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atomic-taco-muffin · 1 year
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May I please have some of the organization members reacting to them coming home to an asleep s/o in either their shirt or an extra organization cloak since the s/o missed them so much and couldn't sleep without them home? Thank you in advance 🤗😊
You got it!! I'm gonna go with the Nort brothers for now
Nort Brothers reacting to you sleeping with their shirt
Warnings: Slightly spicy (like microscopic size) but mainly fluff
Rating: SFW
Xemnas:
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Honestly, this man overworks himself so it's a miracle that he even made it to your guys' shared bed.
When he sees you wearing his shirt, he's confused.
Like, why would you wear his shirt? You have tons of clothes yourself.
But he finds it adorable, nonetheless.
Ansem:
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Like Xemnas, he overworks himself, but not as much as his twin though
Now, we know this man barely wears a shirt, but he does own a few turtlenecks (he wears them in the winter)
So, after a long day of research and making sure the Twilight Trio were asleep, he headed to you to have some spicy time together
Only to find you asleep in one of his turtlenecks.
When I tell you this man MELTS!!!!! He'll just wrap you in his arms and the two of you will sleep like that till morning.
Xeha:
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Xeha loves it when you wear his stuff. It's like a signal saying that you're his and his alone.
And when you wear his shirt to bed, he fucking loves it.
He does get a little turned on but nothing too crazy.
Sometimes, he's just too tired to take care of it, and sometimes you are too. Other times, it just leads to soft, sleepy sex
Vanitas:
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Okay, we all know that Vanitas wears that somewhat ugly suit but for the sake of this fic, we're gonna give him some actual clothes
Like Xeha, he loves it when you wear his clothes.
And yes, he does get turned on when he sees you in them.
And when you wear his shirt as pj's, you best believe his going to pound town
And, yeah. You're gonna be wearing his shirt more often for bed
Let me know if you want a part two with the other members!
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kh-yumio · 5 months
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Xion, Vanitas and Repliku dressed in Traje de Charro cuz the Mexican artist's urge to draw their favorite characters as Charros won the battle today.
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imaginative-joy · 2 years
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I was choking in the crowd/ Building my rain up in the cloud
Falling like ashes to the ground/ Hoping my feelings, they would drown
But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing/ Inhibited, limited
Till it broke open and rained down/ It rained down, like...
Pain! You made a, you made me a believer/ Believer…
(Believer, Imagine Dragons)
Boy, I made this piece incredibly complicated for myself with the perspective! But here’s my secret: REFERENCE. I took some screenshots from KH2 until I got the angle I wanted. From there, I used those screenshots to plot out my vanishing points. I also took some pictures of my Roxas action figure, Keyblade included, to get the angle on him that I wanted. While there was some light tracing involved, the purpose was to make sure I was getting the perspective right, never to just “copy” something. Plus, I had to work out lighting and color on my own for the most part; the KH2 colors are very saturated, and I wanted the colors in this piece to be more moody. So reference is important in order to lay the foundation of an illustration!
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k1ngdom-of-thieves · 2 years
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Hugging some members of Org XIII
I’m literally just doing this for me lmao
Axel
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He is. So fucking warm. It’s like hugging a breathing heating pad with no waist. It’s not too warm for it to become unbearable though, it’s like the warmth of a fuzzy blanket.
He rubs your back if you’ve been having a particularly tough time. It’s a small act, but it still shows that he’s got your back.
If he’s feeling playful, he’ll pick you up and spin you around. You might get a little annoyed at first but his infectious laughter washes that away just as quickly as it came.
“Looks like someone’s happy to see me. How’ve you been while I was on my mission?”
Marluxia
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Marluxia rarely gives out hugs, but when he does, they are so comforting. He smells like fresh flowers and a hint of cologne.
He places a hand on the small of your back. The other goes to the top of your head if you’re shorter than him, and to the upper part of your back if you’re taller than him.
He usually stays quiet, but sometimes on a good day, you’ll hear him hum a little tune. If you ask him about it, he’ll tell you he doesn’t remember where he heard it from.
“Oh? Have you missed me that much? Well then, I promise to not leave you for that long again, my dear.”
Larxene
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If you thought it was hard to get a hug from Marluxia, it’s nearly impossible to get one from Larxene. She’s never been one to partake in “cutesy” stuff like that. Her words not mine
She only makes an exception for you, AND only in private. No one else deserves to see her be vulnerable.
Larxene holds you so tightly, like she’d never get to hug you like this ever again. She doesn’t know why or where this desperation came from, but she’d never admit that she had that desperation to begin with.
“Well of course you’d come to me. Those other losers don’t even come close to being able to touch you.”
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nyctoheart · 1 year
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I suggested my friend (new KH player) streams Days before KH2 but I also warned him I'm in the far minority and there might be a little backlash
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firestorm09890 · 2 years
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girl decides to put organization xiii in a funnee video game rp for shits and giggles, accidentally gains a deep understanding of one of the messages of kingdom hearts, 3 dead 40 injured
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aged-string · 2 years
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I don't think I'll ever get over how Organization XIII was hyped up as this super nefarious villain group but then you get to their game 358/2 Days and they treat it like a job. A 9-5 soul crushing job. They have their daily menial tasks and then they go home and wash, rinse, repeat with little else occupying their lives. Even their hobbies and pastimes seem so limited, although you can arguably chalk that up to the game just not being interested in developing them like that (which is part of why the manga is great, because it has a tendency of developing them in ways the main writers aren't interested in). From the way they talk about it, they almost sound like they work at an office sometimes. A very bizarre, particularly backstabby office, but still. It's a soul crushing job AND a weird cult all at once and it's treated with this mundanity that's both hilarious in a way I didn't really get when it first came out and oddly humanizing.
I know for some dumb reason they didn't do a remake of Days and it's harder to access because of that, but if you can and it interests you enough to where you've wondered if it was worth playing, I really recommend playing it or watching a playthrough of the actual game instead of just the cutscenes. The story really is partly told through the mechanics and so much is lost when they just gave us the cutscenes pulled from the game in the compilations.
They really reinforce how bleak and mundane Roxas' life is most of the time, how bleak and mundane most of the members' lives are. How much control the Organization has over them. You don't just level up organically like in other kh games, you have to do this weird puzzle thing that limits your growth and abilities. They don't give you munny, they give you heart points that you can only use at the moogle shop in their castle, so they're literally paid in scrip. If you're unfamiliar with it, scrip is a currency you can only use in certain places instead of throughout a whole country or other type of political union like the eu, usually with the store at the company you work at. When you're on missions your path is blocked off, you can only go to certain areas that are directly related to your daily mission. It's suffocating and genius, especially since in most other series entries you get so much freedom comparatively.
With all that context it starts making some of their vices a bit more understandable. Can you really blame Demyx for not wanting to do his work when all he gets out of it is room and board, and the distant, vague promise of maybe someday getting a new heart? Especially since he's probably been with the Organization for years?
Can you really blame Marluxia and Larxene for wanting to mutiny when their boss is useless and all of their colleagues seem indifferent to it? I mean like. The murder isn't great. I'm still a bit sore about that. But I can definitely get behind the 'screw our boss' sentiment. I'm still very fond of my 'instead of going the cloak and dagger route Larxene and Marluxia somehow, possibly with the help of devil magic, manage to get everyone to cooperate so they can unionize and kick Xemnas out' au. An Organization XIII union au, if you will. Imagine Xemnas having to explain that to the other Xehanorts.
Master Xehanort: The people you gathered up for us to use as our vessels. Unionized?
Xemnas, the biggest loser in the entire series: :/
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minijenn · 8 months
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Story Summary: Eight years ago, the Destiny Islands fell to darkness. The royal family was viciously slain when Lord Xehanort and the sinister Organization XIII used dark magic to take the throne. Except...
There are rumors on the islands. Rumors that young Prince Sora may have survived.
When the prince's betrothed, Princess Kairi of Radiant Garden, offers a reward for his safe return, Riku decides to seize the opportunity to leave the doomed islands once and for all. At the same time, an orphan named Skye sets out to discover his forgotten past in the hopes of finding his family-and his future.
Kingdom Hearts Anastasia AU. Updates every Saturday!
Ships: Sora/Riku/Kairi, Aqua/Terra, Roxas/Namine, Axel/Saix
Rating: G
Warnings: Angst, Trauma, Memory Loss, Violence, Harm to Children, Psycological Trauma
Chapter Summary: As rumors about the lost prince reach Xehanort, he plans to snuff this alleged imposter out. Meanwhile, others are much more hopeful at the possibility of Prince Sora's survival... Not many knew what went on in the Organization’s sinister stronghold. Its floating towers were all but inaccessible to outsiders, and only those connected to the king and his magic could open up dark gateways to get inside. The common folk often speculated about how the elite lived; they imagined nightly parties, wicked affairs where Xehanort and his followers would watch prisoners be tortured and killed for their own sadistic pleasure. They imagined bountiful food and drink and riches, the kind anyone outside of the castle’s walls hadn’t seen since before the fall. They imagined a group that used their authority over the people below to live in lawless luxury, safe and secure in their ivory towers above.  The truth, however, wasn’t quite what they imagined.  While it was true that the Organization members had plenty to eat and all of the power over the people Xehanort could promise them, they stuck to surprisingly rigid routines. Most of their days were spent on patrol throughout the islands, enforcing their king’s laws and ensuring anyone who didn’t follow them were punished accordingly. Whenever they were all gathered at the castle, it was usually for their weekly council meetings. Much like the one they were congregating for today. 
Click the link to read more; all comments are appreciated!
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atomic-taco-muffin · 1 year
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The kh boys with an S/o related to an organization member got me so if I may could I have the organization members with an S/O related to one of the kh boys? For example vanigaa' s/o is aqua's sister? Please and thank you for the amazing work ^^
You got it! I'm not gonna do all the members (mostly because my brain can only focus on a few)
Organization XIII Reacting to you Being Related to The Guardians Of Light
Warnings: None really. Xig's is kinda spicy cause this is the horny rat man we're talking about
Rating: SFW
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I feel like Xemnas already knew you were related to Terra
Mostly because he's part of Terra technically
But he likes how close you are with his brother.
Much like how he is with his (If you're new here, I headcanon that Ansem and Xemnas are brothers)
Ansem:
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Like his twin brother, I feel like he already knows you're related to Riku
But does this manwhore care? NOPE
He knows you're his and if that pisses Riku off? Good
Vanitas:
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Yeah, he's kind of terrified when he found out you're Aqua's sister
Won't stop dating you though
Just gotta stand away from Aqua
Xigbar:
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Oh, you're related to Sora, are you?
Yeah, he's spamming Sora's inbox telling him how much he loves fucking you
Seriously, Xig?! Seriously
Get control of your rat man
Marluxia:
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I feel like he knew you and Ventus from when he was Lauriam but lost his memories
When he finds out you're Ven's sister, things slowly come back to him
Ven approves because of his old friendship with Lauriam
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lightandfellowship · 1 year
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(Major KHDR spoilers)
I was thinking to myself that the only real shame of replacing Organization XIII with the KHDR cast is how much more functional and tame they'd be in comparison to the original. A big part of the original Organization's appeal (at least for me anyway) is how messy it is: how it's comprised of friends, enemies, frienemies, backstabbers, cliques, large and loud personalities, general chaos and friction...meanwhile the KHDR cast is fairly normal, friendly, and down-to-earth.
But then I thought, well what if after they lose their hearts their personalities and dynamics change somewhat? (I mean, that's basically what happened to the original Organization too, right?) Characteristics become lessened or amplified, relationships shift, etc? So, some thoughts on that, using blazernot's numbering as a base (under the read more because it got a little long):
Xehanort: Honestly I just imagine him acting like time traveler YMX, smug monotone POS who always sounds like he's judging you or making fun of you, but in a backhanded way where there's plausible deniability. Generally disliked by the Organization unless you're really close to him or was his classmate in the past. Not that anyone would express their displeasure to his face since he's feared by many.
Bragi: It's just Luxu, he acts exactly the same, pretty much. His relationship with Xehanort is similar to Xigbar's relationship with Xemnas, but a bit more personable and trusting since they were classmates.
Vali: No one really knows what he's thinking due to how little he speaks, which makes people keep their distance and treat him like he's weird. Close to Vidar and Vala, who are the only ones who truly understand him. Is often overlooked by the rest because of his quiet presence, which along with his ninja abilities makes him the perfect candidate for eavesdropping on other members. Rumors about him listening in on conversations and following people around haven't helped with his reputation, making people keep their distance even more. He's supposedly doing all this on Xehanort's behalf, but it seems like his loyalty lies elsewhere...
Urd: After losing her heart her cool-headed nature turns into just straight-up coldness. Only her old classmates understand that it's nothing personal, leading to her sticking close to her friends but not really interacting with anybody else. If you put in the effort to get to know her though, she's actually a pretty good ally all things considered, even if she doesn't openly express affection anymore. It seems like her losing her heart was very hard on her, as someone who used to be very loving and desired close friendships, and she copes with the loss of her compassion by not even trying to pretend that she has it anymore. Pretending only made the loss sting even more. Is excellent on recon missions due to her desire to learn about the outside worlds.
Helgi: Well-liked by the more care-free and rambunctious members for being a party guy who loves to demonstrate his skills through entertaining feats of strength. Often breaks things on accident (and on purpose), making him a bit of a thorn in the side of the higher-ups who have to pay big bucks to the Moogles to replace whatever he breaks. Despite his tendency to try and solve most problems with pure strength, he has a pretty good intuition and keen observational skills, which leads to people vastly underestimating him on missions that don't require brawn. Had a very firm set of personal morals when he was alive, but doesn't really care about that sort of thing anymore, making him capable of great evil on a whim. Believes in "might is right", and if he wants something, he'll take it regardless of who he may hurt in the process. Is secretly dissatisfied with Xehanort's leadership and is planning a takeover with Sigrun.
Hermod: Is way too concerned about following the rules. It's basically all he cares about now, since losing his heart made it even more difficult to make accurate judgements on his own; rules are a crutch to him that tell him what the right thing to do is in any given situation. Gains a reputation for being a tattletale and no fun, leading to him only being tolerated by the higher-ups and the more serious members. Other members often take advantage of how gullible he is and pull pranks on him. Hermod usually reacts to these pranks with explosive anger out of reflex, which only serves to entertain and encourage the pranksters. Regardless, he's equal parts strategist and fighter, making him invaluable on missions.
Vidar: Cold, single-minded, and some members would claim subtly manipulative. Despite this he has good leadership skills and a fair eye, making him the perfect candidate for managing everybody else. People are intimidated by him because he expects model behavior and results, but they generally approve of his position since he's undeniably good at his job. Is fixated on Kingdom Hearts moreso than the rest, for reasons unknown. Secretly planning something with Vali and Vala, who would follow him to the ends of the earth if asked.
Vor: Excitable, easily distracted, quick to anger, reluctant to battle if it's not necessary, and a bit of a flake who can't make decisions. To some members, she's A Lot to handle, and a little annoying because of it. Despite this, in general people respect how strong she secretly is. Everyone knows not to get on her bad side (and those who don't know soon learn the hard way) even if they don't really want to get paired with her for missions, since that means having to "babysit" her (she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself, but often walks off to do her own thing rather than focus on the mission she was given). Vor is well aware that other members still treat her like a kid, and she definitely isn't happy about it.
Eraqus: Good friends with Vor, but much more of a slacker than she is. Never gets paired with her for missions because together they are utterly incapable of getting anything done. His reputation in the Organization is basically the complete opposite of Hermod's, except for the fact that he's the punchline of many jokes. Good guy to have at parties, but isn't really relied on by anybody, since everybody treats him like he's brainless/useless. Has slowly drifted from Xehanort over time due to Xehanort's leadership role making him too busy to hang out and play chess, resulting in their friendship becoming strained. Has some friction with Vidar, who disapproves of Eraqus' lack of discipline and claims that Eraqus' potential is being wasted. Is even more quick to anger than Vor is, leading to many unnecessary brawls with other members. Without a heart, Eraqus has a greater capacity to unapologetically hurt others when blinded by rage, making him a loose canon on missions.
Heimdall: Is friends with Helgi and Sigrun, but is a bit more responsible and clear-headed. Hosts and organizes many parties and game nights, making him beloved by the more fun-seeking members, but "beloved" in a sort of impersonal way of providing a service rather than being loved just for the merits of his own personality (kinda sad). Formed a friendship with Eraqus when he replaced Xehanort for games. Isn't a stranger to the chaos that Helgi and Sigrun cause, and in fact gets directly involved in it sometimes himself. If push comes to shove though, he's very adept at wrangling them. It is unknown why Helgi and Sigrun didn't include him in their plans.
Sigrun: Liked just as much as Helgi for her relaxed attitude and sunny disposition. Unsurprisingly Helgi is her closest friend, and they often get into mischief together. Arguably the least offensive and most pleasant member to be around, almost nobody has anything bad to say about her, other than the trouble she sometimes causes with Helgi. A favorite of the Moogles, too, since she's nice to them and buys from them often. Despite being friendly with pretty much everybody, her sweetness hides her true intentions: to take over the Organization with Helgi.
Vala: Not overly concerned with following the rules like Hermod (in fact she often breaks them) but people consider her a bit of a know-it-all who always acts like she can easily predict the events of the future through simple analysis. You don't know true annoyance until you're sitting in the Organization lounge minding your own business and then Vala talks your ear off for 15 minutes trying to predict what you'll be eating for lunch. Most of the time her predictions are wrong, but every once in a while she'll correctly predict something with startling accuracy, making her effectiveness on missions high-risk, high-reward. Often seen talking to Vidar in hushed tones.
I'll be honest I'm not entirely sure how to incorporate Baldr and Hoder into an Organization setting (and Tumblr is telling me that I can't add any more text to this numbered "text block")...so I think I'll let other people ruminate on that if they so desire.
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wilygryphon · 11 months
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Can you imagine if Organization XIII, due to their work in fighting Heartless and possibly other tasks that we never got to see over the last decade, became sort of folk heroes on some of the worlds? Like, you see a guy in a black coat and go, "Hey, those guys saved the town from those monsters last week!"
And then this kid who also kills the monsters passes through and you learn that the Organization is evil, and some of them even send Heartless to attack your town.
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cielomist · 8 months
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i want a kh game thats just zexion growing up in the organization. he was a nobody from like ages 9-19. can you imagine spending your entire teenage years in organization fucking xiii. with five dads. and one of your dads is vexen. zexion has seen horrors we cant comprehend and im not even talking about the unethical human experimentation the apprentices did
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sweet-beezus · 9 months
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I've always liked the idea of choices and how they change the narrative, so for this day of @khoc-week we'll be poking around one of each's most impactful choices that could have changed everything!!
This'll be like... AU 2: Electric Boogaloo, except it's a different flavor of course.
They're all very angsty, so no one wins this one, alas.
Day 6 - One Choice, New Life
Iris:
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Ohhhh yeah~
Right out the front gate we're starting strong!
Since Iris, thanks to poking around in places she shouldn't, ends up getting smited before the Keyblade War even began, imagine if she kept her nose out of things just long enough...
She gets to know everyone that Alto got to meet, and finds herself having even more things to add to her list of suspicions as time goes on.
She finds out about the Dandelions, about the weird happenings and disapperances, about the fact that the Foretellers are hiding more than they are letting on.
Things start to get more tense, more stressful. Iris grows a resentment for the Union leaders and those they associated with, as the days lead to competition that grows ever more violent.
Her final straw was when Aced dared to strike down Alto, who just wanted to spare two wielders an otherwise fruitless fight near the fountain square. She denounces her Union involvement, essentially going rogue all to keep a protective eye on Alto.
She turns down a spot on the Dandelions only because Alto did, despite her efforts to plea with him so they could leave safe and sound. But she respects his choices, so together they will face the music head on.
Eventually, the Keyblade War swings around. Even though it's a free for all at this rate, she still teams up with Alto to stay close and keep them both alive no matter the cost.
Now, ideally she would get taken away with Alto to the digital Daybreak Town and the two would continue to suffer towards the end of the world, perhaps both finding themselves on a journey to reincarnate in Scala ad Caelum, however the newly uncovered, very hostile Foretellers of the Apocalypse have other plans.
Despite Igni being an angel of the battlefield, at least in the eyes of the wielders she saves, for very interesting reasons never really disclosed she just leaves Iris to die, or rather finishes the job herself. Either way, Iris does not make it out, at least not in an ideal state.
Nobody in the future gets to learn who Iris is despite Alto carrying her memory with him, he had forgotten her just as much as he forgot everyone from that time.
Her Chirithy got to her just in time before she was whisked off to sleep, and she now resides in the Realm of Dreams as a Necho Cat, assisting in keeping that realm and the other lost wielders safe.
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Irene:
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Irene also had a strong case of sticking her nose where it doesn't belong, which later ended in an act of martyrdom for two boys that barely gave her the time of day.
This time around, despite her heart telling her to act, she kept to herself and followed along blindly alongside the other castle staff (loyalty to Master Ansem and all that), where it eventually lead to her witnessing all of the horrid experiments happening within the castle walls.
She ends up involuntarily becoming a Nobody, Nexier (it's just Reixen backwards lol), with a healing element, one of if not the only passive member of Organization XIII. While not branded as an official member, she is given her own infirmary quarters in the Castle That Never Was, where the other members are sent to receive mending and care, most likely a hint to all that remains of who she was.
When she's returned to wholeness, she's confronting Sora on his final trek to confront Xemnas. It's more of a mercy upon her granted by Sora, but part of her seems so far gone even when recompleted. She will never be the same, now jaded towards her place of work, yet she stays because where else does she have to go? She needs to be there for the others who also suffered the same fate...
All we have is hope that maybe she could find healing from all this.
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Iliana:
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I thought of two for her, so I'll share the less dark option first!
When she takes up a roost with her uncle after the fall of her world, a pivotal point was her choice to leave and seek closure in the depths of space. Here, Russell managed to talk her down from persuing what isn't there, so she doesn't take off on a fruitless chase for answers. Instead she takes up work as Russell's apprentice at his shop, biding her time until she can handle the journey on her own. Or with friends-
She ends up in Sora's mess here anyway, just with less death on her end this time around. Unfortunately, destiny has it out for her either way-
During its final day standing as the world was crumbling to pieces, she had tried returning to her home city to grab her brother, the last thing she needed in order to go. The only thing holding her back was swarms of Heartless and, well, the world actively falling apart.
The second option was from before she left her home world.
She had already been actively packing to leave by now, a slow process considering she had to swipe many things from under her parents' noses. Unfortunately, finishing that task couldn't have come fast enough.
This time around, however, she continues to persist, battling through hoard after hoard to reach the city gate... only for the city to totally sink into darkness before she could make it there. Her way back was starting to crumble as well, so she was all but completely trapped.
Originally, she realized she was outmatched and decided to flee, since she knew fighting her way through would mean certain death, and with certain death it meant no one would be able to go back and save it later, nor could anyone escape that hadn't tried already.
It was devastating to leave her brother behind, but it was necessary to make sure she wouldn't lose him completely.
Of course, Heartless are an inconvenience, so on her furious trek back she nearly makes it to the ship, but! Comes up short as she is taken with the broken pieces of her world to the Realm of Darkness.
She doesn't come out of this herself anymore, in fact she's far from the person she may have been, left now to take her time relearning how to be human, and her recovery monitored in Radiant Garden while the Guardians of Light are actively hunting down where Terra ended up.
Her persistence kept her from being swallowed completely -unless she totally gives up which is possible- nevertheless she ended up finding herself wandering this new realm aimlessly for a couple of years, maybe bumping into Aqua-nort and her mildly unhinged gf, Myst, while she's at it, until by pure happenstance she may be rescued...
By Sora, of course. She can never avoid him-
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Oh, how I love me some angst!
Anywho-
The most heartbreaking part is that if this is all part of one timeline they never get to meet, with the exception of Iliana and Irene I suppose, but they won't click in the same way they do now. Maybe they learn to heal together, but it's so strained that it's best to let them handle themselves separately.
Iliana would also have no reason to take the Mark of Mastery until way later this way, if at all, so she'd never meet Dreameater Iris, alas.
Wowie zowie, we're almost at the end, just one more day!!
I'll see y'all tomorrow for Day 7!!
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tobiasdrake · 8 months
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I love the big reveal about the DR2 cast. I really, truly do.
There are so many games where the main villain has a bunch of quirky bosses who work under them, with a variety of character traits or maybe different goofy themes or something about each of them. And you have to fight your way through all of them in order to reach the boss.
And that's who the protagonists of this game are! That is so cool. They took the concept behind the eight Robot Masters or Organization XIII or FOXHOUND and were like, "What if we made those guys the main characters?"
Like. I can easily imagine a sort of Ultra Despair Girls/Metal Gear Solid mashup game about combatting the Tragedy, where you have to fight your way through each of the Remnants while dealing with their own bizarre and distinctive style of boss fight. Izuru Kamukura being the Final Exam Boss who whips out everybody's powers.
That's just fun.
But it's also tragic. Because. Like. These were Junko's most devoted followers. At least, before the mind control retcon. They were the leaders of her whole movement. When she showed off the burning world to Makoto's group in DR1's final case, these were the people who made that happen in her absence.
And now she's just like, "LOL Kill each other."
Like. She's literally taken control of the simulation that was meant for their rehabilitation. And rather than use that control to liberate her key personnel, she's just killing them for shits and giggles.
(And also so she can put Copy Junkos in their bodies which is the most horrifying thing ever.)
Like. She killed her sister too. That's just how she is. She doesn't really care about the plan or the cause or whatever. She's just here for the despair-inducing lulz.
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feelthelivingforce · 3 months
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If they do end up putting Star Wars in Kingdom Hearts 4 -- and please for the love of god put Star Wars in Kingdom Hearts 4 -- I think it would be a really cool moment to have Sora see a jedi or sith in one of the opening moments of the world and think that they're an Organization XIII member, probably Xemnas in particular (whose weapons look like lightsabers). It would be a rad cross-continuity nod to both sagas.
And, like....Star Wars is such a natural fit for Kingdom Hearts anyway. Both series focus on the Light and the Dark as tentpole concepts; both series have intergalactic space travel; both series prominently feature male/male/female trios of main characters; both series feature antagonists clad in black robes led by an elder mastermind-behind-everything who is trying to achieve immortality by empowering his own ego at the expense of others; etc. Birth By Sleep feels like such a massive homage to Revenge of the Sith. The other two live-action worlds featured in KH (Pirates of the Caribbean and Tron) can't even compare to the mythic storytelling of SW -- and mythic storytelling is KH's bread and butter.
If the trailer discourse is anything to go by and we do indeed get Endor in KH4, that might mean we're gonna be put in Episode VI as a backdrop. Imagine Luke as a party member!! Imagine Sheev working with the new antagonist!! Imagine a lightsaber keyblade!! Imagine imperial heartless!! Imagine ewok NPCs trying to eat Donald!! Imagine Sora and Luke having conversations about the Force, and about how Riku was able to come back to the light with the help of his friends and how this fact bolsters Luke's resolve on getting Anakin/Vader to redeem himself!! There's so much they could do with this material!!
When I saw that Sora would be separated from the original Kingdom Hearts universe following KH3, I was a little disappointed, especially since I'm not really enthused about there being a modern car-centric city in my escapist fantasy story. (Carfree post-capitalist eco-socialism is the future, folks.) But if the Star Wars world is legit, maybe the city shown in the trailer just acts as a hub leading to a parallel set of KH worlds, maybe all live-action this time. So maybe you'd have Star Wars, MCU stuff, Mary Poppins, Narnia, John Carter, etc. It would be a hard-to-pull-off gamble, but my interest would be piqued for sure. I'd also be very happy with the usual crop of traditional Disney worlds as long as we also get Star Wars; I can take or leave those other live-action picks, but it shouldn't be a surprise that this Star Wars side-blog is advocating for Star Wars in KH4 😂
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