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Works which have used it as a tag:

• They Locked Me In A Room by Starry_EyedKat

  Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts (Video Games)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  06 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Vanitas & Ventus (Kingdom Hearts)
  • Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts)
  • Ventus (Kingdom Hearts)
  • Aqua and Terra make brief appearances
  • plus a hallucination of Xehanort
  • But it's mainly Van with a side of Ven
  • Child Neglect
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Hallucinations
  • Isolation
  • Self-Harm
  • Hypothermia
  • Medical Inaccuracies
  • Just chalk it up to Van not having a human constitution
  • even though he is functionally human
  • Sappy Ending
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • THAT BEING SAID
  • Mind the Tags
  • But I do explore Vanitas's self destructive habits and how they worsened with a lack of oversight
  • No beta we die like uh... hermod?
  • Unsure if this gets the dd:dne tag or not
  • I wouldn't say this is a character study
  • Not exactly a character study

  Summary

  For the past few months, Vanitas has had a little routine. Spend all day bored out of his mind locked in his cage bedroom, wait and see if Aqua and Terra actually feed him, and waiting until late at night to sneak out of his cage bedroom to steal enough food to hold him over without them noticing. Then he falls off a roof, shatters his shoulder, and nearly dies. Somehow this ends up being one of the best things to happen to him.

  Whumptober: Day Three
  “I look in people’s windows, transfixed by rose golden glows.”
  Isolation |Candlelight| Found Family

  Series

  • Part 3 of Star's Kingdom Hearts Whumptober 2025

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