Do you think that worlds other than those seen in the games (X and UX) were visited by the Key Kids, or only the five projection worlds in X and the seven data worlds in UX?
I believe only the worlds we saw.
In UX ("Trapped in the Data World"), Darkness tells Maleficent that after the war, the Master of Masters created projections of worlds that 6 out of the 7 Princesses were in, save for Radiant Garden (I like to believe its so that she wouldn't make a connection to the fact that it has its own lifeboat machine, since UX Maleficent already knew about Kairi's existence from KH1). And that in X specifically, Encanted Dominion also wasn't created so that Maleficent wouldnt time travel to before the war, only after it. This explanation is so specific, thats why I doubt there were other worlds we didn't see.
Obviously on top of those worlds, there is also the Olympus Coliseum, but we never get clarification on specifically why that world was also projected, in either X or UX. I'm satisfied with the answer that its just a good place for wielders to train, personally.
I know that Traverse Town has concept art shown in the security cameras of the control room, but IMO I assume the developers/artists copied and pasted all map image files into the cameras, and the canceled Traverse Town got swept up in it. I personally doubt its a world Key Kids traveled to just off screen. It'll be interesting if its unfolded to not be the case though.
A KH theory that is very much macro, large-scoped and might not come to fruition for many game titles and many years (if at all). I've theorized part of it for a long time, but the involvement of realities is only a recent development. At the end is me admitting there's holes LOL. All links are sources.
Summery: The MoM once opened Kingdom Hearts long ago, creating a new World with him in charge of it-- the current "reality" of the games we've played in all this time.
Part 1/2 - Opening Kingdom Hearts
Xehanort's goal was to open Kingdom Hearts and, depending on phrasing, either create another World (greater, as a whole), or reset the current one. When asked about which one, Nomura didn't clarify (IMO), but this theory is based on creating a separate "Next" World.
According to Xehanort, opening Kingdom Hearts meant all the worlds (the various small ones in the Realm of Light) and their hearts would be united. He separates this from KH1's forced collection of many (not all) world hearts.
Let's say there's a big bowl of chocolate chips, representing all the worlds' hearts. I interpret what Xehanort is saying as a difference between, say, scooping up a handful of chips (KH1's KH) versus the entire bowl melting together ("true" KH). However, I don't think all chocolate chips would melt together until true KH was opened with the X-Blade-- until then, I think its just a regular bowl of chips.... This analogy isn't perfect but hopefully it helps.
Xehanort also talks about how in modern times, all these smaller worlds are separated throughout space with walls of light surrounding them.
He also says that whoever opens Kingdom Hearts will be "reborn as something far greater than human." and that it will "arguably [give] that person control over all worlds and all people." He again implies something like this in KH3, when he says the World needs "someone to dictate their destiny."
Part 2/2 - MoM accomplished what Xehanort couldn't
^^^ this could be twisted to fit the Master's Gazing Eye, said to "[see] the fate of the World". Perhaps the MoM has this Eye as a result of opening Kingdom Hearts, creating a "Next World" that's been reset, and overseeing the destiny of all those who live within it.
This infant World, because its been reset with a new start, still has all the worlds together as one giant mass-- The Age of Fairytales. In this sense, opening the true Kingdom Hearts, which is a unification of all the worlds' hearts, also united all the worlds themselves.
This is where things get less solidified in this theory. Like I said earlier, Nomura didn't clarify (imo) whether Xehanort wanted to reset the World or create a new one entirely. If opening KH only resets the world, then its possible all these various Disney and original worlds would glide together in one massive collision as a giant reset in the unified, blank World.
But if opening KH creates a separate world, then I believe it's possible Unreality was the previous World the Master resided in before creating our World/Reality.
First of all, I believe its implied that the 13 True Darkness beings originated from the X-Blade, because the MoM refers to the legend of the X-Blade's 20 pieces when talking about True Darkness.
Both the 13 Darknesses and 7 lights that cycle between the Princesses of heart exist in our World, so we can assume the X-blade shattered in our World (the start of the Keyblade War from when the MoM was a child). Therefore, the reason I believe the MoM calls "unreality/fiction" a world where neither darkness nor light rule is because its a world that existed before the X-Blade was shattered, so the 13 Darknesses are not in that world (at least, at the time MoM said this before X/Back Cover. Who knows if anything changed during/since KHML's time... )
Lastly, I theorize IF the MoM can't foresee what happens in unreality (my brain is tired, idr if that's confirmed or not), it would be because its NOT the World he created and thus was granted "dictation" over.
Flaw in this theory: While I genuinely believe I am following crumb after crumb of logical steps, and I theorize why MoM can't see unreality's future, I honestly can't yet explain why the MoM refers to unreality as a world he "can't even conceive" if it was a world he had previously lived in. I don't imagine his explanation is simply "oh well I haven't been there in a while, maybe its different now". So..... yeah there is that, I will admit!
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Iām watching my partner play smash and theyāre on one of the KH stages. I was like āwhere have I seen that specific Heartless symbol beforeā (outside of the game) on the side of the castle in Hollow Bastion and then I was like āholy shit I just saw it on the secret reports mobile theme!ā
I guess you could say Iām āthinking of you, wherever you areā :)
YEESSSSSS the KH1 Hollow Bastion castle is so cool, I had to pay respects to it with the channel branding LOL
Hey, Iām really confused about what they meant when they said Master Xehanort is a portal and that they could use that to trap him. Iāve seen your portals video as well but Iām afraid I still donāt see the correlation :(
Don't worry, in my DDDiscuss intro video, I also state that none of my research on DDD's portals helped me understand that LOL.
Looking back now, I don't know why they implied such a link between "Xehanort being a portal" and "using that to trap him" because they seem like two different phenomenon, but I'll explain why at the end.
In short, I think they tried to trap Xehanort's consciousness within his own dream/heart.
To best understand this, let's look at Sora in DDD. Yes Sora was in the real world, unconscious. But a "heart version" of him was also inside a dream/memory version of Destiny Islands conjured up by his heart. We never saw this "heart version" of Sora simply because he left/disappeared before Riku arrived.
So it seems to me the Guardians of Light attempted a similar thing against Xehanort. They opened a familiar pink portal into Xehanort's heart, which lead them to a dream/memory Scala conjured up by Xehanort's heart. Within, a "heart version" of Xehanort exists. I think they wanted to defeat this "heart version" to incapacitate the real Xehanort outside, just like unconscious Sora in DDD.
The real Xehanort's body DOES disappear by the time the Guardians of Light fight the 13 vessels, so it might be somehow Xehanort's body also got trapped within his own heart as well. While that DOES differ from Sora in DDD, it isn't the only time that happens, as Riku's body disappeared when entering Sora's heart, and Sora disappeared completely when fighting Roxas in the Station of Awakening. So I think it's possible your entire body can enter the realm of sleep/dreams.
As for Riku calling Xehanort a portal in the first place, I think that line derived from a 10 year old Nomura interview statement, where he calls Young Xehanort a "portal" due to time traveling abilities gained from robed Ansem SoD. The thing is, Dark Road approaches the scene Nomura is referring to very differently. Ansem and YX don't have that transference of power, and instead Ansem brings up "waypoints".
Therefore, I personally think the word "portal" is no longer related to why Xehanort can transcend time and space, and instead Nomura is developing other terms and reasons for why that is (and I could go into that as well, but I'll stop for now LOL).
Things we wish had more relevance? I, for one, am still salty that we didnāt get to see Tron in KH3 after how DDD went. I would trade the Ralph summon for a Tron one in a microcycle, I swear to the Users. But alas, itās just another deposit in my Tron Salt Mine.
FLYNN YOU ARE RIGHT!!!! YOU ARE SO FUCKING RIGHT!!!!!
If KH was able to do it's own plot with BH6..... it can do that with Tron right??? right??????
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