i think a lot about how xehanort has actually met and spoken with the master of masters multiple times and may be one of the very few people who have post age of fairy tales - maybe the only one at all. and like...
does xigbar...know? is he aware? and if he is, i wonder how he feels about it. in my head i get the impression luxu has never been entirely comfortable around MoM but follows him bc what's he gonna do? defy him? hell no. (and i hc MoM as luxu's dad but that's neither here nor there.) and like, the whole point of luxu's character is being shoved off into the great beyond with no guidance, no contact, no nothing except a box and a keyblade.
so when MoM pops up again, starts hanging around xehanort, gives him the /same goddamned coat/, and xehanort eventually gets the /same goddamned keyblade/, and starts being manipulated in the same exact way - like a luxu 2.0....how does that feel?
is he scared? jealous? protective? relieved that at least someone who's still alive knows even a sliver of what he went through? all of the above? who know.
happy anniversary to one of my most beloved games! i have not been drawing them as often but this game still means so much to me. here is an old artwork i touched up of sora 💜💙❤️
The broken boy who failed to be the blade...the misguided master who sacrificed herself for a friend...and the feckless youth who became my new vessel.
Was looking at a post with this image (recently reblogged) and I got hit with the ouchie ouch so, of course, I have to share.
Okay so I find it quite telling and also a bit heartbreaking that the place Sora finds most beautiful is the final world.
He has travelled far and wide, he has been in mountain places, towns frolicking with people, fantastic worlds, metropolis, the open ocean, his own quiet island, space, you name it.
And the place he finds most beautiful is the afterlife. A very quiet, very still place with just the sky, a mirror of water, and pillars of salt. He is right, it is beautiful, but I also find it kinda... sad? One would think that with the way he is, he would think a place filled with people (as long as they are friendly) would be the most beautiful in his mind, that his own island where he wanted to return so badly is the most beautiful, that Radiant Garden or Twilight Town, or even the open ocean in the Caribbean with its freedom would be his favourite.
But it's the land of the dead, where those who are not yet ready to move on rest and let themselves fade away.
I wonder if it has a psychological component. Sora has been running and dashing from one task to another ever since the islands fell - and it's really highlighted in kh3 when he shows to be so used to only being somewhere to help someone or as part of a job, that he is confused by Pooh's desire to just hang out with him and have some fun. He is running from task to task and hasn't stopped and it seems like he has passed the line where one is so used to being on the job one finds it hard to unplug and do anything else at all.
And then he is dead (for the first time). And he is in this place, and there is no time really, and he is being asked no favours - he has something to do, but that's something he wants to do, a task he gives himself.
And I think not having that pressure of running from one place to another, not having continuous screening for a good performance, not having anything else to do and plenty of time might have made that place beautiful to him.
Honestly, it might be that it's the most beautiful place because, for once in years, he finally has the time to stop and spend some time admiring a new place without worrying about a mission or a quest. It's quiet, it's timeless, and he is alone and he has no pressure to be fast at putting himself together. He can breathe.
And he can take a moment to look around and go "oh, wow. Look at the sky."
The very first picture I drew of him 🙃 thought I may as well post it here. I edited it a bit (mostly just the background) but I still think it looks good enough to post.
sooo funny to see older kh fandom posts as someone who started playing kh in like 2020 I feel like a historian. Seeing a stolen art piece on Pinterest and going “from the watermark and artstyle I can understand this is a post-BBS pre-DDD era depiction of blorbus and bingus, however, some remnants of binguses KH2 fanon depiction are still prevelant here (more specifically, the depiction of him popularized by bingus/gronku, a heavily popular pairing at the time), and the complete absence of krinko from the supposed ‘group’ shot implies some distaste for her, which was not uncommon for the time period. From this we can assume that the artists was a bingus X gronku shipper who likely transitioned to blorbus X bingus after BBS or Days, and dislikes krinko due to an era-typical misinterpretation of events. Elementary.”