07-06-2017, 07:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2017, 07:10 PM by Jaixe Furiael.)
I was gonna ramble about what Heartless are, but I think you guys got a good enough gist of it. Especially Failz up there, though there's more complexity to it than that even, and there's more to both types of Heartless even. KH is really needlessly complicated sometimes, and I can't simplify it well enough without coming off as rambly and a bit of a jerk.
If there's enough interest, I might revisit the Heartless section of my roster and expand it.
Frankly, I'm just interested that people might be dealing with and summoning Heartless besides me.
I can help with questions though.
@Little Ghost: Heartless seek Hearts, which I treat as synonymous with Souls. Repliku can always do it differently and stick with the canon. They're actually separate in KH, with the Soul being synonymous with the mind. Anyway, if a person has no heart to take, they don't go after them, simple as that. Now it'd be another story if one commanded the Heartless to attack someone they normally wouldn't.
@Harlan Higgs & Takezo: Controlling Heartless is a bit weird in Omniverse than in KH. In KH, I always figured it was via a connection through the Darkness, and seeing as Darkness doesn't function or exist in the Omniverse as it does in KH (it being an actual place and all that), you'd probably need telepathy to emulate such a connection. For once, that power might actually have a use. Even disregarding the above explanation, and instead focusing on the fact that Heartless are literally mindless in canon, they probably don't understand language. You'd probably still need telepathy to get them to do what you want any way you slice it.
I got around that with Jaixe by having him summon two Shadows, and then basically customizing them a bit to be able to understand his commands and have their instincts toned down accordingly so that they wouldn't scamper off and try to eat people. Normal Heartless do not act that way, and in the future, I do plan on grabbing Telepathy to do it properly, especially when Forces are finally a thing.
If there's enough interest, I might revisit the Heartless section of my roster and expand it.
Frankly, I'm just interested that people might be dealing with and summoning Heartless besides me.
I can help with questions though.
@Little Ghost: Heartless seek Hearts, which I treat as synonymous with Souls. Repliku can always do it differently and stick with the canon. They're actually separate in KH, with the Soul being synonymous with the mind. Anyway, if a person has no heart to take, they don't go after them, simple as that. Now it'd be another story if one commanded the Heartless to attack someone they normally wouldn't.
@Harlan Higgs & Takezo: Controlling Heartless is a bit weird in Omniverse than in KH. In KH, I always figured it was via a connection through the Darkness, and seeing as Darkness doesn't function or exist in the Omniverse as it does in KH (it being an actual place and all that), you'd probably need telepathy to emulate such a connection. For once, that power might actually have a use. Even disregarding the above explanation, and instead focusing on the fact that Heartless are literally mindless in canon, they probably don't understand language. You'd probably still need telepathy to get them to do what you want any way you slice it.
I got around that with Jaixe by having him summon two Shadows, and then basically customizing them a bit to be able to understand his commands and have their instincts toned down accordingly so that they wouldn't scamper off and try to eat people. Normal Heartless do not act that way, and in the future, I do plan on grabbing Telepathy to do it properly, especially when Forces are finally a thing.