#Kingdom hearts

[haunted-xander]

Well, I guess you didn't have much of a choice either

#sooooo fucked up being a teenage boy just messing around with friends one day #and the next weird monsters are after you #and suspicious guys youve never met before start telling you you shouldnt even exist #and even the gentle girl who seems to know SO much that you met #says you have to disappear #all for the sake of this one boy youve never heard of #who apparently everyone loves and wants back #even if it means essentially killing someone else(you) #and youre expected to just. follow along and sacrifice yourself for him #even though you are also a real perosn with real friends (or so you believe) #and at the end you do it #because youre tired and confused #and part of you feels like it should do it #that its the right thing to do #even though you still dont know anything bc no one will tell you #except for the girl but everyone always goes out of their way to stop her #anyway im rambling the kh2 prolouge is so fucked up when u think about it #roxas #sora #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 2 #kh #kh2 #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[xyrishi00]

anti-aqua

#aqua #kingdom hearts #anti-aqua #anti aqua #kh #kh3 #khbbs #kh bbs #birth by sleep #kingdom hearts 3 #fanart #squareenix #square enix #khiii #kingdom hearts iii #aqua kh #kh aqua #digital art #illustration

[luxmoogle]

Bravery Required 999 ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

#kingdom hearts #kh #twewy #the world ends with you #sora #shoka sakurane #quadratum #kh4 #neo twewy #neo: the world ends with you #kh x twewy #kh crossover #my art #long post

[goldensunset]

sometimes i think about the way that vanitas had teenage sora’s face before sora himself ever did and then i need a moment.

#like. #let’s explore that idk #kingdom hearts #mine: kh

[ar-mage-ddon]

a̴n̵y̵o̸n̶e̵ ̴t̷h̶e̴r̵e̸?̶

#kingdom hearts #kh #kh brain #brain kh #eyestrain tw #this was 100% just an excuse for me to use some glitchy effect brushes and rgb shift #also brain is so goddamn fun to draw . whys he so fun to draw #myart

[kh-hyperfixation-blog]

Somehow, deep inside what remained of who he was, he recognized that light...

#kingdom hearts #sora #riku #heartless sora #my art #soriku #I need more heartless sora in my life #He's just a little guy #heartless

[pondrea]

don't you recognise me?

#soriku #riku kingdom hearts #sora kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts

[9twoeight]

20240422 KH fanart

#fanart #my art #kh fanart #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts sora #kingdom hearts roxas

[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

[separatethingy]

How often do the prop keyblades break because the actors just have to much fun swinging them around?

And how often do they just recite their favorite sword fight scenes from their favorite movies while swinging the "blades" around for fun?

Riku consistently has the most breakable keyblades I've ever seen

#riku kh #kh riku #riku #kh terra #terra kh #sora #kh sora #sora kh #kairi #kh kairi #kairi kh #kingdom hearts #bloopers #my art #ask

[masteraqua]

posting this separately so i can put it in my art tag. i drew it for my kh3 reimagining, which you can and should read about here :)

#my art #kingdom hearts #naminé #caitlin rewrites kh3 #i can't seem to stop drawing naminé. i wonder why (it's because her outfit is the easiest)

[haunted-xander]

Made this a while ago but completely forgot to post it oops

#anyway mood kairi #riku #kairi #mickeys here too but hes not important #rikai #soriku #<in spirit #sorikai #<also in spirit #kingdom hearts #kh #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[day-colors]

watching the sky

#just a doodle im tiredddd but im close to graduating at least #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts fanart #ventus #roxas #xion #art stuff

[luxmoogle]

Quadratum / KH4 / Twewy x KH Crossover masterpost!!

Collected these together, so those who've missed stuff can see the extent of all of my musings..

#kingdom hearts #kh #quadratum #kh4 #kingdom hearts 4 #kh quadratum #crossover #kh crossover #twewy x kh #twewy!crossover #twewy #neo twewy #my art

[rose-madder-gaze]

So near the end It may as well be done, So far from you I may as well be gone.

#Kingdom Hearts #Kingdom Hearts Union Cross #KHUX #KHUX keykid #specifically omnificent-orion's keykid #you know 'em you love 'em #it's their bday #my art #it's digital #fan art #^_^ #alt text #described #KHUX spoilers #alt caption: just stay until you thought it through #alt-alt caption: in my dreams by stevie smith #And the parting is sweet and the parting over is sweeter #And sweetest of all is the night and the rushing air

[catboygirljoker]

some observations from going down a rabbit hole of japanese language xigbar yesterday

(apologies for the youtube watermarks. i got this clip from this video.)

[Video ID: a fifteen-second clip from a cutscene from kingdom hearts 3D: dream drop distance, with japanese audio and english-language visuals. it's the scene where xigbar tells sora that he's not going to wake up. end ID.]

keep in mind that this clip is just the japanese audio being played over the visuals from the english language release. the subtitles aren't a direct or literal translation of the words being spoken; they correspond to the localized dialogue that the english voice actors wouldve been given

hōchū ōtsuka (xigbar's japanese va) and james patrick stewart (his english va) give, to my ears, pretty similar vocal performances. this is the case for pretty much all of the characters ive seen so far in my xigbar-centric explorations (roxas's vas sound nearly IDENTICAL). the notable exception being xemnas, whose japanese va straight up sounds like he's trying to talk without moving his mouth

in the english dub cutscenes, the character animations often feel...floaty? disconnected? like, because they're not synced up to what the characters are saying and how, their gestures frequently seem random and unmotivated. in retrospect it's obvious that this issue wouldnt be present in the original language because that's the dialogue they would've been animated around in the first place!

now that im actually watching the character animation with the dialogue it was actually done for, i appreciate it a lot more. its so expressive. smiles.

at the end of xigbar's speech here you may notice him saying the phrase "tte hanashi." this is his japanese catchphrase! it means something along the lines of "so they say", "or so I've heard", et cetera. i love "as if" im a big fan of "as if" but i also love the idea of xigbar consistently undermining the information he gives and emphasizing how often he eavesdrops and spies on people.

he says "tte hanashi" very very often. multiple times in most of his scenes that ive seen so far. way more often than the english dub says "as if"

he doesn't say it normal like im pretty sure that's not how you say it in normal speech. like sometimes he does say it normal, but he always draws it out at least a little and often really draws it out, emphasizing it with some kind of gesture, like he does in the clip

seriously if there's a moment in the games where xigbar says something while doing a cunty little gesture he is probably saying "tte hanashi" in the japanese version

this is my new vocal stim. i can't stop saying it

#&BTW im absolutely going to make a supercut of every time he says tte hanashi in the games...once i....actually play 3 #&also i know vastly more about japanese than the average person and vastly less than someone who speaks it fluently #im sure there are cultural/character signifiers in the way he speaks that im missing. pensive emoji. #&if you know for sure that any of my information here is wrong pleas let me know thank u. smile! #kh #kingdom hearts #xigbar #blakeposts