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I wrote a little song about unexpectedly waking up in a place you thought you'd helped destroy. lyrics under the cut

hello my lover x3 how long has it been? while I was sleeping and secret-keeping what things have you seen? was grass always this green?

these old jackets fit too well it's like we never went to hell

and oh my lover x3 what do we do now? if it's repenting and reinventing I don't think I know how I've lived two lives too many now

these stones, these walls that make this town I remember the day we knocked them down dark clouds, bright eyes and sheets of flame no survivors, no-one left to place the blame why's it all the same?

and so my lover x3 can we be happy here? with no-one hurting and time reverting can our minds be cleared? or should we still be feared?

that party line was always fake I know we all had hearts to break

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I haven't had any desire to make fanart or fic in ages but the other day I wrote a song about aeleus/dilan adjusting to being back in radiant garden... I guess I'll post it at some point? haven't given much of a thought to fansongs since homestuck lol

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GIFTOBER 2023

DAY FOUR: EYES

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (2012)

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Imagine being Yozora and one day you just wake up and you’re some guy’s DeviantArt lovechild OC. That would be wild-

(Said “guy” being Tetsuya Nomura)

Credit + Individual drawings below

(Disclaimer: The character, Soku, is not mine, and the reference I used to draw her was by xxpunkgrlxx on DeviantArt. I just thought I should give credit, as it felt wrong not to, but I’m also very sorry if this was something you wanted to bury forever. I do love the paopu hair clip a lot, though, and the outfit as a whole is a very cute and well thought out combination!)

Soku:

Yozora:

We should bring back the “Xx_username_xX” thing with names, it was cool af-

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thinking about a kh3 au where aqua is norted anti-d at the beginning instead of at the end of the first act and uses the darkness to escape the RoD

with her newfound freedom, the first thing she does is go straight to castle oblivion to make sure ven's body is still safe, and then when that's confirmed, she turns her sights to tracking down his heart.

somehow she needs to find out where it is but i haven't figured that part out yet. in any case, it won't go over well for sora.

i like this version of events bc a) aqua has more agency and b) sora isn't beating up aqua to cure her depression, he's fighting for his life against a deadly threat.

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to me marluxia and larxene are like hey love you've been forcefemming me for years now and i really enjoy it but i'm starting to think i may need to drop the "boy" part from this "femboy" thing and larxene's like. i thought you already did that. what the fuck

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i love love love ansem but a lot of it is kinda in spite of how he's written and not because of it.

now, most of this is as a consequence of the franchise simply growing far outside of kh1 and ansem being shifted to a secondary antagonist as a result, but the change in his writing is still stark.

he's always been a darkness obsessed weirdo, but pretty much every game after 1 treats him as only this, or otherwise kind of relegating him to a physical manifestation of riku's trauma. and like, that's fine, he plays the role well.

but in kh1 there's this...mystique, and regal bearing, and a distinct intellectualism around him that kind of gets lost in later depictions. billy zane's performance is equally as dramatic as richard epcar's, but a lot more toned down. (though to be fair to epcar, he seems to adjust closer to this performance from DDD onward.)

he fairly whispers at times, a lot of the power in his voice comes from the restraint and controlled use of volume rather than just kinda. yelling all the time, which he does more of later.

you can tell he was and still is a researcher. he's observant and patient and even cordial, though condescending. it comes across less as uncomplicated malice and more as him just being upset that no one else grasps his magnum opus, no one else can understand him, everyone else is just /beneath/ him.

in later games, his taunts are just centered around "succumbing to darkness" and pretty much every line circles that same drain. but in kh1, it's more like he's gloating about his own superior understanding of the universe, of which darkness is but a piece.

like, just compare his lines from KH1 with his later lines. Here's KH1:

Yes he's throwing out his Darkness Lines, but I can't imagine DDD Ansem saying "perhaps this will enlighten you" lmao. Here is DDD and KH3:

i think a lot of it is because kh1 ansem was supposed to legitimately be a fallen sage king who went mad from The Horrors and like. i will die on the hill of that being a way better character than splitting him between xehanort and ansem the wise imposter. in my ideal world that plot point was never erased. anyway - they still could've kept that cool, cruel intelligence in him a little more.

to their credit, KH3 does kinda backpedal and restore some of his KH1 personality - as perviously stated, Epcar cranks back his performance, and they even allow ansem to dabble in science again with his discussion on subject x (wow!) it's not perfect, he still gets pigeonholed into Guy Yelling About Darkness for half his scenes, but it was at least nice to see him with his original personality peeking through before he got banished into the void.

idk how to end this. ansem slaps if you're kh1pilled as much as i am. he should've been the one and only ansem. mad king truther over here.

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what if I lived for you and put my life in your hands and allowed you to store a shred of your very essence inside me because you promised to mark me as your inheritor. but actually unbeknownst to you the power you have promised me was once mine and I have been watching and guiding you unseen for your whole life and my plans and responsibilities are older and greater than your or anyone could truly fathom. and we were both boys gross old men.

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he didn't need to say all that though.

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There's never any normal goddamn merch for this franchise.

Sure these will go perfectly in my house where I'll sit on my Kingdom Hearts sofa while I drink from my Kingdom Hearts crystal tumbler class while I contemplate my Kingdom Hearts unplayable decorative marble chess set.

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im sorry i don't even go here (yet) but every time i see this panel of falin dungeonmeshi i just think about the can stacking baby representing Our Glorious Autistic Nation

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Xaldin portrait!

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every now and then, i wonder:

between xehanort and braig, whose idea was it to tie MX to a pole with chains? like, of all the ways to fake a hostage situation, why land on that? like i can easily see braig be the one to suggest it, which makes it gut-bustingly hilarious that MX said "yeah great idea" to it, but its even funnier if MX suggested it and braig was like "okay freaky old man! get it i guess"

like i joke a lot that terra just walked in on a Scene between them and they just had to roll with it but no matter how you slice it it's just comedy gold

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where's the repliku saying riku is a sexy guy video. someone please find me the repliku saying riku is a sexy guy video

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thinking about the dilan/luxord mid-kh3 smut fic I never came close to writing the smut for bc the bits I did write were luxord discovering dilan is married and instantly resolving to abandon all attempts at seducing him (too chivalrous to be party to cheating) and then later dilan being like "why did you bring me to your giant pirate ship and give me fancy alcohol if you're not trying to fuck". of course I find polyamory-related misunderstandings to be a key part of my questionable-uses-of-time-magic erotica

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maybe charging my psp and replaying bbs will fix me