An Artist Articulating That Things are Alright

Hiya, family! My name is Shanna and I'm a young Christian woman. As for my fandoms: I'm a huge Square Enix fan (despite their reconstructing taking forever -sobs-). I love Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, The World Ends With You, Bravely Default, Parasite Eve... you name it. I'm really just a video game girly. Buffy and Angel are my life.

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You know... shouldn't the X-Blade have actually looked like The Keyblade of People's Hearts, since that was essentially half an X-Blade (because it had the seven Lights, but was missing the thirteen Darknesses)?

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Do you guys think that Sora would ever be disappointed if he found out that Riku just let Riku Replica sacrifice himself without a fight, because he was content in the knowledge that the world already had Riku and didn't need him/though he wasn't his own person? And we know, of course, from Chain of Memories that Sora didn't feel that way about Riku Replica. And just how much Sora fights for Nobody rights and that sort of thing.

Yes, it was Riku Replica's choice at the end of the day. And maybe things might get touchy if Sora learned that Riku Replica was sacrificing himself for Naminé's sake.

But I still think Sora would have tried to make Riku Replica think his life had meaning, that he was his own person, and that maybe there was another way.

And maybe would have hoped Riku would have done the same? IDK.

I admit this is of course coming from someone who mostly thinks Riku Replica's ending was stupid (I get what they were going for with it, and I like parts of it, but mostly it ticked me off and I think it contradicts some of the series' messaging), so I'm surely biased. But even so.

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So, the Kingdom Hearts titles all together have made a billion dollars over the years. I see, I see.

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After the last Kingdom Hearts IV trailer came out, many fans were taking the scene with Ava(?) and pairing it with other scenes in the series, where other characters had forced something on someone else (or multiple people). And so, I wanted to do my own version of that.

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This scene in Kingdom Hearts III reminds me of the one where Master Xehanort points at Ventus when he says "X-Blade" in Birth by Sleep (since he knows that Ventus can give him the X-Blade/create the X-Blade/turn into the X-Blade). Because after Master Xehanort says, "will we be found-worthy of the precious light the legend speaks of?", it zooms in on Kairi. And Kairi is a precious light, of course. Then, it later zooms in on Ventus before Xemnas says "But first... Your light shines far too brightly." And we all know that Ventus also has a heart of pure light, of course.

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The "light within the darkness" and "darkness within darkness" (lol).

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I was trying to think of what a Riku and Kairi Limit would look like, and I have two ideas for it:

Riku grows a demon wing, while Kairi has a halo. Kairi keeps throwing her halo at enemies to trap them (think Wonder Woman's lasso), while Riku rips off the pointy ends of his demon wing to then throw at the enemies that Kairi has trapped for them, using them as something akin to daggers. I'm obviously going for demon and angel symbolism with them both here (that has been used for Riku and Kairi before, and even somewhat in limits they've had with Sora. But I'm trying to keep this different from their limits with Sora, obviously).

This is my favorite one: Riku and Kairi are first standing there with their Keyblades, looking at each other awkwardly. But then they look at each other more confidently, dismiss their Keyblades, and Riku attacks their enemies with his fists, while Kairi does so with her legs: the idea behind this one being that Riku and Kairi see each other as the boy and girl they are deep down, without all the bows and whistles (like when Kairi helps Sora to see that "Ansem Seeker of Darkness" was actually Riku). Which is why they would forget their Keyblades in this Limit and just fight like normal people.

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🗝️💖 COUNTDOWN TO D23 💖🗝️

3 Days Until Kingdom Hearts Deep Dive Panel

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🗝️💖 COUNTDOWN TO D23 💖🗝️

5 Days Until Kingdom Hearts Deep Dive Panel

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🗝️💖 COUNTDOWN TO D23 💖🗝️

6 Days Until Kingdom Hearts Deep Dive Panel

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Twenty-four years later, I realize that SoKai parallel that Peter and Wendy scene from earlier, I'm pretty sure.

Bonus:

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So, seeing as how in the two Kingdom Hearts IV trailers we've gotten, the Pixar trademark has appeared at the end of both of them... that, of course, highly hints that we're getting at least one Pixar world in the game.

What do you guys think it is? Or what do you want it to be?

For me, personally, I'd want it to be The Incredibles or Brave, I think. (I mean, I'd definitely be A-okay with other ones appearing, of course, but those are probably my top picks.)

Although... when I've been contemplating about what Disney worlds might be in KHIV lately, I've been thinking that they could really make A Bugs Life work for that game for some reason. Probably because the bugs are so afraid for their lives (which is why they want to get bigger bugs to come there and fight for them). And KHIV is all about death. But IDK.

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My KH D23 Bingo consists of:

Live-Action Movie/Disney Live-Action Remake

Playable Riku

Summons

Nomura-san is There in Some Capacity

Star Wars/Lucas Films

KHIV Riku Outfit

Fox Movie

Free Space

Marvel

More Quadratum

Disney World(s) Revealed

Other Playable Characters

More Gameplay: Like Scrap and Build, Reaction Commands, Keyblade Transformations, Limits, or Drive Forms

New Dearly Beloved or Shimomura Tracks and/or New Utada Hikaru Theme Song

KHIV Kairi Outfit

Square Enix Cameos

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something i really really like about kairi is that she always wears tank tops

even her school uniform she rolled up her sleeves! it's such a fun little character quirk to keep consistent. she hates sleeves!

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Because I feel like Steve Burton as Cloud and Quinton Flynn as Axel both read these lines very similarily, to be honest.

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I'm not making a post about every time someone flips their hair in the series. LOL (For instance, KHII Kairi isn't here.) So, you might be wondering why I've singled these two out. Well, for one thing they both happen in KHI. But it's mainly because I first played KHI with my sister and my sister's best friend, and they compared the Cloud and Aladdin scene--in talking about how graphics-wise, it works better for Cloud (with his light hair), where Aladdin's hand seems to get lost in his dark hair a little bit (graphically, that is). And they probably weren't entirely wrong. Thus, whenever I watch these two scenes, to this day I still think about that.