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Kingdom hearts AU server! This server is for all your AU creation desires. It’s intended to remain as a small, cozy server to hang out, so nothing major.
If anyone joins before I finish work tomorrow (2:00 pm EST) expect a delay in greetings and color roles lol. Please be civil to each other while you wait or you are getting booted SO FAST LMAOOO
I don’t need to be saved, I will be okay
Some AU art :) I love Aqua SO much and writing her is a huge joy in the au. I have her as someone who struggles under trying to figure out how much she should follow the teachings of the Eraqus from her own timeline. Seeing another version of him who not only acts completely different but seems to have shifted his values quite a bit is VERY confusing for her. He’s so adament about the darkness not being something they HAVE to destroy, and it’s shocking to her, because ever since she started her training that’s all the other version of him said to her. To make matters worse, this version of Eraqus is together with Xehanort— who kills Eraqus in her own timeline. And given her trauma, Aqua can’t help but feel like she needs to pull him away from Xehanort and the darkness in order to protect him. After all, had she been more forceful with Terra, she never would have lost him…right?
She can’t let go of that. Letting go of it all feels like doing Terra and Ven a disservice. Letting go of that feels like doing her dead master a disservice.
On the flipside, Eraqus was initially very frustrated with her for treating Xehanort so coldly and insinuating that he was a bad person that Eraqus needed to run away from. As time goes on, he realizes he can’t really change her mind on this or darkness in general, though. …So he gives up, and decides to just be there for her. Knowing she’s his future daughter and treating her as such. She may be acting in a way that frustrates him, but he’s still proud of her, and he wants to make sure that shows on his face and in his actions. One day, in his own timeline, this fine young woman is going to be his daughter. And he coulden’t be more proud of that.
im not very good at making confessions, but since everyones so negative lately ill give it a shot.
kh is pretty darn fun. i like the series, even the games people think are "bad" (re:coded, ddd, and kh3, for example)
THANK YOU. It’s not without its problems don’t get me wrong. The series could definitely stand to represent women a lot better, sometimes I just wanna shake Nomura back and forth for that. But it has very good aspects. Such as:
1) The dynamic between light and Darkness and the fact that Darkness isn’t an inherit evil but something people misuse. Riku’s character arc represents that, but it’s also hinted at several times by other people’s actions, including Sora making full use of darkness regularly in his anti form!
2) Men in this series cry a lot. Even Xehanort does! It never impairs how strong they are.
3) The story is disorganized af, but it DOES have some meaningful things to say. It has something to say about toxic positivity, and valuing your friends, but also valuing yourself WITHOUT needing other people. Sora’s all about that. Eraqus has a purposefully negative character arc related to this in dark road, except his is left open ended! Instead of learning to let go and accept that the past changes, Vor dies in dark road and essentially tells Eraqus that he was right NOT to let go with her last words, and we see how much that fucks him up throughout the rest of his life. Days is ALL ABOUT how change affects friendships. The series also has a bit of background commentary on religion and the way that people relate to it, referencing real life Christianity a lot of times (the 358th day of the year is Christmas Eve, the Book of prophecies exists irl in Christianity and is also treated almost like a Bible by the foretellers, the foretellers are named after the seven deadly sins), and it shows different ways the characters interact with their code of conduct as keyblade wielders— both healthy and not healthy. As someone who has seen both sides of that but is no longer religious personally, I can appreciate it!
Honestly, as someone who has interacted with worse media (looking at you Danganronpa, one of the most VILE pieces of media I’ve ever seen. God, Kodaka is such an unapologetically awful person and it shines through every aspect of his work), I can appreciate KH a little more. It is, at the very least, written by someone who does care about what they wanna say and wants to say something good, and that’s a step up from games like the aforementioned Danganronpa. Nomura just desperately needs to write women better and maintain better overall organization throughout the entire series. As infuriating as some gameplay and story mechanics can be though, I do actually appreciate them being experimental!
It’s not some groundbreaking media, but it affects people, and it affects people positively, and that means something!
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Thank you @ymayonaka for the idea go check out their Xehanort afterlife doodles of him nomming Eraqus
What if… consensual norting…
In this context, it’s used to combine powers, creating a singular wielder more powerful than the original two. Behaviorally, Eraqus is similar, but slightly… off. He becomes better at plotting and scheming and he’s eerily calm. He also seems more aligned with Xehanort’s values than his own, and doesn’t really think for himself as much. Xehanort himself is very very uncomfortable with it, and he’s very quick to release his control over him when they’re done handling the issue at hand.
Little lions
Pspsps this is part of an AU! I have a 16+ AU focused server for everyone to share their kingdom hearts AU ideas if anyone is interested! Pls read the rules before messaging though https://discord.gg/Q3ySqF9Mws
Eraqus and DiZ make shit decisions. Xehanort makes shit decisions. Are they the only ones that do? No. There are plenty of people out there who hold those characters accountable, too. It is okay for people to dislike characters for their mistakes. It is equally okay for the same characters to be coming into these mistakes because of good reasons, or at least a lot of really tragic circumstances. As much as I can respect this, I love to hate these guys. I'm happy to sympathize with them. I'm also happy to hurt for them, just as much as I'm happy to hurt for the characters who've been hurt because of them. If asked, I could probably think about ways they could all get redemption, or a happy ending. I also want to smear their noses in the mess they've left on the carpet. Surprisingly, these grown ass men, who are all 50+ years old, who are leaders, who have all been cruel in their own ways might, potentially, deserve that.
Mama’s eyes
Pspsps have some AU server where people can infodump on their KH AUs! It’s 16+ though (nothing spicy going on just personal preference) https://discord.gg/Q3ySqF9Mws
College AU Xehaqus are CONSUMING me rn
HAVE A SERVER FOR KINGDOM HEARTS AUs it’s mostly Xehaqus peeps in there ngl but still. Also it’s 16+ pls don’t violate that or I will have to eat your shins https://discord.gg/Q3ySqF9Mws
Master Odin is a bastard who sends children to their deaths and young adult Eraqus is rightfully salty over this
Pspsps this is part of my AU. I have a 16+ server for kingdom hearts AUs if anyone is interested in sharing theirs! https://discord.gg/Q3ySqF9Mws
Wizarding world AU where Xehanort has the ability to speak parsletounge for whatever reason and he uses it very “responsibly”
(Disclaimer: I do NOT support JK Rowling. I am a trans man myself lol)
Pspsp I have an AU based Kingdom hearts server if yall would like to share your own! Show me what you people are cooking 👁️👁️ It’s 16+ tho
Caught slipping
He’s looking at Sora btw <3
I have Riku as a sort of messenger boy for the two groups in my AU. Constantly hopping between Sora and Rook to keep people informed
Interested in this AU? Or perhaps, wanna share your own? Check out my KH AU server! I’d love to see what some of ya’ll are cooking 👁️👁️ also I need friends who get KH, this is a genuine cry for help
Time travel AU Timeline/Context below
