Dummy's Guide: How to Write a Kingdom Hearts Fanfiction

Chapter I: The Boring Exposition

HOW TO WRITE A KINGDOM HEARTS FANFICTION:

CHAPTER I

Hello guys, Nari_chan and iam_thenerd here! This chapter for creating a KH fan ficiton is basically our exposition. We'll explain several things in this book, such as how to create a character, how this character gets a Keyblade of their own, other stuff, and their plot/battle against the Light/Dark. This chapter is basically here for future reference, so use it as you please! (Note: Spoilers and theories are in this chapter: Read at own risk).

First up: The painfully confusing timeline of what is known as Kingdom Hearts!

TIMELINE/PLOT:

The first legend told about the original Keyblade Wars:

In ancient times, people believed that light was a gift from an unseen land by the name of Kingdom Hearts. But Kingdom Hearts was safeguarded by its counterpart, the χ-blade (pronounce Keyblade). Warriors vied for that precious light, thus beginning the "Keyblade War". The violent clash shattered the χ-blade into twenty pieces-seven of light and thirteen of darkness. And only the real Kingdom Hearts was swallowed by the darkness, never to surface again.

(Also: [ symbolizes the beginning and ] the end of an extremely long exposition)

[ The first game in the timeline is Birth by Sleep, set 10 years before the original Kingdom Hearts game. Our MCs (or Main Characters) for this game and time are three Keyblade wielders named Aqua, Terra, and Ventus (water, earth, and wind-in order). These three were being trained under Master Eraqus, and Aqua and Terra's graduating test to become Keyblade Masters were the next day after the start of the game. Only Aqua passed. At this graduation test were two males, our antagonists, Xehanort and Vanitas.

Terra was given a mission by Eraqus to find the source of our first form of Heartless, the Unversed, when he didn't pass his test. Each of our MCs have their own plot and experiences while traveling from world to world to find the Unversed, Xehanort, Vanitas, and themselves (as in their friends). It is during this time that Aqua and Terra meet Sora, Kairi, and Riku-Terra passing on the Keyblade to Riku and Aqua to Kairi. Aqua also puts an enchantment on Kairi to allow her heart to be placed in someone special if in danger. That enchantment takes place in the first KH.

It turns out that Vanitas is our first legit Nobody, who is the darkness within Ventus's heart, and is the cause of the Unversed. At the Battle of the Keyblade Graveyard, Ventus, Aqua, and Terra battle against Xehanort and Vanitas (Eraqus was slain by Terra when he [Eraqus] had tried to kill Ventus for housing the original X-Blade [X pronounce Key]). Terra is taken over by Xehanort while Vanitas fuses with Ventus and creates the X-Blade. Ventus then breaks his heart again (first time by Xehanort to create Vanitas) in order to have the X-Blade shattered and destroyed. Vanitas is destroyed because of this.

Ventus is then placed in a coma-like sleep, not aging, as Aqua turns their training ground, Land of Departure, into what is known today as Castle Oblivion. Ventus sleeps on the unreachable third floor. Aqua is the only Keyblade Master known so far who can navigate their way through Castle Oblivion. Aqua was lost in the darkness, where she was saved from being consumed by her friendship with Ventus and Terra, and the two's light.

Terra-Xehanort, meanwhile, loses his memories and is taken in as one of the 6 apprentices to the original Ansem the Wise. One of Ansem's apprentices goes against his (Ansem's) orders, destroys Radiant Garden [the world Leone, Yuffie, and the rest lived in], and creates the first Heartless. Around this time, most of the Organization's Somebodies are turned into Nobodies. Ventus's heart found Sora's and is resting there until further notice.]

That was a hand full. So sorry.

[ The second game and our next plot point is ten years later, where Kairi ends up on the Destiny Islands after Radiant Garden is destroyed (she has amnesia of her past at this point), and Riku and Sora are grown up. The main plot begins when both Sora has a dream of taking a test to have the Keyblade and when a storm of darkness overtakes the Destiny Islands, the darkness over coming Riku (much like Terra), and causing Sora to be the Keyblade's wielder. This was only possible since Sora houses Ventus's heart. Sora encounters young Xehanort at this point in the secret cave and Kairi's heart is placed in his own. Sora is tossed from the Destiny Islands and thrown across the worlds until he ends up unconscious in Traverse Town, a refuge world for those whose worlds were destroyed.