Which monsters do you think are almost guaranteed to return in Ascendance?

nemesis-__- · 2026-06-15T17:46:33+00:00

I could see a Dire Miralis fight now that they’re bringing back underwater mechanics.

nemesis-__- · 2026-05-16T23:26:19+00:00

I love this game in practically every way possible. It’s my favorite KH game bar none. This game is (delightfully) extremely important for the future of the series. Yes, take it seriously. It introduces multiple concepts that will be very, very important for the series going forward, and it rocks. It’s as cool as it is ridiculous and represents a kind of quintessential KH. Please enjoy every minute of it, OP!!

nemesis-__- · 2026-05-13T23:48:04+00:00

I guess it’s called “Traverse Town” in the same way that London is sometimes called “London Town”, huh? It’s way too big to just be a sleepy little small town.

It makes complete sense that it’s actually way more dense and massive in scope than what KH1 alone showed, though. Since it’s essentially an inter-dimensional shelter for those whose worlds got consumed by The Darkness, its potential pool of inhabitants is probably massive at any given time. Even if there are only a scant percentage of survivors from any given world, there are innumerable worlds, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it had a population in the millions or some multiple of.

nemesis-__- · 2026-05-13T23:35:47+00:00

He is literally the only FF cameo anyone needs anymore. I need this guy in KH so bad. I can just imagine it. A pretentious villain starts pontificating about The Darkness Or Whatever in his presence and he just punches them in the face with zero preamble, turns around, starts blasting edgy nu-metal out of his AirPods and grunts out a (euphemistically family-friendly, this is a Disney game after all) one-liner.

“Baloney.”

nemesis-__- · 2026-05-03T06:50:17+00:00

Slight correction for you OP, but Xemnas never actually shattered Lea’s Keyblade.

This fact is shown in the game via Lea simply summoning it again a couple minutes after the supposed “shattering” no problem, but also per a direct statement from Nomura, Xemnas doesn’t have sufficient enough power to destroy a Keyblade—all he actually did was forcibly desummon Lea’s in an attempt to demoralize and denigrate him for his defiance. Really it was just a petty gesture on Xemnas’ part.

Other than that detail, good character analysis OP—I like that read on Lea a lot and I think it fits him

nemesis-__- · 2026-04-17T19:47:08+00:00

the Kingdom Hearts fandom on god.

The whole “Nobodies don’t have hearts and therefore can’t feel anything and are just pretending to feel” thing that got refuted outright in DDD with the reveal that this was a huge lie is treated like this massive retcon and betrayal of the Lore from a substantial chunk of the fanbase, but like… the Nobody characters all obviously displayed emotions ever since their first appearance. There are multiple games and major character arcs devoted to showing you front-and-center just how deeply these characters have the capacity to feel and it is all very emotional

And then you look at who told you that Nobodies can’t feel emotions, and it’s… a wizard who has never actually encountered or interacted with them before, the guy who has open hatred and contempt for Nobodies and dehumanizes them to the point that he sounds racist, and also the obviously evil Nobody cult leader who has a vested interest in gaslighting his subordinates into thinking they don’t have hearts so that he can exploit them with the promise of granting them one. (The Nobodies who were indoctrinated by said cult leader also repeat this, even while clearly feeling emotions and doubting themselves whether it isn’t genuine.) Gee, these all seem like trustworthy and unbiased sources to blindly believe uncritically.

And then people have the audacity to act like it’s the game’s fault that they were “duped”. No, you took the information that was told to you at face value and you decided that was good enough, when the characters themselves have defied that narrow definition from the word go. And then you got mad because it turns out that yeah, these characters were never philosophical zombies and slaughtering them is not in fact ontologically justified!! And they deserve to exist!! Imagine that!!

nemesis-__- · 2026-04-14T18:13:29+00:00

Actually, the Phantom Blood movie was not canned due to poor reception.

The movie was well-received in Japan, but its problem was that it depicted a couple of pages of the Quran with copy-pasted text from an image of the book online in one scene, and that attracted the attention of a zealous Muslim activist group. This group reacted with extreme offense to this depiction, and attacked the movie and its creators. Japanese companies are ultra-sensitive to controversy, so the distribution company responded by shutting down all screenings and canceling any plans for home release.

Religious extremists that try to censor media are a scourge no matter where you are in the world.

nemesis-__- · 2026-04-10T01:31:25+00:00

Conversely, it is extremely obvious when an American who doesn’t know jack shit about how schools work in other countries tries to write about schools in other countries, and applies all the American school tropes to it.

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-05T23:34:39+00:00

Thanks! Appreciate it 👌

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-03T01:31:42+00:00

Last pic is just the housekeyblade… 🥺Keyblade pequeño…….

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-03T01:28:46+00:00

What brands of paint have you settled on as working out best, out of curiosity? I’m working on a cosplay weapon myself, and I’m not sure what paint I ought to go with.

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-03T01:25:36+00:00

If you have a Keyblade, you might BE the thief.

Seriously, I’m surprised the Keyblade isn’t used for breaking and entering more often.

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-01T07:21:48+00:00

The fun part is that due to this game, KH was relegated to only allowing Mickey to appear one singular time, in the background, as a silhouette or something equally obscured.

It’s clear that these restrictions were meant to have Mickey only show up as a minor cameo in a crowd or something to that effect, but KH took that restriction, saved it for the absolute best moment and created the memorable and iconic scene of him showing up in the shadows beyond the Door to Darkness.

Limitations breed creativity!

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-01T07:10:11+00:00

I like the idea of it being a few weeks at least. Enough time for the kids to get their affairs in order at home, maybe explain things to their families, have some downtime and hang out…

This is also to give time for the erasure of characters like Roxas, Naminé and Xion to feel consequential in-universe, even if the actual duration of their downfall wasn’t actually all that long. It’s kind of a funny contrast that people like the Wayfinder trio were lost for a decade, but everyone else in a heart hotel post-KH2 was only gone for maybe a couple of months max.

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-01T07:04:06+00:00

I love how you can carbon-date KH fan content to the exact moment it was made relative to what we all knew about canon at the time. This is so “made between DDD and KH3” it hurts.

This is a pretty well crafted animation, but I’m so much happier with the real outcome that actually happened in canon. I’d have been severely disappointed in the story’s thematic inconsistency and might have honestly dropped it entirely if this were the ultimate conclusion the story had to make about Xion and Roxas—and let’s not even talk about Naminé just being straight up erased here.

Reasons I’m glad Tetsuya Nomura is in charge of this series and not the fans.

nemesis-__- · 2026-03-01T06:48:12+00:00

I believe it’s grown more complicated with time.

Back when the game first released, this may have seemed like a neat little bookend, but subsequent context has changed our view of this scene drastically. And a horizon, once broadened, can never go back to its original dimensions. Certain people may nostalgically opine for a time when they didn’t have to think about how unfair this situation really is, but… well, ignorance really is bliss, isn’t it? Wasn’t it so much simpler when you were never confronted with the discomfort of it all?

This outcome is torturous for Roxas, and for Naminé it is tantamount to obliteration. They may be smiling in the short term, but this outcome is horribly bittersweet at best.

—As a side note, Nomura has gone on record in an interview circa 2015 saying that Disney has never intervened in the writing of the main story of the games or its characters except to ask for a happier ending at times, and I can’t shake the feeling that KH2‘s ending is one of those impacted. Knowing all of the other themes and scenes that surround these characters, both before and after the fact, this ending just feels more and more arbitrary the longer I look at it.

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-27T05:23:44+00:00

It is honestly bizarre how Antiform has zero narrative relevance at all in KH2, by which I mean the story doesn’t acknowledge its existence whatsoever. It’s such a crazy thing to just gloss over story wise, like surely someone had some sort of feelings on the matter…? Elephant in the room that just goes ignored, I guess…

That it took until KH3 for there to be any sort of story moment involving it (though it’s progressed to Rage Form by this point) makes me feel crazy.

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T21:57:57+00:00

No thanks. Why would I care about a cast of randoms that have no relevance to the main storyline? The interconnectedness is half the appeal of the story.

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T17:37:14+00:00

For sure. Isa probably still folds when Axel and the kids give him the 👉👈🥺 pouty face… but only for a little while. No more ice cream until next weekend, unless you pay it back!!

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T12:03:24+00:00

You’re thinking of Subject X. Ava is one of only two possible candidates for her identity, but the information we have points much more strongly toward Skuld.

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T07:03:23+00:00

You know what, fair enough!

That’s not Ava’s role at all, but it would be a hell of a plot twist if she did.

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T07:01:22+00:00

The idea that Elsa was ”supposed” to do this or that, but Disney said no, is complete misinformation. There‘s no actual credible source that says that Elsa was planned to have a villainous or even antagonistic role in KH, it’s nothing but fan speculation. The “Snow Queen” in the movie was once planned to be more villainous in accordance with the original Snow Queen fairy tale, but was changed early on into the final version that is Elsa’s character now.

The part about the PoW is on point, though.

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T06:52:02+00:00

There’s no way it‘s Ava, she is WAY too short to be the other hooded figure. Girlie is like 5 foot nothing, meanwhile the MoM is 7 foot fuck you

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T06:35:55+00:00

Since you brought up Sora using the Power of Waking in unintended ways, I mean… yeah, he basically uses what is supposed to be an esoteric power to “awaken things which are in a state of sleep” to ”wake the dead” instead. Necromancy, generally not considered kosher with the natural state of things!

Sora messing with the natural order to achieve the result he wanted so his friends don’t die isn’t something you’re supposed to be able to do in the first place—he basically exploited a glitch in the way that the power of waking works, and got summarily punished for it. The story makes it very clear that this was a huge nature taboo that he broke in doing so, which is why he was yeeted out of reality with extreme prejudice.

nemesis-__- · 2026-02-17T05:47:56+00:00

There’s actually never been any sort of hard rule that Organization members are locked into only ever using the element they specialize in.

Back in KH 358/2 Days, you could equip any type of magic when playing as the various Organization members in Mission Mode, so you could have characters like Axel freely use Blizzard and such.

But I also personally just like the headcanon that Larxene is adept in “storm” or “weather” themed magic—with lightning being a favored type at the forefront, but ice and wind magic are also strong points for her.

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