Yes, this is based on Kingdom Hearts

I've been wanting to do a scene of a figure sinking down into a dark, crushing ocean for a while. While such an image typically means being lost, or crushed under worries and problems, I decided to take it a more positive direction.

For me, Hope is something I rarely acknowledge or rely on. There's of course the preference for things to work out, but I often opt to seeing how things play out, rather than rely entirely on faith, even if that means drowning.

Here is the full res of this image, since a lot of the details are small:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6fwqqheirosluqp/Soliloquy-Hope-07-19-2020.png?dl=0