#strelitizia kh

[end-alls]

Long Dream

Fandom: Kingdom Hearts

Characters: Sora, Yozora, Strelitizia, Riku

Rating: T

Length: 3.5K

Summary:

Sora lives and works in Quadratum, and his life is fine except when it isn't.

[Read the fic here]

[moeyesmoart]

I noticed an old drawing from 2020 getting notes again so I figured I would do a redraw :3

[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

[transexuality]

kairi naminé xion aqua i will save you all from being female kingdom hearts characters

[mothsimonpendragon]

Minor spoilers for Missing Link btw

What’s up with the whole twin thing in KHML?

So for anyone not in the know, in the Missing Link Beta we were introduced to two characters named Remus and Freya

The weird thing about them is their names. Both are from mythology, and both names come from a set of twins.

Remus is from the Roman myth about Romulus and Remus, the twins responsible for the founding of Rome.

Freya on the other hand is a Norse goddess with a twin brother named Freyr.

It can’t be a coincidence that Nomura named both of these characters after mythological twins. I’m curious to see where exactly the story is going with this. Aside from Strelitizia and Lauriam from Union X, there haven’t been any characters with siblings that we know of.

I’m also interested in what these names mean for these characters. Especially since if you know Roman mythology, Remus is killed by his twin brother. I know Nomura isn’t always faithful with mythology based names for his characters, look at Dark Road if you want an example, but it’s still interesting to think about.

I saw someone else suggest this, but one theory is that the twin stuff in ML will connect back to Luxu and Brain. We still don’t understand what this ending in Union X means:

Everything from Luxu possessing Brain, to this just being Brain taking on the mantle of Luxu’s apprentice has been proposed as plausible theories.

However, one theory is that this is just Luxu, and he happens to look exactly like Brain for some unknown reason. So the idea is that the twin references in Missing Link are harkening back to this idea, and implying that Brain and Luxu are twins in some capacity.

Idk, I think the idea has merit.

I’m just curious to see exactly what kind of story Nomura cooked up for Missing Link. The last two mobile KH games were absolutely crazy when it came to story.

[cassioppenny]

you put some of my current interests on here so i was like heyyyy prgmaker games heyyy kingdom hearts

AAAAYYY NICE i love kh a lot when strelitzia my blorbo from the mobile game no one else cares about showed up in the kh4 trailer i went crazy. strelitizia sweep kairi sweep xion sweep ect ect

[winter-spark]

Reblogged a Roxas thing that put me in my feels but then I side railed lowkey twice in the tags so I'm putting the side rail(s) here instead, I just won't tag this post bcuz I don't want to be in the kh tags because I've been implied to be dumb/over think things before and I don't want to deal with that again...

Anyway. My side rail(cleaned up and expanded):

When you think about it shouldn't Ven be the one to logically change some detail about himself. I'm not saying in a "to help differentiate them" way or anything but Ven needs to go on a self-love/self-discovery journey. He's got no self-value.

Like like like, I think I saw someone point out once that while Ven is always ready to die, Roxas is literally fighting to live. Which I mean... Roxas wants to exist and he's fine just the way he is and the world around him makes him question that when he really doesn't have to, and Roxas fights the world around him as hard as he can with all his might, he fights to exist and be. Like dang world just let him be a DJ.

Ven, on the other hand, is like “Dang, guess I'll die” and like yea that in part stems from him hating what he was involved with/set up to be a part of (Strelitzia & the X-blade, aka the end of the world) but he doesn't fight for himself or his right to exist or be anywhere. He'll fight for his friends and to keep things as they are, but he struggles to find the motivation to fight for himself, to fight to change what people are telling him his fate will be.

In BBS, his motivation to fight was to protect Aqua, boy literally defrosted himself with rage to stop Vanitas from harming her. In UX, he had an entity to fight, now that he knew he didn't kill Strelitizia but the one that did was standing in front of them all and they had a group against it he joined in. (I think I should probably fact check that because I know he was KO'd part of the fight and Star had to show up from Wralph's world to help.) But he was ready to die beforehand. He didn't even question his involvement with Strelitzia's death despite the fact that he didn't recall it beforehand and when he did he didn't directly recall killing her himself. (Once again I should probably fact-check before going on a tangent but I digress.)

Anyway all this to say, if either of them were going to change, it logically should be Ven because Roxas likes himself and existing and Ven needs to go on a journey of self-love. Which could very well lead to trying out things that change something about his physical appearance. Also because Ven needs to become more comfortable with change. Kairi cut her hair Ven, where's your step forward? So yea, it could logically, in story, make sense for Ven to be the one to alter his appearance.

[themattress]

@ngc-5194: Hey, guess what? Your strawman burns easily. Nobody thinks other KH games are "unimportant spin-offs" because they're on different platforms for one another. They think they're spin-offs, important or otherwise, because the series has games called Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts III, and later Kingdom Hearts IV. Rabid stans like you just expect people to throw all logic and reason surrounding numbering, including how it's used in literally any other series, out the window for special snowflake Kingdom Hearts series, and get pissy when they naturally won't, then act all superior because you do.

And more to the point, yes, it IS bad writing to force someone to play or watch or read up on so many different installments to have the remotest grasp on what's going on in titles that are still numbered sequentially. Especially when the content in said installments is increasingly incoherent gobbldegook. Any reasonable person not familiar with KH will read your initial post and most likely go "oh Hell nah, there are much better and more accessible series I could be investing my time in than this." You aren't really persuading anyone; you're just shilling.

Cases in point?

to which i first must ask, what part of kingdom hearts does make sense to you then?

Disney meets Final Fantasy/JRPG/anime style and adventures ensue.

It's a weird concept, but once you accept it, it makes sense. You can do it without time travel and time loops, worlds and people actually existing in a computer simulation, multiple variations of characters including literal clones, characters who are also partly other characters, body-jacking, different layers of reality, memory loss, existential angst, tangled relationships between characters, previously established information going out the window once later information is learned, convoluted plot turns due to dreams and/or memories, characters dropping long-winded exposition dumps, detailed lore in written unlockable reports, overtly obtuse terms, characters never staying dead and no permanent consequences or sacrifices, and omnipotent villains behind everything as part of some contrived master plan. All of that stuff is why the KH series is so confusing to people.

there are many many people out there in this fandom who would be thrilled to talk to you about parts of the plot you found confusing. who have posts pages and pages long on minute details

You really think non-fans WANT to read that shit!?

That doesn't help newcomers. It scares them away.

strelitzia, someone deeply important to marluxia, larxene, and ventus’ backstories, is seemingly implied to be one of the main characters in kh4 and if you have no knowledge of union x, then you likely have zero idea who she is.

This is not really an example of the problem (that you deny is a problem) - Sora doesn't know who Strelitizia is either, so players wouldn't need to know her history since Sora is their POV.

it gives a lot of depth to xehanort and eraqus both.

No. It doesn't.

eraqus’ behaviours and motivations are given reason—not necessarily morally good ones, and certainly not ones that always provide justification for his actions, but actual fully defined reasons for it all.

Birth by Sleep released in 2010. Dark Road was a whole decade later. In all that time, I don't recall seeing anyone who cared enough to ask "what past incident made Eraqus become a zealot for light?" Because it wasn't important. Nobody wanted or needed to know because that wasn't the point of Eraqus' character, which was what effect he had on his students, the actual main characters. Nobody wanted or needed a spin-off about him and the fucking villain who ruined him and his students' lives.

as it has always been with kh, every game is important to understand the story.

And that's why KH fails as a series, and why every game that isn't KH, KH2 and KH3 has been stuck between 1 million and 2 million sales even when other series that have been able to surpass that easily. Why series that have been out for far less time and had far less installments still overall sell better than KH even when the Disney angle alone should have hypothetically made KH a much bigger success.

but you have to accept that they are important to the plot of the series. that they can not simply be ignored if you want to grasp the entire story of kingdom hearts.

And you in turn have to accept that for most people, the response to this will always be "then the entire story of Kingdom Hearts can go fuck itself, because this bullshit ain't worth my time when there are so many better options out there that don't operate like this".

yknow i could very easily accept someone not liking the mobile kh games if people actually gave... understandable reasons??

mostly i've heard that they're 'inaccesable'. which. they're in general more accessable since the console they run on is a phone, a device more people have than a ps4. though, granted, it is the offline version of both games only.

however, if you don't have a phone, have limited space on your phone, or are uninterested in a mostly unplayable game, all of which are understandable, there are cutscene compilations (ux (story important, all), dr) available on youtube too!

if the lots of reading is the issue then there is a completely dubbed version of the cutscenes of ux and you can easily find voiced playthroughs of both union x and dark road on youtube as well.

(for instance, here is a playthrough of dark road that i watched as my phone needed repairs by the time i had caught up with the series enough to move onto khdr. but, of course, there are many more options if you simply search up 'kingdom hearts [dark road/union x] playthrough' on youtube. find whichever one suits the kind of videos you like to watch best!)

if you don't have the time to sit through all of the cutscenes, there are summaries also avaliable! here is a video one for union x, and though unfortunately i can't find a similar one for dark road, it is also always acceptable to just read the wiki section on the story of the game! (here is the union x wiki section as well)

the other major complaint i've heard is that it's 'too confusing' or that the story 'doesn't make sense in parts'.

to which i first must ask, what part of kingdom hearts does make sense to you then? many many signifigant, heavily important parts of this series can be the most mind boggling things you have ever read or heard. so much so that we are known as the fans of that overly complex and insane disney game. that is what we are known for!!

and more to an actual point, there are many many people out there in this fandom who would be thrilled to talk to you about parts of the plot you found confusing. who have posts pages and pages long on minute details.

we are all fans of this weird ass game series and we all can. i don't know. help each other, newcomers and people who have been here awhile alike. us fans who like the mobile games are no different. we are willing to share and help and explain anything you need.

and as for the take that the mobile games are 'unimportant'.

strelitzia, someone deeply important to marluxia, larxene, and ventus' backstories, is seemingly implied to be one of the main characters in kh4 and if you have no knowledge of union x, then you likely have zero idea who she is.

the foretellers and the master of masters are being set up as potential villians in the next arc of the series. all of these characters were introduced in union x, four years before back cover released. and while yes, back cover gives the perspective of the foretellers more while union x is from the eyes of the keykids, there are many interactions with the foretellers in union x, beyond the scope of back cover, that are deeply important to the plot and establishment of their characters.

while yes, dark road has drastically less set up for the future in it, as all of the characters featured are now dead, it gives a lot of depth to xehanort and eraqus both. eraqus' behaviours and motivations are given reason—not necessarily morally good ones, and certainly not ones that always provide justification for his actions, but actual fully defined reasons for it all.

as it has always been with kh, every game is important to understand the story. you couldn't simply play kh1 kh2 and kh3 and expect to understand everything, and you can not expect to understand everything if you don't at least know surface level of the stories of the mobile games too.

you do not have to play them yourself. they do not have to be your favourite games in the series. if you are reading this and you hate them, you can stay not liking them even for all i care.

but you have to accept that they are important to the plot of the series. that they can not simply be ignored if you want to grasp the entire story of kingdom hearts.

[natade-art]

kingdom hearts girls i love you 

ID: two rows of three smiling headshots: Kairi, Namine, Xion, Aqua, Strelitzia and Skuld of Kingdom Hearts fame. Kairi has her Kingdom Hearts 2 hair, purple eyes, tanned skin, and a couple freckles. Namine’s eyes and the shape of her face are both softer, her eyes paler purple, and she doesn’t have the same :3 smile as Kairi -- Xion, however, does, along with the same freckles as Kairi, two under one eye and one on her neck. Her brown eyes and thicker eyebrows match (how I draw) Sora. The only notable changes to Aqua’s design are a scar across her cheek and the bridge of her nose, and a smaller scar over her lip. Strelitzia has freckles, and Skuld’s skin is light brown. end ID

[meadow-roses]

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 -  Part 9 - next parts in progress -

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Strellie’s scared of the dark. ;o;

Wanted to scribble up a comic of how I imagined that scene could go. 

[bearpillowmonster]

I’ll tell you that I ship Ephemer and Skuld but I found a piece of fanart, I won’t post it because I hear all this and that about reposting other’s art but I’ll tell you that it’s by Baka-neearts, if you want to find it yourself. It has Lauriam hugging Strelitzia in what seems like the Final World but without clicking on it, it looked like Ephemer and all these Fanfic ideas started popping into my head. “What if he’s doing all this for her?” “What if he practically sacrifices himself going world to world for this lost person that he hasn’t even properly met yet, just seen visions of?” If he fell down that path to find her and gets stopped at the Keyblade Graveyard and turned into a heartless (Dark Inferno) to which he finally meets her in the Final World “I finally found you.” They hug and cry for each other. I mean that’s a pretty good ship too, ngl. “You should’ve just said hi silly.” “I’ll protect you now.” I NEED TO DRAW THIS

[masteraqua]

K H U X / S E A S O N _ 2

[eternal-reverie]

Im starting to have dreams about the dandelions

[oz-fandom-archives-2]

Why must you hurt me in this way-

[sirharrypotter]

Sees Strelitizia killed:

Lauriam appears (Marluxia’s true self) :

Me:

[nyctoheart]

i'm curious, do you have any thoughts on the true dandelion right now? its still a fairly new thing so i'm still not sure how to process it or who it could be, but i was interested in your initial thoughts?

So I don’t have anyone in particular that I think it is, and frankly I’d rather just wait and see (if KHUX reveals it that is), but let me just talk out loud about my opinions on various characters. Also i’m not proof reading this sorry LOL

Strelitzia:

The main reason I doubt it’s Strelitzia is because we see her body disappear when she dies, as well as her heart floating up (presumably to either KH, the afterlife, the final world, etc etc). So I just don’t see how Luxu could have recovered her in such a way-- but of course Nomura could still have a future explanation that we don’t know about.

But I also think there’s a possibility Luxu wasn’t aware of Strelitzia (or at least her death) at ALL, the reason for this is because of Luxu’s recent signs of being protective of the Dandelions against Darkness. Follow my logic here:

The MoM knew what would happen with Strelitiza and Ventus because it was written in the book.

Luxu hasn’t read the book though.

Luxu is supposedly aware of who’s supposed to be a Union Leader because the MoM walked him through what would happen.

Luxu points out that someone is an imposter (“The Master did not choose”) in his reports, and calls them a virus.

BRAIN says he’s a virus with a plan, and even has insight about the glitches.

So if Luxu is talking about Brain and not Ventus, it means Luxu always expected Ventus to be a Union Leader.

So this means either Luxu knew Strelitizia would be killed by the very being he wants to protect the Union Leaders from in the first place, OR it means the Master never told Luxu about her in the first place. I personally don’t see how Luxu could know about Strelitzia and her body (???) and not question what happened to her, or if he knows, how he could be okay with that since he’s pretty chill with Darkness in the lab.

Ava

So for one thing, It’s important I point out that the scene of Luxu putting the body in the bod is NOT a flashback. We know it’s happening in current times for two reasons: 1, there’s not black gradient on the top and bottom-- which has always signified flashbacks. 2, the pod Maleficent took is missing. That being said, there’s no way this scene took place right after either Luxu and Ava’s fight or the Keyblade War. So if that is Ava’s body, we don’t know why/how she didn’t fade away after the War like the other Foretellers, and why she’s been (assumingly) unconscious for all this time.

I know some people say Xigbar saying in KH3′s epilogue “Ava had her own mission, and she carried it out.” is referring to her possible mission as The True Dandelion. But if Xigbar thinks Ava successfully carried it out, then that directly contradicts his later line “I guess Ava didn’t make it after all.” To me, Xigbar saying “Ava didn’t make it after all” implies that 1. sending her to the future either failed or 2. she arrived in the future successfully and knew that at some point Luxu would summon the others, and she was expected to be present during this but decided not to come (Luxu could have told her about this during their KHX fight).

However, the line “and she carried it out” still wouldn’t make sense to me because Luxu puts the body in the pod after implying he is taking action on his own accord, even when the MoM told him not to. To me that’s implying The True Dandelion isn’t anyone’s mission by the MoM, it’s something Luxu himself decided to put into motion-- even if the MoM knew Luxu would do this. It means Luxu gave Ava the mission to carry out, not the MoM. But once again, how could Luxu know she carried it out if she “didn’t make it after all”.

There’s just too much seesawing when it comes to Ava and what we know about her and relation to Luxu. So much to go back and forth on that I’m not ready to say it’s her. Maybe there will be more damning evidence, but I’m not convinced yet.

Ventus

Once again, we know this cutscene is NOT a flashback. So unless we jump ahead in time, there’s no way Ventus could be fighting Darkness and then just immediately out cold in Luxu’s arms. People say “oh but they’re wearing the same sheet!!” yeah but Ventus didn’t wear a sheet until he was on deaths door from his heart being split. There’s a whole flashback, and BbS report, of Ventus training with Xehanort where he didn’t have a sheet. So if anything, it’s a coincidence. It’s a way to wrap a body in a mysterious way like they do for the replicas in KH3.