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psssst - is there going to be an akusai event this year?? >.> asking for a friend. (me - i'm the friend).

Hey friend! :) You know what? Yes, let's just do it again! I've been considering for a while, but actually: The joy of seeing everone's works outweighs any negatives. So yeah! I'll get one together! (Even though it's suuuuper late. Sorry Dx)

It will be a Bingo again, same rules as last year too! I'll try to get everything ready before the next week!

I'm currently collecting prompts (I need 24 again) so if anyone has any ideas, please share them with me! In the replies, tags, asks, whatever!! I think it's better if it's not just my ideas!

Let's have a great month again this year!

Di[e]ce is probably one of the most underrated manga existing. I know those few days won’t change anything about that, but it’s worth a shot anyway.

If you like intelligent, well-though-out plot, hinted boys love, deep characters, with even deeper development, tragic pasts, beautiful and detailed artwork and ethic questions … then this is what you’ve waited for!

PLEASE READ THIS MANGA. Just do it.

Dates range from November, 11th to 16th.

11|11 – The die is cast (or Black or White King) 11|12 – Focus (or Favourite Character) 11|13 – Reflection (or Favourite Chess Piece) 11|14 – Love (or Favourite Relationship) 11|15 – L_ST (or Favourite Di[e]ce) 11|16 – Endgame (or Free Day)

I know this is on a extremely short note, but should anyone feel like joining in: Please do it! This manga needs more love! Art, edits, mangacaps … everything is perfectly welcome!

I guess, it will be just me and @kittendough fangirling for a few days, but that’s fine as well. And who knows, maybe I’ll be surprised.

"Come on, Isa, don't make a face like that. ... We're going to be alright, I promise."

Small thank you picture for all of you wonderful people who liked my last post @//u//@ I really didn't expect to get notes on that one. Don't know, somehow every single one of them feels like "Hey, it's good to have you back!" and no matter if that's what you meant or not, it still feels great and I love you all for that feeling x'D

Seriously, THANK YOU.

Okay, so. If becoming norted DOESN’T mean losing your free will, then what good would it do Xehanort to make Sora a vessel.

I am honestly so done with the Saix discourse around here.

Saix has Xehanort’s EYECOLOUR AND EARS for heaven’s sake. He is clearly at least influenced by Xehanort during his time in Org XIII. Not to mention he has a X carved into his forehead, X like keeping watch on people (see KH3D).

I always thought that Saix is losing more and more of himself to Xehanort, but that’s only my interpretation of course. He’s still at least partially himself, before his death in KH2, yes. He did terrible things, yes. I’m not saying those should be forgotten.

But please don’t forget, that he was also in a terrible situation and he was slowly losing his only support (= Lea). Situations have a huge impact on our decisions and behaviour, which has close to NOTHING to do with our personality. Feel free to google the fundamental attribution error on that one. Does this justify what he did? Not at all. Does this mean he shouldn’t be forgiven? Not. At. All. If he is willing to repent, then let him do it. EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE.

Then again, I’d like to take a look at the “terrible things” Isa/Saix did. The main problem I see is his behaviour towards Roxas and Xion, who would have needed support and whose situations were clearly made worse by him. Keep in mind that he deeply believes he doesn’t feel any emotions and nobody else around him does either. The definition of empathy (according to Dorsch, Lexikon der Psychologie [translated]) is the cognitive understanding and affective reciprocation of the assumed emotions of another being. Of course Saix doesn’t have any.

The “terrible things” I don’t understand, are those other people see in his interactions with Axel? Roxas and Xion hurt Axel’s mental state way more than Saix, not on purpose of course, but I strongly doubt Saix’ goal was to hurt Axel either. Saix and Axel are ARGUING. Axel doesn’t trust Saix and vice versa. Saix is angry, he’s sad, while he doesn’t acknowledge any of it. He tries to keep Axel close with their shared goal. With pressure, yes, which he didn’t have to, but they are still arguing, remember. There’s still a strong, unresolved conflict in between them. Don’t try to tell me, you’re always kind and caring in an argument, dear haters. Because BY SHARING HATE YOU ALREADY ARE CAUSING DAMAGE TO OTHER PEOPLE. I felt uneasy and irritated, I had sleepless hours thanks to those Saix hate posts. YOU caused me harm with your unnecessary discourse.

So what does this say about you? Shouldn’t you be forgiven?

In order to celebrate the release of KH 2.8, I decided to show you my Foreteller Ira headcanons!

I absolutely love him and I can’t wait to watch KHx backcover and learn more about my beautiful union leader! Even though I don’t like his design in the HD graphics, it looks so much better in khux in my opinion.

… I always thought that, while he doesn’t realize it himself, Ira is the “traitor” who will bring demise to this world through his actions. Not on purpose, but still. I really look forward to see how things actually went down!

Thoughts on the box

My guess is that it contains the Master of Masters’ heartless.

If we assume the motive for his – in my opinion very questionable – actions is, well, scientific interest in the future, then we can conclude that the probability of him wanting to see that future for himself in person, or in fact, to change it to his liking, is quite high.

Now, we know time travel does exist in the Kingdom Hearts universe. The one, big restriction to it is the fact that a version of the person using it, must already exist in the time they wish to travel to. This also means, if one would find a way to create an immortal version of themselves, they could travel into every moment in the future.

To my knowledge, there never was any official statement about whether heartless die of natural causes or not, but I strongly assume they don’t, for various, obvious reasons. (One of them being that it would take the whole drama out of it, if people, who lost their hearts just randomly became “Somebodies” again after both their heartless and their Nobody died of old age.) More importantly though, we were told in the first game, that the only way to kill a heartless is the keyblade. Now, if we were to put a heartless in a place noone could find it, say, a box noone is ever supposed to open, then yes, we can assume this heartless would truly be immortal.

Creating a heartless out of one’s own heart might be a dangerous task, but I am sure it wouldn’t pose much of a problem to a person like the Master of Masters. Also, there seems to be a way to assure the Nobody resulting from extracting a heart would be a high ranked one, seeing how all of Ansem’s apprentices (as well as Lea and Isa, who lost their hearts in the same room, and therefore possibly also at the same time as the others) kept their human forms and memories. Of course the Master of Masters would know about this way, because the keyblade used was his “gazing eye” that allows him to see the future.

Oh, and would you look at which page the Master of Masters has so conveniently opened in the scene we get to see the box.

Plus, the page we are shown, when he explains why Luxu won’t get one of the Books of Prophecies. (*)

By “temporal paradoxes” he might have meant, that he fears Luxu might kill the heartless inside the box if he knew what future would await this world if he does as the Master of Masters tells him to. (**) Namely, not just one, but two keyblade wars.

I originally thought, that Master Xehanort might somehow be the one behind everything, but now I am certain that I was wrong. It’s not Xehanort who started all of this, he couldn’t have travelled into the past, because there was no version of him there. Also, he can’t be the Master of Masters, because we saw him being a child at the same time as Eraqus in the KH3 trailer and they certainly didn’t live since the age of fairy tales.

No, I assume that the brain behind all of it, our real antagonist in the Kingdom Hearts series, is not Xehanort, it’s the Master of Masters. He couldn’t have pulled all of this off alone though, because time is always limited when travelling into the future, so he needed a successor. 

And Xehanort is the one he found.

Notes

(*) Of course, it would be possible to argue that the pages shown are mere coincidence, but I highly doubt that. Both of them were highlighted in the movie (especially the shadow heartless, you can’t overlook it even if you tried) and if it wasn’t for a reason, then why would they have done that?

(**) To be honest, I am a bit unsure about this part, because according to the movie, the Book of Prophecies ends with the beginning of the first keyblade war. Still, there has to be something in it that might give Luxu an idea about the future beyond the keyblade war or he couldn’t possibly cause any temporal paradoxes because of it. Alternatively, he may have been able to prevent the first keyblade war from happening, had he been in possession of the information from the book. I find that unlikely though, because Ira still fell for the Master of Masters’ scheme even with analyzing the book in painstaking detail. Perhaps even because of doing so.

Edit: The label on the box reads Xsuper (as can be seen here). Which contains parts of the word Superbia and an X. This might support the theory of the Master of Masters being a Nobody and the box containing his heartless. (Of course it could also mean, the box contains the Nobody and he is a heartless, but I think it makes more sense the other way around, as the Nobody is usually the entity who still looks and thinks like a whole person.) 

Also, it could be totally unrelated to the whole theory, and the Master of Masters just wanted to mark his belongings, but I do believe, the fact that his name contains an X, where there isn’t supposed to be one, is a hint.

Additional Thoughts

There are still two things that bother me about this movie.

The first one is the symbol both the Master of Masters and Luxu have on the zipper of their coats.

It reminded me of the Unversed insignia, but it might just as well be something completely new.

The second thing is the fact that the Master of Masters’ keyblade is called “No Name” in the movie. Maybe it wasn’t meant as a name by the characters (though it probably was by Luxu, see the capital letters), but it certainly has to be a hint for us. I can only guess, but I think it might have been meant to show the connection to Xehanort, seeing how the “real” No Name keyblade does look similar to the one used by the young Xehanort.

So, yeah. My very first crack pairing ever. (Well, maybe not as much crack as I thought, because it turned out there’s in fact a vague, but possible basis for them, but I’m still trying to forget the end of AA3, so ... )

It just suddenly started with Godot saying “I’m already seeing a very hot someone, so I’m afraid you’ll be waiting for a very long time.”  And I was so perplexed by Simon Blackquill immediately coming to my mind, that I almost missed the Godot pun. Both of them. (coffeemaniac)

I just love the dynamics that would result from their interaction, with Simon being someone who gets what he wants by manipulating people, frightening them mostly, and Godot on the other hand being completely unfazed by such methods, (almost) always staying collected and always on top of the situation, incredibly dominant too. I imagine it as a constant, playful, power struggle with a lot of tension. And I love tension.

Akusaimonth: Berserk Mode Day 3: Black & White

I fail at drawing lying people. I do. And Axel looks a bit like Zack Fair. And Saix looks like he's going to beat someone up öAö uuuh whatever

And goodbye year of Xion. :) I wish everyone of you all the best for the new year, may it be healthy and successful and full of joy!

Sparks just like Hibana

[ID: Traditional waist-up drawing of Shionne and Alphen from Tales of Arise.Their eyes are obscured, faces very close together. Their fingers are touching ever so slightly and a coil of Shionne’s Thorns wraps around their forearms, lighting up their hands and faces. Sparks of white and orange like fire are rising from their forms. The second picture is a close-ups of their hands.]