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So I’ve been debating back and forth whether or not to do this because I knew it was gonna be a lot of work. But you know what? Screw it!

Here’s a cohesive list and description of all, 2+ hours (I think…), of my KH (mostly KHUX) animation ideas

You know… in case someone cares lol

(Four things before we start)

(If you look at a script and there’s nothing there, try looking at the comments, chances are I’ll have notes on the side)

(If a idea has a script the descriptions will most likely be more vague. I need to save time somehow lol)

(Unless it’s Xehaqus or Soriku, shipping wasn’t the intent but if that’s what floats your boat don’t let me sink it)

(No pressure to read all of these descriptions and scripts or listen to all the songs or whatever. It is so much and I know that. I honestly appreciate that you even clicked/tapped "Keep Reading" lol)

Let’s start off with my…

Pre-UX Finale Ideas

These ideas tend to be a bit outside of cannon/outdated now but they still haunt me when the song comes on

This is also the most you will get of any non-UX character lol

Song: Ready as I’ll Ever Be

Character(s)/Game Focus: KH 1 (endgame)

Description: Varian’s sections are Riku pre possession (first part when he steals ‘Sora’s’ keyblade, last part him getting possessed by Ansem). Cassandra’s sections and the “I’ll save my home and family” is the Radiant Garden Restoration Committee doing things to help (what I presume they were doing before they just kinda, show up at Hollow Bastion), and Rapunzel and her dad’s(??) sections as well as the “prove they can trust me” are Sora and the Beast.

This idea is primarily lip sync and not really specific scenes. More so just a point in time

Length: 2:04 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yes, as an animatic (I don’t think my description did it much justice since it really is mostly lip sync, but there’s very vivid images of it in my mind)

Song: Meet Me in the Woods

Character(s)/Game Focus: Lea/Axel

Description: An animation depicting Lea/Axel’s life starting with him and Isa finding Subject X (the “journey to the unknown”). “The darkness getting ahold of them” is referring becoming Ansem’s apprentices and their eventual initiation into the Organization because of it. The music between verses is the early days of them in the Organization then shifts to Roxas’ early days there. “How long baby have I been away” is post-Castle Oblivion. The first chorus is the Sea Salt Trio kinda becoming a trio. “Yeah the truth is stranger than my own worst dreams” is him learning about Xion being a replica. Then right after is everything falling apart for the trio. The second chorus going into the wind down is Axel/Lea’s redemption and KH3 stuff (keyblade war too before it starts to slow down). Then at the end when it really slows down is the Sea Salt Trio’s reunion.

Length: 4:23 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: I want to say yes but chances are no, this one doesn’t even have a script but I might give it one for sticking around so long

Song: Unravel

Character(s)/Game Focus: Heart Hotel/Sortas (Sora, Ven, Roxas, Xion, Vanitas)

Description: First section is UX Ven. Post first drop to "that is where I'll live on" is Xion (just her story in Days). The section ends with her dying then switches to Roxas after her death for the 'angry part' (fighting Riku) then when the music chills out a bit he returns to Sora. Then when its the instrumental of the chorus we start Vanitas' section/BBS Ventus' section. The "breakable, unbreakable" back and forth is basically their talk before their big fight in Ven's heart, which starts at the "I won't let you contaminate me!" (from Ven) but the scene cuts before they start to fight. The next part is Sora in DDD. The part where they're repeating "Don't forget me" is when Riku is in Sora's heart talking to each Sorta (and Vanitas is there too I guess). Order is the same as in the game with Vani in there somewhere (unless Xion isn't last, she needs to be the last one). The part where they repeat the first line is the scene in KH3 where its 'revealed' Sora has other hearts withing him.

Length: 5:21 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Same as the previous, I love it but I’ve built it up so much in my head I don’t think I could do it justice, I'll make it a script eventually

Song: Don’t Make Me

Character(s)/Game Focus: Lauriam

Description: This one is definitely outdated. Like it pre-dates the update where Lauriam actually finds out that the NULs know his sister is dead (the script obviously has been updated since then but I think the fact that it is that old still kinda shows). But yeah Don’t Make Me is basically Lauriam slowly becoming more suspicious of everyone and really really hoping none of them had anything to do with his sister’s disappearance. Because if they were he might just end up being a villain in their story. Again really old, so my interpretation of events were kinda off since I hadn’t seen all the cutscenes a bajillion times, but I think it’d make a fun AU.

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 3:10 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: I don’t think so, the time for it has come and passed… like almost 3 years ago now

Song: Help Me

Character(s)/Game Focus: Subject X (Skuld)

Description: Subject X is in her cell and is contacted by the ghosts of the Radiant Garden scientists’ previous victims.

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 1:20 (0:00-1:20)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No, I decided to scrap this one a while ago

Song: Cold Feet

Character(s)/Game Focus: Mostly KH 3 and 4 (whenever it comes out)

Description: Patience is the game for this one. The idea is incomplete until Riku finds Sora but here’s my thoughts so far. Before the first chorus it’s a bunch of events from Sora’s story leading up to Riku’s sacrifice. The sacrifice is then the chorus (“cold, cold feet”, is Riku stepping forward etc etc). The drop is Sora reviving everyone and resetting the timeline and stuff and the rest of KH3 if there’s enough room. The “wherever you are I wish you well” to “they’re not ringing for me” is Riku being angsty about Sora’s disappearance, looking for him and stuff. The “couldn’t do a thing to make you stay” to “one hell of a story” is Kairi being angsty about it. The pre-chorus is the stuff with the Fairy Godmother and the Final World in MelMem and there’s the cut off. The rest I just gotta wait for I guess lol

Length: Full Song?? (Depends on KH4)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Unlikely but I’ll probably script it out to soothe my mind

Song: Stuff is Way

Character(s)/Game Focus: Vanitas

Description: Basically the animation meme, just Vanitas lip syncing for most of it. The second voice is Xehanort. The images behind would just be various flashes of his life.

Length: 1:36 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: As much as I want to, probably not

Song: The Other Side of Paradise

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ventus

Description: Basically just the scene where Ven walks in on Lauriam attacking Brain and decides it’s a good time to confess to murder. The first two lines are just Ven lip syncing. Then Lauriam attacks for the next line two lines. Darkness leaves Ventus on “caught up in a grip when we where us”. “Fingers in a fist like you might run” is Lauriam tightening his fist around his Keyblade. And the last three lines are a shot of Darkness, and shot of the NULs, and then a shot of the two standing across from each other.

I could’ve sworn I had this scripted out somewhere but I searched all my google accounts and nothing… must’ve been on paper.

Length: 1:01 (3:39-4:40)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Maybe, this one is very vivid in my mind, but its been around for years, and I still haven't touched it so...

Song: I can Go the Distance

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ventus

Description: Purely headcanon based on how I feel Ven’s character might go in the future. Basically about Ven (Post-KH3) going out and trying to find out more about his past. Find the friends from his dream. One of the ones he mentioned he had while while within Sora (“these people I didn’t recognize and weird animal creatures” which I assume are the NULs and Chirithies/Spirits). Mostly just him singing to himself around the Land of Departure (then other worlds he’s exploring during the second half of the song). Herc’s mom and dad are Aqua and Terra.

Length: 3:03 (Full Scene)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Depends on how whether or not Ven actually goes looking

Song: I’m not Fine

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ventus

Description: Just UX Ven vibes really, I try not to think too much about it since I’ll never be able to go forward with it.

Length: 3:29 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No, the artist prefers you don’t animate their songs without permission

Song: And the Day Goes On

Character(s)/Game Focus: Xion

Description: The song is kinda goofy and nonsensical but I think it actually really works with Xion's story. The first verse is her normal, missions and some identity issues thrown in for fun. The second is her going to Castle Oblivion. The first chorus is the trio at the clocktower. The third verse is the stuff with Naminé, DiZ, and Riku. The second chorus is her going back and fighting Roxas. The post chorus is her dying and returning to Sora. And the rest of the song is post KH3, just hanging out with her pals (and Isa lol).

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 2:12 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Mayhaps, this one is one of my favourite non-UX ideas

Song: Graveyard

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ventus

Description: Basically Ven's journey through BBS. This one would have the lyrics on screen. The chorus would be the pretty much the same every time. The majority of the chorus would be a looping run animation. The "they say" and "to the graveyard" parts being the variables. For the former the character to the side of the text 'speaking' changes each time and the later the location Ven ends up is different each time. Everything post "it's funny how the warning signs can feel like they're butterflies" is BBS' final battle.

Length: 3:13 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No, I don't think so

Song: Don’t do Sadness/Blue Wind

Character(s)/Game Focus: Lauriam and Strelitzia

Description: Lauriam after realizing Strelitzia is dead and singing down the streets about how he doesn’t have time to be sad, he has to be strong and stuff. Strelitzia’s ghost follows him trying to help him feel his emotions. Then at the end he cries and Strelitzia disappears.

Length: 1:12 (3:53-5:05)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yes, as an animatic, I actually tried to start it a few years ago (here) but if it do finish it I’ll remake it

Song: Revolution

Character(s)/Game Focus: Marluxia

Description: Marluxia in Castle Oblivion having some flashbacks because of Sora and Naminé and stuff.

Script Link

Length: 0:22 (1:21-1:43)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Probably not, its just old and I don't really feel like it anymore

Song: Empty Crown

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ava

Description: Ava during the Keyblade War right as Kingdom Hearts is summoned.

Script Link

Length: 0:26 (3:08-3:34)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: It’s done actually, here

Song: The Valley

Character(s)/Game Focus: Franchise Wide

Description: This one covers so much in a kinda disjointed way, if it described it here it’d be like twice the length of the others. I’d recommend just reading the script.

Script Link

Length: 2:57 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: It’s up on YouTube as an open MAP (here)

Song: Crazy

Character(s)/Game Focus: Luxu/Xigbar

Description: The first verse is mostly just shots of Luxu on the hill reminiscing about what MoM told him before sending him off, then the chorus is him still on the hill singing to No Name. The second verse and chorus is the scene where Ava confronts him. The “my hero’s had the heart to lose the lives I wanna live” to “ever since I was little x2 it looked like fun” is the Forteller’s in Keyblade War and flashbacks to Luxu felling left out and stuff. The “and it’s no coincidence I’ve come” is a transition to Xigbar. The rest of the song is the scene where Xigbar summons back the Foretellers.

Length: 2:59 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Probably not

Song Video: The Rain

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ephemer

Description: So this one has been tweaked a bit. Before UX ended I was pretty positive Ephemer was gonna die, so it was originally centred around that. Now though its Ephemer in the Lifeboat, floating in the water, alone, questioning what he did wrong, why none of his friends are there. Which I think works better, honestly.

Length: 0:36 (Full Video)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Maybe, I like this one a lot and it’s quite simple but I think it may get beaten out by newer projects

Song: Youth

Character(s)/Game Focus: The NULs (Ephemer, Skuld, Brain, Ven, Lauriam)

Description: I think this song fits so well with KHUX, I like lost my mind when I made the connection. Like that whole first verse? So on the nose it hurts. The first verse, pre-chorus and chorus would focus specifically on UX, with the first verse being Ava talking about/to Ephemer, then it following Ephemer through the events of Union X. The next verse is Subject X (Skuld) having vague memories of UX. Then next the pre-chorus and chorus follows Ven through BBS. The following pre-chorus and chorus are Marluxia. And the last “pre-chorus” is Brain in Scala (I originally thought he was the founder so my original idea kinda holds up).

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 3:54 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Despite how well it works, probably not, just doesn’t ensnare me like other ideas (I say after writing a whole paragraph about it)

Song: There Right There (Gay or European)

Character(s)/Game Focus: The LowerClassmen (Eraqus, Vor, Bragi, Hermod, Urd, Xehanort)

Description: 🎶Gay or an off worlder🎶

The LowerClassmen at various points in time arguing about whether Xehanort is an off worlder or gay because as soon as he showed up Vor gaydar went off. Bragi uses advanced tactics to try and get Xehanort to admit it. And when Xehanort denies it Eraqus comes in. Also the part where Urd says “Metro, hetero, jerk” I like to imagine she’s gesturing aggressively towards Bragi, who is just staring at her confused like “I’m not even straight??” (Urd has no gaydar, fight me lol).

The script is just which character is saying what

Script Link

Length: 3:28 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Probably, I try to resist but this idea will win out eventually, I can feel it

UX Finale Era Ideas

You’d think there’d be more since this was one of the peaks of my hyperfixation but I actually was just writing and drawing a bunch during this time, not listening to a lot of music lol (also Neo came out and stole my attention until Christmas because I watched Tennelle and Whitney play it as they were streaming it)

I also got really stuck on making the scripts look a certain way during this time and that led to a lot of them being incomplete

Song: Blackout

Character(s)/Game Focus: UX Endgame

Description: Literally the UX Endgame, starting with Darkness knocking Ven out.

Script Link

Length: 2:11 (1:30-3:41)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Depends on how many animations I make of the same events lol

Song: Choice

Character(s)/Game Focus: UX

Description: This one, like Stuff is Way is an animation meme, semi inspired by the one Blackie Sootfur made. "Love" is Lauriam and Strelitzia since that's what their stories revolve around (different types mind you). "Brain" is, uh, well, Brain, for obvious reasons. "Heart" is Ephemer and Skuld since it was the open space and they're also besties. And "control" is Ventus since he's lowkey possessed. The rest of the meme outside of the loop is centered around Ven's whole "oops murder" plot and his and the other's reactions too it.

Script Link

Length: 0:40 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Working on it right now actually

Song: Soldier

Character(s)/Game Focus: UX Endgame

Description: Starts with Luxu and MoM talking, then some glitches on the "Ooh"s , the rest is Chi trio during the finale

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 2:07 (1:38-3:45)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Maybe, a lot of my ideas have very similar scenes though, so it depends on how often I animate the same events lol

Song: Warriors

Character(s)/Game Focus: The Foretellers

Description: Kinda headcannon-y at the start, which is the MoM and the Foreteller's + Luxu when they were younger. Then on the first "Here we are, don't turn away now" it turns to them while leading their Unions and stuff leading up to the war. Then there's some Keyblade War stuff in the drop.

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 2:17 (0:00-2:17)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No, I try my best to stay away from headcannon-y stuff since I already have so many canon animation ideas I need to choose between

Song: My Way (Minor Cover)

Character(s)/Game Focus: Luxu/Bragi/Braig/Xigbar

Description: This used to be very different but got a new coat of paint and breath of life once DR came out. But yeah, kinda just Luxu living his lives.

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 4:37 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Either this one or one you see later (Dust Bowl Dance), I would like to do one but not both since they cover primarily the same events

Song: Mama Said

Character(s)/Game Focus: Brain

Description: Brain reflecting on his UX days after arriving in Scala, looking at Ephemer's statue, then lying to Sigurd lol

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 0:29 (1:54-2:23)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Its short, its sad-ish. Giving it a solid maybe

Song: Guillotine

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ephemer and Skuld

Description: Skuld has a nightmare and Ephemer comforts her and then does a dance to try and make her feel better

Length: 1:08 (0:00-1:08)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Maybe, I started it then got possessed by the next one and lost interest, but now that I’m looking back at it I’m definitely tempted to try again (just as an animatic tho)

Song: Safe and Sound

Character(s)/Game Focus: Chi Trio (Ephemer, Skuld, and Player)

Description: Basically just the Chi Trio's part of the UX finale again. Geez, guess that scene really got to me or something.

Script Link

Length: 1:36 (0:14-1:50)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yep, this one’s finished, but YouTube took the original version down so here’s the original version and here’s the YouTube version (I tried my best to find a cover that lined up properly but the original syncs up best)

Song: Oh Ana

Character(s)/Game Focus: Back Cover and UX

Description: The first section is MoM, the second is the Foretellers (telling the events of Backcover from Ava's perspective), the third is the NULs (telling the events post-glitches in UX).

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 1:14 (0:28-1:42)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: If I can sort out the MoM part I'd like to

Song: Bugbear

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ventus

Description: Just UX Ven vibes again, him feeling like an imposter and stuff (because he is)

Length: 2:54 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No, not enough clear images and scenes in my mind

Post-ML Announcement Ideas

Less Brain centric than you’d think but I’m making this a separate section because of the way they’re scripted and the ideas behind them. I got much more lax about how the scripts look and started think more about Ephemer and Brain’s futures.

So basically a lot of “I miss my friends” kind of angst

It’s also after I started reading Dandelion Seeds so there’s definitely inspiration from that in here too

Song: Hey There Delilah

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ephemer

Description: Ephemer after using the Lifeboat writing letters for the other Union Leaders. Each "different section of the song"hey ther Delilah" is a different letter (and point in time). The first and second ones are to Skuld. The third one I haven't decided yet. The forth is to Brain (I don't ship them, I just headcannon its a running joke between the two of them and Skuld that Eph and Brain are secretly madly in love. Skuld started it, Ephemer went with it, Brain is amused annoyed by it lol). Then "A thousand miles seems pretty far" to "and you're to blame" is just general, to everyone, just like a montage I guess, with some memories behind him. Then the last letter is to Brain when.

Length: 3:57 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No, I don’t think so, the idea isn’t fleshed out enough visually, but it breaks my heart to say that

Song: King and Lionheart

Character(s)/Game Focus: The NULs

Description: This one is very inspired by Dandelion Seeds, I wrote it after getting caught up to the update it was at at the time (just know that in the script every time I'm like "NULs helping the Dandelions" or "NULs having fun" there's a scene from Dandelion Seeds playing in my head there lol).

It starts off with Ava, but then pretty much follows all the events of UX.

Script Link

Length: 3:06 (0:00-3:06)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Very likely, I love this one so much. But I know for a fact that I'm gonna get stuck on making Maleficent look right in my style (which is gonna be the biggest game of trial and error ever)

Song: Uncomfortably Numb

Character(s)/Game Focus: Brain, Ava (and Luxu for like 2 seconds)

Description: A split screen animation telling both Brain and Ava's (the masculine and feminine voices respectively) stories (its only split screen during the parts they're both singing though). During the chorus where the singers are going back and forth so are the characters through space and time (not actually but you know lol). Brain's sections would take place during Missing Link, whereas Ava's are during Backcover/Chi. Ava's section alone is the scene where she confronts Luxu on the hill.

Length: 4:11 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: I don’t think so, because a) it all depends on how Missing Link goes and b) it isn’t super set in my head yet (like I might just change the all Brain stuff to Luxu)

Song: Faded

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ephemer

Description: Ansty animatic of Ephemer looking for his friends in the wreckage of his home with all sorts of water symbolism.

Length: 3:33 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No, not enough actual images in my head just a vibe for a concept (kinda like Hey There Delilah I guess)

Song: Masterpiece Theatre III

Character(s)/Game Focus: The NULs and Luxu

Description: Start of the song to a bit after the second "I'll wreck this if I have to" is UX Ven focused. Mostly angsty stuff about him being possessed. "You get separated" to "you were a friend of mine" is Ephemer during the finale. You know the drill. Player gets 'possessed' and killed, oof. Alternitively if we get a bit headcannon-y it can be after UX and him rebuilding Scala, the "You were a friend of mine" referring to a possessed Brain. All the "'cause they don't know you like I do"s are Brain in Scala. Super angry rock part is Subject X/Skuld being upset about the scientists and being unable to return to the world she sees so vaguely in her memories. Then it slows down and turns to Marluxia until the last "getting better in the worst way". After which it switches to Luxu.

Length: 6:41 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: HAHAHAH NO. Way too long and not vivid enough for some characters. I’m sorry lol

Song: We are Stars

Character(s)/Game Focus: Sora and Riku

Description: Very stylized PMV. With black and white silhouettes and funky transitions. Not very specific scene-wise but references DDD the most. I don’t know how to explain it without just saying the script so, like, check out the script if your interest is piqued lol

Script Link

Length: 0:10 (0:21-0:31)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yeah, I was thinking about making it in PowerPoint

Song: Ocean Eyes

Character(s)/Game Focus: Stelitzia

Description: Basically Strelitzia’s little intro thing she has. She sees Player get ditched by Ephemer, low key stalks Player, gets told she’s a Union Leader, needs to know whether Player is a Dandelion if a war is coming, gets murdered. All to some chill music.

Script Link

Length: 1:06 (0:00-0:42 and 2:42-3:16)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Kinda working on it now? Have a few frames done but no storyboard yet

Song: Eyes Blue X Heather

Character(s)/Game Focus: Ephemer and Brain

Description: First chorus is an older Ephemer remembering his friends and being upset that he just can't seem to remember their eye colours. Then it switches to UX Ephemer and continues to focus on him until "you played", where it switches to both him and Brain (the scene where Brain gives him the book and his keyblade). "Jack and Rose" it switches to split screen of them both at the computers at their respective versions of Daybreak Town. "But you sunk only you froze", Brain's side of the screen consumes Ephemer's as Luxu approaches him. "'Cause you gave her your sweater", Brin spins around and tries to summon his keyblade but can't. Black screen. Then the rest of the verses are Ephemer in the wreckage of his home and the last chorus is Brain arriving in Scala.

Length: 0:54 (0:00-0:54)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Ughhhhh, so tempted, but I don't think so, but I want to

Song: Lauren’s Interlude

Character(s)/Game Focus: Brain and Ava

Description: Ava writes Brain a letter telling him that she has decided to fight in the Keyblade War.

Script Link

Length: 1:13 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yep this one is made and up on my YouTube channel (here)

Song: Change your Mind (but a cover)

Character(s)/Game Focus: Isa, Xion

Description: Post-KH3 Isa singing this to Xion telling her that its okay if she doesn't want to forgive him and that he's willing to reconcile for his past actions, but if at any point she wants to actually get to know him, Isa not Saïx, she can.

Length: 0:55 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yeah, eventually

Song: Homeward Bound/Home

Character(s)/Game Focus: The NULs

Description: Similar to King and Lionheart just even more from the NULs perspective (and giving more focus to each NUL individually... except Brain... RIP lol)

Script Link

Length: 4:17 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yep, this one I’m working on making an animatic of right now

Post-DR Update Ideas

Biggest difference here is that now Baldr is here and Bragi exists so we have them now lol

Song: Dust Bowl Dance

Character(s)/Game Focus: Luxu/Bragi/Braig/Xigbar

Description: Starts with Xigbar reminiscing a little in the Keyblade Graveyard post-KH3 ("the young man sits on the edge of his porch" to "given all it could yield"). Then does a full on flashback to UX, starting with MoM sending him off and ending with his confrontation with Ava, for "I've been kicked off my land" to "this same kind of remorse". The first chrous is him during the UX finale and possessing Brain. "Well you are my accuser" to the first "I am the only son" is Bragi getting threatened by Baldr then uno reversing him. The next two choruses are Braig and Xigbar stuff, all the way up until the end of KH3. Then the goes out of the flashbacks to where we left off in the first scene. He finds No Name summons and back the Foretellers.

Length: 4:44 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Like I said earlier either this one or My Way, but not both, they're too similar (but if I’m honest I lean towards this one)

Song: I AM NOT INSANE

Character(s)/Game Focus: Baldr

Description: Alright, first things first, this is another animation meme, please watch it first to properly understand my passion and description.

K. You back? I watched this meme once and had a vision.

The falling parts show Baldr’s victims at the point in time the animation is showing. The fact that that gives me a chance to do the sickest transition ever with Baldr summoning his keyblade and slashing his victims, turning them into the blood on his face. Ahhhhhh! The way I can end it with Baldr begging for his life and Xehanort being the one to say the last “I don’t really care now” thereby paralleling them and foreshadowing Xehanort’s future crimes. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I wanna ramble more but I don’t have any more words in me, just screaming.

If you only read one script please let it be this one I’m so happy with/proud of this idea (in case you couldn’t tell lol)

Script Link

Length: 0:54 (1:14-2:08)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yes. Yes. 100 times, yes. I love this idea. I love they way it looks in my head. I just need to get a bit better at humans, and angles, and editing first

Song: Fine, Great

Character(s)/Game Focus: Brain

Description: Brain is having a TIME in Scala. Starts off with a bit of PTSD. Then some sitting at a board meeting where some people are complaining about the government (they want him to take over). Then Player shows up. Then I need to wait for ML to come out and fill in some blanks for me. Then it ends with Brain and Player being friends and having a conversation.

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 2:32 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Depends on how Missing Link goes (need it to fill some of my ideas out more)

Song: Hell of a Ride

Character(s)/Game Focus: MoM

Description: Literally just Brain watching MoM (on his computer) singing about the NULs with little pictures of events behind him then it glitches at the end. Mostly a joke but it lives within me rent free.

Length: 0:15 (1:34-1:49)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Probably, it’s short enough

Song: When the Lights Go Out

Character(s)/Game Focus: UX Endgame

Description: Very slow dramatic retelling of the UX finale, starting with the big glitches in the sky right before Wreck it Ralph that turns to a very quick, still dramatic, retelling of each of the NULs lives afterwards that I need to edit in the script (the way its written there no longer lines up with the way it looks in my head) at the big final bit.

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 2:46 (1:47-4:33)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yes, I made it simple enough up until the end that I should be able to actually finish it despite the length… but I might make it into a MAP instead if I can get enough attention from other artists for my sanity’s sake

Song: Love Don’t Go

Character(s)/Game Focus: DR

Description: Speaking of dramatic retellings. Lets change it up a little and do Dark Road this time. This ones a bit Baldr centric but it does have a decent amount of focus on what the other two active parties are doing as well.

Also in the script I say "V Gang" that's what I call Vidar, Vala, and Vali (and usually Vor but not in this case) as a group. Since, like... all their names start with V... and they work together... I dunno man lol

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Length: 2:32 (0:00-2:32)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Not alone, way too animated in my brain to actually reasonably expect to finish it all by myself, even as an animatic. But I do also love it dearly

Song: Are You Satisfied

Character(s)/Game Focus: Intended NULs (Everyone minus Ven but including Strelitzia)

Description: First half of the song is Strelitzia being told she's meant to be a Union Leader, Ephemer living his life, and Brain having to deal with actually being a Union Leader + the end of UX. The second half is Skuld as Subject X, Marluxia, wrapping up with Strelitzia again, now finding Sora in Quadratum.

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 3:19 (Full Song)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Maybe, but if I do I'll probably shorten it to just Ephemer and Brain's sections

Song: Goodbye to a World

Character(s)/Game Focus: Player and Ephemer

Description: Here I go again with the scene where Ephemer kills Player. There's a little more to it this time though, I swear. This one has a little bit more of "Ephemer built a future for his friend" flare!

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Length: 0:30 (1:44-2:14)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yep, this one’s a WIP, I’m super close to finishing it (the YouTube WIP is old) but the Scala Fountain is making me procrastinate lol

Song: Skyfall

Character(s)/Game Focus: Chi Trio

Description: A really dramatic and slow animation depicting Player's sacrifice and the events before it

Length: 2:00 (0:00-2:00)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Probably not, I already have so many animations I want to do more with that one scene, and this one is looong

Song: Don’t Tell Your WIFE About This Game!

Character(s)/Game Focus: Brain

Description: Nope, this isn’t a joke, hear me out. The… drop?? meltdown?? of this song just really gives me Brain vibes, and a very specific image in my mind. I mean “you refuse to look at the guide ‘cause you think you’re way too smart”, this kid literally had the Book of Prophecies this whole time, and I mean sure, it was probably a trap but he didn’t exactly know that. And the whole video game motif fitting right in with data world stuff? Eating it up. Giving Brain a non-cannon breakdown moment? Necessary for that emotional high note (but also Brain should get to have a canon one *preemptively does vaguely threatening gestures towards ML*).

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Length: 0:40 (2:21-3:01)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Yes, I was thinking this could be my project once we get a proper release date for ML (so I could release it the day it comes out)

Song: It’s about Time

Character(s)/Game Focus: Skuld

Description: This one covers all of Skuld’s story we know so far, minus the Subject X stuff (yes my money is still on her, thanks), with a twist. The song talks about being on a tightrope so why not put her on one. Like, she’s been through some pretty precarious situations. It’s symbolic. Also the I’d cut the song right through the middle. RIP first chorus and second verse, you didn’t fit in my vision.

Oh also this one has concept art

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 2:44 (0:00-1:07 and 2:09-3:46)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: No clue, the concept art might’ve scratched my itch, but I also think it’s a fun idea, but I think all of these are fun so…

Song: Moonsickness

Character(s)/Game Focus: Brain

Description: Brain is upset with the way history is so muddled in Scala, has a flashback, then yells at the government

Script Link (Incomplete)

Length: 1:38 (3:52-5:14)

Do I plan on actually making it some day?: Depends on how much Missing Link fits into my current headcannons

Whoo! That’s all of them

Or, well… most of them… the ones I felt were worth mentioning.

Is this a cry for help? Definitely. Maybe.

Seriously though, thank you for getting this far into the post. Even if you didn’t read and/or listen to everything (I get it, it really is a lot). This took forever and I hope you found some enjoyment from it.

And hey, if any of these sparked your interest let me know. DM me, tell me in tags, what have you. I’d love to hear feedback

Especially if you were inspired enough to want to do a collab or have ideas for blank spots in scripts (I’ll love you forever if you want to help me /p /hj) .

#I have a very active mind #and it uses all of its energy listening to music torturing me with animations #If by any chance a miracle happens and any of these catch your eye (like you wanna collab with me) let me know #I’m always down getting any of these ideas out of my head will bring me such joy #Hey its the me that's actually finished this now #this took like two weeks on and off lol #I'm so glad its done #such a satisfying experience to finally get some of these out there and out of my head #kh animation ideas #khux #(only tagging this KHUX ‘cause that’s pretty much all it is lol)#sometimes i think about khux

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16) 18) and 21) for brilin? I was thinking that they can be combined into one, but you could also choose one or two out of them. I do however demand them cuddling (if you feel like writing it ❤️ obv haha)

From this prompts list: 50 Reasons to Share a Bed

16) Because I prefer your heartbeat as my sound-soother,

18) Because I prefer your weight to my weighted blanket, and

21) Because you feel most protected with me.

I shared part of this story back in February wow has it been that long?! *checks calendar* Holy hell this ask was submitted back in January. Welp, and now I'm finally sharing it after months and months of stressing over the ending... I'm trying to embrace the mantra: "finished, not perfect", so I hope you like it!

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Title: Stay the Night

Pairing: Tamlin x Briar

Rating: Mature. Some spice, nothing explicit; references to past abuse and torture, but nothing graphic

Word Count: 3k

Summary: After finally sleeping together in her bed, Briar wakes up to find Tamlin is reluctant to stay the night after she has a nightmare, because he's afraid he'll make things worse. A direct sequel to "Love Bite" (also on AO3)

Read "Stay the Night" on AO3, or read on below:

The hounds were coming, and there was nowhere left to run. Naked except for the rags hanging from her bruised and battered form, Briar shivered as she stood near the edge of the cliff overlooking the King of Hybern’s war camps. A sharp wind blew at her back, whipping her hair around her face and threatening to send her over the edge. It was a long drop to the dark river below, but surely a less painful death than being torn apart.

The man who had freed her from the wooden rack by the king’s bonfire had promised someone would come for her. But as the eastern sky turned gray and the stars went out, she realized that the only ones coming were those serpent-faced hounds. Their unearthly howls, baying for blood, made her fall back a step. Loose rocks skittered beneath her bare feet and made her heart seize with fear as she toppled backwards over the edge. Her voice was so raw from smoke and screaming that she couldn’t even cry out as she fell. And fell. And fell.

Briar jerked upright with a hoarse cry. The water—no, the room—was pitch black, and she was alone. Alone and naked and drowning in an empty bed. Her legs were tangled in the sheets, and her cheeks were wet with tears.

“Briar,” a familiar voice said nearby.

She could have wept with relief, but her throat was too tight. “Tam,” she croaked.

The bed dipped as Tamlin sat beside her and gathered her into his arms. “I’m here,” he soothed. “It’s all right.”

She gratefully buried her face in the crook of his neck and fisted her hands in his shirt as she sniffed back more tears.

“Nightmare?” he murmured.

She managed a nod, but nothing more. It was only a nightmare, she realized, but the wisps of it still clung to her, making her skin clammy and causing her heart to race.

He began rocking her, gently, and pressed his lips to her hair. His spring forest scent chased away the memory of bonfire smoke and burning flesh, and she sighed. He had been there that day, she remembered at last. Someone else had come for her at the edge of the cliffs while a great golden beast fought off the hounds, giving them enough time to escape.

“Do you want to talk about it?” he asked softly.

She managed to uncurl her fingers and loosen her grip on his shirt as she began, “It was the hounds,” then froze as an eerie howl echoed through the night.

As more howls joined the first, Tamlin sighed, then pressed another kiss to the top of her head. “You must have heard the wolves outside. They’re just passing through the forest. They mean no harm.”

They sounded so similar to the cries of the serpent-faced hounds that haunted her dreams… “How can you tell?”

She thought she heard a smile in his voice as he replied, “Because they told me so.”

It was his forest after all: the High Lord of the Spring Court, the Golden Beast of the Woods.

Still, she was not entirely convinced as she pressed her ear to his chest, but she let the slow, solid rhythm of his heartbeat soothe her own. His arms tightened comfortably around her as he rested his cheek on her hair. After another minute or two, the last howls of those wild beasts—whether they were mortal wolves or faerie hounds—died down, and the night was peaceful once again.

She let out a relieved sigh, then turned her head to rest her chin on his strong shoulder. Running her hands over his broad back, she asked softly, “What time is it?”

He pressed his smooth cheek to hers and said, “Somewhere between midnight and early morning.”

Her gaze flicked toward the open window over his shoulder. Late enough for the moon to set, it seemed, but not early enough for the sun to rise. She pulled away and tried to make out his face in the dark. “Did I wake you?”

“No,” he murmured. His hand moved to gently brush the loose hair away from her cheek—for faeries could see in the dark—as he continued, “I didn’t sleep.”

“Even after…?” Making love, she wanted to say, but they had only done it once. Was sharing a bed with him the same thing? After all, if he hadn’t slept, she couldn’t call it sleeping together, and if he was already dressed, then she didn’t know what to call it. “…W-what we did?” she finished meekly.

He lowered his hand from her cheek. “It’s different for faeries,” he said quietly, and her heart sunk.

She felt for the sheet pooled at her waist and lifted it over her bare breasts. “Is that why you’re already dressed?” she mumbled.

He at least had the decency to sound guilty as he replied, “I just thought I’d go into the forest for a while. I didn’t think you wanted to sleep next to me if I…”

He fell silent and stood.

She shivered in the night air breezing in through the window, and blindly reached for his warmth. “If what?” she prompted, finding his sleeve and gripping it.

He let out a long, weary sigh. “If I turn back,” he admitted quietly. Into a beast. “I dream about the naga-hounds, too,” he went on. “And the king, and the war, and…”

“So do I.”

He gently extricated her curled fingers from his sleeve. “You don’t grow claws when you do.”

“I’m not afraid of your claws, Tam,” she insisted, holding onto his fingers.

“You haven’t seen the state of my bed,” he replied evenly.

She blushed. “Well, I—You never asked—”

“For good reason,” he growled.

As she imagined it, what it must look like if he grew claws in his sleep, everything suddenly made perfect sense. It had nothing to do with her and everything to do with him… and the beast he was when she first arrived. There had been progress in the months since, but many rooms were still filled with broken and shredded furniture.

When she remained silent, lost in thought, he made to walk away, but she gripped his hand.

“Tam, please… Stay.”

“And risk tearing your bed apart, too?”

“If you don’t have a bed, that’s all the more reason to stay.”

He hesitated as he seemed to consider her offer. “This is your room, Briar. Your bed,” he said carefully. “You’re safe here… I don’t want to hurt you and ruin that.”

She couldn’t help her growing blush, or the shy smile that touched her lips. “I told you before… I liked it.” She could still feel his bite marks on her neck and breasts and thighs, and the delicious soreness between them.

He was quiet for a long moment, then he broke the silence by letting out an amazed laugh. When he was through, he sat back down and sighed. “You are a strange one, Briar Rose Greenwood,” he murmured, reminding her of their first meeting.

She smiled. “And you are rather thoughtful, for a beast.”

He leaned in, with his broad shoulders and quiet strength, bracing his hands on the mattress and sinking into her ready embrace as his mouth found hers in the dark. As his lips parted hers, she slid her hands beneath his shirt, seeking skin.

He shuddered beneath her hands, but he chuckled. “You’re cold,” he murmured against her mouth, and she grinned.

“Keep me warm, then,” she whispered, then pulled him down to the bed.

Sometime later, he sighed, and his breath was strangely refreshing against the damp sweat on her breast. “If I didn’t know better,” he said without moving, “I would think that you were using me as a blanket.”

The real blanket was somewhere on the floor, along with his shirt and trousers. With his head resting on her chest, and his legs tangled with hers, the comfortable weight and heat of his body protected her from all but the coldest of breezes still coming in through the window. Even so, it was more refreshing than chilling against her sweat-dampened skin.

She smiled up at the dark velvet canopy above them and began to play with his hair. It was like silk between her fingers. “So, what if I was?”

His answer was a low, rumbling purr that she could feel in her bones. “I suppose it’s only fair,” he said after a while, nuzzling his face between her breasts, “considering what a delightfully soft pillow you make.”

She chuckled, then laughed aloud as he gave her a playful nip. As he rested his chin upon her chest, she thought she could see him smile.

“I still find it difficult to believe that you aren’t afraid of me,” he murmured.

Her fingers paused in his hair. “It’s because I feel safe with you,” she mused aloud. “Even before I met you, you protected me from the hounds of Hybern. I’ll never forget that.”

He shifted his weight to look down at her, and traced one of the bite marks on her left breast. “After everything you endured,” he said softly, “I can’t imagine why you would enjoy this.”

She shifted beneath him, face flushing, and mumbled, “I don’t know… It’s different with you.”

She could feel him studying her, and she could imagine his pained frown.

She shrugged a shoulder and looked away. “I guess it’s because I know you’ll stop if I ask you to…” She blinked back tears as she remembered the smoke in her eyes, the flames, the pained screams, and the jeering laughter. “But in the camps… no matter how much I begged them… they never stopped hurting me.”

Tamlin shifted his weight off of her and rolled onto his side, pulling her against him, then kissed away the tears that threatened to fall. “I wish I could have saved you sooner,” he whispered, cradling her head and wrapping his other arm around her waist.

She slid her arms around him and buried her face in his shoulder, unable to speak.

He hadn’t been there when the Children of the Blessed were brought before the King of Hybern, and for that alone, she was eternally grateful. If he had tried to set them free when the king demanded entertainment, the serpent-toothed hounds would have brought them back, bloody and swollen, paralyzed by venom, and unable to scream. It had happened before her very eyes, when one of the other Children tried to run.

“Do you still worship us, even now?” the king sneered as he forced them to watch their Brother’s torture. It didn’t end until nightfall, and even though she cursed the king’s name, she still thanked the High Mother when darkness came…

Tamlin brought her back to the present by pressing his lips to her neck, and she sucked in a sudden breath, grateful for the distraction as he laid her on her back.

She swept her tousled hair up and out of the way, then reached for him as he knelt over her, ready to forget about the nightmares for a while longer…

But he caught her hands, then pressed a kiss against the inside of one wrist. “Let me heal you,” he breathed, then bent his head and brushed his lips across the bite marks on her shoulder. “Let me do this for you.”

“Oh, Tam,” she murmured, reluctant to agree.

The faerie healers had done their jobs well that day, when Lady Viviane took Briar to the Winter Court camps after her rescue. They had healed her bruises, her burns, leaving her skin perfectly whole and pretty, washing away the scars as if nothing terrible had happened… but even magic couldn’t heal her dreams.

And now Tamlin wanted to do the same. A bite mark wasn’t the same as a burn, but at least it meant that she wasn’t broken, that she could still experience pleasure as well as pain… and even find pleasure in the pain. And he wanted to take that away.

He pressed his lips to the hollow of her throat, coaxing her. “Let me prove that I am more than a beast,” he whispered. “Please.”

His please melted the last of her resolve, and she found herself nodding. “All right, Tam,” she whispered, letting her hands fall to the pillow above her head. “I’ll let you.”

Whether it was his magic or his mouth, her skin tingled as he slowly kissed his way down her body. She gripped the pillow as his lips skimmed the tips of her breasts, but he didn’t linger. Her back arched with a surprised, hopeful gasp as his fingers slid over the soft hair between her thighs, only for that deliciously sore feeling inside to magically dissipate into mere memory. To her dismay, tears stung her eyes, and she let out a whimpering cry before she could help herself.

He withdrew his hand, and he stretched out beside her to cradle her face. “Did I hurt you?”

“No, but I—” She sniffed, but the tears kept coming. “—I wish you would,” she whispered hoarsely.

He huffed out a bewildered chuckle, and wiped away her tears with her thumbs. “Why?”

“Because—” She couldn’t hold back a sob. “—Because if you’re hurting me…” She tried to cover her face, truly horrified at her tears now. “Then they’re not.”

Gratefully, he didn’t try to soothe her or stop her crying. He let her roll away from him and curl up to cry, no matter how confusing it must have been for him: A human girl crying like a child because her lover refused to leave his bite marks on her skin.

After a minute—an eternity, really—his hand slowly stroked her hair from her damp cheek, and his gentle touch helped her catch her breath. She didn’t resist when he slowly curled himself around her and wrapped an arm around her waist to hold her close against his chest.

She sniffed, then was startled from crying when he gently nipped at her neck.

“There now,” he murmured, then nuzzled his face into her hair. “They can’t hurt you anymore.”

She closed her eyes and sighed, then pulled on his hand so that she could kiss his open palm. “Thank you,” she whispered.

“Humans heal so slowly,” he explained gently. “I just didn’t want you to be in pain.”

She pressed her cheek to his palm and whispered, “I know.”

“Are you in pain now?”

“No.”

He was silent for a while, and she was grateful for the time to gather her thoughts.

As a Daughter of the Blessed, she had been taught that faeries abhorred ugliness. To be selected as a faerie bride or bridegroom, one must strive to be as perfect as their future partner. Scars and blemishes were covered up and smoothed away by special ointments and lotions. Therefore, she should have been grateful that the healers had made her skin so perfect after her rescue… but she wasn’t. And it ate away at her, from the inside out.

Tamlin gently turned her head and asked her, “Do you think you deserve pain?”

She blinked up at his starlit silhouette, shocked.

“Because you lived, and the others did not?”

She bit her lip as fresh tears threatened to fall, but, as she realized the truth in his words, she managed to nod.

Instead of chiding her, he gently brushed the hair back from her brow and went on, “You’re not the only one who feels that way, you know.”

She swallowed hard and rolled onto her back to face him, but she didn’t trust herself to speak. Not yet.

He propped himself up on his elbow and reached out with his free hand to gently trace her cheek with a single finger; she could have sworn his nail was the tip of a claw. “I never wanted to be the Heir of Spring,” he said softly. “In one night, I lost everything that mattered… and the only one left was me. I’ve never forgiven myself… and it’s been centuries.”

“Oh, Tam,” she whispered, and reached out to cup his cheek.

His warm lips brushed against her palm. “I thought I was easing your pain,” he murmured, then sighed. “My heart was turned to stone once, and I used to wish someone—anyone—would come along and curse me one more time, just so that I wouldn’t have to feel anything ever again.”

Overcome with emotion, she moved closer and pressed her lips to his. “I’m glad no one did,” she whispered against his mouth.

He pressed his forehead to hers, and she heard a smile in his voice as he whispered, “As am I.”

His free hand moved from her cheek to her neck as he parted her lips with his own. She slid her arms around his shoulders and pulled him down on top of her as their kisses deepened.

When his lips moved to her jawline and down her throat, she took a deep breath and swallowed the taste of his kiss. “Thank you,” she whispered.

His mouth paused in the hollow of her throat. “For what?”

“For this. For healing me. I… I shouldn’t have gotten so upset.”

He breathed a heavy sigh against her neck before lifting his head to look down at her. She could just make out his strong features in the dark. “There is no need for you to apologize,” he said gently, running the back of his fingers down the curve of her cheek. “I’m the one who should—”

“No, don’t apologize,” she said quickly, covering his hand with her own. “You needed to heal me; I understand that now. You needed to heal me, just like I needed you to bite me.”

He curled his fingers around hers as he chuckled. “They’re hardly compatible,” he said wryly. “At least you wanted me to bite you, although I still don’t understand why.”

She smiled. “Maybe I can help with that,” she murmured, then gently nipped at his knuckles.

His playful growl was the only answer he gave before kissing her fiercely and pulling her on top of him.

When the sun rose, the great Golden Beast of the Wood was nowhere to be found. Instead, Tamlin, High Lord of the Spring Court himself, slept soundly in Briar’s arms and in her bed. And as for her nightmares… he helped her to forget all about them.

#ask box #answered #writing prompts #acotar fanfiction #briar x tamlin #brilin #sorry this took so long #i'm finally working through my inbox and prompts #i want to get some more prompts done in time for tamlin week #this is the longest by far #so hopefully it will all work out

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