readingchameleon

Heya! Welcome to my corner of the internet〜 🌟

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:

📖 Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/users/readingchameleon/works

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🪐 Fediverse: @[email protected]

🌐 Website: https://リーディングカメレオン.みんな/ • https://readingchameleon.com/

Main fandoms + tags below!

@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!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85463816/chapters/228251416

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.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86243531

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. ----------------------------- 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.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85463816/chapters/226949721

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.

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.

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 💖)

Hope this is at least vaguely interesting!

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!

What game has the best art style?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Official and perhaps automated question, but I still thought it was interesting and my first ask!

With art you can't objectively say "this art style is the best", or "this one is better than that one", and this also applies to games and art styles, esp so given many games have diverse settings and styles even within the same game (so much choice!)

However, I can show off a few that I think are cool if you're looking for inspiration, in no particular order:

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 ※ Gormotti Titan: looking out over the cloud sea from Gormott

Kingdom Hearts 3 ※ Scala ad Caelum: The white city

There are many places in the KH series I'm not obsessed with Traverse Town please send DDD traverse town pics like Twilight Town etc which look esp gorgeous in the KHIII rendering engine, but one I haven't talked about is Scala. It's so mysterious - I wanna just worldbuild and explore the whole place 🌟

Pokémon Sun and Moon ※ Alola: Library concept art

Technically A Video Game™, but I'm more interested in the anime. It feels like such a lived-in world with such scale! it makes me wanna go on a giant trip for like multiple years with a friend to explore the whole world ^_^

No wonder Ash is such a wanderer....

Ori and the Blind Forest ※ Thornfelt Swamp (cleansed): Waterfall and forest

Gosh it took a moment to find this place's name, I'd forgotten it.... Ori has such nice art 🌠

CrossCode ※ M.S. Solar: looking out towards Rhombus Square

CrossCode is like a modern, buttery-smooth love letter to pixelated games of yore, and also has such a diverse range of environments and art! From the tall buildings of Rhombus Square to the jungles of Gaia's Garden to the traditional 日本 Japanese style eternal-night Sapphire Ridge... 🤩

I really need to take and store more screenshots of the games I've played before for inspiration and reference.....

Hermitcraft Season 9 ※ The Land of Soup: The Soup Group 【GeminiTay, ImpulseSV, PearlescentMoon】's bases. Pearl is the alien biome to the left, Gem is the castle to the right, and Impulse is the giant dwarf fortress in the middle.

Also Technically A Game™ (hey, there are world downloads you can explore!), the closeness of the 3 hermits' bases in the Land of Soup was the catalyst for Season 10 and everything that's come after, but there are SO MANY cool bases here: at some point when I have the time and the patience I want to make a like 3 hour walking the map video for these beautiful places 🎵🎶🎵🎶 ✨

Genshin Impact ※ Unknown

Some crazy and awesome person did a 6 hour (6 hours!) walking from Mondstadt to Fontaine video (wow they have the patience of a saint), which was so fun to relax, chill, and work on fanfics/other stuff to!

I dunno exactly where this is, but the art and scenery of the place is so cool... 🌅

ニノ国 Ni No Kuni ※ Ding Dong Dell: The Cat King's Kingdom

While I don't get the ノvsの in the title there, I'm gonna play this game in Japanese some day ^_^

Backed by Studio Ghibli with a truly magical shader and ~20 mins (IIRC) of original Ghibli footage, 二ノ国 also has such a diverse range of places, modelled after the 4 seasons. From Ding Dong Well Dell and Al Mamoon in the Summerlands to Hamelin and Perdida in Autumnia to Yule in the Winter Isles... there's just so many cool places... asdqwdnoqwn ❄️

Celeste ※ Celeste Mountain: A strange place. You might see things.... things you aren't ready to see... 【fan art credit: notenlish @ itch.io】

While I haven't played the game, the art - similar to CrossCode - is so cool! It can be so cool and also terrifying - sometimes even in the same breath.

I can see the travel posters for places like this.... I might make one at some point 🌈

Phoenotopia: Awakening ※ GEO Club's Lake Laboratory

Okay okay I might have a thing for pixel games apparently, but Phoenotopia is just creative in it's use of perspective! It's a 2D side scroller (developed by Quell @​phoenotopia), but with the layers behind, it really elevates the immersion in a way that the original flash game from all those years ago couldn't.

The old tramway/railway (which I can't screenshot rn given I'm stuck on Katash...) also has a really cool look.

Chicory: A Colorful Tale ※ Dessert Mountain from afar: Pizza gazing up at Dessert Peak and down at much of Picnic Province

If you haven't encountered Chicory the game before, I strongly recommend it, as it's a game about colouring in the world! It's also a game about a lot of other things too... but that's a spoiler :P

Gushing about another game aside, Picnic Province is just such a cool and creative place, everything from the smallest plant to the grandest mountain have been lovingly crafted and they're so すごいだね！🌄

Treasure Planet ※ Space background inspired by Treasure Planet, drawn by me

Woah, that's a lotta places.... I have a lotta poster/postcard drawing to do in mah future :P

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82422996

"How poetic: tonight it would be one storm against another." Xehanort's defeat resonated with the worlds like waves of darkness in the proverbial bathtub, and it falls to keyblade wielders like Kairi and her teacher Master Aqua to deal with them before they drag the worlds into darkness once more. or, Kairi takes out her frustrations on a giant wave of darkness and discovers she's capable of more than she thinks she is. ------------------- Canon-adjacent AU, oneshot. Trigger warnings: Survivors' guilt, multiple discussions of death.

It's angsty fic time! Please mind the tags on this one, it gets p intense in the middle, esp w/Kairi dealing w/her feels.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65616025

At Strelitzia’s suggestion, Sora uses a wind phone to say all the things he wishes he could say to Kairi. Set during KH4. [2064 words]

I've just noticed smth abt the clouds that always appear at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts games, in the opening cutscenes: they foretell the end of the game.

Spoilers below!

Hey there, happy march caprice! It do be that time of year again - tysm to @marchcapricekh for hosting the 6th year of this fabulous online event, and what a coincidence: I have for you the 6th chapter of my episodical serial mostly-chill slice-of-life medical not-really-drama ensemble-cast fic, Kairi, Doctor Operating (Kairi, D.O. for short)!

Chapter 6: The exploits of ninjas and heroes

In which pianos, ninjas, and heroes are almost related. [7.8K words!]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60546739/chapters/211618856

This was so fun to write, so I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it :D

Go check out everyone else's works here: https://www.marchcaprice.com/artists-alley-2026/?filter=writing&pid=12&pg=1

Learnt a new trick from a friend which helped a ton: if you get stuck writing, just jump ahead & start writing there, then come back to the bit you were stuck on later.

Happy March Caprice everyone!