#swift keyblader

[mariposalass]

Sakurai you mad man!

You have finally done it! You have broken the Internet and got my heart squeeing. Another friend is now immortalized in Smash!!!

[mariposalass]

Sora’s Time to Shine

Summary: Mari is already not putting too much expectations going into watching the Final Smash Presentation when someone close to her besides Kirby and Edelgard’s beloved Professor pops out of nowhere in said Presentation. All hell breaks loose (but in a good way).

Setting: Mari and co.’s house in Daly City, California; October 5, 2021

Notes: I was pretty behind in seeing the reveal since I was pretty tired when it came out and I had to check a friend’s post on Plurk to make sure that it was not all for the jokes before watching it on Gamespot and writing this story down. And yes, the Byleth in my S/I verse is the female version in case anyone is curious. And yes, it took me until around 8 AM to write this up. Featuring Luther Vandross. Here is an ask I made on Sora’ behest during a F/O takeover long before he got confirmed recently. #SakuraiHasReachedtheImpossibleDream #Sora4Smash

Tags: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Smash Bros., Swift Keyblader, Smash Reveal, Sakurai has reached the impossible dream!, Sora for Smash, #Sora4Smash

“Hurry Mari, you’re about to miss it!” Kairi is dragging me out onto the sofa to see the final Smash Ultimate Presentation on the living room pretty early before plopping ourselves onto the sofa.

“Look, Kairi, guys. I hate to be a party pooper, but I have no clue about who could it be,” I try to be realistic in my views.

“Well, at this point, my beloved, it could be anybody from the video game world,” my dear Philip chimes in while trying to reassure me, “Besides, as soon as it is done, we shall try to reply back to this non Smash invitation that El had found in the mail today.”

“Huh, is that correct, El dear?” I asked my regal adopted daughter for confirmation.

“Why yes of course, Mother,” she replies as she passes me the invitation, “I believe that a friend of yours has sent us one, but I didn’t want to open it immediately since this is addressed to you.”

“Okay then, I will get to read it and reply back once the Presentation is over and see who gets to fight with Kirby and Professor Byleth,” I smiled back at her.

“I couldn’t believe that there was a leak that just came out before this Presentation video and it is about music. Who was that dense enough to do it at a time like this?” Riku mumbles as he gets the video streaming on the Nintendo Direct page in his laptop.

“You know, Riku, sometimes people can act very idiotic at times, so there isn’t much we can do besides ignoring and avoiding that as much as possible,” Harry sighs as he is bottle feeding and gently rocking Serena as she had cried a while ago to be bottle fed.

“Guys, have you guys seen Sora lately?” Issa asks us while carrying Chris in her arms, “I haven’t seen him in the last few days. He didn’t even reply back to either my or Kairi’s texts and calls. Do you think he’s off to visit Jack and Sally in Halloween Town? It’s nearing Halloween soon.”

“That’s really a good question, Issa,” Ahk agrees, “I had given up trying to find him by calling over on the phone since last Thursday. All I have gotten from it were many ‘The subscriber could not be reached’ messages.”

Even Riku and Kairi are in a loss for words as they turn to each other and wonder what is up with our friend lately. Did he just went poof without us knowing? Kirby always informs us through his many Poyos that he would have to head off to Smash whenever a new tourney starts or a newcomer arrives and Edelgard’s class often gets shorter class schedules or early dismissals whenever Professor Blyeth gets to fight in Smash: she is the professor handling the Black Eagles class. Sometimes even El, Petra and Dorothea along with a few others (and yes, that includes the Gatekeeper) would come over to Smash to spectate from the sidelines and support their beloved Professor.

There is a long silence when the Nintendo Switch title card plays in the laptop and Karina directs us all to watch the screen to see many clips featuring many Smashers in the current tournament before it transitions to Sakurai-san in the studio explaining about the video as well as showcasing the Mii Fighter costumes.

“Hey look, Isabelle the Dog’s demon slaying friend from Bethesda is now coming to Smash to rip and tear up the competition!” Moana screams when the Doomguy Mii Gunner costume appears.

“Good for him; I know that many fans really did want him to be in Smash, though the costume is a nice addition,” Issa agrees. “That now makes three Bethesda franchises represented in the costumes.”

“Even the Octolings and Judd the Cat got hats based on them too,” I chime in as well.

“Oh hey, guys! Sakarui’s about to reveal the last fighter for the Second Fighter’s Pass, so keep down it and don’t expect too much,” Karina informs as Sakurai transitions to the main event and we all stay silent and stay glued to our seats.

The screen turns black before the usual Smash logo opening shows up, but instead of the usual zoom in, it then turns into a flaming Smash logo with all the Smashers up until Kazuya Mishima (yeah, the guy who tried to drop Kirby off a cliff) looking at it and covered in the shadows. Did MH decided to get them to show up in there and meet the last fighter in the dark? Probably, I bet that he might be keeping it as a surprise and possibly even conserving electricity at the same time. Then cut to Inkling Girl looking in awe with the Smash logo reflecting onto her pupils as a nice ode to the first reveal trailer for the game/tourney, I honestly love this shot.

Wait a minute, the logo turns into stars and the next scene shows everyone frozen in place as toy-like ambiios?!? How is it even possible? Well, it does certainly confirmed once again that the video game version of the tourney is set in a world of make believe after all. I could swear that a lot of people crying their eyes out as they are watching this. It looks like this is the end of one great video game series about mascots fighting among each other. Or is it? Because the camera is aiming at Mario as if he looks like he’s trying to take a nap while standing up.

Riku then proceeds to mumble some words to me incoherently that something big is coming the moment Mario wakes up to see a glowing light to see the last remaining flame glowing on the floor, which I do agree with him. Suspicious right? Oh God, Mario no! Please don’t touch the fire for everyone’s sanity. Wait, hold on a second: that isn’t not just fire that he just grabbed on and then tossed it into the sky like a boomerang: the mystery object looks like a Keyblade and there’s that Mickey keychain! Yep, that’s a Keyblade alright. Could it be...

I could recognize that beam of light that Keyblades often produce whenever they lock and unlock Keyholes to other worlds, so does everyone in the room. Riku and Kairi hugged onto each other as if we’re about to brace for an emergency (Karina and Moana also did the same), Ahk stares at the screen to see if he’s not imagining things all the sudden, Issa has her mouth drop in shock, Chris and Serena didn’t cry throughout this entire presentation, Harry gasps and nearly drops Serena’s bottle, Philip turns to me for answers while Edelgard begins to sweatdrop in concern.

No words are exchanged as the light grows and shines brighter before it proceeds to shoot itself away from the Keyblade to reveal a Keyhole on another part of the room. It then glows bright within as the camera switches back to the rest of frozen Smashers as the light begins to fill the room and revives Link, Cloud, Incineroar and Mewtwo as they all gawk at it as it reveals something from the World of Light with the orchestral rendition of Simple and Clean playing in the background. And that’s when it hits us right at the gut: the familiar spiky brown hair poking out from that Keyhole.

“What!?!” Kairi shouts as the Keyhole ‘spits’ out Sora from the World of Light.

“H-h-he actually got in, for real?” Riku squeaks up.

“Oh my…” I gasp in pure shock as we watch the whole thing played out.

“Sakarui finally did it?” Issa adds in to the discussion.

“Well, it’s about time that they managed to get his darn behind into the tourney,” Karina seconds in.

Soon enough, Sora finally wakes up from his nappy time and takes notes from Peter Pan and Tinkerbell as he flies around, sprinkling fairy dust all over the other Smashers, before landing on the floor and the Keyblade flying back to his hand.

“Damn it, Sora!” I scream as the splash screen pops in.

“Kai, your boy has finally made it big time!” Moana shakes Kairi in congratulation rather rapidly that it nearly gives my lil sis a dizzying spell.

“Moana, please don’t make Kairi that dizzy,” Harry had to tell her that.

“Whoops! Sorry Kairi,” she apologizes to her which she accepts.

So with that, we switch back to Sakurai going in depth with Sora’s moveset after he discussed about the Kingdom Hearts games and world. And he has gotten 4 costume changes, man Sora, that’s a big wardrobe you’re bringing in, oh wait, he even got the Timeless River costume too. That makes it 5 then.

“Oh gods, Sakurai is making us suffer by watching Sakurai using Sora to beat up everyone,” Ahk tells us as the Sora moveset showcase begins.

“No kidding,” Harry muses as we see Sora beating everyone in Battlefield.

“Whoa, they went for Sealing the Keyhole instead of having Trinity Force with Donald and Goofy? What a bummer,” Karina bemoans in dismay.

“Well, you know modern Disney: too overprotective of their IPs,” Philip reminds her.

“Oh new stage, what could it be?” Riku gleefully chimes in before they reveal Hollow Bastion as the stage, “Whoa, Hollow Bastion. I never thought that you will return again.”

Then the stage changes into Dive to the Heart and it had Riku and Kairi in the stained glass in one, Riku being the main focus of the second one, Roxas in the middle of the third, Xion in the fourth, Terra for the fifth, a sleepy Ven in the sixth, and Aqua’s in the seventh.

“Pretty!” I complimented the look of each stained glass.

“Quite impressive I will admit,” El agrees with me too.

Then Sakurai begins a playthrough with Sora facing Cloud and Sephiroth in Hollow Bastion, for a while, we all thought that he’s going to be a goner with Cloud and Sephiroth beating him up in the Stamina match but then the tides begin to turn in his favor after Sephy lost his full stock and with Sora having to take down Cloud next. When he did, the scene begins to go into a slow white fade out with a Game!

“Alright! Sora did it! He defeated both Cloud and mean old Sephy,” Riku cheers on.

“Woo! Go Sora!” me, Kairi, Moana, and Karina screams aloud.

“That was brilliant!” Harry agrees before he turns to Serena, “Did you hear? Uncle Sora managed to defeat two opponents in a Smash Ultimate playthrough.”

“9 songs is better than nothing at all,” Issa observes, “It would be a licensing nightmare to talk to Disney if they can borrow a couple of songs from them and they straight up refuse to assist, oh well. Oooh, a Dearly Beloved Swing arrangement, nice! I better get that save file on the Switch prompto!”

“And check out that Spirit Board: Aunt Kairi has a Spirit of herself,” Edelgard informs us as the Spirit Board for KH is revealed.

“Oh gee, never thought that it could ever happen, but thanks,” she blushes.

“Hey, I got one as well, same with Axel, Xion, Roxas, Aqua, Terra and Ven,” Riku joins in, “Marina is so going to be happy to see her boyfriend as a Spirit. She will probably try to get him real soon.”

“You bet it right, Riku, you bet it right,” I nod and agree with that last statement.

“Oh hey, he’s going to be ready within a few weeks’ time,” Karina speaks up, “Neat! The roster is now complete.”

“Even Steve and Alex have amiibos of themselves being made, that’s even more wonderful,” Ahk takes note of it, “I’m pretty sure that Sora will have one of his own along with Pyra, Mythra, that jerk who tried to threw Kirby off a cliff, and even Sephiroth soon.”

“WHAT?!? Kingdom Hearts are coming to the Switch too!?!” I am surprised to hear the news as Sakurai reveals this new information, that is so mind-blowing.

When it fades to black then to the Ultimate mural, the camera then goes for the space between Ganondorf and Dark Samus to fill in Sora’s spot before panning back. Man, this Presentation is long and is finally ending, thank God; it must be tiring to sit down and watch a nearly hour long video as Sakurai showcases the screenshots he has made and showed off in Twitter. Man, so many memories and montages. And the achievements, wow, that is a lot of them, it will be a game feat that I don’t think it will be broken for a long time.

Man, I will miss the presentations and Sakurai’s corny jokes for sure. I wish him a nice deserving break from all the game development for sure as he gives thanks to everyone from the devs to the players to the people prompting the game and ends it off with a heartfelt goodbye as it fades to back into the full reveal trailer.

“Oh gee, I’m going to miss the Smash Presentations,” Kairi sighs, “I can’t believe that we’re coming to an end.”

“Man, it’s finally over,” Riku gasps in remark as the full trailer plays out, “I don’t think that there will be a game like Ultimate for a very long time. That’s for certain.”

“I agree, Riku. It’s to going to be a tough act to follow up on,” I add in before I look up at the ceiling and murmur some words, “It’s been a long time coming, Sora. You truly deserve that last spot, you really do. Have fun in the tourney and Smash Mansion, buddy.”

Sora is Finally Here!

The End

[mariposalass]

(To My S/I) Letter Delivery

   Hello there Mari, I have a letter to give you from your best friend; hope you’re having a great day! :D

   ~~~

Hey, Mari!

I know we can always talk, but I thought it’d be fun to try sending you a letter! Yesterday Kairi and I went to the beach. It was lots of fun! We played in the water and even got ice cream. You should join us next time! I’m getting faster at swimming and next time we race I’ll beat you for sure! We can also make sand castles! You know how Kairi’s loves building them.

Oh, yeah! I almost forgot! I threw a rock at the water and it skipped 11 times! How’s that?! Cool, right? Kairi’s rock only skipped 7 times. Can you do better? Bye for now! Let’s meet again soon!

Your friend, Sora

Oh, thanks Sora buddy! Thanks for the letter, I’m missing you two so much right now. I am so ready to hit the beach, eat ice cream, and water rock throwing with you guys someday real soon.

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💖💖 + Any F/O.

Will be doing Sora for this one.

💖 Sora loves to tackle hug me whenever we get to meet up. Althought it can be painful if we fall onto hard ground, leading to scratches and bruises occasionally and even sometimes bumping onto other people. Ouch!

💖 It is highly possible that his dorkiness gets increased once we became really good friends, seriously, whenever he crosses pathes in other worlds with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, he will sqeual in excitement over someone or a world he has learned from me, like his reaction towards the Hunchback of Notre-Dame world. I may have let him borrow a copy of both the animated 1990′s classic and the original Victor Hugo novel before that fateful trip.

also tagging @husband-of-lucoa @lildreamysoul @plucky-belmondo since they are also Sora self shippers.

[mariposalass]

Some Good News

Sooo, I wasn’t this active earlier in the day, but I am almost done with my 2nd diamond painting.

Also, yesterday was actually the headcanoned birthday for Sora! It is low key with what is happening right now and no cake too, but he was pretty happy that  he got to celebrate it in spite of the current events. I swear to God that Kairi intentionally kissed on him as a gift. Happy (Belated) Birthday, Sora, bud.

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“Hey guys. It’s getting really warm out here and we just have the ACs on to ease down the heat and keep humidity at bay, Mari is pretty busy cleaning up the Minions’ mess at the basement: another pillow fight had occurred before lunch oddly enough. So me and Sora are looking after the blog for the meantime.” - Kairi

“If you guys have something to ask or want to talk to us, drop them at Mari’s inbox and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Although I swore that she is suspecting Issa’s having more than just one baby for some time. I wonder what my friend/Kai’s big sis is talking: we couldn’t go to see another ultrasound until the pandemic crisis is over... Or ask the Doctor to do it: I don’t know, but he knows all sorts of stuff and probably has a clinic with an ultrasound machine inside that phone box time machine of his, right?” - Sora

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The Big News

“Aghh... I don’t think me and Harry could hide this any longer! Mari, Kairi, Philip, Sora, and the rest of the fam bunch were beginning to worry about what has happened for the last couple of weeks with neither one of us saying a word about it. After several testing, I think that it’s safe to say that me and Harry are...”

“GOING TO HAVE A KID SOON!!!! (then feels embarrassed of what he did in typing down the announcement) Whoa, that was bloody weird for me to do it all in all caps tonight.”

“And I thought Harry was drunk upon hearing the results the first time. Oh well: That means that me and Mari are going to be aunts soon (and Philip & Sora kinda acting as uncles despite not marrying Mari and me yet), and Edelgard will have a cousin to look after as well. There you go, we’ll be expecting a little Tan-Potter-Miravelez by mid-November soon. - Kairi”

“Kai!!! You’re going to be an aunt pretty soon! - Sora”

“Yeah, thanks for the quick supportive response, Sora. - Kairi”

“Poyo, poyo, poyo, poyo!!!”

(OOC: You heard it right. I’m going to be an aunt soon with Harry and Issa expecting a baby on the mid-November deadline. Spoiler alert: it’s actually two babies waiting in store and I know who they are. So yeah, that’s the surprise, everyone! Anyone wanting to spread the news right now?)

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Winter Picnic Love (Love)

Day 20 of @silentlyfangirlingselfshipper​’s A Very Shippy Christmas event has arrived and the theme of the day is love, love in the winter time. And this time I’m not doing just a Defying Time thing, I’m doing this with the Tan siblings and their lovers having a lovely typical picnic in the winter time.

Since most of California don’t have to worry too much snowfall during the winter due to its perfect location (but wildfires, agh!, they are still a problem), me, my siblings, my sister-in-law, Philip, and Sora will be spending the afternoon after Christmas having a picnic lunch at Lafayette Park in San Francisco. The park’s name alone got Philip some memory lane vibes as the park’s namesake, the Marquis of Lafayette, was a good friend and ally of his dad Alexander during the American Revolution.

In addition to the usual picnic essentials (tissues, hand wipes and sanitizers, cameras, trash bags, some card games, a music player, etc.) and the food, we’ll be bringing a heat pad for the picnic blanket, warm blankets, scarves, mittens, Thermos for the soup, apple cider & hot chocolate, and hand warmers. Don’t want everything (including yourself) to freeze in the cold.

What’s in the menu for the day?: Hot Spinach Dip, Kale & Cannellini Bean Soup, Pumpkin & Barley Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette, Chicken, Brie, & Apple Panini Sandwiches, Fudgy Sea Salt Brownies, Mulled Apple Cider, Hot Chocolate, and Water, a lot of water! All made with love.

Sora is also planning to bring along a few Frisbee discs for some Frisbee time, because we all know the last time we brought along just one Frisbee disc during a picnic, Riku unfortunately put too much wrist power in throwing the disc back to him and into who knows where. Luckily, it’s between the six of us.

Tons of familial and romantic love all around and sibling teasing are about to explode in this picnic date, especially with Harry and Issa because why not? The teasing game is on equal ground though.

Harry’s in charge of the photography needs and will be sharing cooking duties with Issa, so I’ll be gushing over them having a cheeky playful food fight at the kitchen. Sora gets to handle the music, while me and Kairi are handling the logistics for the picnic. Philip gets to be our assistant so he can learn to plan successful picnics when it will be his turn to plan one someday. Everyone is doing their parts in the planning process and there shall be friendly talk, tons of kissing, and plenty of laughter.