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

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I love love love love the designs of the characters in kh dark road!! Here is a Vor!

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Can't stop thinking about how Xehanort watched all his friends die brutally in front of him while he was helpless to stop it and then he forced Sora to relive that exact same thing as "motivation"

The theories about Vor being Kairi's grandmother turned out to be false, but I do think their deaths were some very deliberate parallels, so I guess in a way you could say she WAS Kairi's "ancestor"

actually i’m gonna go insane over this brb…baldr took down 3 innocent upperclassmen early on purely for the sake of MOTIVATION for vidar. who was already in enough pain after having lost hoder. just to make sure he stayed on the track that baldr was setting for him. cuz as @felikatze has pointed out several times, killing 13 lights wasn’t even the original plan. none of those first 4 upperclassmen even needed to die. they were just fodder. baldr was just a sadist.

and xehanort knew all this and did the same dang thing with kairi to motivate sora… ouch….that’s so cheap and cold and awful i hate it… like i’ve said before xehanort absolutely learned a lot from the tragic events of dark road but decided to use this wisdom for evil instead. he learned how manipulation works, how sometimes people have to be willing to do bad things to achieve good goals, and he decided to try this out for himself…

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I was thinking about Kairi and Vor parallels (as one does) and these two scenes are like sisters to me.

"Maybe waiting (for my friends to return to me) isn't good enough." vs. "Maybe staying with my friends isn't good enough."

"You want to achieve your dream of reuniting with your friends? Okay, then do something about it!" vs. "You want to achieve your dream of becoming a Keyblade Master? Okay, then do something about it!"

Axel: "I can take you to your friends" vs. Vidar: "I can take you away from your friends." (I didn't include it here, but Vidar also puts his hand out to Vor like Axel does.)

Kairi refusing to go with Axel vs. Vor choosing to go with Vidar

Dark portal vs. Light portal

In the past, I compared this Kairi and Axel scene to a similar scene in KHDR where Ansem SoD approaches a young Xehanort for the first time, and this has just made it even more clear to me that Vidar convincing Vor to leave her friends is also a parallel to Ansem SoD convincing Xehanort to leave Destiny Islands. (Which makes sense given Xehanort's line to Vor about "embracing change" and learning to build new relationships.)

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Eraqus and Xehanort! 🥰 I drew them after finishing Dark Road last September… I love these babies so much 😭 and I wished they’d had a happy ending…

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Actually...what an interesting concept for an AU. "AU where little Kairi's pod did accidentally end up in Quadratum, and she never got to meet Sora or Riku."

I'm not sure how such a thing would play out. She's a Princess of Heart, so the worlds being short a princess is...probably not a good thing. Especially if she took the World's light with her and she can't pass on her power to someone else (due to being in a different reality). That could upset the light/dark balance of the World, potentially making the Realm of Light more prone to darkness since one of the pillars that upholds it is just, plain missing.

It would also drastically change the events of KH1. Sure, BBS establishes that Riku wanted to see the outside world partially because of Terra, but it was also partially because of Kairi. Her absence might mean his curiosity and desire for freedom never grow strong enough for him to act on those feelings, meaning Destiny Islands doesn't fall early (or at all) and no one gets the Keyblade in time to escape the world and eventually put a stop to Ansem's plan.

(Not to mention, since Kairi doesn't end up on Destiny Islands, Xehanort/Ansem never locates a Keyblade wielder like he wanted. Which I think he needed in order to forge/wield the Keyblade of Heart, maybe? This might be another reason why Riku and Sora's journey would never begin.)

Though, can Ansem even achieve his plan without Kairi? I guess so, since in KH1 the Keyblade of Heart was never actually completed with her heart, anyway. Canonically, Ansem had to use his back-up plan instead: the artificial Kingdom Hearts made from the hearts of all the worlds he destroyed.

So...Ansem's plan succeeds in this scenario, perhaps. Darkness unleashed, utter destruction.

Meanwhile, an amnesiac Kairi lives a normal life in Quadratum as a normal teenager, completely unaware that her absence from her original reality has brought about the end of all worlds.

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Tags by user jellyfishvibes:

#arent the both placed in the same lifeboat? #position wise? #i think they both were placed in the center ones

Yup, they were both placed in the center pod! Good catch.

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Waaaait a minute. In Melody of Memory Apprenticenort implies that Kairi's lifeboat pod might accidentally send her to unreality instead of to its intended destination (a Keyblade wielder).

If Strelitzia (a data version of her maybe?) is the true Dandelion who got put into that lifeboat pod by Luxu, is that how she arrived to Quadratum in KH4?

I wonder if that was the intention, or if it was a mistake and she was simply supposed to arrive to the future like the rest of the Dandelions, not get sent to a completely different reality.

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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.

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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.

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Tags by user isan0rt:

#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.

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.

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Waaaait a minute. In Melody of Memory Apprenticenort implies that Kairi's lifeboat pod might accidentally send her to unreality instead of to its intended destination (a Keyblade wielder).

If Strelitzia (a data version of her maybe?) is the true Dandelion who got put into that lifeboat pod by Luxu, is that how she arrived to Quadratum in KH4?

I wonder if that was the intention, or if it was a mistake and she was simply supposed to arrive to the future like the rest of the Dandelions, not get sent to a completely different reality.

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How am I supposed to function normally when this dude torments me with his existence

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I've kinda taken it for granted that Keyblade wielders can summon their Keyblades back into their hand, but I wonder if you can only do that if your Keyblade is located in the same realm as you.

Because Aqua loses Master's Defender (at the end of 0.2, I think? It's a little unclear) and then it ended up on Destiny Islands in the Realm of Light, where Sora later picks it up. And canonically she had truly lost it, no way to summon it back and thus had no Keyblade to defend herself with in the Realm of Darkness, leading to Ansem SoD besting her in battle and tossing her into the watery depths of the Dark Margin.