Let's hear it for Roxasnort (ATR ch59, 63, 64)

Ok I promised I'd do a post about Roxasnort and some of the fun deets I couldn't share about him until, well, now. So here we are!

First off, I made a mix for him! I'd wanted to make a mix for Roxas ever since he was Rebuilt, but could never gather quuuuiiiite enough tracks for it. Then this plotline happened, and well, it was pretty easy from there.

Here's the cover art for it! Drawn by yours truly.

You can listen to it [ here, on youtube ] or [ here, on playmoss ]!!

And [ here's ] the tracklist!

I'd give you an 8tracks link but 8tracks became a poop. Which is why playmoss is a thing?? playmoss is, basically an 8tracks clone which just streams straight from youtube links. It's pretty nice, and since 8tracks introduced it's "you only get a couple hours of streaming per week" rules I'll probably be porting all my playlists over to it. eventually.

ANYWAY

I'm gonna do a cut, and then I'll probably talk a little bit more about the playlist (because I love it and I wanna) and then we'll talk about the notes from ch59/63/64 that I couldn't talk about before now! And also some about the plotpoint and Roxasnort as a whole. Nice.

ATR ch64 - In which there are no choices to be had here. (AND ALSO THERE'ES ART??)

Welp. Rest in pieces, Roxas.

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HEYA FOLKS I HOPE YOU'RE AS HYPE FOR THIS AS I AM. I MEAN I REALIZE TERRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TECHNICALLY BUT. Boy I love where this is going so much.

- > tumblr version (should you desire a larger version for your viewing pleasure)

- > other FtPverse art I've done!!

- > all art I've done, in general

It's still "technically spoilers" what happened since it wasn't explicit but, [stares directly at you]. Everyone probably saw this coming after ch63.

We don't see any of the best bits of This Boy in this chapter ((and we won't, unfortunately, until chapter 68)) but I hope you'll trust me when I say he rules immensely and I love writing for him so so so so so much.

Here's his theme song, btw:

CHAPTER TIME

read link

tumblr tag

a link to that mood music playlist again

I'll have another post later featuring notes that I couldn't put up for chapter 63 (as well as some notes from ch59) and other, Roxas thoughts, but for now here's note specific to this chapter!

LET'S GO

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

I DREW SOME THE FTPCAST DRESSING UP AS SOME UNDERTALE FRIENDS!!!!!!! CHECK IT

Anyway ATR's still!!! goin a little slow!!!! I have a lot of homework and am finding that it's hard to find energy to write AND draw on the same day but I'm........! I'm still getting there, promise!!

I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS PICTURE

AND I HOPE YOU HAD A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

Some Riku draws

Hey so I mentioned I've been drawing recently and since I'm starting to churn out some FtPverse drawings, well,

Here's a couple of Rikus I've done recently. Mainly just Repliku manga panel redraws becuase that's my favorite thing........ They're Very Good.

   

It's ya boy:




And then also some quick ATR doodles??

tfw you have weird darkness chicken pox



these are less high quality but i had to scan them so the purple pen might actually show up as purple lmao


ANYWAY YEAH!!!!!!!!

Check out my cool art (^0^)b

ATR Hiatus Update - I REALIZE IT'S BEEN A WHILE,,,,

"rar it's been about a month" I KNOW,,,,,,

I am making headway on ATR though, I promise! I have 7 and a half chapters done (of what won't be much more than 10) and am finishing up the climax of part 3 right now! After that I just have to do resolution things. It might end up taking another few weeks, but I promise, we are getting there.

I wish I had some FtPverse content to share with you in the meantime, but...

I have something just as good, probably?


An Aqua-Replica AU

I actually posted the first fic in this series like three days after my last post on here? Sweats.

Anyway I don't wanna talk too much about this AU because it's only partially mine! But the basics is "what if the Org put the Replica Program to some extra use and also Xemnas did something with the Keyblade he had sitting in his basement" and so!! You have a Replica of Aqua throughout Days and KH2 and it's.... she's pretty good.

The best parts of the AU haven't been touched yet, but you can check out what I have written for it here:

- - > Link to the entire series < - -

The Repliqua AU is definitely on the back-burner as I'm pouring most of my attention into FtPverse again, but!! I would very much like to explore this AU in full, eventually, and more oneshots for it will probably come in the future.

Like, I haven't even reached any of the best parts yet lol....


In other news: I've been drawing a lot???

It's just been doodles of my Keykid Eri (from KHUx!) lately, but, they're pretty good.

Check 'em out!

Eri and Chirithy both have capes and it makes me Very Happy

Cool kids don't look at explosions. PEACE. 

I can't believe she forgot what a Keyblade was ((YES I CAN,,,,))

Currently Eri is dressed up for Halloween and this dress is very cute!!!! This drawing is also very cute. I'm so happy.

((Eventually I'll draw FtPverse stuff.......... eventually.........))

Another week, another update (hiatus update 5) (ok it's been two weeks)

HEYA EVERYBODY!!!!! These blog posts are definitely not a priority for me, so that's why it's been two weeks! Also last week was E3 week so. lol.

FTPVERSE RELATED 

Because it's only fair if I start with these first.

- I've written ATR ch63, and half of ch64! Again, these won't get uploaded until probably I'm done with Part 3 (probably ten chapters from now) because I have to keep track of pacing things and make sure they work out ok! I ended up moving this plotline to sooner than I'd originally planned at last second and would rather not drag the entire story out, so I have to make sure it's pacing here feels alright despite things being a little bit crammed! It's coming ok so far, but, gotta make sure!

- Dead Inside updates....!!!!!! haven't been written since ch104/107. I ended up writing two ATR chapters in a row because I was on a role vs the one I'd planned to, so. If you missed the 15 chapters thruout Part 1 that edited Kairi related things, check it out here!

- I finally queued things over to the ftpverse tumblr for the first time in months ((per the usual)) so check it out maybe for facts you've missed / cool art that reminds me of ftpverse

• as for specific posts to check out: this post on Riku and Kirby games, these two posts about Yuffie, some babbling about how I write Xehanort,

- I've been rereading old FtPverse stuff! I finished rereading the Truth Hurts a while ago, and am now halfway through Falling to Pieces. This is partially so I remember my roots, but largely became me deciding what things I'll want to edit, at some point ((some of them are things that piss me off, some of them are continuity errors)). Don't worry: unlike the Kairi edits, these can be tackled one chapter at a time, so once I'm done with Kairi edits the edits will come at much more steady pace.

- I'm working on new character sheets for the ftpverse cast! These old sheets have lasted three years, but I realized recently that outside of "vague notes about them" there isn't much at all about their personalities and who they are? So, I'd like to tackle that! I'm fond of the new character sheet, but of course, I've gotta wait until I've done the sheet for everyone to change over completely to the new sheet though, so it might be a while before you see them.

OTHER WRITING

- Did you know that Leon is very insistent about asking Sora to find the 99 puppies in KH1?? Did you know Aerith and Yuffie make fun of him for it??? Well, it's a thing, and I decided to write a fic about it. Enjoy 400 words of fluff.

- Replaying KH2 ended up giving me a lot of fic ideas and now they're all bumping around in my head!!! You can check out the basics for them all out here. New footage for KHX Back Cover also contributed lol.

KHUX RELATED?????

This is a short thing just to say I drew my Keykid Eri again in her current outfit and she's super cute!!!!

SHE ALSO GOT FANART????? SOMEONE DREW ME FANART OF MY KEYKID OC?????????? I'M YELLING??????? scarlet-sora is a gift

I'M EXTREMELY STILL NOT OVER THIS...... look at her......... she's so good.......

anyway if you'd like to care as much as I do about my keykid OC Eri, then check out her tag on my tumblr, and my keykids bloggin tag, which is where I post thoughts about keykids in general, not just stuff for Eri!!! ((a lot of it does have to do w/ Eri tho lol))

And you can check out my khx/ux thoughts in general here!

E3 RELATED

WOW!!! E3 WAS A THING!!!!! EVERYONE PROBABLY HAS ALL THE INFO NOW BUT HEY WHATEVER IT'S COOL!!!!!

There were only two things I cared about this year (that's ok I care so much about both it doesn't matter) and those are.....!

1) THEY TALKED ABOUT ZELDA U FINALLY AND LITERALLY PLAYED IT ON STREAM NON STOP FOR AN ENTIRE DAY!!!!!! It looks super amazing and I can't wait to play it myself, eventually, whenever it's released. You can watch every video they ever posted for it here!

2) KH2.8 GOT A TRAILER like an entire week before e3. whoa.

IT RULES THO

if you havent' watched it here it is and if you have watched it then WATCH IT AGAIN

I'M SO EXCITED???????

Like, who cares about KH3D (I sure don't) BUT I CARE ABOUT AQUA!!!!!!!! I'm so excited to see this trailer focus on her. I'm so excited to see her in these beautiful graphics and excited to play as her??? PLUS HER MAGIC LOOKS AMAZING????? Also all the things you can theorize from this trailer Kills Me. The line "I'm doing it again" kills me.

She's hallucinating her friends?? It doesn't come off as malicious as it could be in the trailer / demo but I'm dying about her hallucinating her friends, doing it often enough that she recognizes it. And. There's so much potential here and I Scream.

ALSO KHX BACK COVER LOOKS SO GOOD???? I'm so excited because I love KHX's story and concept so much and I'm soooooooooo ready to see the foretellers and get to know them better!!!! KHX/UX doesn't give you nearly enough on them lol.


Oh yeah!! I also drew fanart for it because I was hype!!!!

Everyone on twitter was drawing Aquas so I drew an Aqua!!! And then it got out of hand. (Epherema is cute as Heck, Ava's cool, Gula's my fave.....)

I have Very Specific headcanons for Gula actually that are probably wrong but I STILL LOVE IT!!! FIGHT ME!!!!!! I think that Gula's actually a Real Jerk ((his "you can barely stand on your feet---just give up already!!" sounds cocky as hell)) and is the one who was tempted by the darkness / the ultimate power promised by Kingdom Hearts and was the one who started the war. IT'S PROBABLY WRONG but, I loooooooooove it.


ANYWAY YOU CAN!!! CHECK OUT????

I have an E3 2016 tag but the first half is 2.8 and the second half is Zelda and that's literally all that's in there.

You can browse my kh bloggin tag for thoughts I've spewed about Aqua / 2.8 / the foretellers, if you'd like??

I have a 2.8 tag, as well, but it's dedicated specifically to BBS0.2, A Fragmentary Passage (aka the portion with Aqua) which I did not know was called 0.2 when I made the tag and haven't gotten around to retagging / may never retag

I have a KHX tag, too!! 


AND THAT'S IT GET HYPE E3 E3 E3 E3 E3

ATR ch61 - In which we have a SoShad, and the hiatus officially begins

Heya!!

We'll get to the update in a bit, but there's a lot been going on since I last posted and, well, I'm gonna talk about all of those things! There's a lot, so, scroll down for a bit and you'll eventually get to the chapter lol.

OH BUT FIRST!!!! HIATUS NEWS!!!

I'm really sorry to take another hiatus for All that Remains, but man!! This is a long fic!!!! It didn't bug me so much back when I was writing Dead Inside, though I thiiiink that may because I was constantly ten chapters ahead when writing Dead Inside (it being only two/three years into the campaign, vs 5-and-a-half, probably also contributed).

Anyway, I really wanted to hold off until part 3 was over, but, I think it's for the best I take one now!! There are a lot of big things coming up for the end of part 3, and I really need the time to write them, to look them over, to make sure they all fit and are good! I can't really do that if I don't have a buffer and am constantly on a deadline.

The goal of this hiatus is:

- build up my buffer again / finish part 3 when I don't have to worry about update deadlines (it'll be better for that, I promise!)

- finish the Kairi edits to Dead Inside!!! GEEZE!!!! I ended up finding like five (??) more chapters that needed to be updated outside of the Initial Pass, but, look. It's fine. You'll see what I'm doing with them once I'm done. ((Hopefully, within the next few weeks, I'll have part 1 of the Kairi edits finished!))

- write a few non-ftpverse things I've wanted to for a while!!! I wanna write a KHX fic ft my keykid, and also a non-ftpverse KH AU with the Aerith/Leon sibling concept, AND MAYBE!!! Get at least one scene of that KH vs TP AU down, but, idk. IDK!


MIITOMOOOOO!!

This is just a real quick plug of Nintendo's new.... MOBILE PHONE APP?? It's called miitomo, and it's basically watered down social media. The concept is you get asked questions and then your questions get told to your friends by their miis, while their answers get told to you by your mii! (Also, your miis have voices, like they do in tomodachi life.)

Like I said, it's kind of Whatever when it comes to the questions/answers thing, but it is pretty fun to dress up your mii in cool clothes (though clothes are suuuuuper expensive, rip), and the BEST part is the miifoto portion. You can insert your mii, your friends' miis, and any mii you make into a photo editor, change the background, change their poses, created funny scenarios, etc. IT'S BASICALLY SOMETHING I'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF!! You kind of got that with AR cards on the 3DS, but not on this scale, and not with this quality.

Maybe you even noticed my icon updated - yup, that's thanks to miitomo!

this is me and rarbot, my clone/replica/whatever

Oh yeah, if you need it, Miitomo's official site is here!

KH UNCHAINED X, FINALLY!!

It came out about a week ago, finally, after like a year of being promised it (ok was it really only 6 months since the Japanese version came out?? mb it was) and well!! It's pretty fun!!!

It's certainly not, like, the most entertaining KH game I've ever played and I guess the missions get a little repetitive, but they're all in bite-sized sections (like, shorter than Days' missions by a lot, each can be finished in like >5 minutes in KHUX) and it's pretty easy to sit down every day and do one or two.

Plus, I know important plot stuff comes later, so I'm Sticking Through It.

It's not like I hate it, though!!! I do think it's a lot of fun!!! It's definitely not, like, the greatest game I've ever played, but if you're a KH fan (which, uh, you are if you're reading this blog, probably!) then you should definitely consider downloading it! It's free, after all.

This is my keykid, her name is Eri, she's cute and I love her. She's also constantly tired and isn't here for any of this war bullshit. Please let her take a nap.

Also, I love her so much I DREW HER!!!

PLEASE LOOK AT MY COOL ART!! ISN'T IT COOL!!!!!! I saw someone else draw their keykids and I was like "wtf!! I wanna draw mine!!" SO I JUST!!! I DID!!!!! I'll probably do it some more!!!!!!

Anyway now that that's out of the way.....

....

~CHAPTER TIME~

- - - > [ Read here! ]

- - - > [ Tag, here! ]

This chapter went through a couple rewrites, because I couldn't quite settle on what I was doing for it. First I was like "Sora will ask Leon the question while Riku's still sitting there!" but that proved difficult (and a little redundant) because it was like I'd Just Fixed things for Riku but, nah, here's a few more things to worry about.

So I made it so Sora asked his question away from Riku, and just to Leon. Then I thought it would mess with the SoShad convo I had planned (and was more attached to) and so I took the Leon conversation out. Then it turned out I still needed it....

Regardless, I think it turned out Pretty Okay in the end, and I got to touch on all the things I wanted (and, provided myself something for later ATR chapters??? nice) so it's pretty nice in the end. Heck yeah!

FINALLY! Chapter 45 of ATR!

EDIT A WEEK LATE: I JUST REALIZED THIS SAID CHAPTER 44 WHEN IT'S ABOUT 45, I'M SORRY, I FRIKKED IT UP!!!! it's fixed now, this post is really about chapter 45, it's supposed to be about 45, it links to chapter 45, the last one was 44, 45 is Correct here

OKAY FIRST OFF - UPDATE SCHEDULE

I said we'd do consistent Monday updates, BUT THEN I REMEMBERED!! WHY THAT WAS A BAD IDEA!!! I'm a huge fan of the flexibility "once a week but never on a specific day" gives me because then if I'm not in the mood to post it one day I can just post it the next and not beat myself up over!! missing my schedule!! SO!!

We're going back to "once a week but never on a specific day."

FUN!!


SECOND OFF - U N D E R T A L E

I've finished the Pacifist and Absolute Pacifist routes of UNDERTALE and whooo ooh hhoooo boy it's such!! a good!!! GAME!!!!!! I literally have not played something this good in a long time.

It's made me laugh it's made me cry it's made me feel legitimately terrified it's made me happy!! it's filled me with emotions!!! IT'S SO!!! GOOD!!!

I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. You won't notice because I got the buffer back in place, but thanks to it!!! I couldn't write properly because I was thinking about it!! I COULDN'T SLEEP PROPERLY!!!!

The possibilities and depths of this game were keeping me up at night. I couldn't write properly because I'd get a sentence or two down and then think about UNDERTALE and whoops there goes an hour. I didn't do any language studying. I just played UNDERTALE. I just played UNDERTALE.

Here's the review I gave a friend of mine??

YES O H MY GOD I LITERALLY CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT SINCE PLAYING IT!! IT'S KEPT ME UP AT NIGHT!!! IT'S MADE ME LAUGH AND CRY and feel really scared AND SMILE LIKE AN IDIOT ALSO I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO STOP THINKING ABOUT UNDERTALE ENOUGH TO PROPERLY WRITE FTPVERSE LMAO, IT'S SO GOOD, IT'S SO GOOD

It's such a good game. Oh my god. it's such a good game and if you haven't even thought about playing it.... YOU NEED TO FIX THAT!!!!

The DEMO is here, absolutely free, about an hour long! (You need to replay it once to get the full experience, and check out the instruction manual that comes packaged with it before and after playing. Trust me.)

You can read me screaming about UNDERTALE after finishing my first Pacifist run here!

You can see me blogging about it on tumblr, HERE!!

AND IF YOU WANNA BUY IT

YOU CAN GET IT HERE, ON IT'S WEBSITE (OR ON STEAM) FOR ONLY TEN BUCKS!! WHAT A STEAL!!!!!!!

Some other things I've said about it

i haven’t been able to stop thinking about undertale. i’m giong to scream. i’m literally going to scream. how is this so good. how am i supposed to do anything w/ my life but think about undertale. help me

biggest perk to undertale:
instead of fighting and killing bosses, you can befriend them. you want to destroy me? too bad. i want to be your friend. let’s have a nice chat. can i hug you? can i kiss you???? you’re awesome please let me love you.
and it works :))))

SO!! YEAH!!! PLEASE FRIKKEN PLAY UNDERTALE!!!!! I'LL WHOLEHEARTEDLY RECOMMEND IT PROBABLY UNTIL MY DYING BREATH, IT'S SO GOOD!!!!!!! it's so good......

by @fivepaninis on twitter

FINALLY - CHAPTER TIME!!

READ IT HERE

TUMBLR TAG AQUI!!

COMMENTARY AHORA!!

Riku's Hair!

Uh, it occurred to me (thanks to a reviewer) that while I talked about Aerith's new haircut in the ATRch31 post, I didn't even mention what Riku's looked like!

I mean, he got his hair cut in canon, so maybe not everyone's worried about it, and I've been talking about him cutting it for ages, but, I dunno! I thought I might as well.


Oh, and for the record, Aerith's hair looks like this

Here's the post this art came from, and, the reason she got it cut is because I thought this looked super-duper cute ((also I cosplayed a short-haired Aerith so there's that too))


NOW FOR RIKU'S HAIR

We all know (er, probably) that he got his haircut in KH3D which is partially why I decided to have him get his hair cut (though I've joked various times that a part of the reason comes from the fact that Real Thing hasn't, because, magik's Riku hasn't)

Anyway that looks like this

Which, isn't as bad as I remembered ((it's the hair on his kh2 model that's bad for some reason because it's like a triangle in the back and EUGH))

But anyway I largely picture it how tumblr user ramflega draws it

Here's a link to her Riku tag, and, basically any art of him w/ short hair (there are plenty of long-haired Riku's in there)

Here's a single visual example I picked out

Link to it's post here

And, well, links a few more examples because I might as well

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I, uh, could've linked to a lot more Namikus but I.... refrained


Also the fact rams draws him frequently with only the under-jacket-vest-thing and not the top one has contributed to how I picture him.

Literally, any of rams' Riku's, hair and outfit and all, is how I picture FtPverse Riku

So, that's important to know

Another BBS-ish post

Updates for ATR are still on hold for a bit!

I know I haven't kept up the usual tradition of "flooded w/ christmas fanart" this year, and I wasn't intending to keep up with it, but this one is too cute not to post!!

a Kingdom Christmas by teaelleharris

It's Aqua babysitting itty bitties and it's really cute (do you see Sora covered in bows though bc look at that dork)

Anyhoo

I haven't posted anything to ASAS, but I have posted two KH fics that can be taken in FtPverse context, if you'd wish


Aqua's overleveled (kinda)

Finishing Birth By Sleep again (specifically playing the Secret Episode) made me realize how powerful Aqua's spells can get, and the Heartless in the Secret Episode proved very hard to fight, and it got me thinking about how she must've really fought for her life for all those years---also, those Heartless dropped a lot of exp and I must've gone up ten levels while playing it

Leading me to think about just how high of a level and powerful Aqua's spells have gotten after so many years in the Dark Realm

It was specifically going through Aqua's character profile again (as you can see, it's been updated, as have Ven and Terra's, with BBS specific info) that got me really pumped about ridiculously powerful Aqua who can just casually decimate every group of Heartless she runs into

An anon on tumblr also requested a fic with overleveled Aqua, and seeing as I already had some vague ideas for one, it just kind of snowballed from there---what got written was just Aqua and Ven sparring, however, but it was still a lot of fun to write!!

You can read it here (or here on tumblr, or here on AO3 if you so wish)

Full bloggin about overleveled Aqua plus chapter commentary can be found here

It was a very fun scene to write!! I love expanding the Aqua/Ven dynamic, and the battle was a lot of fun to write! I also got a lot of compliments (well, two) on how the battle was written, which I thank everyone for!! Not that I'm sure if anyone is going to read this thanks but thanks.

I might write battle mechanics like that in a future? We'll see. I'm not sure.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun, and I'm quite proud of it! I hope you'll enjoy it

Oh, and, while it wasn't posted as a part of FtPverse, I was very much channeling FtPverse Aqua and Ven, and would like to consider it FtPverse canon!! I didn't want to post it as FtPverse for fear no one would read it (plus it hardly reads as FtPverse anyway), but, well, as I said, I'd like to consider it as FtPverse canon, and you can certainly consider it FtPverse canon as well!


Whatever it takes

This is a re-imagining of the final Ven vs Vanitas battle, which can also be considered FtPverse canon! I didn't initially want to post it as FtPverse, but over time I've really grown fond of considering it the FtPverse rendition of the battle.

This one probably isn't as interesting as the Aqua and Ven scene, but I still like it, and since it's at least a little FtPverse related, I thought I should let you know about it!!

You can read it here (or here on tumblr, or here on AO3 if you wish)



That's all I had to say!!

I already said that Aqua and Terra and Ven's profiles had been updated, but here I am saying it again! They've been updated with more specific BBS-related info, and Ven's has been updated with FtPverse related continuity stuff that I've changed since replaying BBS and thinking some things over

(Plus I was borrowing headcanon ideas and stuff from another person and have since realized that while I love those ideas they do not fit into FtPverse canon)

Merry Christmas!! (2014) (ASASch78)

Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season even if you don't celebrate Christmas! I also hope you got to spend the season with your loved ones, whether they be biological family or adopted family, or even just close friends when it comes down to it!!! And if you're far away from them, give them a call, or maybe skype them. That's what magik and I had to do this year, and while it wasn't the same as her being here, it was still really nice to see her.

Update wise: Updates for ATR are on hold until ???? because magik had to move states again and hasn't had consistent internet, plus it's Christmas, so, yanno. I'll try and get more ASAS stuff up to make up for it, along with get everyone's Character Profile done. Hopefully.

(Speaking of character profiles, we're slowly working our way to having the full FtPcast--recent additions being Yuffie, Cid, and Xion!)


FtPverse Christmas Special (finally)!!!!

I wrote a FtPverse Christmas Special for once!!! Yaaaaayyy!!!! "What about DIch139??" Eh, you can count that if you want, but I'm not going to.

Anyway, this Christmas Special was a lot of fun to write and has a lot of Christmas + Family feels and was a nice break from the slow-going Nothing's Fair rewrite! I hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it!!!!

Read it here!!


Christmas Playlist!!

it's not christmas yet from rarmaster on 8tracks Radio.

This is a collection of songs that, for my family, it wouldn't be Christmas without!! + some new songs we were digging this year

The first track in this mix, Na Hu O Ho is actually the song that Aerith so enjoys in the ASAS chapter. I can't find the full "A Celtic Heartbeat Christmas" on youtube for you to listen to in full anywhere, unfortunately, but it is a gem! Na Hu O Ho can be found here on youtube, though
(irl, it's my mom's CD, but I can borrow some personal christmas traditions for my writing, can't I?)


Obligatory Christmas present list:

I got TWEWY for Christmas, and started that up!!! Not far, only on day 2 right now--or day 3, actually, or, whatever. I'm liking it so far, and I'm sure I'll enjoy it in full, as everyone who's played it and I've talked to has loved it, so, I'm sure I will as well!!!!

I got HTTYD2 also, which is really neat!!!

KH2.5 was me and magik's (early) christmas gift to each other, but I got a bookmark from her too, along with a really nice note about kh2.5

Uhhhh other than that (and like, two bags of kitkats from my lil sis) that was kinda it, because Christmas was smaller this year (so we can hopefully get a Wii U in January or whenever Nintendo has them back in stock) but it was still!!!! neat!!!!!

And I'm sure I'll love TWEWY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If you want more of me bloggin about Christmas you can check out my Christmas 2014 tag on tumblr (which has a couple selfies I didn't wanna post here)


That's kinda it, but have this Christmas wallpaper while I'm at it, just like old times!

art by kouki
(who has a Vanitas Christmas pic I think I shared last year, along with a lot of cool Sora/Roxas/Ven/Vanitas art in general!! check 'em out!!!!!!)

All that Remains chapter 1 (+ outfit designs for the main cast)

Hello! Welcome to the first All That Remains -- ATR -- chapter commentary!

That's right, ATR is now up! I planned on waiting another week or so, but I got really excited about it in the car drive today, so here we are.

It's been hardly a week after the conclusion of Dead Inside, and the road to recovery is a long one. Namine won't stop having nightmares. Riku continues to struggle with inner demons. Sora's got a whole mess of problems, between his parents, and the memory of his Shadow... Plus, Xehanort's supposed to come back, and is anyone really prepared for that?

 Sounds like we're off to a good start, right? Totally.

If you want more book 5, er, ATR related stuff, there's a tag for it on my personal tumblr (for developmental notes, etc), and a tag for it on the FTPverse tumblr (featuring some of the developmental notes + pictures).

Also keep an eye on the FtPverse tumblr for character profiles along with the book 5 outfit designs. The FtPverse Character Resource now has pages up for Aqua and Ven, and Terra's profile will be up pretty soon. (Battle descriptions from the character profiles will be added soon, too.)
The "All that Remains" page on this blog will be updated shortly.

ANYWAY.

I won't repost the first set of promo "art", but I suppose posting an easier-to-see version of the cover image is in order

This isn't the full image, of course, the full image is a whopping 4000x2500 pixels, made for desktop background purposes.
I was going to hold off on posting said full image, since it's more relevant to endgame book 5 than anything else, but, eh, what the hey. Have it now.

obviously this is super tiny, but you shouldn't have a problem downloading it at full size (full size is 1600x950(ish) pixels btw. I didn't see why you needed the full 4000x2500 version)

There you go. A bandaged-and-slightly-bloody-Rolling-Girl-style Riku for your desktop background.

Obviously, this was traced, off of this lovely Kaito Rolling Girl fanart. I did ask for and receive permission before tracing, so no worries about that.

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST. PLEASE DO NOT CLAIM AS YOUR OWN. ETC. ETC. 

One more thing: Yes, I am pausing ATR after 21 chapters to rewrite Nothing's Fair (aka NFRW)--like I said in ATRch1 itself, I knew if I kept writing ATR, NFRW would never get done. I really really want it to get it done.

I'm not too worried about it, though, since it took me about 3 months to write those 21 chapters of ATR (part 1). 21 chapters in 3 months doesnt seem like a lot, but I'm feeling confident since the ATR doc is currently 50k words and 100 pages. I wrote a nano length novel in 3 months. That's not too shabby.

So, before this gets any longer:

Chapter time + book 5 outfits under the cut

Chapter 245 Commentary: Epilogue part 1

I could post like a playlist with this but I can't think of anything that's relevant to the end of Dead Inside that I don't want posted with ch246 so

No to a playlist this time

If you're curious, I went ahead and wrote the Riku vs Maleficent scene that happened back during Falling to Pieces--you can read it here

I actually had a lot of fun with the scene. It was written as if to be a file viewed from CO/TWTNW's computers, which allowed me a lot of freedom with the format.
It allowed me not only write Riku vs Maleficent and "parallel" it to Larxene, linking the whole lightning thing, but also play with the fact that it is not just a memory, but an unstable memory, like all of those in Riku's head.

I considered putting it in Falling to Pieces itself, but the difference in writing style + special format eventually made me decide against it. At least for now anyway. Maybe at a later point I'll put it (or perhaps a modified version without the memory formatting) in Falling to Pieces anyway. I wanted to. Hmm.

ALSO I'M REALLY UPSET FFNET WON'T LET ME DO BRACKETS SO I COULDN'T FORMAT THE COMPUTER COMMANDS AS LIKE. ACTUAL COMMANDS.

y'know like
 > command here
that's what I wanted to do

anyway

"It was never too far for her."

 Here's the first (of three) Book 5 teasers. And on that note...

Chapter Time

Fire Emblem Awakening has ruined me (ch237)

I finished watching a playthrough of it and woooow it's a good game and I'd love to play it for myself (largely just because there are are so many choices based on player decisions and I'd play it differently and

however I am broke and want a Wii U a looooooooo t more so unless I see the game somewhere for $10 I ain't getting it soon

Here's the liveblog tag for it if you're interested -- oh, and a link to the playthrough I watched

ANYWAY LETS MOVE ON TO SOKAI FEELIGNS


PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM WHILE READING THE CHAPTER THANK YOU

(source) hhhghhghgg SoKai feelings s

Chapter 233 Commentary

Hey. Hey psst. Hey psst hey did you see what was over in the top right sidebar? did you see it?

That's right! 13 chapters from here to the end of Dead Inside. I haven't actually finished Dead Inside at the time of writing this, but I know Dead Inside's gonna be 246 chapters (excluding the ending author's note)

I managed to do it in under 250 chapters. It's a miracle.

Step Into the Light - a Namine FST from rarmaster on 8tracks Radio.

This mix has absolutely nothing to do with the chapter but I am super super proud of this mix I made. It's canon Namine by the way and.... I love it....

I've been working on it off and on for like two months but I didn't want to post it now because I was just like "I have five mixes to post for Dead Inside's endgame I can't I can't"
but I ended up finishing CoM for magik (she had all but the final battle done on her memory card--we weren't even sure who's game it was)
and I had. a lot. of Namine feels. So I decided to post it.

The tracklist is here

This is the original image--Namine's face gets covered by the album title, unfortunately



And the image can be found here on deviantART


Chapter Time

Crying about SoShad (ch231 commentary)

Here I am to ruin everyone with SoShad feels you ready?

I am



This is the AMV I made for the SoShad battle. Don't worry. the Namiku battle gets one too

all art can be found here

except this one picture of Sora smiling

The rest are recolored manga panels colored by me personally

If you need music suggestions there's the entire mix I made for this battle, or very specifically the songs in the ch231 tag (I hate everything about you, King for a Day, and Props & Mayhem)

Or if you need songs with no lyrics
this string quartet cover of Linkin Park's Crawling (and potentially the rest of the album?)
or Tragic Dragon by TSFH

There's also this beautiful song--The Deer, by Woodkid--but after like the first minute it stops with the somber tone this chapter needs

Chapter 226 Commentary

Idk I was maybe gonna talk about the Soul Eater AU but. nah.

reasons you should watch Soul Eater, though

• it's near impossible to not care about every single character in that show (or at least the ones that have more than like 10 minutes of screentime)
• you like Larxene? Medusa is basically Larxene.
• you like Repliku? Crona's basically Repliku tbh
• Crona also gets a redemption arc and I cried like a baby
• the main character is a girl who wields a scythe and wins the day through bravery alone. how cool is that.
• there was literally 0 focus on romance so if you want a nice story about kids being friends this is it
• tbh if you've liked Kingdom Hearts I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't like Soul Eater

Keep Moving Forward from caracoid on 8tracks Radio.

I was gonna post my nort mix because Xemnas is this chapter but I also decided nah.

Getting hardly three hours of sleep will do that to you, I guess

OH OH I KNOW WHAT I SHOULD SHARE THOUGH REAL QUICK--I got around to making new icons for the cast's tumblr, swapping from the limited "variations of 5 expressions" that talksprites gave me, to the much more varied option of nabbing icons from the mangas

I grabbed over 200 icons, and colored every single one of them. Am I crazy? Yeah. But I also had a lot of spare time and it's already done.

WHAT'S NEAT is it got me to solidify skintone headcanons and stuff, also a consistent look for Sora's scar

Look at 'em:

 

I mean the Riku 'n Namine ones are kinda boring but look at that. Riku looking happy. look at that i have one of him looking happy though I couldn't get my hands on one of him looking sarcastic--well that wasn't in darkmode anyway. All the ones of him in dark mode he looks either sarcastic or 5000% done with everything and

that's actually pretty accurate

THE SORA N KAIRI ONES ARE MY FAVES THOUGH

 

look at that I'm so proud of these Kairi ones I am so proud plus I love her with freckles and. hgljasdf I'm so proud

AND THEN THE SORA ONES

I'M PRETTY HAPPY WITH THESE TOO OMG like his skin probably isn't as dark as it should be tbh... and no the scar doesn't look perfect in all of them but the important thing is that it's there and it's roughly in the same place every time and more importantly

it's there

The fact that it's there is all I care about

also have a Roxas because I got him too

yeah man

Anyway Chapter

read link

tumblr tag

There was a thing about Vexen disabling the failsafe for Roxas but a) it didn’t flow b) timing??? + Xemnas was litearlly in the room for like the entire time and only moved Vexen when he’s like “I need to go stop Riku and need you not near a computer”

So

And there was this snippet:

“Xemnas left recently” ‘cept Vexen was like “Ve- mg. Xemnas left recently. I’m Vexen. I obviously didn’t go anywhere.” 

But I forgot what lead into it soooooooooooo

The word “practicioner” kept coming to mind instead of fighter but,,,,, practicioner is definitely not what I was looking for. (I don’t think fighter was, either, but it was late I was tired a good month ago mind you when I actually wrote this I didn’t want to sit and come up with the right word)

Just a reminder that Vexen insists on using Correct Terminology and calls Xigbar’s clone Xigbar’s Replica

GOOD RIDDANCE, VEXEN THINKS ABOUT AXEL. GOOD RIDDANCE. I’m

I DID NOT GO INTO THIS  PLANNING TO PARALLEL KH2 AND SORA AND SAIX it was spur of the moment okay but what if Xemnas pulled a Saix and I went with it and you’d maybe think RIKU’S BETTER THAN THAT HE WOULDN’T ACTUALLY yeah he would

Yeah he would he’s desperate Namine’s on the line

Pouts skin tight suits mean no picking people up by the collar of their shirts uhm

What’s Roxas supposed to do grab him by the neck?

Maybe the arm in this case

The brainstorm for Xemnas trying to convince Roxas to kill Riku was really neat and I'll try to convert it to ASAS format one day but
there's just something so sad about losing the initial brainstorm format pouts again

also Riku had this neato speech where he was like "well you know what I am Xemnas? I'm the tool built to stop whatever the heck you were doing"
but it got cut because Riku'd have to first off realize/assume that's what Vexen built him for (when it's not even 100% canon)
second off Riku'd have to ACCEPT being Vexen's tool and be okay with it enough to turn it into a dramatic biting speech which. well. that's unlikely.
plus Namine's in danger that that just makes the chances go from "unlikely" to "definitely not going to happen right now"

Actually tbh Xemnas’s smile is usually quite pleased but it’s still a regular-ish smile I’d like to think and that pisses you off because it’s one thing for a villain to be smug or pretend like they know something you don’t and that comes off in the smile—but a regular smile is something you don’t expect to see and it drives you insane

I wanted to call it a dachsted smile h o n e s t l y that was the word that kept coming to my head—dachsted which isn’t even English it’s shadow tongue

The other word that was coming to mind was dastardly but that doesn’t work either

This battle was almost two chapters but that ruined my flow worse than having this be one super long chapter with an awkward break mid-battle in the middle of it

I’m reaaaaaaally attached for this little paragraph giving myself a rough idea of the battle for some reason:

Ugh okay there’s a lot of them being thrown back but Riku starts to catch himself more often Roxas is bleeding from the mouth and bruised across the face at least but he keeps curing and curing and the trail of blood from his mouth doesn’t fade

But

Y’know the damage does

Xemnas does a lot of warping around the field but hey at least there’s only one of him

He keeps throwing up shields for himself and??? lasers??? What the heck man

This was the last chapter I wrote in 2013 wowie (ch202)

I'M A DAY EARLY I GUESS BUT I'MMA BE BUSY TOMORROW AND. stuff.

Also I should be writing but I'm at a stuck sorta and by that I mean Shad doesn't want to be where he is rn and logistics stopped working because I changed things and. Stuff I don't want to deal with. I will later. It's not even 10 pm yet. well as I'm writing this it's not



THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE SEEN IN A WHILE. Sara Bareilles is actually really good live apparently.
See also: King of Anything, and Uncharted (both live). Oh and her and Taylor Swift singing Brave together

Also:


Just because

NOW IT'S CHAPTER TIME YAAAYYYYYYYYYY

leerlo aqui

y las notas de tumblr 

It’s not that Mickey isn’t strong like he’s not a heavy hitter type he’s definitely a lightweight and of course to be lightweight you sacrifice strength but it’s not that he can’t carry Sora it’s that there’s an awful height difference between them and he definitely wasn’t holding Sora right to support that y’know?

I probably don’t make sense

Ahhhh I

Tbh I can totes see Goofy and Donald being like FRIKY YEAH NICE TO SEE YOU MICKEY HOW’S LIFE BEEN HOW HAS—oh shhhhhhh there’s Minnie let ‘em have a moment

Like both of them are just

They wouldn’t interfere I don’t see them doing that like Goofy wouldn’t ever and Donald might but he’s also pretty good about that??? like he’d have to be really in a mood to interrupt anything between Mickey and Minnie and he def wouldn’t like after Mickey just got home after he’s been gone for a while

It’s still a little jarring to me that Mickey isn’t like,,,,, uncomfortable with being called your majesty (in kh canon) I bet he tells Donald and Goofy to knock it off but they refuse they would ahhhhh

Goofy probably tells him it’s not like he minds he thinks it’s great that his best friend is a king

And Donald probably thinks something along those lines too but he’s not as vocal about it

MICKEY WAIT NO THEY’RE BEING CUTE

THEY’RE BEING CUTE

REWATCHING HOUSE OF MOUSE WAS THE BEST DECISION I COULD’VE EVER MADE EVER

No wait hang on Mickey those thoughts are. No. oh wow. Wow. Um. Well. aHYEAH UHM IT’S. HE’S. WOW HE LOVES MINNIE A LOT WOW I WAS JUST SMACKED IN THE FACE he’s watching her leave and he’s just like “yup. Every reason I love you right here.” and of course he leaves to go rest like she told him to oh my gosh

Mickey wait stop being cute oh my gosh

I KEEP TYPING MINNIE INSTEAD OF MICKEY WOW WHOOPS

The Goofy and Donald scene was an afterthought but it was too cute to not include.

GOOFY TUCKING SORA IN THO IS LIKE THE CUTEST THOUGHT EVER YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH ME HE WOULD AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE

anyway time to rant about Mickey and Minnie yayayyyyyy

It’s so cute tho because Mickey’s like “I didn’t know what to do so I brought him here” aka “I came to you” and Minnie just gives a him look like “yup. That sounds about right” because they’ve literally been doing this for as long as they’ve known each other

Mickey goes “what do I do what do I do?” and it isn’t all the time but it’s semi-frequent and when he doesn’t know what to do he goes to Minnie. (provided he thinks she’ll have an answer for him but then again I see him going to her for literally everything I can’t imagine him not being completely transparent with her)

I mean in some of their old cartoons he’d not tell her something to cover up a mistake until he could fix it but like in my headcanon this stuff in KH is literally yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars after that happened so he’s probably learned his lesson and yeah sometimes he doesn’t tell her (when he’s embarrassed or there isn’t time or if he thinks she’ll get really mad probably idk. Largely just the first two.)

BUT ANYWAY YEAH LIKE side tangent it’s literally a little jarring to me to think that he didn’t tell Minnie he was leaving in KH1 and tells Donald to apologize for him like that doesn’t feel like Mickey but I suppose if it was all of a sudden Yen Sid called him and was like “MICKEY THERE IS A PROBLEM IT NEEDS TO SOLVED NOW” and Mickey was like “OH UH YEAH IT DOES I GUESS I NEED TO GO” so he did and there wasn’t time to go wake Minnie up and tell her??

Or he didn’t want to wake her??

But if she was already awake I think he’d tell her I’m so conflicted I have trouble imagining him being anything but completely transparent with her tho he could be a little forgetful sometimes that sounds like Mickey

So scenario again Yen Sid calls it’s the middle of the night and then Mickey forgets to tell Minnie he just rushes off after jotting down a quick note to Donald potentially I don’t know if he has time to tell Donald he’ll have time to tell Minnie but

If he wrote the note and then “well poo that was enough time wasted and Minnie’s sleeping and I don’t wanna wake her…” hence the PS to Donald because it’s something of an afterthought maybe he intended to tell her but figured he’d wasted too much time already I’M GOING TO KEEP GOING OVER THIS SCENARIO UNTIL I AM HAPPY WITH IT SORRY but that last one sounds okay

moving on

Shad scrunches up his face like Matt does 

tho if you haven't watched Stupid Mario Brothers you wouldn't know what I'm saying. Maybe I can get a pic. This was a while ago I'll have to remember which face scrunch it is and then find a cap of Matt making it

Actually tbh in general Shad is channeling Matt I clearly had watched Stupid Mario Brothers recently

(I can literally see Matt turning around and roaring "then why did you come to me!?" well he's never said those words specifically and it's so much anger ahhhhh sorry Matt's just a really good actor)

But yeah I'm not going to be able to find the face scrunch I know he says "what the crap?" as he makes it but that is a very commonly used phrase in the series and there are 75 potential episodes it could be in. 

I wanted to use Mickey's Shadow Tongue name so I did. Tho I was a little surprised when I read back through it and saw his name in Shadow Tongue because I usually cut that stuff out. 

(The wolf speaks in Shadow Tongue frequently but often I just. Have him not.)

I translated his name in the last blog post. So go look at that. I don't want to type it up again.

IT IS ALSO NOT PRONOUNCED RAY-REE LIKE IT LOOKS. IT IS RAY-RAI. I finally conditioned myself to ray-rai (I think) but I always default to ray-ree because that's how you'd pronounce Raeri were it japanese.

OH! and fun Shadow Tongue fact--Mickey's full name is of course Hyri Jara ni Raeri but the wolf shortened it because you usually do like Shad would probably be just simply called Sheto ni Sura and all of their Zecchnor's are called Zecchnor ____ aka whatever their letter is

tho the Angel goes by Hyri Anches but that's. I think that's a personal preference. The Knight does too. Hydrx Knable. It may be since they're so high ranking you don't have another Angel or Knight. Idk. Let's move to the next point.

Yes those are Pain and Panic but do you think Shad knows their names? Hahahahahahahahaahhahhahaahha

I’ve stopped using thoughts tbh?????? ?????? not sure why I’ve just sorta stopped. I mean you hardly ever have a character comment to themselves in thought format about anything. I think I put it into the text? Or?? something??

But I rarely use thoughts anymore ever. It's. Yeah.

Wow Shad has zero patience all of a sudden uh

I had a thought where one of them was like “do you have a name?” and he just very tersely and seriously says “no” and he’s frowning and they just kind of stare at him like “oh”

Maybe Hades asks??????

He would

(he didn't)

WAIT NO I ‘M SA D WAIT

WAIT SHAD. BLAMES HIMSELF. TO PROTECT. BECAUSE. BECAUSE SORA WOULD I AM SAD

(Hades starts to get mad at Pain and Panic for taking too long and Shad's like "no really it was my fault" ahhhhhh)

And suddenly it's Shad's wolf

(he hardly ever says "my wolf" or in story text "his wolf". It's always "the wolf" but now it's "his wolf" I am over explaining)

NOTES FROM MY BRAINSTORM:

“what’s that?” Shad asks, coming over and examining the pieces of the display (probably picks up one of mickey ahhahalsjf hades no)

Wait why am I saying no to hades????

I said this on tumblr but I should say it here. The wolf is so sarcastic I almost think he would've made a better cat.

"Oh. You want me to check. I see."

There was going to be a scene with Mickey vs the wolf for like four seconds but it was easier to cut it and now Hades is just going to stare confusedly between them I love this this is hilarious yaaaaaayyyyyyyy

ALSO IT WAS COMEDIC FOR SHAD TO BE LIKE “oh where sora is isn’t imp—WIAT YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME”

Awwwww I’ll have to cut it

“Would… Maleficent be interested in going after [Disney castle]?” Shad asks

“Why?” Hades is a little skeptical

“I just need to get her and Sora in the same place… and if she’s doing real estate”

“Ah!” and Hades gets it “Hmm” but his face falls “I’m not sure if she’d be dumb enough to try, though”

“You were--”

“I was entertaining the thought, nothing more!!” he waves Shad off impatiently

Which was pure gold also references magik oh well I think we’re probably better with out it long sigh

(see: ch38 of Betwixt and Between)

for a sec I was worried I was referencing things that she hasn't posted yet but. no. no they've happened

Hades don’t call him a mutt that is absolutely insulting he is pureblood he is liTTERALLY PUREBLOOD

(because he's a pureblood heartless get it?)


ANYWAY THAT'S IT CHAPTER WISE

But I mentioned on tumblr that I think Shad in a long coat would be a. Really. Nice idea.
(you can blame this little shit named Kano for that)

aaannnd here is my potential design for such an outfit!

of course, Shad's never gonna get a chance to wear it. But. It exist. And I think it's a really nice design. Quite proud of it.

That's it!

See ya again in about five days!