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something had happened. gone were they days where she & vanitas awkwardly stumbled over each other, fighting two battles against the same enemy. now, they fought as a TEAM. when one moved back, the other jumped in. blocks were countered, spells were tossed, & they worked together like a WELL OILED MACHINE. but, machines could hiccup. cogs could clash instead of move together, buttons could break, gears could grind to a halt.
kairi had never understood that more than when she saw vanitas flying across the battlefield, swatted away with such ease that kairi felt her stomach DROP. she only looked away from him to watch void gear skid by her feet, tossed away by the force of the blow.
she watched in HORROR as the darkside turned it’s attention to vanitas alone, & she knew she only had moments to plan. it only took a moment to realize that void gear never returned to his grip–––– he needed a WEAPON before he could do anything.
kairi spared a moment to glance down at destiny’s embrace, a silent question of PERMISSION. it’s answer thrummed through her veins.
❛ vanitas! ❜ a desperate call to get his attention was all the warning she could give before she took several hurried steps forward, tossing destiny’s embrace with accuracy that she didn’t know she POSSESSED. her own weapon tossed, she took advantage of their enemy’s distracted state to turn & sprint towards void gear, her hand already extended for a quick, easy pickup.
she just had to hope it would ANSWER HER CALL.
being unarmed and charged for wasn’t exactly the easiest thing to deal with but vanitas believed he could hold out fairly well either way , he just had to figure out a way to give himself a moments peace ... didn’t have to , it seemed , as kairi had already hatched a plan of her own .
eyes shift to her and the angered panic was visible on down ― turned eyebrows . ❛ what are you doing ? ! ❜ he snapped , eyes following kairi’s rapidly approaching keyblade ─── a keyblade bound by light , intended for someone pure . ❛ that won’t work ! ❜ too late now , destiny’s embrace was already well on its way and kairi was forgoing his disapproval to instead sprint for void gear . damn it .
vanitas exhaled an irritated groan but reached out to catch the blade in pale hands anyway ─── and to his utter shock , it stayed . ❛ what ... ❜
there was no time for a crisis over this ─── he could contemplate his existence and what the fuck any of this meant when he wasn’t about to get his teeth kicked in by an oversized punching bag . ❛ goddamn it ─── this better work ... ❜ a keyblade of pure light in the palm of something so tainted and flawed , his usual mantra that came with overconfident fighting shattered as he had to take a moment to prove to himself this was real ─── a swing of flowery blade , grasping the hilt tightly as he smacked away the fist reaching down .
it worked ... it worked ? how the fuck did it work ? !
meanwhile on the other side of the battlefield ; answer kairi’s call it did , flickering out of sight before the princess of heart had even reached it ─── only to reappear in her hand of its own choosing . just like its master , not satisfied unless it was the one deciding its own fate .
EAGLE. independent, caring too much for others, sharp looks, walking down the city late at night, the tallest and more spectacular building, iron, being single and okay in a world that tells you that being single is bad
SWIFT. falling in love quickly and slowly, traveler, the infinity of the bluest sky, storms, broken smiles, forgetting people who used to be your beloved ones, feeling out of place, mistrusting people, a fleeting romance.
CROW. feeling as if you have seen so much and as if you know a lot, prejudge, tight hugs that leave you breathless, a grey sky, serenity, intelligence, being left behind, chains, smoke, the pride of someone wise.
DOVE. petals, jealousy, being tired of living with the same old faces, whispered secrets, marble, sundresses, white clothes, the first sunset of winter, pride in who you are, learning to get over someone.
SEAGULL. family, golden light, the sea murmuring in your ear, summer afternoons, caramel ice cream, collecting seashells and other things and calling them treasures, living breezy and carefree, swimming in the sunlight.
CANARY. artistic, getting excited quickly, dancing and singing while you are alone, looking at your friends having fun, no phone, being afraid of judgment, spring, a meaningful gift, the first ray of sunlight.
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his reaction to her lips pressing gently against his neck as part of
her greeting surprised her. his head whipping around so they were
meeting each other's eyes had almost knocked her off balance. his own
gaze was wide, as shocked as her own. a moment of squinting, studying
his gaze, & it clicked. ❛ could you...feel that? ❜ she tried not to
get excited by the thought, but she couldn't help it. so many kisses
& touches had gone practically unfelt, and all she'd needed was to
find the right spots.
it did come as a shock , entirely so ─── a kiss was a feeling he’d only experienced since his relations with kairi melded into something more ; one he struggled to really recognize against so much hardened skin , damaged from battle upon battle , scar upon scar , the ripping and reforming of darkness or the seeping and oozing of unversed ... his body was a mess ─── flesh and bone a pretty cover up keeping the truth of his being barely locked in .
but ... the constant use of a helmet for so long meant his neck and higher experienced considerably less trauma compared to the rest , no visible scars ... and a lot of sensitivity . sensitivity he typically forgot about until something triggered it .
❛ ... ❜ staring at kairi with a surprised , kind of dumbfounded expression as he processed the action ; he eventually gave a slow and subtle nod . ❛ y ... yeah , i did . ❜
he can see the excitement in her eyes ─── she’s worse at hiding it than she thinks , and vanitas realized he should probably expand upon why if only just a little . a bit of an awkward sigh and vanitas was glancing elsewhere . ❛ i’ve worn a helmet most of my existence , probably saw me in it back when we first encountered each other back at the graveyard , you remember ? ❜ how thoughtful , his past master was kind enough not to inflict any brain damage on him at least . ❛ guess ... i forgot how much feeling i still have around there . but yes , i could feel it ; was ... kind of strange . ❜
he’s looking at her again , an interest he can’t seem to shake stuck in those amber eyes .
i’ve decided to go ahead and make this an official verse! so far this’ll be a test to see how i like it and if my mutuals and rp partners enjoy it as well! below is a big ol’ dump of info for anyone interested or just curious as to how i’ve managed to rationalize this one angery boy being the master of masters himself.
i’ve decided to go ahead and make this an official verse! so far this’ll be a test to see how i like it and if my mutuals and rp partners enjoy it as well! below is a big ol’ dump of info for anyone interested or just curious as to how i’ve managed to rationalize this one angery boy being the master of masters himself.
i’ve decided to go ahead and make this an official verse! so far this’ll be a test to see how i like it and if my mutuals and rp partners enjoy it as well! below is a big ol’ dump of info for anyone interested or just curious as to how i’ve managed to rationalize this one angery boy being the master of masters himself.
ATTITUDE.
i know this is an odd place to start but it was one of the main things i wanted to tackle before committing to this idea ─── the master of masters and vanitas act very differently and i wanted to explore this aspect in detail before branching into anything else, so i think it’s a good place to start as far as solidifying my ideas go.
i’ve established before on this blog how much i love to put emphasis on vanitas’ unversed and how he expresses less emotion the more unversed he’s expelled as it pushes emotions out of his native body and into an extension of himself. in birth by sleep vanitas is his quietest, he’s calm and collected and doesn’t really snap or yell very often if at all, this is because he has thousands of his unversed spread across multiple worlds at once, his main body is left feeling hollow and emotionless, and he likes feeling this way as it puts him fiercely in charge of himself. in kh3 he’s louder and snappier, considerably so, and this is because his unversed only occupy one world, monstropolis, and later on a bit of the keyblade graveyard as well. a lot of his reactions to things are more personal and human-like because of this.
during the age of fairy tales... vanitas, or rather the master of masters, keeps all of his unversed inside at all times ― and yes, he does have the ability to create unversed at this time. the reason the master of masters is so aloof and out there, why he’s so expressive with his reactions and being over the top with his moods changing like the flick of a switch is because he has countless emotions bubbling away inside him all at once, all fighting for the forefront.
in kingdom hearts 3 and remind you see glimpses in vanitas’ attitude that don’t exactly fit him... ‘hey guys, feeling a little LEFT OUT HERE’ with such vim and vigor, such a need for attention that the mom definitely portrays at times too, and ‘venty-wenty’? things that i at least can personally say i’d never expected to hear vanitas say, so why is this change happening? why now? well... i’ll get to that in a bit.
VANISHED, DIMMED, AND FADED WITHOUT A TRACE.
so before i go any further i wanna take a bit of a jump back to instead talk about how i see the master of masters becoming vanitas, how this change in not just attitude but his entire person is so different before we tackle the most recent stuff and him realizing who he was / is.
all the way back to the age of fairy tales; the fact that ventus resides in this timeline is sort of the saving grace for this au - along with of course vanitas’ mention in remind about how they were never the same person to begin with. anyway ─── when the master decided it was high time he booked it outta there and let the world take the wheel, he discarded his coat and physical form ( which is already something my canon vanitas can do, discard sora’s body and just be a bunch of sentient, floating darkness ) to instead plant himself inside the heart of the one boy he knew thanks to the book of prophecies would flee the keyblade war and make it relatively unharmed to the world to come and actually live it; ventus.
there he stayed until xehanort extracted the darkness from ventus’ heart in bbs, ‘creating’ him. we already know that this process left ventus without his memories and in a near zombified state for quite some time ― the master of masters wasn’t much different; losing all his memories of his time as said master, a near blank slate with only recollection of his time as ventus post the age of fairy tales at his disposal.
a being with all this excess power he could barely control let alone contain, the unversed now came in waves and rest assured xehanort was thrilled ― the abuse, neglect, and mistreatment came with xehanort’s desire to control vanitas and meld him into his ‘perfect darkness’, it changed him from who he used to be, a chaotic and free spirit now to one of anger and jealousy, of envy and hatred, no longer armed with the knowledge of his creation, the book of prophecies, or anything else aside from xehanort’s harsh teachings.
flash forward now to kh3 where vanitas has reformed himself from the negativity flowing from monstropolis, he’s given an organization cloak for the first time ― and this is where things begin to change. recall in remind when the mom and young xehanort speak? how xeha mentions he feels a connection to the coat, how he feels it was meant for him, he was supposed to wear this; well, a similar sensation occurred in vanitas too. he felt a connection, a piece of the past slipping back through the cracks, it comes back little piece by little piece. vanitas keeps this a secret from xehanort, doing his best not to allow the slowly returning memories to become apparent as the man knows oh so many ways to get whatever he wants out of him at this point, but you see bits of a changing personality slip through like i’d mentioned before, the little bits of dialogue that feel just a little too off.
THE FUTURE.
this is where my info begins to run dry! as for what his plans are and what he intends to do from here on out, i’m not too sure, but somehow i feel like that’s very very fitting for his character. honestly, i wouldn’t be surprised if after his death in kh3 he manages to reform himself to his former appearance and, especially with xehanort dead and gone, can continue his watch over the world as the events to come play out as intended. he’s a watchman, a spectator, a journalist, purely there for the ride and to write down what his eyes see from many different reaches of the world.
and who knows? luxu’s done a great job fulfilling his role ― maybe it’s about time for an unprompted rendezvous.
SOME EXTRA TIDBITS.
the master of masters is the original embodiment of darkness created by kingdom hearts to balance the light
he is chaotic neutral
he’s always had the power to create unversed, but would rarely if ever do so before his time as vanitas
he was aware of his fate to lose his memories and become xehanort’s living punching bag and yet still helped ymx be put on his path
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up with! I've been connecting a lot of dots between v and mom since
kh3 came out so seeing you, with such an awesome take on vanitas,
take on this train of thought had me 👀👀👀👀 SO I CANT WAIT TO
SEE WHAT YOU DO WITH IT
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