OK! So I’ve been working on this for the last few days, and to be honest this is probably my most ambitious comic-storyboard project to date. It’s also based off @thefinalkey16‘s post, which I had actually doodled in an earlier sketchdump but I wanted to take it up a notch cuz I just loved it so much xD
Originally this was supposed to be just a comic but with how long it was, i attempted to make it a storyboard video instead (and a gif actually). Timing might be just a little off so I’ve provided the comic panels under the cut (with different watermark placements LOL)
Also, I just found out it was SoKai week soon so, hehe perfect timing xD
Eraqus: who the fuck gives an awakening exam for the mark of mastery test that is an ADVANCED AND DANGEROUS JOURNEY
Sora: yen sid lol what do you guys do?
Eraqus: my keyblade masters who have never been off world before prove themselves by hitting these lil floating balls of light and trying to not let the darkness overcome them if they get frustrated
Ah yes, these three dorks. I’ve been a KH fan since day one and I’ve played pretty much every game save Days and Chain of Memories (currently in the middle of 3D) So I have plenty to say about them all. Let’s start with main dork shall we?
Sora:
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
This kid is just…adorable. Honestly you just want to give this nerd a hug…and also some rent seriously dude with how many people you got in there you could buy Kairi a castle if you charged rent.
(Vanites probably wouldn’t pay though, he’s kind of a dick)
also kiss Kairi already you big NUMBSKULL
Kairi:
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
If you like a female character bashed by the fanbase for getting in the way of a yaoi couple clap you hands *clap clap*
XD Seriously though, I never got the hate for Kairi, I mean she spent the first game up to the third act in a coma, and the first thing she did when she got out of it was save Sora. Honestly, why?
Also SHE BETTER BE PLAYABLE NOMURA, DON’T TEST ME!
Riku:
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Ah, my first Edge lord, good times. I never did beat him in that fucking race.
All joking aside, I kinda hated his guts back in KH1 but after that the dude kinda grew on me, honestly his whole fighting style is a bunch of fun to watch, and his boss fight, in Hollow bastion that is, was actually really cool once you got used to it.
Dude needs to chill though, he may have gotten the darkness out of him but he certainly kept the Extraness™ that it granted him.
“I’m not afraid of the darkness!” Kid chill you are like…twelve.
He was really cool in KH2 though, and spending my time in 3D taking the piss out of him is fun, so yeah I like him enough I guess.
Dude needed that hair cut though, his KH2 look made him look like a bishie hobo.
this scene really gets to me and it’s hard to articulate why
like sora hears this and he’s just so…so sad about it? he’s shocked and saddened and you can tell his brain just cannot really process this information at all
DDD reveals sora as the hero NOT because he’s a special person chosen by the keyblade, but because of his willingness to open his heart (literally and figuratively) to other people and form mutually supportive bonds–the “my friends are my power” idea that we first got all the way back against Riku in hollow bastion in KH1 and that comes back to us again in DDD. so he’s the perfect foil to Xehanort, who not only uses people, but consumes them, subsumes others’ hearts into his own to further his own self. Normally extremes of giving and taking are portrayed as positive and negative respectively, but with sora and xehanort the symbolism is reversed; sora is a good person because he is willing to take in others’ hearts, xehanort’s evil is displayed by him giving out pieces of his own heart to possess and destroy others.
it also really strikes me (in a painful way) that sora says you tricked your friends because it’s a weird choice of words and yet for Sora it’s the only choice of words because “friends” is his autopilot setting, he can’t even fathom what it would be like to chronically manipulate and dominate and lie to a bunch of people day in and day out. when sora meets someone new, as long as they aren’t threatening him or his friends, his default approach to others is to immediately accept them as worth caring about and getting to know better
Rex's place 