stood up immediately after that happened. He wrapped Roman's arm around himself and his own arm around Roman's waist, so he could support him.

"Sorry about this." Roman said, referring to Virgil needing to support him. "I'm just feeling really sore, and dizzy for some reason."

"It's probably just a side effect of the poison, mixed with all the stress we've been dealing with." Virgil tried to explain. "And it's fine, I don't really mind it anyway. This way I'm close enough to you to do this."

Virgil propped himself up on his toes to make himself just a little bit taller and kissed Roman's cheek. The prince smiled lovingly at him.

"What was that for?" He asked.

"Because I love you, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do anything like that anymore." Virgil answered.

"Well you don't have to worry about that. Because I promise, I'm not going anywhere." Roman kissed his boyfriend's forehead. Then Virgil looked away from him.

"Good. I don't know what I would've done if you didn't wake up." He sighed, rubbing one of his eyes. It became clearer to Roman that Virgil had stressed himself out again, and was trying to hold back tears.

"Come on Virgil. I'm right here, you don't even have to think about any of that anymore." Roman brought his free hand up to Virgil's face and gently turned his head so he'd look at him. Virgil still didn't meet his eyes.

"I know, I know… it's just that I've been alone for so long. And not alone like there was no one around. Alone like no one wanted to be around. I had nothing." Virgil closed his eyes, trying and failing to keep the tears at bay. "But now I have everything I've ever wanted. And I thought I was going to lose it. I thought I was going to lose you."

"You are never going to lose me." Roman pulled Virgil into a hug, holding him tightly. "I promise that no matter what, I will always be here."

"How can you be so sure?" Virgil muttered.

Roman sighed. "I can't. It's that simple, really. But I'm absolutely positive about the fact that I'll never leave you if it's up to me. I love you."

"What did I do to deserve you?" Virgil pulled away from him a little bit, looking into his eyes.

"I could ask you the same exact thing." He smiled. "I'm so lucky to have met you."

"You're perfect." Virgil gave him a quick kiss on the lips.

"Are you feeling better?" Roman let him go, but Virgil only stepped away a little bit.

"Yeah." Virgil nodded. "What about you?"

He shrugged. "Physically? Not even a little. But emotionally? Absolutely."

Virgil was about to start talking again when they heard the door open. They both looked over to see who it was. Logan and Patton walked in, talking to each other quietly, but stopped in their tracks when they saw the scene in front of them.

An array of different emotions crossed their faces. Surprise, confusion, and finally, unmistakable overwhelming joy (in Patton's case at least. Logan's happiness was a bit more relaxed, but you could still tell that it was there).

"Roman!" Patton had dropped the bags he was carrying.

"You're awake?" Logan asked, his voice a mix of happiness and disbelief.

"Yeah, I'm awake." Roman nodded. "It's been a while, hasn't it."

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Buncha Anon Questions

A buncha anon questions I’ve gotten in the last couple months, most under the cut. If you’ve asked something, it’s probably here! If it’s not, I probably deleted it or didn’t receive it. Most of these are comments, unneeded opinions, or stuff that’s been covered before (but probably awhile ago). Deleted questions include: “what skill is good on X medal", pretty much all questions about iKairi2 (so many...), “when will Y be released”, and outdated questions.

Thanks for updating the blog :) we've missed you

Good luck on finals and everything else! 🎉

You do the lord's work with your blog. Thank you.

Thank you so much for running this blog. You've made it so much easier for this newbie to figure out the ropes and keep track of events. It is greatly appreciated.

This blog saves my life! 😊❤️👑💙

Hi, just wanted to say great job about the blog, I pretty much follow religiously :)

Thank you and you’re welcome! I do my best. ovo7

Are you gonna do your update for the week? I'm lost without your expert guidance. 

Are you gone forever? :(

No one can Defeat Me!!!

so, what's your opinion of Global's anniversary?

Kinda sucked, but iKairi2 was guaranteed so I don’t really care. ;D

Is it worth it to buy any of the returning avatar boards that have the Illustrated medals? 3K for a guilted epic doesn't seem bad but I want to make sure. Also, what if we already bought one of the sets? Would it make since to get the other 4 medals for 1.5K? Thanks

Hi! You wrote that the old board are not really worthwhile, and normally I would agree... but here's the reason I'm still considering it. I have the Cloud board, and the Halloween Donald (male). If I buy they other halves, that could mean with a lucky roll 12 to my Nova. Or 2... Both of them are coming later, so I have a lot of time to decide, but I would be interested in your opinion, as since I found your site, I followed the advices here, and so far, it was worth it :)

iCid/iAerith/iYuffie are Tier 2, not Tier 3(/epic), so not worthwhile. There’s plenty of multitarget light magic (HT Donald) and power (HT Goofy), so those also aren’t worthwhile.

Hey, I was wondering if you have any advice with regards to using gems. I've got all of the available keyblades (minus Sleeping Lion) to +25. Do you recommend leveling one up to +30, or spreading the gems around? Are there any keyblades you recommend more than others - like Counterpoint over Three Wishes or something? I'm just kind of unsure what to do with my gems since they seem so hard to come by.

Hi! Thanks to your excellent advice about saving electrum ore, I was able to take Counterpoint all the way up to level 25. I have 35 ores left over, and I'm wondering if I should go ahead and use them on Sleeping Lion since the proud mode quests that use Sleeping Lion are the only ones I haven't gotten the electrum from. Or is the next Proud Mode keyblade worth saving for again. What's up next and approximately how long until it's available? Thanks!

I’d suggest focusing on two Keyblades (I’m going for TT and DR). Regarding the Proud Mode Keyblades, they are generally better than their story counterparts--if you have the medals for them, if not they’re worse. (IE: Counterpoint and Sleeping Lion may be equivalent, but Counterpoint is loads better than Sleeping Lion for f2p b/c of the super lack of light speed medals.) But you also need Solar Gems for Proud+ Quests, which can be very difficult to get for most f2p; you don’t need Magic/Speed/Power Gems until LV27. Fenrir is coming soon, so I think it’s more worthwhile than Sleeping Lion. :3c

I'm sorry, I know you've probably answered this before, but now that I have Illust Kairi 1 and 2, how should they go together in your deck? As close to the beginning of it as possible, right? I have 2 in all of my decks at the moment, but 1 only in some of them because I don't have enough CP otherwise.

Depends on your deck and your needs. I have iKairi1/iKairi2 in my first two slots of TT, as I don’t have another good dark power medal to put there. But iKairi2 tends to be later in my deck on other Keyblades, in the weakest boost slot. Just depends on what medals you have and stuff.

is it worth me to save jewels for HD namine if it's a mercy deal even if i may only have enough for 1 3 orb medal and if that's the case is it worth spending 2+ broom medals on her

HD Namine’s only worthwhile if you have another good medal to support it. I wouldn’t suggest it for most f2p at this time.

Any idea what's supposed to be next for na? I wanna get more medals but i'm not sure if i want to wait or not.

Nobody really knows, man. I’d say save your jewels until something shows up you can’t resist. We don’t get many jewels in NAUX, so restraint is important.

Do we also benefit from the traits of Shared Medals?

Ye

Does that mean brooms replace magic mirrors on the boards?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They’ll be at the end of boards, so maybe, maybe not.

Would you guys say the MDG tier 5 VIP medal is worth it? If guilted? Or are there going to be more VIP medal quests soon?

I’ll never suggest a VIP medal, as this is a f2p blog. They’re all good, strong medals. Most of them have been from JP High Score events, so don’t really know what medals are going to come into VIP.

I had a medal I was trying to add a trait to. Peter Pan 6*, gullted with 46% bonus. I evolved a 5* peter pan that already had one dot on it. I go a little pop up asking if I wanted to try and raise the percentage and that it'd go up between 20-50% and that it wouldn't drop below the current 46%. So I did it, the numbers pun but it stayed as 46%??? Is this a glitch??

There’s no guarantee that the guilt will go up, only that it won’t lower. The 20%~50% is the RANGE the guilt could end up. So it’s not 46%+(20%~50%), it’s 46%~50% (current%~max%). Peter Pan is a Tier 2 medal. Tier 2 medal’s guilt range is 20%~50%, which means it can never be more than 50% guilt.

Amiduos Lite didn't let me download the game; the google play store told me it wasn't compatible. :'( Is it worth trying the Pro one too in case something is backwards for me?

Hey, I downloaded AMIDuOS LITE and it said the version wasnt compatible. Is their a guide out there?

Try downloading NA KHUX via qooapps, be sure you have all 3 google store things downloaded or w/e. PRO didn’t work at all for me, but it’s a free trial, so doesn’t hurt to try.

Should I strengthen Moogle O'Glory and Cinderella's Keyblade the most I can? Like, 25+ or so. Thank you.

Yeah, you should get all your Keyblades to LV25. If you struggle with adamant, I suggest neglecting Starlight.

Is it possible to still get Moana/Maui medals? Beauty and Beast ones?

No. NAUX hasn’t had any event medals return yet, but JP has, so there’s a small chance they’ll be available again in the future. But definitely not right now.

I went ahead and did 10-pulls to get two copies of Illustrated Kairi 2 since people have mentioned how it's best to have her guilted for the proud quest missions. Will she be that much help during those missions though?

Set damage is niiiice against things with high LV, and with guilt rules on many of the Proud Quests, her PSM+/- can also give you a nice boost.

Hi there, a thought/question just occurred to me about traits. Do you know if have the extra attack trait on a booster medal would allow you to stack any stat gains? (E.g. essentially making a gen str +3 become +6)

Boosters with double attack double benefit, yes! It’s super OP on medals like iKairi1.

The app doesn't only crash when viewing profiles. It also crashes whenever the download for the new update is finished. Sucks af >.> Can't enter the game

Hello there! I tried coming back to KHUx after months, and it is not running in MEmu (android emulator) anymore. What happened? I could play it before....

The new update should have fixed most people’s crashing games. Emulators other than amiduos lite haven’t worked since... October or earlier? It’s an anti-hacking measure.

Apparently there was a secret reward for defeating (tapping) all the heartless on the download screen. Have you heard anything about this?

Sounds fake.

At this point in time i should just give up on ever seen the experiment 626 medal on naux since it was a tier 2 event medal that never came?

They’ve buffed event medal tiers in the past, so not completely out of the question he might show up eventually. Or not. Who knows.

to make up for the sins of not giving kairi as much development as she deserved, kairi's khux medals are Buffed so theyre Stronk (this is joke i have no idea why theyre doing this)

eyyyy, probably.

You should change your username to crossunion for the release of the new game!

yells nO D;

I am confused by the Fantasia Mickey medals, what do they do?

Fantasia Mickey A = use to evolve 5* to 6*, Fantasia Mickey B = get a multiplier dot.

Do more dots give you a higher percentage of a better guilt

No

Does using nova counts towards the multipliers of medals that get stronger the more special attacks used in succession, like sephiroth or xenmas?

I dunno, but probably. :0 It counts as a medal for everything else.

I was told that after I beat story quest 200 I will be able to use the Nova attack. I have passed this level now but I still have no Nova attack. Is there something I'm missing or is it a glitch in my game?

You need to actually have a medal guilted for a Nova attack (now it’s quest 34).

What are your thoughts on Magic Mirror usage? Would it be better to use Magic Mirrors to max out guilt on a bunch of medals that won't be used to get +5 to Nova or use them to max out guilt on a good medal that will only be used on a keyblade or two?

Will your Nova level drop if you sell your guilted medals?

Do you think it's worthwhile to spend one or two mirrors to top off a metal even if its teir 1/2 just to get the Nova bonus.

I prefer to just use them to get +5 Nova when something rolls 90% or better. Nova level will never decrease, you don’t lose it if you sell them. I’d suggest getting MAX guilt first, though. For Tier 1/2, if it’s less than 5 mirrors, probably wouldn’t hurt.

What does the raid boss up Perk do exactly? A party member had a +10 raid boss outfit and it took him 77-78 heartless killed to spawn a boss which is the usual amount. Don't tell me it increases the chances of regular bosses spawning over omegas.

I have no idea. I think it may provide a small random chance if it appearing w/o needing the actual heartless count. But it’s certainly not consistent. :T 

What is the difference between GD and PSM? Are they stackable?

It’s vague what the difference is, they’re roughly equivalent (Gen seems better for higher LV enemies and PSM better for lower LV enemies). They can definitely stack. Gen will boost any medal (that’s not set damage). PSM will only boost whatever element it is (Power, Speed, or Magic) and won’t affect type-neutral medals (Jack Skellington, Repliku, etc.)... but DOES affect type-strong medals (WOFF, Xigbar B, etc.) only with whatever element it’s strong against. (IE: Power+ will only boost Xigbar B if it’s against a Speed enemy.)