#sora i get. roxas and ventus i get.

[zxal]

a mantle a legacy a knife

#kingdom hearts #kh #sora #xion #roxas #impalement cw #blood cw #this is for a request that took SO LONG TO GET TO IM SORRY but i loved the idea of it SOOOO much #like not just that roxas and xion inherit the keyblade from sora - but that sora inherits it from ventus in a way & passes it on to them #this mantle that none of them chose or asked for...but it's theirs & it can be a tool for great good #and also for great destruction. and it tears them apart in so many ways #what is it aqua says. 'i wouldn't wish this on them' #'one keyblade is more than enough for any friendship' #anyway uhhh sorry i cant stop drawing people getting impaled by keyblades. how did it get in there you ask? (runs) #my art #kh art

[yzafre]

Roxas: Had the Halloween town kids throw bombs in his face for multiple missions in a row before finally breaking down and smacking them around a bit.

Ventus: The dwarves were rude and refused to talk to him, immediately resorted to chasing them down and whacking them.

Characterization I see frequently: Ah, yes, Roxas is the one always willing to throw hands and Ventus is a smol sunshine boy.

#kh #kingdom hearts #these are really silly examples but the point stands! #in fact I think it expands when you look at their full screen-time #I am once again begging people to watch a full let's play of Days #don't get me wrong Ventus IS brightness and sunshine #but he also has the energy of a chihuahua ready to fight the world and I will stand by that #where as Roxas will tend to just try to avoid it until he Very Much Can't #now I think Roxas does BITTERNESS better than Ventus or Sora #but bitterness is not temper #in fact bitterness is usually negative emotions left on the backburner until the resentment caves in on itself #I suppose this is up to interpretation but from my reading... #a lot of times Ventus seems to burn out his anger then let it go #whereas Roxas doesn't do anything with the emotions until he/the situation self-destructs catastrophically so it ends up being nastier #but on the day-to-day? #yeah no Ventus is going to be the one reacting first #you can also exchange Sora for Ventus for some of these arguments #though I think he lands somewhere between Ventus and Roxas for short-temperedness #all this is more complicated than this reductive commentary of course #you have to take in how and in what orders the characters were introduced and marketed #the difficulty of getting the handheld games historically and the biases that set in before they were easily accessed #not to mention stock archetypes for fandom joke set-ups that then perpetuate the characterization... #like there's a LOT to how this came to be #but it Gets To Me sometimes #yza talks about a thing

[bluest-planet]

Can I interest u in some Soras? (And his Sortas?) He's very cute n fun to draw 🥺

#kh #kingdom hearts #kh fanart #kh sora #kh vanitas #kh xion #kh ventus #kh roxas #heart hotel #planet paintings #u guys dont understand hm agender/genderfluid heart hotel but mainly Sora Xion and Vanitas are to ne #also continuing my sora wears pearls and has piercings agenda forever n ever #he has a dolphin bite bc its just too fitting #plus his various ear piercings and nostil one i just like drawing em on him and the others... #mersora is the biggest on this piece but in actuality hes the smallest lol. roxas is hugeeeed in comparison #THEY ALL GET TO BE PORPOISES !!! I WANT THAT I THINK DOLPHIN SORA IS SO CUTE U GUYS THEY SHOULD ALL GET TO BE ONE... #trying to draw him in his canon outfit but reall homies know the real destiny isles fits tm #okay good night im tired...

[cometrose]

feel like pure shit why aren’t sora and roxas best friends yet

#i want them to be BUDDIES #kh #kingdom hearts #sora #roxas #I WANT THEM TO DO A TAG TEAM FIGHT #I WANT THEM TO HUG AND GO OUT FOR ICE CREAM #don’t even get me started on sora and ventus cause i’ll start throwing things

[hgmason-hellion]

I digitalized the sketch from this post! I'm getting more comfortable with my drawing tablet and my sketchy style!!!

And here's a closer look at the three bubbles! Vanitas looks a bit rough because I did him first. (I freehanded them !! I usually sketch on paper and then digital it, but I did those three only digital!)

#kingdom hearts #kh sora #kh roxas #my art #kh ventus #crossover #kh vanitas #kh xion #digital art #we're not going to talk about how discord is calling me out for having Krita open for 22 hours #i went to bed.... between 2 and 8 am.... #im still getting used to using a drawing tablet #also kinda proud of their hands but eh

[dreamsy990]

nodnod true he is his own person. i think it'd be funny if he didn't count tho just bc sora is like 'uhhhh he's literally me' and the landlord is just too tired for this bs and just goes "yeah sure kid whatever just pay rent on time"

love the idea of the 3 of them as roomies tho its so silly. i think i'd be funny if the rest of the sea salt trio like. lived nearby and so it was a 50/50 chance whether roxas is either at the sora-ventus household or the axel-xion household. he's like a kid with shared custody <3

i love the idea that everyone just got isekai'd to basically real-world tokyo and now is just trying to figure out wtf is going on. and everyone is just ignoring the whole part of them being isekai'd. minus riku who is constantly like 'wtf is going on????' i guess

i think roxas would absolutely switch between households to avoid saix whenever he does something wrong and they have to make a rule that youre not allowed to bail in the middle of an argument. anyways yeah youre so right riku being the least straight straight man ever would be the funniest shit.

bonus doodle of youre first idea, i think its funnier if sora deadass forgot and said 'nope its just me' and then realized after that he both a: forgot and b: its very rude

#the reason theres so much time between roxas leaving and lea trying to come get him is that lea doesnt remember where he left his coat #and you need it to go through dark coridoors #i remember the lore >:) #i think im the only one who cares about that rfgbgfrfbnbgf #i think lea and isa being terrible parents is the funniest thing that could possibly happen post kh3 and its also the best thing #they are garbage at parenting! these kids dont even know what parents are!!! #anyways these arent very thought through but yeah #doodles #roxas #lea #axel #isa #saïx #sora #ventus #kingdom hearts

[transselkie]

Started thinking about Kingdom Hearts character classpects and now that KH3 has given Sora a new aspect to fill I have honestly never had characters slot so cleanly into unique classes and aspects before. Enjoy my self indulgent mental experiment:

Sora - Rogue of Time (one who steals from time for the benefit of others)

Kairi - Muse of Space (one whose agency is denied but inspires the actions of others)

Riku - Seer of Life (one who benefits themselves with knowledge of life and uses it to guide)

Roxas - Heir of Heart (heir of identity/self/soul)

Xion - Sylph of Doom (one who heals for others through death/fate/doom)

Naminé- Thief of Mind (one who steals mind/thoughts/consequence)

Axel - Page of Blood (one who creates bonds/provides others with bonds and serves the bonds created)

Saïx - Lord of Void (one who has command over emptiness/commands the emptiness of others)

Vanitas - Witch of Rage (one who creates negativity/creates using negative emotions) OR Bard of Blood (one who invites destruction through bonds)

Ventus - Maid of Breath (one who provides freedom/confidence, one who tends to freedom/confidence)

Aqua - Knight of Hope (one who serves and protects hope/ideology)

Terra - Mage of Light (one who arms themselves through the pursuit of knowledge/one who is manipulated through their pursuit of knowledge)

#kingdom hearts #homestuck #sora #Kairi #Riku #Roxas #Xion #naminé #Axel #Saïx #Vanitas #Ventus #Aqua #Terra #I learned classpects in high school like other girls learned tarot and birth charts #I don’t care if classpects are cringe in 2023 they’re still fun to me #Vanitas gets two because I didn’t want to sacrifice my initial idea of him as a blood player #sorry to Saïx who is stuck in his Organization XIII middle management position #I don’t have a firm enough grasp on Isa and what that backstory is to assign him based on that #originally it was going to be Saïx as the rage player Axel as the void player and Vanitas as the blood player #but I ultimately felt it shook out better this way #also I know that Ven struggles with both freedom and confidence #but the Maid class uses their aspect to benefit others more than themselves #and so I thought it fit ‘you never stopped lighting my way home’ #and also he does the windy thing

[ajdrawshq]

@ your tags on my post, i am shaking you like a maraca and yelling "YESSSSS"

i wanna see how kh3 tackles that whole thing because it's so eerily similar to what happens in the manga. and in the manga, he is in so much pain and agony, AND HE'S STILL FIGHTING. ROXAS IS THERE WITH HIM, HIS ONLY COMPANION, and then kh3 just tripped and fell on the glass table.

also, i think about this constantly, i want them to do something with it so bad.

YEA i cant wait to see the rest of kh3 manga chapters and how they handle everything, i especially loved the manga versions for days and kh2 and the way their stories were told - even tho kh3 has a Lot going on that might be hard to show well.. amano's been good at it so far tho so i have faith :]

but yeah that whole thing with Roxas is just . oughh. im not gonna lie even i forgot that Roxas was like. still there with Sora when he perishes until i thought abt it writing those tags but now that ive realized that. why the hell did they not take advantage of that!!!! like ok i get that it was more focused on the destiny trio in the ways i talked abt in the tags but yknow. what happened to "he makes up the difference"?? that wouldve been a great moment for it to shine!! ik they already make an example of it during the Xemnas n Saïx fight but still!!

part of me wishes Roxas couldve have more outward influence on Sora the way Ven did. granted, he arguably had an affect on Sora back in kh2, and while i dont remember if it was canon or even intended, that could be applied to both his appearance (his lighter hair, mostly) and his behavior (his hostility towards the organization members; ive seen this argued both as smth Roxas had influence over and purely based on Soras experiences thus far, and i believe in both personally) but Ven in kh3 was literally able to speak and somewhat act through him. im pretty sure this was meant to show that Ven was fully ready to awaken or smth like that, and that wasnt sonething that was needed for Roxas; hes alright, just needed a body/vessel for himself. but i still think itd be a cool way to express the earlier sentiment. and it wouldnt necessarily have to be Roxas "taking over" either, the manga shows very well how Roxas gives Sora strength from within and that he definitely does make a difference

to be fair tho...... whether that wouldve helped Sora in the moment that he gives in to his despair, im not sure. in kh2, both manga and game, hes in a very different mindset than kh3. in that part of the manga especially, despite thinking everyone (except Roxas) is gone for good, he still has the belief that they can live on within him. and that, plus the literal strength hes getting from Roxas, is keeping him going despite it all. in kh3 his self confidence is beyond fucked, and he truly believes in that moment that hes lost Everything, not just his friends. thats hard to come back from

i wonder if he were to remember that Roxas were still there, if that wouldve helped. whether for comfort in the way that hes not really alone then, or for motive to keep living bc if he dies then Roxas is gone too, or whatever reason, i think it couldve changed something, even if its just a little bit. hell, itd have been great if something like that happened afterwards in the final world. id like to think Roxas had a hand in Sora surviving ..... not sure how but its a nice thought. either way i do wish Sora n Roxas' connection and that moment they have in san fransokyo had more....... More. in kh3. it was a great opportunity that they didnt use/forgot about n im now sad abt it forever

#while writing this im now realizing that Sora rly just keeps going thru the 'the real answer was within u all along' thing over n over . #Kairi. Roxas. then Ventus and still Roxas #ANYWAY BACK TO MY MAIN POINT its part of why i love love love the manga i love how they handle Roxas especially #not that i dont like his game stuff tho dont get me wrong. hes one of the most beloved characters for a Reason #its possible that they didnt do anything bc they wanted Roxas' big moment to be when he comes back as himself once n for all #n didnt wanna take away from that maybe ? idk thats pure theorizing here #but also theres that mention of how Jiminy is still with him after death..... and how Naminé appears in the final world n all that..... #thats not related to the previous thing i mentioned it just. feels connected in a way i cant articulate rn #ok my ability to think is going down now thats all i got rn. ty for enabling me again i havent thought abt these guys like this in a While #god. i need to replay kh2 again sometime #kh #ask #storm-driver #as an add on purely for myself - the thing i said at the very beginning of the tags abt the people within being the answer #or important in some way...... he himself is included in that. bc of remind

[storm-driver]

au where they make a replica of roxas to serve as a seeker of darkness vessel, like they did for xion and riku, and there was a fight between him, sora and ventus, putting this down here so i dont forget it 

#kingdom hearts #i am full of insane stuff lately #i just think #of ventus getting stunted by seeing roxas who looked like him #and sora feeling horrible that they were gonna tryna to use roxas #og roxas watching from inside sora's heart and starting to bang his keyblades together screaming 'THAT'S NOT ME' #the potentially really sick shot of roxas going to attack sora out of rage #and ventus intervening to stop him bc sora is refusing to fight back #lISTEN I JUST THINK A LOT

[madeimpact]

Because these guys all have the same gotdamn hairstyle: Sora, Roxas, Ventus, Noctis, Prompto. These are rough ideas and I'm probably going to want to draw them later but just some picrew brainstorming for fancy ball outfits teehee

#luciansummersunset #❛ dash games: sora. #❛ dash games: roxas. #❛ dash games: ventus. #❛ dash games: noctis. #❛ dash games: prompto. #...maybe sans the crowns for the sortas. maybe idk #the kh ones are admittedly from earlier talks of a different event on discord #but they also work here #anyway my guys are IMPOSSIBLE to make on picrews #that one back hair option was the closest i could get for any of them

[runsonlovepower]

give it up for that time I tried to figure out what I think their handwritings would be

#for the record I thiiiink I would do vens a little differently #but I maintain he has a hard time spelling giant words because it’s not his native language #Written or spoken #mine #I DO love Roxas’ though I took it based on those limited Sora signatures at Disney #ventus has been speaking old English for years and now he has to speak modern English he knows modern English better now #but he still would get confused when ‘awesome’ doesn’t mean that. Or ‘peculiar’

[mxdotpng]

fresh static snow is a heart hotel song. not elaborating

#.text #sorry im feeling a ways tonight. none of them ever officially meet they barely say any words to each other #outside of roxas and xion #but roxas still saw sora and his heart and said thats why it has to be you. #and ventus has been in sora's heart his whole life seeking shelter. he protected him when sora needed it most #they said so few words to each other. sora has the face of the person ventus hates the most. #and still he became soras armor and his shield #xion gave up her life for roxas. but she said that sora is the reason shes alive. and she is thankful for that. #and yet they had never even met. #fresh static snow. oh my god. even though i'll never know your name i'll cry for you the same. #do you even get it. #i love them so much...

[empyreasheart]

ngl i forget roxas and ventus have the same hair and eyes cuz i always end up thinking of ventus with lighter & warmer hair and green eyes and roxas with a dirtier blonde hair & hazel eyes

#elisey speaks #i hardly see roxas with hazel eyes but i think it looks sooo good on him and since i hc sora to have brown eyes to me its like #an inbetween of sora and ventus' eyes #i guess the same with his hair color? im always kind of shocked at how blonde roxas's hair is #like i think it should just be slightly darker. imo. or desaturated #not smth completely different but more subtle i guess #i get WHY ventus and roxas are basically twins but i think roxas being kind of a visual inbetween of sora and ventus #is more interesting. compared to just reusing the same character design #but thats just me ig

[bluest-planet]

🐬 What a weird pod 🐬

(W.I.P) Anyways, its always mermay in this household 💙🧜🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️✨

#kh #kingdom hearts #kh fanart #heart hotel #kh sora #kh roxas #kh xion #kh vanitas #kh ventus #mermaid AU #blue's wips #well. is it a mermaid au if im just tweaking sora/giving em Atlantica forms? #dont get me wrong i do wanna do a mermaid au but. not rn #changed Xion and Ven's to be more fitting and bc i wanted another big fish other than Roxas #i feel like roxas isnt big enough tho..... #hmmm #i am aware my anatomy is all over the place this is rough sketch lol but i love it

[yume127]

I find it interesting how Roxas is often described as the “angry one” or “short-tempered one” when compared to Sora or Ventus, mostly because I always felt Sora and Ven have a shorter fuse than Roxas.

The association between Roxas and anger is understandable, because many of Roxas’ most poignant moments in the series happen when he is very (and understandably) angry, but I also feel like it’s a disservice to his character to only reduce him to his anger, especially when it’s far from who he is in normal circumstances.

For example, during Days, many Organization members treat him poorly and insult him to his face and, for the most part, Roxas doesn’t react at all. In Halloween Town, Lock, Shock, and Barrel throw bombs in his face multiple times before Roxas finally snaps at them. He senses that many people around him are keeping things from him, but it takes him months before he confronts someone about it. That’s far from someone I’d consider short-tempered or easy to anger.

The only situation I can think of when we see him get upset quickly is if anyone does or says something bad to Xion and, even then, the most of his reaction is verbally snapping at Saix to make him stop disrespecting her. In Axel’s case (when Roxas is upset with him for attacking Xion), Roxas doesn’t confront him at all, he just avoids him altogether. Also, I think it’s important to note that every moment in which Roxas is very angry happens when his entire life is falling apart, which is a situation in which, I believe, everyone would be upset.

Roxas seems the kind of person who bottles everything up without much reaction until it becomes too much and he explodes, and that’s when he has a hard time controlling his anger/emotions. Having spent most of his life in the organization probably plays a part in it as, every time he brings up any emotion, his feelings are invalidated and suppressed. That’s not an environment that gave him the tools to process strong emotions in a healthy way.

Let’s compare that to Ventus. Ven is the definition of short-tempered in BBS. He’s ready to throw hands with Vanitas the moment he says something remotely bad about Terra, which was minutes after he met him for the first time. He fought the dwarves without a second thought just because they refused to talk with him. His first reaction when he becomes small and is trapped in a mousetrap is to shout. These are just some examples from the top of my head, but it’s clear Ven has a shorter fuse than Roxas.

Ventus usually expresses how he feels in any given situation and has a short fuse. On the flip side, he doesn’t seem to hold on to these feelings at all. He externalises them the moment he feels them, but then he lets it go and it doesn’t bother him anymore. Out of the three of them, Ventus seems the most open about his emotions and, from what I remember, when he opens up about feeling a certain way with his friends, his feelings are usually not invalidated nor brushed aside. In UX, Ventus seems calmer and doesn’t have much anger in him, but he’s still open to expressing his feelings of low self-worth and sadness with the other union leaders.

Sora, I think he falls in the middle? He seems to have a shorter temper compared to Roxas, which was especially clear in KH2, where he snaps at the Organization multiple times, but he also bottles up his emotions more than Ven, especially around his friends. This happens mostly with his sadness, which he always tries to hide or brush aside, but in KH3 we can also see, for example, how much he’s bothered by everyone constantly bringing up him not passing the Mark of Mastery, even if he tries not to show it.

I think Sora feels like he should always be happy for his friends’ sake, and even during the rare moments when he tries to express his sadness, his feelings are not truly welcomed (“No frowning. No sad faces. This boat runs on happy faces”), so he just tries to brush it off as a joke. He’s loud in expressing any kind of positive emotion, and he openly expresses his anger against his enemies (and to his friends too, sometimes), but he also doesn’t hold on to that anger and is pretty forgiving. However, he usually bottles up his sadness, low self-esteem and other negative feelings, and then explodes when he can’t hold it together any longer (like it happened at the Keyblade Graveyard when he thought all his friends were gone forever).

#roxas #ventus #sora #kingdom hearts #kh #i wonder if this misconception about roxas happens because most of his personality is shown in days #like in the actual game not in the movie #and maybe people who didn't play days don't know his characterization during the game #even if i would argue sora and especially ventus suffer from the same problem but opposite #where they're often described as always happy and sunshine when there's much more to their characterization #anyway i just wanted to talk about them #sorry for any mistakes #long post

[hgmason-hellion]

Art dump art dump

(Okay wait it's gonna be two posts because I am a mess)

#mason art #kh ventus #kh sora #kh roxas #traditional art #my art #cotl lamb #cotl fanart #i think i made a cotl inspired keyblade design at one point and might toss that into the next art dump #soroku i guess??? #you can see where i made the mistake of using my dying gel pens #mason.png #mason shut up #the first picture of Roxas had some lyrics attached to it but i cropped them out but it was also Angel by Theory of a Deadman #gonna post more art in like 5 minutes after i get context for half of it