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slowedmountains · 2 years

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the heart is a foreign object

#illustration #drawing #character art #oc #tiromir #no kings no castles #heart

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lennythereviewer · 10 months

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My favorite Kingdom Hearts fact is that one of the biggest plot-holes that Nomura has never been able to meaningfully retcon or write his way out, a plot-hole so big that it fundamentally breaks the very rules the series is written on...

Is the existence of Steamboat Willie

Let me explain for the uninitiated:

In Kingdom Hearts 2, there’s a small detour in the story involving Maleficent trying to invade Disney Castle, the home of King Mickey. She can’t step foot in the castle due to an artefact of pure light that wards off darkness locked in the basement.

Pete, who is working for Maleficent, opens a door into the past (Before Disney Castle, this land was known as Timeless River) and decides to remove the artifact from it’s place in time so it won’t be there to stop them from getting in.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy chase Pete into the past thanks to another magic door provided by Merlin, and through some shenanigans involving old cartoons and teaming up with Pete’s past-self, they lock the door the villains are using, and return the artefact to it’s proper place so it can exist in the present.

You with me so far? Pretty straightforward-ish time-travel plot right?

Here’s where it goes off the rails.

Time travel would go on to become a staple of Kingdom Hearts going forward and would come with a very strict set of rules over how it operates:

1. You can only travel to a point in time where a version of yourself exists

2. You basically give up your body to do so, and travel as a disembodied soul unless you have a vessel to inhabit

3. You can’t alter the past in a meaningful way, what’s going to happen will happen

4. You lose your memories of said trip once you return, but your actions could leave a lingering instinct on your other self that could influence their decisions

“Wait” you may be thinking “Why should anyone go through all those hoops? Wasn’t time travel super simple that first time?”

And you’d be totally right, because the existence of Timeless River completely renders all of these rules and restrictions meaningless.

There is no version of Sora that existed in Timeless River before he step foot there, everyone kept their bodies, the trio and Pete were able to mess with the timeline as freely as they pleased, and they all very much remember their trip.

Nomura has never been able to meaningfully explain this super simple, easy way of time travel and the more convoluted method co-existing other than a cheap-throwaway line from one of the villains saying that Merlin “broke the rules”

The hilarious part about this line is that it implies that PETE of all characters is actually more powerful than the actual villain of the series, because Pete opened a door into Timeless River through sheer willpower and nostalgia for “the good old days”

But the all-knowing chess-master of a villain who had an evil plan several decades in the making with countless moving parts and contingencies to account for had to use the roundabout, more complicated method of time travel where a lot could go wrong.

Pete though? Dude just casually broke all the rules of time travel because he felt like it. He's just built different.

TL;DR: Steamboat Willie breaks Kingdom Hearts lore in half, Pete is more powerful than Master Xehanort, and I fucking love this beautiful trainwreck of a series you guys it means so much to me

I love Kingdom hearts so much.

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r0semultiverse · 8 months

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ORIGINAL MARCELINE OF THE WINTER KING'S UNIVERSE!? 😨

Is the implication that Ice King took her out with all of the other oozers or did the oozers end up killing her?? Either way, it seems that this Simon was not coping well with any of what was going on in his life. Living a life of hypocrisy & ruling a false kingdom.

#is the implication that Ice King took her out with all of the other mutated people?#or did the mutated people end up taking her out?#right as he was talking about making an ice Betty as being 'unethical;' but he had ice Marceline hidden away in his castle #there was nothing ethical about the Winter King's methods; though I'm curious about how he learned to cast a spell to project the madness #of the crown specifically onto this universe's PB?? I wanna know more about that & I wonder if a similar method will be how Fionna & Cake's #reality gets saved? Maybe! 👀#mine #op #marceline abadeer #winter king #marceline the vampire queen #adventure time fionna & cake #adventure time #adventure time fionna and cake #adventure time spoilers #atimers #ice king #ice simon #simon petrikov #fionna and cake

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das-a-kirby-blog · 2 months

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get you a king who cares each and every one of his subjects

#kirby #king dedede #meta knight #scarfy #gordo #kabula #my art #am I gonna go as far as to make a possible tag for dedede's castle? perhaps

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moodboard-d · 4 months

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illustratus · 2 months

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Watchful Peace, The Return of the King by John Howe

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iwannabesawtrapped · 1 year

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just another day of calling big murder men "babygirl"

#doc ock #otto octavius #green goblin #norman osborn #harry osborn #erik killmonger #n’jadaka #frank castle #the punisher #matt murdock #daredevil #mcu namor #king namor #bucky barnes #the winter soldier #marvel incorrect quotes

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lovemoroporo · 1 year

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the found family of it all

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alemanriq · 5 months

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Oh no, a crossover again

#simon petrikov #winter king #ice king #adventure time #fionna and cake #howl's moving castle #mine #selfcest #ghibli #winterkov

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deuteragonist1 · 1 year

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Merthur really have it all huh. King and lionheart dynamic. Fucking hate at first sight then speedrun to trying to die for the other. Slow burn? Never heard of her. One of them wears gloves and one doesn't and I'm not even gonna bother to explain why that is top fucking tier. Lies and secrets that could bring about the doom of the kingdom. Obviously adore each other but will actually fucking die before saying it with actual words. The prince is a gigantic asshole who doesn't know how to show care or ask for attention like a person who had healthy emotional development as a child and oscillates between pulling pigtails and acting like an over-eager puppy or both at the same time. Domesticity levels previously unheard of. They canonically wear each other's clothes. One of them makes up words and the other promptly starts using them. Both are extremely into the other's specific brand of dumbassery. Their love language is fucking playing together. "I don't want you to change" fuck this fuck everything

#also i just thought about arthur using one of merlin's made-up words in front of uther at dinner or something #and uther is like come again????#also i said hate at first sight but i'm pretty sure that was entirely one-sided #it came from merlin's side in case that wasn't clear #arthur got tingles from this peasant boy insulting him and didn't know how to deal with it so he threw him in the stocks #argue with the wall #when merlin isn't there he is just so fucking lost #imagine being a servant in camelot like #oh here's the king. wandering about the castle in his nightclothes again #checking corners for his daydrinking servant #again #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #bbc arthur #arthur pendragon #merthur

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inafieldofdaisies · 2 months

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Damsel (2024) | Favorite scenes

I am the sacrifice. I am the sacrifice?

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slowedmountains · 2 years

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An afternoon's rest

Tiromir getting a nap in in the relative quiet of Damia's office

#illustration #oc #original character #no kings no castles #tiromir #damia #drawing

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nina-ya · 20 hours

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This is so damn cute!!

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xehanortsreport · 3 days

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you ever just think about the heartless manufactory. peak environmental horror (dreamy sigh)

#i keep wanting to explore just. the horror of the kidnappings.#mass kidnappings! sanctioned by the state!#the guards are in on it!#your townspeople are being experimented on en masse and turned into monsters #and it's so enshrined and refined that there is a WHOLE ASS SECRET FACTORY built in the castle where your king lives!#DEDICATED to it!#like!!!!!!!!!!!! jesus christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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mia-martian · 7 months

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Something I've been thinking about a lot lately

#fionna and cake #adventure time #baldur's gate 3 #simon petrikov #winter king #astarion #howl pendragon #howl jenkins pendragon #howls moving castle #labyrinth #jim henson #jim henson's labyrinth #david bowie

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paintalyx · 8 months

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my mom said we can't be friends if you don't like wyll. yeah even if you don't care about him. no sorry i don't make the rules but she's right you know

#my stuff #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #wyll ravengard #the rancidity of some takes i've seen on him... unparalleled...#look me in the eye and tell me that he's a flat and boring and that he isn't compelling i dare you #these people just couldn't bothered to think about his story for more than two seconds if at all #not every companion is going to do it for everyone sure but c'mon we know where most of bad takes are coming from #edit: this blew up apparently #keep it up kings in this (🏰) castle we stan wyll ravengard it's what he deserves

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