The Power of Memories Series: A Kingdom Hearts Fanfic Series

This blog has largely become a dump for inspo reblogs as of the recent few years, as I just resumed writing it last year after a haitus...still is mostly my own inspo stuff now and there are a lot of broken links unfortunately: Welcome to the series blog for 'The Power of Memories' AU and connected AUs (such as 'Chains of Light') by Ao3 author the_protector_of_light--aka Indigo. Please take a look around, and I hope you enjoy the series! I will be posting most of my writing connected to the series here, including drabbles--there will be a pinned masterpost at the top of the page. Also, I create a lot of art for the series, so look forward to that! Blog owner's pronouns are they/them.

[khthepowerofmemories]

Masterpost (Updated 1/27/23)

Congrats, you’ve wandered here. If you want to take on what’s basically a novel series, be my guest. Please. Please be my guest.

To be added: links to comics, drabbles, art

My Ao3 in general

The Power of Memories Timeline:

Full Series (including Chains of Light Timeline)

The Power of Memories:

(Story of future children of Sora/Kairi and Riku/Unknown) Can two first time Keyblade Wielders save the worlds from the memories of their predecessors? Neither Akio nor Haru had any idea what would come when they left their homes that night; but they find themselves brought together on the adventure of a lifetime. Remember: memories can be more powerful than reality. (Highly connected story arcs posted here, being posted in large chunks because it is complete) Who wants some rewrites? I do, I do! Starting at Chapter 36, complete rewrite as of 4/16/22. I don’t think I will delete the original version from Ao3, and I don’t think it’s acceptable to make another story for a rewrite of your own, so tacked at the end it is. New readers, please start at chapter 36! Edit again: I have deleted the old version and will post the rewrite as I write it. I am more comfortable with this.

A Bottle of Stars: New Version:

(Complete rewrite of an old story--the only things the same are the bare-bones, so I am reposting it here) Emi lives a normal life in Twilight Town--or so she thinks. Suddenly faced by having lived in an illusion for most of her life, Emi is thrust out into reality and onto a journey to rescue missing Keyblade Masters. With the help of Lea, she finds out just how much she was wrong about, and begins to learn about reality. Jet was sent to keep Emi in an illusion for her own protection from Origin, a being made of the memories of someone long gone. Origin had captured all the Masters, but with Kingdom Key missing, he is one Keyblade short of seven. It was for this reason that Emi was taken into protection. When Emi leaves the illusion, Jet is faced with death--until Origin takes it from him. Emi must rescue her best friend along with everyone else, while struggling to learn to exist in reality. (Part of the Power of Memories Series) (More will be added after first story is posted, keeping these characters neatly in their own realm)

Solace Arc: 

Continuation of an old series from several years ago, mainly just unfinished fragments. After the events of Power of Memories, there is a brief period of peace. Soon, however, Sora, Riku, and Kairi are called upon to find other missing Keyblade Wielders. Not willing to leave their children behind, Akio and Haru are brought along for the journey, along with a stowaway. What shows hope to be a simple trip to keep a family together turns to tragedy with the arrival of a mysterious man known as Solace, who has come to prove that not all light is good. (Posted in entirety 6/10/19) (Origin of Solace from Chains of Light) As of 1/11/22, the retcon of the final several chapters is posted. Leaving the old version in place, but I’m adding on an ‘actually, this’ sort of chapter.

Good Timeline:

After the battle with Solace was over, Akio was still broken, and even when he awoke, something is still missing. He realizes that he was the original Akio, but the one who took his place for him is gone. He cannot fill his place, no matter how hard he tries, and things end up boiling over. However, after the chaos, he begins to form his own, new life, allowing his relationship with Tori to grow. However, that piece that held his place wanders the Final World. Taking on the name ‘Akihiko’ when he finds out there is someone in his place, he fights to find his way back home, knowing that though he has no memory of such, he isn’t the first Akio. In a twist of fate, Akihiko makes it home. Pieces all back in place, both their lives can resume. AKA, Akihiko survives and Akio doesn’t fall on the path to become the Master of Masters. (This story is never going to end, so this is really just a brief summary of what’s happened so far/will continue to take place. As stated, this story will never end. The Good Timeline stuff will be placed here. The ‘canon’ timeline…well, that’s a story for another day.) (the first few links will link to my personal blog where these were first posted)

Redemption:

Scrapped story in the Chains of Light/Power of Memories timeline. Posting it because it's literally finished but I changed paths with the story entirely. Sequel to 'The Undone'. After being slayed by Solace, Superbia somehow wakes intact. He is lost as to what to do with this second chance--after all, does he really deserve it? He is the Master of Masters after all, or maybe he was. Sometimes reality is hard to keep in line… Well, Luxu isn't letting him go anywhere, so might as well try to figure out what happened to Ava in the breaking of the timeline. That gives some direction to head… Posting all five chapters at once.

True Timeline Continuation:

(The true continuation of the Power of Memories Series, takes place after Solace Arc. Posting it now a chapter at a time, because it's going really slow.) Akio wakes up after the injuries inflicted by Solace…The Real Akio. Turned out, that the Akio who led the story was a front--a separate facet of his heart…that had to sacrifice himself to stop the Real Akio from dying. Akio wakes up forced into a life that he isn't used to. He hasn't been himself for a few years, and his family knows the 'Other Akio', not him…How can he face a life he never had? How can he accept that the 'Other him' and Yami sacrificed themselves so that he could live? Additional descriptions to be added. Please read note at the start of the story. Please DO NOT READ THIS STORY if heavy descriptions of mental illness, suicidal thoughts/intent, mentions of past abuse and other trauma are triggering to you!

Solace arc scene comic:

Fears and Doubts Disappear

Drabbles:

The End/Dynasty

Within Dreams

End Credits

Attack

Press Triangle for Tori (Excerpt from Solace Arc)

Excerpt from Dark!Tori timeline

Except from Until We Meet Again

Bones Shatter

Live On

First To Quadratum

Serenity

Maps

Pieces

Hell's Comin' With Me

How To Burn A Night

Untitled Akio/Haru Fluff

Untitled Akio/Haru Fluff 2

Love Like You

Loyal, Brave, and True

Crawling

Like a Villain

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[wrigglewormz]

The thing you Must understand when writing relationships is sometimes them not breaking up is the bad ending. Sometimes them getting together at all is the bad ending. Whether this means "story about letting things go" or "torture the Character more effectively by understanding this" is up to you, but do not forget this. Okay goodbye.

[a-driftamongopenstars]

the horror of being "god's favourite princess". literally one of my favourite horror themes. the god loves you and it's so scary.

it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.

you are god's favourite princess and it's terrifying.

[valtsv]

i LOVE the idea of "i can't win, but you can lose" in fictional confrontations it is SO fucking tasty. the human nature to self destruct and the human nature to survive by any means necessary combined at its finest.

[guiltfactory-moved]

this lamb keeps trying to sacrifice itself even though no one really needs or wants it to do that

[tlirsgender]

Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

[tlirsgender]

It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society

[tlirsgender]

Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???

My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah

[firstfullmoon]

“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.” 

“Childhood is dark and it’s always moaning like a little animal that’s locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it’s too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly.”

“Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart.”

— Tove Ditlevsen, from The Copenhagen Trilogy, tr. Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman

[glowcowboy]

we’re gonna be ok btw

[glowcowboy]

it’s ok if you’re scared. or tired. or unsure. or one million billion other complicated emotions at once. but i’ve decided things are going to be ok anyway. and i will hold that belief close to my heart no matter how scared or tired or lonely or depressed or one million billion other things i am. i will hold onto that. and if you’re scared, you can hold onto me. we can carry each other through

[worriedyourwingswouldmelt]

“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.

[antigonehappy]

character who is sun-coded but not in the traditional ray-of-sunshine way. character who is sun-coded in the sense that they burn hot and bright and powerful, that they're a raging fury of fire and passion, and that maybe, just maybe, they are destroying themselves as they do so.

[binabees]

character who is moon-coded but not in the moody grumpy way. character who is moon-coded in the way they shine brightly in darkness guiding others. a character that is moon-coded with all their darker sides no one else can see. that they are lonely and lovely. doomed to watch on as the the person who gives them their light slowly destroys themselves taking the light with them.

[bonivers]

i haven’t stopped thinking about this tweet for days

[misericordiia]

enough of asking "would you still love me if i was a worm?" would you still love me if i was a pit in your stomach eating away at you from the inside? would you still love me if i was a distant memory you could do nothing but grieve? would you still love me if i haunted you for the rest of your life?

[phantomrose96]

Hey hey don’t cry. Character who destroys themself in the end for nothing

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

The most obsession inducing trait a character can have for me is knowing somewhere in their heart That They Are A Bad Kid

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

This isn't necessarily literal. It can apply to characters who aren't children too. But there's something about characters who are either certain of the fact, or terrified of the possibility, that they are just fundamentally wrong and bad at their core

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

It is also important to me that it is not true. No one is fundamentally broken and evil.

[eidetictelekinetic]

Mutual pining is great, but you know what's even better? Mutual pining where they're both fully aware the feelings are requited, they just can't do anything about it for other reasons. Or maybe they technically could but they've had to choose not to, because of The Circumstances.

[cepheusgalaxy]

"Doomed yaoi" this "doomed yuri" that what about doomed found family. What about finding comfort in these new people after going through so much on your own—a community, a solace, a home to come back to. Caring for them with all you've got, only to realize that it wasn't going to work, ever, no matter what you tried. Only to have it ripped apart, no matter how much you tried to hold them close. Found family that becomes lost family. Found family that takes your heart with it when they go.