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I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

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runs around in circles ✨ Here he issss, tis ballet student Wiku 🩰 to go with contemporary dance student Sora 🎉

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stuck in thought

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📺.📺.📺

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Happy 4/4!!!

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Pov: Someone drops off their kid at your work place and now you're suddenly a dad

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frankensteins monster

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I find it interesting how Roxas is often described as the “angry one” or “short-tempered one” when compared to Sora or Ventus, mostly because I always felt Sora and Ven have a shorter fuse than Roxas.

The association between Roxas and anger is understandable, because many of Roxas’ most poignant moments in the series happen when he is very (and understandably) angry, but I also feel like it’s a disservice to his character to only reduce him to his anger, especially when it’s far from who he is in normal circumstances.

For example, during Days, many Organization members treat him poorly and insult him to his face and, for the most part, Roxas doesn’t react at all. In Halloween Town, Lock, Shock, and Barrel throw bombs in his face multiple times before Roxas finally snaps at them. He senses that many people around him are keeping things from him, but it takes him months before he confronts someone about it. That’s far from someone I’d consider short-tempered or easy to anger.

The only situation I can think of when we see him get upset quickly is if anyone does or says something bad to Xion and, even then, the most of his reaction is verbally snapping at Saix to make him stop disrespecting her. In Axel’s case (when Roxas is upset with him for attacking Xion), Roxas doesn’t confront him at all, he just avoids him altogether. Also, I think it’s important to note that every moment in which Roxas is very angry happens when his entire life is falling apart, which is a situation in which, I believe, everyone would be upset.

Roxas seems the kind of person who bottles everything up without much reaction until it becomes too much and he explodes, and that’s when he has a hard time controlling his anger/emotions. Having spent most of his life in the organization probably plays a part in it as, every time he brings up any emotion, his feelings are invalidated and suppressed. That’s not an environment that gave him the tools to process strong emotions in a healthy way.

Let’s compare that to Ventus. Ven is the definition of short-tempered in BBS. He’s ready to throw hands with Vanitas the moment he says something remotely bad about Terra, which was minutes after he met him for the first time. He fought the dwarves without a second thought just because they refused to talk with him. His first reaction when he becomes small and is trapped in a mousetrap is to shout. These are just some examples from the top of my head, but it’s clear Ven has a shorter fuse than Roxas.

Ventus usually expresses how he feels in any given situation and has a short fuse. On the flip side, he doesn’t seem to hold on to these feelings at all. He externalises them the moment he feels them, but then he lets it go and it doesn’t bother him anymore. Out of the three of them, Ventus seems the most open about his emotions and, from what I remember, when he opens up about feeling a certain way with his friends, his feelings are usually not invalidated nor brushed aside. In UX, Ventus seems calmer and doesn’t have much anger in him, but he’s still open to expressing his feelings of low self-worth and sadness with the other union leaders.

Sora, I think he falls in the middle? He seems to have a shorter temper compared to Roxas, which was especially clear in KH2, where he snaps at the Organization multiple times, but he also bottles up his emotions more than Ven, especially around his friends. This happens mostly with his sadness, which he always tries to hide or brush aside, but in KH3 we can also see, for example, how much he’s bothered by everyone constantly bringing up him not passing the Mark of Mastery, even if he tries not to show it.

I think Sora feels like he should always be happy for his friends’ sake, and even during the rare moments when he tries to express his sadness, his feelings are not truly welcomed (“No frowning. No sad faces. This boat runs on happy faces”), so he just tries to brush it off as a joke. He’s loud in expressing any kind of positive emotion, and he openly expresses his anger against his enemies (and to his friends too, sometimes), but he also doesn’t hold on to that anger and is pretty forgiving. However, he usually bottles up his sadness, low self-esteem and other negative feelings, and then explodes when he can’t hold it together any longer (like it happened at the Keyblade Graveyard when he thought all his friends were gone forever).

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This is Gilbert. He’s been around a while. Attributes his long life to many, many years of always getting what he wants

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More Isa | Saix headcanons-  GIMME THE SLICE OF LIFE STUFF. 

Isa talking to Riku because Riku knows what it’s like to be possessed and warped by darkness and have to live with permanent side effects. Darkness therapy! 

Isa figuring out his first gummiphone, too stubborn to ask for help. 

Isa dealing with the lasting side effects of the experiments that he endured prior to even losing his heart in the first place; if the traumas of hidden hearts can cultivate darkness within Sora, then repressed memories could easily have a similar effect. Isa’s heart is surely still steeped in natural darkness after everything he’s been through. The present guilt and difficulty he faces is different from Terra and Riku, who were possessed wholly and completely. Saix’s actions are harder to separate from Isa, and he feels wholly responsible for those crimes. Riku is probably easier to talk to because Saix had few interactions with him, tbh.

Isa getting the regular kind of angry instead of berserk…!

Above all else, I imagine Isa would find having a whole, functional heart difficult at first. Feelings are overwhelming. It’s like stepping out into the sun after 10 years in a cave. It’s beautiful, but it’s TOO bright.  So bright and beautiful it hurts and blinds. He needs to take things slowly; he can only bear it in short, fleeting intervals. 

Isa is touch-starved, yet sometimes touch-repulsed. He wants human contact, but he’s frightened by how much he wants it, so he spurns it, recoils, and retreats until he feels in-control again. A relationship would require patience and care. 

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Quick test because tumblr doesn’t want to post my art post in any tags??

http://jeredu.tumblr.com/post/182879038530/hi-im-not-dead-ive-just-been-on-a-huge-kh

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I’m going to perform medical malpractice on you cuz I love you

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HI!  I’M NOT DEAD. I’ve just been on a huge KH kick lately!  KH3 had parts I loved, parts I disliked. I draw a lot of AU things or speculative things… see:  Medium aged Xehanort, lots of AUs,  Saix and Axel with wet hair…

Favorite things right now are all the Isa ships, but special mention goes to AkuSai ( LeaIsa or Saixel etc), XemSai, TerrIsa, Xehaqus… Tbh i love too many ships.  All I need is good content tbh.  Isa and Riku post-canon is my fav unsubstantiated ship tbh. They have a lot in common and a lot to talk about. 

Here’s a WIP of yet another…

sidenote; i love Saix’s giant shoulder pads. He looks like a dorito. His hips don’t lie.  He is probably my current fav, but i love a lot of these characters. 

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