#so hyped for KHML

[zonerz]

your alvi character is soooo cute and cool looking i love him…

OMG 🥺 TYSMMM He’s my pride and joy and I love him so so much!!! I have sm I still wanna do with him and I'm so so excited for KHML to get him back into the action! 🫶 Unfortunately that also means he will, on some level, being Going Thru It but that's a small price to pay for more content of my boy <3 <3 <3

I hope u dont mind me taking this moment to ramble abt his general deal and vibe bc I feel like my thoughts are all scattered throughout my art with him 😭🙏 Will add a cut and reading past is ofc optional but TYSM for the interest in general! His design is so fun to doodle and he’s got a whole Dreamhouse Closet of fits 👍

But!! Basically in UX my boy joined Vulpes and got his keyblade on his bday, Dec. 25th when he turned 13-14 or so :] he started out on his own and was pretty quiet but very compassionate which paid off in the long run and got him some good friends (both in the form of Ephemer and co. and then with my friends' keykids Vivian and Vial--highly rec checking out their art too btw !!! @thequibblingking13 and @thatalien404 I love Vial and Vivi so so much as well 🥺)

As he pulled in these new friendships (and in the case of Vivi and Vial, practically family/siblingship) Alvi ends up having that compassion fuel him to become more skilled with his keyblade, learn more about how to best guilt and use medals, the best ways to Raid, etc. in order to be able to both protect/keep the people he loves safe as well as to be a teacher. He loved exploring new worlds and helping people in general and I think would end up being the kinda general Big Brother FigureTM who other kids could run to with questions--especially as he got into his later teens.

He ends up learning quite fast and scaling up pretty exponentially compared to some of his peers and, in general, ends up fairly competitive with the weekly rankings and PVP (friendly still, but ready to give it his all) and with that, he ends up taking that protector role more seriously as he becomes more competent. By the time the War really comes around when he's like 15-16, he ends up sticking around to fight in the hopes of shouldering as much weight as he can in the place of others, as well as wanting to shield Vivi and Vial as best as he can.

Though things definitely do get murkier as he gets stronger. I think that he'd always been a bit more open/neutral to darkness as a concept. He knows it can corrupt but would use it in small increments, however those would become larger and be used more often as time passed in trade for more strength--more capability. It would culminate at it's most out of control/chaotic when fighting with the Foretellers (shoutout to Ira who reflected every light attack BTW. like okay bro. u asked for this ig 😐) where he'd really just let loose and give it all, though it'd leave him weak and also pretty freaked out. Plus the whole almost dying thing definitely adds to that 😭 so he'd rein things in dramatically after waking up from the war.

As for the amnesia about the war, things shift a little bit here and I think he'd sorta wake up to reality pretty quick, especially with the nightmares. He loves Chirithy but his was never the best at lying, and despite whatever bumps in the road he and Ephemer had, he doesn't anticipate that he'd ever lie straight to his face. So when he confronts Skuld and Ephemer about it all? Well, they hesitate enough to tell him something's up at the very least--as he suspected. He's sympathetic to his friends' new position as defacto leaders though and, being a pretty natural leader-type himself, knows how precarious of a situation it is regarding information on the war. It's horribly distressing for him to remember everything to say the least, and he figures himself pretty capable of handling it, so the thought of having so many of the other kids remember en masse and just start hurting despite it being over just leaves him feeling sick. He doesn't like lying either though, and it feels wrong to hide such a huge event--which the others sympathize with bc damn they're dealing with that conflict too 😭 But, ultimately, Alvi agrees to remain quiet about the whole ordeal--even to Vivi and Vial whom he shared everything with. Which creates. Problems. 😬

In the weird mundane time they spend in the digital daybreak before things start glitching and life is just continuing "as usual" Alvi ends up inadvertently pulling back from Vivi and Vial (as they can tell something is Up) and gets closer to all of the Union Leaders! I really think he'd get along well and have unique but fun friendships with each and every one of them :> There's already that like Besties Bond with Ephemer and Skuld, but I think he'd really love Ven, Brain, and Lauriam, too. He and Lauriam would be the tallest two of the bunch and I think would lowkey prod each other about it in a mini competition as they both continued growing, he would ADORE Ven and love carrying him on his shoulders and such, and I think would just be chill and funny with Brain. Put them in a room together and the sarcasm level doubles 🤝

When Vivi and Vial finally figure things out abt the War tho, and that Alvi was actively lying to them, ehm... 😬 Things begin going downhill FAST from there. He doesn't really have any good explanation for himself as he just wanted to protect them at his core, but it was still not the best way to probably deal with it. That said though, what's WORSE is how he responds to the question of whether he'd do it again and uh. Well. 🤡🤡🤡

So suffice to say, Vivi and Vial feel pretty damn betrayed and generally angry at him but Alvi has hope they can patch things up and get it all sorted out. But with each attempt to be more transparent about things, Alvi keeps having to clam up because a lot of the stuff he's been doing have been with the Union Leaders and needs to remain kinda lowkey, so he ends up being unable to really tell that much which just comes across as condescending at best for Vivi and Vial. And then the glitches start showing up 🧍‍♂️

Alvi, in the midst of trying to both apologize and explain once more to them both, gets pulled away to go help Ephemer investigate what's going on at the Clocktower. He leaves his little siblings with the promise that, the very moment he comes home, he will tell them everything and share everything about all the worlds he's seen since--just like how things used to be. They have his word! And it's still shaky ground but a potential light at the end of the tunnel! But, well, then he and Ephemer end up in Game Central Station and things get very out of hand very fast. The end of the game unravels faster than they can keep up and the last "interaction" Alvi has with his siblings is Vivi crumbling in her own fight across town as the feeling of Alvi getting that hit to the heart from Ephemer echoes through to her oTL

The end of UX makes me SO. AUGH. I feel like I've already talked a lot but there's just So Much in my head for my poor little guy and MAN. His end would follow the canon ending of the game pretty closely. He'd stick around with Ephemer and Skuld and help see the other Leaders off in the Ark with the intention to go grab Vial and Vivi and get them inside to safety before things go wrong again. One little thing I wanna draw or poke at somehow tho is that like, I think he'd give little mementos/gifts to the others before they send them off in the ARK. To Brain and Lauriam, he'd give them each one of his earrings, Elrena would get his neon bracelets, and Ven would get a moogle chain he always kept on his dufflebag :>

As for the final fight. MANNNN. I think that Alvi would be able to put on a pretty convincing act and, somewhat bitterly, kinda goes down the line of like "Well, I really am a liar lately, so what's one more?" and he'd go all-in to ensure Ephemer was pushed to his limit. WHICH SUCKS AND HURTS MY HEART TO THINK ABOUTTT. But he'd pull it off, and he'd get that shot to the heart, and I think in that fight it's poetic if he was fighting more in a stance like YX than usual. Smth smth foreshadowing also legacy etc. 🫶🫶🫶 He'd go out proud and happy, even if it was immensely bitter knowing the last memories his friends all shared with him.

Suffice to say I have SOOOO many thoughts abt him and I am SO excited for Missing Link to do a round 2 bc I have a rough idea of what I wanna do for his arc/character-wise on his second time around and I am also so hyped to get Brain back 🥺🥺🥺 I think their friendship is going to be so so crucial to Alvi in ML and I cannot WAIT to get into it!!! And OFC THE WHOLE RAISING OF XEHANORT??? MANNNNN. He would love Xehanort with everything he had. It's so bittersweet that he would've passed before Xeha started learning how to do a whole lot with the keyblade and got all manipulated by destiny bc like. Alvi would not be perfect, but he would've loved to train him himself. Which like also ik I'm #Coping and whatever but I'm just gonna say that Alvi, after passing in KHDR, is just chilling in Quadratum bc I'm sorry but he's far too stubborn to die and just leave his son behind so soon 🫶 I only have memes with them so far but I truly believe that Alvi and Xeha have a Like Father Like Son dyanmic thang going on. A long line of guys with something wrong with them 🫶💖

ANYWAYS IVE ALREADY TALKED SO MUCH AND COULD GO ON, APOLOGIES, BUT I LOVE LOVE LOVE MY LITTLE GUY AND ALL THE PREQUEL KEYKIDS SM ‼‼‼💖💖💖

[mythicalartistx]

I drew Brain — KHML

I drew this out of nowhere, well not nowhere considering the latest missing link news

[goldensunset]

ok ok khml beta spoilers (part one of whatever this is going to be idk i'm just gonna ramble about my thoughts and observations)

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh wah awa wahhhhhh i want this game now i won't lie to you this looks really cool i can't believe it's real. or a mobile game for that matter. imagine this as a full console game. imagine khux and khdr as this. insane

remus... nice!!! can we like. see him in full lighting though so i could get a good sense of his color scheme. ok i like this guy already i like his casual/rude vibes and the way he talks

i hope he has a brother named romulus and i hope romulus kills him it needs to happen sorry. idc whether it's shock value or something very narratively heavy i need fratricide in this game idc

so they're doing the good old 'every other character in the cutscene is gonna be voiced except the protagonist whose dialogue just shows up silently but their mouth still moves' thing huh. can't wait to see how this plays out. looks like player is still gonna have limited dialogue overall so that works. but like man i kinda wish they'd just give player a canon voice or two or three. imagine that being something you could choose

i'm gonna read too deeply into player's amnesia including their name but not including their fighting ability. like they could've had you type in a name during the character creation screen and had player respond to the question later but nope we specifically establish that they don't remember and have to make one up on the spot. you know what they do remember though? combat. weapons. carrying out their missions as a keyblade wielder, all they were ever meant to do. gonna be normal about this for sure

the scala world card... DUDE...

so after multiple joke posts we finally have a real freya... i don't know why i'm surprised. dunno if i vibe with her full outfit yet (i think the red jacket uniform is kinda overbearing and might get old fast if both she and remus and probably at least 20 other characters will have it but in a cleaner or more stylized render i'd love it probably) but like dude the cat ear accessories... were those there last time? did i not notice them last time? those are perfect

literally ALL of this music is so cheerful... the dearly beloved is super upbeat, the new field theme for scala and the astral plane and combat and the tutorial menus etc etc... it's so strange. i KNOW they're hiding the absolute tragedy from us. goth aesthetic combined with whimsical peaceful tunes. what's happening here

the. the pit... that's their portal?? when you wanna go to the astral plane you jump in The Machinery Hell Pit? absolutely not you would never convince me to do that

so begins the gacha/microtransaction hell. i sure hope it's easy enough to get whatever ingame currency there is through other means

i'm actually loving the amount of customization options dude that's so cool

[dlandofdreams]

Missing Link new teaser trailer!

[glitterynebulas]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kyzveryown]

Here's my advice to everyone watching the SGF Premiere event tomorrow: lower your expectations. For the past two-three years, people have hyped themselves up and set their expectations unrealistically high for Summer Game Fest only to end up disappointed by the end. This year won't be any different. So, don't expect anything crazy at the SGF premiere event.

As much as I would like to see it, Kingdom Hearts IV will not be at the SGF Premiere. We're likely not getting any updates on that game until either mid-to-late 2024 or early 2025. I'll be surprised if we get any info this year. It's more likely that we'll get an update on KHML (Missing Link), but I highly doubt we'd see it at the event. Mobile games don't usually show up there.

It seems like FFVII: Rebirth will be in the SGF Premiere, but there's also a chance that whatever's coming (probably a trailer or a teaser) could be separate from that event. We'll just have to wait and see. I am cautiously optimistic about tomorrow. So, hopefully we'll see something that'll satisfy everyone.

[mythicalartistx]

The KHML trailer has us all wondering....

WHO IS SHE!?

Skuld is X theory and bloodline theory/ Necklace Theory also mentioned

And I'm going to be analyzing and deciphering who I think she is.

In KH UX Ephemer goes to an era in the future and founded Scala ad Caelum

Skuld also came there when they both traveled through time.

And we know that they are the parents to Xehanort.

In Dark Road, we see a dark haired girl who looks like Skuld give blue-coated person, "player" Xehanort.

Then child Xehanort tells Player that he had dreams of Player's friends and states there was a dark haired person kind of like mom.

Then player reveals that Xehanort has the same bloodline as his friend Ephemer.

Now wait, what does this have to do with this girl?

Well this girl could also be related to Ephemer or Xehanort.

NOMURA also revealed in a previous interview when the first trailer — the 2022 ML trailer got released that it is four generations after the character Player arrives

If she is that means she could be a relative or sibling of Xehanort. And what if this relative or the relative's descendants eventually goes to destiny Islands after Xehanort leaves.

And that's why I think Riku might be their descendant who is also Ephemer's descendant. It explains him being Light and him having a necklace that relates to Light which he gives to Sora.

It explains why Riku is seemed as special.

Then I also think Player might have reincarnated into Sora... But that's for another time.

Now we get to Skuld. Now she is an interesting case especially since many people including myself think she is X as in Experiment X from the reports in KH3

The person that Lea/Axel and Isa/Saïx snuck in Ansem's research area to see. And they planned to save her, but she disappeared. And that's Saïx whole reason for how he is in the organization but he got lost on the way.

But X was clearly stated to be younger so maybe she went to where Ansem and his apprentice were first. Then Luxu got her and sent her back to the time right before ML era.

Or Ephemer and Skuld traveled through time again after the silver haired person was old enough to take care of everything. Skuld just looked young or maybe they just used the term girl because that's what she was.

Skuld arrived at Radiant Garden where she lost her memory and Ansem did experiments on her. Then Ephemer arrived after four generations in the future after Brain arrives and after Player arrives.

Luxu then takes Skuld to the ML timeline after player and Brain arrives and Xehanort is born.

And Missing Link will be the key to these questions the hidden chapter that probably will be forgotten to many in the KH world.

Anyways Kingdom Hearts Missing Link Hype

[mythicalartistx]

Okay so we already know Player Character reincarnates and have multiple lives.

The second life is Missing Link and what if after that life the Player reincarnates again until they reincarnates into Sora

Think about it. They're both ordinary people. There is "nothing" really special about them. Player wasn't chosen as a dandelion. But Skuld and Ephemer saved them.

Then in KH3 Sora is saved by keyblade wielders of the past, the ancient ones and among them is Ephemer who smiles at Sora. He helps him and uses the ancient keyblade wielders. Unless just for a cool visual.

He helps Sora because he is the reincarnated version of his friend. It wouldn't make that much sense.

Then Strelitzia in Union X always watched Player Character and wanted to meet them. When she found out they weren't part of the dandelions, she then went to find them. However she got struck by "Ventus" controlled by darkness and as she falls she wishes she could have met with Player.

Then in the data world, they see a hooded figure like either Luxu or MOM taking Strelitzia somewhere probably Quadratum?

Finally when Sora arrives in Quadratum, Strelitzia can talk to Sora "player" like she always wanted to.

Though it kinda sad if you think about what Marluxia and Larxene did to Sora with him being another of the Player's life.

Anyways KHML hype