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KH OC week 2024 - Day 6: Journal Appearance.

I would like to write a little about Hajime's design and why it is exactly the way you see it now.

The hairstyle has been there since the first design (I wrote about it), the reason why it is so: Hajime is directly connected to Vanitas, and Vanitas is a part of Ventus. However, the back of Hajime's head is shaved (the exact reason is still unknown in the plot, perhaps it was done by Even, perhaps it is his personal manifestation). Outside of the plot, I did this so that Hajime would have more of his own personality in his look despite how he is related to certain canon characters.

Directly about the face: Hajime has quite thick eyebrows and eyelashes, this is his own manifestation. The Hajime's gaze is heavy, the corners of his eyes are lowered. The eye color is jade, which has been with him since his very first design and is in fact the opposite color of the eyes of the Unversed. It is also noticeable from the look that Hajime has a darkened area from the eyebrows to the eyes: this is also natural for him. What was received later: dark bags under the eyes.

+ Hajime has an interesting feature: when he cries, his tears are partially colored black. This pigment is secreted by his body. This is also reminded by the darkened tips of his fingers and toes.

The Hajime's skin color is noticeably dark, which was inspired by Master Xehanort. This can be explained by the fact that Vanitas is connected to darkness.

When I drew his outfit I relied on the designs of the Unversed from Birth by Sleep. I took a little from each Unversed and came to the version that you can see now. (+ I think I'll use the last one for his appearance in KH III).

I really wanted to convey the feature of the Flood: pointed limbs, so Hajime has such pointed shoes and silver claws on his gloves. (+ I really love Aqua's shoes). The color of the outfit is inspired by the same Unversed.

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KH OC week 2024 - Day 5: Unique The Power Within.

Basic weapon

Hajime is a keyblade wielder.

For now I only have these sketches of his keyblade, still thinking about the design. Most likely it will change as story goes on. His keyblade will have a big plus in magic and a small plus in strength. This keyblade is long, the attack can be at a longer distance.

As you can see in the sketches, the keyblade refers to Hajime's real origin (Unversed). But for some reason I'm still not entirely sure about this decision. And yes, the chains also make sense in his design, I think it's not hard to guess why.

Magic

Hajime himself is more like a mage role in the party cause he inclined to magic. Even when attacking with a keyblade, the presence of magic is often noticeable in normal attacks.

In game, Hajime would always have a higher MP bar than HP bar. Therefore, Hajime is more focused on preventing damage and is comfortable for him keeping the enemy at a distance.

Easy to use + high resistance: Blizzard, Thunder, Gravity.

Difficult to use + low resistance: Fire, Aero.

Later, Hajime will show himself as an excellent tactician who can use almost anything around him to his advantage, including the help and strength of his party members. However, Hajime is still more like a lone wolf type of a fighter, so he is bad at supporting party members, but he is already useful in improvement the outcome of the battle in favor of his party through his tactics.

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KH OC week 2024 - Day 4: Dream Past.

I

Hajime is an experiment of one of Ansem the Wise's apprentices - Even. This experiment with Unversed was hidden from others and was inspired by Ansem the Wise's research, and later by the interest of one of the other apprentices, Xehanort.

???

The experiment was only half successful: the successful part is that the Unversed now has a human form and the subject has a heartbeat, but the heart rate was much lower than normal. The unsuccessful part is that the subject was in a coma.

Even considered the experiment a failure, as he believed "the heart failed to take hold". Hajime was left in the same room where he was created, and all reports of this failure were destroyed. Even concluded that Hajime would likely die after a while with such a low heart rate, either from complete cardiac arrest or some other dysfunction of an imperfect heart or a weak body. Several times after that, the scientist came to make sure, but the heart still beat at its own rhythm, it seemed strange, but it still did not give hope and after some time it was forgotten and erased from memory as an unsuccessful attempt at experiments with the heart.

II

While the Hajime's body was left to die naturally, something was happening inside him that would make him the character we would later know. He was about to take a long, arduous journey through the blurry horizons of his own heart.

Even, and at that time Vexen, will not know that the experiment was successful after all and after 10 years Unversed, gifted with a heart, will finally awaken from sleep.

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KH OC week 2024 - Day 1: Introduction.

''What if unversed will get it's own heart?''

name: Hajime (self-chosen name) | age: ??? | gender: male | experiment № ??? | keyblade wielder

short description: Hajime is a "not very successful" experiment of one of Ansem the Wise's apprentices, but that gave him a body in which his heart could now exist. Now he has his own weak, imperfect heart, and a body to match. At the moment he was created, and for a long time after, he was in a very deep sleep. For the worlds outside he slept for more than 10 years, but all this time he tried to get used to his new heart, understand it, and wake up for the first time.

For Hajime this was his first internal awakening, 'cause all this time before he was just a creature driven by instincts, filled with negative emotions. Finally waking up from a long sleep, for him his whole body felt heavy, his bones bent for the first time, his skin was unusually soft and warm. Everything seemed painfully unfamiliar, he was lost. Hajime had a lot of questions in his head, all he wanted now was answers.

nature: Hajime is always more susceptible to his negative emotions, while the positive ones are somewhere deep inside, hidden and very difficult to reach. This makes him emotionless most of the time, where anyone would smile or laugh he feels something strange, and it is hard for him to give free rein to natural positive emotions, they always get like a lump in his throat. He has yet to understand what is happening to him.

my comment: For me Hajime is a child between me, the Kingdom Hearts universe and my huge interest in it. Another attempt to create an art project. I decided to see what interesting things I can come up with within this universe, try myself in something new, absorb new knowledge in the concept, design and other things that I love based on Kingdom Hearts. I was amazed by many interesting scenario, design and art decisions made by developers. Hajime is also my personal huge experiment on the basis of "what I am capable of and what can I learn".

I can't say for sure what awaits him in the future, but for now he is motivation for me. (and now there is a good reason to rewatch Disney films)

I'm very luckily returned on Tumblr and came across this event. I am also very glad that now i had reason to share the already finished concepts and ideas of this character, who has been with me for quite a long time and has survived a kind of creative hell in my head lol. + sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker!

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this thingy was inspired by kingdom hearts

it makes me think of Riku...

i was training to make polymer clay things. so here are trinity marks i did after i finished kingdom hearts!! 🤍

i really enjoy playing chain of memories so here some cards

my kh oc Hajime portrait + health bar concepts

So. I was re watching all KH openings after getting sucked in the fandom. Again.

I blame KHUX Finale and E3 FF news (hey Luxord, fancy meeting you here).

So basically it's Nomura's fault. Yeah.

ANYWAY

I decided to read what the book in 3D says and

...

what

Riku is a 15 year old girl apparently.

WooooW, Nomura you are a gremlin genius, I'll give you that.

don’t worry, today I was in a neutral mood (honest I was) but my brain told me to draw with mentioning the “bad stuff” nonetheless.

(didn’t play the game yet but read the novel (twas less expensive than the game) )

Saw this on Twitter and tbh, I can't detect any lies🤷🏾‍♂️