#lord of the castle [ marluxia ]

[puffballcat]

posting an image from the Vexen/Even album on my phone everyday-day 13

Art by Shiro Amano from the Second Breath concert pamphlet.

[aethergate]

that was your best try at toxic? i thought it was just boring.

[lifeneedsasoundtrack]

Throwback Song of the Day: January 29, 2021

Yoko Shimomura: Lord of the Castle

[ajdrawshq]

WAIT I FORGOT THEY ACTUALLY RELEASED THE 1.5 AND 2.5 KH ALBUMS.......

[astrxealis]

kingdom hearts ost... you are so so so insane... i will always remember you...

[dearlyarchived]

“    when your life ends,    the flowers scatter.    &.    then,    what next?    what next?    what next?   ”

@lestoria​,    for hotaru.    ♡  *    wi(l)d-screen baroque.

[beautiful-boy-bracket]

WELCOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL BOY BRACKET

lets start with the minor character section (both sections are in this post), where we have 32 characters handpicked from your submissions by me personally. they are as follows:

Shinjiro Nozomi from Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear

Xiao Yin from Dislyte

Cherry (Kaoru Sakurayashiki) from Sk8 The Infinity

Kashima Yuu from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Argalia from Library Of Ruina

Haku from Spirited Away

Mytho from Princess Tutu

Emrys from The Hero's Journey

Magnus Chase from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series

Kusuriuri from Mononoke, Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales

Kai Satou from Your Turn To Die

Santa from Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

Abi from Akatsuki no Yona

Ramuda from Hypnosis Microphone

Ronald from Jackson's Diary

Ryuji Ayukawa from Blue Period

Yuuya Sakazaki from Hatoful Boyfriend

Cure Infini from HUGtto Precure

Richard from Tales of Graces

Gero Akoya from Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!

Elpizo from Mega Man Zero 2

YiGuang from My Vow To My Liege

Raikou Shimizu from Nabari No Ou

Lio Fotia from Promare

Aurelius from Royal Alchemist

Yuliy Jirov from Sirius the Jaeger

Mochizuki Yukimitsu from Skate Leading Star

Yuri Lowell from Tales Of Vesperia

Lord Golden, aka The Fool, from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb

Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet

Epel Fermier from Twisted Wonderland

Valimer from Women of Xal

some of these names may be misspelled, which i will find out when googling them again to save their images; fault lies with their submitters /lh

as almost 3/4 of these characters have only gotten one submission each, the minor bracket is not seeded, and the matchups will be randomized

now for the major bracket! as this one is possible to seed, i present you with...

the round one matchups in the major bracket will be:

Howl Jenkins Pendragon from Howl's Moving Castle vs Artemis Fowl from the Artemis Fowl series

Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender vs Izaya Orihara from Durarara!!

Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu from The World Ends With You vs Gerry Keay from The Magnus Archives

Kurapika from Hunter X Hunter vs Lan Wangji from Mo Dao Zu Shi | The Untamed

Alucard from Castlevania vs Aaravos from The Dragon Prince

Legolas Greenleaf from Lord Of The Rings vs Vash The Stampede from Trigun Stampede

Taako from The Adventure Zone vs Albedo from Genshin Impact

Leonardo Hamato from Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs Andromeda Shun from Saint Seya

Dorian Gray from The Picture Of Dorian Gray vs Yuri Plisetsky from Yuri!!! On Ice

Gunpowder Tim from The Mechanisms vs Affogato Cookie from Cookie Run

Klavier Gavin from Ace Attorney vs Marluxia from Kingdom Hearts

Mettaton EX from Undertale vs Chuuya Nakahara from Bungou Stray Dogs

Link from The Legend Of Zelda vs Essek Thelyss from Critical Role

Angel Devil from Chainsaw Man vs Kian Stone from Just Roll With It

Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club vs Yuri Leclerc from Fire Emblem

Wallace from Pokemon vs Sesshomaru from InuYasha

[izunias-meme-hole]

One Villainous Scene - The Lord Of Castle Oblivion

Ah, Chain of Memories. In spite of the imperfect card based combat, this game was a nice sequel to the OG Kingdom Hearts, purely because of the story and the official introduction of Organization XIII, or at least 6 of its members. Still out of all six members, I found myself enjoying the Big Bad, the androgynous grim reaper, and Lord of Castle Oblivion himself, Marluxia. Outside of the charming and ruthless Axel, this man was enjoyable to watch.

At the start of the game, he has his hood up and acts like a full on enigma rather than someone actively trying to hurt Sora, but when we see him again his face is shown and he's outright threatening Vexen using his status as Castle Oblivion's lord without raising his voice. From there, we slowly see that this man is not only crueler than he lets on, he gaslit Namine into helping him turn Sora into a weapon via memory erasure, just so he can take over The Organization. All of this done by a tyrant with a graceful and beautiful exterior.

So by the time we reach the finale, everything we've witnessed from Marluxia's character comes through. He starts off with such self-assurance, totally confident he'll achieve his victory that he suggests that Namine should destroy Sora's heart entirely so he can just remake him from the ground up. However he's displeased when Namine refuses to do so, only to be caught off guard by Sora telling her that it would be alright. Marluxia calls Sora a fool before explaining exactly what having his heart destroyed would entail, until he is attacked by the Riku Replica, who has basically figured out that his life is a lie. Yet despite knowing this, Repliku is still willing to protect Namine.

Marluxia, the calm and graceful mastermind behind this entire scheme, gets the closest he could ever be to being truly angry. He sees Sora's desire to still hold onto his bond with Namine to be foolish. He claims that the boy is shackling his heart to a "chain of memories born of lies," and is casting aside his hearts freedom. Then, with such unbridled arrogance he calls Sora's heart weak, and has full confidence that he couldn't be beaten by this weak little fool.

Then we discover that he wasn't truly there, but rather a copy of himself was. However the real Marluxia was listening in, and if Namine wasn't going to destroy Sora's heart, he'd do it himself.

So, Sora goes to confront the lord inside of his quarters, and confronts the truly mixture of elegance and ugliness that is Marluxia. First he faces as a totally different breed of monster from a heartless, and once that form is defeated, Marluxia is back to his normal self, but now both he and Sora are in a vast void, atop a gigantic airship with a near-angelic guardian standing right behind him. He uses everything in his arsenal to try and take down Sora, and in the end... this bastard is still defeated. Then whatever remaining grace he had just fades away as he dies SCREAMING.

At the end of the day, despite all of the flair, all of his mystique from the beginning of the game, and his calm and composed attitude, Marluxia was just a power-hungry monster. Yet despite being a simple villain, motive-wise, he's effective in all the right ways, and that makes himself unforgettable.

[meiloorun-notthefruit]

Marluxia put Sora to sleep with a hand motion in the Kingdom of Corona I might be looking at it too deeply and it literally could just be the Castle Oblivion powers and the control he had over Sora while he was Lord of the castle. His words to Sora before he knocks him out are “you always were a such a sound sleeper” and then Sora keels over, while there’s a distinct noise ringing in the background. I feel like it sounds just like the noise in Dream Drop Distance whenever Sora and Riku drop/switch places in gameplay. I love the attention to detail but I also have the suspicion it might be something more…. *eyes the 500 page Sleeping Realm Theory*

[rosie-kairi]

Other possibility of the Lauriam and Ven travel together AU so like a different branch if you will.

I personally love the theory that Kairi's grandma is master ava (I also make Lea Kairi's older brother and a keyblade wielder already I love tragic siblings what can I say) so when Lauriam gets blasted off he ends up in Radiant Garden and meets up with his old master.

Ava has tried to live a peaceful quiet life and so when she has a daughter she purposely didn't make her a keyblade wielder, teach her about light and darkness or the keyblade war. She wanted her daughter and by extension grandson to live in peace. However things go wrong when she's pregnant with Kairi and goes into labor. Her pure light attracts all sorts or heartless and darkness trying to snuff Kairi's light before she's born. Ava has no choice but to fend off the attack leaving a 12 year old Lea to be midwife and deliver his sister. Unfortunately the strain of the attack and darkness trying to extinguish light means his moms light get taken instead. Her heart passes moments later. Ava blames herself, had she not let fear take hold in her heart perhaps her daughter would have been able to fend off the darkness and not leave her children orphaned. After checking over kairi Ava realizes she's one of the 7 pure lights and realizes in despair she'll be hunted down by darkness. With little choice she tells Lea about her past and begins training him do he can protect his sister.

Lauriam shows up not long after. He fills Ava in on what's happened and the two start piecing things together. Ava realizes MoM orchestrated all this and she was too blind to see the red flags. She promises to help find Ven and properly train Lauriam.

Lauriam becomes a master in those 4 years and looks high and low for Strelitzia and Ven as well as any of the fore tellers and Xehanort but they all seem to be hidden well. He starts hearing rumors of 3 keyblade wielders traveling the worlds and tries to track them down but he's just one step behind.

Lea is getting ready to take his own mark of mastery, he and Lauriam have formed a close friendship, he remind him of Ven and watching Lea take care of Kairi reminds him of being his own sisters caretaker.

By the time Lauriam makes it to the keyblade graveyard the battle is over. Frustration builds he doesn't understand why all his loved ones are out of his reach.

Over the next year he hears Lea and Isa talk about a girl and hope flares that maybe it's skuld. But before he can properly investigate xehanort plunges the world into darkness. Ava teller Lauriam to take the kids and run while she holds off the heartless but even he knows she'll be overwhelmed. He tells Lea and Isa to take Kairi (sadly their 3 fates are sealed) and run but he ends up running into Luxu, same thing happens as before Luxu has been keeping an eye on Lauriam waiting for the right moment and now here it is. He doesn't beat him in a fight Lauriam is much stronger here but he leads Lauriam to think Ven is tied up in the basement. He desperately goes to find him but it's a trap and gets attacked by terranort. As he's becoming a nobody all he can think about is how no matter how strong he gets it's never enough.

Marluxia has only one name in his head that he can remember, Ventus. He doesn't know why being around Roxas is familiar and painful. Being at CO however ironically stirs up his forgotten memories and while he can't find Ven hidden in the chamber he just knows he's there and suddenly understands why Xemnas sent half of them here. So Marluxia purposely plays the villain he doesn't trust himself to protect Ven this time and thinks being killed will be the better option. Sleeping away Ven's heart inside Sora responds to Marluxia making Sora very confused because he hates Marluxia but he also has a deep longing to be with the lord of the castle. Marluxia's final moments are praying Ven and the others are safe and silently apologizes for all his failures.

He has zero memories at the keyblade graveyard it's not until his second death does he remember and thanks sora for "protecting him when he could not" once again confusing sora.

MoM is watching all this and is like hmmmm that Ven and Lauriam maaaaaay be of use to the next phase of my plans. (He's such an asshole).

Basically what if Lauriam went to RG met up with Ava and even though he gets stronger it's still not enough and he's still chasing ghosts and being a step behind just a minute too late to make a difference.

Anon, if you're going to hurt me like this, I'd much prefer you come to my house and shoot me directly rather than torture me psychologically over tumblr asks.

(That is to say, this is great keep it coming)

[chryzuree]

L for the letter thing :0

lovefool // the cardigans

l o v e // glee cast

losing my religion // glee cast

lobotomy? you barely know me // townhouse

lord of the castle -marluxia- // yoko shimomura

[aethergate]

( beating you to death with card tricks ) I SUMMON POT OF GREED, WHICH ALLOWS TO ME TO DRAW 3 ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK, WHICH I USE TO SUMMON POT OF GREED ,

[violetstar-writes]

Everyone else: It's Bunny Day in Animal Crossing today

My weeb ass:

[lovelyjasmari]

Behold! The holy trinity of my Organization thirst! XD

[kh13]

Ever wondered what Marluxia's theme might sound like if he were in a pokemon game? KH13′s !4misettie has a take on it with their Midi remix of Lord of the Castle!