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Absolutely love your akusai analysis stuff its so good omg.

Do you have any more thoughts on them?

Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it! As for my thoughts on Akusai, well, after beating Fire Emblem Three Houses recently, I do have a few thoughts. I know, I'm late to the party on 3H. (I actually loved 3H and would love to write metas about those ships lol). But anyways, regarding Akusai. It's a bit of a rant and there's minor spoilers for FE3H, so I'll put it under the cut.

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Back then, we believed we could do anything. We thought we could rescue that girl together.

I completely agree with the linked post. The plan to rescue the mystery girl was a fanciful and unrealistic notion, that only two children could have come up with. And I think that was supposed to be the idea. Kids think they can do anything. Saïx said Axel’s plan represented their youthful idealism. In KH3, Saïx was the one most stubbornly clinging to that dream, not Axel.

What were you really after, Lea? We joined the Organization at the same time, and formulated our plan. At this point, it's just an idle fantasy. Everything changed. You, and me.

You know how Saïx said Axel had changed? From his perspective, Axel had moved on from their impossible childhood fantasy. And that’s why Saïx said he “outgrew” the tear marks.

Most of what had happened with Ansem’s apprentices before their fall into darkness is unknown, aside from what was touched upon in Secret Ansem Reports. And the mystery of “the plan that was decided on after Axel and Saix entered the Organization” that was talked about in the Secret Reports in Days still remains. According to Nomura there is still much about the Organization’s humans that has yet to be said.

KHBBS Ultimania, March 2010

The BBS Ultimania was most likely referring to mysteries that were going to be answered in BBSV2. Of course, it is HIGHLY unlikely that a time-travelling girl from the age of fairy tales (who would only be relevant in KH4!!!) existed back then. Lea and Isa might have been trying to save Kairi, who had been established to be involved with the experiments since KH1FM+. Although I think by the time Saïx said Axel became Nobodies, they would have had other priorities. So, what was “the plan” then? Probably something equally childish and unattainable.

The sun continued to set. Just like back then.

Lea’s Character File story has a callback to Day 352 “Sunset”. And that was a callback to KH2, where Pence wondered if they would always be together and Hayner said that would be unrealistic when they grew up. In other words, hanging out together forever, eating ice cream and watching the sunset was an idle fantasy. Something only for kids, not grown-ups.

The setting sun stung my eyes. Lately, I’d been just a bit of a crybaby. Could it be because the upside-down tears had disappeared from my face?

Subconsciously remembering Xion, Lea is tearing up in his story. He’s still a crybaby, just like when he was a kid.

Next to you, I eat the sweet and salty ice cream. It tastes the same as it did back in Radiant Garden when we were young. I never imagined a future like this, sitting side by side and eating ice cream.

Being the crybaby is supposed to be your specialty. And yet...

The sunset stings my eyes.

Isa is actually a crybaby in his story, too. Of course, it’s interesting how that girl is such an afterthought. Isa’s story is entirely devoted to describing how happy he is to have a future of sitting side-by-side with Lea, eating ice cream, and watching the sunset. 🤔

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Axel was quite a toxic friend to Roxas and Xion throughout 358/2Days like keeping secrets from them holding vital information about themselves, thier friendship was not as wholesome as the majority of the fandom seems to think it was.

I agree that Axel was often a toxic friend due to all his lying. He was keeping a lot of secrets that drove him to act the way he did. Neither Roxas and Xion, nor the fandom really understood his motives.

The Japanese Ultimania mentioned “the plan that was decided on after Axel and Saix entered the Organization”. And it was supposed to be a mystery that would be explained later on. In KH3, the mystery of their plan was revealed. They joined Xemnas because they wanted to find info on a mystery girl from Union X.

However, I think the original mystery of Axel and Saix's plan was that they were trying to fulfill their dream.

Axel exhaled and gathered some words. “But, you know, hanging out every day isn’t the only thing that matters. We’ll still have one another, even if that changes. As long as we remember one another, we’ll never be apart. Got it memorized?”

It would be nice if we could always be together… but that’s an unattainable dream. That’s why it will have to do to just think of each other.

I think when they were kids, Isa shared the same dream with Lea.

Lea, what did you want to do in the end? The plan we decided when the two of us joined the Organization together… No, that’s also already just a pipe dream. Everything has changed, hasn’t it? You, and me too…

And on the day they joined the organization together, they vowed they’d do anything for the sake of that dream. Even do icky jobs for Xemnas or assassinate anyone in their way. They didn't have some grand plan or anything. They just wanted to stay together forever.

I wanted the three of us to be together. I wanted the three of us to laugh together in the Organization. But I told myself to grow up and stop wishing for the impossible. Well, I’m done with that. That’s not the answer I want.

Axel thought Saix changed and outgrew their dream. But Axel never changed.

“I thought…you outgrew the marks under your eyes.”

He could never let go of his childish pipe dream. H was trying to replace Isa with Roxas and Xion. And in the process, he was trying to prevent them from growing up. He didn't want them to remember their pasts or forge identities outside their trio. In KH2, he was unhappy that Roxas had new friends his own age. No, RAX was not a completely healthy or wholesome friendship. And...it wasn't supposed to be.

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I guess technically lea would have to be a sheep since they're the same year, but he seems more like the rooster.

The Rooster definitely fits Lea more than the Sheep does. Personally, I see him as a Dragon.

A cool-headed young man who rarely shows emotion.

This is part of Saix's description from the Ultimania.

A serene and self-possessed boy who always has time for a quick quip at his best friend Lea's expense.

This is Isa's description from the BBS journal.

Cool, collected, and mature beyond his age. He's good friends with Lea.

From KHUX.

A quiet and cool-headed youth. Though he does come out of his shell when talking to his best friend Lea, toward other he is distant and untalkative. Often scolds Lea and his contrasting personality.

And from the BBS novel. "Serene", "calm", "self-possessed", "cool", "collected". All adjectives describing how in control of his emotions Isa is. When they got caught by Dilan, Lea was angry and struggling for him to let go. On the other hand, Isa was completely calm.

A fiery red-haired young man who can manipulate flames and his chakrams at will.

This is Axel's description in the Ultimania. His personality is “fiery”.

“Yeah, and we failed. One day she was just gone!” Axel snapped in a way that was reminiscent of his younger self.

And here's an interesting bit from the KH3 novel implying Lea was prone to snapping when he was younger. Axel seemed very cool and collected for the most part in 358/2 Days. But I think that was because he was a Nobody. We only see some fiery-ness peak through at the very end when he yells at Xion.

“Do you have anything you couldn’t bear to lose?”

Axel shifted in surprise and pulled the ice cream bar out of his mouth. “What? Where’d that come from?”

“I saw someone today and…he was talking about something like that. It was so important he couldn’t even think about losing it. Xaldin told me that’s a weakness.”

Back when he had a heart, I think hotheadedness and irascibility were major parts of his personality. Maybe that's why there was a heavy Beast/Axel parallel in 358/2 Days.

Let's say Lea and Isa were test subjects in their original backstory. If the goal was to amplify the darkness in one of them, it makes sense that they would target the more outwardly emotional one who was quick to anger, right? And they would have done that by exploiting his weakness— the person he couldn't bear to lose.

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Is there any evidence, or even hints, that Lea and Isa’s relationship is more than platonic?

Xaldin: Precisely. That is no ordinary rose. The room is in tatters save for one corner—because to him, at least, it is more precious than all the castle’s riches. Our work here is done, Roxas. The beast's weakness is clear.

Roxas: It is?

Xaldin: To hold something dear is to let it hold you. His heart is in thrall to it, don't you see? And that, Roxas, is ample weakness.

Roxas: I'm not sure I follow.

Xaldin: Nor should you. You have no heart to love with. Come. We return.

Yes, there was definitely a lot of hints and evidence that their relationship was more than platonic. Especially in the novels.

Roxas: Well, you were right. He does have something he wants to protect. Something he cares about.

Xion: Really?

Roxas: Yeah, but Xaldin says that's a weakness.

Xion: Why would caring about something be a weakness?

Roxas: I dunno. I didn't get it either.

Xion: I hope Axel comes home soon.

The best evidence, though, is in 358/2 Days. The whole subplot of the Beast’s Castle hinted at Axel having romantic feelings for Isa.

Day 150: Too Precious to Lose

Axel and I talked for a while about the things we can't bear to lose. Axel thinks that for Nobodies, it's our pasts, because that's all we have to remember the pain of losing something.

If Axel’s memories of his past are what’s most precious to him, then what was most precious to Lea as a human? Axel says that his memories are all he has to remember the pain of losing something.

Talking to Roxas and Xion always brings back memories of my human life, back when I was a kid. It's a weird sensation. I ought to be able to share all this with Saïx, but I just don't feel like it anymore. It's strange, but I'm content with just missing what's gone. I'm not the one who changed. You did.

And his memories of his past are all about Isa. And Axel has a lot of pain over missing what’s gone between him and Saïx. The story STRONGLY hints that Isa was so precious to Lea, he couldn’t bear to lose him. There was something very special between them that isn’t there anymore.

Roxas: Love is a power?

Xaldin: None you or I will ever grasp. Nor will they, for long. The love between them will wither and die. Love never lasts.

Roxas: But you don't have a heart. How would you know?

Xaldin: I have eyes, and a brain. We have no further business here. Try not to dawdle.

Roxas: That still doesn't explain what love is... Is love fighting to protect what's most important to you? Where does its power come from?

The main theme of Beast’s Castle is “love”. Having something you can’t bear to lose is what love is. And love is a weakness that the organization exploits. Axel has a tragic backstory that is hinted at constantly. The story hints that his fear of losing Isa was used against him at some point.

Roxas: I found out about love on today's mission--that it's something powerful.

Axel: That's true. It is. But I'll never get to experience it.

Roxas: Nobodies can't love?

Axel: You need a heart, man.

Roxas: Right...

Axel: Love is what happens if there's something really special between two people.

Roxas: You mean, like, if they're best friends? Inseparable?

Axel: Well, you can care about your friends, I guess, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Just look at the way Axel talks about love. He longs for love. Love is even compared to being best friends. But Axel is very specific that it’s a different feeling. He’s always speaking from experience, like when he talked about best friends, summer vacation, etc. He’s speaking from experience here, too. He’s been in love before. That is what is being hinted at. Now, this isn’t the same as Nomura coming out and saying “yes, they’re gay”. But there’s no way they wrote the story like this on accident.

Beast: It's no use. She's so beautiful, and I'm so...well, look at me!

Mrs. Potts: Oh, you must help her to see past all that.

All of this talk of love takes place in the world of Beauty and the Beast. That movie is all about the power of love allowing you to see past the exterior. That’s what the story of 358/2 Days is all about, too. Roxas can see Xion as Kairi because he has a heart. Axel can see her as Kairi after Castle Oblivion, and he grew a heart while he was there.

Riku: The process of putting his memory back together has gone nowhere... They have what's most precious to Sora...his memories of Kairi.

Xion is just a robot, though, and not really Kairi. She doesn’t even have a concrete appearance. It’s Sora’s memories that make it look like Kairi.

Xion’s memories were really Sora’s. But the form she had taken was reminiscent of Kairi. And that was because of Sora’s memories inside Roxas—the memories that knew Kairi as someone precious to him. Like Xion had become someone precious to Roxas.

She was created out of Sora’s most precious memories, which were of Kairi, who he LOVED. Xion is just a reflection of Sora’s LOVE for Kairi. Those most precious memories were the whole basis of the plot of CoM. They were the weakness used to manipulate Sora.

My precious existence is surrounded by memories that have been burned into my heart, as well as important memories that guide me. The more precious the memory is, the further it regresses into your heart, making it hard to remember, you know?

“Why do you always go around picking up stray puppies left and right?”

“I want to leave an impression with a lot of different people. I can live forever if I remain in their memories.”

Isa then laughed at me bitterly.

“Well, at the very least I’m sure you’ll always be in my memories, whether I want you to or not.”

During that time, we had no idea that memories could be erased. Memories are not always clear, and they can even be replaced with something else.

I haven’t seen Ventus since.

The sunset today is burning red again. We finished our training and watched the sunset from the top of the hill near the Secret Forest.

Axel’s journey in Castle Oblivion was all about HIS most precious memories, too. He said he and Sora had a lot in common, which is why he decided to help him. Axel’s memories of Isa were the equivalent of Sora’s memories of Kairi. It’s never explicitly stated, but Sora LOVES Kairi. Axel LOVED Isa. Once Axel started to remember his most precious memories, which were of Isa, he started to grow a heart.

“Do you know why the sunset is so red? Light is comprised of a variety of different colors, and within that spectrum, the red color permeates the furthest!”

“And how come you’re so versed in this all of a sudden?”

I remember speaking with Roxas about this on the 255th day when we sat on top of the clocktower. Although I know I should have had more precious memories of that time, I couldn’t remember them. I know there’s something that I was supposed to remember, but for some reason I just could not remember it.

You know how Day 255 is such an important day, it was even featured in the opening? It’s never explained why that day was so important. Axel tells Roxas about the red sunset. And just by the way he said it, you could tell that he was recalling a very precious memory from his past. Axel’s Character File story even confirmed it. The red sunset was not a random bit of trivia thrown in for no reason. It was a very precious memory from Axel’s past.

Someone had once told him why sunsets were red… Who was that?

The novel hints that Isa was the one who told Lea about the red sunset. But Axel had forgotten this by the time of 358/2 Days.

“Yeah. Have to hang on to something, right? It’s not like I have memories from before the Organization. Don’t you remember? I acted like a zombie.”

Axel stared at him as if trying to figure something out and then grinned.

Axel was trying to remember a specific precious memory from his past. It was bothering him. And it came back to him on Day 255 when he was talking to Roxas. It’s why he sounded so nostalgic. And it’s why that day was so significant.

Why did Axel remember that precious memory on Day 255? It was called “The Longest Day”. The longest day of the year is called “midsummer”. The entire story was most likely inspired by Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The most famous quote from that play is about how love makes you blind to someone’s flaws. Roxas’s love for Xion blinded him to the fact that she was just a Replica being used to absorb his power and destroy him. Xion was his weakness.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Day 255 was the day Saix was revealed to be “blind”. He wasn’t seeing what everyone else saw when he looked at Xion. He was like the Beast. He had no love in his heart. He couldn’t see past appearances.

Axel: The Organization made her to duplicate your powers. She's a puppet.

Roxas: Have you gone nuts? Xion's a person, not a puppet.

Axel: She's smoke and mirrors, Roxas.

Xion was a reflection of Sora’s love for Kairi. Smoke and mirrors. An illusion made of precious memories.

Xemnas: About Axel? The poor fool. How long will he keep chasing the illusion of friendship, when he himself lacks emotion? Trying so hard to retrieve what he has lost, when it may never have existed in the first place. He deserves nothing more than our pity.

Saix was ALSO smoke and mirrors. Axel’s relationship with him wasn’t real and never existed in the first place. It was just a reflection of Lea’s most precious memories and his love for Isa. Axel desperately wanted to retrieve what he lost. His love for Isa made him “blind”. His burgeoning replacement heart gave him the power to look past the exterior of Saix to see the person he loved. It blinded him to the fact that Saix was a Nort and no longer the same person anymore. Saix was being used by Xemnas to manipulate Axel. Isa was Lea’s weakness.

Everyone is free to interpret the story as they wish. I know that Axel/Roxas is the more popular Axel ship. But I do believe Lea/Isa was what the writers intended and is the “correct” way to view the story. If you view the story with this idea in mind, Axel’s character arc makes SO much more sense.

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How does Isa flirt?

“Say something. Have you even thought that maybe I can’t erase Roxas?” Axel said, in a playful tone, and Saix finally looked up. “It’ll be all right. ‘Cause I’m tough.” Axel puffed out his chest.

“Saying stupid things,” said Saix, and for just a moment he smiled.

Isa flirts by teasing and playfully insulting the person he likes---which is Lea. There’s this passage from the novels where Axel (IMO) flirts with Saix by bragging about how tough he is and puffing out his chest. And Saix just says that Axel is being stupid, but he smiles. I think that’s the closest Saix ever got to acting like Isa did.

Isa struck me as a shy character. Lea had to work very hard to get him out of his shell. That was the main reason I liked him and thought he was cute and interesting. He’s a tsundere. Hard on the outside, soft on the inside. He apparently had a VERY hard time admitting his feelings to himself, so he constantly teased Lea. I think that was an important part of his character.

Saïx WAS putting on an act. But it had nothing to do with Subject X. He was acting like he was totally strong and independent and didn’t need Lea anymore.

Mickey: His eyes couldn't lie.

Sora: Lie? And just who were you trying to fool? Huh? Huhhh?

Riku: Myself.

Riku finally had a moment where he admitted he was lying to himself, and was able to take his blindfold off.

“What’s that mean?!” Sora demanded.

“She doesn’t need you anymore.” Saïx smiled, but the expression didn’t reach his eyes.

That was the world’s most obvious lie, Sora thought.

Saïx was also trying to fool himself. He was the embodiment of the feelings Isa had for Lea---the feelings he couldn’t admit to having. Some part of Isa was ashamed of how emotionally dependent he was on Lea. He saw it as weakness in himself and part of him was always afraid that Lea wouldn’t need him anymore.

I don’t know how the series is going to handle Isa’s characterization going forward, but I am not very hopeful. Saïx was not supposed to be the real Isa. He was Isa’s SHADOW self. Saïx did admit that he was jealous, but he immediately followed it up with “you won’t get it out of me a second time”. Wow, great character development.

And IMO, it’s ironic because he’s still lying to himself. He wasn’t doing it all for Subject X. That’s a flat-out lie. She was shoehorned into Lea and Isa’s story because the game was too afraid to follow through with the original idea for their subplot, which focused too heavily on their feelings for each other.

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Chapter 14 of my Days fic.

Moon Rabbit

Three animals, a rabbit, a fox, and a bear, try to bring food to an old man who has fallen by the roadside. The rabbit, having no other way to help, offers its own body by leaping into a fire. Taken from the Jataka, the literature concerning the Buddha’s previous births, this tale was well known in Japan as an account of the origin of the markings of the moon, which Japanese folklore likens to a rabbit. The rabbit’s act, known in Japanese as shashin (self-sacrifice or self-immolation), is one of the most noble acts in Buddhist belief and a theme of great importance since the earliest Buddhist narratives.

While researching more about the Moon Rabbit tale, which is Saix’s Mystery Gear, I learned about a Japanese term called “shashin” which was very interesting.

Shashin

Although there had been cases of suicides committed by some monks and followers, they were not forms of protest for the vast majority of them but the extreme expression of their own reflection and ascetic practices. “Abandoning of the body” shashin 捨身 is considered one of the most beautiful forms of “gift” fuse 布施 of “offering” kuyô 供養 to the Buddhas. The Scriptures of the Great Vehicle abound with examples of this “abandoning of the body.” The methods described vary: immolation, leaping into emptiness, drowning, fasting.

The term shashin (捨身) means “abandonment or renunciation of oneself”. Nomura was probably inspired by the concept of shashin and made that the basis of Isa’s character arc, using a clever twist on the word’s meaning.

Shashin indicates a very selfless way of living to the point of “abandoning one’s body” or “offering one’s body as sustenance for another” (interesting that Isa would become a vessel). This concept inspired my characterization of him as someone extremely selfless. He loved Lea to the point he put his own physical health and well-being at risk just to give him a chance to rest. Like the Moon Rabbit, that was the only gift he thought he could give him. And that was the theme of Day 171 “Love”. The Beast offered his body to protect Belle, out of love.

Day 171 and 172 complement and contrast each other in an interesting way. One day Axel remembers Isa as someone who was so selfless, who overexerted himself and thought he was a failure because he couldn’t help Lea more. Lea loved him. The next day, Axel remembers him as “self-less” in a different way—literally without a sense of self after being mind controlled. Broken. A different kind of “failure”.

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Why KH3 Ruined Isa

In honor of the new DLC, I’d just like to remind everyone how horribly KH3 treated its characters. The Recusant’s Sigil means death and endings.

The power of waking (a birth by sleep) is the power to give the character new life---a new beginning. This was THE underlying theme of the Dark Seeker Saga.

Sadly, Isa wasn’t given a new beginning or a birth by sleep in KH3, even though pretty much everything leading up to KH3 hinted that he would. The symbol on his jacket was a waning crescent, the final phase of the moon, signifying death and endings.

The symbol on his jacket in the ending is a waxing crescent, the first phase of the new moon cycle, signifying new beginnings. Even his weapons in 358/2 Days contained hints that he was supposed to get a new beginning and a birth by sleep.

Saïx’s weapons all have auras in his berserk state. But only starting in 358/2 Days. In the original KH2, his claymore didn’t glow when he went berserk. Light yellow is the color of new beginnings.

“Turn from the light. Shut your eyes. Here blanketed by the darkness, sleep is safety. Sleep is eternal.”

The Hermit - The Hermit suggests that you are in a phase of introspection where you are drawing your attention inwards and looking for answers within. You are in need of a period of inner reflection, away from the current demands of your position.

Four of Cups - The Four of Cups tend to appear when you are feeling discouraged and unmotivated. You may feel as if there is no solution or way forward in your situation. Life has become stagnant, and nothing seems to make you happy or passionate. The Four of Cups can also represent feeling nostalgic, daydreaming or fantasizing.

“Twilight” is part of Fearless Gear, the same as The Hermit in Luxord’s deck. It is shaped like a trident.

Why a trident of all things? The trident is the symbol for Neptune, known as the dream planet, and the ruler of Pisces. Why Pisces? Pisces is ruled by The Moon tarot card, making it fit in with the whole mythology of Saïx’s astrology-based character.

As the final sign of the zodiac, Pisces is also a symbol for twilight, the period between night and day. It’s the final sign before a new cycle begins.

“Our experiments creating Heartless were attempts to control the mind, and convince it to renounce its sense of self.”

The trident (and crescent moon) is also a symbol for Shiva.

“If people see with their hearts, Saïx, then you're even blinder than the rest of us.”

Twilight has a Recusant’s Sigil on the third eye (the drum), as does Saïx. And yes that is Combustion Man from Avatar: The Last Airbender. But I think he is a good example to compare to a character like Saïx, who also uses that type of symbolism on his forehead. Combusion Man blows things up with his mind. Saïx’s third eye, in comparison, is dead. It’s no doubt why he’s unable to see Xion.

“X”… A most ancient letter. Some say “kye,” but the meaning is the same. Death… A letter that spells endings.

Death - Death means that something is dying, but a new beginning is in sight. Similarly, Death shows a time of significant transformation, change and transition. You need to transform yourself and clear away the old to bring in the new. Any change should be welcomed as a positive, cleansing, transformational force in your life. The death and clearing away of limiting factors can open the door to a broader, more satisfying experience of life.

Ace of Swords - New ideas, new beginnings, new projects, new plans and breakthroughs. It also indicates intellectual ability, mental clarity, clear thinking and the ability to concentrate. This Minor Arcana signifies communication, vision, force, focus and intensity.

Berserker is Valor Gear, which is Death in Luxord’s deck. The Death arcana is misunderstood; it actually is a positive card, representing new beginnings.

This fury, which was called berserkergang, occurred not only in the heat of battle, but also during laborious work. Men who were thus seized performed things which otherwise seemed impossible for human power. This condition is said to have begun with shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then the face swelled and changed its color.

With this was connected a great hot-headedness, which at last gave over into a great rage, under which they howled as wild animals, bit on the edge of their shields, and cut down everything they met without discriminating between friend or foe. When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feebleness followed, which could last for one or several days.

---Fabing, Howard D. (1956). "On Going Berserk: A Neurochemical Inquiry". Scientific Monthly.

Berserkers were consumed with such rage, they didn’t differentiate between friend or foe on the battlefield. Isa didn’t seem to recognize Lea in his berserk state during the final battle. But he he stopped attacking Lea right before he finished him off.

“They think the power of love will save them? That's the stuff of poetry, not practicality. The love between them will wither and die. Love never lasts.”

Strength - Strength predicts the triumphant conclusion to a major life problem, situation or temptation through strength of character.

Two of Cups - Represents the flow of love between two people. With this card, you are creating deep connections and partnerships, based on shared values, compassion, and unconditional love.

“Queen of the Night” is Prestige Gear. It is also the name of a beautiful white flower that blooms once, under a full moon, then withers and dies. It’s a lot like love, according to Xaldin.

“Hey, Roxas. Bet you don't know why the sun sets red. You see, light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest.”

The Sun - While its opposite card, The Moon, teaches us about the deep sorrows and fears that we keep down in our unconscious, The Sun provides us with healing and liberation.

Four of Coins - You are holding on to people, possessions, situations or past issues. May also indicate a lack of openness, blocking or obstructing progress, keeping to yourself or a sense of isolation.

Saïx’s Hazard Gear is called “Light Year”. A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. This is exactly why I think Axel's quote was foreshadowing him saving Isa with the power of waking, giving him a birth by sleep.

“So many are still waiting for their new beginning, their birth by sleep.”

The Myth of the Moon Gazing Hare reflects ancient beliefs. Pagans believed that seeing a moon gazing hare would bring growth, rebirth, abundance, new beginnings and good fortune. The hare gained immortality when he was taken to the moon after an act of selflessness.

A promise… We’ll meet again…in the next life. We did say that. I remember. I remember our promise.

The phoenix represents renewal, rebirth and the beginning of a new life. Therefore, the phoenix is a symbol of rebirth from the ashes of the past, and it also represents the victory of life over death, thus immortality. I don’t think it was a coincidence that Lea’s Keyblade (based on a solar bird) and Isa’s Mystery Gear (based on a lunar rabbit) have the same meaning. Obviously, Lea was supposed to save Isa, and give him a birth by sleep and a new beginning. I don’t understand how KH3 could ruin such a simple concept.

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