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roseartsandfics · 1 month

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Aerith (KH) -- Rose

Another rose pose artwork with Aerith Gainsborough from Kingdom Hearts!

Maybe spoils warning, but I FINALLY managed to visit Monstro in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix after getting all the munny on accessories, weapons and gummi ship parts, which I made on my own by a new blueprint. My gummi ship was looking like a piece of crap, until adding new lasers and engine are the most awesome things I ever have added! (Although the lasers are hard to deal with when going to the worlds, but I'll see what I can do with it.) I'll probably redo the ship soon for better health bars.

I pretty much liked how Aerith turned out in this piece, especially the hair and dress ^^. Can't wait to draw more of her soon! ^^

Aerith Gainsborough and Final Fantasy VII ©Tetsuya Nomura, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yoshinori Kitase, Yusuke Naora and SQUARE ENIX

Kingdom Hearts ©Tetsuya Nomura, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yoshinori Kitase, Disney and SQUARE ENIX

Artwork ©RosePrincessArts

No copyright infringement is intended

Used: Soho Studio pencils and markers, fine artists pens, illustration and non toxic alcohol markers and calligraphy pen

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lisnovski · 3 months

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"You never know who you'll run into next!"

I started playing Kingdom Hearts for the first time this year! I plan on getting into the series as one of my 2024 goals.

#Sora #kingdom hearts #pixelart #disney #square enix

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moltengarnet · 3 months

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Alexa, play “Another Side - Battle Version”

#cats #cat #cute #cow cat #kingdom hearts #sora #roxas #kingdom hearts 2 #Disney #square Enix #final fantasy #my photography

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tinstarbby · 11 months

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Meeting again for the first time

#kingdom hearts #kh4 #the little mermaid #Disney #digital art #drawing #fanart #square enix

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haido · 5 months

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Scala 🌌✨

#kingdom hearts #khgifs #khgraphics #khedits #kh #khml #kh missing link #mygifs #myedits #square enix #disney #haido3d

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kennycrows · 28 days

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#disney dreamlight valley #wall-e #dreamlight valley #wall e #pixaredit #gamingedit #disneyedit #ddlvedit #gif #look! she gifs things that aren’t square enix!#if gameloft could give me a first person camera #that’d be great

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8hitz3n · 1 year

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Drew the Rickster because my mind has been slowly gravitating back to kingdom hearts, rejoice! I am back to drawing kh and my art is 10X better from what it used to be (this was also technically a gift drawing so tehee)

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tambermizukiart · 2 months

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𝕊𝕠𝕂𝕒𝕚 🐚💘

I'm making a Valentine themed profile row on IG and I included this art trade made with @/paopuandseasalt 🥺 She asked me to draw Sora and Kairi, giving me freedom on their outfits, and in the end it turned out like a Valentine themed art to be posted for the event 💜

I love Sokai to the bone 🌸

[Pose was requested]

#artwork #digital art #drawing #kingdom hearts #illustration #art #sokai #kh sora #kh kairi #happy valentine's day #square enix #disney #digital drawing #traditional art

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themattress · 4 months

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Untitled Kairi Post

Y'know what? In a way, Kairi was tragically doomed as a character from the very beginning.

"Oh, because she was a love interest and damsel in distress!"

No. Myths, fairy tales and, well, Disney movies have used those tropes for ages, and if you're doing a story where a huge point is the influence of those things, it's kind of a given that the leading lady be a love interest and damsel in distress. And the writing is smart enough to put a twist on the trope given that Kairi's distress is much less than it appeared to be because she's Sora's love interest and he's her's, and after Sora saves her she saves him right back.

"Oh, because she wasn't a playable character or party member!"

No. It would have been nice to have the playable puzzle solving-based Kairi sequence they initially planned at Hollow Bastion, but I can understand why it was removed given how it would slow down the pace following what is perhaps the signature sequence of the game. And in any case it doesn't have any bearing on how things went for the rest of the series, given that Riku also was not a playable character or party member (he just had a crappy AI when pretending to help you fight Parasite Cage all so that he could kidnap Pinocchio).

"Oh, because she was stuck in a coma the whole game!"

NO! God damn it, how much must the game beat the point into your stupid head!?

And who could forget?

Stop laughing right now.

Kairi. Not just "her heart". KAIRI. Since the heart = the person.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it exposes some serious sexism if one goes with the "Kairi was in a coma" line for KH1 and yet says "Ventus was inside of Sora" post BBS, since it's literally the exact same situation except that Kairi was always awake within Sora's heart as opposed to Ventus only waking up at the end of 3D. It's why Sora felt things regarding Hollow Bastion, why he experienced the memory of Kairi and her grandfather, and why he saw and heard Kairi multiple times. He wasn't hallucinating; that was always really her.

So, enough beating around the bush. What did I actually mean, then?

Well....let's start at the beginning.

Kairi's arc in the original Kingdom Hearts is not just told through the writing. Utilizing a video game as a visual/audible medium, it is also told through animation, voicework and music. During her introductory cutscene, we see Kairi asked by Sora if she remembers the world she was born in before being sent to Destiny Islands. "I told you before. I don't remember." She answers this sincerely. "Nothing at all?" Sora responds. That's when we see this detail.

"Nothing." Kairi is lying. She doesn't remember everything given the trauma caused by being forced out of her old home, but she does remember just enough to understand why it was traumatic. She had a comfortable life there, and a family. She was happy. And then it was all gone in an instant. Now, on Destiny Islands, she is similarly content ("Well, I'm happy here.") and fears risking that same loss. And yet a small part of her still yearns for the past. She loved what she can recall of her past, as she loves her present. She fears only the future.

Riku's fixation on his existential woes and the mysteries of the universe, while also putting her up on some sort of pedestal like she's something special, is not helping at all. Something about it feels wrong to Kairi...wrong and uncomfortably familiar. It's making her very anxious.

But Kairi has someone to lean on and help her keep up an optimistic, cheerful front, perhaps enough to talk herself into believing it: Sora. And during this scene, we hear the track "Kairi I":

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This track reflects Kairi's character in this moment. While there is a subtle undercurrent of worry, her heart is strong enough to not let it get to her and look on the bright side as she looks out to the sun setting over the ocean. With Sora's reassurance, she is able to feel as though her home and friends won't change or go away no matter what happens on her, Sora and Riku's planned voyage, which allows her to feel anticipation for it. All finally feels right.

Of course, things were not right, and Kairi ended up in heart form as her body and soul were lost to darkness along with Destiny Islands. From Kairi's POV, she is now in the Station of Awakening (aka Dive to the Heart) and can do little but watch Sora's adventures as she can see them through his eyes, not fully putting it together why she can and where she truly is.

In the scene at Merlin's House, we get to hear "Kairi II".

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While it's similar to "Kairi I", there is now a more somber and mysterious feel to it given the present circumstances. While she doesn't know if Sora can hear her, Kairi wistfully waxes nostalgic over how Merlin's House reminds her of the Secret Place on Destiny Islands. And while Kairi feels sad over missing that place, she's also happy that there are places like it elsewhere in the universe. She's clearly learning as much from Sora's journey as Sora is.

Finally, we hear "Kairi III" in the flashback with little Kairi and her grandmother.

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And while it starts out reflecting Kairi's childhood innocence, it ends up turning...almost sad. The reason why being one of the most overlooked details of the scene: at the end of the grandmother's story, she disappears, and little Kairi is shown moving her head all around looking for her. This isn't actually part of the memory, but a reflection of Kairi's heart. She knows that she had a grandmother and that her grandmother isn't here anymore, but she can't remember how her grandmother "left". But she at least still exists...within her heart.

Speaking of which, once Kairi's heart returns to her body and Sora loses his heart in the process, Kairi puts her foot down. She may have learned how to better deal with and accept change and loss, but a line still has to be drawn somewhere and Sora is that line for her.

Thus is she able to save him. Later, we see her worry about the future and things changing again when she questions whether anything can be the same between her, Sora and Riku again after the corruption Riku had underwent. Once again, Sora boosts her optimism.

More importantly, he helps her learn, as he does, that even when separated you can take strength in keeping your loved ones (metaphorically) in your heart, and that even if things change and Kairi is cut off from the people and things she loves, they will always exist within her heart, just as with her grandmother and the story she told her about light and darkness.

This is why, in the end, Kairi is able to let Sora go and yet still feel content.

From "Hikari" (JP):

I'll stop doing pointless things like thinking about the future. Today I'll eat delicious things. The future is always before us, Even if I don't know it.

From "Simple and Clean" (EN):

Regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all. Nothing's like before.

This is a really good, really well done character arc.

It's also a very human character arc.

Yes, there are a lot of fantastical things going on, but when you put all of that aside, what are you left with? A young girl moves away from her old home and everything that she ever knew and loved, which gives her anxiety about the same thing happening with the new home and everything that she's come to know and love from it, which now includes a certain boy. She fears the future; she fears change. In the end, she ends up staying in her new home - but the boy moves away! However, through her time spent with him she's learned to accept this because he'll always be a part of her heart, which is something that won't ever change.

When put that way, it sounds positively mundane, and by and large the KH fandom - and Tetsuya Nomura himself for that matter - don't want or like mundane stuff like that. They want the crazy, the overdramatic, the angsty, the flashy, the anime tropeyness they're familiar with. This is why they were unreceptive to Kairi's arc to the fullest degree, as in many of them are literally unaware it even happened because they were too busy fixating on the archetypal Japanese media-style dick measuring contest between Sora and Riku (which is also far deeper than they tend to give it credit for, btw, but I digress). And if that's the case, then the question gets raised: why bother focusing on or expanding Kairi at all? She doesn't "sell".

THIS is why Kairi was doomed from the start. It's not her fault. But it's sadly the truth.

#Disney #Square Enix #Kingdom Hearts #Kairi #Opinion #Analysis #Kairi Deserved Better #This has been a PSA

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nosfelixculpa · 1 year

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i am once again thinking abt the aqua axelea team attack dialogue

#creations #gifs #games #kingdom hearts #kh #kh3 #kh remind #aqua #axel #lea #disney #square enix #yes i am too lazy to edit out all the health bars nd things yes i am #i just need them to be the two only competent adults for some mission or sth #maybe terra is sleeping i dont know man #but i just #require the aqua axelea dynamic to be aqua being incredibly annoyed by everything he does #while he is just trying to live his life #axel: [makes a joke] aqua: u are but a vermin on this earth

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bluemoonkh3 · 8 months

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Somebody tell me how I got so small!!

#artwork #fanart #kingdom hearts #square enix #disney #ventus kingdom hearts #wayfinder trio #kh bbs #birth by sleep #ventus #Ven #bbs #kingdom hearts iii #kh fanart #kh3 #artists on tumblr #small artist #digital artist

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roseartsandfics · 2 months

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Sora and Friends -- Picnic

Wow. It's been a long while since drawing some Kingdom Hearts stuff. So here is Sora, Kairi and Riku having a picnic in their home Destiny Islands :)

I can recall drawing some KH art stuff, and… to be honest, I actually CRINGED everytime I remember drawing them the last years. I had lack of ideas and those arts from before I have drawn aren't really that great to me ^^;. But hopefully, this will probably be as good as it could be ^^. This turned out pretty well :).

It is difficult drawing both Riku and Kairi aaagghhhhh. I am still trying to improve on Sora. But otherwise, this turned out pretty well!

Went to Starbucks today, got subs from Publix, napped, and baked sugar cookies ^^. Had a long day ^^. Late display so yeah ^^;. Hopefully I'll get to play more Kingdom Hearts stuff, and maybe draw more of them ^^

No copyright infringement is intended

Used: regular basic pencil, Cra-Z-Art colored pencils, Crayola colored and silly scented colored pencils, 48 pack colored pencils

#traditional art #fanart #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts fanart #disney square enix #disney fanart #disney #square enix fanart #square enix #riku #kairi #sora #video game #video game fanart #friends #picnic

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yura-s-arts · 1 year

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