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Have some Nameless Star
#kingdom hearts#Nameless Star#kh#Kingdom hearts 3#kh3#キンハ#キングダムハーツ#melody of memory#kh mom#kh3 remind#She's honestly so pretty#I hope we see more of her in kh4#I love her design and she has the potential of being really cool along with Yozora#verum rex#quadratum#Yozora#kh fanart#Kingdom hearts fanart
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Kairi really hates when people tells her that what happened to Sora wasn’t her fault. She knows that people won’t blame her for it because he would do that for any of his friends. But she still and will always thinks that it is her fault and true is, Kairi wishes that someone would yell at her because she was weak ; she let herself got taken away and even though she fought with all she’s got against Xehanort, so that she couldn’t be used against Sora, it still wasn’t enough. Kairi knows that she was weak and that’s why she trains and studies to her maximum so that she can fight and defend herself without someone having to protect her.
#( i really hope that in kh4 we get to see her training#and how strong / how she has improved#i also think that more of her will come#because i refuse to believe that nomura introduced her past just because of mom game )#hcs#⭐ ⭐ ⭐ . ❝ inside her heart. ❞ — ( headcanons )
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oh wait also I know you have thoughts about Stella and yozora and those guys, I have like zero clue what goes on/is implied about them (I know nothing about versus XIII), so if you’d like to rant about that use this an an opportunity:>
Okay, I read this wrong at first and went into a whole rant about Yin and Yang and they’re connected Yozora and Stella then I reread the question and put down this but now lets to the point.
I have some many feelings towards Yozora and Stella since they seem to be connected to Sora and Riku, not to mention the old Final Fantasy 15 too..
Now let's talk about Stella and Yozora:
My favorite thing is that the two of them are based off the old version of Noctis and Luna which I think is pretty cool cause you can see it in the design choice.
Yozora- Now from what we know about Yozora is not that much but I find him really interesting and hope that he is similar to the OG Noctis. I love his design even though he looks like a deviantart verison of Riku which I FIND SO FUNNY.
I feel like he’s gonna be the evil version of Namine, trying to replace Sora's memory with his and Stella or put Sora in Stella's place while also maybe making a false memory of him and Riku.
I feel like Yozora is gonna make Riku to be like some bad person in his memories and replace the good ones with bad and fake ones instead.
I don’t trust Yozora but I do love him.
Stella- I love her! She is so pretty!! She looks really similar to Sora which at this point I'm convinced that Quadratum may be an alternative Universe maybe??
I wonder what her and Yozora relationship was like and if it was a close relationship like Sora and Riku.
Now, I'm gonna give you some info about the OG Noctis and Luna. Now it was kinda like Romeo and Juliet but it was mostly a kinda unknown one sided relationship?
Noctis was the one to pined for Stella and tried to pursue her. Noctis doesn’t know how Stella feels for her and you don't know what Stella feels for Noctis.
Then that reminded me of Sora and Riku. We know how Riku feels toward but we don’t how Sora feels toward Riku. (I don’t even think Sora know, lmao)
With this information it makes me think ‘OMG, what if Yozora was that deeply in love with her?? WHAT IF?!?!’ Knowing this is a Nomura game has me hoping that Yozora and Stella Relationship is shown like that.
Yozora gets ready to tell his feelings for Stella just for her to rip away from him. (Honestly, Nomura would do that…)
Also In the OG story of FF13 Noctis and Luna's families are against each other. So it's kinda enemies to lovers? But Noctis flopped and fell in with his enemy…BEAUTIFUL!
Fun fact: Noctis and Stella out represent white and black too which love that design choice cuz Light and Darkness elements..
Not to mention, Sora being light to Riku darkness which I think will have the same Yozora and Stella thing going on for the both of them...
Cuz, what if Yozora's heart gets taken by darkness and Stella would use the power of light to get it back??
Proving to be her light to his darkness!! But I think unlike the OG Stella and Noctis they’re being enemies to lovers. It's gonna be Friends to lovers then to enemies…
Have a KH1 Soriku thing going on but no lover thing included!
I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!!
As for Aegis and Magia, Yozora Goofy and Donald. They’re pretty cool. I hope to see them in KH4 being helped by Sora during some battles!
#I'm sorry I'm exited and rambling that's kinda why i'm a bit scared to talk about this lol#I can send all Versus 13 trailers if you want me to BTW#sora#riku#kingdom hearts#kh#soriku#Stellora#Stella#Yozora
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Toy Box and its connection to KH4
I am sure I am late to the preverbal party, but while rewatching the story of Toy Box connections were made. And now, it makes way too much sense.
I've often thought that the worlds of KH3 have much more to say than meets the eye. A lot is said in subtext and details. But, it seems Toy Box is more than most. The more I've looked at it, the more I am convinced that Toy Box is full of foreshadowing of future events. I think that even if my conclusions are wrong, Toy Box is meant in this way and whatever happens we'll look back and see them. Just how everything is, indicates this reading.
I'm going to lay everything out though, and put my initial thoughts here. I'm sure there will be more in time as well.
"The Heartless- the darkness- can only creep in when our hearts falter. Trust me. You'll be fine if you don't lose heart."
This was really got me thinking. Toy Box has themes of separation, losing heart and darkness. What is exactly going on with KH4? Well one thing is certainly separation. Sora is separated from the rest of his friends, with no clear hope that he'll ever see them again.
Then, we have Yozora. Who exactly is Yozora? We don't know, yet like others the story seems to indicate that it is actually Sora, if the storyteller is being fairly overt. Could be a red herring of course, it happens. But let's go with that for now. How could that even happen? I'd assume from Toy Box, it tells us how: possession. It is from those lines above.
"You'll be fine if you don't lose heart."
So then, does Sora lose heart? If Yozora is Sora, then what Yozora says "save Sora" makes roundabout sense. We're talking about KH here, and it isn't like this hasn't happen before. It seems like the storytellers, MO as well, honestly. That's my sense of him.
What's interesting is, when you look at the rest of the story of Toy Box, the story gives not only foreshadowing, but also hope. It gives us the antidote to what could be Sora's future. In the scene that is by far one of my favorite scenes in all of KH3 and the rest of KH Sora says this:
"Distance doesn't matter. Andy's part of their hearts, just like my friends are part of mine. You can't rip that apart!"
The question is, will Sora remember? Or will he "lose heart" just like Buzz did? And even then, if someone is truly bent on possessing him, would that even matter? And just how much is Toy Box foreshadowing the future?
"If we follow our hearts, we'll find him again."
Woody was talking about Andy, but I can't help but think of Sora now and his friends, especially Riku as he follows his own heart to search for Sora.
There is always hope.
"Xehanort, you're so caught up in finding the shadows, you forgot about the light that cast them."
#in other connections I couldn't help but think of Jack and Daniel of Stargate SG-1 in the interactions between Buzz and Woody#it makes sense#since Toy Box has a bit of an american military bent story wise#nyssa's ramblings#nyssa’s favorite key#kingdom hearts#kh sora#kh4 speculation#kh3
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Flower in video game
Something I love in video game is the use of flowers in them.As a florist (cause yeah that's my real job besides posting stupid memes and then disappearing for months) I love seeing some flower species in some games and I like it even more when creators decide to create their own species so I can try to find their ''in out world" counterparts.
In Undertale we have the ''Golden flowers''
Golden flower that I like to identify as Buttercups
It's the most obvious one since it's canonically accurate and it's looks the same.
Some others flowers from game that I love a lot share the same shapes and it's so obvious to know what they actually are.
So we have the ''Yellow flowers'' from final fantasy 7 , the ''Lunar Tears" from Nier automata (Nier saga/Drakengard) and the "Silent Princess" from Zelda respectively.
Beside sharing some emotional importance in the lore and being used as power up or/and heal object.It's actually inspired from the same flower.(Even people who don't know much about flowers know this one)
Here comes the lily's
I think this one is the most obvious one but I've also found some real counterpart for the Silent princess.
The blue tiger variety is the closest one that looks Exactly like the ''Silent princess".
I found this one a bit tricky and it's The Delicate Flower from Hollow Knight
This one looks like a basic flower and at first I honestly thought of it as a chrysanthemum
Since those the Delicate flower is associated with death and grief (Because of the secondary quest of Hollow knight that wears the same name as the flower, you have to put one of those one the grave of a child).In real life, Chrysanthemum are often the kind of flowers that you saw on graves and are often used for this kind of events.
BUT (because yeah, there's a but)
It doesn't look quite the same and peoples seems to find the perfect real counterpart.
The flannels flower, it's looks pretty the same. (Even the shapes of the petals match!)
Now for those waiting for me to talk about kingdom hearts well...
There's no really any created flower in kh.
Of course we have Marluxia, the recurrent use of Roses or some other flowers on some keyblades.
I could also talk about those flowers that no one cares in the background of some worlds
I could also sit down and theorising for years about the "Kairi's flower crystal heart thing" (oh look another lily in a cool game !)
And I could also talk about the fact that Xion have her name directly inspired from the Shions, a variety of Asters. (This panel hurt)
And I could also talk about the capital importance of the Dandelion in Union X as much as peoples than as flowers
(Looks he's literally holding one !)
And of course I could talk about Strelitzia
Strelitzia are also known as "Bird of paradise". (Paradise= After Death = Quadratum= Kh4)
But there's no really any ''created flower'' that exist in the kh Verse but there's a hope.
The paopu fruit
This one is pretty symbolic.But I tried to search a real counterpart for this fruit and Bingo! Here's the star fruit.
(It actually look as a star only if it's cut.)
Since you should know, fruit comes from flowers so what does the star fruit flower look like then ?
It looks like this ! So now we have a small idea of what a Paopu flower must look like !
#Flower in video game#Undertale#Final fantasy 7#Nier automata#The legend of Zelda#Kingdom hearts#Flower irl counterpart.#I love talking#drakengard#Nier saga
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So KH III said there are 7 new lights (well really 6 since Kairi is still a princess of heart) and while I'm not sure what happened to the original 6 the power has apparently passed on. So far we have Rapunzel, Elsa, and Anna and it makes sense they're 3 of the most recent and have been super popular over the years and yeah Rapunzel not being pure light with her story? Laughable.
That being said I'm hoping we see more expansion of the 7 princesses of heart and I have some guesses as to who the final 3 might be.
Merida, I feel pretty safe in saying she's a candidate since the term pure light may not have to be like innocence but pure conviction. And Merida is nothing if not steadfast in determination. She'd also be one of the more proactive POH
Moana, she's also pretty recent and her story would not only make a great world but she would make a great pure light. Chosen by the ocean, compassionate and already trying to save her world her heart just so happens to help maintain the balance of all worlds and she doesn't know it? Queen shit.
Finally this one is less likely but imma throw it in anyway and say Mirabel. She's the newest and like Alice not an official princess or in the disney princess lineup. But a repeating theme with all these girls is their dedication to their family's and homes that make them "pure" and counting Kairi this would make of the poh woc which is a plus.
I also realized the last 3 all start with m which is funny but those are my predictions. I wanna see Kairi actually interact with her fellow princesses of heart come on Nomura give it to me!
I think a funny thing they could do would be to include Raya from Raya and The Last Dragon because -while I've never seen the movie myself- I'm pretty sure the place she's the princess of/ the kingdom she was from is literally called "Heart". So she's literally a princess of heart.
Anyway, yeah I agree with those being likely candidates. I'd honestly be surprised if there was no Encanto considering how popular it was when it released. They got Frozen in kh3, I don't see why Encanto wouldn't be put into kh4 for the same reasons lol.
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What do you think of Kairi, Xion, Naminé, and Aqua? Just general feelings, nothing too detailed if you don't want to-
like as a team, or individually?
as a team: oh how i WISH we could see it in canon. even if it were to end up borderline tokenism-y like with marvel. i would love to see the girl power squad idc i think they should hype each other up their color schemes together would be so pretty
kairi: my dearly beloved. yes the writers need to treat her better but so do the fans. she does have clearly defined character motivations and it’s weird to act like she doesn’t just bc they’re not ones that people like. she just wants stability and a home after having lost her memories and crash-landed somewhere as a toddler. she’s afraid of change but will do anything to stay with her friends in the midst of a fast-moving world because she’s lost them too many times. she’s a bit out of touch with them and sometimes clearly doesn’t know the right thing to do or say. i hope kh4 treats her kindly and gently and gives her more agency without trying to flatten her into a hashtag strong independent woman. i have high hopes for my little strawberry and wild daydreams about what i would love to see as her precise role in coming games. wrote some stuff in the tags here. i swear i thought i had more pre-written essays to draw on than that i know there’s so much i’m leaving out but i think i got the main points
xion: truly i will never be able to get over her story and especially her theme. what an incredibly well composed piece of music. honestly she and her theme were like a major factor as to me getting into this series. i’m very happy she’s alive after all that. i said a lot about her here already recently so i won’t burn myself out going into detail again. even that i feel like is a minor weak attempt at fully conveying my emotions regarding her. oh and a few more thoughts here
naminé: tbh thinking about chain of memories reduces me to a puddle but like in a bittersweet way as opposed to the pure bitterness of days. like sora’s interactions with her… their relationship even if it was brief and based on an illusion…the writing and animation and voice acting was legit so good man. i’m a wreck. nami is so beautiful and strong and horribly horribly sad but she gets overlooked… the thing is that even if she has people who love her she’s still nobody’s first choice. she doesn’t have her own place to go. she’s still lonely…
aqua: MAN she’s so interesting.. the way she’s carrying on eraqus’ legacy in both good and bad ways… the way she was corrupted after wandering a distorted world alone for a decade… the way she’s headstrong and determined and fights so hard yet can hardly make a difference as her world falls down around her… the way she’s incredibly strong and proud yet you see her once-firm core begin to shake as time passes on… not entirely related but i hope we get to see her (and the other two) (and kairi as her student!) visit the ruins of scala ad caelum bc they’re the last ones carrying on that legacy
#sorry if this is lazy lol i’m tired#sometimes if i Said It Well Before i’m like eh why bother rephrasing when i could redirect you to it#i mean you did say not too detailed#the answer is i love them all i love every kh character…#asks#thanks anon#kingdom hearts#kairi#xion#naminé#aqua#mine: kh
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KH4(ish) wants and hopes
The following are just things I want and hope for in the future of KH and maybe others want and hope for similar and if not that's super valid.
More realistic wants
Sora to start unpacking all of his trauma
This sweet baby boy has been through so much since the beginning of the franchise, but between back-to-back endless drama and constantly putting his own feelings aside for the sake of his friends, along with Donald and Goofy unintentionally instilling toxic positivity into him, he hasn't had ANY time to process any of it. Not to mention all the memories that have been buried down, during both CoM and even towards the end of KH3.
He still genuinely believes that without his friends he's weak, so now that he's forced into Quadratum away from everyone, he'll get the chance to see how incorrect that is, which would then lead to him questioning more of his beliefs. I would say he'd see the truth in what Riku said to him before his sacrifice at the tear in KH3, but those are some of the memories he's lost.
Essentially, what CoM was for Riku's growth, I want KH4 to be for Sora.
X-blade drama
Sora was bequeathed the X-blade, his first formal bequeathment and now an actual keyblade of his own that wasn't meant for someone else. Now that it's in an "other side" I want to see literally any sufficient drama to happen involving the x-blade with Sora. Even if it's just him angsting over having it.
Potential ally Luxord
At this point, it's all but confirmed that at the end of Re:Mind, Luxord's recompleted self is the one driving Yozora in the car.
Now... I'll freely admit I just love Luxord and wanna see more of him. But knowing that he's also in Quadratum, and given his cryptic words upon his defeat in KH3, I don't think it's out of the question for him to help Sora out at some point. Considering Yozora's behavior thus far, I could see Luxord's recompleted self being another antagonistic force early on, turned ally.
Elrena and Lauriam reconnecting with Ven, and Namine is there
Now that Larxene and Marluxia are recompleted, and given that Lauriam and Ven were vaguely close to each other in a coworker sense in Ux, I want them involved in bringing Ven's memories back. Naturally with Namine's help.
I want Elrena to STILL be the girl that isn't overly sweet, since she's literally the only one, because that's something I love about her. But I also want them to give her stuff to do that isn't completely tied to Lauriam.
Maybe even make it so Ven's memories hold some kind of key involving the foretellers so the drama on "this" side can continue to some degree without Sora.
More prevalent Namine
Honestly, considering how strongly linked her powers have been to Sora, it seems silly that she hasn't been utilized in the search for him, as far as we know. Plus I'm sure she has more capabilities beyond that.
Not to mention the amount of times Nomura has reiterated that the "Thank Namine" plotline is still incomplete. So I just need her to come back to being a primary character. I don't want her to be passive. And I JUST WANT HER TO BE HAPPY, OKAY!? She really deserves it.
Less Realistic Wants
Kairi growth game
From the first game, Kairi has made it clear how averse to change she is, and that has been the biggest constant in what little character she's been given. My own belief is that's the reason she hyperfixates on Sora so much. Not because it's a crush, but just because holding onto this idea of how close they were before all the adventures started is easier than moving on and accepting all the changes for her. And honestly, she deserves better than that.
So, this would ideally be an entire non-numbered game, but as part of her training under Aqua, I want her, Xion, and Namine (balanced, strength, and magic) to do their own journey through Disney worlds where a recurring theme in each world is accepting that change is inevitable and that it's okay. Along with varying bits to further Xion and Namine's own stories. And like how KH3 had moments where it would turn to Riku's perspective and let him be playable, Aqua would have that in this game. Aqua's side would be more about figuring things out about the foretellers.
During these adventures, Kairi being a Princess of Heart would come back into play over the course of the story and give her more unique abilities, considering she's the only one of those princesses with a keyblade.
After all that journeying, Aqua's Angels would end up actually helping Lea and Isa find that mysterious girl (Skuld) and it would not only be a step toward furthering the foreteller plot, but it would be a "oh, another person that's going to make things interesting for Ven when they meet" moment, given Ux.
Sora growth (cont'd)
Okay, here's where I know I'll lose some people's interests...
So, a lot of Riku's growth early on was accepting just how important Sora is to him and coming to grips with his jealousy and feelings. And he deserves major props for going through that.
Sora, alongside canonically bisexual icon Strelitzia, is going to learn to admit similar things with regards to Riku. I don't think he's jealous of Riku, but he sure does care about him a lot. More than I think he realizes that would be on par with how much Riku cares for him.
Instead of facing jealousy, though, while unpacking all of his traumas, he's finally going to have to come to grips with everything Riku did in KH1. Because he literally has not done that. I don't think it's going to be some over-dramatic angsty thing, I think it'll be more of a "Yeah... what he did really was messed up and I still don't know why. When I see him I'll wanna talk about it, but at least I know he's not like that anymore so that we can talk about it."
And yes, I do firmly believe Soriku is going to be one of the ultimate plot points of the series and I'm not going to tackle why that is here. I just feel like Strelitzia is going to be pushing them together when she sees them.
I do have more wants, but I can't really think of how to expand on them, so I guess I'll just briefly list them here:
Either confirmation or further evidence to the necklace theory, ideally intertwined with the "Thank Namine" plotline.
Tied to above, I'd love if somehow the necklace is an emblem of the "Child of Destiny" brought up in Dark Road.
Kairi and Lea develop a friendly rivalry, constantly motivating each other to be better.
I do NOT want Hayner, Pence, and Olette to get keyblades and I'll honestly be super annoyed if they do. In my mind, it would be as foolish as giving Donald and Goofy keyblades, because these three have other strengths I'd love to see expanded upon.
Terra gets another Mark of Mastery exam, probably alongside any other characters that want it, but I'd want it from his perspective so we see him tackle more of his internal struggle with darkness and his time serving Xehanort.
Aqua with PTSD from her time in the Realm of Darkness. We already saw a glimpse of it in Re:Mind and I don't want it to get dropped.
Strelitzia actually fights and maybe even playable Strelitzia segments. We never actually saw her in combat in Ux, just saw her with her keyblade out. I can easily see her filling a similar role to Aerith in FFVIIR.
Ava. ...I just want something with Ava. Confirmation that she was Kairi's grandma, a mention of where she is now, anything. Literally I just want to know what's going on with her. Because unless she was Kairi's grandma, Luxu was the last one to see her, and that was FOREVER ago.
While Mickey's in Scala ad Caelum, there is confirmation that Riku, and possibly Kairi, originate from Scala ad Caelum. Or at least in Riku's case that his family originated from there, which leads to...
Riku is Ephemer's descendent, which I'm not going to go super into, but it would feed further into the necklace theory and would explain a LOT about him.
Ven and Roxas interactions... more than just a head nod at each other, please!
Xion and Namine friendship and I WANT TO SEE THEM BOTH HAPPY. Tie this into my Kairi growth game!
Utada makes another song based on Sora and Riku. We have confirmation Sanctuary/Passion is about them and their reunion in KH2, and analyzing the lyrics to Chikai/Don't Think Twice fits more with them than anyone else. So, more, please!
And then there's things I'd want from Missing Link, but that doesn't fit in here and I don't have enough wants to justify making a list...
I may reblog myself with more wants down the line.
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I'm really late with this question but, given that in the kh4 trailer they show donald and goofy looking for sora in reality, do you think we could see a dual story with sora in unreality learning about the MOM and kairi in reality learning about luxu and the foretellers, which is something that alot of the fandom seams to be forgeting about like, what are they gonna do? why did the foreteller's get brought to the future? where is ava? so many questions, and i think kairi's training would be a perfect avenue to reval these things to us through
Thanks for the ask! It's interesting you bring up Luxu and the Foretellers, because when I finished KH3, that was the element of the ending I was the most excited about, so I enjoy speculating about what their roles might be moving forward.
I also wondered about the glimpse of that cutscene we saw of Donald and Goofy. At the very least I think we'll get cutscenes like that scattered throughout the game showing Sora's friends in reality looking for clues to help him. Gameplay would be good too, and there might be a higher chance of that for the Keyblade-wielding characters at least? Like we might get moments in KH4 where we temporarily play as Riku, Aqua, Roxas, Kairi, etc. similar to what happened in KH3 and ReMind.
I'd love to see more moments of Kairi too, and I agree that connecting her to Luxu and the Foretellers would be a good way to do that. Since she's training with Aqua and presumably Terra and Ven are around as well, it would be a good way to involve them with the main storyline. It would be fun to see them sleuthing around trying to find out more about the Lost Masters, especially given that very brief moment we saw of Kairi in that teaser for Birth By Sleep Volume 2 (which it seemed to be scrapped and/or shortened into what became 0.2) that showed her investigating the Old Mansion with Hayner, Pence, and Olette:
(Then again, this same teaser trailer also foreshadowed Sora disappearing...
...so it's possible some of the concepts we saw in it that didn't get used for 0.2 might still get used down the line? Nomura pls)
I do think eventually that whatever Sora's learning/dealing with regarding the Master of Masters and whatever his friends are discovering about Luxu and the Foretellers in the Realm of Light will converge into a single cohesive narrative, perhaps at the very end of KH4 to set up the next game? I get the vibe that Sora will be fighting the Foretellers throughout this next saga culminating with him facing off against the Master of Masters at the very end of it.
My crackish theory for several years now has been that the Master of Masters is going to trick Sora into helping him return to reality and that's where the final showdown will be, but I could also see everyone going to Quadratum instead.
I'm hoping we get a few more crumbs of information soon to speculate off of lol, the KH4 reveal trailer was beautiful but I need more food to create better theories (and to avoid getting too attached to theories that might get jossed down the line).
Thanks for the ask!
Screenshots are from here.
#kingdom hearts#kh#kh4#kingdom hearts 4#kh speculation#kh4 speculation#sora#kairi#luxu#the foretellers#aqua#terra#ventus#master of masters#the master of masters#keybladebard#long post
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Edit: Somehow, my queue glitched and posted this earlier this week, so hopefully~ this works out-
Golly, another @khoc-week has come and gone, time sure flies when you're having fun-
Thank you for another AWESOME week full of such fun OCs!!! I love seeing everyone's creativity shine through their characters, it's like a small look into everyone's brains where we can admire the little worms living in there... in a good way!
Whether they're freshly hatched or well aged, these silly guys always bring me so much joy! :)
Genuinely, I wish I had the energy to interact with every single one of them, so instead I will blow them all a kiss from afar!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ They are what makes this week of the year truly special!
Beware, I will be lurking in tags ready to pounce on every OC I see after this is over I'm OBSESSED- (jk jk... unless?)
Onwards, then, to the final prompt of the year!!
Day 7 - Happily Ever After
Now, alas I've been following the canon timeline and filling in gaps with my own fun worldbuilding, characters and lore, so by all rights their stories are not gonna reach a happy ending for a WHILE (writing? who is she?), however the hypotheticals are always a good way to cope with that!
What their endings have reached so far while we're in lore hiatus (waiting endlessly for Missing Link and KH4... jk jk I hope they take their time tbh-) is that ideally after KH3, while everyone is looking for Sora, they're world jumping and clearing out remaining hoards of darkness together as a crew, alongside Reixen for more bonding time, in a variety of new places! They solve some mysteries surrounding their own personal character arcs and learn things about themselves they never considered, it's a real eye opener. Day 2 kinda hints at that with my picks of places I want them to go to fulfill that! At this rate, they may just be a series of oneshots...
Of course, it all eventually HAS to end, so here's some loose ends and how they may tie them up!
Iris:
Considering Iris ended up in the future, of course she has to cope with the reality that the worlds she knew are gone, or at least have yet to be restored (aside from Daybreak Town there's no repairing that-). Plus the existential crisis of having technically been dead AND given a new, puppet-esque body to inhabit. Lucky, she is, to even be here to begin with.
At the same time, she's helping Alto regain his memories from the same era they both managed to escape in some way. Being repeatedly reincarnated kinda screws some things up along the way, so it's a long haul process for the both of them to come to terms with.
Depending on what happens with the Scala ad Caelum plotline, they may both travel there, or to what's left of it, for closure, as well as to learn about the culture there to see what became of it after they were both long gone. Pay their respects to Alto's pal Ephemer and all that.
Her ending ideally is moving on and learning to live in a time she didn't anticipate seeing, which should be simple in theory since she's so young. She stays with Irene and Alto in Radiant Garden, and together with Alto they both take up lessons with Merlin and Yen Sid to learn more modern Keyblade skills, eventually (despite being Keyblade Master precursors) they are granted the titles of Master and help protect the universe.
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Irene:
She returns to her job, forever changed by her experiences, and helps her fellow castle staff move on and forgive themselves for the horrors they had to go through. It's a long haul process, but it will be worth it!
She finds herself a comfy living place in Radiant Garden to offer as a safe space for those she grew close to when they need it, where she essentially adopts Alto and Iris, since they don't really have a place to go that isn't rooming with a wizard or an on-the-road teenager. From time to time she also travels to Twilight Town to visit Reixen and her found family (maybe attending her polycule wedding at some point), but otherwise seems perfectly content staying put. Maybe the occasional visit from Iliana, as a treat. That doesn't require much aside from constant pestering, really.
While readapting to life a decade later than she's used to is a hassle in of itself, she seems to do it with grace, which is impressive considering she was presumed dead for said decade-
She also has that wonderful romance with Russell, as they deserve, and they both get to retire at some point knowing they have their chance to heal from all the suffering they experienced... and with more adopted kids than they know what to do with-
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Iliana:
What I envision for her is kind of complicated and long, so I'll try to keep it short-
Ideally, she gets to save her world once and for all while also getting rid of Igni, which almost costs her her life (nothing is allowed to be easy with Igni, as we've learned from Day 4-). So afterwards she's in recovery surrounded by the loved ones she gained along the way. For how long? Who's to say, miss ma'am will either be MIA or in a comatose sleep (jk jk... unless?) so it depends entirely on her and the awful side effects of Igni's possession tbh-
Chronically ill? With Igni goo disease? More likely than you think!
On the bright side, she finally gets to reunite with her brother in this timeline, though later than intended, and the two eventually take off on a journey of self discovery! Or they probably camp out with their uncle for a while before they do that, either way. They make up for lost time and get to grow together as people while also tying up a whole heap of loose ends their pasts left behind. A whole heap is nothing to sneeze at in this case-
In between, she makes time to check in on various allies as well as hang out with (her nerdy now bf) Ienzo. They have a funky long distance relationship because of her travels, so she surprises him with her presence when she can.
Maybe she gets an engineering degree, who knows? Certainly not me, at least not yet.
I like to think she eventually takes on apprentices or something and is probably the most annoying mentor known to the universe, especially if one of her apprentices is conveniently a secret younger sibling (I joke but... maybe-).
Nothing will be easy, of course some stupid new plot will pop up and she'll have even more nonsense to deal with, but that's a later issue to think about.
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And finally, they all get therapy ♥
They're doomed by the narrative to be absolutely demolished but can never truly die, so it's only fair they can live out somewhat happy and fulfilling lives despite every up and down I throw at them!
That's all I've got for this prompt, thank y'all for another wonderful KHOC Week and I will see y'all next year!!
Or in the tags, I'm always in the tags. :3c
#sham's art#shamsbabs#iris#irene#iliana#alto#reixen#mandorian#igni#master igni#the last 4 in passing mention#khoc week#khoc week 2023#WOOOO FINAL PROMPT#i love my girlies sm they make my brain go hee hoo at mach 10 speeds#10 years of iliana!!! i love how far she's come as a character#and i love the world and characters i built in tow#even if 75% is just canon stuff LMAO#tis whatever either way i've never had more fun with such content so i'm feeling pretty good babey#kh oc#kingdom hearts oc#khux oc#digital doodles
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One thing that gives me some hope for more of a spotlight on Kairi in future games (not necessarily KH4 which might be The Solo Sora game) is the reintroduction of her anger in MoM
in KH1 and 2, we see her speak up for Sora in anger ("I won't let him go!" and "You leave Sora alone!") and in KH3/ReMind she fights alongside of the other Guardians of Light. what changes is that in MoM, she gets upset at Memory-Nort, calling him out for not only messing with everyone's lives but also her own
it a good step in showing a different side to her, especially since we now know the real mastermind behind all of this. how she'll react to the Master of Masters should be fun and cathartic to see (hopefully)
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I don’t think you ever told us what your thoughts on kh4 are? When you saw the trailer for the first time? Your initial thoughts, and thoughts on it now?
I was both surprised and not surprised it got announced in the first place because 1) it was during the KH anniversary event that it got announced and 2) I feel it was a little too early to announce it (since it could risk having a repeat of KH3)
It was interesting for sure. I could summarize my thoughts as:
Strelitzia definitely took me by surprise. I had a feeling we'd somehow see her again (ngl I was one of those that believed at first she was the nameless star), but knowing we're doing so by having interact with Sora is intriguing for me. I'm really looking forward to seeing them interact.
I have mixed feelings on the irl setting. Although we'd seen it already in KH3's secret ending now that we were shown an actual city with actual people and buildings and cars and everything I'm very apprehensive on how Nomura plans to use it considering that KH is supposed to be more about the fantastical cartoonish setting. Guess I'll just have to wait.
Seeing Donald and Goofy in the Underworld gave me hope that KH's essence wouldn't be completely lost. I also liked the idea that they are there in the first place because for all they know Sora might be dead and it's worth searching the place out (and Dark Road showed that dead characters can really be contacted through the Underworld so that's neat.
My thoughts right now haven't changed much, other than I don't expect to see an update on the game development's until maybe two more years. These things take time.
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Kairi
Send Me a Character
And I will tell you my:
First impression
Oh she's so adorable and cool, I like her :]
Impression now
Honey what did they do to you
Favorite moment
Probably the scene where she shields heartless sora in kh1, that was so sweet 😭
Idea for a story
For a while I've kinda wanted to write a kairi centric au (canon divergence starting from the end of kh3) kinda based on wandavision? Mostly revolving around her grief due to losing sora, never really getting to have the relationship and wanted w him and piles of survivor's guilt, that also plays around w the idea of how much power she could hold as a princess of heart and MoM taking interest in that. Probably won't find the time to actually write that though lol
Unpopular opinion
DON'T SHOOT ME BUT LIKE. I actually really loved the ending of khmom. Like, a lot. I'm not including the dumbass decision to turn her into sora for the xehanort fight in that bc I wanted her to at least get to take him on again properly in her own goddamn mind but like. Her deciding to stay and train and let riku go to quadratum alone was good.
Maybe in another universe where she was handled better from the start it'd make more sense for her to go, but they've underutilized kairi for so long in a way that would make her going to quadratum and being good at it feel... Painfully fanservicey and insincere as it is. At most I'd expect her to fight a couple neoshadows before getting kidnapped by like aced or something silly like that, unfortunately.
We've already seen that despite the amount of time she had to train, she didn't have the resources or environment needed for that training to be GOOD, and she's not magically gonna become an ultimate badass all of a sudden (without it feeling terrible at least). Aqua is an amazing wielder and looking to her for training could be fantastic for them both, as well as giving potential for her to learn and grow in a less high stakes scenario, which I think she needs. She trusts Riku to be able to do this, and she wants to fight at both their sides when she's ready - if we get to see some of her learning PROPERLY unlike her training with lea in kh3, this good be good, and could set up for a genuinely good destiny trio party fight in a future game, or even the end of kh4. They fucked up w her in the past, and to fix that they need to do it carefully and meaningfully.
(also like, the whole girlbossification mom-friend-who-holds-the-brain-cell of every female character is unnecessary and getting tiring, and her coming to the conclusion that she doesn't care for fighting but wants to help in another way could be equally satisfying lmao)
Favorite relationship
The one that gets me most is probably her connection to naminé, tbh. Really hope we get more of them in the future, her little speech to lea in kh3 about wanting to save naminé was my favourite scene of hers in the game.
Favorite headcanon
I like to hc that the paopu genuinely did create some kinda deep rooted heart connection between her and sora - it may not have linked then quite in the way that she was going for but it makes them like... A lot more attuned to what the other is feeling even when they're not around each other???? I don't mean in like a shippy way (I don't even ship them lol), but they're able to see what the other feels and help them out when they need it. This also applies to thoughts occasionally and they use it to fuck w each other once things calm down like, waking each other at 3am from completely different places bc kairi got a really annoying song stuck in her head and now she's gotta plague sora with it too, stuff like that lol
#lullaby-snowangel8#ask#ask game#thanks for this one!!!! hoo boy haven't been full kh fandom in like 2 years but i guess i still have Thoughts#kairi is so interesting and i really hope she's handled better in the future.#genuinely think khmom's ending was the best thing to happen to her development in years no matter how much in the minority i am w that#kairi#kh
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Things I want in KH4 or any upcoming game:
Reuniting of the dandelions, Lauriam and Elrena got their memories back and I wonder what they will do know, will they join up with the other keyblade wielders and give them some information on what happend in Union? Will Ventus remember that?
I really want to see the Lauriam and Ventus reunion (and knowing that Strelitzia is with Sora in Quadratum, I hope that these three meet up) and their dynamic
And Skuld, I want to know what happend to her my current strongest theory is that she is subject x, but we still don't have any confirmation on that (and please correct me if I'm wrong)
Of course I want to see more of Luxu, what will he do and how will he act? Will he follow MoM plan? Personally I don't think so, but I guess that is another wait and see. With him in mind I want to see Ava too and what she was doing or where she is. Because to me the cutscene at the end of 3 sounded a little bit like Luxu knew where she was and what she is doing.
Another Luxu thing I want to see is him meeting with the others from radiant garden and how that will play out
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I think truly one of the most devious things that Nomura ever did to us was tricking us into believing that Sora was a static character.
With all these other characters around him going through sweeping, morally complex character arcs around him--Riku, Roxas, Xion, take your pick--it was so easy for us to write Sora off as the one true constant throughout the series. He was always cheerful, happy-go-lucky, endearingly dense, always peppily proclaiming his "my friends are my power!" mantras. Heck, even the other characters were reinforcing this--the "that's Sora for you"s, the "he never changes," the sidelong glances at each other. This underlying narrative of Sora's simplicity, his sameness, is layed on especially thick in Kingdom Hearts 3--so thick that it's almost suspicious.
But if you take a closer look at his character arc throughout the series, it's so obvious that this simply isn't the case--especially in DDD and KH3. Through his encounters with both new friends and enemies, he's had to readjust his definitions of morality and justice, and has had to mature to meet each new threat. However, while his character growth has been mostly positive, I'm not sure that this is 100 percent the case.
One thing that is especially telling is his reaction to Kairi being swept up by the Demon Tide at the end of KH3. This is not the same reaction he's had to losing Kairi before, such as at the beginning and end of KH1. Sure, he was extremely worried and saddened, but it was still punctuated by a hope and belief that they would see each other again. This is not the case in KH3--it's agony. Devastation. It's been three years and I still can't stop thinking about that raw, gut-wrenching scream ripped from his throat. Up to that point in the series, we had never seen Sora completely devoid of hope like this--and it was scary.
His reaction was that of pure frustration, frustration that the cycle that has occurred over and over again won't quit repeating--you love someone, they are taken away from you, you get them back, they are ripped away from you again. I think what's so disturbing about this to us is that characters (especially in "children's" media) don't normally have this level of awareness. "Lost loved ones" is an extremely popular trope in children's media, often used to the point of abuse, but the fact that it repeats is often gone unrecognized by the characters involved.
But not by Sora. He has a level of awareness here that we've never associated with him before. He sees the cycle, he wants it to stop--but to make it stop would be a betrayal of everything he stands for. To stop it would require something drastic.
“My whole journey began the day I lost her. And every time I find her...she slips away again. I thought we'd finally be together. But she's out there, alone.
...Not for one more second."
Am I saying that we're going to get a "Sora is the Master of Masters reveal"? No, not necessarily. But I am saying that I don't think the Sora that we see in KH4 is going to be the same boy that we knew.
#this has been on the brain for awhile but the new trailer dug it up#this was not supposed to be a long post lol#kingdom hearts#kh4#kingdom hearts 4#kh sora#kh riku#kh xion#kh roxas#kh3#kingdom hearts 3
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I just realized something very upsetting
Kairi has only seen Sora’s victories while Riku has only seen Sora’s failures.
Was watching this edit (it’s good go watch it) and it occurred to me that?? Kairi has never seen Sora be weak? And Riku has never seen Sora win and I realized this is because of the nature of the adventures Sora goes on; Riku is by his side on this adventures while Kairi is either waiting for him to come back or absent entirely.
Riku has seen all of Sora’s weaknesses. He’s seen him cry, lose faith in himself, feel weak, be attacked, be so desperate for his friends that he spreads himself thin across the universe but Kairi has only ever see Sora be “weak” once when he broke down in front of Riku but who knows if she interpreted that as joy or as him finally letting go because he was so worried over Riku.
She wasn’t there in DDD. She wasn’t there when Sora said he was worthless without his friends. She was there when Sora and Riku took on Xemnas and promised to go home, but she got separated once they actually fought and didn’t see how close the fight between them was. She was there when her and Sora fought Xehanort and won. You see what I’m getting at?
Kairi has never seen Sora be weak and the entirely influences how she sees him. “I hope you stay the same cheerful sora I know” but we know Sora isn’t always cheerful. Riku knows Sora isn’t always cheerful. He maintains the idea because Sora’s happiness gives him strength but he isn’t disbelieving when he sees for himself Sora’s negative emotions.
And riku, having briefly been an antagonist and then exiling himself, only saw one time sora have a good ending which was returning to Destiny islands and Kairi. But he wasn’t there when Sora defeated Ansem. He was there for the Xemnas fight but it wasn’t much of a victory since they were that close to losing and Riku was hurt plus they went to the realm of darkness. Riku is the one who dragged sora out of his dreams and saw him fail his test. He wasn’t there when Sora beat Xehanort and saw how unsatisfied Sora was before he went after Kairi.
Idk. It was just interesting to me and explains a lot about how Rikai see Sora. And it shows that Riku and Sora have a much deeper bond than Kairi has with either of them because Sora has also seen Riku in despair but neither have ever seen Kairi like that or vice versa. I really hope kh4 will push the bonds of Destiny Trio and we can see this development because there is definitely something they can do with the shallowness of their bond (many people comment on how of all the trios they’re feel the least close) and give them a deeper relationship in the process. Please make them realize how little they know each other and strive to know more!!!
#og#kingdom hearts#kh#sora kh#riku kh#kairi kh#character studies#technically#relationship study#relationship analysis#character analysis#kh4#kingdom hearts 4#sorikai#Soriku#sokai#rikai
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