same sky, new destiny

Side-blog for a Kingdom Hearts role-reversal AU that got out of control. Forever under construction. I go by Dakt and my main blog is here. Links: START HERE! Guide to who's where doing what Art posts (most by me, some by others) MMD Things Text-only posts Characters are searchable by name as long as you add a slash to the end. (kairi/ riku/ sora/ etc.)

[archetwistau]

I've got a question. Would Saix and Axel switch roles in this AU?

Hey there! The original premise of this AU was just to role-swap the Destiny Islands Trio (Sora, Kairi, Riku). Then things got a bit complicated with Nobodies and Replicas, so I also shuffled around everyone who came directly from those three (Roxas, Namine, Repliku, Xion). But beyond that, everyone stays in their original roles. So Saïx and Axel would not switch.

[archetwistau]

Floaty Atlantica protag Kairi in two slightly different styles

[dakt37]

Suddenly Archetwist AU?!

[archetwistau]

I should uhhh put this on the Archetwist blog eh??

[archetwistau]

Earlier today I had an intriguing mental image for Archetwist Kairi’s Dream Drop Distance outfit, but it kinda slipped through my mental fingers before I was able to draw it so now I’m not sure this is quite what it was. Hmm.

Bonus lil angry Kairi cuz I had a blank space :’D

[archetwistau]

Is anyone there? Hello?

Not really, sorry. I know a lot of people like this concept so I keep the blog up, but I’ve moved out of KH fandom for the most part these days. 

[bonndi]

INKTOBE(?) - Kairi

Actually, I’m updating my inktober doodles in my insta and dA, but THIS ESPEACLLY ONE is based in @archetwistau au, where Kairi is the heroine and Rikai is canon, so i wanted to show it here ~

[archetwistau]

//tumbles in and drops this// my hand hurts from all this texture editing. i drew the flames on wisdom and the swirls on final with my art tablet and it was nuts

anyway, i’m proud of myself ^^ i had way too much fun, esp with master form. i ended up kind of mixing the old and new versions of limit form (bc honestly i think the silver-edged black flowers look so nice) hope you like it!

[archetwistau]

idk why i did this except i miss this au and also my buddy Jun made an excellent model of Lunar Eclipse and I wanna use it a lot

so, yeah, this got spat out today lol did you miss me

[blackosprey]

Actually, this IS my final form.

thinking about dakt37′s roleswap AU where Kairi is the lead, my hand slipped, and this happened. Might color it, don’t count on it though.

[archetwistau]

Idea: the Mark of Mastery could put them in different time periods of the Sleeping world. Basically, it would put them in the direct-to-video sequel eras for everything except for the Grid, which would take place in Tron: Evolution, Tron: Uprising, and Tron: Legacy.

An interesting AU concept in its own right! But I feel it’s an important point of 3D that they’re in the same place and time, just different dimensions. The whole “I can feel him right here beside me, even if I can’t touch or even see him” thing.

[archetwistau]

Oh wait! I just got the roles for BBS. So if Riku is the Prince of Heart, Terra would've placed that 'magic spell' (assuming his home is in Radient Garden) and Terra fell into darkness protecting Ventus Kairi got Aqua's heart since her heart was wandering and she found little Kairi's heart Ventus and Sora did that little ceremony and Sora touched Ven's keyblade handle, but afterwards Ven submitted to the darkness and Terra sacrificed himself.

I’m not entirely following you, mostly because I fundamentally do not care about the BBS trio in this AU or otherwise (no offense). BBS goes as closely as possible to canon in this AU, and I’m not really in the right brainspace to get into closing plotholes about who is where and why. 

[archetwistau]

At the second round at Land of Dragons does Sora speak to Kairi or is he silent like Riku was in KH2?

Sora’s pretty chatty so I can see him letting something slip. His voice changes a lot between KH1 and KH2, so there’s still room for some confusion/doubt on Kairi’s end. 

[archetwistau]

...About the whole "why did Riku's heart go into Kairi and not Sora?" Well, I was thinking it was the same reason Riku didn't get the Keyblade in canon, Riku's heart was able to tell that Sora wasn't himself/being possessed, and thusly went for the next closest bond (Read: Kairi) and stuck with her. Eh, just my 5 cents.

That is an excellent five cents, thank you!

[archetwistau]

This is the most boring thing I’ve spent so long on in recent memory, but I needed some tablet practice and color back in my life. So have some Kairi Drive Forms! Valor is borrowed from Dead Fantasy, and Wisdom and Master are based on cosplays I’ve made. Valor and Master have leather fightin’ gloves because why not, and Wisdom has little fingerless gloves to mirror Aqua’s. Also I figure if Sora gets little crowns for certain achievements in 2.5+, Kairi should get little tiaras. Which should probably look more generic for this specific AU since she’s not a Princess of Heart here, but... I got my wires crossed with my non-AU cosplays. Whatever. TIARAS FOR EVERYONE ANYWAY. \o/

[meekzhyu]

❝ What are you talking about?! I am me! Nobody else! ❞

[archetwistau]

Thank you for answering my ask! I really appreciate it, and I found myself enjoying reading it a lot:D And I think you have Sora spot-on, tbh. Especially since Roxas probably WOULD immediately explain why it wasn't his fault. But speaking of Roxas, does he have feelings for Kairi at all in this? As Naminé clearly had ones for Sora, even long after CoM, imo. So I'm wondering how that would work with Roxas. Would he like her at all? Would he, and then get over her some (partly because of Xi)? etc.

Thank you! Glad my muses could cooperate for this AU for once :P

I find this ask kind of interesting in that I don’t agree that Namine “clearly” had romantic feelings for Sora in canon. Like honestly, I do ship them a little in fandom and I totally understand how someone could interpret her feelings as romantic with even just very loose-fitting shipper goggles. But ultimately KH canon, to me, is overwhelmingly about friendship and platonic love. Nothing about it INSISTS on romantic feelings, to me. Except maybe Sokai, but that’s done with so little grace that it actually soured me for the ship. 

Anyway my point is that the shipping in this AU is based entirely on my self-indulgent tastes, not mirrors of what I consider to be actually canon. A true and pure KH role reversal thing should be just as non-romantic as canon, imo. But I’m neither true nor pure so... here we are. 

All that being said, in this AU Roxas does not have any romantic feelings for Kairi. It just seems unnecessary. 

[archetwistau]

So, I've been thinking about Arche Twist again, and I have to ask? Is Sora at all angsty about Roxas having replaced him in Kairi and Riku's memories? Because if it was Riku, he'd probably be all like, "Maybe that's what I deserve. And maybe if you had been me, Roxas, err... Repliku, you wouldn't have hurt your friends like I did." But I know that this is still Sora, and he doesn't let things bother him like that. So does he feel that at all? Also, how doe he react to Roxas and the news?

I’m actually replaying Chain of Memories at the moment, and just got the part in Sora’s story where he learns about what Namine did to him. So I’d say that in the spirit of what this AU was originally designed to be (same personality, just different happenstance), he’d react the same way here. To quote:

“It's like this... I'm really not happy about you messing with my memories. But...you know---I can't really get mad at you for it, either. These memories you gave me... In my head, I know they're lies---but they still feel right. Like the promise I made. I said I would protect you and that I wouldn't make you cry...not ever. Naminé...if you cry now---I'll feel guilty, like I let you down."

The way I interpret this is: “No, the past didn’t actually contain that scene of you being scares of meteors. But if it HAD, I know that my reaction to you would have been exactly how you wrote it. I can’t get too mad about you making up lies, because they’re not entirely lies. I’d totally be here trying to save you either way.” So here, his reaction to Roxas’ meddling would be, “I know my friends are just doing what they feel in their hearts is right, whether they’re ‘remembering’ my face or yours. I can’t be mad at them for doing what’s in their nature: rescuing a friend.” 

Like, maybe if he’d heard the “Off to save Roxas” story WITHOUT knowing about the brain-meddling, he’d be down about getting ditched again. But even the barest hint of “they’re being controlled or bamboozled in some way” is enough for him to brush off any amount of abuse or neglect. Canon Repliku was never anything but an asshole to him, but Sora was just like, “He’ll be fine once I fix him,” the whole time. So. Yeah.

Also they never explicitly say this in canon, but I gotta imagine that the whole, “you’re clearly only messing with memories out of duress because you’re a hostage” thing played a part in Sora not being mad as well. Roxas is much more indignant than Namine, so I think he’d be super upfront in his own defense. Though really he’d only have to say “They made me do it!” once for Sora to be like ”I instantly believe you; let’s go fix everything!” XD