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I'm an actor... in training anyway. And something one of my acting teachers always brings up is the "super objective". To put it simply, it's the character's reason, or underlying emotional reason which often vary, behind their actions they take on their ambitions goals. This is something I was thinking about when replaying Birth by sleep for my KH marathon for Kingdom Hearts 3. What is Xehanort's super objective?
This is hard to answer or make any real sounding theories about because in order to answer, we have to look at the emotional core of the character itself. Xehanort doesn't seem to have that so far.
For better or worse, Kingdom Hearts isn't known for having the greatest writing but one thing the series has been consistently good at is character motivation. Sora wants to rescue and protect his friends for a number of different reasons we can all resonate with. Riku seeks redemption for his past mistakes to become a better person in not only other people's eyes but his own and defeat his own self-doubt. Roxas ultimately wants his own agency and to not be tied by any outside forces to control his destiny, whether that'd be the organization or Sora. And most of these are influenced by the experiences they've had and the people around them driving that motivatiom forward. These are all motivation we can understand.
Xehanort... wants to recreate a war in order to bring balance to the universe... not many people can really resonate with why he would want to go about such a mad scheme.
But still... I can only wonder, when watching the first trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep in the beginning where a young Xehanort says the words, "This world.... is just too small". A simple line but even the most simple of words can have the greatest meaning. Despite appearing as a cartoonist villian in a lot of ways, Xehanort is still human. He had dreams of seeking the outside world just like Sora and Riku. So he couldn't have come to the conclusion of wanting to destroy and recreate the universe itself in elaborate and almost self-harming ways just because "curiosity" and "balance".
So I pass the question off to you guys, do you think in KH3 they will reveal a hidden motivation that drives Xehanort? If you have any theories, what do you think is Xehanort's true motivation behind his objective? Or do you think isn't any at all besides what's already been said to us and that he's just a cold-hearted mad scientist and not more to it?
This is hard to answer or make any real sounding theories about because in order to answer, we have to look at the emotional core of the character itself. Xehanort doesn't seem to have that so far.
For better or worse, Kingdom Hearts isn't known for having the greatest writing but one thing the series has been consistently good at is character motivation. Sora wants to rescue and protect his friends for a number of different reasons we can all resonate with. Riku seeks redemption for his past mistakes to become a better person in not only other people's eyes but his own and defeat his own self-doubt. Roxas ultimately wants his own agency and to not be tied by any outside forces to control his destiny, whether that'd be the organization or Sora. And most of these are influenced by the experiences they've had and the people around them driving that motivatiom forward. These are all motivation we can understand.
Xehanort... wants to recreate a war in order to bring balance to the universe... not many people can really resonate with why he would want to go about such a mad scheme.
But still... I can only wonder, when watching the first trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep in the beginning where a young Xehanort says the words, "This world.... is just too small". A simple line but even the most simple of words can have the greatest meaning. Despite appearing as a cartoonist villian in a lot of ways, Xehanort is still human. He had dreams of seeking the outside world just like Sora and Riku. So he couldn't have come to the conclusion of wanting to destroy and recreate the universe itself in elaborate and almost self-harming ways just because "curiosity" and "balance".
So I pass the question off to you guys, do you think in KH3 they will reveal a hidden motivation that drives Xehanort? If you have any theories, what do you think is Xehanort's true motivation behind his objective? Or do you think isn't any at all besides what's already been said to us and that he's just a cold-hearted mad scientist and not more to it?
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