One thing: Sorry.

Picture itself contains NO SPOILERS. Spoilers in the artist's comments here are in tiny print, copy and paste out to read at your leisure. Do NOT discuss spoilers in the comments (for the sake of those who do not want to be, even though I'm spoiled rotten myself). The description, except for the tiniest print, is safe to read.

Master Eraqus giving a hug to Master Xehanort's younger self. It took an hour to get the lineart done, not sure how long it took to color after that. So, um, anyway... fuck timelines. I'd also like to do a reverse of this picture with MX and little Eraqus. (And damn it all, I have no idea what folder I should stick this one in for the club. Argghhh.) Hypothetical happenings!!!

If anything, I'd love for KH3 to end with a scene like this. =| For closure and... stuff.

Xehanort's upset he kills his friend, and his childhood is crying. Could it have been avoided? Did he have no choice? Did he have no control over his actions? Did he wait too long to change his mind and then he really had no other choice - time's up?

On the flip side, I've also been roleplaying Eraqus, and Eraqus is an incredibly forgiving individual. He wouldn't hate Xehanort, even after what he did, even though he has a thousand regrets and wishes he could have averted his friend's spiraling course to disaster. Eraqus may very well have been the only friend Xehanort ever had. In his insanity, did he even stop to think about his actions?

I mean.... who the hell kills their former best friend? WHY?

_{You may be able to look at this on a slightly different dimension if you know new things about Xehanort in KH3D, but that's not required, and neither does this spoil anything: It's entirely hypothetical only from a non-spoiled dimension.}

........it's bad enough I had a working KH3D-like Xehanort muse to roleplay with a year before the game was even out. I'm terrified by my accuracy. To even tell you what I've been roleplaying suddenly becomes a spoiler. (Sucks.) D: But uh... _{Yeah, I understand how he could be so crazy now, knowing his future and trying to be in denial at the same just does not work. Doing it over and over and over again until it's absolutely fan-fucking-tastic, getting more and more detached from reality and how he really feels each time. The little!MX I played wasn't a fucking timelord like in canon, but he did have all his future self's memories and was brought the present time in a meta-what-if scenario and that's why he was cuckoo for cocopuffs. TBH, I'm not surprised he's is a timelord. I saw this coming from the Hall of the Cornerstone shenanigans in KH2 and the awkward Terra flashforwards in Birth by Sleep he shouldn't have been having.}

Again: Don't talk about spoilers, guys. Appreciate this from a hypothetical angle only.

............and I never meant to ship Eraqus/Xehanort, but suddenly.... my Xehanort muse is knows what regret feels like and his pain is burning in my heart. Canon Xehanort should not feel any such regret, of course. I shouldn't take it so far as to have desire to ship them, but my yaoi fangirl tendencies corrupt everything. =/ But... it can never be.

You can reblog this on tumblr from this [link] ~ awesomesauce.

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_{Xehanort, Eraqus, Kingdom Hearts (c) Nomura, Disney, Square Enix}