History Fridge / KingdomHearts358DaysOver2

* ''Xion'' from ''358/2 Days'' is another intentional MarySue. The (rather weak) promotional stuff for the game made her seem like a CanonSue straight out of a fanfiction. All CommonMarySueTraits were there; fourteenth member of Organization XIII, Kairi lookalike, wields a keyblade, and has a big impact on Roxas and Axel) Then the game came out. Xion's true ([[OppositeSexClone and twisted]]) identity was revealed. And suddenly EVERYTHING made sense!
** It gets better. Xion isn't just based on Kairi, [[spoiler:she's based on Sora's [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interpretation]] of Kairi, the girl who, through all three games, he's had a [[LoveInterest painfully obvious crush on]]. So Xion's CommonMarySueTraits, like the keyblade-from-nowhere and the instant attraction to Roxas? Most of them can be chalked up to Sora fantasizing about Kairi! [[ThatCameOutWrong (err... in a good way...)]]]]

* In ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'', Roxas and his friends always end the day by eating ice cream. This bothered this Troper for a while, "Yes, yes, it was funny how it kept showing up in KH 2, let's move on already!" until she thought about it for a while. Where else would three people sit around together, enjoying a food that brought them closer? That's right! The ice cream is Roxas's paopu fruit.
** Also, the main difference between ice cream and... any other food? It melts and disappear with time.
* Let's tack on another KingdomHearts example courtesy of this troper. One thing always bothered me in ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'', and that was that occasionally, during cutscenes with Xion, her hood would alternate between being on and off (in the same scene) while it never showed her putting it up or down. I thought it was just shoddy use of models. I learned that due to the nature of Xion's existence, the Organization members all see her, literally see her, differently. This didn't really click with me until about a month after I had beaten the game and I was thinking about my hood peeve -- I realized that the scenes in which that happens all happen around Organization members who view her as a puppet without an identity, so it would only make sense for them to only see her with her hood up (i.e. faceless), while Roxas would be able to see her face!

** [[Tropers/XanderK This troper]] just had his own eureka moment. Xion was intentionally made out to be a [[CanonSue Mary Sue]], so we would not bother trying to guess [[spoiler:and spoil]] her story.

* For this troper, the title ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'' didn't make sense. Then it hit him after re-reviewing the entire series as a whole. Kingdom Hearts II is supposed to take place about one year after the original Kingdom Hearts. One year equals 365 days. The 358 days Roxas spends in Organization XIII, plus the beginning prologue he goes through in II lasts six days, and the day Sora wakes up, the 7th day, should equal 365. The training sequence for ''358/2 Days'' also starts on the 7th day. All those ways connect Roxas' 358 days over to Kingdom Hearts II's 7 days remaining in which Sora wakes up!
*** Happy Birthday Roxas!!!
** And of course, the "Over 2" refers to [[spoiler:Roxas and Xion siphoning off of Sora's memories]]. -- Tropers/{{X2X}}
*** Didn't WordOfGod confirm the "Over 2" referred to the night Roxas went to sleep and woke up in the Twilight Town simulation?

* [[Tropers/HelenDamnation This Troper]] was initially annoyed by how flat and two-dimensional the Nobodies were, but... of course their personalities are shallow. The whole point is that their third dimension was their heart. They're shadows of the people they once were.
** For once, it's not just an excuse for bad character development, it's actually completely intentional. Notice how, especially in 358/2 days, a few of the Nobodies end up blatantly overusing certain catchphrases (like Axel's "Got it memorized?" or Xigbar's "As if.")? And in at least one case (Xigbar), it actually gets more noticeable as the game progresses, as if Roxas and Xion are becoming less and less like shadows as they get closer to Sora.
* This just dawned on this troper from reading this page. Roxas blacks out when he [[spoiler:enters Castle Oblivion for the first time.]] It dawned on this troper, that because of how close the connection Roxas had to [[spoiler: Ventus]] he ended blacking out. Could it be that Roxas had [[spoiler:Ventus's heart]], and it wanted to reconnect with him, yet couldn't? Maybe. Mind equals blown for this troper.
** Confirmed by WordOfGod.
** It explains where [[spoiler:Ven's heart went when Sora released Kairi's heart, which this Troper had been wondering for a while.]] As well as potentiality part of the reason Sora was so out of character in COM, [[spoiler: Ven's presence in Sora's heart has an active effect in Sora's personality, and suddenly that presence isn't there anymore.]]

** Sora's memories of Kairi go through a lot of mangling in this series - they were the ones Naminé took most advantage of, too.

* Bit of a meta example, but over on the fridge page for ''[[Fridge/KingdomHeartsII KHII]]'', someone decided to erase Xion's name from each (save one) entry, much like with her existence in the actual series. The only way to notice it is that there are obvious missing words and a whole heaping of "'s" without a name to go with it.

Looking for FridgeLogic and such for the rest of the series, excluding ''KingdomHearts358Over2Days''? [[Fridge/KingdomHearts Check here]]. ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' has its own page [[Fridge/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep here]]. [[Fridge/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance as does]] ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''.

* Xion's existence explains a lot of things about Axel's interaction with Roxas at the beginning of KingdomHeartsII. His complete obsession with Roxas wasn't because they were [[HoYay really close]], but rather because Axel was remembering his friendship with two people squeezed into one. In other words, [[{{Irony}} the fangirls were hating the very thing that gave them the pairing that they love so much]].

* The [[BlindIdiotTranslation infamous translation errors between]] [[KingdomHearts KH1]] [[BlindIdiotTranslation and]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII KH2]] may seem particularly odd at first... until you realise they ''aren't'' translation miscues. Would Organization 13 have known or cared about what Jiminy Cricket named the Heartless? Nope. They named them what they wanted.

* So Xion [[spoiler:has many faces because she's made up of Sora's memories, right? But her true form that only her best friends can see really resembles Kairi.]] The reason for that is that when Xion [[spoiler:started absorbing Sora's memories, she first picked up his strongest memories, which are that of Kairi.]] Now think forward to [[KingdomHeartsII Kingdom Hearts II]] at the beginning of the game when Roxas sees Sora's memories in dreams. The very last memories to come back, that keep getting cut off throughout the process, are those of Kairi because [[spoiler:they were the first ones to be lost!]] Whether that's a coincidence or if it was planned out from the beginning, it's still pretty brilliant.

* Bit of a meta example, but over on the [[Fridge/KingdomHeartsII fridge page for KHII]], someone decided to erase Xion's name from each (save one) entry, much like with her existence in the actual series. The only way to notice it is that there are obvious missing words and a whole heaping of "'s" without a name to go with it.

* After completing the Neverland stage in ''KingdomHearts BirthBySleep'', this troper suddenly had one of these -- Tinker Bell seemed so insistent on getting Roxas to go somewhere in ''358/2'' because he looks ''exactly'' like Ventus - And Tinker Bell ''knew'' Ventus from 10 years ago. Heck, that's probably also why Peter Pan never appeared in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' (other than the fact that they were supposed to operate in stealth). Because if Tink remembered Roxas as Ventus, so would Peter Pan. And Peter Pan would probably wind up giving away some of ''BirthBySleep'''s plot, even if the Neverland portion was relatively minor. Of course, I don't know why Tink never thought of saying "Hey Peter Pan! Ventus is back! Remember him from 10 years ago?!" That's also probably why we're lucky that Captain Hook never looked over in Roxas's direction -- because he looks ''just'' like Ventus, the kid who kicked his ass 10 years ago (after slowing him, that is.)

* It always annoyed me how [[spoiler: Xion got her keyblade back.]] I mean, "Forgot how to use it?" [[FlatWhat What?]] Then I played [[BirthBySleep Birth By Sleep]] and realized what really happened. Roxas [[spoiler: performed a Rite Of Sucession on Xion.]] And Xion was already a Keyblade Weilder, that means [[spoiler:Roxas gave Xion innate dual weilding abilities.]] Therefore [[spoiler:both of Roxas's Keyblades belong to Roxas!]]

** An extension of this: Axel's "You know why the sun sets red?" talk... He was talking about ''himself'': He's the color red, the one member of the Organization, who "traveled the farthest", ergo, got closest to regaining his heart: By formining a friendship with Roxas and becoming a piece of his/Ventus' heart.
*** Saix is Blue and Xemnas is Purple/Black, the colors the travel the shortest.

** [[spoiler: It also explains why she never fights Roxas in her normal form. She's basically pulling an [[VideoGame/CrisisCore Angeal]], deliberately taking on a monstrous form to make it easier for Roxas to kill her.]]

* ''Days'' is the only KH game with a real DesperationAttack mechanic, the Limits. Think about it: Nobodies are connected to Nothingness. When they die, they dissolve into Nothing. Of course being on the brink of death would make them more powerful.

** [[spoiler: It also explains why she never fights Roxas in her normal form. She's basically pulling an [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIICrisisCore Angeal]], deliberately taking on a monstrous form to make it easier for Roxas to kill her.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler:Xion is indeed yelling generic taunts to Roxas... but in actuality she's committing SuicideByCop. She knows she's the irregular who isn't supposed to exist; whereas Roxas won't cause any more harm by being alive. So she wants to die, but she can't do it herself, as Roxas needs to inherit her abilities. She's close enough to Roxas that she wants to die for his sake; and she knows that she can't just walk up to Roxas and say, "Kill me. Please. It's for your own good". Thus, she goes AxeCrazy and makes Roxas kill her out of self-defense, and taunts to make him think she really ''is'' AxeCrazy when inside, she's probably tearing herself up with every Ragnarok she throws at Roxas.]]

* I was just listening to Xion's theme when I was hit with the realization that like the themes of Ven, Aqua, and Vanitas in Birth by Sleep, her theme contains elements of other themes in the series. The most notable one is Kairi's theme, as she mostly resembles her [[spoiler:due to being based on Sora's memories of her acting as a sort of template]]. Then when she is [[spoiler:fought at the end of the game]], ''Dearly Beloved'' plays in the stead of Kairi's theme, reflecting the love that blossomed between Sora and Kairi and then Roxas and Xion.

*** Not really. Considering Dream Drop Distance and [[spoiler:Lea's dream]] interactions with Roxas, I'd say the original poster has a valid point. And remember, he said he also can't just standby and let Xion disappear either.

*** Not really. Considering Dream Drop Distance and [[spoilers:Lea's dream]] interactions with Roxas, I'd say the original poster has a valid point. And remember, he said he also can't just standby and let Xion disappear either.

*** Not really. Considering Dream Drop Distance and Lea's dream interactions with Roxas, I'd say the original poster has a valid point. And remember, he said he also can't just standby and let Xion disappear either.

*** Tinker Bell almost certainly remembered -- she latched onto Roxas immediately and repeatedly. Not to mention that Roxas remaining eternally young would be perfectly normal for her.

* Why does Demyx not only want to do just reconnaissance missions but also actually enjoy them? We know he likes playing his sitar during missions (according to Xion), so he's actually using his observations as inspiration!

* This is FridgeBrilliance or [[FridgeHorror not]], generally depending on your stance on the Yaoi shippings in the series, but I realized one day that though there are (however slight) canonical implications of Riku/Xion, thus making him [[{{YaoiFangirl}} unfortunately straight]], if one thinks about who Xion really ''[[OppositeSexClone is]]''...
** Does that mean that Riku is bisexual?
*** That adds a whole new level to Xion's intentional MarySue ness. The made it seem like every thing YaoiFangirls would hate, but in honesty, if the supposedly [[HetIsEw het subtext was]] {{Canon}}, that means that Riku and Roxas are at least [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar partially gay.]]
*** Does it matter? To quote a very excellent Kingdom Hearts OT3 [[FanFic fanfic]], you don't fall in love with ''bodies'', you fall in love with people.
*** It matters to the fangirls.
*** [[InsaneTrollLogic Apparently, logic doesn't.]]
** This whole issue also involves forgetting one important fact: "Gender" and "Sex" are different things. Regardless of what Xion is she always views herself as female, everyone in-game who considers her a person also considers her entirely female, and the fans always adress her with female pronouns. If anything, due to the fluctuating nature of her being, she should be a physically feminine asexual (just like how she looks with her hood up) with only some cometic female/male traits depending on either who is viewing her or the current state of her mind. Either way you cut it any relationship between her and Riku,Roxas or any other male would be considered a heterosexual one, since she is ''not'' Sora or physically male and she never considers herself a male. [[InsaneTrollLogic By that same point just because someone is attracted to her does not mean they would be attracted to Sora.]] [[FanDumb And ALL of this]] is ignoring the subtext that Riku had a crush on Kairi just like Sora did, which was a large part of both of their motivations in the first game, and the implication that Roxas was romatically interested in Namine in the second game, just like how Sora was interested in Kairi. In short: Xion's sex does not matter but how she views herself does, a boy being attracted to her does ''not'' make them [[NoBisexuals "partially gay"]], and both Riku and Roxas already had female love interests in the games they first appeared in so they were ''already'' implied to at least be straight.