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Kingdom Hearts: The Antipode is an ongoing Kingdom Hearts Alternate Universe fanfiction series by MegaFlameHedge (AKA Dorked) that was starting time published in 2012.

It begins with the premise of Riku obtaining the Keyblade as fate intended and explores the consequences and backwash of the choices he makes as hero. While Riku must overcome his hubris and abound into the hero the worlds demand, Sora grapples with his ain kindness being exploited by malicious forces. Their choices and the consequences therein take radically altered the course of destiny for better and for worse.

Antipode can exist read on Fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Ain . It as well has its own dedicated Tumblr .

In that location are four installments:

In addition, there is a series of Side Stories that explore events between the main plot threads and characters who don't always come across the spotlight.

While the showtime installment follows a similar story construction to the original Kingdom Hearts, subsequent entries diverge completely from canon, borrowing elements from the other games when appropriate. As revelations in newer games straight contradict established plans in the long-running series (notably Xemnas's characterization), Antipode is non canon compliant with Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance onward.

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This fanfic contains examples of:

• Activeness Girl: Kairi grows into this, somewhen condign a full-fledged Keyblade Wielder.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Rather than being a puppet of the System, Xion was created by DiZ from Riku's memories while he was recovering in the Simulated Twilight Town from his boxing with Riku Replica.
  • Lea and Isa were test subjects in Terra-Xehanort'south experiments equally opposed to apprentices of Ansem the Wise as Kingdom Hearts III revealed.
  • Cloud and Sephiroth were also test subjects in the experiments. The latter was also a guard in Radiant Garden at one betoken.
  • Rather than being guided by his hereafter self, Young Xehanort chose to Fourth dimension Travel of his own accordance while studying ancient and forbidden magic.
  • Hans willingly bandage his center away and had lived as a Nobody for several years earlier the Organization set foot in his world (a split up earth from Arendelle). Overlaps with Adaptational Species Change.
  • An unusual case in that the plot of Bravely Default was adapted into the Kingdom Hearts universe as the basis for Ringabel'south backstory. Namely, the iv Elemental Crystals were linked to the world's keyhole and the Crystal Beasts themselves were Heartless. When the party entered the Holy Colonnade, a direct path to the keyhole was opened, thus allowing the Heartless to plunge the world of Luxendarc into darkness. The party was separated (with Tiz ending up in Pacha's Hamlet), leaving Ringabel captaining Grandship (which itself serves as a mobile Traverse Boondocks), searching the worlds for his friends whilst taking on refugees from lost worlds and reuniting them with their loved ones.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • It is implied in his journal that Xemnas tin can wield the No Name Keyblade just chooses non to due to it beingness a reminder of the man who ruined his life. ^note It should exist noted that the Nascence By Slumber Ultimania suggests that Xemnas can use a Keyblade but intentionally chooses non to, though this was not touched upon in the games.
  • Jafar uses his second wish to go the most powerful sorcerer in all the worlds, resulting in a battle more reminiscent of the animated film. As well as summoning Heartless, Jafar magically turns Donald into a rubber duck and Riku'south Keyblade into a wooden toy sword, all while spouting awful puns. He too uses his cobra class.
  • The Titans are depicted equally nigh-invulnerable deities so powerful that the Cyclops solitary nearly singlehandedly wiped out the entire party, who were only able to win due to the intervention of the Genie.
  • Hades counts too. As in the animated film, he successfully entraps the other Greek Gods in ice and gains the ability of the entire pantheon, thereby becoming the single-nigh powerful existence in the universe. On top of Near-Invulnerability, the rules of Keyblades don't apply to him, assuasive him to steal Aqua's Keyblade and turns it into the χ-Blade. Had it not been for Hercules regaining his power thanks to Xemnas's intervention, Hades would very well accept won.
  • To a lesser extent, the Hydra, which has the additional ability to breathe toxicant; a callback to the original myths.
  • Prince John puts up a fight against the heroes, wielding both a sword and dark magic earlier succumbing to darkness.
  • Non-combat instance: On pinnacle of being a way designer for superheroes, Edna Mode besides designs Keyblade Armor.
  • The tardily Captain Flintstone was a Keybearer whose last action was to stab himself with his Keyblade and connect his heart to the heart of Treasure Planet. His skeletal remains (at present his Nobody) arose from a throne of Keyblades to fight the heroes whilst his Heartless (a humongous vi-armed skeletal monstrosity) was buried deep within the world's heart, emerging after his Nobody's destruction.
  • Hans is non only a proficient swordsman; as a Nobody, he wields enchanted drinking glass powers (a callback to the original fairy tale) that range from amplifying a person's darkest nature to replicating the abilities of his opponents.
• Adaptational Explanation:
  • Terra-Xehanort'southward experiments on the heart are explored.
  • All That's Left reveals that the Wayfinder Trio's Keyblade Armor was designed by none other than Edna Mode.
• Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed; This iteration of Xemnas, existence Terra's Nobody rather than Xehanort'south is noticeably greyer and more sympathetic than his canon counterpart.
• Adaptational Karma:
  • The Coachman is trampled to death later summoning a Behemoth.
  • Inverted with Hans, who escapes scot-free through a night corridoor instead of existence arrested. Fitting given his Rogues Gallery Transplant.
• Adaptation Human relationship Overhaul: Every bit this iteration of Organisation Xiii was non written with Dream Drop Distance's revelations in mind, Xemnas and Ansem's plans do not overlap at all. Rather than being allies with a common goal, both are confident in their own plans and run across each other as inferior.
• Adjusted Out: Deep Jungle is the simply world from the original game that does not appear in whatever chapters, though Jane and Archimedes have cameos in Traverse Town.
• Arc Villain:
  • Act ane: The Antipode has Maleficent and Ansem, Seeker of Darkness equally a Big Bad Duumvirate, non unlike the original Kingdom Hearts.
  • Deed 2: Fragmented Truths has Riku Replica and Xiii/Roxas, though they afterward defect to the side of the heroes. It also marks the outset of the Arrangement'southward meddling in the worlds.
  • The Twelvemonth Between has Marluxia and Larxene for Riku Replica and Naminé's plotline and Ansem, Seeker of Darkness for Riku'south arc.
  • Act iii: All That's Left depicts the heroes' terminal stand confronting Organisation Thirteen, with Xemnas/Terra as the main adversary.
• Author Entreatment: The author is a massive Disney fan. Thus, the serial is filled to the brim with Disney Saturday Morning Cartoon references. This is also the reason why Gargoyles was included in The Year Between and why Ringabel is a recurring character.
  • In addition, Riku Replica is 1 of the writer's favorite characters; thus he plays a significant role in the series.
• Bloodshot Ending: Every entry and so far has ended with this.
  • Past the end of Deed ane: The Antipode, Sora is missing and trapped in the course of a Heartless and Riku refuses to close the Door to Darkness until they observe him.
  • Human activity 2: Fragmented Truths ends with Naminé shattering Riku'south heart in a desperate attempt to save both his life and the Replica'south. Subsequently making peace with the heroes, the Mirror Trio deserts the Organisation, with 13 leaving on his ain to detect out who he really is. Meanwhile, Riku is sent to the False Twilight Boondocks to recover while DiZ introduces to the heroes a new ally: Xion.
  • By the stop of The Year Between, Riku has both recovered and come to terms with his darkness, and the heroes celebrate his return with a reunion party. However, the worlds are still in danger, with Twilight Town being desecrated by the Organization. Unbeknownst to them, Riku was scarred with the Recusant'south Sigil during his battle with Ansem, allowing the Organisation to monitor his every movement.
• Break Them by Talking: During the Arendelle arc, Hans taunts Elsa (whom he corrupted with a shard of enchanted glass) with the intention of pushing her to succumb to darkness, and then she tin can reform as a Nobody and be recruited into Arrangement Thirteen.
• The Cameo: Has its own page.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Ringabel. It helps that he'south matured a fair bit since the first of Bravely Default.
• Climax Boss:
  • Like in the original Kingdom Hearts, Maleficent serves as this in Act one, beingness fought during Riku'south first trip to Hollow Bastion while Sora discovers her true nature.
  • Deed 2: Fragmented Truths has Kairi, Donald and Goofy face off against XIII/Roxas in the skies of London prior to the climax.
  • The Year Between has Xigbar and Demyx launch an ambush in Disney Town to pressure the heroes into rebrandishing their Keyblades. This takes place in the climax of Riku Replica's arc, where he comes to terms with his identity crisis and adopts the name "Xiruk".
• Death by Accommodation:
  • Equally mentioned under Adaptational Karma, The Coachman is trampled to expiry past the very Behemoth he summoned.
  • Shere Khan is notable for beingness the get-go Disney Villain to plough into a Heartless.
  • Governor Ratcliffe is eaten by a giant Heartless known as the Gilded Shark.
  • Prince John is consumed by darkness during his fight.
  • The Duke of Weselton is unceremoniously killed by Larxene.
  • A more tragic example in the same world: Marshmallow turns into a Heartless later on Elsa is forcibly corrupted by a shard of Nahxs's enchanted glass.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Megara is killed past Xemnas in lodge to foil Hades's plan for godhood and ensure the Keybearers' survival.

  Don't have it personally, just I need them alive.

• Disney Expiry:
  • Taken Up to Eleven in the fight against the Cyclops Titan; the entire cast relieve for Kairi is seemingly killed off in a drawn-out sequence complete with Kairi doing a Skyward Scream and preparing a terminal stand earlier the Genie (who was nowadays as a summon) has a Big Damn Heroes moment and knocks the Cyclops into infinite while dressed as Naruto. The entire cast is then revealed to be alive.
  • A justified instance due to the nature of the character: Hades kills Tinker Bell with the simple phrase "I don't believe in you", causing the poor fairy to drop dead in Sora's hands. Afterward Hades and the Titans are defeated, the heroes revive Tinker Bell by simply believing in her.
  • At the end of the Arendelle arc, Elsa freezes her own middle to rid herself of Nahxs' influence, turning to ice in the process. Anna hugging her while pleading for her not to leave is what revives her.
• For Want of a Boom: Riku obtains the Keyblade on Destiny Islands earlier he can give in to darkness. Thus, he ends up in Traverse Town and spends the story exploring dissimilar worlds with Donald and Goofy while Sora ends up being manipulated by Maleficent. By the time Kingdom Hearts Ii would take place, the Door to Darkness is still open up, Sora is trapped in the form of a Heartless with simply Ventus for visitor, Kairi and Riku Replica/Xiruk are Keyblade Wielders and Aqua is out of the Realm of Darkness.
• Friendly Enemy: Unsurprisingly, Kronk is this, chatting with Goofy in Yzma's Lab and offering the heroes spinach puffs.

  Yzma: Kronk, quit fraternizing with the enemy!

  Donald: Y'all too, Goofy! This is serious.

  Goofy: Aw, but we were just startin' to become to know each other…

• Jerkass Gods: Hades implies that the Greek Gods in this continuity are closer to their mythological counterparts.

  Oh, and you think these are just gods? If you kids knew even a tenth of what Zeus and his cronies have done, y'all'd be begging me to send them to Tartarus! All the innocents they've destroyed with wars, murders, and lies, and for what?! My sis-in-law, Hera? She tried sacrificing an innocent girl to the Kraken on her wedding mean solar day all because her mom had a little also much to beverage. And Poseidon here—exercise you lot have any idea how many cities he's leveled all considering of a grudge with that schlemiel, Odysseus? Proportionate response? Non in Fishboy's vocabulary!

• Large Ham:
  • Ringabel fits in perfectly with the Kingdom Hearts universe.

    So you're one of those Nobodies! Well, it was awfully foolish of you to provoke us. Now y'all'll not only have to face Aqua'due south ire, but the seething fury of my love!

  • The Genie, of course.

    You may think you tin can rain terror upon this poor, defenseless metropolis! You may believe yous tin crush the hopes and dreams of these immature heroes, just that all changes now, because I AM Hither! AGRABAAAAHHH-SMAAAASH!

  • Anna is perhaps the hammiest princess in Disney history.
  • An unnamed royal guard in Arendelle gets a moment.
• Made of Evil: Much like Scar in Kingdom Hearts II, Ratigan has so much darkness in his heart that he retains his original form upon condign a Heartless.
• The Needs of the Many: Subverted. Though he knew the consequences of his choice, Riku couldn't bring himself to close the Door to Darkness until they observe Sora. The serial explores the consequences and aftermath of this option.
• Non His Sled: In dissimilarity to its adaptation in Kingdom Hearts III, the plot of Frozen (2013) is derailed significantly. Elsa is stabbed in the heart with a shard of enchanted glass, corrupting her and making her see only the ugly in the earth. She deliberately attacks Anna just for Riku to take the blow, his heart existence frozen instead. Once Elsa is subdued and and her Ice Palace destroyed, Hans/Nahxs reveals to Anna his true nature every bit a Nobody earlier marrying her on the spot. In the end, Anna manages to break through to Elsa, who then proceeds to freeze her own heart to rid herself of the glass's influence, turning to ice in the process. Elsa is revived by a hug from Anna in a reversal of the scene from the movie. Knowing that her kingdom fears her, Elsa leaves Arendelle with the heroes, leaving Anna as Queen.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Dissimilar most Disney Villains, David Xanatos abstains from using darkness due to the run a risk of losing 1's center. He as well forms a truce with the Keybearers and helps them defeat Demona before she can plunge Manhattan into darkness.
• "The Reason You Suck" Oral communication:
  • DiZ gets ane from both Zexion and Goofy.

    Goofy: Y'know what, DiZ? You're no model denizen yourself. All you do is shout and button away the people closest to ya. Peradventure if you behaved more similar a person and less like a Heartless, we'd all be able to talk things out and come up with some fashion to go out of this mess. You lot've been holed up in your basement for and so long that yous've forgotten all virtually how to care for other people. Ever since we got here, you've treated u.s.a. like tools to boss around. And Xion, your own girl—why, I wouldn't exist surprised if she never came back after all y'all've put her through! Not even Ansem was as bad as you lot.
    Zexion: Ah, only it'southward Zexion at present. And I accept to say, Main… I'm virtually appalled, looking at you at present. (...) True. Simply but think of how far you've fallen. You lot were once a noble ruler, the most vivid scientific heed… and then you lot failed. Your fear was what ultimately cast you into that darkness. And await at the results! Y'all failed to salvage your once radiant kingdom, and y'all failed to save this town… Just like earlier, your hands are stained with the claret of those around you.

  • Elsa gives a heartbreaking one to Anna afterwards being corrupted by shard of enchanted glass.

    Elsa: You never let me go. Ever clawing at my door, driving me insane. You didn't want a sis; yous wanted a toy. Yous'd wake me in the middle of the night, enervating we'd build a snowman. You'd push button me harder and harder... Until I finally pushed back.
    Anna: Information technology was an accident and you know it! I know you, Elsa, and yous'd never-
    Elsa: Y'all know me? Yous're goose egg more a closed door!
    Anna: …Yous're correct. We haven't been close since we were little, and, after today, I'm non even sure how many of those memories are real. But that was then. This is now. There's no more doors except the ones you create. You or this... darkness. (...) And I know this because I finally saw yous at the coronation. For just a few minutes, you lot actually smiled! Y'all seemed genuinely happy!
    Elsa: And tell me, Anna. Why did I stop smiling? (...) Don't you run into, Anna? All this darkness… All this rage that I've subconscious for so long; it'due south all because of yous. Why couldn't you stay dead?

• Refused the Call: David Xanatos and Yzma were offered places in Maleficent's Council of Villains only rejected them in favor of pursuing their own goals.
  • Word of God states that Eda turned downwards Maleficent'due south offer due to seeing no point in doing another witch'due south muddied work.
• The Reveal: Xemnas is Terra's Nobody.
• Sad Battle Music: Fractured Mirror ; an original limerick fabricated for the Final Battle of Fragmented Truths, where Riku faces off against Riku Replica in Castle Oblivion. A Lord of the Castle-inspired number that is equally emotional as it is climactic; it perfectly encapsulates the disharmonize between Riku and Riku Replica.
• Show Within a Prove: Dinosaurs exists as a Boob tube prove in both Manhattan and The Earth That Never Was.
• Shout-Out: Prior to arriving in Atlantica, Riku and Goofy fight over the radio until information technology explodes, much to Donald's ire.
• Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Discussed in The Emperor's New Groove accommodation.

  Goofy: Then, anyway, (Donald) was gettin' and so hungry he started goin' bonkers! He tried eatin' dishes, and he threw a large ol' tantrum. His optics got all swirly, and he scooped up an axe, and then we tried choppin' upwards our cow! That'southward how desperate we were before—
  Kuzco: Wait. You lot guys are talking animals, and y'all had a cow. Am I the only i who finds this weird?
  Pacha: Well, they are from a different world.
  Kuzco: So? They're a duck and a dog, and I don't care if they wear crazy apparel. That's merely incorrect.
  Goofy: But our whole world's total of talkin' animals! King Mickey's a mouse, and then in that location's Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow. She sure is purdy, but—
  Riku: Expect, and so was this cow your pet or your girlfriend?
  Goofy: Oh! Clarabelle's a different moo-cow, Riku! The cow I was talkin' about didn't talk or nothin'. We just raised her for her milk.
  Kuzco: Okaaay. So at that place's talking cows and normal ones? Merely what kinda world is this?

• Spared by the Accommodation: Though his fate is left cryptic in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Slumber, Zack is confirmed to be alive in this continuity and a subplot in All That's Left revolves around the heroes' efforts to locate him.
• Starter Villain: Hades in All That's Left. Not that this makes him any less of a threat.
• The Stations of the Canon: Act 1 follows a similar story structure to the original Kingdom Hearts. Subverted with the following entries, which do their ain thing whilst borrowing elements from the games when appropriate.
• Team Member in the Accommodation: In the latter half of All That'due south Left, Hans is recruited into the Organization under the name "Nahxs".
• Fourth dimension Travel: The rules of time travel are simplified significantly compared to Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Altitude. Namely, fourth dimension travel is an immensely powerful form of magic that only the highest level mages can use. A novice can only use it sparingly due to the immense strain it creates. Once you lot set up forth time traveling, y'all can simply move in one direction at a time, unless you return to your destination. If you die while fourth dimension traveling, you return to your destination with all memory of having traveled gone.
• Wham Line: Xemnas drops 1 at the stop of his confrontation with Sora in Fragmented Truths.

  You'll understand soon enough... Ven.

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