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Ok I kinda need help/thoughts on something

I have a lore on my avatar ( profile pic I drawn) that was caught in the 100 year Keyblade war, defending herself against the heartless and even the darklings with her magic, her sister (in arms),the one that taught her magic,died in her arms with her broken keyblade.

I want my avatar to become a sorta unverse/darkling hybrid ? or a mix of being overwhelmed with negative emotions and darkness naturally? You know, related to rage form, it is that moment she was able to wield a keyblade herself and then somehow managed to escape from the war/world( she gets turned back to normal but I’m still thinking of how she will overcome it,wield it ).

So any ideas/advice.

Ooh okay I see what you're putting down I see where you're going with this. It's a super neat idea and firstly; whatever I say here, you are God, okay? I can suggest and what I hope comes out of this is either something neat enough you really want to use it and make it your own, or one of these ideas makes you go "OH BUT WHAT IF I DO IT LIKE THIS INSTEAD--".

Your OC you take these potential concepts and you rip 'em to pieces for your own delight, k? <3 Anything said here is for you to turn into what You want it to be, not me.

So you have some inciting angst that's going to help you explain why there is an uncontrolled pull of Darkness there to begin with- a tragic death of a loved one, a comrade, someone whose presence haunts the narrative and that is delicious, good stuff- but now you need an inciting Something to 1. Make this a problem and 2. Make this a problem in a way that pursues the growth you want to see.

To me, it sounds like the growth you want to see is that eventual self-control, potentially owning this ala Riku or Vanitas. So we have a goal and we need to spark what brings this goal into play.

The residual affects of being so close to Kingdom Hearts naturally unbalances her Heart because with great power comes great consequences

The war itself - or even the magic responsible for making the Keyblade Graveyard into the empty shell of a World that it is- essentially acted in a way that forced some sort of reaction in your OC's Heart. Something that's either entirely unfixable (you cannot go back to who you were, you can only learn to accept who you are now) or gradually loses that affect over time (you must learn to accept that the past happened and let go of the anguish that controls you).

I like this concept and I'm definitely kind of viewing it in my mind as a sort of-- Anti/Rage or Vanitas Remnant kind of... we'll call it form. One this OC is stuck in, be that because of issues in the Heart or because again, there is an anguish there that she is not recovering from. There is a grief she is refusing to let go.

You have a few ways to play it from there. Are there other characters involved that help her return to herself? Does she need to rely on her own strength of will?

Dive to the Heart is your friend here, either with the added spice of Power of Waking if you want others involved, or her being trapped in a similar way to Aqua in the RoD. She may only really be partially aware of what her body is doing and being for some time, until she slowly begins to build that will again.

Initially the first return to herself is entirely forced by someone else, and she is terrified of it happening again. Because it does happen again. Because she feels reliant on other people to come back from it. Because the question is what happens when, someone isn't there? What happens when someone is there, but it isn't enough anymore? Huge hurt/comfort elements to be seen in taking this approach.

And lastly there is the Terra-Eraqus route where she is Literally being haunted by her sister (in arms), whose Heart stays with her and is trying to call out, but isn't heard for a very, very long time. This is a great way to go if you intend to really lean on just how important that relationship really was, it is the cause of the break, it is the reason for healing. It harms and heals in equal measure.

Hopefully some of this helps! You'll have to let me know what you come up with, or decide to go with!

Some lore I thought for my avatar in the kingdom hearts verse a 100 years ago

She was 11 when she arrived.

She doesn’t remember how she even got here.

only person that wasn’t able to summon

a key blade and was bullied for it, but also she was different in a weird way.

Estella was the one who decided to teach her magic to at least give my avatar some self defense.

Soon she became her only friend,her sister (in arms) my avatar also wanted to learn about apothecary since she was interested when Estella explained her expertise of flowers and plants.

She wondered if she can also use them to treat her wounds or even sickness.

Estella is the only one who even takes her to different worlds to help fend against darkness ( call part of training too).

True but Vanitas is also negative right?which from what I’ve remember is connected by entirely a separate thing from darkness ( i mean why unversed eyes are red not yellow like the heartless if he was pure darkness) so him having red eyes because he is also negativity, also makes sense but also he could have central heterochromia meaning he could have golden yet little red around his pupils or the other way round ( heck that what I was thinking sometime when mentally designing my Avatar but probably take years before I explain more on that because that changed completely) anyway I’m ramble pretty long enough about it, Vanitas having red eyes because is someway to connect himself with his unversed. I love Vanitas with red eyes as much as Ventus having green eyes.❤️❤️❤️❤️

*leans in close to the mic* Vanitas does not have Xehanort’s eyes. Exposure to darkness causes eyes to turn golden. Xehanort’s eyes were originally silver, as seen in dark road. As a being of pure darkness, Vanitas is the one character where his eyes were probably yellow from the beginning (excluding the LN of course).

Love something like this ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Art by: fire_star_animations from instagram

sighs dreamily thinking about the idea of ven’s darkness having at least partially told the truth about his will. sighs dreamily thinking about the recurring theme of ‘my friends are my power’ juxtaposed with ‘what he wished for was power’ (he actually wished for friends) (and being a union leader got him friends) (plus like. it got him to survive the fall of daybreak town). sighs dreamily thinking about them having some sort of symbiosis even before it later became truly part of him and a human with a heart (vanitas). sighs dreamily thinking about it doing what it did out of love for him or at least darkness’ twisted understanding of love. yayyy 🌸🌸🌸

Wait does that mean Ventus was 1st princess of light or I guess prince of light.

I don’t know I forgotten some things and I’m still confused

I know union cross makes a lot of sense in the kh lore (especially in ddd) but the fact that ventus was a person of pure light in the first place? And vanitas is not actually the darkness half of ventus? It’s just wrong?, meh? I can’t explain what I feel about that.

I’m still confused

What the difference between darklings and heartless to be honest?

I know darklings are fallen keyblade wielders

Yet sora became a heartless unless that what anti and rage forms really are but what really are the contrast and comparison as a keyblade wielder?

I know union cross makes a lot of sense in the kh lore (especially in ddd) but the fact that ventus was a person of pure light in the first place? And vanitas is not actually the darkness half of ventus? It’s just wrong?, meh? I can’t explain what I feel about that.

I’m still confused

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I really miss playing union cross

Soft as blossoms?

Sorry for the absence. I might colour this soon or later.

working on a skuld comic and an expression in it had my friend making a fake js joke, and through the transit of more jokes, this now exists

the ephemer and skuld are from this post

something stupid that i'm only posting this because i like how i drew skuld

the only reason i'll play missing link, brain.

pose is based on this

super proud of this one. the background took for-fucking-ever but it looks so good.

She's not ready yet come back later

Well, KHUx is a really nice game, I enjoy playing it a lot, but storywise you’re not missing out on much. There’s maybe three or four pieces of information that make a good combination with Backcover, but most of it doesn’t add much/anything at all to the story.

Hmm, yeah, I see what you mean. A lot of people seem a bit confused about Ira, maybe because he’s not as easy to see through as the others (then again, I’m somewhat under the impression that a lot of people didn’t see through Ava either. Or maybe I’m just seeing things that aren’t there, who knows).  I’m reasonably convinced we’ll see the Master of Masters in KH3. :) Especially now that the box has been brought up in the new trailer. About the traitor … I don’t think there ever was one among the Foretellers. In my opinion, the only person who could be considered a traitor is the Master or Masters himself. … Wow, sorry, if I sound like a know-all, I just thought about all this way more than I probably should have, haha. 

Aww, thank you so much for your compliment! :) This means a lot to me!

Hey! :) I saw your tags on my Ira drawing. I hope it's okay if I'll explain my opinion a bit? I don't think Ira is evil. Actually, I think he's very selfless. All he wants to do is to protect the world. He probably feels a strong guilt over the things he does in order to do so, but he was led to believe that this is the only way, and so he keeps on, even if it breaks him. ... Of course, I don't want to impose my view on you or anything. Have a nice day and thank you for reblogging my work! :)

Before I write this answer, I just wanna say that I have barely played unchained x. I saw the movie, and I know some of the story.

But I agree with what you said 100%. I just thought that many people view him as “evil” since they drew sort of Xehanort-esque. Hopefully, the foretellers will be brought up in KH 3, and we’ll get an actual answer of who the traitor is??? Also, your art is so nice! I love the way you draw Saix! He looks so elegant yet intimidating.

Darkness shall prevail and light expire.

(finally took the time to colour it.)

Ira suffers so much, he feels an immense guilt over his actions, still he carries on, because he knows (was led to believe) that this is the only way to save the world. Of all of the Foretellers, he's the most selfless. He consciously acts against his personal believes and wishes in order to fulfill the higher goal. He can’t even allow himself to feel anymore, because he knows, it’d break him.

… I wish he had someone who was there for him and gave him strength when he needs it. It’s so sad to see him like that.

A (coloured) collection of doodles of my KHUx character Helium.

Xsuper. So that’s what it reads on the label, I couldn’t decipher it before.

Superbia is pride, the only sin we have left, so obviously the Master of Masters should have a name like that. So, I guess this could be seen as support for my theory that the box contains the master’s heartless, while also showing us where the idea of adding a X to the name of a Nobody may have come from.

The fact that it is labelled might also mean, that we will get to see the Master of Masters in KH3. Someone who knows who Xsuper is might open the box to kill the heartless and we will see the revival of the Master of Masters as a whole person. I guess that would make a pretty good plot point.

Also, is it just my impression or does the label make the box look even more like a coffin?

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.

“Are you sure, you’re okay?” You know it’s getting serious when not even Aced is buying it anymore.

Ahhh, I love Ira and Aced so much. *cries*

More Foreteller headcanons!

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!

KHUX,,,,,,

My flavor of neurodivergent is understanding the plot of Kingdom Hearts.

I redesign my khux kids and it's look better than I expected

(Old design)

(New design)