#kh dark road

[mpkc]

VALI VALI VALI-

[phuuca]

see through my disguise

People are passing around my old Baldr, headcanon art. Thank y'all for liking it so much KAJSBFKASJDBFASHGFBA. I'll make a better version eventually, I swear.

Here's art of the vacant eye under his fringe/bangs. It's solid yellow/gold, like the Heartless and Darklings and he can't close it all the way.

[taylrartz]

And then they cuddled

Follow up to Eraqus Twins at the Carousel because I like my angst with a side of fluff.

And like c'mon Xehanort if you hear him crying night after night COMFORT HIM???😭 (Also I finally beat KH3 yall I cried)

[luxmoogle]

Crow Skuld // Scarecrow Olette // Countess Sigrun ✧˖°.˖ . ݁ Mad Hatter Strelitzia // Ghost Aerith // Pumpkin Vor ˖ . ݁⋆˙⟡ -^~^--^~^--^~^--^~^- Inspired by various Disneyland cast member outfits!

[sorisketches]

sister design I made before the reveal! now she’s just a khux oc :3

[yoroshiu]

On the note of Dark Road though, specifically with the upperclassmen, the way they're written is pretty "show-not-tell" with their dynamics and personalities, and that's something I've always found so fun and neat.

Like from how they react to events or who days what, and what the lines themselves might imply, you can catch glimpses and make theories!

From Heimdall to Hoder, from Sigrun to Vala, from Vali to Vidar, from Helgi to Heimdall, from Hoder to Vidar, etc etc―when you look what they're saying and how they're saying it, you can glean a lot about each of them and how they might've interacted with each other prior to Dark Road's events. And in their actions too, how they move, how they react in combat, etc.. Like they don't need to directly say who bickers a lot, or who usually reigns in the team, or anything like that, but you can probably guess what their norm is just from watching the small amount of scenes they're in.

There's a lot of small things in the animations of the characters too!

I feel like I might just make a post going into exact detail, but yeah!! Dark Road is cool and I think more people should watch it!! (And Union x)

[rantac3000]

Vanitas is , at least for me , the most confusing character in kingdom hearts because what the fuck is up with him. Every point made has a counter to it

He's just pure darkness, but the fact he can feel everything that Ventus felt and Ven's own heart fracturing and how the final fight in BBS goes, we also have proof that Ventus is involved in Vanitas.

He chose to be a villian, but did he really have a choice. Both Dark road and Character files have confirmed some aspects of the novel backstory. (Also Kingdom hearts has a series of misconceptions usually brought on by the adults. Yen sid and Ansem about Nobodies. Odin about Baldr. Who's to say Xehanort is also not mistaken.)

There is so much more. Why are there two Vanitas chess pieces? Who the darkness inside Ventus really was during Re:Mind? ( I personally don't think that's Vanitas. I don't see a lot of design motifs matching.). The novels implying he has Ven's Ux memories.

But the best is..

Where even is Vanitas right now? Ansem the wise has implied that Sora's darkness can trap hearts in it. But then what's in Ventus? Why does his Character story use emptiness as a place beyond light and dark?

So much to think.

[akissthroughtheglass]

Honestly, if KH Dark Road tells us anything, it's that Terra isn't stupid. He's only vulnerable to Xehanort because he's so similar to him. The sheltered education, seeing all the darkness in the worlds, a passionate desire to protect others. Most importantly, a figure that encourages your growth, influencing you just enough to keep you on the path without making you feel manipulated. Xehanort had the blueprint handed to him by his own life.

Xehanort's brilliant insight was that he could create the ideal vessel by interrupting the process of Terra's maturation. After all, if Terra mastered the darkness as Xehanort eventually did, his strength would be too monstrous to control. Even as it was, his lingering will was still able to put Terra-Xehanort in a coma. Xehanort made sure to fight Terra at his most reckless and inexperienced so that he wouldn't have to face an enemy as terrifying as himself.