gaming Kingdom Hearts' original characters and elements

[Steel Accord 6,660]

So I'm sure a good number of you like Kingdom Hearts but there is something I have noticed in the fandom surrounding it, this element is present in the series itself but it's not nearly as pronounced.

 

Now, to make my own patronage clear, I'm an absolute disney maniac. When I picked up the game, it was for the fantasy of actually playing through my favorite movies, fighting alongside my heroes, exacting revenge on the villains who scared me, and just the idea that I could be in Agrabah one day and Wonderland the next.

 

Now don't mistake me, I love Sora, Riku, and their related companions and nemeses. In fact I think the inclusion of things like the Heartless and the conflict of Light vs. Darkness is a brilliant conceit for all of these disney worlds to be connected by. Almost every disney movie deals with the conflict of good vs. evil but it's often a battle waged just as much in the heart of the main character as the actual struggle against an external villain and the Heartless lend themselves to all settings. Sure they look extremely out of place in say, Pirates of the Caribbean but that was already about zombie pirates and various sailor myths actually being true, and even then the Heartless take the shape of something at least familiar or suitable to their surroundings.

 

All that being said, when you look up fan content, particularly fanfiction, the stories that include new worlds (disney or otherwise), or include new elements from different franchises with Sora going on a new adventure are massively outnumbered by Organization XIII fics and shipping fics, often of the boy on boy variety. Not to sound homophobic or anything, but I never got that any of the members of the Organization had the hots for one another, and evidence is stacked pretty high that Sora loves Kairi.

 

Has anypony else noticed this? If so, why do you think it is?

[That One Techpriest You Used To Know 2,286]

 

 

All that being said, when you look up fan content, particularly fanfiction, the stories that include new worlds (disney or otherwise), or include new elements from different franchises with Sora going on a new adventure are massively outnumbered by Organization XIII fics and shipping fics, often of the boy on boy variety. Not to sound homophobic or anything, but I never got that any of the members of the Organization had the hots for one another, and evidence is stacked pretty high that Sora loves Kairi. Has anypony else noticed this? If so, why do you think it is?

 

We do have a local expert on this. His name is @@Lightwing, and he might be able to explain the concept of fan shipping much more thoroughly than I can. I personally think it's a bunch of baloney, but that's just my opinion.

 

But that's because people will always ship their OTPs, and most of them will go down with their ships.

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I remember being bummed out that Kingdom Hearts was gonna star original characters admittedly. Me and my brother were just introduced to Final Fantasy with having just finished VIII and my brother was in the midst of going through both VII and IX when we found out about Kingdom Hearts and that it was gonna be a Disney and Final Fantasy crossover, I was all like "OH MAI GAWD SQUALL IS GONNA FIGHT DISNEY VILLAINS AND TEAM UP WITH MICKEY OMGASDFGHJKL!!!!!11!ONE" and then my brother told me the only playable character was some kid name Sora and I got incredibly disappointed.

 

Luckily enough I ended up liking Sora and co.

 

While I still liked them and find them much better than other original characters in crossovers, crossovers with original characters as main characters will always be a massive pet peeve for me

[Steel Accord 6,660]

I remember being bummed out that Kingdom Hearts was gonna star original characters admittedly. Me and my brother were just introduced to Final Fantasy with having just finished VIII and my brother was in the midst of going through both VII and IX when we found out about Kingdom Hearts and that it was gonna be a Disney and Final Fantasy crossover, I was all like "OH MAI GAWD SQUALL IS GONNA FIGHT DISNEY VILLAINS AND TEAM UP WITH MICKEY OMGASDFGHJKL!!!!!11!ONE" and then my brother told me the only playable character was some kid name Sora and I got incredibly disappointed.

 

Luckily enough I ended up liking Sora and co.

 

While I still liked them and find them much better than other original characters in crossovers, crossovers with original characters as main characters will always be a massive pet peeve for me

 

I get what you are saying but I kind of feel that's supposed to be in service OF the crossover. Remember one of the stipulations was that, aside from Donald and Goofy, none of the Disney characters would leave their worlds. (Which was especially a pain when Aladdin actually wanted to! Especially since "the world order" their prime directive equivalent hasn't come up since! Side note: Why isn't THAT the premise of a fanfic?!)

 

So Sora is meant to be the audience surrogate character, the one who reacts to all of this magical adventure business the way your typical young fan would.

 

"Or any other worlds out there, I want to see 'em all!"

 

"I'm gonna learn what's out there!"

 

"Don't mess with street rats!"

 

"Maybe they'll want to make me king."

 

"We've come this far, you're not stopping us now!"

Edited March 15, 2016 by Steel Accord