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I feel like regardless of how this game actually goes, Sora won’t be the same afterwards. Even if all of his friends make it out alive, what happened can’t be undone.

Let’s face it, if all of the closest people in your life were supposedly killed in front of your very eyes, I doubt you would be the same after. Maybe ever.

Sora is gonna go through some MAJOR character development in this game, both in good ways and bad.

I can’t imagine how Sora will feel. Not to mention it’ll be 13 v 1 very shattered Sora. I fully believe help will come (I could foresee Terra, Ven, Roxas, and Xion jumping into help. I’m really not sure about Aqua at this point tho).

Sora will mature for sure, and we’ll see some of that happen throughout the whole game - but grief on such a substantial level is never a good way for a CHILD to be thrust into adulthood. It’s war, and everyone is aware of what could happen, but Sora being who he is, I bet even going into the fight he thinks if anything goes wrong he can save them. Being left utterly alone in the face of 13 insanely strong enemies will be the LAST thing he expects to happen.

Not to mention there is SO MUCH ON THE LINE.

My poor child. Poor baby boy. For the love of God and all that is holy -

THERE HAD BETTER BE SO MANY HUGS COMING HIS WAY IN THIS FUCKING GAME

An artist’s perspective on the Xigbar reveal (Spoilers)

Now, I know the fandom likes to joke that Nomura writes by the seat of his pants but given that Birth by Sleep was in the works when Kingdom Hearts II came out, I’m convinced that the Xigbar is Luxu reveal was planned all along. There is one simple reason why I believe that whatever else was improvised or not, Xigbar’s immortality was planned: the design of his Keyblade. I’m studying animation in college, and character design is a prerequisite course to graduate. One of the things I was taught is that every prop designed for a specific character needs to have a connection to their role in the story.

Looking at back at Birth by Sleep, there’s a common theme in all the character designs: for every Keyblade Wielder we see in the game, the color palette of their Keyblade matches the color palette of their outfit. Aqua. Ventus. Terra. Eraqus. Even Vanitas’ Keyblade both in-story and in his Remnant bonus boss form matches the color scheme of his outfit. Out of seven Keyblade Wielders in BBS, the only two that don’t fit this pattern are Master Xehanort and Mickey Mouse.

Mickey is easy to explain. Even if all the details in the story didn’t straight-up imply it, the design of the Star Seeker is blatantly evocative of the iconic pointed cap worn by Yen Sid in the games and that pop culture associates with Mickey’s Fantasia outfit. So even if it doesn’t directly match the color palette of any of his outfits, it never clashes with them because its design creates the impression that he’s wielding his most iconic headgear in Keyblade form.

Xehanort on the other hand, has no such exceptions. While he certainly made the effort to dress all in black, the fact that he had white and red underneath his coat meant that in theory, his Keyblade should have had been designed with those two colors worked into the concept art somewhere. Instead of black with silver accents, there should have been more of a blanace between black and white with some red mixed into the design. But those colors were never worked into the design of the blade, because it wasn’t originally his to begin with. Even before the added cutscenes of the HD 2.5 Remix confirmed it, the character designs of Birth by Sleep were telegraphing that No Name wasn’t the Keyblade that Xehanort had started out with.

In a game where almost every other Keyblade matched the color palette of its owner’s wardrobe, and the only exception was a Disney character whose Keyblade complemented their outfit colors by calling back to their most iconic attire from Disney media, the clash between the designs of Xehanort’s outfit and his Keyblade sticks out.

But Xigbar is another story. Seeing him with the No Name in his hand at the epilogue of Kingdom Hearts III struck a chord in me as an artist. Something that fundamentally shouted into the void for anyone with the artistic or design sense to see that the creative team behind Kingdom Hearts has specifically made this weapon with Xigbar in mind. Popular fanfics and fan art of Xigbar/Braig with a Keyblade have depicted one matching the color palette of his guns, but when you compare the silver-gray highlights on the No Name with the similar streaks in Xigbar’s hair, and the way the black coat of the Organization meshes with the black of the No Name, it’s clear that this Keyblade was intentionally designed to be Xigbar’s Keyblade from the start.

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sakurarozen

5 years ago

I've just returned back into the hell known as the Kh fandom, is Sokai canon yet? Are they married? Give me the details

Welcome back! I mean I don’t know how long you’ve been gone, but:

They have shared a paopu

I've Just Returned Back Into The Hell Known As The Kh Fandom, Is Sokai Canon Yet? Are They Married? Give

Sora risked his life for Kairi

He went on a suicide mission to bring Kairi back

They hugged very intimately (compare to their KH2 hug that was just as intimate, if more hesitant)

He trusted her to fight by his side for the first time.

They have a joint attack “One Heart” where they hold lots of hands (bonus: interlaced fingers!), each have an angel wing and each feather represents another shared memory of theirs