[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5552304/1/Kingdom_Hearts_Blank_Slate Kingdom Hearts: Blank Slate]] is a ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' FanFiction written (poorly) by [[{{Tropers/Deadbeatloser22}} Deadbeatloser22]]. It started out as an [[{{Deconstruction}} attempt to subvert]] as many of the tropes commonly associated with the KH SelfInsertFic as possible (an aim that falls flat on its face around the seventh chapter), and so features an OC who isn't TrappedInTVLand and who doesn't get a Keyblade at the start, [[spoiler: though he does get one later]], and then grew into what is there today.

Complete at Seventeen chapters (plus Epilogue) and 39000 words in length.

Has a sequel, FanFic/KingdomHeartsTabulaRasa.
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!! The Fic contains appearances from the following games and films:
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone''
* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'' (Location only)

!! This FanFic provides examples of:
* AerithAndBob: [[spoiler: Initially inverted ([[OddNameOut mundane name among fantastic]]), until it's revealed Jon's not his real name, Kazé is.]]
* AgonyBeam: [[spoiler: Vexen's Ice magic, Xemnas's Thunder magic.]]
* AlternateUniverse: Rendered as such by ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', which came out during the final part of the story. From the Chapter Eleven Author's notes:
-->''Maybe I can get the next bit done before Birth By Sleep comes out in Japan and whatever backstory I had planned is contradicted...''
* BackToBackBadasses: Riku and Sora in the Outlaw's Forest, [[spoiler: Sora and Roxas in The Digital World That Never Was.]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: What Vexen was possibly trying to do to Jon.]]
* {{BFS}}: [[spoiler: Armour!Zexion has two of these.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Jon shows up to stop Vexen spiking Sora in the chest. Mickey stops Armour!Zexion from stabbing him with a big sword.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth: Non-fatal variant, [[spoiler: after Jon gets crushed against a wall by one of Xaldin's lances, cracking a rib. Gets healed almost immediately after.]]
* BloodlessCarnage: Subverted, Heartless claws will occasionally draw blood.
* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: [[spoiler: Chapter Nine ends with Sora, Riku, Kairi, Roxas and Jon surrounded by Dusks ready for a fight.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Jon's pendant, introduced in Chapter 14. It gives him flashes of a sort Roxas seems to recognise. It doesn't go off in the story proper, but instead helps foreshadow TheReveal, finally going off in a way in the Epilogue.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: The plot seems normal enough (go here, help out, seal keyhole), but Jon's kidnap and the introduction of the Replica Organisation swings everything in a more serious direction and this takes a back seat.]]
* CirclingBirdies: Jon can almost see the stars dancing round Sora's head after [[spoiler: Demyx smacks him in the face.]]
* CliffStack
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: [[{{Pun}} Very cold, since it involves Ice...]] ]]
* ColossusClimb: [[spoiler: Sora climbs up Zexion's robot.]]
* CommLinks: The communicator Gummi Blocks. Can even be used to track the holder across multiple worlds.
* {{Continuation}}: Picks up about a month after [=KH2=]'s {{Cliffhanger}}/SequelHook.
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: [[spoiler: How Jon takes out Vexen.]]
* CooldownHug: [[spoiler: Roxas gives one to Naminé when she's freaking out in her cell.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Jon just happens to have a pair of Binoculars when they need to spy on the Pelegostos Village. Lampshaded:
-->'''Sora''': "How long have you been carrying those for?"
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: [[spoiler: Being used to the Beam Sword causes this sort of problem when Jon gets a Keyblade.]]
* DeathGlare: [[spoiler: Marluxia to Roxas.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Jon to [[spoiler: Demyx]]. Lampshaded as a bad idea:
-->'''Jon''':''Antagonising the guy who could probably cut you to pieces in one sweep. Nice job.''
* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: Naminé.]]
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler: Jon gets kidnapped by the Organisation at the end of chapter 7.]]
* DisturbedDoves: Will being caught in the Pelegostos trap causes birds to take flight when he shouts.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: [[spoiler: Jon steals an Organisation Coat off of his Replica after defeating him, allowing him to sneak attack Xemnas.]]
* DualWielding: Riku does this with his Keyblade and a cutlass in Calypso's Maelstrom. [[spoiler: Roxas explicitly couldn't until fighting Saïx. Sora does this in Valor Form against Xaldin.]]
* DynamicEntry: [[spoiler: Sora enters the fight with Vexen by jump attacking him from behind.]]
* EverythingFades: [[spoiler: The Organisation Replicas immolate in the same way as [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 FROGs]]]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler: Zexion.]]
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: It's revealed that everything about Jon's back-story (even his name, it's really Kazé) is this, after he was kidnapped by the real Organisation XIII before [=KH1=] and placed in a digital world. Naminé sorts it out in the end.]]
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Jon, when [[spoiler: the Gummi Ship gets attacked by the Dreadnought. It doesn't go too well.]]
* FastRoping: How the party gains access to Castle Infinity.
* FingerlessGloves: Jon takes to wearing these after [[spoiler: gaining his Keyblade.]]
* FiveManBand: [[spoiler: The five Keyblade users form one:]]
** TheHero: Sora
** TheLancer: [[spoiler: Roxas]]
** TheBigGuy: Riku
** TheChick: Kairi
** SixthRanger: [[spoiler: [[strike:Jon]] Kazé]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: With all the subtlety of a brick to the head, such as this little exchange:
--> '''Tia Dalma''': "Be wary though. For the time will come again when you must face your darkness once more."
** [[spoiler: Except that one doesn't come to anything over the course of the story.]]
* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler: Jon, choosing speed over defence during his Awakening.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler: Roxas, Zexion]].
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Jon catches a Shadow on his Beam sword and throws it into a crowd of them.
* GunshipRescue: [[spoiler: Roxas gives fire support from the Gummi ship against Zexion's robot.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Jon's Replica is part human, part Heartless]].
* HarmlessElectrocution: [[spoiler: Roxas gets shocked by Xemnas, and is no worse for the ordeal.]]
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted, [[spoiler: Vexen repeatedly freezes Jon for short periods as torture. It nearly kills him, and still causes problems into the next chapter.]]
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Jon.
* HealingHands: Kairi.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[spoiler: Axel and Roxas. Axel thinks of Roxas as being like a younger brother more than anything else.]]
* HowManyFingers: Jon to Sora, after [[spoiler: Demyx smashes him in the face and into a wall, and again after Saïx cracks him on the head.]]
* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler: Zexion builds one in the World With No Name]]
* HyperspaceArsenal: Both used and averted; Keyblades are pulled from {{Hammerspace}}, but Jon's Beam Sword is explicitly on his belt when he's not using it.
* KneelBeforeZod: [[spoiler: Xemnas forces Roxas to kneel. Using Thunder magic.]]
* LaserBlade: Jon's [[spoiler:first]] weapon, a Beam Sword, is basically an [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Energy Sword]] made of Thunder Magic.
* LittleNo: [[spoiler: When Jon pulls a fake out on Xemnas.]]
* LockedOutOfTheFight: [[spoiler: Lexaeus uses a rock wall to prevent anyone except Riku from fighting him. Larxene does this with her knives.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Jon's reaction to having one arm slashed open:
-->'''Jon:''' "Those claws don't half sting."
* MediumAwareness: Hearing the soundtrack variation; [[spoiler: Kazé's music player provides the BGM for the epilogue, first with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAcZMWqPvc Xion's Theme]] whilst he's reminiscing about the adventure and wondering what happened to everyone, and then with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_w-pHjvscg Hand in Hand]] when He and Sora charge at the Heartless in the {{Cliffhanger}}. Interestingly, Hand in Hand isn't supposed to be on the player at all...]]
* MexicanStandoff: Namechecked.
* MindRape: [[spoiler: Vexen tries to do this to Jon.]]
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Kazé's mother, killed by the Heartless during the [=KH1=] prologue.]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler: Turns out Zexion's been running one after faking his death in Chain of Memories.]]
* NauseaFuel: In-universe, Gibbs' description of the Kraken nearly makes Jon throw up over the side of the Longboat.
* NonLethalKO: Attacking a human with a Beam Sword produces similar effects to a taser, given it's an electric-based weapon.
* NonSequiturThud: Sora, [[spoiler: after Saïx cracks him on the head.]]
-->'''Sora:''' [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 "I'll have two cheeseburgers and a large order of fries..."]]
-->'''Jon:''' "What?"
* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Jon muses on this after waking up in Davy Jones' Locker.
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Sora, after [[spoiler: throwing the tracker into a portal behind Demyx's back]].
* OddNameOut: Jon[[spoiler:, initially]].
* OldSchoolDogfight: [[spoiler: The Teeny ships against the fighters defending the Dreadnought.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Zexion.]]
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Jon. Sort of.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: [[spoiler: It turns out that Kazé's pendant was given to him by his father not long before his initial kidnap.]]
* OutrunTheFireball: StarWars style.
* PaintingTheMedium: Anyone wearing an Organisation coat with the hood up speaks in ''italics''. [[spoiler: The Awakening voice talks in '''''Bold Italics'''''. Zexion speaks in '''Bold''' after absorbing the power of Kingdom Hearts.]]
* PaintItBlack: [[spoiler: Jon's Replica is an almost exact double, except for the black hair with a SkunkStripe and [[SupernaturalGoldEyes Heartless-like yellow eyes]].]]
* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:[[strike:Jon]] Kazé's father, former Keyblade master.]]
* SelfInsertFic: Noted in the FanFicHeader.
* ShellGame: [[spoiler: Luxord plays a giant version of the cards variant using himself, Riku, Jon and Kairi.]]
* ShoutOut: Also noted in the header, with the "bits sporked from other continuities" bumf. For example, Jon spends a lot of time [[Anime/{{NeonGenesisEvangelion}} using a music player to try to block out the world]].
** There's also a rip of the last bit of "Crew Expendable" from ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', with Sora essentially standing in for Captain Price and Jon for Soap.
*** And another of the end to "The Hornet's Nest" from ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'', with Sora, Riku and Jon standing in for Soap, Ghost and Roach, and [[spoiler: Roxas]] standing in for Nikolai.
** And a ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' rip, with a Darkside instead of a Brute Chieftain.
** Sora's NonSequiturThud is lifted from Anime/DigimonAdventure02
** [[spoiler:Saïx's]] death is almost identical to the way [[Series/DoctorWho Regeneration]] is shown in the new series.
** [[Manga/DeathNote Exactly as planned...]]
* SkunkStripe: [[spoiler: Jon's Replica]].
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: [[spoiler: Jon, in Vexen's lab]].
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: [[spoiler: Jon's Replica, as a result of being created from Heartless-tainted blood.]]
* SuperMode: [[spoiler: Sora activates Valor Form for the first time in a while against Xaldin.]]
* TakeMyHand: Subverted, trying to do this pulls Sora and Jon off the Gummi Ship and into the maw of the Kraken.
* TeensAreShort: To be expected; Jon's established as being shorter than Kairi.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Sora [[CallBack repeats his "my friends are my power" line]] after [[spoiler: the five Keybladers hand Marluxia his ass.]]
--> '''Sora''': "My power has grown, but it doesn't just come from the Keyblade. My friends are my power, and as they believe in me, I believe in them."
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Just who [[strike:Jon]] Kazé really is.]]
* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Keyblade Always Works]]: Sora throws his Keyblade at [[spoiler: Marluxia, Lexaeus throws the Skysplitter at Riku, Jon throws his Keyblade at Xaldin, and again at Saïx, along with Sora. Mickey throws his Keyblade at Armour!Zexion.]]
* TimeSkip: [[spoiler: The second half of the final chapter does this as [[strike:Jon]] Kazé's having his memory put back in order.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Getting [[JamesBondage kidnapped]], [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and {{mind rape}}d sends Jon to his Awakening, giving him a Keyblade and magic.]] Kairi's also moved up to competent fighter, going through [[{{WesternAnimation/RobinHood}} the Sheriff's men]], Heartless [[spoiler: and Nobodies]] with moderate ease.
* TrappedInTVLand: Subverted, Jon comes from a world that's basically a Modern Earth analogue, but isn't from the "real" world. [[spoiler: Except he doesn't, he just thought he did.]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Most of the characters recognise [[spoiler: the Corridor of Darkness in the White Room]] as one. Lampshaded later:
-->'''Sora''': "Well..."
-->'''Jon''': "If you say 'I told you so', so help me I'll whack you."
* TrueCompanions: [[spoiler: The Keyblade users.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: Roxas against Saïx]].
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Subverted, people in Tortuga do notice Goofy, but assume he's something they're imagining whilst drunk, then go back to drinking again.
** Ditto for TheHeartless in Shipwreck.
* [[WatchingTheSunset Watching The Sunrise]]: [[spoiler: Kazé watches the sun rise over the Destiny Islands after returning home.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Altered slightly, in that [[spoiler: Roxas uses the Two Become One Keyblade instead of the Kingdom Key whilst single-wielding.]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler: The final chapter is basically Kazé sat on the beach wondering this about all the people he met on his first adventure.]]
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler: Roxas has a burn on his forearm after Marluxia combusted that magic won't heal.]]
* YouCanBarelyStand: [[spoiler: Why Sora tells Jon to stay behind.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Sora]]''':[[spoiler: "And anyway, ten minutes ago you were nearly dead."]]