Alright, so in my recent effort to catch up on Kingdom Hearts, I finally decided to sit through all of Re:Coded, and that game's focus on Data worlds like we've previously seen in the virtual Twilight Town and Tron, got me thinking.
In CoM, the Riku Replica was made using data that Vexen gathered from Riku in his fight. Now, we know that replicas can be made from most anything, including memories (Like Xion), but the data type is what we're focusing on now.
Throughout the franchise we see that anyone with a brain and a computer pretty much can either make an entire digital world from scratch (Tron) or make a digital "copy" of the real world based off of data gathered from it (Virtual Twilight Town, Jiminy's Journal in Re:Coded).
In KH2, it is made clear with Sora finding Roxas' money bag and Struggle orbs that, with the right technology, not only can things be put from the real world into the digital world, but stuff from the digital world can be brought back into the real world similar to in the movie Tron (I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if the world where the DTD's OS originated, aka the 'original' world of Tron, is the world where this tech originated as well, and Ansem The Wise just copied it when he copied The Grid to make the DTD because he thought it was nifty).
So, anyway, here is the question I'm posing:
When there is a replica of someone made out of data in a computer, they are referred to as "Data *insert name here*". When someone makes a replica of someone irl, however, even if that replica is made of data, they are referred to as "Replica *insert name here*". We know stuff from the digital world can be put into the real world, so what I'm asking is, if you took a Data-being, like Data-Sora from Re:Coded, and put him in the real world, would he just become a Replica similar to Riku Replica, and if he were to die in the real world, would he fade into Darkness accordingly as Replicas do, or would he turn into a bunch of ones and zeros? Could they avoid that fate by *growing* a heart, which at this point it seems possible for anyone without a real heart to do if they make enough friends and have enough experiences?
Now that I think about it, being one of Ansem's previous apprentices, could Vexen have used this method to create his replicas all along? Gather data, enter it into a computer and "program" the replica as you wish, and then "print" it out into the real world ala Sora in The DTD or Roxas in Virtual Twilight Town?
Thoughts, anyone?
In CoM, the Riku Replica was made using data that Vexen gathered from Riku in his fight. Now, we know that replicas can be made from most anything, including memories (Like Xion), but the data type is what we're focusing on now.
Throughout the franchise we see that anyone with a brain and a computer pretty much can either make an entire digital world from scratch (Tron) or make a digital "copy" of the real world based off of data gathered from it (Virtual Twilight Town, Jiminy's Journal in Re:Coded).
In KH2, it is made clear with Sora finding Roxas' money bag and Struggle orbs that, with the right technology, not only can things be put from the real world into the digital world, but stuff from the digital world can be brought back into the real world similar to in the movie Tron (I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if the world where the DTD's OS originated, aka the 'original' world of Tron, is the world where this tech originated as well, and Ansem The Wise just copied it when he copied The Grid to make the DTD because he thought it was nifty).
So, anyway, here is the question I'm posing:
When there is a replica of someone made out of data in a computer, they are referred to as "Data *insert name here*". When someone makes a replica of someone irl, however, even if that replica is made of data, they are referred to as "Replica *insert name here*". We know stuff from the digital world can be put into the real world, so what I'm asking is, if you took a Data-being, like Data-Sora from Re:Coded, and put him in the real world, would he just become a Replica similar to Riku Replica, and if he were to die in the real world, would he fade into Darkness accordingly as Replicas do, or would he turn into a bunch of ones and zeros? Could they avoid that fate by *growing* a heart, which at this point it seems possible for anyone without a real heart to do if they make enough friends and have enough experiences?
Now that I think about it, being one of Ansem's previous apprentices, could Vexen have used this method to create his replicas all along? Gather data, enter it into a computer and "program" the replica as you wish, and then "print" it out into the real world ala Sora in The DTD or Roxas in Virtual Twilight Town?
Thoughts, anyone?
