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Another future CoM/YABITDON excerpt. Wrote this tidbit because I'm cruel, and I'm posting it cuz I'm evil. Feat. Goofy 😈

Fun fact: This is one of the first scenes I ever wrote for this lil fanfic series!

Goofy stopped mid-sentence.

One moment passed, and then two. Three. Sora, Donald, and Jiminy all exchanged a look of concern as a deeply troubled expression dawned on Goofy’s face. “Goofy?” Sora finally spoke, “What’s wrong?”

“I just remembered that I’ve got someone waitin’ for me back home,” He replied. He nervously fiddled with his shield. “A boy who called me ‘dad’. Y’know, it’s the darnedest thing,” Goofy gave a weak chuckle, and said, “For the life of me, I just can’t remember his name.”

No one chuckled with him, and no one spoke.

[Much later after the above scene, the moment after Namine offers them the memory pods.]

Goofy, surprisingly, was the first to speak.

“Sora,” She turned to see him having taken his hat in his hands. “I…I know me an’ Donald made an oath to follow King Mickey’s orders. An’ I know he ordered us to follow the key—and follow you.”

“Goofy?” Donald asked.

“If you need me, I’ll go wherever you go. I promised I wouldn’t leave you again like—” He tried in vain to remember the name of that place that was so broken and bare, and had left each of them just the same way. Sora could see it in his face. In that moment, she could see him try so desperately to remember who he was and what he had done.

But not one of them in this room could manage such a thing.

Goofy tried again.

“Well, I promised I wouldn’t leave ya,” He began wringing his hat. “But, uh, if it’s no trouble, I sure would like to remember my son’s name again.”

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Note: I think I wrote this one in the initial months-long haze of writing anything and everything for this fanfic. You can see I hadn't solidified a lot of my plans then with the whole 'make them forget Hollow Bastion' part there, which probably still isn't going to happen, but I'm definitely going to still add Maxwell Goof (Knight in training! A squire?) to this whole shindig. Which is almost entirely because I really, really want to torture Goofy here. Just a little. Or a lot.

In retrospect, it's probably overkill to add a whole-ass character that I'll have to account for in future installments just for the sake of one tiny scene in just one fic...but ah, hell. That's a problem for future me.

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the main trio’s illustration sketch! I’ll add in Sora’s face and gloves shortly (and jiminy...when I remember to draw him...) and fix Donald’s staff too. But for now, enjoy! (๑•͈ᴗ•͈)◞✏ I’ll try to catch up on Riku and Mickey’s illustration so I can post that one too

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Psych called me today to tell me that he feels comfortable going ahead and officially-super-seriously diagnosing me with ADHD-PI and writing up the report without needing the final 2hr long assessment session, which is awesome!! That saved me $800 (ᵕ̩̩ ᴗ ᵕ̩̩ ) but it’s also kind of hilarious because like,,,that little debacle with getting the peer assessment forms in made it that obvious, huh? ANYWAYS! He’s going to have the report ready for me by the end of next week so I can take it to my gp post-haste and they can figure out where to go from there with medication!

So because of this, along with my pandemic sabbatical giving me time to reread my work and my notes and finally give me a chance to get back aboard my train of thought, I’m hoping to try getting another chapter of Your Adventure Begins in the Dead of Night out sometime this month! I’ve learned well to not make any promises yet until I can figure out my rhythm again with meds helping, because I refuse to cause any more disappointment when all of you have been an unimaginably kind and considerate audience, and you deserve the very best of myself and my story!! That being said, I have been working on two illustrations for YABITDON, the sketches of which I’ll post on tumblr either tomorrow or Wednesday, as a way of saying thank you for your patience ( ˊᵕˋ )

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I completely forgot to crosspost this one to tumblr, so here you go! It’s been hanging up in the chapter 12 illustrations section for a while lol, sorry about that. Anyway, for those wanting context, this is a reference illustration for Aqua as she appears in my fic Your Adventure Begins at Midday. I have some plans in mind for how she ends up as Dark!Aqua by the time I get to covering KH3′s events in the fic series, which required a more gradual change compared to canon. And as always, there’s a ton of tiny details here (that I really hope tumblr didn’t eat!)

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seeing Riku’s station of awakening finally (finally!) show up on the Re:Mind trailer reminded me that I’d never posted any in progress bits of what I’d planned for the station of awakening Riku saw in his false awakening of chapter 12 of Your Adventure Begins at Midday, so here you guys go! Also, it's wild that they really had to go reuse the clipart for the SE Cafe Osaka KH coasters for official material and not even update the CoM parts of Riku’s coaster before throwing it in Re:Mind--I feel like his character arc is a bit past where he was in CoM by this point :/ Tumblr eats colors, and I suck at stained glass effects, and rocks, and environments in general, so here u go anyways ヽ( ᐛ )ﾉ you guys finally see Riku’s costume redesign here!! linework under cut

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IT’S DONE

IT’S FINALLY OVER. I’M FREE.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15920577/chapters/47632474

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15920577/chapters/47632474

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15920577/chapters/47632474

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Inking is done! Except now it looks like Mickey’s sitting on Donald’s Duck Flare rockets :/ And I might go ahead and make Riku look at the camera instead of up at Donald’s shenanigans. Maybe add confetti. Hm. Anyways, coloring will be finished shortly!

Illustration to be completed for the final chapter(!!) of my fic, Your Adventure Begins at Midday. I would link it here if it weren’t for tumblr hating links :( It’s up on Ao3 and FFN! Though the illustration will only appear on Ao3. Anyways, you should read it!

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oh hey, look! It’s the epilogue sketch! And donald’s casting duck flare! Which is definitely pushing it, as Riku only agreed to the picture and letting mickey stand on his shoulders so he’d be in view. He definitely didn’t agree to fireworks being set off right above them. But Donald’s a fan of celebrating the end of the fic in style!

Inspired by the KH1 end-screen illustration. Done for my fic: Your Adventure Begins at Midday (which I’d link to if Tumblr didn’t hate links--it’s on Ao3 and FFN if you’d like to read). Will be a finished illustration shortly!