Needed To Smile So I Drew Some More Zootopia!Kingdom Hearts Stuff. ;w;a

I couldn’t help it, I needed to draw them in the iconic Princess Mononoke scene. 

Aqua’s experience in A Fragmentary Passage and subsequent Norting changed the entire way I look at Light and Darkness in the Kingdom Hearts series.

Up until now, the light/darkness dichotomy was only ever something I interpreted as being a plot-specific force within the narrative. Sure, we had characters verbally telling us that darkness is related to negative emotions, light is related to friendship and positivity, etc. but beyond characters getting powered up for battle after verbally making those connections (“My friends are my power,” basically anything that comes out of Ansem SOD’s mouth), we don’t really get a chance to see what that means.

A Fragmentary Passage connected the emotions to the forces in a much more obvious way, for me at least. I’ll never forget playing the mirror level that has Aqua’s inner monologue going the whole time and realizing that, holy shit, this game is about depression! And then we see the E3 trailer from this year. For her to get Norted, we know she had to succumb to The Darkness, and because we have her experience in AFP as a background, we know how she got to that point and exactly what she was feeling when it happened. (Yes, AFP ended on a more hopeful note, but … I still think this is probably what happened).

I’m playing through all the main games again, and suddenly, the rest of the series has a LOT more context. The Xehanort/Eraqus arguments get a lot more nuance. Honestly, I think Xehanort has a little bit of a point? Light and Darkness (ie: positive emotions and negative emotions) existing in a balance seems WAY healthier than just trying to have ALL POSITIVE EMOTIONS ALL THE TIME. This could apply to “The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes.” The more you try to push down or hide your negative emotions in an attempt to remain positive 24/7, the more that negativity festers beneath the surface and can explode out of you. Maybe this is what happened with Terra. Dealing with the Darkness is something that has plagued him since he was a kid, but because light-obsessed Eraqus basically raised him, he had to repress negativity until it sorta just exploded in BBS. (As someone with mental health problems who grew up in a family that didn’t talk about problems or emotions and just pretended everything was fine all the time… my most recent BBS playthrough hit me kind of hard.) Along these same lines “hearts of pure light” don’t seem totally healthy either? Maybe it’s different for Princesses of Heart, because they’re Naturally Occurring, but it makes total sense why my boy Ven was so fragile after Vanitas got ripped out of him. In any case I am REALLY SCARED for Sora. I know he was close to getting Norted in DDD, but if he just tries to stay positive all the time because so many people are counting on him my boy is going to BREAK.

Now, when I see the darkness cloud animation emanating off a character, I have context for what that means and what that feels like. When Terra uses his dark command styles, I used to think “well yeah, he’s mad” but know I get that he’s pissed. When a Nort uses dark attacks, I get that he’s channeling his greed, his feelings of superiority. When Sora goes into Anti-form, I get that this is his moment of release, where he physically can’t be his happy-go-lucky self. The black cloaks, which protect people when travelling in corridors of darkness, have the power to shield people from negative emotions. Does turning into a heartless feel like being overwhelmed with hopelessness and dread?

This also makes Riku’s arc way more interesting to me! His “road to dawn” becomes a road to recovery!! Instead of pushing down his negativity, he lives with it! He uses it to his advantage without letting it overtake him!!! He doesn’t pretend to be sunshine and rainbows, and his friends still love him!!!!

I don’t really have a conclusion to this. I’m just really glad that they did what they did with A Fragmentary Passage.

Which of the Chain is the most terrifying when angry?

No, it’s not Time. It’s Sky.

Obviously this is my opinion, but regardless, as a fandom, I think we tend to really emphasize Sky’s easygoing, sweet nature (myself included)—and understandably so. He’s adorable. However, I think we seriously forget about how absolutely terrifying he is when angry. Like, do you remember the look on his face when Ghirahim took Zelda?

Honestly, I’m pretty sure the only thing keeping Ghirahim from perishing on the spot was the fact that he was a sword spirit.

Sky’s anger is very different from that of the other boys. Unlike Legend or Warriors, he isn’t provoked very easily—trivial things, such as teasing or even mild bullying, aren’t going to get a rise out of him. Legend’s bark is also worse than his bite, but not so with Sky. It’s actually quite the opposite. He doesn’t yell or rage like Wind, but becomes deadly quiet, to the point where it makes one’s flesh crawl. He doesn’t give the impression of being constantly irritated, like Time, nor does he try to hide his anger, like Wild. He isn’t the type to let it simmer below the surface for a long time, gradually rising until it finally boils over, like Twilight or Four. His anger comes with all the suddenness, swiftness, and intensity of a summer storm, oftentimes without warning, with the potential to destroy anything in its wake—and then will dissipate with the same speed with which it came, as if nothing had happened. Sure, Time or Twilight could easily set a man quaking in his boots, but one glare from Sky when he’s in a fury would send him dissolving into a puddle on the floor and desperately trying to recall what exactly he had written in his will.

Early on in their adventure, operating under the misconception that good-natured, easygoing Sky was incapable of anger, a few of the boys (*cough* Wind, Wild, and Legend *cough*) spent an entire day trying to get a rise out of him. The day ended with Legend getting beaten senseless with the flat of a blade. None of them have spoken of it since, and now live in terror of getting on his nerves (though of course, Sky apologized profusely after he’d cooled off). Time turned a blind eye, so to speak. They had quite literally asked for it.

All of this to say: Sky is just as capable of being a rage-monster as Time or Legend, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Shadow the Hedgehog of the Colossus!

Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrNZ6zKabKU

Parallels “Why?!”

Farmers pick marigolds in Minzu village, Weining County in Guizhou, China on August 2, 2015. (Yang Wenbin/Xinhua)

Text on the back of the VERUM REX game case in Toy Box

I haven’t really seen anyone talk about this, but there are some Verum Rex games on display and you can actually read what’s on the back of them.

The summary goes;

That’s the story of the King of Truth.

RECLAIM YOUR HEART

After a long fight, weapons have brought great benefits for humanity. But the “KARMA” that sleeps in humans will accelerate further. In the light of the warhead in the night sky, they chose to fight while feeling the pain of their hearts…

Then there are two chunks of texts printed over some images below the summary.

A JOURNEY

WITHOUT A

PLACE TO RETURN

THE WORLD IS

TO ALL HUMANS

TO TURN A PANG(?)

The last word — pang — was difficult to make out. There’s definitely an “A” and an “N” in the middle of the word, and “pang” is the only one that really makes sense (but it’s still a weird word to use in that context).

Here’s my two cents, take it with salt;

The King of Truth is Yozora. (“Verum” means “true,” and “Rex” means “king/the reigning king.”)

Reclaim your heart, huh? Sounds like Yozora is in the same boat as Sora. Perhaps the reason we see him in the secret ending is because, he too, is in the Reaper’s Game. Yozora as a party member… sounds pretty neat to me.

The summary is literally an alternate version of the story of Kingdom Hearts…

“After a long fight, keyblades have brought great benefits for humanity. But the darkness that sleeps in humans will accelerate further. In the light of Kingdom Hearts in the night sky, they chose to fight while feeling the pain of their hearts…”

“A journey without a place to return,” Riku and Sora’s next journey together will keep them from returning home. They will be stuck in another world/worldline/universe, without any hopes of getting back.

“The world is to all humans to turn a pang,” the world that Riku and Sora end up in is a place where all humans wish to change their pain OR the world that Riku and Sora end up is made for humans to change their pain. Pang means “sudden sharp pain,” usually emotionally.

🎵but the secret is still my own, and my love for you is still unknown🎵

a little zelink piece I did a while ago ~