#khux spoilers

[melomelod111]

Master…Ava?

“Something doesn’t feel right… maybe it’s just me.”

[fallow-foot]

Just a man and his cat

[mirrists]

ogh khux.............

[rose-madder-gaze]

So near the end It may as well be done, So far from you I may as well be gone.

[endlessskymaster]

It's ironic how we know the name of Luxu's keyblade and yet we know absolutely nothing about the 5 Foreteller's keyblades or what their names are.

[lightandfellowship]

Going a little more in depth on the Strelitzia + Rapunzel parallel...

Strel is known as a reserved girl who doesn't interact with a lot of people and is easily scared, but she desires connection, strength, and independence. Despite her shyness, the people who know her recognize how bright and passionate she is. She watches Player from a distance atop the rooftops of Daybreak Town, but doesn't get the courage to actually approach them until it's too late.

Rapunzel, meanwhile, has had very little social interaction for most of her life, and Mother Gothel has gotten it into her head that the world outside is dangerous and scary. Despite this, Rapunzel wishes she could leave and experience the greater world. She watches the world from atop her tower through a window, her bright and passionate personality hidden behind walls. In contrast to Strel, she gets the courage to pursue her dream before it's too late, and lives.

And if you can compare Strel and Rapunzel, you can also contrast Lauriam and Mother Gothel. Lauriam genuinely loves his sister and wants what's best for her, even encouraging her to be more independent and experience the world on her own without using him as crutch. Meanwhile, Mother Gothel is merely using Rapunzel for her own selfish ends and doesn't care about what's truly best for her, and she manipulates Rapunzel into being completely dependent on her.

Interestingly, when you shift to a Namine + Rapunzel parallel instead (lonely blonde girl locked away and exploited for her magic powers), Lauriam/Marluxia is no longer contrasted with Mother Gothel, and is instead compared, for as Marluxia he is actually no better than her.

And let's not forget the flower, dandelion, and sun (daybreak?) motifs in the world, too.

Really, I think having Marluxia be the Organization member you meet in the Tangled world was a fantastic choice.

[firestorm09890]

“the creatures from that one game used to be children but not many people know because that information is from one of the more obscure pieces of media in the franchise and it’s a very fucked up revelation to have” scale

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

To think that, Ephemer left behind such a huge legacy that we see it even in the present day.   

He founded a city, Scala ad Caelum, that lasted for over 900 years. The keyblade order he also (probably?) started may be reduced to a handful of wielders now but it’s still alive in the form of the Guardians of Light.                    

Master’s Defender was originally Ephemer’s keyblade that was passed down through the generations of keyblade wielders until it came to Eraqus. It later passed onto Aqua who wielded it temporarily in the Realm of Darkness and during the clash between the Guardians of Light and Seekers of Darkness in KH3. She also used it to lock and unlock the Land of Departure.      

Ephemer is the reason that the keyblade wielders and the light survived after the fall of Daybreak Town.

Everything that we’ve seen is largely because of Ephemer.     

[evalikestohyperfixate]

Genuine question. Really inconsequential question really but

Where does Brain live in Scala.

I genuinely want to know?

Is he homeless

Cause of the two shots that we’ve seen of him in ml trailers he is just standing around outside looking pretty and about to cause problems.

Like did Sigurd give him lodgings?

Was he given royalties because of the whole “ephemer is my best friend” thing?

Do these “founders” know about him

Hell are the founders SCARED of him?

That’d be interesting

the founders feeling like their power is being threatened because someone who knew ephemer personally just showed up unconscious one day. Whereas they’re probably just a bunch of cranky mean old people descended from the other people who built scala

[natileroxs]

Been thinking about how when Xemnas and Ansem SoD were recompleted they were recompleted as Terra and old Xehanort. And that got me thinking. What if when Xigbar got recompleted instead of Braig-Luxu, it was like four different people (Brain, Bragi, Braig, and original Luxu)? That would be comedy gold.

That or Luxu heart hotel.

[recusant-s-sigil]

So you know how the card combat system in CoM is never brought up again in the mainline series (non-mobile games)? This got pretty long, so it’ll be under the cut. Spoilers for Union Cross. TLDR: Ven’s presence in Castle Oblivion is what made it have the card system.

According to the 8th of Ansem the Wise’s secret reports in KH2, “[Castle Oblivion] consists of 13 floors above and 12 floors below ground, with the contents of its ‘White Rooms’ transforming in response to its visitor’s memories.” Those memories are etched onto cards, created by sampling specifically Sora and Riku’s memories. Who is the first person we see create these world cards?

Marluxia, who also teaches Sora how to use the cards to his advantage in combat for some reason. Come to think of it, why does Marluxia show Sora how to use the cards? In-universe, I mean. And how do the CO-assigned Org members know how to use them as well? But I’m getting off-track. We’re here to talk about why the cards are the combat system, not how the characters know how to use it.

Castle Oblivion is a place tied to the Age of Fairytales by its inhabitants, both as the Castle and as the Land of Departure. Ven is from then, as are Marluxia and Larxene, who both end up there. Eraqus is (probably but not confirmed to be) descended from Brain. Xehanort calls the Land of Departure a second home and is also related to a Union Leader, Ephemer. Remember, the contents of the White Rooms reflect the memories of the Castle’s visitors, so what then would happen if someone resided there? Would their memory, no matter if they consciously are aware of it or not, affect the whole castle to such a degree that the combat system reflects that of a bygone era?

Did you know that Kingdom Hearts χ, the browser game, used cards as its combat system? Ever wonder why Flick Rush exists? Dark Road also uses cards in its combat system, though it’s less a game of War and more “hit the enemy with sleights as fast as possible before their turn arrives”.

In Unchained χ and Union Cross, instead of cards, your player character uses Medals, which function basically the same but are exclusive to that specific game. Medals don’t show up anywhere else in the series, unlike cards.

At the end of Union Cross, it’s revealed that the events of Unchained χ were taking place inside a datascape, a digital recreation of the real Daybreak Town. Makes sense, then, that Medals only appear in that specific stretch of time/gameplay. We also discover that Dream Eaters, both Spirits and Nightmares, are actually wielders whose hearts have been kept safe by their Chirithy, transforming it into the technicolor Pokémon ripoffs of Dream Drop Distance. Only makes sense that they’d use cards for Flick Rush in that case, right?

Ever wonder why Luxord’s title is the Gambler of Fate when his attribute is time? Cards and dice, the main weapons he and his subset of Nobodies use, have been associated with fortune-telling since they were invented. Card reading, especially Tarot, are popular forms of attempting to predict the future or find out something important about yourself and others pertaining your/their destiny. But in this series, destiny is never left to chance, meaning no need to gamble. Perhaps Luxord is hoping to game the system while staying within the rules.

Back to world cards. Doesn’t the way they work seem oddly familiar? They use the memory of a person to project a world for them to interact with within a single location. Sounds very much like the Book of Prophecies creating worlds from the future it saw (the memory of that future etched in its pages) for wielders to collect Lux from the safety of Daybreak Town, since the actual worlds are too far away to get to besides using a Corridor of Darkness or similar.

I could go into how Skuld, Sigurd, and the Dark Road Norse Name crew connect to this (and possibly speculate about Sigurd’s role in Missing-Link), as well as the strange pods in CO/the Mansion and the significance of the Master’s Defender Keyblade being the one used to lock away the LoD but that’s more research than I could possibly stomach right now so I’ll save that analysis for another time. Besides, that’s more related to fate in general and not specifically cards so it’s probably best to keep that separate anyways.

If you made it this far, I want to thank you for reading! This is something I’ve had on my mind for a while and it feels great to finally get it down on paper (or rather, in a post).

[heartkade]

Thinking about that one theory of Luxu taking Brain’s body and sending his heart to the future. If true, it shows how important Brain is & how caring Luxu as a person is. (thoughts continued below)

We already know Luxu was super worried and cared about the Dandelions from the beginning. Throughout all the events he watched over their safety.

But he didn’t just watch, he directly involved himself with them (when he shouldn’t have, thus making him the traitor)

Imagine how Luxu felt when the first Dandelion he actually gets to speak to is during the apocalypse… and it’s a kid who says he’s sacrificing himself to make sure at least his friends can live on in the new world.

Luxu throughout his observing must’ve been very impressed by Brain, who put all the puzzle pieces together and remained coolheaded in the face of extreme danger. Because he did not want this kid to die.

So going by the theory, right then & there he yoinked Brain’s body and sent his heart to the future, where Brain could be spared from the destruction, be recompleted and given the chance to live.

Bc realistically, Brain would have likely Not survived the total collapse minutes later without a lifeboat.

And Luxu’s personal thoughts on self-sacrifice has persisted to present day (the below text is from his official character file set during that one KH3 Olympus scene)

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Luxu kept the naming pattern of his subsequent vessels really similar from what we can tell, too (Bragi, Braig).

I really doubt he selects only people who have the letters B-R-A-I in their names by coincidence. I think he names his vessels purposefully this way. What if it’s to remember Brain?

With Luxu going through so many lifetimes, maybe he wanted to ensure Brain’s memory was never forgotten in all of those years. Maybe this contributed to Brain’s later revival in Scala, since to be recompleted, there must be a person at the destination who remembers you.

Though since Luxu still does this, perhaps it’s really in honor of Brain? The Dandelion from the age of fairytales, who was his first vessel kickstarting a very long saga. Because without Brain’s sharp thinking, the Dandelion leaders wouldn’t have escaped & the current world of Kingdom Hearts as we know it… would not exist.

We also don’t know if those two met again (maybe they created a plan) and what other major stuff Brain does in Missing-Link! I can’t wait to find out!

[ok4ru]

OH SH*T-

[keykidpilipili]

Okay but you know what would absolutely destroy me? A dandelion time capsule started by Ephemer then fostered by Player 2 and Blaine: letters written by our favourite weed for himself but he still wishes to share, a sparring key worn by years of use, seashells so they can carry the ocean they used to share wherever they go, a promise that even if they never meet again the love was there.

[endlessskymaster]

At least Gula asks us this before fighting us.

[starry-907]

very loose redraw of a scene from khux feat. my keykid

i've been rotating redrawing this for a bit, so i decided to finally do so to practice some posing and such.

screenshot that i refrenced under the cut:

yeah when i said it was a loose redraw i really meant loose, haha