[anxother]

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[cuileandorcha]

Grabs my kingdom hearts characters

Luxu's senses say Darkness is a rich dark chocolate, and he is someone who loves a dark chocolate - bitter and sweet and rich and all together too appetizing to his opinion to ignore.

Xehanort's senses say Darkness is black licorice - bitter and spiced, the undercurrent of sweetness not enough to mask the bit of acidic bite to it. Certainly not something that everyone will see the appeal of - but ow fortunate that black licorice is the only candy he's ever enjoyed.

[anxother]

OK FINE I GUESS THIS IS THE FIRST THING I POST HERE IN AGES

Ansem senses Darkness like a fish senses water. But that doesn't mean you don't sense every single subtle combination of shifts in current, pressure, and salinity. And absence of water is like drowning.

[anxother]

Finally got to go out with KHML and I have thoughts.

One thing that I suspected and am even more sure of now is that this game was made with a daily two way commute in mind, preferably on public transport where you can pay attention to your phone. The placing of all interactable points along roads/railways, their spacing, the presence/function of the "hands free" mode, and the way several types of interaction point are not fixed but move and respawn make it so that I think the main use of the game's gps play is expected to be this:

Fire it up on your commute in the morning (bus/train to work, school bus, drive or cycle with it on in hands free mode) and grab what you can along the way, then by the time it's time for the commute back things will have reset and you can get new things on the way back. What you find will be different each trip. You'll slowly rack up AP to use to teleport and access world map content out of your way. Short local walks are also an option, and fighting Heartless spawns seems to be better optimised for that.

A lot of things clicked for me when I realised that the game seems to be designed around the assumption that going places on public transport (or as a passenger) is something you do regularly and without thinking too much about barriers like cost. I can't do an analysis of this because there are no purchases in the beta, but going by how gacha premium currency is usually priced I suspect that for me it would be a close call between spending the cash on premium currency and spending it on a daily bus trip for fewer, lower grade rewards.

...But they do seem to be aware of what a limiting factor gaining AP is, because today we got handed via daily bonus what amounts to fuck you money in terms of AP so people can access content that requires it without worrying about running out. (Or enough to instantly unlock one whole premium reward chest that otherwise takes 5 days to sit and count down to unlocking). It's something that may well be rebalanced for a full release.

[anxother]

One of my questions about KHML was what kind of experience it would be for me, limited physical and mental spoonie with severe anxiety about leaving the house and a potato phone, to play. I don't have a full answer right now, but my impression so far is: much better than Pokemon Go was out the gate, but you will fall well behind of anyone with an active schedule to go out and fight. You can go into a non-gps free roaming mode, but then every fight costs a good chunk of AP rather than gaining you a couple. The equivalent of gyms cost a huge chunk of AP to challenge in this mode and I haven't even done one yet despite the closest one being at a guess less than 30 steps outside my front door. It is not fun to be reminded of what a tiny box you live in.

It looks very much like they're trying to make it possible for you to play passively if you want, just have the game on and walk around to auto-encounter and auto-battle, and that's great both for convenience and for anyone who has much more on their minds setting outdoors than checking their phone every few seconds, however one technical aspect of this part is not working for me so far.

But, that's not the only content. There are other story quests and battle challenges to work though and get rewards from. It's going to depend on the eventual balance of this vs roaming/GPS and AP expending modes, and how and how much AP will eventually be distributed, how much it will end up slowing your progress/outright locking you from content if your ability to play on the go is limited for any reason.

[anxother]

I hate having the KHML beta exactly at a time that I am too sick to organise thoughts or put up anything polished or even play too much. Not sure if it's worth putting up my own screen recordings because I'm sure someone's already doing it faster and better than I could.

But I will get to my own thoughts eventually, all I can say now from a story perspective is I have no idea what's going on and that's what I'm here for from Kingdom Hearts mobile games at this point :D

[anxother]

Rising from my grave to warn you this place may for a week or so turn into a Missing Link blog because guess who's in a closed beta babyyyyyy

[anxother]

p.s. every time I give you a boop pls imagine that it comes from the tiniest cutest shadow heartless you ever saw

[anxother]

BOOP

(Yes, amazingly I am still lurking on this weeb ass hellsite until... idk society manages to fix itself or a good dedicated rp platform arises from the ashes of modern fandom, one or the other)

[voidedgear]

@anxother in response to [x]

Xehanort was probably right about that. Briag could be fickle when it came to tasks, and Vanitas had already noticed that some of the more boring ones were being pushed off on him. What a pain.

But it wasn't as if Vanitas could really do anything about it.

Vanitas rolled his eyes at the response, his lips tucking into a firm line. He reached up to itch his scar, "Oh yeah? What's this distracting us from, huh?"

All Vanitas had to do was keep an eye on Xehanort. He could do that no matter where they were. And, as far as Vanitas knew, Xehanort was actually going to be free for the rest of the day.

Not that it mattered. Xehanort usually seemed to be good at finding something to occupy himself, to Vanitas, at least. All Vanitas had to do was stand by and make sure nothing broke into the castle to disturb him.

"You've got time, and I'm hungry," Vanitas said adamantly. He drops his hand from his face and turns to look at him.

[anxother]

Xehanort didn't have a reply for that, or not a good one.

"...Very well." He said instead. "If it will keep you quiet."

He could not see the harm. Besides, it would be an opportunity to observe Vanitas. The boy was... unusual. Not that Xehanort supposed he himself could comment on that. But more than that, just occasionally, he would trigger a vague flash of... something. Familiarity? Recognition? Something that made his head ache if he tried too hard to line all the pieces up, and they would slip from his grasp again.

Surely it was ridiculous. Vanitas did not act as though they had known each other before. Maybe it was simply that he reminded Xehanort of someone else, buried deep in his lost memories.

[cuileandorcha]

I for one love mine n @anxother's Ansxig lore. Unspeakable Humanoid Horrors composed so strongly of Darkness can find love. Even if only in one another because they loathe the idea of anyone else knowing them on the level that they cannot help but know one another.

[anxother]

Also love the aspect of them both being, by human standards, beings of incomprehensible alien power and amorality, while by true Eldritch Abomination standards, they both remain Baby.

[anxother]

Vanitas has been watching Xehanort closely for a while. As opposed to Braig’s playful jabs or slyness, Vanitas doesn’t even bother to hide that he’s trying to dissect Xehanort apart piece by piece—to categorize him into something that can be understood.

So far, Vanitas has yet to discover anything that remotely satisfies him.

Today, Vanitas is accompanying him outside of the castle, amber eyes burning into the back of his head just like they always do. He hasn’t said much the whole time they’ve been out there, his moodiness is thick enough to almost be physical. It can be physical, should Vanitas’ emotions writhe out of his control and form Unversed.

Vanitas’ concentration is only broken by the sight of a food stall. The pleasant aroma was a far cry from the bland MRE-like meals he’d subsisted off of for four years while living in the Badlands.

“Hey,” Vanitas speaks up. “You smell that?”

Being out in the town markets was not his first choice of pastime, and Vanitas was certainly not his first choice of company, but Braig had ambushed him near the main doors, said he needed to get out more, and all but dumped a shopping list into his hand and pushed him out. Vanitas had followed in a similar manner moments later.

Xehanort strongly suspected that Braig had simply not wanted to do the task himself.

Vanitas seemed equally unenthused about accompanying him. Or he had until this point, the words catching Xehanort by surprise. He stopped, turning first to Vanitas then in the direction the young guard-apprentice was looking.

It was the first thing Vanitas had said to him that was not a clear attempt to dig under his skin.

He could smell it. Something rich and savoury. Scents could be a powerful trigger to recall long-dormant memories, both Master Ansem and Braig had told him. He tried to match it to any of the fragments shattered like stained glass across his mind, but... nothing. Whatever they were selling, it was unfamiliar to him.

So very much was unfamiliar to him.

"We do not have time for distractions," he replied, and something flashed behind his eyes. Was there... there was something he had to do... he could not afford these delays...

No, that wasn't right. Couldn't be right. He had no pressing tasks back at the castle. They had all afternoon for this.

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[anxother]

Er. Hi.

I'm still in my no-activity-because-kh-rp-is-dead-and-there's-no-KH-news phase.

But if you happen to like my writing, and my lore dissections, and general commentary, and the Final Fantasy franchise, and have a high tolerance for spoilers and me saying fuck a lot...

I am liveblogging FFXVI. I'm an hour in and it's already over 2500 words. There's 19 more hours to go to liveblog, and though my actual playthrough is far ahead of that I've still not finished. This is going to take a while. It's probably going to be the biggest piece of writing I've done in years. And it's 90% shitpost level comments, sprinkled with some serious addressing of why the writing team need to be a lot better about hiding where they copied their homework from.

I know I am making exactly one friend lose thier shit over this and that's enough for me, but if you want to take a look it's here:

Check out the Ang Tears FFXVI Apart At The Seams community on Discord - hang out with 4 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[1071png]

rare xehanort form

[bardbreakfast]

I am covered in hickies how am I supposed to be a respected scientist looking like this!?!

[bardbreakfast]

Normalize kissing other the other scientists with tongue

[bardbreakfast]

*walks into the lab and comes out hours later covered in lipstick marks* the collaborative research is going well

[anxother]

what that mouth do, ansem?

Filthy NSFW questions why do I do this to myself

"Tells you you're a good pet if you show me what that mouth does."

[anxother]

Hey Ansem, what's that dick like?

Filthy NSFW questions why do I do this to myself

"There is a thought experiment. It goes like this: a brilliant scientist has spent her entire life studying colour. The mechanics of spectra, light's interaction with the eye, the precise brainwaves elicited by such interaction at differing frequencies, both alone and in combination. She knows all that there is to be learned. And yet, she has spent her entire life in a closed room, entirely in shades of grey. The question is, once she steps outside, and sees colour herself for the first time, does she learn anything new from this experience?"

"Perhaps even the most thorough and accurate description cannot convey what needs to be experienced for oneself."