History Headscratchers / KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance

*** There's that little whammy about the Keyblade choosing it's master, and/or the inheritance ceremony mentioned in BBS. Pretty sure the Keyblade wouldn't choose people on the fly simply because they have combat experience. If it did, just about every swordsman from the FF gang would've had Keyblades since day one, which they don't. Donald and Goofy are doing just fine with their Shields and Spells. Queen Minnie has to look over Disney Castle and Town since Mickey is out.

** I think the answer to this question is thus: Throughout [[VideoGame/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.

** Look at the combat system, it's very similar to Birth By Sleep. So even if their normal combos are unrefined, the way they perform their techniques and spells no longer require Reaction Commands or Mana. Furthermore, they can properly perform stunts that would make Dante jealous, and implement them in combat too. This training essentially strips away Sora and Riku's previous limitations (in the same way that the combat system in the series becomes more refined with each new entry, no longer just mashing X and Triangle to win boss fights like in KH2).

** 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.

** 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 at least 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.

** 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.

*** The Dream Worlds are established in-game as being the worlds that fell to darkness but never managed to recover. When Sora and Riku explore them, they act as snapshots of those worlds sometime before they fell. The time between Dream Worlds doesn't have to match up; Pinnochio's dream world is set immediately before the first KingdomHearts, while The Country of the Musketeers is set a long time before BirthBySleep.

** 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.

** 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.

** The Mysterious Tower was part of Twilight Town in KingdomHeartsII - maybe it's capable of moving between worlds (and being its own world) whenever Yen Sid pleases, and the heart of Symphony of Sorcery - originally consisting of just the musical realm - liked the Tower enough that it added it to its dreams, the same way the other worlds did with their own native residents?

* [[spoiler: Young Xehanort states that one of the rules of time travel dictate that in order to travel back through time, another version of you has to be present at the destination. So how was he able to visit the Land of Departure in KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep?]]

* Not sure if this was mentioned before, but [[spoiler:if someone must leave behind his or her body to go back in time and must have some version of that person waiting at the destination]], what's the deal with [[spoiler:the time travel in [[KingdomHeartsII Timeless River]]?]]

** Yen Sid's explanation suggests they did physically travel there; he transported them to a past version of DI ''just before'' it became a Sleeping World, and the Brown-Robe Ansem that appeared at the beginning of 3D is the same person from the first game and not someone who was time travelling with Young Xehanort. To answer the original question, Yen Sid's method is different from Xehanort's method since they didn't forget what happened during their brief time in past DI, and they don't need to give up their bodies. They only share the rule that they can only travel to points in time where a version of them existed. As for how Young Xehanort was able to travel through time without giving up his body, the [[NoExportForYou Ultimania]] clarifies that once one attains the power of time travel by reducing oneself into a Heart, the power can be passed onto others without them needing to do the same[[labelnote:note]]Vaguely implied in-game by Young Xehanort saying Ansem "sent him on his way."[[/labelnote]], which what happened to Young Xehanort as Brown-Robed Ansem shared that power with him. He was able to reach the Sleeping Destiny Islands because Brown-Robed Ansem deliberately placed himself there.

** Yen Sid's explanation suggests they did physically travel there; he transported them to a past version of DI ''just before'' it became a Sleeping World, and the Brown-Robe Ansem that appeared at the beginning of 3D is the same person from the first game and not someone who was time travelling with Young Xehanort. To answer the original question, Yen Sid's method is different from Xehanort's method since they didn't forget what happened during their brief time in past DI, and they don't need to give up their bodies. They only share the rule that they can only travel to points in time where a version of them existed. As for how Young Xehanort was able to travel through time without giving up his body, the [[NoExportForYou Ultimania]] clarifies that once one attains the power of time travel by reducing oneself into a Heart, the power can be passed onto others without them needing to do the same[[labelnote:note]]Vaguely implied in-game by Young Xehanort saying Ansem "sent him on his way[[/labelnote]], which what happened to Young Xehanort as Brown-Robed Ansem shared that power with him. He was able to reach the Sleeping Destiny Islands because Brown-Robed Ansem deliberately placed himself there.

** Yen Sid's explanation suggests they did physically travel there; he transported them to a past version of DI ''just before'' it became a Sleeping World, and the Brown-Robe Ansem that appeared at the beginning of 3D is the same person from the first game and not someone who was time travelling with Young Xehanort. To answer the original question, Yen Sid's method is different from Xehanort's method since they didn't forget what happened during their brief time in past DI, and they don't need to give up their bodies. They only share the rule that they can only travel to points in time where a version of them existed. As for how Young Xehanort was able to travel through time without giving up his body, the Ultimania clarifies that once one attains the power of time travel by reducing oneself into a Heart, the power can be passed onto others without them needing to do the same, which what happened to Young Xehanort as Brown-Robed Ansem shared that power with him. He was able to reach the Sleeping Destiny Islands because Brown-Robed Ansem deliberately placed himself there.

** Yen Sid's explanation suggests they did physically travel there; he transported them to a past version of DI ''just before'' it became a Sleeping World, and the Brown-Robe Ansem that appeared at the beginning of 3D is the same person from the first game and not someone who was time travelling with Young Xehanort. To answer the original question, Yen Sid's method is different from Xehanort's method since they didn't forget what happened during their brief time in past DI, and they don't need to give up their bodies. They only share the rule that they can only travel to points in time where a version of them existed. As for how Young Xehanort was able to travel through time without giving up his body, the Ultimania clarifies that once one attains the power of time travel by reducing oneself into a Heart, the power can be passed onto others without them needing to do the same, which what happened to Young Xehanort as Brown-Robed Ansem shared that power with him.

** I don't think the Keyhole was split into two nor is Destiny Island's Keyhole one of the seven, since it wasn't sleeping yet, that was in the past and it was one of the worlds that awakened automatically at the end of the first game. So, probably, Traverse Town was just locked out by two Sleeping Keyholes. And Sora could've been counting how many Sleeping Keyholes [[spoiler:(or what he thought were the Keyholes)]] he had unlocked already.

* Ok so maybe I missed something, but how can Xehanort exist alongside his Heartless and Nobody? I get that he's using time travel in TWTNW but his dialogue (and fan assumptions) indicate that the two of them are intended to be members of the new organization. However, as the end of that scene shows, he can't use time travel to assemble the Norts for very long (and Young!Xehanort indicates he is done time traveling after the events of this game). So what, does Xehanort intend to gather his copies for three minutes to create the X-Blade and have them all fade away back to their time again afterward?

** [[spoiler: The "sleeping keyholes" Sora unlocks in the Sleeping Worlds were actually passageways members of the new Organization laid out for him]]

->'''Yen Sid''': The timing is too perfect, too calculated. Maleficent must sense a change in the forces of darkness. A change...like Xehanort.

** 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.

**** And isn't Terra's protected by Eraqus's?

* In the middle of the game, all the members of Organisation XIII that got turned into Nobodies in Hollow Bastion reappear there as real people, complete with the clothes they were presumably wearing when they were turned. However, Lea is still wearing the Organisation robe. Why? Shouldn't he too reappear in his Birth By Sleep appearance?

* This is more of a game progression question. The cutscene gallery and certain events in both worlds imply that the story order you visit the worlds is Prankster's Paradise, then The Grid. But The Grid's enemy level is lower than Prankster's Paradise's, so most players would go to The Grid first. So why didn't they switch the enemy levels if they wanted players to visit Prankster's Paradise first?

* Why is the Catle that Never Was back in Xehanort and the Organization's hands? Wasn't Maleficent going to take it over? Who was stopping her when all of the Organization members were dead?

** '''Major spoilers for TWEWY''', as its story is heavily reliant on {{Wham Episode}}s, {{Wham Line}}s, and {{Player Punch}}es, but Josh's wings are a reference to the fact that [[spoiler: he's basically God (or at least a very powerful and high-ranking Angel), as far as Shibuya is concerned anyways. ''TWEWY'' players were given hints to this during the game, but it's spelled out by the end of the story, and expanded upon when collecting the post-game reports that flesh out the storyline and mythos of the ''TWEWY'' world.]]

** 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.