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** Its not easy after landing the first hit. Chernabog starts sending out ghost which drain HP and are hard to shake of with Dodging Deflect. Then again, YMMV.
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*** Well, there's the fact that Xemnas grew a heart. So when he was defeated, its possible that Xemnas' Heart now controls Terra's Heart.
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* So, the worlds in the scoresheets in the Mysterious Tower were also destroyed by the Heartless?
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***Young Xehanort did give up his body to time travel, although he took a form similar to his complete self. Its comprable to Sora in KH1 when Kairi restores his form and becomes a walking heart.
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** There is no special realm for Sleeping Worlds (They're all in the Realm of Light, but they're enclosed in sleep). However, as Yen Sid said along the lines that one dream leads to another. While Sora was guided through the Sleeping Worlds through special pathways [[spoiler: the new Organization laid out for him]], Riku [[spoiler:utilized the Sleeping Keyholes within Sora's dreams of the Sleeping Worlds]]. It seems that they are connected that way as these worlds (save Traverse Town and the [[spoiler: The World That Never Was]]) were destroyed by the Heartless.
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**Alternate Interpretation
-->Ansem needed to put Sora and/or Riku on their destined path and Ansem's own destruction to reform Geezernort. He did this by plunging the worlds into darkness and creating a pseudo Kingdom Hearts of World's hearts as bait for the Keyblade wielder to come. Xemnas too needed to ensure Sora and Riku's path and needed his own destruction. However, he made his KH to make the original Organization replace their own hearts with Xehanort's. However, that plan was somewhat scrapped save for Xigbar and Saix.
-->Ansem needed to put Sora and/or Riku on their destined path and Ansem's own destruction to reform Geezernort. He did this by plunging the worlds into darkness and creating a pseudo Kingdom Hearts of World's hearts as bait for the Keyblade wielder to come. Xemnas too needed to ensure Sora and Riku's path and needed his own destruction. However, he made his KH to make the original Organization replace their own hearts with Xehanort's. However, that plan was somewhat scrapped save for Xigbar and Saix.
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*** Joshua says time flows differently in different worlds, so this is not necessarily a contradiction.
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** I don't think this is true. Look closely between Riku's KH and KH2 art, and in both games... their eyes are the EXACT same shade. Sure, it's hard to tell if it's green/blue/teal/aquamarine/whatever, but it is the same shade.
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**Say, did you know? We all perceive the world around us differently, filtered through the lens of our desired reality. So if you're wondering why a certain young lady still looks like somebody else... it's because you refuse to perceive her as she really is. The only thing stopping you from seeing what she really looks like...is you. So you see, it's your fault.
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** Well, looking at the renders provided on [[Characters/KingdomHeartsHeroes Riku's Character page]] his eye-color is always a nice electric-blue/teal/aquamarine/green-blue color, so this Troper has no clue what you're talking about.
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* Okay, maybe this one's been answered already, but WHY does Riku's eye color keep changing? In the first game, they were the same blue as Sora's. Then they changed to green for Kingdom Hearts 2, Re:Coded, and (possibly, my memory's a bit foggy) Chain of Memories. Alright, fine, so they didn't like his eye color, whatever. But then in 3D, suddenly his eyes are not only blue again, but a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT shade of blue than they were in the first game. I thought it might be a story-related thing (like, I don't know, Darkness changes eye-color or something), except that there's no evidence of that anywhere else. Besides, as far as I remember, the three aforementioned games had Riku's eyes retconned to green in any flashbacks. It's just...why? Consistency, people!
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*** They do travel back in time. [[spoiler: The last world, the World that Never Was, exists in the waking world, not the realm of sleep.]] It's a kind of possession if you will. Your conscious mind leaves your body in the present and travels into the past to inhabit your past body. It's stated to be a StableTimeLoop because you can't change the events of history. When in the past, events play out in real time, you can't jump say three hours forward or back after the first jump. And finally, when you return to your time, your past self forgets everything that happened from the time traveling.
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** Joshua mentions that [[spoiler:Traverse Town only appears when someone needs it as a refuge.]]
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** Well do your really want Neku or Shiki stealling the spot light from the Main Character, Or any other guest character?
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** I can't think of any other reason for Xehanort(s) to know about ''Re:coded'' besides that [[http://www.khwiki.net/File:Searching_for_the_Lamp_01_KHD.png they were possibly tracking Pete.]] As for connecting with Data-Sora, [[AWizardDidIt love and friendship mean anything is possible]]--Rinzler was reacting to Sora's memories despite the fact that Sora interacted with a bootleg copy of him.
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** I can't think of any other reason for Xehanort(s) to know about ''Re:coded'' besides that [[http://www.khwiki.net/File:Searching_for_the_Lamp_01_KHD.png they were tracking Pete.]] As for connecting with Data-Sora, [[AWizardDidIt love and friendship mean anything is possible]]--Rinzler was reacting to Sora's memories despite the fact that Sora interacted with a bootleg copy of him.
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*Young Xehanort comments about how him constantly revisiting Traverse Town through memories, dreams, and digital data. The thing is, how did he know about the computer simulation in Recoded? I don't think Mickey or Maleficent told him about that. And even if he was able to learn about it, the latter comment doesn't make sense since Sora never really connected with Data-Sora.
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*** Terra, as Terranort, is probably one of the members of the new Organization.
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** They didn't physically travel there. As far as I can tell, the time travel is more goign to the equivalent time in the Sleeping Worlds, not in the real world. Sora, Riku and Xehanort (as his Heartless) were at the real DI when it was destroyed, so they could time travel to the ''dream'' DI when ''it'' was destroyed.
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* A lot of cutscenes just feel...odd. I mean the ones where Sora/Riku runs off with a guest character who says they'll help out. In one of the console games, this would be a painfully obvious setup to your new party member, but it's just weird in this game.
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*** I think since Sora, Riku and Young Xehanort were in the dream world... time travel rules didn't apply. We all know dreams can change from moment to moment, with a simple thought. They may have simply traveled from world to world in the dream version, made to seem like the past versions on purpose. Sora and Riku were there to train, while Young Xehanort was simply crashing the party... so if I'm looking at this right, there's no time travel Fridge Logic in the first place.
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** My guess is, because both Terra and Xehanort were in Terranort, both of them were split among AnsemSOD and Xemnas... and thus when destroyed, both of their original bodies were restored (Master Xehanort and Terra, though we have yet to see the later). Terranort was essentially a combined version of Terra and MX in the first place, so he's probably gone for good... but that's just my theory.
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*** Basically, [[AvatarTheLastAirbender some friendships are so strong, they can even transcend lifetimes.]]
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** It's not "Heartless can't enter." It's "Because there are no gates, not even the Heartless can get in." Being a Xehanort, Ansem was able to find another way in.
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* Okay, something that makes me scratch my head a bit, when a Heartless and Nobody are destroyed, the original person is restored, right? But it was Xehanort in Terra's body that got turned into a nobody and a heartless, so shouldn't Terranort of been the one reformed, not Master Xehanort?
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**Yen Sid freaks out over the fact that Xehanort would be able to travel back in time to Destiny islands. So did the dream versions of sora and Riku ravel back in time? And again, what about Young Xehanort? How can he travel without leaving his body behind?
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*Can someone tell me exactly how time travel works in this game? From what I was able to understand, You can only travel back to a point in time where you existed at that time originally. Hence why Sora and Riku could travel back in time to Destiny Islands before it was swallowed by darkness, they were there originally. It's ALSO said that to travel in time, you must leave your body behind. Ok... then how were Riku and Sora physically there after they travelled through time? The same question applies to Young Xehanort, who was there at the time as well.
* How did Sora and Riku get into the realm of sleep?
* How did Sora and Riku get into the realm of sleep?
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* I honestly have no problem with Sora and Riku going back to their old outfits. However, what annoys me is how they look younger, akin to how they look in the first game. Meanwhile, this game is said to take place AFTER KH2. Compare the look of Riku in the trailer to how he looked in KH2. Big difference. Since this game takes place after KH2, so why not use Sora and Riku's KH2 look, or at least keep them older looking?
** Traverse town shouldn't really exist anymore, either, since it was made of world-shards of destroyed worlds, as I recall, and even if it did exist it should be long-crumbled and aabandoned. My guess? Plot stuff involving diaries, virtual worlds, journies to the center of the mind, memories, yadda yadda. Wait for the game to come out.
** Something about dreams is part of the plot.
** In the 2/23/12 issue of Famitsu, a screenshot has Yen Sid explain it: Yen Sid: I will have you go back to Destiny Islands, as it was when it was swallowed by darkness and sleeping. So presumably their appearance matches their KH ages because that's where they start in the dreams.
* If the Realm of Sleep contains worlds not fully restored, how did Traverse Town become part of the dreamworld? It was intact by the end of Kingdom Hearts 1, and its keyhole was sealed, which should have prevented any heartless from destroying it.
** Well, Traverse Town was basically refugee town made up almost entirely by people who had their own worlds destroyed in [[KingdomHearts1 KH1]], So i would[[WildMassGuessing WMG]] that the world itself might just be composed entirely of wreckage or atleast having been "damaged" enough that it started attracting things into itself in attempt to restore itself, thus making it "incomplete", I am fairly sure that it was mentioned that Traverse Town got a "[[WeirdnessMagnet special]]" placement like The World That Never Was in a interview, Albeit it was few years ago i read said interview.
** Traverse Town is "special" in the sense that it is located in the Realm Between, along with Twilight Town, The World That Never Was, and Castle Oblivion/Land of Departure. Now, I'm not sure about this "Realm of Sleep", but it's not unreasonable to think that Traverse Town would hold a gateway to it, considering its location is a crossroads of two Realms (Light and Dark) already.
** That and it's a [[spoiler:Dream Copy of Traverse Town.]]
* The ending of the recent trailer [[spoiler: where Xehanort recovers his keyblade and attacks Braig shortly after apparently killing Even and Ienzo,]] seems to imply that Organization members 2-6 didn't join up willingly like we thought before. [[spoiler: Rather, they were forcibly turned into heartless/nobodies by Xehanort.]] Not only does this [[RetCon seem to run contrary to what we heard in [=KH2=]]], but it also brings the question of why [[spoiler: ''any'' member of the Organization would follow Xemnas, considering his murderous rampage as Xehanort is what got them all into this mess to begin with.]]
** Well, [[spoiler:if they ''did'' willingly join Xehanort/Xemnas afterward (perhaps out of fear, perhaps not), then his [[MagnificentBastard charisma]] could've won them over. After all, the Organization is ''very much'' like a cult. It's also possible that UnreliableNarrator was in effect with what was disclosed before, with the real set of events lying somewhere in the middle.]] I'm certain that more and more of the real story will slowly reveal itself in due time.
** It could be a {{Retcon}}. It would be ''far'' from the first time this series has had one (example: Ansem says in his reports in [=KH2=] that he found Xehanort and nursed him back to help "some years back", and that particular report is written at a time before Xehanort betrays him. But in BBS, he finds Xehanort 10 years before the original KH...and in there, it was said that the destruction of Hollow Bastion happened 9 years ago. Which means he just had Xehanort for an apprentice for little over a year!)
** An alternate possibility is that this was not the event that turned them into Nobodies. If you recall from KingdomHearts you saw 5 'pods' in Hollow Bastion/End of the World, implying the Apprentices went into them voluntarily. Perhaps what as seen was an experiment (which in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII we were told were being run on Apprenice Xehanort's heart, in order to restore his memories) gone awry.
*** Going off of this, it's possible that the attack simply unlocked the darkness in the other apprentices' hearts, similar to when Rikunort used the Keyblade of People's Hearts on Maleficent. This possibly made them more susceptible to the darkness experiments they were performing (as well as, possibly, their exile of Ansem), eventually leading to the them using the pods seen in the first game.
** KH2's backstory was told from Ansem's perspective, not Xehanort's. It's not unreasonable to assume that Ansem misinterpreted the situation.
* A new world is [[MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers The Three Musketeers]] [[CaptainObvious (Disney version)]]. What doesn't make sense is that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (supposedly) never leave the Realm of Light. In one of the trailers, you can see Donald, Goofy, safe-ish to assume Mickey is off-camera, in Yen Sid's tower with Sora and Riku. And it's sort-of-said by Yen Sid in the same trailer that only Sora and Riku enter the Realm of Sleep. Yet here they are, in a world of their own.
** They're not the real Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. They're the Dreamworld's versions. The ''real'' ones are still in the Realm of Light [[spoiler: confronting Maleficient at Disney Castle.]]
*** That or maybe it has something to do with [[NarniaTime time working differently between worlds?]]
* So, Neku's in here. Along with Shiki, Beat, Rhyme and Joshua. They're all back in the Game, too. Why's that? Would this be a kind of "TWEWY events set in a parallel dimension, and crossovered with KH" sort of thing?
** Why don't you wait and play the game and find out?
** Anything involving VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou can be summed up as: Joshua is a jackass.
*** Why that's true, it can be better summed up as: all according to Mr. H's plan.
** You can probably assume that they have the same thing going for them as the Final Fantasy characters, where while the characters and some of their issues are there, they're done differently.
*** To be fair, a case can be made for one character (Auron) to be from their original continuity. Nomura may or may not be afraid to play it that way with TWEWY since it's a stand alone title. IMO, still too early to tell what the deal is here.
** [[spoiler:They are Dream Copy of themselves.]]
*** To elaborate, [[spoiler:The TWEWY cast here have been made out of the memories of their lives by Joshua. Who's to say that at Shibuya's destruction Joshua crossed over into the KH universe and remade what he could from the memories he found?]]
* Heartless cannot enter the Realm of Sleep. But Ansem, the Seeker of Darkness appears in Notre Dame. He is a Heartless. There is an inconsistency here.
** Assuming it's really him and not simply an apparition.
** Well Ansem ([=SoD=]) isn't your typical Heartless. On top of that, there's all these Xehanorts running around, so there could be an explanation. If nothing else, these are dream worlds, and no one knows yet what's real and what's not.
* Why is it every time Xion is seen in these trailers fans go crazy? 358/2 explained what she was and that she cannot come back without F-ing up Sora royally. I understand the conflict that her presence will present in Sora for this game, I just want to know why fans honestly think she can come back?
** Because it's Kingdom Hearts? Because we're dealing with Disney characters, the PowerOfFriendship, and a heart shaped moon that's said to be able to create an entire world, and absolutely anything can happen at this point?
** I think the answer to this question is thus: Throughout [[KingdomHearts358Over2Days Days]], Roxas (and by extension, the player) has a deep emotional connection to Xion... and then [[WhamEpisode WHAM]]! CessationOfExistence. When the credits roll, we're thoroughly convinced that [[RetGone she'll never so much as be mentioned again, let alone seen again]]. Therefore, whenever Xion shows up in the trailers for KH3D, it's kinda like seeing the love of your life, who died 3 years ago, standing right in front of you saying [[UnexplainedRecovery they got better]]. Who cares about the ramifications? That can wait 'till after the welcome-back glomp.
** Though Xion's existence in Days was causing problems for Sora, that may not be the case if she returned. As it stands, thanks to Namine in coded, Mickey knows that she existed, and based on Roxas' use of plural pronouns in the trailer, he presumably remembers her as well.
*** Thank you for giving the most unbiased answer regarding this question. Although to question your point further, wasn't it clearly stated in Days that Xion's existence was preventing him from being whole? I cannot see any logical route in having Xion "come back" without there being complications with Sora as her whole being is centered around his memories.
*** I don't believe it was stated that she couldn't be saved, only that Naminé didn't know how. Whether justified or not, saving Xion was the last thing on her, Riku, or DiZ's minds at the time.
*** I think it may be possible for all of them to co-exist at the same time. Before Sora was put to sleep in COM, him, Roxas and Xion were all pretty fine till Sora's memories were screwed around with and said stated events needed to happen. If they could do it then, why not again? Then again, this game IS taking place in Dream World's and based on the recent trailer the [[spoiler: Xehanort's are all gathering together, looking pretty stabe and fine. But, once again, based on that trailer, Sora is going to apparently be, as you said, royally [[MindRape screwed with]] (and suffer a [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]], but it's implied that that has to deal with [[MindHive EVERYONE]] inside Sora (and the [[MagnificentBastard bastards]] [[IHaveManyNames known]] [[LegacyCharacter as the]] [[CompleteMonster Xehanort's]]), not just Xion.]]
* How is it that the unknown resembles a young master Xehanort? When did he have time to make another incarnation? Do they seriously expect us to believe that he could have done that while being stuck in New-Xehanort, Ansem Seeker of Darkness, and assumingly Xemnas?
** You do realize that a lot of the game is in dreams right? And that it's not out yet? It'll probably be explained when the time comes.
** While it's not an explanation, it had been said this unknown figure (who's confirmed to be the Unknown boss from BBS) somehow has dark figures show up wherever he goes. Case in point: ''Vanitas'' shows up, when he's supposed to be GONE. And also, from the way things were explained, if the Heartless and Nobody are destroyed, the original person comes back (meaning the others are never seen again). But Ansem SOD and Xemnas are shown to be around, even as Master Xehanort is back... and also, Nomura said that the BBS Unknown's 'laser blades' have a look of time-travel about them, or something of that nature.
** So really, we don't quite have a clue about this Unknown figure (yet), but everyone of the Xehanorts are back (except Terranort, unless this Unknown is him, somehow), and trouble's brewing.
** Unknown/Mysterious Figure is [[spoiler:Young Master Xehanort]]. It's unknown if (spoiler warning) [[spoiler:Terranort is back along with the rest of the new Organization XIII (or should I say--mind the pun--Orga'''nort'''zation XIII), but Master Xehanort notes something along the lines of one of the seven hearts of light being in his possession, so it's very well possible that he was referring to Terranort, who could possibly be one the remaining and yet revealed six members of the new Organization.]]
* Why is Chernabogs boss fight so simple? KH1, big, scary, epic fight. KH3D? Dodging and lovetaps. The hell?
** It was in Dive Mode, too. Maybe the devs thought, since it's such a long way to go to get to him anyway, they'd make it easy?
* If Master Xehanort returned from the defeat of Ansem [=SoD=] and Xemnas, what about Terra? His heart and Xehanort's inhabited the same body when the Heartless and Nobody were created. Does this mean Terra has regained his body?
** Pretty much, yeah. They probably just have to find him at this point, which will probably will be a minor plot point in the next game.
* Probably due to the lack of a proper translation, but what exactly ''is'' [[spoiler:Young Xehanort's]] deal? [[spoiler:Is he an alternate timeline Xehanort, a StableTimeLoop Xehanort, a Xehanort from an alternate timeline converted ''into'' a StableTimeLoop?]] Various places (even on this site) say varying things.
** It's a bit hard (and confusing), but the gist of it is below:
--> Original Young Xehanort grew up into the Master Xehanort we all know
--> Birth by Sleep's events happened, and he became Terranort
--> At one point, he split into AnsemSoD and Xemnas
--> Somewhere along all their scheming and plotting, AnsemSoD traveled back in time and found Young Xehanort, both influencing him to become Master Xehanort in the first place, AND travel forward in time to help all his future selves. So yeah, Xehanort was more-or-less responsible for his OWN StartOfDarkness, thanks to ample use of StableTimeLoop.
** [[spoiler:Ansem didn't influence Young Xehanort in any way. All Ansem did was send him on a journey throughout time to retrieve all the incarnations of Xehanort, both fused and splintered, to prepare failsafes in case Xemnas plan to turn all the OrganizationXIII containers for Master Xehanort's heart (Which he did; only Isa and Braig were turned.) Young Xehanort is going to return back to his time after helping his older self forge the X-Blade by fighting the seven lights and will have no recollection of events that happened outside his time. Thus, Ansem did NOT create a {{StableTimeLoop}}; Young Xehanort is still going to leave the islands and turn evil because the past cannot be changed.]]
* Okay, So Dream Traverse Town is made out of [[spoiler:Rhyme's memories]], Okay I would buy that. BUT... [[spoiler:Why did Rhyme have a Memories of Traverse Town?]], Did she been to Traverse Town or what?
** [[spoiler:Yep. Shibuya was destroyed by the Heartless. Guess where the survivors went.]]
** [[FanficFuel Where the FanFic of the TWEwY in Non-Dream Traverse Town?]]
* So Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu tell me why, [[spoiler:O why Shiki is in Eri's appearance?]]
** Presumably for 2 reasons:
-->Her true appearance is spoilers from the game, and Joshua knows this.
-->Her current appearance is the most [[MaleGaze eye-catching]], for both the audience and everyone else.
* So. Could anybody PLEASE explain to me WHAT the deal with Xehanort's plan [[spoiler: to assemble 13 Dark Hearts and 7 Lights]] is?! [[spoiler: So, basically, he needs 13 hearts of pure Darkness and 7 hearts of pure light to create a PERFECT x-Blade, one that won't shatter on the first-best oportunity, like Venitas' did. So far, so good. However, it's been stated SEVERAL times that the only pure-light hearts are the 7 Princesses of Heart, who were part of the first X-Blade too, meaning that he will NEED those to combat his Organization of Clones, everything else wouldn't work. OK, OK, that still makes sense. HOWEVER, suddenly, he claims he was also trying to gather "7 Protectors of Light", keyblade wielders, to start the Keyblade war with. OK, OK, now, what did I miss? If he gets his X-Blade by just sending his Organization XIII.2 to merge with the Princesses, why would he want 7 Keyblade Wielders to OPPOSE him?! He sure as hell can't forge the X-Blade for them, Riku and Lea are partially Darkness Users themselves and even if they weren't, it's CLEAR none of them are hearts of pure light, not even Mickey or Sora. So are the 7 Protectors of Light meant to serve as bodyguards for the Princesses? The Secret Ending heavily implies this to be the case. But why would Xehanort WANT bodyguards for them? Why would he WANT them to be protected when he comes to take them? And if there is a reason, why would Yen Sid play right into the plan by assembling the 7 Protectors of Light himself when Xehanort fails at it?! Why?! Why do it HAVE to be 7, can't they just, like, just have 6 and place two princesses under the protection of one? I'm sure Riku could pull that off, he's become pretty overkill during the game. And why, in Light's sake, did they decide to make Kairi a Protector of Light herself?! Is she supposed to be her own bodyguard?! With only a few months of Keyblade experience?! Nice job, playing the Cosmic Keystone right into OrganizationXIII.2's hands then, Yen Sid!]] ...Uhh... My brain... it hurts... X-x
** Since there's a lot questions, I'll start with a few at once.
-->[[spoiler:'''Why is Kairi gonna protect herself?''']] Considering she's in danger anyway, being a Princess of Heart, what better way to defend herself than being experienced with a keyblade? And also, if she's gonna be guarded anyway, it's safer to be guarded AND be able to defend herself.
-->[[spoiler:'''Why does Xehanort want bodyguards for the 7 Princess's?''']] Considering Master Xehanort's rigged use of CrazyPrepared, ThePlan, XanatosSpeedChess, and other tropes... he's probably gonna have plans for them, for his own amusement, while still being able to take the 7 Princess's. [[spoiler:Plus, he'll need the 7 Protecters for when he forges his perfect X-blade, so he can see what a 2nd Keyblade War looks like]], you know, ForScience.
--> There is also the fact that when you add up the numbers everything is evened out. Thing of it like this there are 13 darknesses and seven lights and [[spoiler:seven protectors. One of the lights is also a protector. So between the lights and protectors there are thirteen individuals on each side.]] Xehanort original plan was to balance out light and dark while at the same time cause a new keyblade war. The six protectors [[spoiler:that aren't a light]] will have both light and darkness. Combining every aspect mentioned above it's safe to assume he wants 13 darknesses, seven lights and six of those in between as six is the difference between thirteen and seven. His plan actually makes perfect sense once you stop and think about every single thing about Xehanort's current and previous plans.
* So what did happen to Shiki before Riku run into [[spoiler:Young Xehanort?]]
** Not sure... but if I saw the scenes right, all that really happened was that Shiki lost Mr. Mew, appearing very nervous and scared (but apparently unharmed) later. Considering she's defenseless without that thing, she had good reason to be so. But whatever happened was offscreen, so we can only guess.
* I'm in for a major headache if I continue to pursue this answer, as if already '''''barely''''' managing to figure out the entire plot of the whole series and its mythology wasn't bad enough, but I have to know. [[spoiler: Xehanort planned a XanatosGambit from the ending of Birth by Sleep, that I understand. The manipulation of events that culminated Kingdom Hearts I & II I can also understand and actually admire in a bizarre twist]]. What I DON'T understand is just what the hell was with Xehanort's Heartless and Xemnas? [[spoiler: Despite both being tasked to bring together the 7 Lights vs 13 Darkness' to re-create the x-Blade, we all know that in each game, both incarnations of Xehanort were seeking Kingdom Hearts for completely different reasons, and the fact both the 7 Lights (Princesses) were kind of just ignored after Xehanort's Heartless got what he wanted and that Xemnas was more focused on summoning Kingdom Hearts using Sora while ignoring the fact he was meant to be implanting pieces of Xehanort's heart into all 13 members to create his clones...]] just... ah... ow. My brain. Please, can someone give me an actual explaination outside "because the creators pulled it out their ass"? As likely as it sounds, I want to believe they actually planned '''some''' part of this.
** '''Warning''': spoilers ahead. It's more a case of [[EvilPlan "I have many plans" in addition to one big plan]]. When Master Xehanort split into his Heartless and Nobody, some small part of his plans/memories stayed in both their minds. This made sure they were on the same side the whole time, even as they did their own plans.
--> Ansem SOD's main plan was to get godlike power by gaining control of Kingdom Hearts, while at the same time, going back in time to get another version of Young Master Xehanort to become one of the 13 Darkness's. Xemnas's main plan was to make the 13 Darkness's, by making Organization XIII and slowly turning them into Xehanorts, while at the same time, also going his way to get godlike power by making a fake Kingdom Hearts. This way, even if Master Xehanort didn't come back, his other selves do his ForScience plans.
-->They were both defeated, putting a damper on the Kingdom Hearts aspect of the plan, but reforming Master Xehanort. Plus, they've gotten 12 of the 13 Darkness's, so Master Xehanort is still easily going strong on his plans.
-->For the Roxas/Xion plan, Xemnas planned to make the fake Kingdom Hearts, and gain control of a Sora to become his 13th Darkness. The fake Kingdom Heart was made, but Roxas got away, so the plan shifted to the real Sora. With the events of 3D, this hasn't happened, thanks to Riku.
-->So in other words... it's a WHOLE NEW LEVEL of ThePlan.
* Okay I got one that's been bothering me for a while now. How is it that Rinzler ended up remember his encounter with Sora in Space Paranoids if that Tron was a copy of the original?
** Due to a concept that has been introduced into the series in KingdomHearts2 and continously gained more and more importance ever since then. I nicknamed it "Heart Resonance": Whenever a person in the Universe of Kingdom Hearts meets someone they associate strong emotions to and expresses them, these emotions will eventually jump over to the person they're associated to as well, whether or not they actually have any memories or even true connection to them. It happened when Sora met the real Hayner, Pence and Olette after Roxas had embedded Data-Hayner, Data-Pence and Data-Olette in his heart as friends: Sora started crying and the kids suddenly began to feel like they had met him before as well. The same thing happens again in Coded when Data!Sora meets Donald and Goofy and, through their continous friendly actions towards Data!Sora eventually cause Data!Sora to develope a sense of Dèjá vu and the same sense of "attachment" that the real Sora has to them. Basically, it's like this: It doesn't matter if a connection is initially real, if a heart reaches out to you to make a connection and your heart is ready to accept it, it WILL become real. Add to that the fact that Sora's heart has basically been stated to have the power to create bonds incredibly quickly and efficiently, and you realize that Sora's heart must have pretty much hijacked itself into Tron's within Rinzler and continued to press until it finally opened up and made the connection.
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** Traverse town shouldn't really exist anymore, either, since it was made of world-shards of destroyed worlds, as I recall, and even if it did exist it should be long-crumbled and aabandoned. My guess? Plot stuff involving diaries, virtual worlds, journies to the center of the mind, memories, yadda yadda. Wait for the game to come out.
** Something about dreams is part of the plot.
** In the 2/23/12 issue of Famitsu, a screenshot has Yen Sid explain it: Yen Sid: I will have you go back to Destiny Islands, as it was when it was swallowed by darkness and sleeping. So presumably their appearance matches their KH ages because that's where they start in the dreams.
* If the Realm of Sleep contains worlds not fully restored, how did Traverse Town become part of the dreamworld? It was intact by the end of Kingdom Hearts 1, and its keyhole was sealed, which should have prevented any heartless from destroying it.
** Well, Traverse Town was basically refugee town made up almost entirely by people who had their own worlds destroyed in [[KingdomHearts1 KH1]], So i would[[WildMassGuessing WMG]] that the world itself might just be composed entirely of wreckage or atleast having been "damaged" enough that it started attracting things into itself in attempt to restore itself, thus making it "incomplete", I am fairly sure that it was mentioned that Traverse Town got a "[[WeirdnessMagnet special]]" placement like The World That Never Was in a interview, Albeit it was few years ago i read said interview.
** Traverse Town is "special" in the sense that it is located in the Realm Between, along with Twilight Town, The World That Never Was, and Castle Oblivion/Land of Departure. Now, I'm not sure about this "Realm of Sleep", but it's not unreasonable to think that Traverse Town would hold a gateway to it, considering its location is a crossroads of two Realms (Light and Dark) already.
** That and it's a [[spoiler:Dream Copy of Traverse Town.]]
* The ending of the recent trailer [[spoiler: where Xehanort recovers his keyblade and attacks Braig shortly after apparently killing Even and Ienzo,]] seems to imply that Organization members 2-6 didn't join up willingly like we thought before. [[spoiler: Rather, they were forcibly turned into heartless/nobodies by Xehanort.]] Not only does this [[RetCon seem to run contrary to what we heard in [=KH2=]]], but it also brings the question of why [[spoiler: ''any'' member of the Organization would follow Xemnas, considering his murderous rampage as Xehanort is what got them all into this mess to begin with.]]
** Well, [[spoiler:if they ''did'' willingly join Xehanort/Xemnas afterward (perhaps out of fear, perhaps not), then his [[MagnificentBastard charisma]] could've won them over. After all, the Organization is ''very much'' like a cult. It's also possible that UnreliableNarrator was in effect with what was disclosed before, with the real set of events lying somewhere in the middle.]] I'm certain that more and more of the real story will slowly reveal itself in due time.
** It could be a {{Retcon}}. It would be ''far'' from the first time this series has had one (example: Ansem says in his reports in [=KH2=] that he found Xehanort and nursed him back to help "some years back", and that particular report is written at a time before Xehanort betrays him. But in BBS, he finds Xehanort 10 years before the original KH...and in there, it was said that the destruction of Hollow Bastion happened 9 years ago. Which means he just had Xehanort for an apprentice for little over a year!)
** An alternate possibility is that this was not the event that turned them into Nobodies. If you recall from KingdomHearts you saw 5 'pods' in Hollow Bastion/End of the World, implying the Apprentices went into them voluntarily. Perhaps what as seen was an experiment (which in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII we were told were being run on Apprenice Xehanort's heart, in order to restore his memories) gone awry.
*** Going off of this, it's possible that the attack simply unlocked the darkness in the other apprentices' hearts, similar to when Rikunort used the Keyblade of People's Hearts on Maleficent. This possibly made them more susceptible to the darkness experiments they were performing (as well as, possibly, their exile of Ansem), eventually leading to the them using the pods seen in the first game.
** KH2's backstory was told from Ansem's perspective, not Xehanort's. It's not unreasonable to assume that Ansem misinterpreted the situation.
* A new world is [[MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers The Three Musketeers]] [[CaptainObvious (Disney version)]]. What doesn't make sense is that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (supposedly) never leave the Realm of Light. In one of the trailers, you can see Donald, Goofy, safe-ish to assume Mickey is off-camera, in Yen Sid's tower with Sora and Riku. And it's sort-of-said by Yen Sid in the same trailer that only Sora and Riku enter the Realm of Sleep. Yet here they are, in a world of their own.
** They're not the real Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. They're the Dreamworld's versions. The ''real'' ones are still in the Realm of Light [[spoiler: confronting Maleficient at Disney Castle.]]
*** That or maybe it has something to do with [[NarniaTime time working differently between worlds?]]
* So, Neku's in here. Along with Shiki, Beat, Rhyme and Joshua. They're all back in the Game, too. Why's that? Would this be a kind of "TWEWY events set in a parallel dimension, and crossovered with KH" sort of thing?
** Why don't you wait and play the game and find out?
** Anything involving VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou can be summed up as: Joshua is a jackass.
*** Why that's true, it can be better summed up as: all according to Mr. H's plan.
** You can probably assume that they have the same thing going for them as the Final Fantasy characters, where while the characters and some of their issues are there, they're done differently.
*** To be fair, a case can be made for one character (Auron) to be from their original continuity. Nomura may or may not be afraid to play it that way with TWEWY since it's a stand alone title. IMO, still too early to tell what the deal is here.
** [[spoiler:They are Dream Copy of themselves.]]
*** To elaborate, [[spoiler:The TWEWY cast here have been made out of the memories of their lives by Joshua. Who's to say that at Shibuya's destruction Joshua crossed over into the KH universe and remade what he could from the memories he found?]]
* Heartless cannot enter the Realm of Sleep. But Ansem, the Seeker of Darkness appears in Notre Dame. He is a Heartless. There is an inconsistency here.
** Assuming it's really him and not simply an apparition.
** Well Ansem ([=SoD=]) isn't your typical Heartless. On top of that, there's all these Xehanorts running around, so there could be an explanation. If nothing else, these are dream worlds, and no one knows yet what's real and what's not.
* Why is it every time Xion is seen in these trailers fans go crazy? 358/2 explained what she was and that she cannot come back without F-ing up Sora royally. I understand the conflict that her presence will present in Sora for this game, I just want to know why fans honestly think she can come back?
** Because it's Kingdom Hearts? Because we're dealing with Disney characters, the PowerOfFriendship, and a heart shaped moon that's said to be able to create an entire world, and absolutely anything can happen at this point?
** I think the answer to this question is thus: Throughout [[KingdomHearts358Over2Days Days]], Roxas (and by extension, the player) has a deep emotional connection to Xion... and then [[WhamEpisode WHAM]]! CessationOfExistence. When the credits roll, we're thoroughly convinced that [[RetGone she'll never so much as be mentioned again, let alone seen again]]. Therefore, whenever Xion shows up in the trailers for KH3D, it's kinda like seeing the love of your life, who died 3 years ago, standing right in front of you saying [[UnexplainedRecovery they got better]]. Who cares about the ramifications? That can wait 'till after the welcome-back glomp.
** Though Xion's existence in Days was causing problems for Sora, that may not be the case if she returned. As it stands, thanks to Namine in coded, Mickey knows that she existed, and based on Roxas' use of plural pronouns in the trailer, he presumably remembers her as well.
*** Thank you for giving the most unbiased answer regarding this question. Although to question your point further, wasn't it clearly stated in Days that Xion's existence was preventing him from being whole? I cannot see any logical route in having Xion "come back" without there being complications with Sora as her whole being is centered around his memories.
*** I don't believe it was stated that she couldn't be saved, only that Naminé didn't know how. Whether justified or not, saving Xion was the last thing on her, Riku, or DiZ's minds at the time.
*** I think it may be possible for all of them to co-exist at the same time. Before Sora was put to sleep in COM, him, Roxas and Xion were all pretty fine till Sora's memories were screwed around with and said stated events needed to happen. If they could do it then, why not again? Then again, this game IS taking place in Dream World's and based on the recent trailer the [[spoiler: Xehanort's are all gathering together, looking pretty stabe and fine. But, once again, based on that trailer, Sora is going to apparently be, as you said, royally [[MindRape screwed with]] (and suffer a [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]], but it's implied that that has to deal with [[MindHive EVERYONE]] inside Sora (and the [[MagnificentBastard bastards]] [[IHaveManyNames known]] [[LegacyCharacter as the]] [[CompleteMonster Xehanort's]]), not just Xion.]]
* How is it that the unknown resembles a young master Xehanort? When did he have time to make another incarnation? Do they seriously expect us to believe that he could have done that while being stuck in New-Xehanort, Ansem Seeker of Darkness, and assumingly Xemnas?
** You do realize that a lot of the game is in dreams right? And that it's not out yet? It'll probably be explained when the time comes.
** While it's not an explanation, it had been said this unknown figure (who's confirmed to be the Unknown boss from BBS) somehow has dark figures show up wherever he goes. Case in point: ''Vanitas'' shows up, when he's supposed to be GONE. And also, from the way things were explained, if the Heartless and Nobody are destroyed, the original person comes back (meaning the others are never seen again). But Ansem SOD and Xemnas are shown to be around, even as Master Xehanort is back... and also, Nomura said that the BBS Unknown's 'laser blades' have a look of time-travel about them, or something of that nature.
** So really, we don't quite have a clue about this Unknown figure (yet), but everyone of the Xehanorts are back (except Terranort, unless this Unknown is him, somehow), and trouble's brewing.
** Unknown/Mysterious Figure is [[spoiler:Young Master Xehanort]]. It's unknown if (spoiler warning) [[spoiler:Terranort is back along with the rest of the new Organization XIII (or should I say--mind the pun--Orga'''nort'''zation XIII), but Master Xehanort notes something along the lines of one of the seven hearts of light being in his possession, so it's very well possible that he was referring to Terranort, who could possibly be one the remaining and yet revealed six members of the new Organization.]]
* Why is Chernabogs boss fight so simple? KH1, big, scary, epic fight. KH3D? Dodging and lovetaps. The hell?
** It was in Dive Mode, too. Maybe the devs thought, since it's such a long way to go to get to him anyway, they'd make it easy?
* If Master Xehanort returned from the defeat of Ansem [=SoD=] and Xemnas, what about Terra? His heart and Xehanort's inhabited the same body when the Heartless and Nobody were created. Does this mean Terra has regained his body?
** Pretty much, yeah. They probably just have to find him at this point, which will probably will be a minor plot point in the next game.
* Probably due to the lack of a proper translation, but what exactly ''is'' [[spoiler:Young Xehanort's]] deal? [[spoiler:Is he an alternate timeline Xehanort, a StableTimeLoop Xehanort, a Xehanort from an alternate timeline converted ''into'' a StableTimeLoop?]] Various places (even on this site) say varying things.
** It's a bit hard (and confusing), but the gist of it is below:
--> Original Young Xehanort grew up into the Master Xehanort we all know
--> Birth by Sleep's events happened, and he became Terranort
--> At one point, he split into AnsemSoD and Xemnas
--> Somewhere along all their scheming and plotting, AnsemSoD traveled back in time and found Young Xehanort, both influencing him to become Master Xehanort in the first place, AND travel forward in time to help all his future selves. So yeah, Xehanort was more-or-less responsible for his OWN StartOfDarkness, thanks to ample use of StableTimeLoop.
** [[spoiler:Ansem didn't influence Young Xehanort in any way. All Ansem did was send him on a journey throughout time to retrieve all the incarnations of Xehanort, both fused and splintered, to prepare failsafes in case Xemnas plan to turn all the OrganizationXIII containers for Master Xehanort's heart (Which he did; only Isa and Braig were turned.) Young Xehanort is going to return back to his time after helping his older self forge the X-Blade by fighting the seven lights and will have no recollection of events that happened outside his time. Thus, Ansem did NOT create a {{StableTimeLoop}}; Young Xehanort is still going to leave the islands and turn evil because the past cannot be changed.]]
* Okay, So Dream Traverse Town is made out of [[spoiler:Rhyme's memories]], Okay I would buy that. BUT... [[spoiler:Why did Rhyme have a Memories of Traverse Town?]], Did she been to Traverse Town or what?
** [[spoiler:Yep. Shibuya was destroyed by the Heartless. Guess where the survivors went.]]
** [[FanficFuel Where the FanFic of the TWEwY in Non-Dream Traverse Town?]]
* So Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu tell me why, [[spoiler:O why Shiki is in Eri's appearance?]]
** Presumably for 2 reasons:
-->Her true appearance is spoilers from the game, and Joshua knows this.
-->Her current appearance is the most [[MaleGaze eye-catching]], for both the audience and everyone else.
* So. Could anybody PLEASE explain to me WHAT the deal with Xehanort's plan [[spoiler: to assemble 13 Dark Hearts and 7 Lights]] is?! [[spoiler: So, basically, he needs 13 hearts of pure Darkness and 7 hearts of pure light to create a PERFECT x-Blade, one that won't shatter on the first-best oportunity, like Venitas' did. So far, so good. However, it's been stated SEVERAL times that the only pure-light hearts are the 7 Princesses of Heart, who were part of the first X-Blade too, meaning that he will NEED those to combat his Organization of Clones, everything else wouldn't work. OK, OK, that still makes sense. HOWEVER, suddenly, he claims he was also trying to gather "7 Protectors of Light", keyblade wielders, to start the Keyblade war with. OK, OK, now, what did I miss? If he gets his X-Blade by just sending his Organization XIII.2 to merge with the Princesses, why would he want 7 Keyblade Wielders to OPPOSE him?! He sure as hell can't forge the X-Blade for them, Riku and Lea are partially Darkness Users themselves and even if they weren't, it's CLEAR none of them are hearts of pure light, not even Mickey or Sora. So are the 7 Protectors of Light meant to serve as bodyguards for the Princesses? The Secret Ending heavily implies this to be the case. But why would Xehanort WANT bodyguards for them? Why would he WANT them to be protected when he comes to take them? And if there is a reason, why would Yen Sid play right into the plan by assembling the 7 Protectors of Light himself when Xehanort fails at it?! Why?! Why do it HAVE to be 7, can't they just, like, just have 6 and place two princesses under the protection of one? I'm sure Riku could pull that off, he's become pretty overkill during the game. And why, in Light's sake, did they decide to make Kairi a Protector of Light herself?! Is she supposed to be her own bodyguard?! With only a few months of Keyblade experience?! Nice job, playing the Cosmic Keystone right into OrganizationXIII.2's hands then, Yen Sid!]] ...Uhh... My brain... it hurts... X-x
** Since there's a lot questions, I'll start with a few at once.
-->[[spoiler:'''Why is Kairi gonna protect herself?''']] Considering she's in danger anyway, being a Princess of Heart, what better way to defend herself than being experienced with a keyblade? And also, if she's gonna be guarded anyway, it's safer to be guarded AND be able to defend herself.
-->[[spoiler:'''Why does Xehanort want bodyguards for the 7 Princess's?''']] Considering Master Xehanort's rigged use of CrazyPrepared, ThePlan, XanatosSpeedChess, and other tropes... he's probably gonna have plans for them, for his own amusement, while still being able to take the 7 Princess's. [[spoiler:Plus, he'll need the 7 Protecters for when he forges his perfect X-blade, so he can see what a 2nd Keyblade War looks like]], you know, ForScience.
--> There is also the fact that when you add up the numbers everything is evened out. Thing of it like this there are 13 darknesses and seven lights and [[spoiler:seven protectors. One of the lights is also a protector. So between the lights and protectors there are thirteen individuals on each side.]] Xehanort original plan was to balance out light and dark while at the same time cause a new keyblade war. The six protectors [[spoiler:that aren't a light]] will have both light and darkness. Combining every aspect mentioned above it's safe to assume he wants 13 darknesses, seven lights and six of those in between as six is the difference between thirteen and seven. His plan actually makes perfect sense once you stop and think about every single thing about Xehanort's current and previous plans.
* So what did happen to Shiki before Riku run into [[spoiler:Young Xehanort?]]
** Not sure... but if I saw the scenes right, all that really happened was that Shiki lost Mr. Mew, appearing very nervous and scared (but apparently unharmed) later. Considering she's defenseless without that thing, she had good reason to be so. But whatever happened was offscreen, so we can only guess.
* I'm in for a major headache if I continue to pursue this answer, as if already '''''barely''''' managing to figure out the entire plot of the whole series and its mythology wasn't bad enough, but I have to know. [[spoiler: Xehanort planned a XanatosGambit from the ending of Birth by Sleep, that I understand. The manipulation of events that culminated Kingdom Hearts I & II I can also understand and actually admire in a bizarre twist]]. What I DON'T understand is just what the hell was with Xehanort's Heartless and Xemnas? [[spoiler: Despite both being tasked to bring together the 7 Lights vs 13 Darkness' to re-create the x-Blade, we all know that in each game, both incarnations of Xehanort were seeking Kingdom Hearts for completely different reasons, and the fact both the 7 Lights (Princesses) were kind of just ignored after Xehanort's Heartless got what he wanted and that Xemnas was more focused on summoning Kingdom Hearts using Sora while ignoring the fact he was meant to be implanting pieces of Xehanort's heart into all 13 members to create his clones...]] just... ah... ow. My brain. Please, can someone give me an actual explaination outside "because the creators pulled it out their ass"? As likely as it sounds, I want to believe they actually planned '''some''' part of this.
** '''Warning''': spoilers ahead. It's more a case of [[EvilPlan "I have many plans" in addition to one big plan]]. When Master Xehanort split into his Heartless and Nobody, some small part of his plans/memories stayed in both their minds. This made sure they were on the same side the whole time, even as they did their own plans.
--> Ansem SOD's main plan was to get godlike power by gaining control of Kingdom Hearts, while at the same time, going back in time to get another version of Young Master Xehanort to become one of the 13 Darkness's. Xemnas's main plan was to make the 13 Darkness's, by making Organization XIII and slowly turning them into Xehanorts, while at the same time, also going his way to get godlike power by making a fake Kingdom Hearts. This way, even if Master Xehanort didn't come back, his other selves do his ForScience plans.
-->They were both defeated, putting a damper on the Kingdom Hearts aspect of the plan, but reforming Master Xehanort. Plus, they've gotten 12 of the 13 Darkness's, so Master Xehanort is still easily going strong on his plans.
-->For the Roxas/Xion plan, Xemnas planned to make the fake Kingdom Hearts, and gain control of a Sora to become his 13th Darkness. The fake Kingdom Heart was made, but Roxas got away, so the plan shifted to the real Sora. With the events of 3D, this hasn't happened, thanks to Riku.
-->So in other words... it's a WHOLE NEW LEVEL of ThePlan.
* Okay I got one that's been bothering me for a while now. How is it that Rinzler ended up remember his encounter with Sora in Space Paranoids if that Tron was a copy of the original?
** Due to a concept that has been introduced into the series in KingdomHearts2 and continously gained more and more importance ever since then. I nicknamed it "Heart Resonance": Whenever a person in the Universe of Kingdom Hearts meets someone they associate strong emotions to and expresses them, these emotions will eventually jump over to the person they're associated to as well, whether or not they actually have any memories or even true connection to them. It happened when Sora met the real Hayner, Pence and Olette after Roxas had embedded Data-Hayner, Data-Pence and Data-Olette in his heart as friends: Sora started crying and the kids suddenly began to feel like they had met him before as well. The same thing happens again in Coded when Data!Sora meets Donald and Goofy and, through their continous friendly actions towards Data!Sora eventually cause Data!Sora to develope a sense of Dèjá vu and the same sense of "attachment" that the real Sora has to them. Basically, it's like this: It doesn't matter if a connection is initially real, if a heart reaches out to you to make a connection and your heart is ready to accept it, it WILL become real. Add to that the fact that Sora's heart has basically been stated to have the power to create bonds incredibly quickly and efficiently, and you realize that Sora's heart must have pretty much hijacked itself into Tron's within Rinzler and continued to press until it finally opened up and made the connection.
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