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In a way.....Luxu is telling the truth. He wants to do what's right by defeating darkness, so he follows the Master's plan. It's not really moral, but it is what he considers right. And even with that, Luxu occasionally does show instances of defying the Master's orders, such as with Brain, the True Dandelion (Strelitzia), and Skuld, giving them another chance to live.
“That’s a carpet, right?”
“It certainly is.”
“Yep. Walking like a person.”
“That’s Eraqus, right?”
“It certainly is.”
“Yep. Walking like a carpet.”
10/10, no notes.
- Mod A.
The list of things we didn’t get in KHDR but should have is somehow still longer than the list of things we did get in KHDR but shouldn’t have
ngl im mad that we never saw xehanorts eyes turn yellow ahkshdkhdjdg
There’s a sign in Scala Ad Caelum that reads “DECADES SINCE THE LAST MASSACRE: 5″ or something equivalent and after the events of Dark Road someone goes up and just sighs before scratching out the 5 and writing 0 instead
24 hours later, I still cannot understand how Dark Road, the game intended to show Xehanort’s descent into darkness, ends with him believing that summoning Kingdom Hearts is unacceptable
Funniest part of KHDR is when Xehanort and Eraqus go outside and see Scala being destroyed and they're like "it looks like everything is under control out here". No the fuck it doesn't
Torturing his “friends” is pretty on brand for Xehanort.
I mean, do I believe that Xehanort would do something fucked up? Yes. He's the villain.
But none of this actually adds up.
I have no idea what his actual motive in this specific moment is, and my best guess doesn't make any sense.
I mean, here's my best guess.
Xehanort goes to meet Ven.
He senses this tremendous darkness in his heart.
And Xehanort can't take it.
This is not what he was promised. This is not what he spent eighty fucking years looking forward to.
Why is the friend of my dreams fucking soaking in darkness?
So he tries to "help" in his own twisted, selfish way by taking the darkness out, which is how we end up with Vanitas.
You know, it's this tragic, fucked-up, emotionally complicated thing.
But this only works if we ignore the fact that Xehanort was initially trying to use Ven as a vessel.
And how absolutely content he was to let Ven die in the BBS prologue.
And literally all of his stated motives and feelings, including the ones he only wrote in his own private reports.
You could also read into the vessel thing.
Maybe when he comes face to face with Ven, Xehanort has his own little "Last Unicorn" moment.
"How dare you come to me now, when I am this?"
Ashamed of the fact that he's so old and bitter and broken and tainted himself, he wans to take Ven's body as a way of forcibly capturing his youth and innocence.
Which, uh, absolutely contradicts everything I was just saying about being disgusted by his darkness, but it’s a viable alternative take.
But, again, this only works if you ignore most of what he says throughout most of his appearances.
Like... Dark Road is a game “about” Xehanort's psychology, but I don't know what his psychology actually was here.
The game doesn't go into it at all.
We basically just smash cut from "ooooh, my friend!!!!" to "anyway, I summoned some demons from Hell for you. Do what I say or fucking die, maybe."
Mod A.
So it seems like skuld is not subject x after all.
Which there aren't any other girls so I'm certain it's gotta be Isa (but doesn't know it)
I wish we could rule out Skuld as a possibility, but this is KH where time travel exists and multiple copies of characters can be created out of data.
But I agree, Isa would have made FAR more sense as Subject X. I'm sure Isa was Subject X before Nomura came up with all this Lost Masters arc crap. Xehanort and Braig needed to create vessels and the Heartless experiments played a big part in that. Lea and Isa happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and got experimented on. Isa wound up becoming the vessel. All of that actually makes sense. You don't need time travel or retcons. It's still not too late to turn that concept into a story.
But Nomura seems far more interested in his current atrocious storyline, where Xehanort has false memories of the UX player and is looking for his friends from his dreams.
@venjamin-kingdomhearts’ tags put a really specific image in my head-
Fine, I’ll do it myself