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I finally did proper fanart for Ribbit, and it's a "Breath of the Wild" and TADC crossover drawing lol. I think she would fit Mipha's role very well.
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Anyways Resident Evil 9 is so cool
maybe in another universe
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Harry Slytherin au 🐍🐍🐍
More future OK K.O! (My version, of course). Haven't drawn these guys in a WHILE. I always have fun drawing them. I'm gonna do more later :) ☆
Slytherin Harry~🐍
Based on a fanfic I've been reading recently by 'hoboheartache' :3 –I love drawing his hair and glasses. (And my first time painting proper looking blood).
Princess Aja & Prince Krel Tarron~
I love their "unique" human designs. I might draw more of them in the future :)
"You need to look after yourself in all of this too."
I am... still hung up on episode 6, man... just three more to go. At least the merch videos help me heal X) —Jax also just solidified himself as my favourite character after that whole crazy event. Michael is an amazing voice actor 😎👌✨️ ☆
Skywalker Doodle~
This was fun :3 💕
Thinking again about the end of CoM as a metaphor for repressing trauma vs facing it to heal and grow as a person and I really just
It really does feel intentional that what Sora goes through in CoM — losing his memories and almost losing himself — is a lot like what Sora describes being a heartless was like: “I was lost in the darkness. I couldn’t find my way. As I stumbled through the dark, I started forgetting things — my friends, who I was… The darkness almost swallowed me.”
Both halves of CoM are visual representations of what Sora and Riku each went through when they fell/almost fell to darkness in KH1. Riku’s memories are devoid of people because he cast them from his heart. Sora’s memories are full of people he forgets because he sacrificed his heart. And if we are supposed to see CoM as a near-death journey/an exploration of the unconscious, it is pretty on point for Marluxia to have a grim reaper aesthetic. Sora’s battling death.
Anyway, that’s why Data Sora’s decision to accept the loss of the memories of his friends and face that pain in Coded, live with it, is so significant.
Because that’s what the real Sora failed to do in the real Castle Oblivion. He never should’ve forgotten what happened there. He should’ve accepted those losses — and the pain attached to them — knowing that even if he can’t remember his friends, they remember him. Even if he doesn’t know them, he remembers caring about them. And even if he can’t recall specific memories, they’re not gone. He’ll remember them, some day. And in the meantime, the people he loves will help him shoulder the burden.
In a figurative sense, Sora has never left Castle Oblivion because he’s never accepted this pain. He has never moved on past this point, unlike Riku who decides to face Ansem, the representation of his trauma, and leave the castle, leave the darkness, to begin walking the road to dawn — the road to recovery. Sora’s still there, still under that dark night sky.
And now, after sacrificing himself again, there’s a very real chance he’s forgetting things and losing himself again, and surprise, surprise — look where he is.
Tied to a new character whose name means “night sky” to boot… Trauma has a way of biting us in the butt when we don’t deal with it properly. The past has a way of chaining us when we don’t move forward… Sora’s gonna have to do it right this time. He’s gonna have to face his pain and accept it if he wants to step forward into the light and exist again.
@in-our-veins Exactly. While it is cheaper to reuse game models and levels, I think the repetition is probably intentional from a story-telling perspective.
@embraceyourdestiny Yen Sid was “right” about Sora the same way Eraqus was “right” about Terra… They weren’t ready to be Keyblade Masters, not because they had a brush with darkness during their exams and darkness is “evil” or whatever (it’s not). But because they’re afraid of their darkness and don’t know how to deal with it. Sora represses and straight up denies his. Terra spends BBS running from his, searching for a way to get rid of it. (And we all know how well that turns out.)
It’s Vexen who first calls Sora out on this, actually — in CoM (of course).
If Sora’s not honest with himself about the pain in his heart, if he’d rather cling to lies, because it’s easier, because he’s afraid of the truth, he’s screwed. If Sora can’t accept the pain as part of his heart like Riku has, he’s never going to survive, let alone become a Keyblade Master.
THIS is what I was trying to get at earlier in the tags of that other post. He refuses to admit that he has and uses darkness because that would completely unravel the world he’s constructed for himself.
I think his story is almost a mirror of Riku’s, instead of being desperate to leave his old life on the island behind, and being changed by confronting his own selfishness, Sora wants to hide in his past, where it’s safe.
He does want to help people and use his powers for good, but at the end of the day his goal has always been to return to the status quo. He wants to be home with Riku and Kairi.
Darkness is desire and conflict and hurt feelings, things that incite change.
I really do have hope for them touching on this in KH4 too, with him being completely cut off from Ever going home, and also with that foreshadowing of changing, drifting relationships in the Winnie the Pooh section in 3.
He doesn’t want to move on or grow up or change, because every change he’s experienced has hurt in a way he couldn’t really handle other than to shove that pain down and pretend it never happened.
I think there’s a reason that the saving lights of their universe were in the hearts of children; as you grow up, that light dims not always out of moral failing, but because your horizons broaden and your beliefs shift. Your light is balanced by darkness, you change, and he never wanted to. He can’t avoid it any more though.
I really just want to emphasize how NOT subtle this is in CoM too. At the start, Riku quite literally is given the choice to remain asleep — and thus, remain ignorant of the truth and unchanged — or to wake up and face it: “Turn from the light. Shut your eyes. Here, blanketed by the darkness, sleep is safety. Sleep is eternal… Take [the card] and your sleep ends, as you take the first step toward the truth. But know this: the truth will bring you pain. Will you still go? There is no return to the security of sleep.”
And Riku decides to wake up. He quite literally chooses to pursue the truth and face reality, knowing it’s going to hurt. And then, when he’s given the choice at the end to go back to sleep and forget everything he’s learned (like Sora has), forget the darkness inside of him, the pain, and go back to how he was before, he chooses not to. He chooses to stay awake and keep his memories. To carry his pain with him... and use it to grow into someone better over time, with the help of friends he forms deeper, more mature bonds with as a result.
It’s exactly the lesson Data Sora learns in ReCoded after he, also quite literally, chooses to face the truth, knowing it will hurt. “At times, the pain can be wiped away. But there’s also a pain that always stays with you. There’s only one way to deal with that; you face it head-on and then you accept it. And if it happens that the pain is too great for you to bear it alone, well, then you turn to a friend close to your heart.” “It’ll bring us closer together; the pain will only make us stronger.” This is the lesson the real Sora has to learn.
But what’s also interesting about Riku’s side of CoM irt Sora in KH4 is that Riku is, essentially, dead at the start of this game — floating in the game over/death pose in a realm that’s neither light nor dark. He has the choice to wake up or remain asleep, like I said — but sleep, in this case, means death. It’s eternal sleep. So really, Riku has to decide whether to remain dead or rejoin the living.
In Castle Oblivion, Riku is much like a ghost traversing an underworld (Nomura has said that Quadratum is like an underworld for Sora). And the only way for Riku to leave and rejoin the living is to face and accept his pain. Move forward. Grow up. Riku accepts that there is no going back to who he was before, that his pain and darkness are necessary, can make him stronger even, and he steps once more into the Realm of Light, reborn — hence why his side of CoM is called Reverse/Rebirth.
I expect we’ll see more parallels like this in KH4. It’s Sora’s turn to move forward and grow up.
If we're talking about Sora's repressing his trauma then we have to talk about Anti and Rage-Form.
This mechanic only exists after CoM. Though its reasons in the game was to stop the player from using the drives too much its obvious in game these forms are the result of Sora relying on light (the drive forms) so much its deeply effecting him.
It could be similar to when a person represses so much that they start crying uncontrollably. The body needs to breath and with Sora acting like he doesn't have any darkness, it causes his darkness to grow until he's a rage filled monster.
There's a reason Sora's been associated with Dark Side to this day!
His darkness his growing, soon he won't be able to turn them off like he could Anti & Rage Form.
He needs to talk to someone about all the hell he's going through, explain this self-hatred and hurt. He nearly did in KH3 but then that time got erased and I guess Sora forgot?
I hope we have a scene similar to Sora breaking down in the Keyblade Graveyard in KH4 and Riku is able to help Sora and get this boy some therapy!
My Kingdom Hearts 23rd Anniversary Artwork 👑🗝✨️
Made: [March 28th 2025]
happy (belated) halloween! featuring @nikutsuneart's halloween town wolfku :)c
My artwork for Kingdom Hearts' 22nd Anniversary! :DDD
I know I'm pretty late (As always)- but it's mostly because I tried painting for the first time for the background, and I really love how this turned out. So it's ALL worth it :3 ☆
My baby boi's birthday is coming up soon! Which means, so is the Anniversary :D He's the light of my life, I would die for him.
May your heart be your guiding key~<3
@neil-gaiman at a talk yesterday discussing a scene he initially wrote for good omens season 2 that didn’t end up making the cut— a nightmare set far in the future with terrible things happening that was initially supposed to be the ending of episode two:
“now that i’m writing season three, i’m like “i really wish i’d had that scene”. that scene was the springboard, that scene would’ve given energy and power to everything that i’m doing, because everybody would be watching this going “uh-oh, we’ve seen that, how does that play in, was that just a dream?””
ah well I suppose we finally know what this is from then
And this!
Transcript of video:
… nightmare set way in the future, in which some very bad stuff was happening. And as far as I was concerned, that's how episode 2 ends. And everybody who read it said, "What is that scene doing? Do we really need it?" And then they said, "By the way, we need to lose x-amount of minutes from the thing in order to hit budget," and so on, and so fourth. And with a certain amount of reluctance, but going, "Okay, everybody seems very certain we don't need this scene," I cut it out. Really started missing it when we started editing the episodes together and everybody was going, "We don't really have an end for episode 2," and I'm like, "That's because we didn't shoot it, because everybody said don't put it in."
And now that I'm writing season 3, I'm like, "I really wish I'd had that scene." That scene was the springboard. That scene would have given energy and power to everything that I'm doing because everybody will be watching this going, "Uh-oh, we've seen that. How does that play in? Was that just a dream? What was going on?" And there's just a level on which, really, the answer was my subconscious/unconscious/what Stephen King calls 'The boys in the back room' or 'The boys in the basement.' They knew what they were doing when they wrote that scene, even if I couldn't explain to everybody why it was needed. I really … I still miss it.
Good Omens - Season 2 - Episode 6 Comic Edit
Parallels - Good Omens Seasons One & Two - Part One
