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Kingdom Hearts or The Weather Channel? Music Quiz

The fact this exists is fucking insane. It's actually a lot of fun and might be harder than you think. I got 15/20 correct (most of the ones I got wrong were from KH 3D which I never finished lmao)

Go ahead and challenge yourself, or maybe challenge a friend or two.

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Benefit of Hindsight.

Kingdom Hearts is a long series, that kinda goes without saying.

As of the date of me writing this, it contains over 11 games. (Not counting remakes or rereleases.) All of which are connected by one-ish grant narrative.

Some games are more connected than others, but my point stands.

And if you decide you’re curious enough to take the plunge and dive in to see what it’s all about, I am absolutely certain there is one detail that will become glaringly obvious to you as you progress through it.

This story was not planned out like this from the beginning. That’s just a fact. One that the series director, Tetsuya Nomura has already admitted to in an interview.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love this series. (Probably to an unhealthy degree.) And I’m incredibly impressed by how well everything fits together despite not being planned like this from the start.

However…

I’m also incredibly curious about how this series might have turned out if Nomura had known how far it would go back in February of 2000 when development of the first game officially began.

So that’s what I’m going to try to find out.

Over my next couple posts I’ll be going through each and every game in the franchise and try to make them more. Cohesive, is a good word to use here.

Now don’t get it twisted. This isn’t just a rewrite where I go in, change everything beyond recognition, and then call it fixed. That’s not the point of this exercise.

I’m trying to improve what’s already there, not change it into something it’s not.

Mostly…

Hey! I’m a fan fiction author at heart, sometimes I can’t help myself.

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I hate how true this! I Hate How True This Is!! I HATE HOW TRUE THIS IS!!!

One of the hard parts about being a writer with a vivid imagination is that there are So Many Ideas, and they fall into so many categories, such as

Fics I want to write

Fics I want to read

There is just One Scene and I could write it but it would be waaaay more cool if I had all the build up to the scene but unfortunately. I can only figure out the Scene

I keep changing my mind. Where am I going with this

This has been done a million times before. But. Hear me out

I will 100% Never Write This. This is just my Emotional Support Idea no one can ever know about bc it makes sense only to me

Would be better as a comic...

This will be my magnum opus if I can just get my 50 pages of ideas into a coherent narrative

All I have are vibes

And, of course

WIP I started and haven't updated in 2 years and oh god its beEN TWO YEARS???

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A little over a month ago, I watched a video which detailed a what if scenario about Sora declining Naminé’s offer to restore his original memories at the end of CoM, and it got me thinking.

How would the series play out if Sora never got his memories messed with in the first place.

Which my thought process interpreted as ‘What if Naminé wasn’t in CoM, What if Naminé was never created, What if Sora never became a Heartless’ you get the picture.

Here’s the thing though, I’m an insecure writer who’s only ever made one other story public before, (not on Ao3, but still,) and I abandoned it halfway through simply because I grew to disgusted with what I’d already released.

(I’m not at perfectionist levels of expectations for my writing, but it’s damn close.)

So I’ve been content to just leave what ever ideas I get in my head to rot away, but this idea about Sora not becoming a Heartless wouldn’t rot, it just stayed in my head for days on end, refusing to fade away, and eventually I decided enough was enough, opened Ao3, and in the span of three days, I wrote chapter 1 and released it.

But there comes the problem, I hadn’t thought this story through yet, I had no outline, I just had an idea, and post it, than I got another idea, and posted it as chapter 2.

Than around three weeks ago, my Mother and I got diagnosed with Covid 19, and I was bedridden for over a week, unable to think of even one coherent sentence.

When I’d finally recovered enough to read and write again, my disgust for previously released work set in, and I decided to procrastinate by finally (finally) writing out a simplified outline for this story.

And I was happy with it.

The day after writing it, i was still happy with it, even now, almost two week later, I’m still happy with it.

It wasn’t perfect, not even close, but at least it didn’t automatically make me feel like the worst writer imaginable.

Except.

There was one major problem with it, one that I couldn’t ignore, or continue from.

The ending of chapter 2.

No matter how much I tried to continue, no matter how many times I rewrote the beginning of chapter 3, I couldn’t stand it, i couldn’t make it work.

But I didn’t want to just abandon this story just because of that one single issue, especially since I still had so many ideas for this fanfic.

And as I tried to think of a solution, the answer became obvious.

Since I was so unhappy with the ending of chapter 2, I decided the best cause of action was to remove it and replace it entirely.

I’ve already made another post talking about the original ending of Chapter 2, what I was going for when I wrote it, and why I decided it was better to cut it, so won’t go over it here.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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In this post I’ll show what was changed in chapter 2 of Another Way, Lamenting Leaders. (Originally named Restless Respite, but after the rewrite I decided that worked best as the chapter 3 title.)

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My #1 post of 2022

This is my first post, it’s not a lot, but it’s mine.

Although I’m pretty sure someone else has already done something like this, probably before I even joined the site, but I don’t care that it’s not original, it’s a good first post.

And it’s mine.

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Helgi is a guy in this game, he just have long hair.

Did Vali ever get a confirmed gender or can I continue my non-binary headcanon for them

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A little over a month ago, I watched a video which detailed a what if scenario about Sora declining Naminé’s offer to restore his original memories at the end of CoM, and it got me thinking.

How would the series play out if Sora never got his memories messed with in the first place.

Which my thought process interpreted as ‘What if Naminé wasn’t in CoM, What if Naminé was never created, What if Sora never became a Heartless’ you get the picture.

Here’s the thing though, I’m an insecure writer who’s only ever made one other story public before, (not on Ao3, but still,) and I abandoned it halfway through simply because I grew to disgusted with what I’d already released.

(I’m not at perfectionist levels of expectations for my writing, but it’s damn close.)

So I’ve been content to just leave what ever ideas I get in my head to rot away, but this idea about Sora not becoming a Heartless wouldn’t rot, it just stayed in my head for days on end, refusing to fade away, and eventually I decided enough was enough, opened Ao3, and in the span of three days, I wrote chapter 1 and released it.

But there comes the problem, I hadn’t thought this story through yet, I had no outline, I just had an idea, and post it, than I got another idea, and posted it as chapter 2.

Than around three weeks ago, my Mother and I got diagnosed with Covid 19, and I was bedridden for over a week, unable to think of even one coherent sentence.

When I’d finally recovered enough to read and write again, my disgust for previously released work set in, and I decided to procrastinate by finally (finally) writing out a simplified outline for this story.

And I was happy with it.

The day after writing it, i was still happy with it, even now, almost two week later, I’m still happy with it.

It wasn’t perfect, not even close, but at least it didn’t automatically make me feel like the worst writer imaginable.

Except.

There was one major problem with it, one that I couldn’t ignore, or continue from.

The ending of chapter 2.

No matter how much I tried to continue, no matter how many times I rewrote the beginning of chapter 3, I couldn’t stand it, i couldn’t make it work.

But I didn’t want to just abandon this story just because of that one single issue, especially since I still had so many ideas for this fanfic.

And as I tried to think of a solution, the answer became obvious.

Since I was so unhappy with the ending of chapter 2, I decided the best cause of action was to remove it and replace it entirely.

I’ve already made another post talking about the original ending of Chapter 2, what I was going for when I wrote it, and why I decided it was better to cut it, so won’t go over it here.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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In this post I’ll show what was changed in chapter 2 of Another Way, Lamenting Leaders. (Originally named Restless Respite, but after the rewrite I decided that worked best as the chapter 3 title.)

The first two paragraphs (Sora’s and Leon’s) are the only ones that are completely unchanged, the beginning of the 3rd paragraph (Aerith’s) was also unchanged, but itself as a whole was originally much shorter, ending like this.

[After that was taken care off, Yuffie personally guided Sora, Donald and Goofy to the inn, whilst Aerith and Leon returned to their duties.

However before they separated, Leon gave Aerith a warning.

”We have to be on our guards tonight, with both a Princess of Hearts, as well as the Keybearer being on this world simultaneously.” Leon didn’t have to finish his sentence, Aerith understood enough.]

Leon’s warning was ment to act as foreshadowing for the ending of this chapter.

It should be noted that the Cid and Ansem paragraphs are new additions, taking the place of the two Yuffie paragraphs, as well as the first Sora paragraph, from chapter 3, the beginning of the second Sora paragraph was also a part of chapter 2 originally, but similarly to the Aerith paragraph it was a lot shorter, ending like this.

[“Then consider it a gif-“ Yuffie didn’t get to finish her sentence as the world started to shake.

“An earth quake?!” Sora questioned.

Yuffie jumped of her chair and pulled out her weapon, “I highly doubt it!”]

Which immediately led into these two cut paragraphs.

[Aerith couldn’t believe what she was seeing, Heartless, Heartless, everywhere she looked, Heartless.

She hadn’t seen so many Heartless in one place since-

”No.”

This shouldn’t be possible, Sora sealed the Keyhole, the world couldn’t be-

Aerith ran as fast as she could, she needed to find Leon.]

This one being the ending.

[Leon sometimes hated being right.

He knew having the Keybearer and a Princess on the same world was asking for trouble, but something about this didn’t sit right with him.

Leon knew Sora had been to worlds with other Princess on them, and Sora never once mentioned any of those worlds getting invaded by an army of Heartless.

Cause that’s what’s this was, an army.

And invasion.

Leon grit his teeth as one of the Heartless landed a lucky strike on his back.

There had to be a reason for these numbers, the Keyblade and Kairi couldn’t be the explanation, if that was the case they be focusing on the inner parts of town near the inn or the infirmary.

Another lucky hit.

Leon knew he was being surrounded and needed to fall back, but saying so was much easier than actually doing so.

He managed to strike down three Heartless at once, yet three more just took their place.

Leon really hated being right.]

This ending was ment to lead into the beginning of chapter 3 where it’s reveled that the Heartless invasion isn’t part of Ansem’s plan, but instead Xemnas’s.

Basically the battle of (not quite a thousand, but) a few hundred Heartless.

The problem however, became obvious once I started writing chapter 3.

I hate long battle scenes in stories, (be it in writing or on video,) I find them boring and annoying every time I see them.

I don’t mind a bit of fighting here and there, but long stretches of paragraph after paragraph of nothing but people punching, kicking, or throwing their weapons around just bore me, I know fights are supposed to create tension, but that has never worked on me.

(With one very recent exception, read On the Edge of Daybreak by CoriShadowfang if you haven’t, the fight scenes in the later half of that story was the first time I ever felt any amount of excitement in seeing characters duke it out.)

And let me tell you something, it’s very hard writing something good, when you don’t like reading what you wrote, (I even tried to emulate how CoriShadowfang wrote the fights in OtEoD, but I’m not good enough of a writer to pull of that kinda style yet, trust me, I tried.)

I ended up getting so annoyed with this chapter, I just straight up wanted to quit for awhile, and probably would’ve, had it not been for the fact that I swore I wouldn’t abandon another story once I’ve started uploading parts of it to the internet again, (never again.)

So my only option became to change the ending of chapter 2 so I could go in another direction.

There were other reasons why I decided to change It, but my dislike of long battle scenes was the primary one, the other reasons are more plot related, and I don’t wanna spoil anything.

(For those of you wandering if that means that the battle of a thousand Heartless won’t happen in this story, don’t worry, it probably still will in one form or another, hopefully in a way where I can skim most of it.)

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This is my first post, it’s not a lot, but it’s mine.

Although I’m pretty sure someone else has already done something like this, probably before I even joined the site, but I don’t care that it’s not original, it’s a good first post.

And it’s mine.

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I noticed it as well, but since nothing came of it I decided to shelve it.

It funny, when Valas design was first reveled I assumed she’d make it out of Dark Road alive and become Rikus grandma.

But now my current theory is Vala had been studying her attack cards, saw Riku, thought his shirt looked cool, and decided to copy it.

ok I’m making this its own post instead of just yelling in a different post’s tags

Yellow sleeveless shirt with high collar. Black X. Long silver hair. Turquoise eyes.

Is this anything??? Is this ANYthing???

Usually in kh if something LOOKS reminiscent that means it IS reminiscent but I feel like I’m the only one who has noticed this particular visual parallel so I feel. Unhinged. About it.

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Last Minute to the Castle Oblivion

Most of the Kingdom Hearts novels were localized into English, but some were not- namely, the two volumes of short stories that went with kh2′s novels. Because of that, and because of how old they are, they’ve kinda fallen into obscurity. I’ve seen maybe two people ever acknowledge their existence, and that’s such a shame, since they’re pretty good. Which is why! I’m making this post! Both short story volumes have lots of cool stuff and I’d like to look into them more another day but this is specifically to spread the good word of the 5th chapter of volume 2 because I do not control the special interest That chapter, titled Last Minute to the Castle Oblivion, is essentially a collection of Organization XIII drabbles. It starts with the Chamber of Repose/Awakening scene from KHII Final Mix, and leads up to Roxas joining the group. Pre-Roxas Organization XIII interactions. Casual ones. Some characters get more attention than others (*cough* Axel) but they do all show up in some capacity and let me tell you it is everything I could have asked for Here’s the best translation I’ve found while scouring the internet if you want to read it yourself. https://khenglish.wordpress.com/index/kingdom-hearts-2-short-stories-vol-2-axel-seven-days/episode-5-last-minute-to-the-castle-oblivion/ Thank you Goldpanner for your service Summary of its contents for the curious:

novelization of the Chamber of Repose/Awakening scene with Zexion and Xigbar, now featuring *gasp* two new lines!!! (from the perspective of Zexion, which is highly amusing at times)

Larxene’s induction (Axel’s perspective)

Larxene and Axel first interaction, which is fuckin’ incredible (Axel’s perspective)

Demyx playing music late at night and Xaldin coming to his room to tell him to shut up because it’s 3:00 in the morning (Demyx’s perspective! Exciting)

Axel and Luxord playing cards and also Xigbar is there (Axel’s perspective again)

Marluxia and Larxene’s first interaction (Marluxia’s perspective)

Zexion and Lexaeus conversation about Castle Oblivion (Zexion perspective again)

Xemnas finding Roxas cutscene novelization

Axel and Saïx interaction (Axel’s perspective… again)

I’m not kidding about that Demyx and Xaldin one btw. Several of these scenes feel like things you would only find in fanon, but no. Larxene really does say she’s interacting with Axel because she doesn’t want to talk to crusty old men and he really does respond by listing off all the other Organization members who aren’t crusty old men. This is an official piece of Kingdom Hearts media Throughout, it contains a whole bunch of nuggets of interesting information (dubiously canon, as with all the novels, but still), like:

Xigbar was the one to find and recruit Larxene

Organization coats magically change to fit the wearer

Zexion was doing research much like Vexen and it had something to do with memories

There’s a Demyx depression soliloquy. I just wanted to point that out

I have. So much to say about this. But that’s for another time!! This post was simply to spread the word so more people can enjoy. But also I’m going to explode so please look at some of my favorite lines

In conclusion please please please read Last Minute to the Castle Oblivion it’s everything to me and I need everyone to know about it and I hope someone remembers it some day and localizes it because I want to own it in my house

Here’s the link again just in case you scrolled all the way to the bottom and missed it

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Jaya was picked as their ship name do to that ship being the absolute first one in the series, literally, their relationship was hinted at before the show even truly began, the pilot showed they would like each other.

Just entered the ninjago fandom and I have to say their ship names are god-tier

Scruff? Lava? Glacier?

You wish your fandom was half as creative

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According to Numora the date fights are the canon version of the organizations ability, as in what Sora and his respective teammates are actually up against, they were just made easier when fighting them in the graveyard so that an average player actually stood a chance of completing the game. It’s called limit cut for a reason, the date organization is no longer limited by the fact that even newbe players need to be able to beat them.

I don’t know if there’s a canon explanation for how Xehanort became a portal, but my personal headcanon is that it’s because he’s a living paradox, (think about his timeline for even a second and you’ll understand what I mean,) and when has kingdom hearts ever been apposed to murder, (seriously, look it up, you’d be surprised, I’d recommend searching ‘Kingdom Hearts death’ on YouTube and watch regular pat video on the subject,) and as for your last part of this paragraph, considering the fact that Sora, Donald and Goffes bodys disappeared when they turned Xehanort into a portal, I’m pretty sure they dragged his actual body with them into scala (whatever scala is at that moment, I’m still not sure if they travel back in time or just into Xehanorts heart, similar to how Riku traveled into Soras heart in ddd, but that’s irrelevant for this explanation,) all the guardians of light are doing is fighting the 12 replicas of Xehanort (the ones Saix mentioned near the begin of Remind) which I doubt really had much impact on Xehanorts fight with Sora, I think the only reason Xehanort sent them to attack the guardians in the first place was so that he could use the power of kingdom hearts (the magoffin not the series) unobstructed.

And finally, for the young Xehanort and Luxord explanations, yeah I don’t know how they did that ether.

You know what I hate about Organization XIII? Random power out of fucking nowhere as the plot demands.

Young Xehanort can split worlds? How? You'd think it's like DDD but in DDD he didn't split worlds, they just went back and forth between Sora and Riku's Dream. It makes more sense if they're going inside Andy's Dream, but of course, they'd have to know about it first.

Luxord can summon Kraken? How? Did Kraken turned into a Heartless when Cutler Beckett ordered Davy Jones to kill it and it left a Nobody for him to control?

Master Xehanort is a portal? How? Apparently he time travel so much he became a portal? Where was this explained? The things they do to avoid murder and they murder him twice anyway. Xehanort was dying after Sora, Donald and Goofy beat him up, and he straight up died when all the Guardians cleanse him in ReMind. I thought SDG fought him inside his heart while the others fought him outside but apparently not? My explanation is more logical.

Data Organization XIII is their true power if they don't hold back? Bullshit. Why don't they just do that then? Most of the Organization may fight half heartedly because they don't want to be a heart tank, but Terra Xehanort, Young Xehanort, and Master Xehanort should fight at full strength. Just say their power level is imperfect because Ansem and Cid only met them once or twice and they guessed wrong. In fact, didn't Cid say their power level is off the chart because his simulation is imperfect?

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kh fic - i walk as if i were another  | chapter one

Title: i walk as if i were another 

Fandom: Kingdom Hearts

Synopsis: Seventy-five years ago, a man in a black coat gifted a young Xehanort the chance to visit many worlds, and seek the darkness within them. He left him there in the graveyard to meet his fate. But Xehanort has dreamed of this graveyard too many times— and when he goes looking for closure, he finds, instead, a very old friend. 

Ephemer, for his part, has left his friend waiting too many times. He doesn’t intend to leave them behind again… even if Xehanort inches ever closer into the growing dark.

Chapter Warnings: Implied past character death, and references to the Keyblade War and all of its terrible implications. If there’s anything I missed, please let me know!

Notes: Title is from Mahmoud Darwish’s poem In Jerusalem. Additionally, this whole fic is shamelessly inspired by the artist @xhnort and their artwork, especially their pieces on Ephemer and the Player/Xehanort identity conundrum. There are a few lines of this fic that directly draw from their work; the art that inspired this chapter was looks like we’re on different teams. Please go give them a follow!

AO3 link is here.

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“May your heart be your guiding key.”

In that distant wasteland beneath the thirteen pillars that rise like towers in the sky, Xehanort watches the man in the black coat walk away, and ponders his answer.

The coat is stiff on his shoulders; every breath feels stained by the dust and ash and a dry, sourceless chill that aches deep in the back of his throat. The man in the black coat is gone, now. All that’s left are his words. Not that those have been much help. 

Already know where I’m headed, hm…? 

Maybe he does. But this answer too feels rootless and restless, unconvincing. He is not even a Keyblade Master yet. He hasn’t proved himself capable, even if he knows his reason for being here. And…

Eraqus.

He sighs, quietly, and rises to his feet. Already, despite the long coat and the high boots, the dust has snuck down to his soles. He makes a face and brushes the dust from his arm ineffectively. It really is… just like a nightmare.

The place from his nightmares.

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I think you need to rewatch ddd, the opening cutscene clearly shows Ienzo is still a child when he, Even and Braig loess their hearts

So someone figured out the secret message from the 20th Anniversary

https://twitter.com/kh13com/status/1514747729263697930?s=21&t=7HGyAyBkAqwQAv9CcoQEKA

It’s got me thinking. So when KHUX ended and we saw Brain with Sigurd in Scala ad Caelum, the place looks so different from the place Xehanort and Eraqus were taught, right? I assumed this meeting of Brain and Sigurd took place years before Xehanort and Eraqus were taught…. But maybe it’s not?

Maybe Missing Link’s plot will be that Brain was taken to Sora and Riku’s time period and that’s just what Scala ad Caelum looks like now. It’s not the distance past…. It’s the present. Brain was sent to the current time.

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In the one cutscene the flower siblings share onscreen Lauriam is literally like “go get ‘em” when Strelitzia talks about her crush, if anything, Lauriam would be over joyed to see his sister dating someone like Sora.

my next question by the end of this will there be strelitzia x sora shippers cause im honestly down for marluxia being so upset about