Kanemaki is a horrible writer =/
"Riku’s head hurt, which was making him frown."
awesome.
"That’s not Naminé or Kairi, that’s, that person."
so descriptive. "that person". I know exactly who they're speaking of!~
She really is. Her favourite line is "*character* swung the Keyblade down" in place of describing battle sequences. I don't know how many times I've typed that line... lol
And I think they're leaving it blank on purpose, of course. It flows better in Japanese... Where in English we would say something like 'That's not Namine or Kairi... that's... him/her,' the Japanese pronoun they used doesn't inflect for gender, which we don't have a match for in English. So I have to say, 'that person' lol AND THEN IT'S AWKWARD AND I FEEL CRAPPY
Yeah, i know what you mean by revealed/retconned.
As for AtW's data, i don't know i think it might give us clues or lead us directly to all these.
Well, I am 95% sure that the data is connected to 'opening the door', whatever it is. And if Riku's memories are connected to 'opening the door' somehow...
Thanks for bringing that up, miss Pan.
So I was right about the memories, but I swapped the direction they were coming from.
The logic can still work in a similar way.
Originally I believed that Xion was absorbing Riku's memories because they were inside Sora (since she's Sora's clone, she should only be absorbing his memories).
But in this case, it could be that Xion is absorbing memories from Riku because she's replicating this ability from Sora himself. That is, for whatever reason, Sora had started to absorb some of Riku's memories, and when Xion was created, she mimicked this ability.
I know it sort of seems like I'm trying to work my way around Xion, but I'm not doing it because I dislike her. I just feel that, given that KH3D will focus on the relationship between Sora and Riku, that there had to be a connection there that wasn't necessarily created from Xion.
Hm, I hadn't thought of that. Nothing really explains why Xion could take Riku's in the first place, does it? But then again, it never really explains why she can suck memories out of Roxas, either. I mean, we can assume that it's because she has Sora memories inside her already and that created some kind of connection randomly... Unless the Org made her like that on purpose? (A mirror created to reflect Roxas...?) I can't remember. Whatever it is, it's very convenient, and I wouldn't put it past the writing of that game to make her able to absorb Riku's memories simply because she can, either. (Kind of like the reason she has black hair. Or the reason her fake Keyblade works like a real one. Or the reason she gets an Org coat and number but not a chair. She just does.)
...lol I am not as unbiased as you, evidently
The reason I don't think Sora was absorbing Riku memories before Xion copied the trick is because Namine seemed surprised to see the Riku memories there, and they appeared right as Snarl of Memories was happening. If Xion was just copying something Sora was doing... then shouldn't some have already been in there?
Or is this an ability that Sora had, but never used? But then why wouldn't he have used it yet? Cause he hadn't met Riku in person until that time, and Xion came into contact with Riku before Sora himself did? But then, wouldn't another painful Snarl have happened in KH2 when they
did meet...? Cause Riku got a pretty painful headache and blacked out during the Snarl in Days, according to the novels.
Lol... and all this is according to the novels. So it could all be crap anyway.
I know it's not wildly popular, but I still hold that there's a chance Riku has Vanitas' side of the heart. Unappealing somewhat, given the amount of other hearts in him. But it really adds some great perspective on the struggle between Sora and Riku in KH1.
And, as I've stated, in order to be truly revived, Ven ought to get his old heart back. In other words, retrieve the part that he destroyed.
I'd like to think this too, because I like the dynamic it adds... but... I don't know if Vanitas was actually 'destroyed' in that he disappeared. I think perhaps it could be more like, after the battle, that side of Ven's heart was rendered wounded beyond recognition and needed time to heal, rather than cut out completely and missing. Vanitas kind of melted into the floor of the station, after all.
It's very clear that Maleficent is doing the same to Riku as she did to Terra, unlocking the sleeping darkness. Note, too, what she says to Terra:
"I am able to control that which sleeps. I will awaken your true heart."
The same could be said for Riku. She awakens his "true heart," the sleeping darkness. Just like Ventus' heart sleeps in Sora, Vanitas' heart slept in Riku, until Maleficent awoke its power. And what was the result? After that, Riku could take the Kingdom Key from Sora and use his dark suit, one extremely similar to Vanitas'.
Hmmmm..... but if she is doing the same thing to Terra as Riku, and you think Riku's 'true heart' was Vanitas', then wouldn't that mean that someone was also in Terra? I thought Terra simply had his own untapped darkness that she awakened... and if that's so, then where's the proof that it was different for Riku?