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If you didn't know, the scene in KH3 where Demyx delivers the replica body leaves a pretty different impression in Japanese.

(EN) Demyx: How's humanity treatin' ya? I rejoined the Nobodies, but, like... I just can't shake the feeling I've been sweet-talked, y'know? We have sooo got to have a chat. Ienzo: Whoa, back up. What?

(JP) Demyx: Being human might really be better after all. I returned to being a Nobody... But I get the feeling I got tricked with some sweet-talk. Later, you'll have to tell me which you prefer! Ienzo: What's this, out of nowhere?

It's just so interesting to me. It sounds like he's treating it like a preference between something trivial like vanilla or chocolate ice cream.

Ienzo recoils, his reaction suggesting that he thinks it's strange for someone to ask something like that, especially out of the blue. Which he "prefers"? Shouldn't they obviously prefer being human? Odd. Demyx is a weird guy to say the least. Riku shares a similar reaction to him later in Re:Mind.

Much to ponder. I'd still like to know what sort of "sweet-talk" they used to convince him to become a Nobody again.

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I always wondered what that green part of the logo was, and I think I figured it out. With some very basic photoshopping... Bam. Stylize it a little more, and that's it.

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Congratulations, before I'd been rejecting it outright but thanks to your posts I can actually see the appeal of "Demyx is MoM" now. The madness (wisdom?) continues to spread! I'll be looking out for clues in any future KH media *salutes*

WE GOT ANOTHER ONE, BOYS!!

I think I'm of the opinion lately that Demyx IS a separate guy... But the vibes are telling me that he and MoM are/will be essentially one person by the time the hood comes off. 🤔 I know there's something fishy going on!!!!

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i FOUND YOUUUUUU hi its emergency-vehicle on ao3

im in LOVE with your ES megasound fics....they give me life........... i read them all at least once a week, maybe more. but i reread them constantly. theyre all just... *chef kiss* i just really love the way you make megs ramble in his thoughts, and soundwave is just quietly listening like "heehee". so cheeky and cute. i love them, and their dynamic. you just capture them so well. Take Me With You and Impossible to Stop are just soooooooooooooo.......

i think its important for you to know that your fics inspired me to write my own ES megasound lovers (past) to enemies to lovers fic for the tf big bang. im really excited for this, its my first like super long fic. whenever i need inspiration i always reread your fics because they just are so juicy!! so thank you so much for writing them and I hope we get more (no pressure LOL).

i think its ALSO important that you know im ALSO super obsessed with your TFO megasound fics.... i love the dynamic that tfo sets up for megasound. i have LOTS of thoughts about them, most of them boiling down to soundwave is manipulative and accidentally catches feelings and megatron catches feelings because of how soundwave manipulated him. so yeah, fucking chefs kiss again. [insert lady gaga talented. brilliant. incredible. amazing. showstopping. spectacular. never the same. totally unique. completely not ever done before. gif here] (yes i typed out the whole thing because of how much i love your fics)

anyway fjsnxjwjcbsoxjajxsims hi i love ur fics ur an amazing writer have a great rest of your day. - @soundop-central

Yessss!! That makes me so happy. I'm honored to have inspired you to write something of your own. That's one of the reasons I write - to mind control others into writing more of what I like. lol VERY excited to read this fic of yours.

At the moment, I've been watching Rescue Bots Academy with barky. We're pretending that Deadlock is a canon RBA character so we can ship him with Hot Shot. I think I'm basically just waiting until we finish RBA before I start putting any of our ideas into a story. I hope you like Deadlock because barky's RBA Deadlock design is one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

I also have a shockblurr fic on the backburner. I just need to feel INSANE while writing it, y'know what I mean? I need to be possessed by the vibes, like how I was when I wrote Yours. (That's one of my personal all-time favorites.)

I have more megasound ideas I haven't gotten around to yet. There's one TFO idea I really want to do. We also basically want to insert all of our other fav ships into the Impossible to Stop universe. Something so funny about hot young couple driftrod interacting with married megasound who are kinky in ways yet unfathomable to their little minds. (Does it make sense for them to be in the ES universe? idk. don't care. our city now.)

Anyway. I'm overjoyed that anyone would read my fics multiple times. tysm. 😭🙏

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Made a new one. This song was made for him. ♥

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There was never a man, like my Johnny...

Like the one they call Johnny Guitar...

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Let's gooooooo!!! Another piece in the MoMyx puzzle!!

Oh! It's time for me to remind everyone that MoM is connected to Final Fantasy Agito XIII/Type-0 and the Foretellers are all connected to Class Zero members! (I'm going somewhere with this. I've got all the dots connected on my corkboard.)

(The clock tower is literally from Type-0.)

You know how Yozora looks like Noctis from Versus XIII? It's like that, but with a bunch of Agito XIII characters. The only character who seems to match MoM in terms of render pose AND personality is Jack, who looks like Demyx - and has the same voice actor.

MoM has said he could call himself "Jack." In Japanese, he says Jack and Taro, referencing the name of heroes in folklore like Stingy Jack, Jack and the Beanstalk, Momotaro, Kintaro, etc.

And in light of this new information from Nomura about the folklore of the crossroads...

I must remind everyone that in addition to being an unparalleled master of the katana, Jack is also a musician.

You? An angel?

You? An angel?

You can go a whole playthrough without knowing that Jack is a musician. That's because the war occurs in every world line, and the only world where Jack is actually able to be in a band with the others is in the fictional world of the "If..." ending.

"A rusted blade~ ♪ That is my heart~ ♪"

And here's your reminder that Demyx has seemingly met the MoM, courtesy of the Character Files book.

Now here's the reminder that "Melody of Memory" is abbreviated as "MoM" for some reason...

So yeah, this is just one more nail in the "MoM did something silly with Demyx" coffin for me. Something I'd be tickled by is if it turns out that the sitar is the transformed version of MoM's own keyblade. That's one thing that could explain what's been "guiding" Demyx.

If you take anything away from this post, it's the fact that MoM might have been a secret music lover this whole time.

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At first I wasn't too sure about MoM/Demyx also being Jack from Final Fantasy Type 0 but now that I think about it, considering how many characters from Final Fantasy have a tendency to appear in Kingdom Hearts and play some role in the story up to this day, as well as Jack's similarities to Demyx (similar physical appearance, same Japanese VA, and I think you'd also said in a video they have similar personalities), I'm actually a lot more sold on this theory now.

Yay! There's definitely something going on with the Demyx-MoM-Jack connection and I can't wait to see what it is.

All of Jack's lines when you talk to him at Akademeia sound like things Demyx would say in Days. lol There are also a lot of times where he talks about how he reeeally doesn't want to fight the terrifying enemies they're up against. The main difference between Jack and Demyx is the fact that we can play as Jack and see for ourselves just how strong he really is. There's no reason to question about why he's part of Class Zero. I think that's why players come away taking him more seriously than Demyx.

We haven't really gotten a chance to see Demyx get serious beyond the "Silence, traitor" moment, but I'm sure there will be more moments like that in the future. There have been a few moments when Jack shows his serious side, and those moments are what make him feel even more like MoM than Demyx does. It's a bit harder to imagine Demyx talking about the inevitability of war as part of human history, while that's something we actually have heard Jack talk about. lol Once you hear Jack talk like that, it makes it feel more realistic to imagine Demyx talking that way, too. That's what really makes Jack feel like the missing link (ha) between Demyx and MoM to me.

I don't know if Demyx/MoM is *literally* Jack... But I could definitely believe that he's supposed to represent him like how Yozora represents Noctis. (But I would also be happy if MoM IS literally Jack because that would be crazy. lol)

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Just wanna say, if you're also NanakiBH on Ao3, I consider you a legendary kh fic author, I stay up late at night thinking about the headcanons I absorbed from your fics.

Yep, there's only one Nanaki BH. (That's me.)

Happy to know that I have infected others with my brainworms. UwU

(And my madness will continue whenever KH reemerges from stasis.)

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I have never played a single Kingdom Hearts game. I'm one of those people who finds every aspect of the series to which I've been exposed pretty much impenetrable. Well, I've been browsing your Tumblr again, and I somehow in the process have become a Demyx/Xigbar fan. I cannot get enough of that one fucker driving the other fucker up the wall. I hope you're proud of yourself.

this is so funny, thank you

i'm VERY proud

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We gotta do everything ourselves...

Earthspark S3 Spoilers Below

Man, idk what other people are feeling, but I'm just going to pretend that there's only one season of Earthspark from now on. I foolishly thought that things could improve after S2. It really feels like the people who are working on ES now have no interest in anything that ES actually was. Maybe it's also corporate meddling. Whatever it is, I hate it.

I guess I'm glad they brought back the Chaos Terrans because it was pretty messed up for them to kill them off. But I don't think they were ever good characters and I would not have missed them.

The Fairmaestro sucks. He just sucks, dude. I can give his first episode a pass because it introduced Isabel and Cosmos, but this second episode was pure filler. Had nothing to do with the overarching plot. They only had seven episodes for S3 and they chose to completely squander some of them. Infuriating.

Speaking of Cosmos, he was just kind of there. I fail to see why they introduced him and then brought him back if they weren't really going to do anything interesting with him.

I think their treatment of Schloder is extremely fucked up. In S2, they brought him back just to use him for a laugh in the shitty Fairmaestro episode, and now they only brought him back for a couple silly scenes again. I'm going to turn into the Joker. He was one of the best human characters on the show. Genuinely one of my favorite characters overall. The way they've ignored him and turned him into a joke AFTER HE WATCHED HIS SISTER DIE is just disrespectful. It's bad writing.

The whole plot with Isabel was.......... It was something. The way she totally evaporated as a character after the reveal sure sucks. I expected there to be some hint that she really did like Robby even if she was just pretending to be human, but nah. Nah, forget about it.

There were a lot of little moments like that where I thought they were going somewhere interesting with something, but then it went nowhere. For instance, I thought that the Terrans might have been messing up the drive-in theater experience for Robby and Isabel on purpose because they were secretly jealous of Robby spending time with someone other than family. But nope! They're all just THAT incompetent now!

Dude, I'm so tired of them making Jawbreaker look like an out-and-out idiot. I'm so tired of them making the others be mean to him for no reason. It feels like the writers actually just... don't like him? Or at least they don't understand him.

My biggest problem is with the treatment of the Decepticons. They literally just... shipped them off to space? Are they just gone now? I honestly want this show to get cancelled at this point, but I'll also be mad if the show officially ends with the Decepticons just leaving.

Remember in S1 when Dot said that there are no bad Decepticons? Remember that great episode with Tarantulas? Remember Hashtag's heartfelt moments with Starscream? ...And now she's literally stabbing him in the back?? I refuse to believe that she would do that. I think there is a very valuable lesson to be made about how maybe it's not worth giving a person another chance after they've betrayed your trust multiple times, but I don't think that's something the writers were thinking about here. It feels like S1 wanted to redeem Starscream. S2/3 does not. The S1 writers wouldn't have given up on him the way the S2 writers have.

It feels like they were totally stumped about what to do with Starscream in this season, so they kept him locked inside the Titan. That's crazy. lmao I wrote a fic where Soundwave suggests that they should look for Skyfire, someone who actually stands a chance of redeeming him. It was just a small part of a much larger megasound fic, but if I can come up with something like that off the top of my head, I don't know why these writers struggled so much. I'm sure that Starscream fans out there have come up with much better plots for him in the ES universe. (I'm going to assume that they were told that they had to keep the Decepticons as villains. Which you can do! While still making them sympathetic like they were in S1! You can do that!)

This is the part of this rant where I feel the need to say that if you liked S1 of ES, you should write whatever kinds of fics you want and ignore S2/3 at your leisure. If you think something sucks, you don't have to acknowledge it. We can fix it ourselves. I truly believe that popular fanon can overwhelm this shitshow. If enough people say "Actually, Starscream WAS redeemed", that can be our reality.

Soundwave is barely a character at this point, which sucks because he's my favorite character. It seems pretty obvious to me that his feelings of betrayal in S1 came from the fact that he was always so loyal to Megatron. The S2/3 writers seem totally uninterested in examining that at all. We got no meaningful interactions between them. Nothing.

S1 Breakdown and S3 Breakdown are different characters. They actually had the audacity to walk back his S1 character development. And for what? He could have joined the Autobots in this season, but nah.

We simply did not need the Quintessons, but if they had to be there, the Decepticons should have been helping the Autobots fight them. Like, I'm pretty sure a natural trajectory from S1 would have included the Autobots rehabilitating the Decepticons and then fighting a common enemy together to further build trust. That feels like the spirit of S1 to me.

I feel like the status of Cybertron's condition is something that should have been completely left a mystery. If they had to reveal anything about it, they should have saved it until the very end where everyone (including the now-reformed Decepticons!) decide that they're going to stay on Earth even if returning to Cybertron is possible.

Idk how to end this. I'm sure that I'll just keep thinking of more things that bothered me.

Edit: Already thought of more. Jesus Christ... I like Prowl. I don't think this was a terrible rendition of him. But I don't think he added anything meaningful to the show. Again, I'm going to assume that they were told that they had to add a new Autobot for the sake of making toys or something. But why are you going to add a character if they don't add anything to the overarching plot? He literally existed just to give us a ship that would be used to get rid of the Decepticons so the writers wouldn't have to worry about what they would do with them during the Quintesson battle. Especially infuriating when you consider what I said about how they should've been helping the Autobots fight them. Like, we saw this in S1... We know that the Decepticons WOULD help in a fight... That wouldn't be out of character for them... God, this shit is so ass.

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I've thought about this a lot, too. Considering the fact that Demyx seems to be increasingly more important the longer we go without seeing him, I feel like his name must be something important. There are only a few choices that really stand out as possibilities to me.

Demyx: That's just his name. In Japanese, his name is spelled and pronounced the same as the musical term "demix", which is like the opposite process of mastering, breaking a song down into its component parts (like a whole person becoming a Nobody and Heartless.) The Nobody is the demix, the whole person is the master. Get it? ha...

Demy: Alternate spelling of the Latin word "demi", which means "half." Possibly referring to his status as a Nobody.

X: His name was just X to start with and Xemnas added the prefix demy- to it. (Meaning "half X" or "half of X.") There's an X in the title of KHX and an X on the black box. Possible contender for MoM's real name. It was never explained why Xehanort became obsessed with the letter X to begin with, soooo...

Meyd: Pronounced like "meido" in Japanese, the word for underworld/afterlife. Possible reference to Quadratum. Would also kinda make sense with him making his first appearance in the Underworld.

Medy: Two letters away from "Melody." This part feels like a stretch to me now, but there's another version of the X called Chi Rho which sounds like "ro." Lo and Ro are essentially the same in Japanese. So if you rearrange Demyx's name to be Mexdy, it can be said like Melody.

Superbia: Like Luxu, his name as a Nobody might be totally irrelevant if he's MoM. "X Superbia" is written on the black box, so Superbia is another strong contender for MoM's real name.

I really doubt any name that doesn't originate from English, Japanese, or Latin. It always could be something totally made up that doesn't mean anything and doesn't originate from anything, but that would be kinda disappointing at this point.

If it's not one of these, I think I'll be really surprised...

so has anyone figured out what the fuck demyx's real name is supposed to be, or is that just going to be a mystery that we never solve? bc like, i have spent SO MUCH TIME trying to figure out what it is.

"demy" is the only one that even vaguely sounds like a real name, but i think that's waaay too similar to his organization name to be the case. they always shuffle the letters around, not just tack it onto the end. but any other possible combination is just gibberish.

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I thought this fic was doing really well and then it's like it fell off a cliff. I guess everyone else must be posting their fics after seeing the movie now, too. 😅

Anyway, here's some post-TF One slice of life featuring megasound and baby Ravage. Pls enjoy. ♥

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I noticed that no one had written a fic where Earthspark Megatron and Soundwave get back together, so I did it myself. Divorce is over. (Please be mindful of the rating and tags. CH6 is the one you'll want to skip if you aren't into that. But it's my specialty, so I hope you enjoy.)

Shoutout to @zehecatl for encouraging me to give the show another try. I started watching from ep8 as suggested and ended up watching 24 episodes in one day. Yeah, you could say I liked it.

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silence, traitor

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Not to be a party pooper, but that line from Demyx wasn't even in the Japanese version. English version totally made it up.

did you guys know that Xigbar doesn't give enough shits about Demyx to give him a nickname