So, back to the heartless battle.
Xemnas shows up basically to waggle his dick at Sora and Mickey and go, "Nyah, nyah, you can't get me," and then vanish behind the wall of Heartless. He thinks that by pissing off Sora and then going over there, he'll piss off Sora and Sora will want to go over there and punch him. Slaying the Heartless and adding their Hearts to Fake Kingdom Hearts on the way.
It's a good plan, actually. And it works like a charm. Xemnas really gets Sora. Sora doesn't care about monologues, he has no interest in the lore, he just wants to hit bad guys. That is totally something Xemnas can work with.
Sora stabs his way through the Heartless and then, way too f*cking late, Axel shows up to tell Sora, "Oy, don't let Xemnas bait you into killing Heartless." Yeah, that's shit that would have been useful to know before wading through the Heartless wall, asshole.
Axel tries to explain the plot to Sora so he can stop being duped, but Sora doesn't give a single solitary shit about the lore and is just like, "Shut the f*ck up about me being a manipulated pawn or whatever and just tell me where Kairi is." Axel is literally trying to stop Xemnas's master plan here, but he can't get it through Sora's inch-thick Monologue Filter.
Seriously. This is such a good evil plan, you guys.
Then Saix shows up to get Axel and Axel's like, "SHIT!" and bails.
Saix apparently swiped Kairi from Axel offscreen somehow and asserts that she's in the Organization's custody. He makes Sora get down on his knees and beg for her safety 'cause he's a giant troll.
Saix explains in his monotone that they're trying to create Kingdom Hearts using the Hearts that Sora's Keyblade liberates from the Heartless, and then Maleficent's like, "MY PLOT SENSE IS TINGLING". She pops in to switch sides and help Sora gang up on the Nobodies, but then gets dogpiled hilariously.
She sacrifices herself to buy Sora time to escape, but Sora just stands there gawking like an idiot. So then she's like, "Oh, for f*ck's sake," and draws him into the Realm of Darkness to get him out of there.
Y'know, in the long run, Mickey was probably right. Sora should have done the Idiot Shonen Hero thing and quit the plot to go find his friends. The whole point of the 1000 Heartless Battle is for Sora to be here slaying them. If he'd f*cked off like a self-centered asshole, it would throw a massive wrench into Xemnas's plans.
My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.Speaking of which, Saix is a huge dick in this scene in particular. Even when Sora's begging with his head to the ground, he's like "Nope, fuck you." and leaves.
It's been 3000 yearsβ¦Yeah, that was a crowning achievement in pure dickbaggery.
My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.The Org's plan is pretty damn smart: either Sora gives them exactly what they want, or everyone, everywhere becomes Heartless nomnoms.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."Return to Land of Dragons. Uh. Sucks.
So, Xigbar's here to turn a dragon into a Heartless and unleash it upon the Emperor. Because f*ck you, that's why. Riku's here to make that not happen.
I like how Riku's plan for getting an audience with the Emperor is to just stab his way through the guards. Like, he's here to be helpful and he starts by crippling some of the Emperor's best men. We don't see the conversation that transpires but I have to imagine it began with,
- Riku: I'm here to warn you of a great danger.
- Emperor: I see. And is that danger you?
- Riku: Something terrible is going to be coming for you.
- Emperor: Something terrible already seems to have found me.
- Riku: I need you to listen! They will slaughter your men!
- Emperor: I apologize, I am having trouble hearing you over the pieces of my men in your wake.
For his part, Xigbar's just here to make a really strong Heartless and get Sora to fight it. And he found a hell of a Heartless, so mission accomplished. Storm Rider is an Emblem Heartless, which means that somewhere offscreen, there was a moment of sheer badassery where Xigbar and a bunch of Heartless overpowered a motherf*cking dragon and ripped out its Heart.
Awesome.
Anyway, this is painfully straightforward with almost no interaction between Sora and the Organization member in question. Xigbar barely says two words to Sora and Riku isn't much better. Just stopped in to fight a dragon monster and be on our way.
My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3."Why is it when I try to stab my problems, it ends up biting me but when Sora does it, it works!?"
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.Because you're the Vegeta to Sora's Goku Riku.
The world just likes him better.
One Strip! One Strip!Sora only stabs people when they talk about DARKNESS and occasionally nothingness. Or if they're gods, Hades doesn't say DARKNESS much in the Sora games.
Secret SignatureMaybe it's because when Riku stabs buggers with Souleater (wow, that's edgelord), he's actually stabbing with a weapon that has a sharp edge and point while Sora can only bludgeon because he has a giant key that he wields as though the Keyblade was a blunt weapon and not a blade.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.Point I'll give you, but sharp edge? That thing is a wing.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.You know, bringing up how the Keyblade is often more like a club than a sword...how does it even cut anything?
One Strip! One Strip!Probably this.
I disqualify that answer.
Now someone give me a reasonable answer to my completely unreasonable question.
One Strip! One Strip!A keyblade is as sharp as it needs to be.
Short-range Sword Beam or Razor Wind? Invisible edge that only appears when it's being used?
Edited by SapphireBlue on Mar 19th 2019 at 4:01:34 AM
The hitting things side is actually honed to a monomolecular edge, it just gets there so gradually that it appears to be rounded
PSN ID: FateSeraph Congratulations! She/TheyIt can turn into all sorts of weapons, including a motorcycle, open any lock, and appear and disappear at will. I think being able to cut is the least of its problems in accordance with physics.
It's been 3000 yearsβ¦How sharp? Sharp enough to cut through steel buildings when swung hard enough.
If you're not swinging at full strength, it varies from as sharp as a metal pipe to as sharp as an actual sword.
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerKingdom Key is Destiny Island's Keyblade or something like that isn't it?
Secret SignatureEver since the X-blade was a thing I always thought of the Kingdom Keys as the two halves of it. Then Mickey got his wacky wizard Kingdom Key.
Life is more fun with infinite MP.He does become a rather powerful card himself once you beat him.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
He's talking about Namine and Roxas there, since the focus of the scene is on the window into Namine's room. The Secret Ansem Reports detail that Ansem only ever experimented on Xehanort himself, and when he refused to do anything to X and later discovered Xehanort's experiments on his people he demanded Xehanort destroy his research and release his prisoners and Xehanort got mad and threw him in interdimensional jail.
This is still the case as far as III goes too.
Edited by lycropath on Mar 19th 2019 at 2:38:04 AM