#route kingdom

[420over69days]

I want you for a lifetime-

[pianokantzart]

The Mushroom Kingdom The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

[cursedthing]

.the void calls, what will you do? Will you answer it?

[moeblob]

Demyx (my beloved)

[autismjpg]

i think one of the joys about taz balance is how Griffin could sow seeds early on in the campaign simply because he knew his family and he knew the decisions they’d make when given the opportunity. i always think about how it was Crystal Kingdom when Griffin knew that Clint would bite with the parlay system ARCS ahead of them!! he was confident enough to make a point of it!!!! i remember the first time i listened to taz and was so convinced they must have discussed things beforehand because there’s no way griffin could trust the boys to do what he needed them to do but no! he just knows them that well!

[yagatoclan]

there’s a rumor that there’s a new zelda game coming where you can play as zelda and if this rumor is true at all i’m like 80% certain that it’s another hyrule warriors game. probably taking place during the imprisoning war.

[autumn-may]

Vanitas: hehehehe today I will defeat ventus and we will fuse and it’ll be so good. with my darkness powers I’ll definitely win

The live minefield I set up while he was flying around on his stupid little keyblade wave thingy:

[kirby-the-gorb]

[haunted-xander]

Thinking about the parallels between Riku losing himself to darkness because he (believed) his life-long friendship had been broken and replaced and Terra losing himself to darkness because he wanted to protect his friends/friendship more than anything else

[clair-de-lunar-tears]

good thing the bunker exploded, office parties would’ve gotten awkward

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts - Monstro

[sailor-brunette]

I don't give a damn what anyone says! The shoujo/otome/villainess isekai genre is great and I'm so glad it's getting so much attention! And I really hope they give Raeliana and Doctor Elise full adaptations since both those series are completed. Cuz if they don't,there's really no point. Also,looking forward to more of the ones we’re getting and hope we get more.

[avionvadion]

The way I just booked it to Zora’s Domain with four hearts, next to no protection, no paraglider, climbing and ascending like Link’s life depended on it (which it did because yikes), running from monsters, just to see Sidon, only to have my heart shattered.

Only to run wildly some more, climb and ascend some more, eat lots of stamina food, and have it shattered some more. 😭

Jkjk, I’m mostly just like, What???

But Yona seems like a sweetie. I didn’t actually think the devs would have the gall to put a fiancée in for Sidon when that could have just remained an off-screen implication for in future games that he eventually got betrothed and married to continue the royal Zora line. But whattya know!!! They did.

The new statue has me cackling though.

[nuitthegoddess]

Manifesting for episode 7 with a Kingdom hearts references in the mix with Hana and Silver fighting Malleus on the edge of overblotting and goin bananas PFPFfppf

Also silyuu content

[fakesorbet]

smoked cheese was such a perfect antagonist and im so glad of the route they took with him where his actions was stemmed from fear and continuing to live in a fake world that never moved on or faced the reality of golden cheese grief . smoked cheese wanted to continue the cycle of fear and hiding , building new things to further dig themselves into said lie and the truth of the realty , and golden cheese was able to break out of it . LIKE PEAK ???!???

[torgawl]

can we talk about sukuna and rika and why the king and queen of curses having a dispute is also narratively fitting? if sukuna is an heian era sorcerer with an antipathy and disregard of human emotions and the weak's will to live, blind to love and unable to comprehend the value of relationships with others then rika, as his counterpart, works especially well. rika is just a kid, or was just a kid. an innocent young girl who ended up dying tragically and saw herself transform into a vengeful spirit after being cursed by love. not only does she represent the weak (remember when sukuna's slaughter of women and children was implied?), she represents love itself. with her feelings lingering after death, she clinged onto her existence with the sole wish of protecting yuuta. it counteracts so well with sukuna's selfish will to kill time before his final breathe, which he admitted to be his will and motivation.

before i move on to my next idea, which let me preface by saying that it might be a little out there and dives into theory territory, i'm going to contextualise it with some information on the symbolism of "king and queen" that might help understand why this thought may make - at least some - sense.

in alchemy the king usually appears in conjunction with the queen, representing the sun-and-moon duality. in accordance with the theory of sulfur and mercury, which together, after alchemist purification, form the philosopher’s stone (also called the elixir of life, associated with rejuvenation and immortality), usually represented by the crowned hermetic androgyne (the union of the complementary male and female, achieving perfection or completion in the human state). according to jung, the king and queen also signify the spiritual conjunction that takes place when the process of individuation is complete, with the harmonious union of the unconscious and consciousness. jungian psychology has subjected the alchemistic tradition to extensive analysis and views the king less as an image of paternal authority and more as an archetype of higher insight and wisdom.

with that in mind, i think it's easy to understand where i'm headed but i want to add something else. remember jjk 0? geto's plan at the time was to obtain rika so he could use her power and move forward with his plan to annihilate all no-sorcerers. he believed her to be the key to achieve his goal and was willing to risk his own life for it. furthermore, the story is highly based on buddhist concepts and one of the core aspects of jujutsu kaisen is the cycles of suffering the characters are subjected to. in buddhism the goal is to become free of the samsara (continuous cycle of life, death and rebirth), eliminate suffering and achieve nirvana (enlightment). this ties withe the name of the series as kaisen is comprised of the kanji 'kai', meaning cycle, and 'sen', meaning battle, which combined with jujutsu (which means magic/sorcery but contains the word curse) describe the story as an endless battle of curses. and in a sense, the story also repeats itself, between generations and storyline-wise with the events circling back to how it all began. yuuta managed to land a fatal strike on geto once again, but now rika is pointed to be in a direct confrontation with sukuna as the queen of curses. now that i went through all the context needed to understand this, is it possible rika is once again in danger of being taken away? the idea of achieving a state of perfection with the unity between king and queen is quite intriguing. sukuna finally addressing yuuji as a worthy rival because of his unshakable resolve and unbreakable soul, is almost directly implying yuuji to be the one with whom sukuna has his last battle. an ultimate power-up (or the equivalent to), would be veyy cathartic before a final fight where yuuji would have the opportunity to finally go all out and have his well awaited and deserved protagonism (in my eyes, at least).