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MATGSY

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Got another question for you guys! What’s your favorite piece of fan art for one of your favorite ships?
There's the adorable Xehaqus strip I shared here a while ago, and this:


And this:


Though I'm dying to see Aquarella art with Cindy wearing the incredibly bi outfit she wears in the end credits to Cinderella 3.


 
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You know now that I think about it Jim n Sora isn't the weirdest ship I've seen and I kind of dig it.
smovs made entire comics about their possible dynamics in a Treasure Planet world. You should check them out! They're a lot of fun!

Jim is my favorite Disney character to pair up with all and any of the KH cast in his age range. Jim/Kairi is a mood.
 

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You know now that I think about it Jim n Sora isn't the weirdest ship I've seen and I kind of dig it.
I had a weird obsession with them a few months ago and I still really really like it. I dunno, they’d have a really cute friendship/relationship.

Out of any KH world I wish wasn’t cut Treasure Planet is the one I wish we got to see. I love the movie and would’ve killed to see Jim and Sora or Jim and Riku interact.
 
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Exactly! I'm sure so many other people have said this but that's the problem with trios and just "designated groups" for characters to "belong to", especially for series like Kingdom Hearts with such a wide cast of characters, because those "designated groups" limit character interactions vastly.
You know, this is understandable to a degree. When you have such a big cast restricting characters to "cliques" makes juggling their relationships a lot more manageable. But it absolutely is limiting, not just with establishing new relationships, it's also cut off existing relationships.

Larxene seems to have become Marluxia's designated love interest because they're a man and a woman who were allied and introduced together. But the thing is, that wasn't really their relationship in Chain of Memories. In CoM Larxene tries to hit on Axel. He's not exactly receptive, but it indicates that there were unique relationships between the various Organization members.

Are they ever going to follow up on that? And it wouldn't even have to be in a shipping way, they could just do something with the fact that Axel gained their trust before betraying them. Unfortunately, I can't see anything happening because the characters have been relegated to different cliques.
 

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KH has really backed itself into a corner where it has this huge cast of characters where only a few of them can interact. I would say we all would like to see more of our favorites talk to each other, but we’re stuck in trips and if you’re not in a trio you’re forgettable. For instance most of the Organization. The Scientists, Dilan, and Aeleus are hardly used already, and I doubt they’ll be used in KH4 and onward. Which is sad if you’re a fan of Ienzo or Dilan because you don’t get to see them do anything. Sure Ienzo got to talk to Demyx briefly but what’s the point when it’s only one scene? Not to mention how underdeveloped so many characters are. Sure characters like Riku and Axel and Terra have had full character arcs but they also have that type of time, whereas characters like Hayner, Pence, and Olette only have little character traits.

This isn’t really shipping related however if we did want to tie it into shipping it means that a lot of characters either have no shipping potential (like Ienzo, who I’ve really only seen shipping with Demyx because they have that one scene together) or are completely shipping reliant to stay relevant (do I even need to say who I’m talking about?).

Kingdom Hearts is a series about friendship and the relationship characters have to each other but because of the idea of designated groups it’s really pushed a lot of great characters into the background and it’s just really sad.
 

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Honestly with so many characters having so little development, it makes for prime real estate in terms of fan shipping. Reminds me of the fanbase in the early 2000s back when KH2 was the most recent game, and the organization lead to an entire fanclub of its own with how many pairings fans could get away with. It only got wilder with the release of 358/2 Days.
 

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*ahem* Kairi x Vanitas but it’s just Vanitas simping for Kairi Ala Jack Black Bowser
I've had a somewhat similar idea: A game set in between KH3 & MoM where Vanitas impersonates Sora (since most don't know his face) & tries to take Sora's spot on Destiny Islands. He's also the first to notice Kairi lost her PoH status after getting iced by MX (& thus no longer a pure light) & becomes a creepy af boyfriend trying to cultivate her heart's newfound darkness.
 
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