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CoM horror au has been swirling around in my mind constantly I need to write this down somewhere or my brain will explode

#i kinda wanna make it into a full-scale comic but i dont think my adhd brain will allow that #i think i might write it down as a fic first and then maybe convert that into a comic afterwards #just so that in case i cant manage to finish the comic i at least have the full story somewhere! #i Will make this a reality i think i will combust if i dont #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts chain of memories #kh #khcom #yeah sure ill put this in tags #xander rambles

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This is more for personal reference but figured I might as well post it. I love color-coding my textbubbles <3

#sora #riku #kairi #roxas #xion #axel #ventus #aqua #terra #vanitas #namine #repliku #hayner #pence #olette #saix #zexion #vexen #lexaeus #xaldin #xigbar #demyx #luxord #xemnas #kingdom hearts #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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Looking for an angel

#darker take on com bc i love suffering :) #what if sora got so far lost in his fake memories that his morals and inhibitions vanished. what if marluxia created a merciless killing ma #chine of him. what if he succeeded in making sora a puppet-weapon for him to use for his own ends. what then #what if axel watched this go down and and smiled. what if he decided to use marluxia and sora and namine all. #(hes there btw if u look closely he is there! in the shadows!) #(he ended up more hidden than i intended but whatever! hes still kinda visible!) #namine #sora #and a bunch of dead bodies (and axel) but im not tagging them #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts chain of memories #kh #khcom #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art #cw blood #tw blood

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I feel like he knows Eveything. And if he doesn't he deserves to

#hes a silly little guy who takes naps 5 times a day and will assimilate everyone into his found family but also. #i feel like he might be the type who just Knows things like he can tell if youre lying immediately #i have only the slightest of basis for thinking that but i think he deserves to be Super smart and observant #nept #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts missing link #kingdom hearts missing link spoilers #i guess. just being safe #kh #khml #khml spoilers #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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I hope Missing Links main cast expands by Nept adopting everyone he can into his found family regardless of if they want to or not

#it takes him like 5 seconds to adopt player and from freya & remus' reactions its clearly a common thing he does #he should adopt brain. just yank that boy into his lil family and whats brain gonna do. leave? distance wont stop nept! #the baroqe society may be small now but if nept had his way the entire town would be a member #no more factions or societies only nept and his extensive found family #nept #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts missing link #kingdom hearts missing link spoilers #i guess everythings technically a spoiler at this stage so sure #kh #khml #khml spoilers #xander rambles

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I'll walk down into Hell just to make sure Heaven's gate opens for you

#ephemer..... ephemer. ephemer. boy whos losing everything and now has to personally strike down one of his closest friends! ouch! #player doing this on purpose..... to make sure ephemer & skuld live........ getting ephemer to kill them bc theyd rather die than run away #knowing eph & skuld would still be in danger....... #OUGH #kh player #keykid #mari #ephemer #ephelayer #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts union x #kh #khux #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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Tentative Player2 design but anyway. This scene was way funnier to me than it was probably meant to be

#player reaches for him so ominously and for what. to point out hes dirty? lmao #for a second i thought player was about to strangle him fsr but no just being an unintentional freak. hilarious #kh player #kh player 2 #< thats what ppl are calling them right. idk #mari #remus #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts missing link #kingdom hearts missing link spoilers #kh #khml #khml spoilers #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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Just some silly little guys

#i cant WAAAAIT for this game guys (<will probably play it for a week max before relegating to watching the rest on yt) #watching the cbt cutscenes was a mistake i need more of them NOW #cant believe nept saw us and immediately found family-ed us #i love all three of them if anything happens to them i will explode #freya #nept #remus #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts missing link #kh #khml #khml spoilers #kingdom hearts missing link spoilers #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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I think they should be friends. Sad little girls with white dresses and identity issues

#they also have a whole 'i shouldnt exist bc [person important to Person I Care About] should be here instead' thing going on #sad girls. they deserve everything #AND ALSO they have both been held hostage bc of their powers by Bad Guy Group :( #at least ryne got a dad (of questionable quality but still) #namine doesnt :( #ryne waters #namine #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #kingdom hearts #kh #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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Compromise

#reading the kh1 manga and u know how riku makes the shadow soras in neverland? #yeah. yeah that #what if he used the shadow soras as a replacement for the real one bc he believed the real sora completely abandoned him #and its like. they may have the shape and combat prowess of the real sora #but they got none of the spark or personality #so rikus just like :( trying to fill the gap with these faceless copies bc he does miss sora #but is too stubborn and deep in jealousy & manipulation to join with him #:( hes lonely #riku #sora #soriku #< in spirit #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 1 #kh #kh1 #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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That's a roundabout way of asking "is it okay to be trans" Xion

#xions supernatural transgenderism is so important like genuinely #like she was specifically designed with a teenage boy in mind #to absorb his memories & stuff #and like yeah the intended explaination for her being a girl is probably bc of her primarily absorbing soras memories of kairi #but also. those are memories from SORAS perspective so 🤨 #also i think its frankly impressive that xions newly forming heart ended up female despite her groeing up in an enviourment of 90% guys #the only other woman here is larxene and she fucks off to CO and dies almost immediately after xions joins #anyway thats not the point the POINT IS i love her and i hope she gets to feel comfortable in her own skin as herself going forward #xion #axel #lea #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 3 #kh #kh3 #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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I do think he feels bad but also it's... complicated

#i mean the secret reports in days have him state he feels bad about using repliku #so its very likely hed feel bad about killing zexion (who was not a traitor nor had he done anything to get in his & saix' way [directly]) #but also since it was a 'necessity' (or at least a convenience for his & saix' plans) he probably feels less bad about it than w/ repliku #since repliku was mainly implicated bc it was convenient for him #(and also the way you feel about things is bound to be a bit skewed after having lived without a heart for 10+ years) #lea #axel #ienzo #zexion #kingdom hearts #kh #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

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There is something so foul about Terranort taking out Ven first at the keyblade graveyard

#like... not only bc of the way ven ran up to him thinking it was terra only for him to mercilessly cut him down #but also!!! a good number of thinks terra does in bbs is to protect ven!!!! #he (unwittingly assisted in) killing his own master (who was basically his dad!) just to protect ven #but the main reason hes going after vanitas is bc he was told he was after ven #and also its just really fucked up to use terras body to kill one of his best friends who is also practically family to him #AND ALSO UNLIKE AQUA VEN DIDNT KNOW WHAT EVEN HAPPENED TO TERRA #like he didnt know hed been possessed or overtaken by darkness! he had NO idea! #and even when terranort reveals himself before striking hes clearly in disbelief #he doesnt want to hurt him :( #like aqua at least was aware and ready to fight him again if need be #but ven literally just found out and couldnt even process it before he got struck :( #terra #terra xehanort #terranort #ventus #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 3 #kh #kh3 #xander rambles

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Usually when something becomes popular or suddenly explodes online my interest in it tends to be pretty 'oh cool, people like this thing ig' or sometimes my interest actually lessens fron over-exposure

Dungeon Meshi is apparently the exception bc wow I am so intrigued by what is happening here

#im gonna read it online if i can i want to know wats going on here #also the art style is so pretty and cute #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #xander rambles

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(Im)personalized dress-up doll

#the objectification and dehumanization of xion in days makes me so sad #especially bc she begins to progressively believe it more and more #sad little girl :( at least she had roxas (and axel but his dynamic with her was a bit more complicated) #xion #kingdom hearts #kh #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art #cw nudity #cw non-sexual nudity #cw doll nudity #trying to have my bases covered

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You. You get it. I know some people hate the fact kh has so many retcons and changes, but that is inevitable when dealing with a long-running and expansive story. People make stuff up as they go all the time, kh is no different. Roxas, like several other characters in kh, had a story that changed because it was expanded upon, and for the better.

I love kh2 with all my heart but it is NOT flawless. Roxas' (and Naminés, for that matter!) story in kh2 alone falls flat given that it provides no closure or autonomy to either of them. Closing their arcs with a 'Well, that's how it is. Live with it' kinda ending is unsatisfactory and sends the message that a bad situation can never be fixed. This is especially criminal in Roxas' case consider this was 1) his debut game and 2) we didn't even get to spend that much time with him. We had the prologue and that's it. We didn't even know him and having his whole unexplored existance end so unceremoniously and unfairly is terrible writing. kh is not a franchise for doomer endings. Tragedies, yes, but it always comes with some form of closure in the end.

Days changed the narrative by focusing on Roxas' individuality, and by putting a comparative arc (Xion's) next to his that show the lengths someone can go to retain that individuality. It puts another perspective on his anger and bitterness at how he's treated in the kh2 prologue. DDD then further expands on that by making it so that he has a tangible individuality seperate from Sora (having a heart of his own), and by emphasizing the unfairness of his situation and Sora's distaste at how it turned out for him.

By this point, Roxas coming back was inevitable, because now we had Sora outright expressing his desire for it, and also a confirmed ability/means to do it.

Respectfully, anyone who believes that Roxas shouldn't have come back in kh3 is wrong and also doesn't know how to make a satisfying end to a characters narrative.

I could maybe forgive thinking Naminé or Xion shouldn't have returned, as they at least got to make the informed decision to return to their counterparts themselves. It would still be wrong but I can at least forgive it.

But Roxas? His entire story is about being allowed to be yourself regardless of what anyone else around you says you should be. It doesn't/shouldn't matter if he comes from Sora, because he is someone else entirely. It's his life, not Sora or anyone elses. Having a story like that end with him being violently forced to return to Sora when he doesn't even know anything about what's going on is flat out bad writing.

Did he accept that he had to die for Sora? Well, sure, but only after getting to beat him within an inch of his life. Only reason he accepts it is because he literally has no other choice but to. He can't keep clinging to the anger and misery at his circumstances forever.

And, you know, it probably helps that the person this was all for also fucking hates it. In no way is Sora happy about what happened to Roxas. Of course he'd bring him back, it's Sora. The situation is so unfair and tragic that having it end with him just staying in Sora forever would literally go against the essence of the entire series.

Kingdom Hearts is, at it's core, a series about bonds. Roxas was established basically immediately as having very important bonds! His best friend literally died for him! He has friends that don't even know it because it was another version of them, but they still feel that bond to him anyway! You really think they should've just thrown away a character whose bonds transcended the boundaries between data and reality just like that? Get real.

#i dont usually reply to reblogs but this is SUCH and important addition that i just had to expand upon it #retcons arent inherently bad and anyone who acts like they are (especially when it comes to kh) are hypocrites #bitch the entire SERIES is build on retcons #it was supposed to be a one-off title literally everything after was made up as they go #i also think ppl are often blinded by nostalgia for kh2 that they refuse to accept that it also has moments of bad writing #which newsflash some of which was actually FIXED by those retcons and later titles these people seem to hate so much! #(also as a bit of a side note: anyone who wont give later titles a fair chance when discussing the writing #genuinely should not have an opinion on things that directly relates to information from those titles #because if you automatically denounces it as bullshit then you are analysing in bad faith) #some people are biased as hell and it shows in the worst ways sometimes #roxas #sora #kingdom hearts #kh #xander rambles #reblog

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Respectfully, anyone who believes that Roxas shouldn't have come back in kh3 is wrong and also doesn't know how to make a satisfying end to a characters narrative.

I could maybe forgive thinking Naminé or Xion shouldn't have returned, as they at least got to make the informed decision to return to their counterparts themselves. It would still be wrong but I can at least forgive it.

But Roxas? His entire story is about being allowed to be yourself regardless of what anyone else around you says you should be. It doesn't/shouldn't matter if he comes from Sora, because he is someone else entirely. It's his life, not Sora or anyone elses. Having a story like that end with him being violently forced to return to Sora when he doesn't even know anything about what's going on is flat out bad writing.

Did he accept that he had to die for Sora? Well, sure, but only after getting to beat him within an inch of his life. Only reason he accepts it is because he literally has no other choice but to. He can't keep clinging to the anger and misery at his circumstances forever.

And, you know, it probably helps that the person this was all for also fucking hates it. In no way is Sora happy about what happened to Roxas. Of course he'd bring him back, it's Sora. The situation is so unfair and tragic that having it end with him just staying in Sora forever would literally go against the essence of the entire series.

Kingdom Hearts is, at it's core, a series about bonds. Roxas was established basically immediately as having very important bonds! His best friend literally died for him! He has friends that don't even know it because it was another version of them, but they still feel that bond to him anyway! You really think they should've just thrown away a character whose bonds transcended the boundaries between data and reality just like that? Get real.

#sorry not sorry but roxas' narrative is genuinely so important and it baffles me that there are people who genuinely think he shouldnt have #come back in kh3 #like dude do you just hate satisfying happy endings or what? #the ending that roxas got in kh2 is terrible #his entire everything in kh2 is terrible actually #the only one involved in that situation thats on his side (aside from axel but hes not counted) #is also the only one who couldnt do anything until it was too late #and like. in ddd roxas outright says that the reason he could be okay with this #is because its sora specifically #because sora *wouldnt* be okay with it #because hed actually care to do something to fix it #ansem the wise also says exactly that! #that the reason roxas could exist seperately to begin with is bc of soras love for other people!!!!!! #im rambling again but whatever. sometimes people have such astronomically bad takes that it astounds me #roxas #sora #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 2 #kh #kh2 #xander rambles