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** Even if Sora taking back the keyblade in ''KH1'' wasn't enough, there was also that brief flash of light when Sora and Riku used the same keyblade to laser-beam Xemnas to death. If Aqua could have accidentally performed a rite of succession on Kairi that way, then it's possible that ''Riku'' did the same with Sora at that moment.

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** Even if Sora taking back the keyblade in ''KH1'' ''[=KH1=]'' wasn't enough, there was also that brief flash of light when Sora and Riku used the same keyblade to laser-beam Xemnas to death. If Aqua could have accidentally performed a rite Rite of succession Succession on Kairi that way, then it's possible that ''Riku'' did performed the same with rite on Sora at that moment.moment. Especially since that keyblade was technically Riku's to begin with, giving him the right to pass it on to whoever he wants.



* About this Keyblade inheritance ritual that we see in BBS. We see it performed intentionally when Terra lets Riku put his hand on the hilt and then recites that speech and this is how Riku gets the ability to wield the Keyblade. I've heard other people say that when Aqua meets Kairi and she puts her hand on Aqua's keyblad,e this was an unintentional passing on of the Keyblade, and this is why Kairi can wield that Keyblade later on. Makes enough sense, but now that I think of this, my mind is drawn back to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXx-vAFFVX4&feature=related this]] scene from Kingdom Hearts 2. Of course Sora only did this because he was trying to show Jack that only he can wield the Keyblade (at least at the time, as far as we or he knew). But just think of the significance that at that time Sora willingly let Jack take it out of his hand and Aqua didn't even realize that Kairi touched hers. Goofy, who despite being the dumb one, is also the sage, even says that he thinks Jack will wield the Keyblade one day. My mind was blown when I realized all this.

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* About this Keyblade inheritance ritual that we see in BBS. We see it performed intentionally when Terra lets Riku put his hand on the hilt and then recites that speech and this is how Riku gets the ability to wield the Keyblade. I've heard other people say that when Aqua meets Kairi and she puts her hand on Aqua's keyblad,e keyblade this was an unintentional passing on of the Keyblade, and this is why Kairi can wield that Keyblade later on. Makes enough sense, but now that I think of this, my mind is drawn back to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXx-vAFFVX4&feature=related this]] scene from Kingdom Hearts 2. Of course Sora only did this because he was trying to show Jack that only he can wield the Keyblade (at least at the time, as far as we or he knew). But just think of the significance that at that time Sora willingly let Jack take it out of his hand and Aqua didn't even realize that Kairi touched hers. Goofy, who despite being the dumb one, is also the sage, even says that he thinks Jack will wield the Keyblade one day. My mind was blown when I realized all this.
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** That's how fanfic writers of every fandom act. Best to just ignore them.
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* Okay, maybe it's just me, but there's something kinda weird with the fandom...Why is it that almost everyone is mischaracterized in the fandom? You have things like Kairi being turned into an evil slut or Sora and Riku turn into the dumb girly kids. Not to mention Org XIII being turned as a whole into either retards or sexual deviants...Urgh, just why? It's just creepy.
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** He still possesses his memories and much of his character development from his time as Axel, so maybe the hearts merged. This might be why some of the others are still 'unstable', this merging of hearts didn't go quite as smoothly as it did for Axel.
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** Terra outright states as part of the ceremony that the inheritance ritual only gives you the potential to wield a keyblade, and that you still need to possess the strength of character to bind one to yourself. Jack really doesn't have that, despite moments of courage he's still basically a coward.
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* Another meta one: If this is a ''{{Disney}}''[=-=]''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' crossover, why are there only three FF characters who aren't from VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII, and VideoGame/FinalFantasyX ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Vivi]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Setzer]], and [[SpinOff sorta]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Paine]])?

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* Another meta one: If this is a ''{{Disney}}''[=-=]''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' ''Creator/{{Disney}}''[=-=]''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' crossover, why are there only three FF characters who aren't from VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII, and VideoGame/FinalFantasyX ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Vivi]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Setzer]], and [[SpinOff sorta]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Paine]])?
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*** My take on 3D's revelation is that being a Nobody is less like being a different species and more like having a(n apparently recoverable) medical condition. Therefore there should be nothing stopping a humanoid Nobody from having perfectly normal children, though they'd almost certainly be [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood lousy parents]], and there's still the question of whether they'd ''want'' to have children.
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** Even if Sora taking back the keyblade in ''KH1'' wasn't enough, there was also that brief flash of light when Sora and Riku used the same keyblade to laser-beam Xemnas to death. If Aqua could have accidentally performed a rite of succession on Kairi that way, then it's possible that ''Riku'' did the same with Sora at that moment.
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** ''[=358/2 Days=]'' elaborates on this. Non-Keyblade wielders ''can'' destroy heartless, but cannot capture the released hearts [=and/or=] send them to Kingdom Hearts: instead, they just turn back into heartless over and over. The reason Sora and Roxas can't harm them ''at all'' without the keyblade is because [[RealityEnsues they're using toy swords instead of real ones]]; Sora's magic still hurts them just fine, as do Beast's claws.
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* Where are the all military forces in the series? As you travel through and visit the worlds, they're mostly nations with organized power structures, and yet they seem to lack any form of organized defence forces. Just to take some examples: where were King Mickey's Royal Guard when the Heartless attacked Disney Castle and its queen, or where were the Palace Guard of Agrabah to defend the city and its princess from the same threat? Why weren't any mermaid soldiers patrolling around Atlantica to make sure the Heartless wouldn't penetrate the city, no less King Triton's throne? And why didn't the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee deem it necessary to form a militia of armed and trained citizens to defend their city, considering that the other side have like milions of Heartless just waiting to attack? And why does it seem that the Chinese Army is only made of one captain, 6-7 soldiers, which one of them is a FNG, and three foreign volunteers? And where were the Royal Navy of Port Royal when the undead pirates and their heartless allies attacked the city and kidnapped the governor's daughter? Gees, with this lack of any armed forces in the series on your side, it's no wonder why the heartless almost conquered the entire universe before Sora stepped in. I mean, if you've got any weapon and know how to use it, the heartless aren't actually that much of a threat, especially toward to entire armies with weapons and men who know how to use them.

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* Where are the all military forces in the series? As you travel through and visit the worlds, they're mostly nations with organized power structures, and yet they seem to lack any form of organized defence forces. Just to take some examples: where were King Mickey's Royal Guard when the Heartless attacked Disney Castle and its queen, or where were the Palace Guard of Agrabah to defend the city and its princess from the same threat? Why weren't any mermaid soldiers patrolling around Atlantica to make sure the Heartless wouldn't penetrate the city, no less King Triton's throne? And why didn't the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee deem it necessary to form a militia of armed and trained citizens to defend their city, considering that the other side have like milions of Heartless just waiting to attack? And why does it seem that the Chinese Army is only made of one captain, 6-7 a handful of soldiers, which one of them is a FNG, and three foreign volunteers? And where were the Royal Navy of Port Royal when the undead pirates and their heartless allies attacked the city and kidnapped the governor's daughter? Gees, with this lack of any armed forces in the series on your side, it's no wonder why the heartless almost conquered the entire universe before Sora stepped in. I mean, if you've got any weapon and know how to use it, the heartless aren't actually that much of a threat, especially toward to entire armies with weapons and men who know how to use them.
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** Probably to keep control of and order in Radiant Garden. Ansem wasn't just a researcher, but also the city's ruler, and a pretty beloved one at that. Him suddenly vanishing would be cause for great alarm among the citizens, and Xehanort doesn't want that: that would just get in the way of his research. So he just doesn't make any public appearances for a while and rules through proxies. And after he became a Heartless, it was probably to discredit Ansem's name: if Ansem did manage to escape the Realm of Darkness (which he did), he would be one of the greatest threats to Xehanort's plans. Confusing the hell out of everybody and making "Ansem" out to be a villain would make it more difficult for Ansem to gain any allies in fighting against Xehanort.

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** Master Eraqus seemed to realize that light was not absolute [[spoiler:shortly before he "died"]]. As for Kairi's grandmother, she was technically just telling a children's story.

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** Master Eraqus seemed to realize that light was not absolute [[spoiler:shortly before he "died"]]. As for Kairi's grandmother, she was technically just telling a children's story.


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** Aladdin was just being the BrilliantButLazy thief he is.


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** And when they do, they come back in greater numbers.


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** It also places elements too big for an entire world, like Chernabog.


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** Once a wish is said, it can' be taken back.


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* Organization XIII have different blade wielders; some have guitars, while others have scythes.
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** I'm guessing that without hearts they lack some needed ability to propagate. However, if that's not the case, there would be no issue with Nobody reproduction. However, it opens up a lot of possibilities, as stated above.
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* Another meta one: If this is a {{Disney}}-Franchise/FinalFantasy crossover, why are there only three FF characters who aren't from VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII, and VideoGame/FinalFantasyX ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Vivi]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Setzer]], and [[SpinOff sorta]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Paine]])?

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* Another meta one: If this is a {{Disney}}-Franchise/FinalFantasy ''{{Disney}}''[=-=]''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' crossover, why are there only three FF characters who aren't from VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII, and VideoGame/FinalFantasyX ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Vivi]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Setzer]], and [[SpinOff sorta]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Paine]])?
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* Why did Xehanort steal Ansem The Wise's name/identity? This is never really explained.

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* Why did Xehanort steal Ansem The Wise's name/identity? This is never really explained. Almost seems ForTheEvulz.
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* Why did Xehanort steal Ansem The Wise's name/identity? This is never really explained.
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* Bear with me, because the only game in the series I haven't played is Dream Drop Distance which is what stirs my questions because I know of several details. So nobodies are capable of growing new hearts, which several of them were in the process of doing without realizing it. But also apparently if someone's heartless AND nobody are defeated, they become their original self again. So a question: If a nobody fully grows a new heart, could they still be considered the original self despite the fact that it wasn't their original heart? Like if Axel never died and fully gained a new heart, would he still have ended up as Lea again like he did when his nobody and heartless are defeated, or does he become just stay the way he is, only now being human and not a nobody?
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*What the hell is up with those doors that Pete, Sora, and co. to travel to Timeless River? Due to several revelations regarding time travel in ''Kingdom Hearts'', how does it even exist? It's explicitly stated in ''Dream Drop Distance'' that [[spoiler: you can't change the past, and everything is pre-destined]]. However, when Pete tries to steal the Cornerstone of Light, it allows Maleficent to start growing her thorns in Disney Castle, which she couldn't do before. Granted, they're slow changes to the timeline, but they're still changes, which directly contradicts [[spoiler: Young Xehanort's]] statements. I honestly find it extremely hard to believe that this type of magic could exist without Xehanort immediately trying to get ahold of it. So, has the door just been retconned out of existence like Deep Jungle? Who even sent it in the first place, anyways? I just wanna know who heard Pete's whining and complaining about Maleficent and just randomly decided to give him a magic door that could apparently break the laws of the universe so he could relive his days of nostalgia.
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* Why is it that Sora has memories from his time as a Heartless and not his time as a Nobody [[spoiler: until the endgame portion of DDD where he absorbs Roxas' memories]], while all of the Organization members have their memories as Nobodies? Isn't the Heartless supposed to be the original conciousness (or at least what's left of it, considering how Lexeus says in Reverse/Rebirth that Sora is the only person to turn into a Heartless and not lose his will)? From what I understand, the Nobodies are just the result of bodies of the individuals that turned into Heartless creating new consciousnesses to move around with. This explains why Sora, as some sort of "Reverse Heartless", was able to keep on existing while Roxas was alive. Since his conciosuness isn't directly tied into Roxas', he didn't get any of his Nobodies' memories when he and Roxas became whole, like how Kairi didn't get any of Namine's memories when she absorbed her. Is it just maybe the fact that the Heartless and Nobodies of the Organization members getting defeated and not willingly recombined into one whole the explanation for them getting a presumable mix of Nobody and Heartless memories whereas Sora and Kairi only had their memories as Heartless (I'm technically counting Kairi's comatose state as her "Heartless")?

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* Why is it that Sora has memories from his time as a Heartless and not his time as a Nobody [[spoiler: until the endgame portion of DDD where he absorbs Roxas' memories]], while all of the Organization members have their memories as Nobodies? Nobodies from the get-go after becoming whole? Isn't the Heartless supposed to be the original conciousness (or at least what's left of it, considering how Lexeus says in Reverse/Rebirth that Sora is the only person to turn into a Heartless and not lose his will)? From what I understand, the Nobodies are just the result of bodies of the individuals that turned into Heartless creating new consciousnesses to move around with. This explains why Sora, as some sort of "Reverse Heartless", was able to keep on existing while Roxas was alive. Since his conciosuness isn't directly tied into Roxas', he didn't get any of his Nobodies' memories when he and Roxas became whole, like how Kairi didn't get any of Namine's memories when she absorbed her. Is it just maybe the fact that the Heartless and Nobodies of the Organization members getting defeated and not willingly recombined into one whole the explanation for them getting a presumable mix of Nobody and Heartless memories whereas Sora and Kairi only had their memories as Heartless (I'm technically counting Kairi's comatose state as her "Heartless")?
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* Why is it that Sora has memories from his time as a Heartless and not his time as a Nobody [[spoiler: until the endgame portion of DDD]], while all of the Organization members have their memories as Nobodies? Isn't the Heartless supposed to be the original conciousness (or at least what's left of it, considering how Lexeus says in Reverse/Rebirth that Sora is the only person to turn into a Heartless and not lose his will)? From what I understand, the Nobodies are just the result of bodies of the individuals that turned into Heartless creating new consciousnesses to move around with. This explains why Sora, as some sort of "Reverse Heartless", was able to keep on existing while Roxas was alive. Since his conciosuness isn't directly tied into Roxas', he didn't get any of his Nobodies' memories when he and Roxas became whole, like how Kairi didn't get any of Namine's memories when she absorbed her. Is it just maybe the fact that the Heartless and Nobodies of the Organization members getting defeated and not willingly recombined into one whole the explanation for them getting a presumable mix of Nobody and Heartless memories whereas Sora and Kairi only had their memories as Heartless (I'm technically counting Kairi's comatose state as her "Heartless")?

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* Why is it that Sora has memories from his time as a Heartless and not his time as a Nobody [[spoiler: until the endgame portion of DDD]], DDD where he absorbs Roxas' memories]], while all of the Organization members have their memories as Nobodies? Isn't the Heartless supposed to be the original conciousness (or at least what's left of it, considering how Lexeus says in Reverse/Rebirth that Sora is the only person to turn into a Heartless and not lose his will)? From what I understand, the Nobodies are just the result of bodies of the individuals that turned into Heartless creating new consciousnesses to move around with. This explains why Sora, as some sort of "Reverse Heartless", was able to keep on existing while Roxas was alive. Since his conciosuness isn't directly tied into Roxas', he didn't get any of his Nobodies' memories when he and Roxas became whole, like how Kairi didn't get any of Namine's memories when she absorbed her. Is it just maybe the fact that the Heartless and Nobodies of the Organization members getting defeated and not willingly recombined into one whole the explanation for them getting a presumable mix of Nobody and Heartless memories whereas Sora and Kairi only had their memories as Heartless (I'm technically counting Kairi's comatose state as her "Heartless")?

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* Where are the Nobodies of the six other Princesses of Heart?
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* Where are the Nobodies of the six other Princesses of Heart?
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**** Explaining time travel is complicated in this series now, because of [=KH3D=]. Prior to 2012, I can agree with you regarding Genie using time travel. Besides, there is still a chance that someone (a Keyblade welder, perhaps) came and made his/her wish(es) around the time of the Keyblade War. And Genie never mentioned in the series that he had no master for 10,000 years.
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** Depends, maybe those laser swords he uses are actually a keyblade(s), or maybe because he doesn't have a heart he can't use one. Roxas is able to use a keyblade because Sora is still around and he is connected to him.

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** 3D has a character claim that Sora isn't a real Keyblade wielder but just someone who's hijacked other people's Keyblades. However, Sora taking Riku's Keyblade suggests that this might not be true.



** We haven't found out if there are any prerequisites for passing on a Keyblade thus far, and the fact that Aqua supposedly did so unintentionally is an indication that there aren't many. However, as Riku showed us in KH1, having been passed a Keyblade doesn't amount to squat if you aren't worthy of it. Jack's a bit to amoral for a Keyblade by that standard.



** That still don't make any sense. The boom servents don't look at all like soldiers, so they can't be the Royal Guard, and it's illogical to think that the Royal Guard is made of just two guys. Agrabah might have been through a coup, but by the time of the second game, the city has pretty much recovered from it so it should be some guards around protecting the city, and specially the palace, from the Heartless. Atlantica's mermaid soldiers appeared in the films several times, so they should be in the games as well aiding you in your battles. So you've to wonder why they don't appear, like ever, when the entire universe is about to become TheHeartless' own playing field.

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** That still don't make any sense. The boom broom servents don't look at all like soldiers, so they can't be the Royal Guard, and it's illogical to think that the Royal Guard is made of just two guys. Agrabah might have been through a coup, but by the time of the second game, the city has pretty much recovered from it so it should be some guards around protecting the city, and specially the palace, from the Heartless. Atlantica's mermaid soldiers appeared in the films several times, so they should be in the games as well aiding you in your battles. So you've to wonder why they don't appear, like ever, when the entire universe is about to become TheHeartless' own playing field. field.
*** The thing about having a massively powerful orb that protects your home is that it makes you care a lot less about having physical security forces in place. In other cases, the game developers don't have the best track record when it comes to making highly detailed populations of the worlds (coughOlypmus Colosseumcough)
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*** Yeah. Heartless don't ''ally'' with whoever is strongest, they ''obey'' them. Sora can't/won't give them orders.


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** Probably not. Going off Sora's experience after losing the Keyblade to Riku in Hollow Bastion, he's pretty much helpless in melee combat without it. He does still have his magic although, which helps.


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*** Right, presumably Sora and co hone in on the keyholes or Heartless concentrations when landing on a given world. That would allow for much larger worlds than we see while still explaining why they always end up somewhere important.
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*** I don't think pirates would make good Keyblade welders. Most [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} ARR]] thieves, after all, and unless you're SlyCooper, thievery means darkness.

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*** I don't think pirates would make good Keyblade welders. Most [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} ARR]] thieves, after all, and unless you're SlyCooper, Franchise/SlyCooper, thievery means darkness.
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** [[http://forums.khinsider.com/birth-sleep/147009-bbs-ultimania-plot-mysteries-nomura-interview.html Nomura actually says that's a mystery.]]
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* As the Nobody of a Keyblade wielder, shouldn't Xemnas be able to use a Keyblade?

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