#universe • kingdom hearts

[somnimagus]

My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!

[id in alt!]

#kingdom hearts #kh #kh kairi #kh xion #kh namine #i don't really feel proud of my own stuff usually but #i really think this is the drawing i'm most proud of from this past year!! it made me think 'oh maybe i can draw' haha #i'm still kinda bad with colors but something clicked with this one. and i feel like i got the sentimental feeling i wanted! #ooh but this project's about flower symbolism so ramble incoming: #protea symbolizes resilience transformation and diversity; hollyhock means 'please remember me.' #so my general theme was finding a sense of self. #these 3 have struggled with finding their own identity; they tend to get left behind both in-universe and in general plotwise #and naminé and xion both resemble kairi and were overshadowed by her memory. but i feel like all 3 have transformed into their own people #xion and naminé have their faces covered partially by hollyhock to show their wish to be remembered for who they are- #instead of the parts that they share with someone else #and the protea bouquets show how they each held on and resiliently grew into their own person despite it all #i put a little swervy path on the hill behind kairi to give that hopeful sense of growth and moving forward. it's a little hard to see #hopefully that makes sense! i really love symbolism but i think in visuals so i'm really bad with words #but gosh working with everyone on this project was so fun. it was like impossible not to get swept up by the team's hype for this zine #i need to hunt down everybody's work and rb it #ohh and everybody's flowers are so crisply drawn it's insane!! i think if i lined all these flowers and leaves i'd die haha #fan art #my art #project stuff

[shadowhandss60]

Chaol: This is my wife Yrene, she’s a healer.

Dorian: This is my wife Manon Blackbeak-

Chaol: The White Demon?

Dorian: Actually, she’s Queen of the Witches now.

Manon: I’m a reverse healer.

Chaol:

Yrene:

Manon: You know, because I kill people.

Chaol: I-

Yrene: I like her.

Dorian: I know right?

#canon in my heart #sorry chaol but princeling likes em violent #healer didn’t work out too well for him last time so he went back to his roots #throne of glass #manon blackbeak #manorian #dorian havilliard #celaena sardothien #sjm universe #rowan whitethorn #manon x dorian #rowaelin #acotar #yrene westfall #chaol x yrene #dorian x chaol #Chaolrene #throne of glass memes #Manorian meme #kingdom of ash

[ultimatedirk]

THANK YOU ALL FOR 32K ON TUMBLR !!!! in celebration here is a mega post of some of the BEST artwork I've ever made in one post !!! thank you for all the years of love on this acc since 2018 <333

#riz talks #BIG LOVE GUYS !!!! #dc fanart #rottmnt fanart #wally darling #welcome home fanart #ben 10 fanart #kingdom hearts fanart #linked universe fanart #star wars fanart #trolls fanart #spiderman fanart #the owl house fanart #mega art post #wahoooo !!!!!

[haunted-xander]

kh2 except Sora & Riku stay on the islands and go to a school post-game and also this happens bc I think it's funny

#'why is quistis here' BECAUSE in MY head the remaining main casts of any ff game that has any rep in kh #exists somewhere in that universe theyre just doing stuff off-screen bc they arent involved with Plot #quistis is the student council president at the school on destiny island i have decided #riku #soriku #tidus #selphie tilmitt #wakka #quistis trepe #and the top of kairis head but that doesnt warrant a tag #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 2 #the only real reason this is specifically kh2 is bc i wanted to draw long-hair riku lol #kh #kh2 #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Tis a niche of its own

Sorry there is only two female characters, I kinda pulled these off the top of my head and probably missed a ton of other candidates. Reblog with an addition if you have one!

Edit: I forgot to make this poll a week long! Once this poll ends I'll remake it with new additions depending on the results (the characters with the fewest results will be replaced with suggested characters from the notes so be sure to suggest some!) in the meantime tho plz reblog to increase sample size

This follows my own definition of what "Comic Relief" means: A character that is used as a conduit for comedy in a piece of media

Through character studies I have determined that there are 5 types of comic relief: the Character Relief, the Audience Relief, the Tone Shifter, the Butt of the Joke, and the Slapstick. Characters that identify as "Comic Relief" usually fall into one or more of these categories

Further explanation under the cut

The Character Relief refers to a character who actively makes jokes to be funny in-universe through conscious humor. Examples from this poll would be Sans and Rayla, who go out of their way to make their friends laugh

The Audience Relief refers to a character who makes the audience laugh regardless of their impact on the story. Examples from this poll would be Lapis and Gus, who are often involved in comedic bits meant for audience entertainment that aren't acknowledged by the narrative as anything unprecedented

The Tone Shifter refers to a character who makes jokes to relieve tension and shift the tone of a scene, either consciously or unconsciously. Examples from this poll would be Jay and Leo, as they both consciously make jokes about grim situations to help their friends or family feel better. Additionally, Jay would do this unconsciously before his trauma made him start doing it on purpose

The Butt of the Joke refers to a character who is made fun of by other characters in-universe, whether endearingly or not. Examples from this poll would be Dewey and Lance, who are often met with insults whenever they do something wrong or silly. The insults are usually meant to be endearing and comedic, but they can still feed into the character's possible inferiority complex. This also applies whenever a villain hits them with a sick burn*

The Slapstick refers to a character who is made fun of by the narrative and the audience like a punching bag. Examples from this poll would be Sokka and Yusuke, who are sometimes put in troubling and awkward situations as a gag for the audience's entertainment alone. These gags are not fun for the characters yet delightful to watch

Most comic relief characters can be characterized as multiples of these. For example, Jar-Jar from Star Wars is both Slapstick and Audience Relief, and even if you don't find his jokes funny that doesn't change the fact that they were written with your entertainment in mind

If you're curious how a "The Narrative's Favorite (derogatory)" character would fit into this chart, they're likely both a Butt of the Joke and a Slapstick character, making their life absolute hell. To be honest, MK from Monkie Kid is an example of a character who fits all 5 categories, but he isn't blue so he isn't in this poll

*Ok if you've ever seen Phineas and Ferb Mission Marvel let me just say MODOK is a total Butt of the Joke and my favorite line in that special is when a TV announcer calls him a "Giant Chicken Egg with a Face" and I just had to mention that omg

#I wanted to put Aqua from Kingdom Hearts but she's technically not a comic relief character #I did initially put Phoenix Wright down but ultimately decided Lapis needed a shoutout #Phoenix is both Butt of the Joke and Slapstick. no wonder he's traumatized #polls #comic relief #character analysis #atla #atla sokka #ninjago #jay walker #voltron #vld lance #ducktales #dewey duck #sonic the hedgehog #the owl house #gus porter #undertale #sans undertale #the dragon prince #tdp rayla #persona 5 #yusuke kitagawa #rottmnt #rottmnt leo #steven universe #lapis lazuli #ok ko #ok ko let's be heroes #omg im out of tags

[goldensunset]

literally don’t talk to me don’t touch me

#IF THIS IS PLAYER’S HEART. because they don’t have a canon appearance #so they made do by including just everyone player is close to… #i understand from a game design pov it’s bc well they did what they could y’know #but i want to look at things from an in-universe meta pov. the idea that player doesn’t have their own identity #but is just composed of the love of other people who have touched their life and made them someone #something something that thing about how player starts out as a silent blank slate #but by the end of the story has the agency and wit required to think of a plan and pull it off all on their own #something something player being a type of replica theory #kingdom hearts #khml #mine: kh #IT’S GORGEOUS MAN

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

sora and rikus dual keyblade is also missing the crown from the top of the keyblade until the halves are combined

the crown. on top of the heart. formed at the tip.

OH, YOU KNOW

JUST THE LOGO FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES

#kingdom hearts #soriku #kh meta #ali's kh meta #IM SORRY BUT THIS IS SO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS #ITS LIKE NOMURA WHACKING US OVER THE HEAD WITH A LARGE BOOK #AND SOME PPL (STRAIGHTS) /STILL/ ARENT GETTING IT #also the fact that the heart is bigger than the crown #probably says smth about rikus significance #IRT the universe as a whole #just sayin

[regallibellbright]

Headcanon: Literally all Keyblade Wielders, and frankly possibly all magic users in the Kingdom Hearts universe, have a baseline magic level SO STUPID HIGH that it makes the entire rest of the Extended Final Fantasy Canon look at them and go “yeah, no, let’s not touch that.”

Evidence: You know how hard it’s supposed to be to cast Flare, as a baseline? Much less higher-level Flares? You know how we all laugh about Donald Duck being the strongest Red Mage in the entire canon because he uses a prefix that has literally only ever otherwise been seen by an endboss in Bravely Default who was explicitly on significant powerups? With laser-precision?

Yeah, I remind you that up until Chi, the only version of Flare we see anyone use (except Duck Flare, which is just fireworks,) is the Mega one. You know, the version BAHAMUT uses.

Sora learns it starting in Chain of Memories. All of the Wayfinders can use it. DATA-SORA can use it.

I’m not even sure it always takes up extra slots in a command deck.

In conclusion: Keyblade magic is ridiculous and scary, and if you transplant any random magic user from Kingdom Hearts in the rest of the Final Fantasy extended canon, all the other magic users will either ask them to teach them or run away screaming, depending on their self-preservation instincts. It’s not just Donald, or that Minnie Mouse is a top-tier white mage, or that Mickey Mouse and Xehanort both use the strongest Stop spell we see ANYWHERE in the canon, they’re all Just Like That.

#Kingdom Hearts #the significant powerups in question were 'empowered by her evil god' #and 'the destruction and domination of a minimum of seven iterations of their universe with unknown maximum' #Donald just... uses it! #and sure he faints but it's the Heartless that actually kill him #magic users from other corners of canon drop in on the Kingdom Hearts universe #and get a sudden power boost that is either a massive ego trip or pants-shittingly terrifying with no middle ground

[frankencanon]

The one negative when it comes to watching asian dramas that were based off of novels is that often times things won't make sense and you just have to accept that.

Due to budget or time constraints or censorship laws, etc etc etc, things will inevitably have to be changed, modified, or left out, and often times things that would have made perfect sense in the novel will either be left unexplained in the drama, or be modified in such a way that it no longer makes any sense.

Probably one of the most obvious/well-known examples of this would be in The Untamed, when Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji to lend him his headband to use as a blindfold.

I don't think I need to explain why that sounded absolutely ridiculous to drama-only fans (myself included).

#the untamed #chinese drama #cdrama #c drama #cql #chen qing ling #word of honor #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #faraway wanderers #tagging these dramas bc theyre based off novels but i havent personal watched them so: #guardian #legend of fei #ashes of love #nirvana in fire #the rise of phoenixes #secret of three kingdoms #martial universe #moon lovers #moon lovers: scarlet heart ryeo #douluo continent #a league of nobleman #the imperial coroner #the blooms at ruyi pavilion #love between fairy and devil #who rules the world #my heroic husband #royal rumours #eternal faith #heaven official's blessing

[jailofmonkeys]

I promise to post more of the AU this year

#my art #disney #fanart #monsters inc #pixar #sulley #mike wazowski #johnny worthington #tylor tuskmon #monsters university #monsters at work #kingdom hearts au #kingdom hearts #square enix #james p sullivan #kh #monsters by twilight #au #fanfiction

[wolfaartmation]

The Dandelion kitties!! Oh boy it feels wrong that the murder child, Ventus is staring at Strelitzia 😭💀

The next fellas will be the students from KHDR! Xehanort and his classmates + the upper class.

UPDATES!! : please see below

I'm sorry I wont do the Foretellers anytime soon as I kinda need their hair color to actually design them, but as their hair and eyes colors are hiden its mostly impossible. Same for the Master of Master and hooded Luxu, I want to avoid using clothes, especially when posting them on Toyhouse or they'll get deleted :(

Btw I'm working on the KH x WC blog as many of you voted for it! I am currently working on the pfp and banner. It should be up soon :)

#warrior cats #art #digital art #my art #kingdom hearts #wc #warriors #kh #dandelions #strelitzia #lauriam #ephemer #skuld #brain #elrena #au #alternate universe #warrior cats x kingdom hearts #character design

[chimisart]

Yeah so WILD IS A TEACHER NOW. I mean not wild wild but like hero of the wild DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE. The creator of lu said they dont even know if they will add totk events into canon lu wild or not so guess we dont know. BUT IM BEGGING PLEASEEEEEEE WILD IS A TEACHER IM E DE AD

I’m adding this to the lil wild headcanons even tho does it even count as headcanon if its litr real. I wonder if totk universe has shitty pay for teachers too.

#linked universe #lu wild #legend of zelda #like is he teacher canon now pleaze #i love this #my heart hurts at zelda tho #god why #totk #tears of the kingdom #this is it for me guys I am now gunna die happy

[princesselemm]

A little AU in which a little dark creature (aka Vanitas) preys on the darkness inside Riku's heart.

A little Vaniku, if you prefer because, after finish this, I couldn't stop shipping these two. Even if it's just an alternative universe.

#kingdom hearts #riku #vanitas #kh vanitas #kh riku #my art #artists on tumblr #fanart #vaniku #kh fanart #kingdom hearts fanart #alternative universe

[yume127]

Every time I remember that Roxas and Ven wear the same wristband—with the only difference being that Roxas’ has black edges and Ven’s has white edges—it reminds me of the Yin and Yang friendship bracelets.

In Chinese philosophy, Yin and Yang are two halves that together complete wholeness. It’s about how different but complementary forces balance each other to achieve a perfect and harmonious balance.

Yin energy is described as receptive, dark, cool, soft, still, and contemplative. It’s usually associated with someone more laid back and calm, and who may be more introverted. This description fits with Roxas’ personality, and—while his light and darkness are balanced—he described himself as “someone from the dark” in the past. Nobodies are also usually associated with darkness.

Yang energy is described as energetic, expansive and warm, and is usually associated with someone more outgoing and high-energy, which fits well with Ventus, who’s also known for having a heart of pure light.

There are various aspects in their stories that directly contrast each other, like the place where they were born (Daybreak Town and Twilight Town), their upbringing (Ventus being protected and kept out from harm’s way, while Roxas had to fight for all his life), their personality (Ventus is more active and impulsive, while Roxas is more passive and contemplative), and so on.

What I find interesting is that the idea of two halves that together become whole is shown in both Ventus’ and Roxas’ stories, but not with each other. Vanitas and Sora are, respectively, their half. Both pairs had to join in order to find some sort of balance or wholeness, but neither of these unions ended up actually being balanced and harmonious. Willingly or unwillingly, there was always one half who was overwhelming the other.

I wonder if, with each other, Roxas and Ventus can actually find that balance and harmony. They can coexist peacefully, after all—Ventus’ existence never threatened Roxas’, or vice versa, because, while they’re connected, they are and always have been separate beings. Most of all, their personalities complement each other very well, and I’m sure they’d get along great if given the chance to interact.

#roxas #ventus #kingdom hearts #kh #roxas and ventus #to be fair i think roxas and sora can probably find balance and harmony in one another post kh3 #if only the universe allowed them to be together for longer than five minutes #but yes #i think i already said it in the past but I think Ven and Roxas would balance and complement each other very well

[nenilein]

So, I have invented a new thing: The blorbo box.

Take some of your blorbos, perhaps vaguely associated by some shared theme and put them all together into a box.

Ignore the sign on my box here, I have noooo idea where it came from, not like I have a type or something/j

#Can you name all the blorbos? #I will only tag their fandoms so you can't cheat! #Puyo Puyo #megaman battle network #Steven Universe #Tales of Symphonia #dawn of the new world #Kingdom hearts #Persona 4 #Persona Series #Neni Arts

[angeat]

but if you go away, as trouble ought to do,

where will i find another soul to tell my trouble to?

#i hope in an alternate universe where kh was released in chronological order ​people were making xehaqus amvs to et by katy perry in 2011 #et by katy perry came on while I was drawing this and i was like oh my god. oh my god i can see the vision. #kingdom hearts #kh #eraqus #xehanort #digital art #fanart