A Flickering Light Book 1: The Keyblade War (Birth by Sleep)

by WolfWingsRandomWritings

I love the story of the Kingdom Hearts series, but I have one major gripe. Mickey Mouse cannot carry emotional beats. To that end, I created my OC to essentially write Mickey out of the story. This story spans pretty much the whole series, and each book covers one game. As such the length will vary. Uploads Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.

1. Author's Introduction

Author's Introduction

So this is a bit of a different thing for me. I will start with the disclaimer that I have not played any of the Kingdom Hearts games. My research on this comes from watching cutscene movies of the games. Shout out to the YouTube channel Gamer's Little Playground for essentially being how this got written.

Next question is why this got written. Well, the purpose of the story is to remove a character from the games and sub in my OC, the character I'm removing being Mickey Mouse. I understand his importance to the story and the Disney side of it and all, but my issues with him began in October of 2018 while I was watching the Birth by Sleep cutscene movie and had to watch them try to give emotional beats to the freaking mouse. With Birth by Sleep being by far the most epic and cinematic of the games in my opinion, Mickey really didn't fit there at all. This led me to create Ignus. Ignus will be my sub character for Mickey, and the one I intend to follow for the entirety of the story.

The format is a bit strange, since Mickey appears rather sporadically through the series and his timeline is not entirely clear. For those of you who thought Quick Blind Fox was jumbled and all over the place…well, strap in.

One more thing that some people might be confused by is the sections the read (Fight Scene Song: ) where action scenes should be. As a hobby, I like to choreograph action scenes, especially fight scenes, in my head, using a musical basis to give tone, flow, speed, and beats to the fight, as well as help me keep the sequence straight in my head. I have yet to find a way to reproduce these scenes I plan in writing, however, so when I was first writing this (with no intention of posting it) I just left in the songs that I'd choreographed to. If I do manage to find a way to keep the complexity of my fight scenes and the flow the music provides in writing, maybe I'll go back and fill in these scenes a bit more. In the meantime, the tone of the scene should be supplied by the music. I'll try to leave links to the songs.

I think that covers everything, so I hope you can all enjoy what I've made here. I thank everyone who leaves suggestions, or comments, or even just reads what I've written.

-WolfWing