#rand.ref

BWUH I forgot that I drew a speedy little Heartless!Heart reference for the rp! It's the closest thing to a post-recovery ref we'll have for now (because he Will have a proper one) BUT I MIGHT AS WELL SHARE HIM.

So yeah! Post-recovery ref kinda sorta! Absolutely will make a more official reference eventually but for now this is how he looks like after the major events of Heartless going into all fics in the Recovery phase. (I'm missing one item here... I thought it got destroyed during the rp so I didn't bother drawing it, but turns out it was being kept safe and repaired so now I need to design THAT TOO)

And yes! In Recovery Heart is given one of the few remaining feathers found to wear too! It helps him remember he had wings once. The crutches were made by Perseverance and can fold up to be hung at the sides when Heart doesn't have a muscle weakness episode, since it isn't consistent. The missing item is a wing-shaped shawl blanket thing that Penitence IS making during Heartless events, and is weighted to feel like wings. It is one of Heart's larger comfort items.

Unfortunately though, his wings never came back, and the blackness never left his limbs.

Anyways Milgram related song playlist for Heartless just to make up for that (and by Heartless I mean for Heart skjdnsfn I keep stumbling into songs for him)

Fair tw warning but these songs include violence and blood (but also yall are into cccc so)

Heart:

Weakness - Milgram: Haruka Trial 1

All-knowing and All-agony - Milgram: Haruka Trial 2

After Pain - Milgram: Mu Trial 1

Perseverance:

Throwdown - Milgram: Shidou Trial 1 (yes it was in the original post shhhh)

Backdraft - Milgram: Fuuta Trial 2

Penitence:

half - Milgram: Kazui Trail 1

DEBATABLY Heart and Perseverance:

heartless HMS greatest fears

OK YOU MADE ME THINK LONG AND HARD cause I really did not consider this at all writing this AU. But I do think their fears would change entirely depending on which part of the AU we are talking about.

This is just what I came up with on the spot thinking through the lore ksjdn

Pre-ROE:

Heart: being unheard, being unneeded, being abandoned (oh wow this is definitely Not going to come bite his ass later :3)

Mind: being unheard, being unneeded, feeling powerless

Soul: being unheard, feeling incomplete, time resetting (loop trauma loop trauma loop trauma)

(yes they all share a fear of not being listened to) (yes Heart and Mind share fears its what caused their dissonance)

Post-Apathy:

Heart: -

Perseverance: thinking too much (truthfully, its about feeling too much. if he thinks he will feel and hes afraid of what he will feel), losing Heart, feeling useless, giving up

Penitence: losing Perseverance, losing Heart, feeling useless, giving up, the creeping dread that time will no longer reset (loop broken scenario go)

[FOR UPDATE] Soul pre-ROE (you're here!) / Penitence Post-Apathy/ Penitence post-recovery

Soul pre-horrors! I made him so fashionable ksjdnfkj he does NOT look like this most of the AU either poor boy. Im about to yeet your fashion sense out the WINDOW.

{He gives Mind an aneurysm every day with his mish-mash style. As is his Harmonia given right.}

Fun fact! Soul is also the craft sibling hands down. He hand dyes the clothes they get for himself and he embroiders designs and patches for the three of them.

HMS are all the same height and build btw. Soul just happens to be SKINNY he is the Lord's smallest soldier.

MINDS TURN FOR AN UPDATE

[FOR UPDATE] Mind Pre-ROE (youre here!) / Perseverance Post-Apathy / Perseverance Post-Recovery

Old ref here (its so ugly)

Other than one extra tidbit, all I did was redraw him. AND GIVE HIM PUPILS TOO. I uncompressed him. Unzipped him, if you will. He looked so squished before kjsdnfnksj why did I post that old ref.

Direct cut from the old ref:

Fun fact! Despite Heart being able to see this time, he still misses. Badly. Mind is uninjured and very mad about the attempt on his life.

Updated Heart reference! And by updated I mean I gave him PUPILS and REMEMBERED THE NAILS THIS TIME.

And also better pose let him be a little shit.

UPDATE THERES A BETTER REF HERE

[FOR UPDATE] Mind Pre-ROE (you're here!) / Perseverance first half / Perseverance second half

Its the Mind! At least, before the start point of the AU! This basic bitch fought me all the way istg-

Again, not his normal design for the majority of the AU, but necessary as a baseline to see the little changes over time!

Fun fact! Despite Heart being able to see this time, he still misses. Badly. Mind is uninjured and very mad about the attempt on his life.