We (as in general fandoms) joke a lot about characters committing war crimes, often when they’re not actually committing war crimes, they’re just going to war. But the Foretellers actually genuinely committed war crimes in a mobile game for kids
Aaaaand It’s finished!!! My (very messy) animatic of “The One Thing You Can’t Replace” with khdr characters!!!! took me two days but I’m super proud of it, and for a first animatic as well!!!
Anyway the vibe I always got from Yen Sid in Kingdom Hearts is like. He took up keyblading for a while, as like a side pursuit maybe? But obviously he didn't slouch about it, he put in enough work to make master. And then he took on one apprentice (Mickey) and trained him up some and then was like, cool, I think I've given enough back to Keyblade Society, that was an enriching extracurricular for my sorcery studies, but I am now Retired From Keyblades.
But then like, every other master dies, or goes evil (and then presumably dies until it turns out he didn't), or ends up in the Hell Dimension, so Mickey keeps showing up on his doorstep with multidimensional keyblade problems and it's just like. There's no one else to send him to! And it's not like you can totally actually offload all the responsibilities you accepted by taking on the title of master, even if you "retire", a thing keyblade masters don't actually seem to do.
So like. Okay. He has to be involved. But he is absolutely not Drawing His Fucking Keyblade, okay. He's retired.
I like kh3, I thought it did a really good job at wrapping up loose ends for certain characters and had really solid gameplay.
But nothing will ever make me more angry in these games then Yen Sid getting on Sora's case about not having the power of waking, not being strong enough, just generally belittling this teenager while doing practically nothing to help until the very end of the game. No wonder Kairi died, her "training" was just Yen Sid dumping her and Lea in a magic forest under the watch of Merlin who HAS ZERO EXPERIENCE WITH A KEYBLADE. The only thing he could have been helpful with is magic. I do not care if Yen Sid is retired, when the worlds are in danger that should obviously take priority. All the guardians are lucky that Sora is just a genuine and kind person, because most people would not have the patience to put up with how Yen Sid treated him.
finally getting back to watching dan playframe's kingdom hearts: birth by sleep playthrough and i'm beginning to get it now. i'm beginning to understand
All the times that I can think of that Sora got lucky charms from people, so to speak. I know it's also implied that the other Keychains he gets on his journey, like Crabclaw, are actually from his friends like Jungle King is clearly from Tarzan (and man, do I wish Tumblr didn't have a ten picture limit, so I could post the pic here, where it really looks like Tarzan gives it to him). But since those aren't said/shown in so many words, I'm not including them.
Holy shit, I hate Yen Sid so much, but I gotta point out what I just thought about:
He did not want to be a teacher. He was retired, no longer a Master. Then Mickey comes in and forces his hand. And from there, chaos begins to reign.
It’s no wonder he doesn’t want to actively help out with things. He was retired. He wanted nothing to do with anything anymore. He doesn’t want to take the time to teach Riku and Sora anything at all. So he doesn’t. He goes ‘you should have learned how to do that, you failed’ without giving any way for Sora to have learned.
Like, he’s absolutely the shitty teacher who was forced out of retirement because no one else was left to do the job, and he embodies it. Sits back and doesn’t teach. Doesn’t help at all until the parting the heartless for the lights to proceed. He’s that shitty teacher.
I hate him, but--he didn’t sign up for this.
I still hate him. Maybe more so because hey, now he’s someone I’ve met.