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Terra gets invited to a pub and discovers toxic masculinity

I wish the trio went to the Beauty and the Beast world even though it wouldn't make sense.

Terra would have totally shown up to the world during 'Kill the Beast' and would've been like "Say less. I'm on it."

these scenes have the same energy to me

The peak of hurricane season is upon us and it has been my duty, my very obligation as a Floridian, to finally arrange the 2006 TWC Storm Alert theme into a Kingdom Hearts battle track

This is Halloween 🎃 ✨

Terra has NO idea what's going on

Based on that one tiktok where the guy is confused on which holds salt and which holds pepper (I don't have tiktok, so I never have the sources, I'm sorry! Reposters always crop out the name!)

Spooky little bat. ୧ ‧₊˚ 🦇⋅ ☆

Main characters | Xehanorts

Regarding my last post, if you want to get an idea of what I mean, there’s this excellent post on Reddit by someone who explained the translation differences much better than I could here:

I definitely like the idea of Sora and Riku joining their powers together and bringing out that keyblade again in that moment… but the scene with Riku protecting Sora (and essentially giving his absolute all to protect Sora) is done to complete the narrative that gets set in Olympus (at least, in the Japanese version, which is what I played…the English…kinda loses this narrative).

In Olympus, Hercules says, “All I know is that she was in trouble. Suddenly, I wanted to save her with all my heart…” he also refers to Meg as his 大切な人 (taisetsu na hito) or “precious (taisetsu) person (hito)” in Japanese. The English version translated “taisetsu na hito” to “person I love” in this instance.

Then, right after Olympus ends we get Mickey and Riku in the RoD. In the English version, Mickey tells Riku “I think it’s because you finally found inside you that special strength to protect what matters. […] Sometimes you care so much for somebody that other feelings disappear.” In the Japanese, Mickey says それはきっとリクが大切な人を守る強さを手に入れたってことじゃないかな？or “Isn’t that because you (Riku) finally found the strength to protect *the person* who matters?” The rest of what Mickey says in the Japanese lines up well with the English localization.

After this talk with Mickey we have Riku flash back to the promise/oath that he made when he was younger and this time, instead of saying 大事なもの (daiji na mono) or “important (daiji) thing(s) (mono)” like he did originally in BBS (and again in DDD), he says 大切な人 (taisetsu na hito) - essentially “person who matters” or “precious person.” So Riku changed his oath/promise from being about protecting “things that matter” to protecting “a person who matters” (aka Sora). The localization team totally failed to show this shift in Riku’s oath/promise though and just kept the line as “things that matter.” But, throughout Sora’s visits to the Disney worlds, the word 大切な人 (taisetsu na hito) keeps getting brought up and it always gets used in reference to one person (thus, Riku’s use of “taisetsu na hito” is likely meant to be viewed as being towards one person as well - Sora).

In Frozen, we see “taisetsu na hito” being connected to an “Act of True Love.” When Sora and Anna are talking about Elsa and Riku, the Japanese and English versions vary quite a bit. In the English, Sora says to Anna (about Elsa) “I’m sure she knows how much you love her.” In the Japanese he says エルサのことを大切に思ってるんだな。or “You really care about her.”  Once again we see the word “taisetsu” pop up and Sora uses it again when he talks about Riku a few moments later.

In the English he says (about Riku) “He thought he had to push me away, to protect me.” In the Japanese Sora says 大切な人だからこそいっしょにはいられない。Sora is talking about both Riku and Elsa here and he essentially is saying, because they (Riku and Elsa) viewed them (Sora and Anna) as *precious people*, they “couldn’t be together.” The English localization mostly captures this idea, but they completely erase the aspect of a “precious person.” The Japanese version keeps this through line though and the Frozen world ends with Sora witnessing an “Act of True Love.”

Fast forward to the Keyblade Graveyard. Sora lost the will to fight. He is down on his hands and knees. He looks up at Riku, tears pouring down his eyes and he asks Riku what it is he should do. That he can’t fight without everyone beside him. Sora is so lost. We see Riku start to reach out to Sora - to comfort him - but then he pulls back and clenches his fist. He stands up and says ソラ、俺は信じてる。お前はあきらめない。or “Sora, I believe in you. You won’t give up.” Then he starts walking away from Sora and toward the heartless swarm. The scene then enters slow motion and we see Riku (from Sora’s perspective) using all of his strength to protect the *person who matters* (Sora). He literally protects Sora until his death. He puts his whole being into protecting Sora.

This scene is meant to be an accumulation and reflection of Hercules’ words to Sora at the beginning of the game “All I know is that she was in trouble. Suddenly, I wanted to save her with all my heart…”, Mickey’s words to Riku “Sometimes you care so much about somebody that other feelings disappear,” and of an “Act of True Love,” like what we saw with Rapunzel and Eugene in Corona or Anna and Elsa in Arendelle. The Japanese kept this narrative for Riku extremely clear throughout the course of the game through the use of 大切な人 (taisetsu na hito) by both Riku towards his oath/promise and by the various Disney characters and their use of the term towards the people they care about. The English really loses this aspect of Riku’s narrative though.

That’s why, as much as I *really* would have loved to see Riku and Sora come together and bring out this particular attack again…it would have destroyed Riku’s narrative in this game. A narrative that I love to bits. That this moment was Riku’s “Act of True Love” to Sora - him finally fulfilling that oath/promise he made to “protect the person who matters.” That scene was honestly so good! I wouldn’t want it to change in anyway.

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sketch -> final

Theory: Sora was supposed to use the Power of Waking on Xehanort at the end of KH3

I am pretty certain that the final battle from the Keyblade Graveyard onward in KH3 was altered late into development. The whole sequence feels off and at times even confusing. Nomura also described having difficulty writing this part of the story:

—The story's endgame where all your friends and foes gather at the Keyblade Graveyard was a masterpiece. Nomura: I know each fan has their own different beloved character, so I wanted to give each one an appropriate moment. But in the end there was too much story that had to be told then, and I ended up being restricted to the minimum necessary to move Sora forward. The truth is, the Keyblade Graveyard was the toughest part I faced when writing the scenario. [...] At the end of deep worry and thought, I narrowed my aim and ended up with the way it is now, which prioritizes rhythm.

No shade to Nomura for dealing with creative restrictions imposed on him... but yeah, it shows. I think the very end was also a casualty of these sorts of restrictions. One of the most nonsensical scenes to me in KH3 was this:

Riku: It's Xehanort. During the Mark of Mastery exam, we learned that he can transcend space and time. He's a portal. And we can use that to trap him. (Mickey nods)

Followed by this when Sora does a little Keyblade zippy zap:

I know we learned a little about portals in 3D but there was no foreshadowing that it was a way to trap someone like this. And the idea of portals was totally absent for KH3, but suddenly it's the way to beat the Big Bad?

And then we are magically in... Scala ad Caelum? Not sure how that would trap him because he can just Keyblade Scooter back...

Xehanort says this about it:

Master Xehanort: Of all the places to be sent.

Master Xehanort: Here, I and my other selves can be one. United…in Scala ad Caelum.

Okay? Why can he be one with his other selves? Why does he even care? He was about to win, he was opening Kingdom Hearts!

Everything that follows remains almost entirely unexplained. Like, I am bewildered that they kept any of this in because it's so bizarre. We aren't told who these creepy dudes are, we don't know why they merged, we don't know what Xehanort being a portal means or how that can be used to trap him.

But what if Riku's explanation was retroactively applied over a different, original intention? What if Sora--who believes in the light in every heart--decided to use the Power of Waking on Xehanort and rescue him as well?

Consider how Riku uses the Power of Waking in Dream Drop Distance:

He opens up a portal which is visually identical to the one Sora opened for Xehanort to dive into Sora's heart

2. He collects Soras

3. He fights the nightmare imprisoning Sora, which takes the form of armor of darkness surrounding him

4. He is suddenly in Sora's heart's Destiny Islands and gets a pop quiz on the meaning of the Power of Waking from Sora's heart & co.

Then Sora's heart wakes up.

The entire sequence is really similar to the Xehanort battle:

Sora uses a portal to trap Xehanort somehow, which ends up being in Scala ad Caelum

2. Sora sees several Xehanorts wandering around, which Xehanort identifies as his "other selves"; they morph into the creepy darkness things, which Sora defeats

3. Sora then defeats this Xehanort, whose armor shatters

4. Sora talks to Xehanort in Scala ad Caelum

Basically, all the ingredients for the Power of Waking are there. But in KH3, it's not explained that is what's happening. The whole thing makes far more sense if Sora was opening a portal to Xehanort's heart, not trapping him in the real Scala ad Caelum. That's his home world--the world that would be in his heart, just like Destiny Islands is the world in Sora's heart. It also explains how he is able to bend the physical space--it's not real. And it explains why he could be his "other selves" all together.

Okay, but WHY would he need the Power of Waking used on him? Well... what if everyone realized he was possessed by Darkness--namely, Superbia?

Sora first sees the heart-Xehanorts normally, but then they morph into the creepy darkness things: the twelve Darknesses that were released from the other just-defeated Organization XIII members. (You see the streams of darkness leaving their bodies as each is defeated.) Darknesses as in, Darknesses whose desire is to possess bodies with strong hearts, of which there are thirteen in total.

Reconsider what Xehanort says after all the Darknesses merge into him:

Master Xehanort: Here, I and my other selves can be one. United…in Scala ad Caelum.

It is somewhat weird for Master Xehanort to say (he never cared about uniting himself into one--he was about to achieve his goal after he opened Kingdom Hearts). But it's not weird for Darkness, which can act separately or as a hive mind, to say at all. And of course Xehanort would be Superbia since he actually believes he is entitled to direct everyone's fates. Sora would have learned about this if Scala hadn't been cut as a world.

So, the reason that the Xehanorts would "glitch" and turn into Darkness is because of his possession. More speculatively, it was probably a willing possession like Xigbar's which allowed him to keep his sense of self, but become half Darkness. It just got removed from the story.

With Xehanort's heart freed from the clutches of Darkness, he would now be free to converse with Sora in his heart. Sora would reawaken his heart by reminding him of his old friend Eraqus, his light and what matters most to him. Then back in the real world, he would voluntarily give Sora the χ-blade and more understandably live happily ever after with his boyfriend Eraqus.

It really sends the message that you can light the way back for any heart in the darkness out of love. It's why Xehanort has that happy ending--it was necessary for the meaning of the whole story. But with this part stripped, it ends up uncomfortable because it was unearned.

I actually think she's on to something here, because this was Kairi's profile in the KH1 strategy guide:

A young girl that appeared on Destiny Island when she was young. She is best friends with Sora and Riku, and doesn't mind that they sometimes compete for her attention.

With Naminé conceptualized as Kairi's shadow, I totally believe that they had the idea she enjoyed the drama/attention when KH2 was written!

Found a new streamer that’s playing kingdom hearts and I’m obsessed with her interpretation of naminé 😂 the idea of a naminé that’s like “who, me? 🥺👉👈 🤭 ” is so funny to me. Also so refreshing to see someone actually play com and be so invested in naminé. Y’all should check this streamer out, she’s hilarious and very into the lore! Her names jahara jayde on YouTube!

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