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“No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.” –Cinderella🫶🏼💖

(I started this idea like few years back but never got around to color it til now. I didn't draw the background I used bg pattern online).

or.. I wanted to draw lil Kairi meeting Cinderella mascot at Disneyland..

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'For a lifetime'

Happy Sokai Day 💕

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“There’s no heart your smile can’t reach.” ➕ “I’m always with you.”

A KH4 speculation illustration + fic, with more chapters to come! 🏙️💞

Chapters 1/3 ✨

Happy SoKai Day!

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The light in the darkness. It was you!

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the light in the darkness. it was you!

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I'll give you a Bonus: All of the SoKai Day Collabs with Clok-Roo that I've never posted on Tumblr.

SoKai Day 2021: Autumn Memories

SoKai Day 2022: Kairi's Dream Wedding

SoKai Day 2023: Blue Sky Blue

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"Don't ever forget. Wherever you go, I'm always with you."

Happy Sokai Day everyone! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

I had the honor to draw this year's promotion art x3 Thank you again for letting me be a part of it! 🥹🙏

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You’re home 🤝🏻

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Happy sokai day! I don't have any new edits for them so just showing my old one again lmao 🥰

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Always With You

And in a world without you, I'll dream of you.

Kairi's eyes fluttered open, and the world of sky and sea greeted her. The gentle swell of the ocean reflected the vast blue, purple, and pink stretches of the heavens above punctuated by an endless array of puffy clouds.

She always walked on the surface of the water here, like the regular rules of physics didn't apply. Or maybe the water was so shallow, merely a thin film coating the ground, that it didn't matter. Either way, it stretched out forever in every direction, as far as the eye could see.

And yet somehow, he always found her. That was the story of their bond, one of separations and reunions. If his journey began the day he lost her, it would end the day he found her for good.

“Sora!” she cried, happy to see him. This was the only place they could meet, in dreams, in this world on the boundary of life and death, this realm that floated between realities.

His face lit up like the sun rising over the horizon. He smiled and mouthed her name, forming her syllables and sounds like they were second nature. He wasn't fully here, so neither was his voice, but they communicated as best they could, with whispered words, tender touches, specific signs.

She reached for his hand, warmth radiating up her arm and spreading throughout her whole body. Here in this place, she nearly forgot how coldly his hand had been wrenched from hers that fateful sunset on the paopu tree.

With interlocked hands and held gazes, they smiled at each other to make up for all of the tears they'd cried. Faces close enough to kiss but neither of them closing that final bit of distance. It was the smallest distance and yet felt like the largest. Any attempts to breach it felt like stepping beyond the dream into unknown territory.

Still, at least they could dream. Dream of the day there would be no such barriers, the day they would meet again in reality or unreality.

When I come to, let us meet with our usual words on the usual street.

How nice it would be to hear his voice again saying the usual words, “I'm back,” so she could tell him, “You're home.” Because while Destiny Islands was important to them both, that fateful reunion day, they'd realized home wasn't a location so much as it was a person. When they were together, they were home.

This place was home too, in a way. A temporary lodging, a waystation, but a place of refuge where they could meet again nonetheless. She and the others endlessly searched for clues as to his real whereabouts, and yet his heart always knew to come here.

It seemed like an eternity ago that her heart had sheltered in his. So much had happened since then. Maybe his heart, or a part of it anyway, was hidden inside hers now. Taking refuge there, binding him to her, keeping him tied to the Realm of Light. Ever since sharing the paopu fruit with him, she'd known deep in her bones that the effects of it weren't just a legend, they were real, connecting hearts, binding fates together for all eternity.

Maybe the key to finding him wasn't somewhere out there. Maybe it was to be found inside herself.

She told him her suppositions. His smile got bigger and bigger, and he nodded enthusiastically. He made the motion of sharing the paopu fruit, pointed at her heart, and then mouthed, “I’m always with you.”

She grinned excitedly and cupped his face. “I'm always with you, too.”

A change came over his expression. His gaze flickered from her lips to her eyes and back again. She swallowed, her heart thundering in her chest in spite of the calm, serene scenery surrounding them. He wrapped his arms around her and tilted his head, and she let her eyes flicker shut, imagining how it would feel to kiss him at long last. There hadn't been time for that before he slipped through her fingers, but in this place there was world enough and time.

Right as their lips met, she jolted awake. The disappointment that flooded her whole being was powerful enough to make her cry, her chest tightening, her stomach throbbing and head aching and nose running. Tears trailed down her face as she made the unhappy adjustment to reality, to waking life. He was gone. She was alone in her room at the Land of Departure, a pupil of Master Aqua’s trying to get a good night’s sleep before another day of training. Her soft sobs echoed throughout the ancient room, stone nearly as old as the World’s rending her quiet companion.

But it wasn't an unfriendly place. The last embers of the fire in the fireplace glowed warmly, and the stars twinkled in the sky.

Stumbling out of bed, she padded over to the window and gazed outside. Her room in the castle was pretty high up, so she could see a great deal of the scenery below, even at night. The vibrant green hills and deep blue ponds and lakes, the training grounds and hidden caves full of secrets.

When she glanced into the heavens, she couldn't help but think of Sora and rested a hand on her chest. Was he thinking of her like she was thinking of him?

Wait a second. Her heart. Her heart was connected to his. A part of his heart was sheltering in hers. That was the key to everything, she knew it had to be.

Sora was with her. He had been all along, just like he'd promised.

“Aqua!” she excitedly called, not caring that it was the middle of the night. She knew her mentor would want to know what she'd discovered. It couldn't wait for one more second.

If she was right about this, she was sure she could find Sora. Not just a path to him or a way to him, but actually find him and bring him home.

There is always sleep between part and meet with our usual words on the usual street.

So let us part as we always do…and in a world without you, I'll dream of you.

When I come to, let us meet with our usual words on the usual street.

She knew she would see him again soon.

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A/N: Thank you so much for reading! This is based on Tam’s beautiful art for SoKai Day this year. A big thank you to her for doing the art 🥺🙏

I really enjoyed incorporating all the different quotes and reflecting on all those wonderful moments between Sora and Kairi. Also, I just have this gut feeling that the characters will spend most of KH4 looking for Sora and realize there is something they missed all along, like the paopu fruit connecting his heart to Kairi in a way that makes it easier for them to find him or at least for Kairi to find him and guide him home, so I wanted to explore that concept a little more. Happy SoKai Day!

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Happy Sokai Day!

I've been collaborating with a friend for the past few years I haven't posted them here on Tumblr but I decided to post here this year.

We went with something different this year. Which normally I don't tend to do. We wrote a bit of canon this time around.

Here's my friend's part:

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(day 2 of my 30 days art challenge)

sokai x tangled

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At first, I was kind of at a loss on what song to use to vid for SoKai this year. Because, if I'm being honest, I started their video late. And I didn't really know if I had time to edit them this year. I knew that if I did make something for them, it would have to be with a shorter song (or a song edited to be short).

This song came to mind... and at first, I actually wasn't sure if I wanted to use it, because it's Max and Liz's song from the TV show "Roswell." And as much as I love SoKai, of course, I didn't know if I wanted to use Max and Liz's song with anyone else. But in the end... it also fits SoKai so well. And I'm glad that I DID use it, because I do think this video came out pretty sweet. I hope you all enjoy it. And happy SoKai Day:)

Inspiration:

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SoKai Day 2024

SoKai Day is on September 17, 2024, and this year's theme is Always With You 🌠 🌊

Other SoKai quote-themed prompts are welcome as well ❤️

Thank you to @/tamtam8813 for the beautiful promo art that perfectly encapsulates the theme 🥺❤️

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SoKai Day 2024

SoKai Day is on September 17, 2024, and this year's theme is Always With You 🌠 🌊

Other SoKai quote-themed prompts are welcome as well ❤️

Thank you to @/tamtam8813 for the beautiful promo art that perfectly encapsulates the theme 🥺❤️

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