I suppose it's about time I introduced myself here properly..... I'm @readingchameleon! I love anime 🌸, video game music 🎮🎶 , playing piano 🎹, training in parkour 🤸♀️, reading (and writing!) fanfiction 📖, 日本語を練習する 【learning Japanese】, 📦 Minecraft + hermitcraft, and much more!
I'm really interested in what-ifs, science fiction/fantasy elements, and mental health/exploring the human experience through fanfiction as a medium.
I'm autistic 🌈♾️, trans 🏳️⚧️, aroace 🌇, and active in these places:
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new fic: Shelter my children from the encroaching storm [1.5K words]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
fics and fic ideas, flowing like water they are atm apparently! We're told quite early on in the KH series that worlds have hearts too (isn't that just a slogan right there), but I've yet to see much of anything that investigates the implications of that.
If there's a tag for this idea or any other fan stuff you've come across here, please lmk!
rec of the week: Dai Bendu Language tag on ao3 and the associated conlang. It's so creative and cool and I love the deep exploration of culture here!
As always, I write for 3 reasons: because I have stories that demand to be told, to share these stories with the world, and to inspire others to do the same.
If you find/write/draw/etc anything based on any of mah fics / fic ideas etc, please lmk as I'd love to see!
--@readingchameleon
fic rec: Talk Him Down [star wars; 3.6K words oneshot]
Star wars is something I read quite a bit of intermittently, but I just wanted to share this fic as it's a fabulous take on mental health in the star wars universe and also made me cry 🥹🥲😭
like the idea of mind healers + sith is just so interesting asdoqiwdn 💖
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new fic: Our lives have crossed (but we understand not)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
New fic time, and the ao3 embedding is working again too, やった！
During an argument about a comfey with a hibiscus flower, Kukui and his class start to realise how different the life of a travelling trainer really is.
Alternatively: most of the world uses smartphones, but serious trainers often have a pokédex which work just a little※ bit differently.
Oneshot. [3.7K words]
I played a thing! Thanks to HypochondriacPiano for sheets and such a lovely arrangement 🌟
That thing being Destiny's Union from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
Feel like I played a bit slow really, but it's my first time editing and stuff to this level and to be honest, the main reason editing + posting it is to have something to show so that I can enter March Caprice 7 as a musician.....
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Witch Hat Atelier has just finished airing a week or 2 back, and my goodness the worldbuilding, animation, and story have all been top-notch so far!
The ダダ山〈Dadah Range〉was so breathtakingly captivating as soon as I saw episode 3, so I tried to capture some of that magic in a travel poster here.. tho the design got a little outta hand lol 🌟
Drew this in Krita, with the border done in Inkscape and then imported. I learnt a lot about Clone Layers and Filter Masks they are so magical! 🌄
A mysterious book. A nameless language. Telepathic abilities.
Ochako and Izumi end up accidentally linked telepathically with an unbreakable bond. They try to keep the secret while balancing understanding their own rapidly growing power, but apparently the world has other ideas.
Multichapter; all prewritten with chapters once a week until complete complete!
Question: how to move forwards with a crazed (and feeling slightly green) Dadzawa on your tail?
Yep, the final chapter of this fic! Hope everyone's enjoyed this little dive into telepathic abilities ^_^
If you had telepathic powahs, how would they work, and what limitations would they have and how would they affect daily life?
@dynamitesunshine shared a post just now that made me realise: the mysterious figure in the new KH4 trailer and JP Ava sound the same.
Trailer spoilers below!
Furthermore: who else but Ava -- and the Master of Masters -- would know about the origins of Darkness in the world?
The structure of this world [Quadratum; Unreality] is incredibly complex.
At first, there were no manifestations of what we know as light and darkness.
But our arrival here brought these concepts with us―――
the darkness given physical form after we defined it.
Like what? This is so specific, and our black-robed figure sounds fem in voice at least to me.
And what does this mean for why Ava ended up here, instead of in the Keyblade Graveyard like the rest of the foretellers? Did something happen to her that sent her to the afterlife??? Xigbar, you sly fox.....
This feels like it has such profound consequences if read together with the Master of Masters' description of darkness wasdqowiqdn I could analyse this whole trailer front to back and inside out and still not be done after a decade and a half 💖
A mysterious book. A nameless language. Telepathic abilities.
Ochako and Izumi end up accidentally linked telepathically with an unbreakable bond. They try to keep the secret while balancing understanding their own rapidly growing power, but apparently the world has other ideas.
Multichapter; all prewritten with chapters once a week until complete.
new chapter - izumi and ochako ended up in A Situation™! How will they get themselves out of this one?
Shot down. A found family crash-land their starship, and all seems lost.
….but hope is not so easily forgotten.
Hidden away where nobody can find them, they rebuild.
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Double drabble. Standalone, but for context consider reading The minutes pass and I’m left with a single task also.
Had another weird moment today almost exactly like the one I had for writing the original fic in this kinda pair thingy, so I wrote another one.
Looking for hopepunk fics (also optionally scifi), if you find any I'd love to know 🌟
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A mysterious book. A nameless language. Telepathic abilities.
Ochako and Izumi end up accidentally linked telepathically with an unbreakable bond. They try to keep the secret while balancing understanding their own rapidly growing power, but apparently the world has other ideas.
Multichapter; all prewritten with chapters once a week until complete.
Chapter 2 is a go! Will Izumi and Ochako escape Aizawa's notice?
Hey, I'm running a Kingdom Hearts survey for a final project and I need data from fans!
This survey has three questions and should only take a couple of minutes.
I need data from Kingdom Hearts fans for a final project!
The data in question is to answer a few things:
Which combat system is preferred
I'd really appreciate any reblogs for reach, I only have a couple of weeks to gather this data and I want a reasonable sample size for a series with as many fans as Kingdom Hearts does. Thank you all so much!
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Gasp, another fic? And a multi-chapter at that?! I must be dreaming.... anyway, got a little fic here for you!
A mysterious book. A nameless language. Telepathic abilities.
Ochako and Izumi end up accidentally linked telepathically with an unbreakable bond. They try to keep the secret while balancing understanding their own rapidly growing power, but apparently the world has other ideas.
Multichapter; all prewritten with chapters once a week until complete.
If anyone can guess where I'm pulling the telepathic abilities from (tho with a lot of creative liberties), virtual cookie for you 🌟
Translating: That would be the last night we ever spent beneath the same stars (JP translation and analysis)
Check out these heart-wrenching scene:
and in 日本語 Japanese:
It's just so interesting to me it caught my attention last night when I was supposed to be sleeping...... let's translate it!
俺たちが同じ星空を見たのは⸻
[pn. rough I] [p. pluraliser] [p. が specific thing] [a. same] [n. starry sky] [p. を thing being done] [v. past to see] [p. のは turns v./adj. into noun] [punc. unfinished sentence]
これが最後にった
[n. this] [p. が specific topic] [n. end/conclusion] [v. past to resemble/to be similar]
...this is a complex sentence! so forgive me if I get smth wrong here. But I would translate literally this to:
this looks like the last [time] we saw the starry sky
...or less literally just the official EN translation.
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The whole phrase is just so interesting to me and has rattled around in my brain multiple times since I first heard it. I remember thinking at the time "surely this implies they do find each other again, no matter the tragedy of BBS?"
....and sure enough, they do at the end of KHIII!
But not only this. It also implies that the stars changed between BBS and KHIII, even after Sora saved the worlds multiple times.
Which is true! The dream worlds are proof that no all worlds made it back, as Yen Sid says:
"You will recall, in your first journey, that you brought many worlds back from the darkness - but some never returned completely.
Does this mean there are more worlds, trapped in slumber?
Further, we can assume you don't see the same stars in the realm of darkness, otherwise Aqua would have seen the same stars as the other two.... if only for a brief moment near the end of BBS.
To this end, if the stars seen in the realms of light and darkness are different, then we can speculate they are different again in Unreality, in which we know only of Quadratum there too.
Is every star in Unreality also another world? Is it their light that's shining down like a million lanterns?
Only one way to find out I guess! (and, perhaps, writing some speculative fanfiction too 💖)
Was doing some research for a comment but then ended up watching this video:
and oh gosh there's so much to unpack here. From a shadow of what's to come, to secrets of the black box..... ssdoinasdj I just had to post about it!
It was The Violet Howler that really introduced me to literary analysis. I am very much a newb at it but one of the things they (pls lmk if you read this I'm unsure what your pronouns are!) mentioned was microcosms and macrocosms:
...which as I understand it is essentially story elements mirroring each other at different levels of the story.
And, to this end, I think I spotted one in the above scene in The Caribbean.
In the above scene, we see Will Turner fighting Barbossa (I think I get the name right? haven't watched the film....).
Through a dramatic series of events even though Barbossa 'kills' Will he's still able to come back as the captain of the Black Pearl, though not before Will is forced to leave his friends behind.
In the same breath, Jack Sparrow kills Barbossa with the use of the black box.
At the same time, later in KHIII Sora is sent to Quadratum by the Wraith (Barbossa in the microcosm), and is able to return for a time, but ultimately is sent to Quadratum (KHIII ending).
Directly after this, we have what seems to be an enemy ship threatening Jack and the rest of them, and then Will + the Black Pearl comes to save the day.
Is this is a reflection of how Luxu and/or the Master of Masters may threaten 'Reality' in a future KH title?
Gosh so much angst!
...and if this is a shadow of what's to come, how accurate is it?
The Black Box and Luxu
"How disappointing. So this is all they meant when they said 'heart'. We've been chasing the wrong box this whole time!"
Like whaaaat? Surely this is such a gigantic hint that our lovely Black Box:
....may contain some kind of heart? And moreover, Vexen somehow knows about this?
At the same time, we've seen a situation like this before... I just don't remember where it was!
.....but anyway, who is Vexen to Luxord (and Xigbar Luxu), and why did Luxu tell either of them what's in the box? Or was it that Luxu simply lied?
"I've travelled to so many different places, it's hard to keep everything straight, y'know?" --Luxu
Also also, I don't think we've ever seen the other side of Luxord's cards?? need to do some research there but just realised this!
In any case, I find this whole situation completely fascinating, and The Plot Thickens™!
As a last thing, from the secret ending #2 from Re:Coded there's this gem of a scene that makes so much sense in hindsight:
Gosh, the narrowing of the eye there! and then this bit almost immediately afterwards:
Dunno if any of my rambles make sense lol it's just all rattling around in my brain rent-free：P
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Thinking about how Sora's best and worst traits are so undeniably tied together. Or more, those flaws stemming from those best traits due to the twist of experiences that make him hold onto his strengths to the point they turn back around and break him bit by bit.
He's empathetic, he's optimistic, he isn't easily swayed by the darkness. Except, he's bottling up his negative emotions in the way he sometimes evades serious conversations about his own personal feelings. How he's told not to change and that, of course, he's strong enough to get through all the pain and fix things.
Both allies and enemies need him so they use him, and yet he's also put down. He's just a delivery boy, he's just a pawn, he's just a puppet, he's just the next name down the list, he's just a dull and ordinary boy.
Don't worry, he'll forgive.
Don't worry, he won't remember.
Don't worry, he'd be willing to have his heart crushed to pieces to protect his loved ones.
And don't worry, he's more than happy to sacrifice himself repeatedly if he feels that there's no other way.
Except, he's just a kid. He struggles and gets affected by those words, those titles, the weight of a role that demands everything out of him and yet tells him he isn't enough. He wins because of love and spite, but those never go without consequence. He isn't the kind of hero that gets a happily ever after without having to pay the price.
Just something about how while Sora's strengths are, clearly, his strengths, it sometimes gets used to a point that it creates or pushes out the issues that come from letting him go unchecked, and yet oftentimes we see how both his allies and enemies benefit from his best bringing out the worst in him.
I don't know if I'm making sense, I'm just putting the Sora angst in the microwave of my brain...
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Making Kingdom Hearts Stuff Until KH4 Comes Out (Day 414)
well. FINALLY, after putting hours upon hours of work into this song, it's here!!!! thank you so so much @marchcapricekh for hosting the concert and presenting my song. I swear I am SOOO normal about luxu. so very normal. lyrics under the cut!!
lyrics:
what’s a king to a god?
what’s a god to a master?
what’s a master to light?
who am I thereafter?
never wanted to be
such a lonely bastard
but the burden of right
is to bleed disaster
who wants to live forever?
certainly not me,
but we’ll see,
they’ll all see.
hey kid, it’s a shame this is the only life you’ve got-
wouldn’t it be nice if more time could be bought?
don’t let those friends of yours get in the way,
watch from the shadows and see what they say.
don’t let all of those feelings cloud your vision now,
we’ve all got a role to play,
even when the light burns you,
there’s always a price to pay,
the dark won’t die easy and when it has faded away,
maybe I can see you and love you again someday.
who can see the future?
nobody but he;
he’s the lock,
I'm the key.
we were all born into sin,
that’s the way it’s always been,
never twas a day where we were free.
don’t let yourself lose track of your mission now,
we’ve all got a role to play,
even when the light burns you,
there’s always a price to pay,
the dark won’t die easy and when it has faded away,
maybe I can see you and love you again someday.
once there was a light beneath my eyes, I would’ve have died to save them all,
he took the light from me, no guarantee that I will be there to see the darkness fall,
and now here the weight will lay me to waste and no one will hear my call,
to break down this wall,
maybe it isn't worth it after all,
I said I will wait for you (I said I will wait for you)
until all my lives are through (till I see it through)
for as long as eternity takes (as long as it takes)
we will meet again someday (meet again someday)
