#kingdom hearts novel

[mythicalartistx]

Repliku is Riku with No Filter

All these Riku Replicas (Repliku, Dark Riku) is basically Riku with Riku's feelings, his gay feelings but NO FILTER

AND IT'S FUNNY.

It's kinda like showing the data boys as Soriku because it's still technically them and it came from their thoughts and feelings.

HE JUST BLURTS EVERYTHING OUT and doesn't care that he kinda tells Sora everything, but poor Sora doesn't realize all the time

I saw some Japanese translations and Dark Riku is similar to Repliku.

I remember Repliku making me happy because of that one line

[benevolenterrancy]

(Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett) I think Shang Qinghua and Ponder Stibbons should have tea and compare notes about somehow accumulating so much behind-the-scenes power by doing menial jobs no one else wants that they could basically run the show if they wanted...

meanwhile we have Shen "meh good enough" Qingqiu

[haunted-xander]

No swearing in front of the baby

[holleighgram]

Kill your target or draw 3.

[its-raining-cats]

dogshit timeline: khux and dark road are removed from all app stores AND square copyright strikes those who upload the cutscenes on youtube

shit timeline: ux and dr are removed from all app stores, but unofficial youtube uploads are still intact

bad timeline: still unplayable, but the cutscenes are put on the official kh youtube (the fandub remains superior)

whatever timeline: games are restored to app stores in single-player format, all returns to how it once was

decent timeline: original cutscenes are included as movies in future game packages, similar to days and re:coded

good timeline: decent timeline but they get official dubs

great timeline: cgi cutscene movie remakes (the full days treatment, back cover tie-in)

best timeline: playable remakes of the single player campaigns (like CoM) that are actually fun to play, giving them the main-line installment that they deserve

ultimate timeline: said main line installments somehow tie to kairi and aqua training in scala ad caelum and/or ventus lauriam and elrena, further connecting them to the current narrative

probable timeline: chirithy storybook recaps in the next game that 6 people watch and they make no sense

[avale-reves]

just feel that repurposing khux assets for fangames would be something very doable and i dont get why no one has tried lol

[daily-rikukingdomhearts]

On the topic of DDD, Joshua and Riku interaction? (Just finished a DDD playthrough myself haha.)

He said the name as if it were nothing.

AS IF IT WERE NOTHING.

I'm glad you finished your playthrough! I'm still going through mine and it's Killing Me.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts II Official Strategy Guide (Source) Sora's Forms

[morbethgames]

February 14th, 2024 Update!

Hey all, I'm gonna be trying to do this weekly now. So, quick update on things, first and foremost the book as that's what most of you come here for! I am 11k words in and about a little halfway done with the path that lets you participate in the next part with Lance and Alvarez. There is going to be quite a bit of variation in how a PC can choose to approach this scene; those Combat Stats exist for a reason!

As for things going on with Patreon, I have decided on a schedule!

Patreon content will release on Tuesdays and Thursdays!

I am going to attempt to stick to that schedule as consistently as possible, and I'm off to a good start on that! Part 1 of The Bureau Audiobook went up today and part 2 is going up on Thursday. Not to mention the small short story introducing the character Buck Marcellis went up last Thursday! The story is around 2.5k words long, if I remember correctly. An extra little thing going up today as well is the Poll to see what Interactive Fiction I will be reading as an audiobook next. That's right:

You will get to pick the next audiobook reading!

I've gotten a bunch of different author's consent to make audiobooks of their work, so anyone who is a subscriber to the Patreon, you will have a direct say in what Audiobook goes up alongside the one for The Bureau! Options include things like:

Kingdoms and Empires

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - An affair of the heart

When Life Gives You Lemons

Honor Amongst Thieves

The Operative: Fires of Revolution

Defiled Hearts: The Barbarian

Along with a couple of others that are on the list for possibilities!

Over the next few months, I will be more active for sure, and you can expect the update for The Bureau to come out before the end of March (I hope). Thank you all so much for sticking with me, and I hope to see you over on the Patreon, which, thanks to hyperlinks, you can conveniently find

RIGHT HERE! <-

The Forum Page for "The Bureau"

The demo for the game itself!

Thank you all so much for reading this update and for sticking with me and continuing to do so for the future! You are all awesome! Also big shoutouts to @when-life-gives-you-lemonssss, @kingdoms-and-empires, @theoperativeif, @leoneliterary, @doriana-gray-games, @defiledheartsblog for giving me permission to read their work on my silly little attempt at Patreon content; you guys are awesome!

Stay Brilliant,

-Vi

[ruporas]

revisiting a memory

[peregrine-falcon]

I'm too tired to draw anything specifically for this day so here's this piece that I started a while back and then finished for soriku week a few days ago

[mythicalartistx]

KH2 Kairi is actually decent

I wish they do more with Kairi. For the little she's in, she seems like a cool character. I really appreciated and liked her in KH2. That's when I felt she had the most part in things.

I felt that she actually does things herself and takes part in the ending battle.

When Sora was surrounded by Heartless and it's way too much, Kairi jumps down and starts fighting with him with her keyblade.

When she was being chased by Axel for leverage, (that way Sora would go to her and Axel would perhaps turn Sora into a heartless, so he could see Roxas) Kairi gave him a chase for awhile.

She managed to outrun him for awhile and even went into a dark portal to get away. Axel himself remarked that not many would do that. Of course she did get caught but still I feel like that's pretty good.

Then she was trying to escape on her own too when she found Riku. That's when he gave her a keyblade to use.

Before Sora realized who Riku was, Riku was acting shy and didn't want to see him while looking like Ansem (SOD) along with the fact he kinda caused bad things to happen.

Riku wanted to leave and he kept pretending he was just a figure from the darkness. This is the moment where Kairi grabs Riku's arm and is like Riku don't go. There she is like, why is he acting like this, being shy and embarrassed.

She probably is thinking, why is he acting like this, we're all finally together again. Sora is surprised, but she pulls them together so everyone could realize it's their friend.

In the manga, she mentions this:

"Geez, when's you get to be like this?"

She obviously didn't know what happened to him or that Sora had his memories reformed and everyone almost forgot him and Riku had to deal with saving him and hurting Roxas (Riku is shown to feel compassion and remorse towards nobodies), along with the fact on the darkness he used and what he caused in the first game.

However, she gets him to stay and she tells Sora who he is. I felt like that was really big for her to try to reconnect her friends again.

That's the only time I'd probably say I like that she was able to connect all of their friendships again.

Honestly, I feel like she should try to be her own person outside her friends too because while the three of them are all friends, she ends up being pushed aside a lot. There she wasn't.

She was able to fight and defend Riku's back. Kairi was able to hold her own ground. But after KH2, it's not the same especially in KH3 which is her next role (DDD ending doesn't count nor does BBS)

KH3

In KH3, she could have come in the game much sooner. I feel like the training part was kind of something she shouldn't have done. I mean yeah she needs training, but couldn't they have her do that when Riku and Sora were in Dream Worlds?

Why couldn't they decide to train her then? Is it because the stakes were high when they realized Xehanort had gathered a new organization for his vessels?

I feel like they could have gotten her a lot sooner. Maybe even not train as long in the game? Remember at the end of DDD Sora goes to see the dream eaters and is there for a while, maybe during that time she could have and once Sora is done with seeing Hercules, Kairi could have helped Ienzo and the others with reviving Namine.

She could have helped some other way like how Riku and Mickey was searching for Aqua.

Sora was traveling to get stronger and gain the ability of waking.

Ienzo and the ex organization members were studying things to help Roxas and figure out what the enemy is trying to plan.

Kairi could have helped them or even helped with Namine return instead.

But she just gets pushed to the side. While her conversation with Lea is fine and shows that he is sorry for what he has done and sees Xion in her, that could have been in that beginning and only then. Why does she have to train for that long?

I feel like actually going to worlds and helping is better.

Then in the battle at the end she is absolutely kind of useless. Like she isn't holding up as much in KH2, of course there will be stronger people but I don't know... I feel like she could have kept going and trying. Then she gets taken by Xemnas, until Xehanort destroys her.

Thus she becomes a damsel in distress and a plot device again. Sora saves her and then he is launched off to the Quadratum.

And her being a plot device is one of the exact reasons I think she should be her own person outside of her friends, Riku and Sora.

She could do so much more as a character without them because the story is about Sora and Riku among other things. They are the main focus, they are in every game (besides mobiles since those are in the past) and are even focused more on in birth by sleep— a game where they aren't the main characters. They have greater screen time than her. It's still little, but it's more.

Hopefully since in MoM she is going to train under Aqua, it will show some interesting development of a character for her.

She's only in the main numbered games really, and it seems she might not be in the next installment. However, I really hope we get more on her or more of a story relating to her. Because her backstory has potential, her character has potential. It's just not used enough.

Even in parts of the novel and manga that I've seen, she seems almost better there. It's probably because she's not the focus.

But hopefully in the future she will be more

[miramelindamusings]

More sketches for the Rikai adventure/search for Sora AU :) I’ve been watching alot of Disney’s output in the 60s/70s and I’ve really enjoyed them! So here is Robin Hood and sketches of what Riku and Kairi could possibly look like and their disguises for the archery tournament. It could be fun to see them disguised as Lord and Lady but it might be funnier and cooler to see Riku as a jester and Kairi as an archer in a white mage robe like Garnet in FFIX! I also like the idea that once Alan-a-Dale heard their story he would sing songs about Sora, Kairi, and Riku. I also think Goliath from Gargoyles would be so cool to see! Maybe he could be a joint summon for Kairi and Riku or perhaps he could be in a certain world (maybe even Quadratum since Gargoyles takes place in New York City, he could be found in Shibuya or something?). Anyways, I’d love to hear people’s ideas and I hope everyone enjoys the holidays :)!

[frankencanon]

The one negative when it comes to watching asian dramas that were based off of novels is that often times things won't make sense and you just have to accept that.

Due to budget or time constraints or censorship laws, etc etc etc, things will inevitably have to be changed, modified, or left out, and often times things that would have made perfect sense in the novel will either be left unexplained in the drama, or be modified in such a way that it no longer makes any sense.

Probably one of the most obvious/well-known examples of this would be in The Untamed, when Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji to lend him his headband to use as a blindfold.

I don't think I need to explain why that sounded absolutely ridiculous to drama-only fans (myself included).

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Asters Bracket !

Round 2 Poll 2

[justanaspiringsomeone]

More Unhinged Interactions

Ft. Sora and his big bro, Ais

https://twitter.com/g4teway31/status/1733305574052270147