#roxas kh2

[ceeejus]

looks like my summer vacation is… over.

[mellz117]

[greetings-inferiors]

Roxas is the most tragic character in any piece of media I’ve ever consumed. His story is honestly so well written and so well executed in a series that is so batshit off the walls insane and I marvel that they managed it. If anything could convince you to play kingdom hearts it’s Roxas.

Nobodies are such an interesting concept from a character concept, ESPECIALLY Roxas’ case where his somebody still exists. With Axel, for example, he wants to become a somebody because he wants a heart, then even when he does become a somebody he realises that his time as a nobody was more meaningful than his time as a somebody, and continues to use his nobody name. But there’s no moral dilemma here, he can be either a nobody or a somebody, and both are the same person.

But Roxas and Sora AREN’T the same person. They’re distinct. They are two souls, two hearts, that are separate. Sora’s heartless never was destroyed, it just became Sora, so now there are two separate people that belong in Sora’s body. Who deserves it? Sora, as the “true” somebody? Or Roxas, who is a living feeling person?

From birth, Roxas has no memories (unlike other nobodies) and is constantly told that he is incapable of feeling and his emotions aren’t real. He’s brainwashed into thinking that the friendships he has are fake, so he rationalises his friendship as “people he eats ice cream with”. When one of only two friends he has, one of only two people who have ever truly known or loved him, dies in his arms, he can’t process the grief of her passing or the fact that his friendship is over, so he asks her who he would have ice cream with. Out of context that’s a hilarious line yes, but in context it’s a confused, emotionally stunted child who hasn’t been given the time or space to become a person.

When he finds out why one of his friends has to die and the other is complicit, it’s all about this “sora” person. He learns that his existence is stopping this sora person and he has to die to let this person he’s never met before live. One of his only friends died just to help someone neither he nor she ever knew or even saw. Later, when his memories are wiped AGAIN and his only friends are ripped from him AGAIN and he learns he has to die to let this sora person live AGAIN, he resigns himself to death, and he can’t blame the guy, he did nothing wrong, all he can think about is how lucky sora is. How lucky he gets to wake up, and see his friends, and LIVE. How lucky that his summer vacation is only just about to start (Roxas’ summer vacation line is my favourite line in the whole franchise and it isn’t even close. I tear up just READING it).

And then

AND THEN

He has to watch through someone else’s eyes, their own adventure.

He has to see his friends NOT KNOW WHO HE IS, say “I’ve never known a Roxas in my life”, and he fully realises that the hayner pence and olette he knew were never real to begin with. And he cries. He cries hard enough for Sora to shed a tear.

He then sees his best friend Axel sacrifice himself for Sora. Both of his best friends died for this boy. He gets ANGRY. He tries taking sora over by FORCE.

The Roxas fight is the best fight in the series hands down. I CANNOT BELIEVE it wasn’t in the original and was just a cutscene.

When Roxas is attacking sora and just repeatedly slamming his keyblades on sora’s it’s genuinely the most visceral and brutal moment in the series. All the fight he’s been so skilful and elegant yet here he is just letting out all his anger in one primal bout of RAGE. But the look in sora’s eyes isn’t contempt, but confusion.

Roxas realises that this isn’t sora’s fault. Sora didn’t ask for another person to exist and vie for control.

And sure, all of Roxas’ friends had to die or be forgotten, but Roxas saw firsthand just how many people Sora helped. He understands why Sora’s so special. He knows what could happen if Xemnas isn’t stopped. Whether Roxas likes it or not, he and his friends had to die. For Sora to save everyone else.

Sora is a good other.

Anyway yeah I go between Roxas and Axel being my favourite character in the whole series. They both mean so much to me and are so interesting compelling and utterly tragic.

Even if Kingdom hearts’ story isn’t all that “good”, ROXAS’ story ABSOLUTELY deserves to be known by as many people as possible. It’s a story about identity, coming to terms with who you are, the ethics of two people sharing a body, whose lives are more valuable than others, and what it means to be a person. And it’s the greatest story Nomura has EVER told, and probably will ever be.

[haunted-xander]

Well, I guess you didn't have much of a choice either

[separatethingy]

Love the thought of the meanest characters being the nicest on set

Dugout Mom Saix

[the-imaginary-number]

I've started headcanoning Xion as a trans girl recently, so I made a cute little comic about her figuring out gender stuff.

[artsyebonyrose]

inktober day 1: dream

(roxas from kingdom hearts)

this year i'll be doing fanart for inktober, and i've assigned a piece of media i enjoy to each prompt! lets hope i last longer than 2 days this time

[1071png]

xxX - 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤 - Xxx

[luxmoogle]

The ice cream colours his lips blue

[hollypollly]

KH2 Titlescreen Roxas Version

[starfiresky]

I wanna show you the coolest thing ever:

My grandma made all of this from scratch and SURPRISED me with it!!!!!

The red is fabric is textured and the edges of the collar actually go up naturally. It doesn’t look real!!!

She even added Oblivion on the zipper pull because she knows that’s my favorite keyblade 🥺

To make things more incredible:

SHE PAINTED EVERY. SINGLE. SQAURE ON. And it looks and feels PRINTED.

I am never taking this thing off. I can never repay my Grandma. 😭😭😭 I have never in my entire life seen a more perfect replica of Roxas’s fit. Everywhere I had looked online they just didn’t look the best. This one looks real, like it was pulled out of the game, and it’s actually so comfortable (I can see why Roxas wears it every day in Twilight Town.) I didn’t use any filters on these photos, the colors are actually that perfect.

[heysailorboy]

kingdom hearts 4

[mellz117]

[01rand]

icecream trio and soriku charm!!!

[linvaniin]

watching my friend play kh2 so i wanted to doodle roxas... rucksack...

[starrduzt]

the heart hotel siblings, my sweet sweet children

close ups!!

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