Crowns & Keys

Kingdom Hearts brianrot. If I have ideas I’m dumping them here. Feel free to use them in your fanfics. 👍 Old School Keyblade Wielder II 33 II AU's & FIC IDEAS

[luxmoogle]

₊˚⊹ ⋆⁺₊✧ Open your eyes..✧˖°. ₊˚.⋆

[seraph-sar]

It's been too long since I posted something Kingdom Hearts related, so have this completely out of context royal Xion I drew a while ago. (Thanks to @crowns-and-keys for the brainworms for this particular drawing :D)

[nortmare]

the suffering of vanitas.gif

[crowns-and-keys]

*snorts out tea*

[seraph-sar]

I made my second Keyblade! The Keyblade in question being Starlight.

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out too, especially since the star at the tip just broke off when I was nearly done with it and I smoehow had to reattach it.

Some more pictures from the process for your enjoyment:

I'm definitely going to do more of these, this is a lot of fun. The next one I've planned will probably be either Braveheart or Void Gear.

[crowns-and-keys]

I will never get over how cool these are! ✨

[cherrielatte]

Vanitas & Sora screencap sketches

[crowns-and-keys]

I’m sorry but - look at these lovey boys!

These portraits are just so pretty. Look how the artist drew their little eyelashes. 💖 (´▾｀)

… I need to friggin sketch.

[crowns-and-keys]

To the 4 people who liked the ‘Keeping The Light’ AU idea. You’re legends - thank you for taking the time to read my post! :3

(And if anyone has questions about the AU’s, my Ask Box is always open!)

[tharkflark1]

The Halloween town riku design belongs to @nikutsune ! I hope u don’t mind me doodling him a little <3

[crowns-and-keys]

It has been brought to my attention Werewolf!Riku is running around the tags again. Excellent content. >:3

I love the ‘Road to Dawn’ boy going wolf mode to protect Sora!

Also - Riku’s tail wags when he happy and Sora’s wings flutter! Staaaapp! You are killing me! （≧∇≦）

[trashcantasch]

@seraph-sar hi i made the fanart :)

Homecoming is really good all of you should read it

[crowns-and-keys]

Holy cow!!! Look at how cute they are! Look at BIRTCH!!!

OP, I love the clothes you picked for Ven and Van. (Low key, I want that star shirt.)

[crowns-and-keys]

'Keeping the Light' AU

Sometimes I wonder what Ventus would have turned out like if Xehanort decided to keep him around. ...btw, that's not blood leaking from his eyes and ears, it's darkness... totally... yep.

Ventus may be the light half but I can hardly see Xehanort facilitating a positive personality. If anything, I think Vanitas would be the loud (and obnoxious) one and Ventus would seem empty and calculating, never really seeming to grow from the state of getting his heart torn apart.  (I’m thinking, his heart may be healed, but it is being smothered by darkness / Xehanort's will.)

And I love the idea that, as he crosses paths with Terra and Aqua, he begins to grow more positive traits. Of course, this is only after he ends up fighting them like a stone-cold human weapon. He might be a being of light but he would be absolutely ruthless.

I like to think Sora’s heart/light would be sheltering him from a lot of the cruelty Xehanort inflicts on him and Vanitas. And when he gets to actually interact with those who show genuine kindness, it starts to bring out his humanity.

And you know, if Ventus can be saved from Xehanort's control, then Vanitas has a shot at healing/redemption as well. He's probably not nearly as receptive to Aqua and Terra who... well, he's just as awful to them as in canon.  Or not - there are literally too many ideas for this concept! Vanitas getting on decent terms with Aqua and Terra before Ventus, as well as growing to care for his 'brother' over time, is a pretty interesting subversion of expectation.

There is also the potential of them both not having full hearts, (which means Vani is running around without a face until Sora or someone else shows up to heal him.)

Regardless of the story, I like the vibe of this drawing. Let Ven go off and tear things up with his light power! >:D

(Don't know if I'll keep the name for this AU, but I wanted to title it something.)

Artwork © Megan Kerstetter / Crowns & Keys 2022

Ventus © Nomura Tetsuya / Square Enix

[frownyalfred]

this makes me! so happy! fanfic isn’t something embarrassing! it’s this awesome world of new endings, AUs, character dives, “what ifs?” and even more!

[crowns-and-keys]

RIGHT! I've been reading fan-fiction on and off for over 15 years. It is one of my most enjoyed hobbies. I read more of it then physically published literature!

I hate the shame and stigma towards it. Like to enjoy your favorite media ‘more’ is somehow frowned upon. Yes there are different levels of fic writers due to their being a range of skill. But that is the beauty of it! You don’t have to be great, you just have to have passion.

I have a hard time believing it myself but - there is no aging out of fan work. There is no time frame for being interested in the things you love!

You are allowed to have fun!

Read you crack, angst, fluff, hurt/comfort etc / The same trope by different authors a thousand different times.

Fucking allow yourself to enjoy life. Because you only get one and you should get to read and look at the stuff you enjoy without feeling bad about it.

[virovac]

People honestly didn’t go “mad” from seeing cosmic horror things in Lovecraft very often. That’s a modern thing, and honestly feels like modified “gorgon”

Usually its stress, paranoia or ptsd from near death experience.

The true terror was not really in seeing something horrifying and alien, but understanding the implications, or not being able to fit it into an existing mental framework.

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Playing this up could actually create an interesting setup in a narrative, come to think of it. Someone seems fine after dealing with cosmic horrors, so everyone assumes they were fine. Cue some days later, when everything’s settled and they’re able to process what happened, they find that they begin to have a breakdown as it all begins to fall together.

[therobotmonster]

As a simple thought experiment, imagine what encountering something completely recognizable but otherwise impossible would do.

Lets say you walked into the next room, and standing on a piece of furniture was a little man, literally 18 inches tall, at most, in green clothing, clambering and climbing about. I don’t mean like what you’d imagine from a special effect or a cartoon, but a real tiny thing that looked, moved, and acted like an impossibly miniature humanlike creature, the hair wouldn’t be shrunk by proportion, there’d be fewer folicles overall, but more densely packed. You can see the faint veins under the skin, the hairs, the pores, you can smell it, it leaves scuffs, it makes sounds appropriate for its size… and when it sees you, it just looks at you, tilts its head, smiles mischieviously, and darts under the couch, vanishing. The only thing you find is a gold coin, which is real, solid, and rare, having not seen circulation in centuries.

You’ve had, in this scenario, an encounter with a leprechaun. It’s a relatively understandable phenomenon. There’s plenty of tolklore to prepare you for it, the creature is rationally built, has antatomy that makes sense, is similar to yourself enough to be very familiar. It wasn’t even hostile. 

Is your life ever going to be the same? 

In addition to questioning whether you actually saw what you saw, you now have to wonder why you were visited. Wil it come back? If it does can it hurt you? If it can, can you stop it? Where did it come from? Has it always just been there, out of sight? Is it here right now?

And those are just surface level questions. Now, fundamentally, the rules of reality have to be reassessed. If such a thing can exist, what does that say about our understanding of biology and evolution? Moreover, there are suddenly theological implications here, none of which are likely to be cleanly or comfortingly answered in their entirety. 

You’ve just witnessed sone of the single most important encounters in human history, and anyone who hears you talk about it is going to think you’ve lost your mind. The terror and sense of lonliness from that is going to be soul crushing.

Now, replace the leprechaun with something that looks like a deep dream animation brought to life and appears to be both impossible to adequately destroy and possessed of absolute malevolence. Getting attacked by a normal everyday animal can be traumatizing, surviving an encounter with a bloodsucking octopus tree that screams in an alien language from mutiple slathering maws is certrainly beyond the ken of 1930s psychiatric medicine. 

[noblepeasant]

Add to this that many of the protagonists of these stories are already undergoing some kind of stressful experience.

In Dagon, the protagonist has been adrift at sea for days.

In Shadow Over Innsmouth, the protagonist is slowly turning into a Deep One

In Call of Cthulu, the protagonist is at risk of being assassinated by a cult

In At The Mountains of Madness, the protagonist has read the Necronomicon, which paints a horrendous, gruesome image of the world as we know it. He then finds things that suggest that what he read in the Necronomicon is true - in other words, he has confirmation that life is worthless, all our struggles are for nothing and that nothing we do matters.

Exposure, psyological changes, paranoia and the complete destruction of your sense of self-worth are all things that will fuck with your head at the best of times. The monsters are just the push over the edge.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Understandable, you’re having a really rough day the last thing you want to see is Nyarlethotep causing problems on purpose.

[virovac]

cousin-possum-kc

#the guys who survive at the mountains of madness go nuts for a few days and then get rich off writing books about it

[tsunderful]

In the Dunwich Horror nobody really goes mad when they find out that Wilbur and his brother are human/Great Old One hybrids they go ‘that’s fucked up but if we use a big enough gun we can probably kill it’ and then they do.

[crowns-and-keys]

This is a fresh take on cosmic horror I can get behind. I want to know the details of slowly dawning madness. Because we as humans, especially those who have trauma, I think, have a tendency to block out horrific events when we need to get a job done. But the slow realization that we can't just 'go on as normal' afterwards, is such a raw and relatable experience.

[crowns-and-keys]

Does anyone out there know a way I can pick specific fonts that can be randomized while writing?

Or if I could just copy paste and a sentence through a generator? I've searched google, but I'm having a hard time finding something that lets me choose the fonts. (Google fonts. Currently using Google Docs.)

I'm trying to write a character speaking, but he's using an otherworldly voice to do so, so I wanted the font to reflect that.

Here's an example:

It would be really helpful if I could get the basics of what I need down, instead of going over each letter individually.

To anyone who can help - you have my eternal gratitude!

[yincryz]

I feel old actually using tumblr again-

[crowns-and-keys]

Same bro. Same.

[owlforkh]

The conversation with yourself.

If you want to dig into Riku’s character act deeply, then it’s impossible to avoid his queer coding.

[crowns-and-keys]

Did a few writing adjustment in my head while reading this, to get a better flow in english and... look I know it's not what is written, but it punched me in the feels so hard my eyes welled up.

Characters reconciling with their youngerselfs will get me every time.

For reference:

Pg1

Young Riku: What's even the point of all this?

You're not needed. Just like now, you'll be dumped like trash, without any hesitation.

Pg2

Riku: We both know that's not true.

Everyone is just trying to do the best they can.

Young Riku: Haha...

And that's why you ended up here all alone.

You not being involved is the 'best they can do'.

Your feelings don't matter at all. You are the last thing anyone needs to consider about. Maybe the thought never even crossed their minds!

Pg3

Young Riku: They don't have to think about you, but you still stick around. How convenient for them.

Riku: ...It can be. (That may be true)

But

No matter if we're important to them or not, that has nothing to do with our own feelings.

We decided to protect something precious to us long ago.

Don't forget it.

Young Riku: When shooting stars hit the ground?

Pg 4

...Haha.

Even though ONLY YOU are the one who remembers?!

Whether it's secrets or memories, it's always only YOU!

Riku: Yeah

but this is our Oath.

The Oath we made to ourselves.

So...

We are the ones, who need to remember it.

......

Riku: Even...

Pg 5

Riku: ...if you put everything back on track. Your real wish will never come true.

You will only be alone. (You will always be alone.)

Riku: I know.

Child Riku: But I don't want to be alone. I don't want to be forgotten.

It hurts.

Riku: I know.

Pg 6

Riku: But we already made the choice.

Choose the pain beside him,

rather than the pain without him.

Child Riku: ....Will this pain

finally go away someday?

Riku: I don't know.

But I believe, we can handle it.

Child Riku: You know what,

Pg 7

We are such an idiot.

Riku: Did I fall asleep? What time is it? I don't have time for...

*Sees Sora*

Pg 8

........

I will save you, no matter what.

Even if I have nothing left in the end.

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This is not a perfect one to one with the original (obviously), and is how I personally interpreted it.

It's very sweet and very sad to see a character love someone so much, and still choose to be by their side, while being willing to let them go when/if their feeling aren't returned.

Riku being able to acknowledge the child inside himself that is hurting, and accepting his choice, feels very meaningful/powerful to me.

So good job comic artist - you've broken my heart in the best possible way.

[lieserli]

Pay close enough attention (and by that, I mean pause and run through the frames one by one because it’s very brief and easy to miss) and you’ll see Roxas attacking Xemnas with Oblivion and Oathkeeper before it transitions to Sora and Riku finishing the blow with the very same Oblivion and Oathkeeper. Important to note Roxas gained his second Keyblade upon absorbing Xion so she’s relevant in this too. The duos have been compared YET again.

[crowns-and-keys]

Look, I started my run of Dream Drop Distance last night and saw this in the opening. I mentally screamed! I LOVED that they set it up this way.

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It was incredibly cool, and now I wish I could play a version of KH2 where Sora and Riku kick Xemnas's ass with Oathkeeper and Oblivion!

Also, that animation -👌! As an artist myself I was drinking that opening in with my eye! So glad I didn't break in the past and watch it on YouTube.

[luxmoogle]

(Working on something currently but came here to write something up again so I don't forget)

Headcanon: Sora having formchanges in Quadratum which are various different forms of dripped out street wear

[crowns-and-keys]

The KH fashion game we didn't know we needed but totally deserve!

[luxmoogle]

I wish for Goofy to parent Sora the way he parents Max

[luxmoogle]

I also wish for Donald to not parent Sora like he does his nephews

[crowns-and-keys]

* spits out drink! * lmao