second chance

angel・lvl 26 now i will step forward to realize this wish...

[mushroom-winners-proof]

past a

[tappret43]

(that bird definitely mugged scrooge mcduck for those passes, btw)

still tinkering with my vanitas redesign, but finally drew something from my recently completed BBS fic, make love, not war!

might make something a little nicer later on, but i just wanted to make something quick from one of my favorite chapters <3

[ha-youwish]

the thing about bbs 0.2 is that the entire runtime was of a depressed woman monologuing somberly about where it all went wrong as she wanders through disney hell and is tortured by physical visions of her mistakes and her loved ones. and thats so fucking awesome we usually only get games like that about men who angst over their dead wives

[nyctoheart]

why are people so obsessed with leaks. what is so wrong with letting companies showcase things when they’re meant to be.

[unversd]

you know what? fuck you *unchains your χ*

[unversd]

wait no not like that

[pkmndaisuki]

years ago i had an idea of what might've happened if kairi wound up in twilight town instead of destiny island and grew up with hayner, pence, and olette.

and while pence is the guy who wanted to investigate the mysteries of the town in canon, hayner has some pretty out-there ideas too. like trying to flying kick ansem sod. olette's the one with the braincell of them.

(transcript in alt text, i know my handwriting's not great lol)

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts

[transrikuu]

sora doing the thing™

[drememoto]

nobody in these games is ok

except him

[arrow-aro]

[theylov3evie]

In the kingdomed hearts, straight up missing it. And by it, well. Lets just say. The link.

[xiolette]

ok Now i'm thinking of how lea and kairi got thrown together in a pocket dimension to train and we never got any exploration on this

[stunnedswallow]

The Child of Destiny Was First Namedropped in Union X, but the English Localization Missed This

I came to the unfortunate realization that there was a massive translation fumble in Union X last year.

The Official English Version

In the English version of the cutscene Confrontation, we're only informed that Darkness believed it was decided that Ventus would harbor Darkness via the Book of Prophecies.

However, this is not the only information provided in the Japanese version.

The Japanese Version

Here's the Japanese version for comparison. It is mostly the same until the last textbox, but I'll include everything for a 1:1 comparison. I know some Japanese (around N3 level) so I'm not trying to claim I can translate perfectly, but I did cross-check with a machine translator.

"First, why did you choose Ven?"

"Because it was decided."

"What was?"

"That he is/will be an existence that harbors Darkness."

"Does that mean Darkness' vessel was decided?"

"That's right."

"The Child of Destiny is written in the Book of Prophecies."

For the record, 運命の子 is the official term used to refer to the Child of Destiny in Dark Road too. It is the name of the final cutscene of DR, when toddler Xehanort is talking to the blue robed player.

I think the true implication of the scene is that the Darkness believes that Ventus is the Child of Destiny, having read the book of prophecies, and that they should target him as their vessel as a result.

In my opinion, this is a huge oversight and is detrimental to understanding the story. We NA players were led to believe that the Child of Destiny plot point was introduced in DR, when it was teased all the way back in UX all along. It also justifies why Darkness targeted Ventus even more, and tells us more about the Darkness' motives going forward.

I hope, if UX is ever recreated, that its story gets translated more carefully. It is a very complex, interconnected narrative that is intermingled with the future of the series.

[kristoffs-lullaby]

do you guys ever think about the data kids left in data twilight town because i do

[shitpostingkats]

Imagine you're Xigbar. You've joined a supervillain death cult, mostly because you are a centuries old bodysnatcher with little else to do, and this one seems like it might pan out and be the thing worldending doomsday event you've been waiting for. And your boss, who you met by helping him brutally disassemble a small family a couple years back, says he's got a new member for your little group. And he brings the new kid in. And they look exactly like that one kid you helped your boss send into a coma ten years ago. But no, different kid. Just happens to look identical, for reasons you don't know. But you're cool, you're centuries old, this kinda thing happens sometimes. You're chill.

And then a week passes. And your boss yet again goes "oh we're getting another member." Oh worm? What poor soul has been recruited this ti-

And they take off their hood. And they have. The same. Goddamn. Face.

[unversd]

thinking about xehanorts fuckass portrait in radiant garden.... when and how did he even get that done

[kcdeliverance]

KINGDOM HEARTS IV