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"Finally, this nightmare of a thousand years is at its end.

Inheritor of my Crest... if this body is to decay, then the sword...

I leave it to you."

(available as a large and mini print in my store)

#fe3h #marianne von edmund

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#My nightstand is always a hot mess of clutter #I got my cute little steampunk lamp on a doily and I got my radio clock with a wireless charging pad on top for my phone #But then there's the glass containing fresh seltzer and the second identical dirty glass from however many nights ago I need to take downst #Two empty cans and a spoon #Golden Deer coaster for my drink and Blue Lions resin tray for assorted ephemera #Several hair pins and clips and a couple tiny rubber bands (in the Blue Lions tray) #Eyeglass cleaning cloth and a roll of ace bandage and an old nightguard that no longer fits #Empty water bottle that's been here so long I keep forgetting it's not just part of the nightstand and I should take it downstairs #Acid controller medication I don't need anymore since my food allergy diagnosis #Also a Kingdom Hearts tamagochi (darkness version) (battery is dead) #Oh and foot moisturizer #I have a large nightstand to say the least

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Sick of characters who are simply Cool or Badass or Horrifying or Edgy all the time. They need to be pathetic too. It elevates them. It’s like adding a bit of salt to a sweet dish to bring out the flavour. Tbh, I think a character can only be truly horrifying, badass, etc. WITH a lil bit of pathetic in 'em.

#This too is Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd

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What would it take to rewrite a story set in ink? A rebel? A virus? An illegal play?

#Oooooooh #KH #Khux #khdr

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Meeting the kids who’ll carry your legacy (probably)

#kh #KHDR #KHML #I love them your honor

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Let's go lesbians 🩷

#Fe3h #Edelthea #edelgard von hresvelg #dorothea arnault

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embarrassing when he does it

#fe3h #few3h #hilda valentine goneril #holst

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Sorry to keep @ing you on this but I wanted to expand on what you noted in your tags here;

I think the name is kind of a pun, actually. Like, 'Luxu' is obviously intended as the first half of 'Luxuria,' or Lust - but by cutting Luxuria in half, it obviously contains 'Lux,' or Light - and that's the same root word for the name Lucifer.

Lucifer is from the Greek word for Venus in the role of the 'morning star,' and the first half is from the same base meaning 'light:' 'Lucifer' is often translated as 'light-bearer' or 'light-bringer' which seems appropriate for someone Master of Masters has assigned to drag around a box through the dark centuries that contains 'hope,' and also to be the one sentinel living through those dark times to guide the other Foretellers on their revival.

ETA: Also Xigbar LOVES to speak in couched double-meanings, so if his own real name is a couched double-meaning, that seems appropriate TBH.

@lightandfellowship re: your tags on this post (just to kind of bring this out to a different post).

I was thinking about making a separate post to expand on those tags anyway because they were a little off topic to the op, but I was like, you know, it's that Xehanort was worse to the Dandelions than Luxu was, yes. But Luxu was supposed to be that callous to the Dandelions in the first place. He was supposed to think of them as tools and to just let whatever fucked up thing was supposed to happen to them just happen. And with anyone else he can, but he can't put his personal feelings aside enough to 'do what needs to be done' for this set of people alone.

But Xehanort can.

And I think that's really interesting when looking at Xehanort as the 'replacement Luxu.' Xehanort who, as observed by another post I don't have immediately to hand, speaks with MoM twice. Xehanort who is chosen by MoM and manipulated into doing his bidding the same way Luxu was, given the same coat and made the heir to Luxu's keyblade, Xehanort who actually is allowed to take action to bring the Keyblade War about and revive the Lost Masters while Luxu is only allowed to watch.

Actually I started this post with a different thesis ('Xehanort is able to put his personal feelings aside and be ruthless even where Luxu fails to follow his role') but writing that paragraph I've changed my mind actually. Because Luxu has basically no agency in this situation, whereas Xehanort does.

Like, both of them are assigned roles by their mentors but Xehanort isn't really given a road map about how to fulfill his role. He's being manipulated, sure, but he's also making choices himself all along. They're choices that are fucked up but he understands they're fucked up and is choosing them anyway because he strongly feels it's necessary for the greater good.

Luxu has been told these things are necessary for the greater good. He's been told what to do. He's been told to just watch and that he can never take action. He doesn't even have the illusion of agency that Xehanort, who is actively choosing to lean into his feeling that destiny is inevitable, does. What is that like, to live hundreds of years never having any sense of agency? For Luxu, helping the Dandelions is fucking up. It's doing what he knows he's not supposed to, what he's been told is against the Plan, but he has no agency and this is his little way of rebelling, even if this is, to us, the 'right' thing to do. There's a question of what actually is 'right' and 'wrong' here and whether Xehanort is a 'better Luxu' than Luxu for choosing to simply follow The Plan.

Also I'm rambling here but putting things together as I go, sorry to also expand on other tags on posts I reblogged from you lol, but like. Luxu also very clearly has Lucifer stuff going on, the same way Xehanort does, down to the name. Xehanort takes on the Satan imagery over time - but it was Luxu's first. And Luxu is the one who actually tried to rebel against his Creator by deviating from his role (only to watch) and intervening with the Union leaders.

The thing about angels is they are not, in Catholic traditions (I can't speak to other denominations) is that they are not supposed to have free will. Free will is for humans; angels only follow The Plan, with no agency or say in the matter. They're messengers and avatars created only to execute the will of God. The Foretellers seem to play this role, if you will, in relation to Master of Masters. He hands them roles to execute the plan he's already designed. If we're, in this analogy, considering Master of Masters to be in the role of 'god', both Ava and Luxu are ultimately fallen angels - they both question the will of their creator, both rebel - but Luxu rebelling was built into the plan. He is Lucifer, and Lucifer rebels, and so he was still allowed to come back to the fold at the end of kh3, having fulfilled his duty even considering his rebellion. He still had no agency in the end, even having done what he thought was exercising it by saving the Union leaders.

Anyway I'm just rambling on at this point and don't really have a conclusion to this but the whole interplay between Luxu and Xehanort, agency and servitude, angels and devils, light and dark, feels really compelling to me.

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@lightandfellowship re: your tags on this post (just to kind of bring this out to a different post).

I was thinking about making a separate post to expand on those tags anyway because they were a little off topic to the op, but I was like, you know, it's that Xehanort was worse to the Dandelions than Luxu was, yes. But Luxu was supposed to be that callous to the Dandelions in the first place. He was supposed to think of them as tools and to just let whatever fucked up thing was supposed to happen to them just happen. And with anyone else he can, but he can't put his personal feelings aside enough to 'do what needs to be done' for this set of people alone.

But Xehanort can.

And I think that's really interesting when looking at Xehanort as the 'replacement Luxu.' Xehanort who, as observed by another post I don't have immediately to hand, speaks with MoM twice. Xehanort who is chosen by MoM and manipulated into doing his bidding the same way Luxu was, given the same coat and made the heir to Luxu's keyblade, Xehanort who actually is allowed to take action to bring the Keyblade War about and revive the Lost Masters while Luxu is only allowed to watch.

Actually I started this post with a different thesis ('Xehanort is able to put his personal feelings aside and be ruthless even where Luxu fails to follow his role') but writing that paragraph I've changed my mind actually. Because Luxu has basically no agency in this situation, whereas Xehanort does.

Like, both of them are assigned roles by their mentors but Xehanort isn't really given a road map about how to fulfill his role. He's being manipulated, sure, but he's also making choices himself all along. They're choices that are fucked up but he understands they're fucked up and is choosing them anyway because he strongly feels it's necessary for the greater good.

Luxu has been told these things are necessary for the greater good. He's been told what to do. He's been told to just watch and that he can never take action. He doesn't even have the illusion of agency that Xehanort, who is actively choosing to lean into his feeling that destiny is inevitable, does. What is that like, to live hundreds of years never having any sense of agency? For Luxu, helping the Dandelions is fucking up. It's doing what he knows he's not supposed to, what he's been told is against the Plan, but he has no agency and this is his little way of rebelling, even if this is, to us, the 'right' thing to do. There's a question of what actually is 'right' and 'wrong' here and whether Xehanort is a 'better Luxu' than Luxu for choosing to simply follow The Plan.

Also I'm rambling here but putting things together as I go, sorry to also expand on other tags on posts I reblogged from you lol, but like. Luxu also very clearly has Lucifer stuff going on, the same way Xehanort does, down to the name. Xehanort takes on the Satan imagery over time - but it was Luxu's first. And Luxu is the one who actually tried to rebel against his Creator by deviating from his role (only to watch) and intervening with the Union leaders.

The thing about angels is they are not, in Catholic traditions (I can't speak to other denominations) is that they are not supposed to have free will. Free will is for humans; angels only follow The Plan, with no agency or say in the matter. They're messengers and avatars created only to execute the will of God. The Foretellers seem to play this role, if you will, in relation to Master of Masters. He hands them roles to execute the plan he's already designed. If we're, in this analogy, considering Master of Masters to be in the role of 'god', both Ava and Luxu are ultimately fallen angels - they both question the will of their creator, both rebel - but Luxu rebelling was built into the plan. He is Lucifer, and Lucifer rebels, and so he was still allowed to come back to the fold at the end of kh3, having fulfilled his duty even considering his rebellion. He still had no agency in the end, even having done what he thought was exercising it by saving the Union leaders.

Anyway I'm just rambling on at this point and don't really have a conclusion to this but the whole interplay between Luxu and Xehanort, agency and servitude, angels and devils, light and dark, feels really compelling to me.

#not to be getting theological on main here either but also to do that #I have more than a decade of intense religious education and even though i no longer do organized religion like #it's a topic that kh seems to have a lot of themes kh engages with #Luxu #Xehanort

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I know this was probably not 100% intentional/planned since Xehanort’s BBS/KHDR armor originates from the final Xemnas boss fight in KH2, but I like how Xehanort’s old armor is adorned with gold crowns and white feathers and light colors (Child of Destiny imagery, maybe), meanwhile Xehanort’s boss armor in KH3 is all dark and sinister with the blacks and reds and the horned ram helmet. And no more crowns in sight.

Just. The shift from the angelic to the demonic. Xehanort thinking he’s the savior meant to fix the world but in actuality being a twisted and failed chosen one instead. Fallen angel vibes.

And it reminds me of how Riku's Way to the Dawn Keyblade (and the Book of Prophecies symbol) pair angelic and demonic imagery, too.

#KH #Xehanort #Xehanort really feels to me like he's got Lucifer shit going on #The 'Light-Bringer' or 'Morning Star' and most favored of the angels #Who was then cast down for trying to become like a god himself and was damned for it and became Satan instead #Like. KH riffs on a lot of religious symbolism and themes in general both Western and Eastern #But the Lucifer shit with Xehanort really got leaned into with Dark Road

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#My preference is to let them go around me #Unfortunately I live in a city where the roads are narrow and there's often nowhere to go so I just have to keep calm and carry on #People don't like it when you do 25 in a 25 around here #But ideally. Please just pass me.

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#BILLIE IRISH I'M DEAD. #Also. That must taste fucking AWFUL #There's NO way the flavor profile of Guinness goes well with.... THAT. #Green lager was bad enough this is a hate crime

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In a way.....Luxu is telling the truth. He wants to do what's right by defeating darkness, so he follows the Master's plan. It's not really moral, but it is what he considers right. And even with that, Luxu occasionally does show instances of defying the Master's orders, such as with Brain, the True Dandelion (Strelitzia), and Skuld, giving them another chance to live.

#I also think it's fascinating that the only people Luxu seems to genuinely care about enough to intervene when he's not supposed to #Are the Dandelion union leaders #Like he takes no action to save any of the Dark Road kids even though he could but he still AFTER that fact frees Subject X #And like. The parallels with Xehanort who also spends his whole life caring so much about the Dandelion union leaders #Continuing to look for them after the Dark Road friend party slaughter. Even given what he ultimately does to them. #IDK the parallels are there and so are the contrasts.

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#Technically Sailor Moon #But the first one I knew was something Different Than Cartoons was Outlaw Star

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good sensations can sometimes be extreme, and i know i personally enjoy a good few of those, so i wanted to know which of these types of pain are the most commonly enjoyed :)

basically my question is. am i such a touch deprived weirdo that i'll enjoy fucked up sensations no one else likes or am i normal

#If I don't exit the shower looking like a cooked lobster the water wasn't hot enough #Downside; the skin on my back hates me so much for this

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"i cant watch shows about fantasy kingdoms without thinking about how they should be abolishing the monarchy" that my friend sounds like a skill issue

#I love it when the rightful king reclaims his divine-- #-checks notes- #-- cursed dragon bone spear and leads his army to reclaim his holy city #I can't help myself