#kh3 theory

[nireey]

Master of Masters?

[blowingoffsteam2]

Theory: Yozora (Why he looks like Riku, why he acts the way he does)

https://twitter.com/steamwhistler2/status/1324875337805819905?s=21

[iamoncewas]

The Destiny Islands trio are named after the three elements that make up the World; sky, land, and sea.

I think they are meant to represent other triplicities as well, specifically the one of

Heart, Body, and Soul, the 3 elements of life.

Heart, of course, is Sora, the boy whose loving heart can connect with anyone.

Body, is Kairi, who returned Soras body to normal when he became a Shadow, and who kept his form together when he died.

Soul, then, is Riku, the boy whose inner strength the darkness could not eclipse.

Soul as of yet has been little explored in KH, and that's intentional. We know it's a thing, because Nobodies are the body containing a soul without a heart.

Chirithy told Sora death is when the heart and body perish together. She doesn't mention the soul however, implying that the soul in the KH universe, is eternal. Or at the very least is not touched in the same manner by death as the heart and body are.

In Plato's Timaeus, it is said that the 2 bands that make up the "soul of the world" cross each other in the shape of an X.

I believe, if Kingdom Hearts is the heart of all worlds, the X-blade is the soul. When they say Heart & Key(X), they mean

Heart and Soul.

[vampirically]

kh3 theory: luxu and the MoM are the same person

okay hear me out. i thought about this way more than i care to admit. luxu and the masters of masters are the same person from different timelines/periods of time and here’s why:

time travel in kh is possible only if you cast your body aside, and you can only travel to a time where another version of you is present. the kh3 secret ending confirms MoM is back and guess who else is? luxu/xigbar.

we know that luxu used many vessels to preserve his life, making him an expert on the “separating your heart from your body” thing. if MoM is future luxu it's obvious he knows how to do this, so it's entirely possible he time travelled to the past to teach this ability to his younger self.

it's a paradox, but the book of prophecies is a paradox too. MoM was able to write it by observing events through his gazing eye and, as he told luxu, "the fact that it exists is proof of your success". it doesn't get any more paradoxical than this.

furthermore: according to DDD, travelling to the future wouldn't work because if you did it and then went back in time to try and change events, you would lose all your memories of the future upon returning to your time. but MoM gave luxu his eye in the past, so he already knows what will happen.

he basically found a workaround for travelling to the future, and that would explain how he got in the present, in kh3's secret video.

xigbar is the version of himself who will allow him to traverse time, and the gazing eye allows him to keep his memories. it's the perfect plan. 

to add to this, we also know that xigbar/luxu is the only one who knows what's inside the black box... well, besides the MoM. if they're the same person, what's the best way to keep a secret than telling it... to yourself?

there’s another interesting thing to note. while the foretellers' keyblades are said to having been forged by the MoM from their own hearts, No Name is referred to as simply being "bestowed" upon luxu. it is safe to assume it is indeed the MoM's own keyblade and, as we know, the foretellers' keyblades all have their animals embedded in the handle.

what animal does the no name have on it? a goat... or so we believed. the goat has actually been confirmed as being a horned lion in the DDD ultimania ( 角のある獅子 "koku no aru shishi").

we also know that the foretellers' animal masks have been chosen according to the animals associated with their respective sins on the base of the Ancrene Wisse, and the animal traditionally associated with pride (the only sin left, the MoM) is none other than the lion.

but why not just a regular lion? why a lion with goat horns? luxu and the MoM being the same person seems the only logical explanation to me. i see no other reason for MoM's heart to spawn a lion keyblade with goat horns otherwise.

also worth mentioning: the goat + lion hybrid is the most common form of chimera. from wikipedia: "it is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back". "the sight of a chimera was an omen for disaster".

it's already been said about xehanort, but inhabiting several vessels, thus becoming "more than one person" is something that luxu has been doing for ages... and it's very chimera-like.

[keybladeempire]

The KH fandom rn

[silcojinx]

LUXU IS PROMPTO!!!! Mark my words now internet~! I calls it!!!!!!

So I just got through those god awful data fights and got the “bad ending” for Kingdom Hearts Re:Mind and let me tell you.....VERSUS 13 FULL STOP!!!! 

Im also taking a stab and saying that Yozora aka Noctis IS THE MASTER OF MASTERS *see my previous theory* and if this is indeed true then Prompto MUST BE LUXU.

Xigbar/Luxu says that he “had to change his appearance many times over the years” implying that he no longer looks like his original self and during the data fight with him he says stuff like:

“This is the end of the road for you”  as you lose implying the road trip you take in FFXV/VS 13 and all its symbolic meaning about life.

and 

“New backdrop”

as he shoots you with magitek looking guns and the arena changes to look like a lens aperture.

[thefinalkey16]

“Not long after, the Master vanished, dimmed, and faded without a trace.”

Does this sound familiar?

[kitsoa]

Worlds as Dreams and the Act of Waking up P.1 Traversing Hearts

"Traversing hearts to reach worlds, not for traversing worlds to reach hearts,"

Dear lord help me. I know we basically have an understanding of the Power of Waking but I was brainstorming its nature (again), and came to few conclusions that speak on the nature of the series as whole. Namely the concept of Kingdom Hearts as a self-aware fictional construct/dream and how the act of ‘waking up’ results in fading from the dream to some kind of disconnected reality. 

The Power of Waking is the power to free a heart from sleep. Full stop. But it later gets re-contextualized by the above quote and the wording is a little strange because... the PoW as a form of travel doesn’t make a lick of sense. That doesn’t wake anyone up.

But you know what does?

The Station of Awakening. More specifically-- the questions asked in the dream world. 

The Right Way

These questions came from my attempt to define the ‘abuse’ of the PoW used. See abuse in this context comes in 3 forms. You either abuse something by using it wrong.… using it too much or both. Based on YMX’s warning quote, Sora is clearly using it the wrong, reverse way... but I’ll take the gander and say that its a ‘both’ scenario because he doesn’t immediately suffer the consequences until he abuses it one last time. But the take-away not being recognized is that there is a right way to use the power. 

According to YMX traversing hearts to reach worlds is the correct way to use it. So let’s follow this logic. 

To traverse is to “travel across or through.” I originally focused on the common use of ‘traverse’ as a synonym for the actual act of travel-- covering ground, getting somewhere. ... but traveling through something can have a very literal interpretation.  To ‘pass through’ the heart is to treat the heart as a portal. 

And the only worlds we find in hearts are the empty Heart-Worlds encountered in a Dive to the Heart. Which brings me to the textbook example of the right way to use the Power of Waking:

Riku Does it Right

Riku’s use of the PoW to awaken Sora from his Darkness-Induced Sleep in DDD. Aka. The real reason Riku was named Master. I’ve said this before that the Stations are not the inside of the Heart so much as the front door. Hearts appear to be entire worlds on the inside. So therefore Riku used the PoW to go through Sora’s Heart to reach... A World. Textbook. But what’s so interesting about it is-- sure he used the power to get there, but what woke Sora was....

Answering the Station of Awakening Questions. The Questions that determine your play-through stats. The questions that define Sora before the start of any journey. So this has major connotations for what is required to wake up a heart and continue on. Definition, guidance-- a variable granted by we the players. This is potentially unique to Sora due to his role as main character (if we begin to lean on the self-aware reading) but ultimately the space these questions occur in is just as necessary. 

So is it a World or a Dream?

Defining this Heart space is vital to understanding the means of reversing the PoW. I stand by this idea that the Heart-Worlds, like everything else in this universe is very much a literal, physical place. The physical body can be transported to the Stations as seen in the Roxas v. Sora fight and Riku is physically in Sora’s Station and therefore his Heart-world. I will add that in this interpretation I view the Scala ad Caelum we witness to be the Heart-World of Xehanort as it is accessed via portal in the same manner as Riku to Sora. 

But the big commonality is that they are reflections of a dear world. Dare I say, playing into the phrase “home is where the heart is” and reversing it as “heart is where the home is.” But it can’t be ignore the fact that these Heart-Worlds are also only manifest in dreams. The entire Station of Awakening episode exists in a dream, and is therefore also a dream world. Riku, perusing Sora’s dreams wakes him up by answering his Station questions for him. Dreams, ushered in by sleep cross over with death which allows overlap from the Station to the Final World. 

Dream worlds are made by the heart (human or world). The worlds inside the heart, are dreams. 

So if we re-contextualize ‘worlds’ as ‘dreams’ then the PoW is simply going through a heart to end a dream from the inside, therefore waking the heart up. 

Visual Shortcut

Now Sora adds this extra layer of visual understanding to the process because we see the heart that is traversed to reach the (dream) world within it. But when applied to other hearts, the visual cue of the stations is sometimes skipped and the method of which to wake the heart from that heart-world-dream the PoW leads the user to, isn’t even seen. 

Take Ventus for example. Sora begins the process at his Station of awakening, Ventus heart is stirring.

And Sora doesn’t even manifest until he calls upon the power with his whole heart. 

From there, Sora opens up this doorway to his heart-world (which appears as a serene rendition of Destiny Islands) , but he doesn’t enter that world. He simply brings Ventus’s heart station to the surface in a flurry of birds from it. 

Then the use of the PoW is in full use as Sora goes through Ventus’s heart to reach the heart-world dream that imprisons Ven in a sleeping state. A heart-world that we haven’t seen but I suspect is probably a variation of the Land of Departure, in the vein of the Blank Point’s scene with Ven sleeping. We don’t see this world/dream but we go through the heart to reach it and the PoW grants that transfer. There is no necessary questions to awaken Ven as that is most likely a Sora wake-up thing from our understanding and technically speaking, Ven was already waking up from external factors. He simply needed to be freed. So almost textbook example of the PoW but still an un-abusive, proper use of the power. 

Layers of Dream

The most enlightening use of the PoW comes from the scenario of the Sleeping Worlds. The actual waking up process is not dependent on one dream trapping the heart, but seven. In fact, it’s an almost arbitrary number of Seven Sleeping Keyholes tasked to the adventuring duo, solidifying that the worlds in peril are intrinsically connected by virtue of their simultaneous fall to darkness. Simply traversing to one of the sleeping world’s dreams and ending or releasing it will not do the trick (like it will do for Ventus and Sora), they all appear trapped under a larger, collective dream and the worlds are therefore stacked upon each other, interconnected. 

So there are dreams stacked upon dreams. Sora unlocking the keyhole for each consecutive world’s dream, releases it from sleep, but only when they all are released can the worlds’ hearts return to the RoL from slumber en mass. The PoW being used here, is therefore a prolonged process. It’s worth noting that Yen Sid references this journey as a means to learn the Power of Waking. They will only finish using the power (for the first time) when the Sleeping Worlds have actually awoken simultaneously.  And the process of ‘reaching the worlds’ (to quote YMX) is a multi-part series. A kind of 7-in-1 bargain of PoW use. Ultimately, Sora is still using the power correctly as it is allowing him to pass through the hearts of the worlds (Destiny Islands heart as the entry point) to reach the dream-worlds within, where he wakes them up. 

Sora can only get to the next dream by releasing the dream from before. It’s a kind of progression that suggests layers and layers are not without depth. 

The key take-away is that these worlds/dreams can be stacked and layered. This creates a sort of compulsory pathway towards some kind of ‘altitude’ in reality. In the proper use of the power. Sora travels deeper, dream to dream, and ends up close to the abyss of dark eternal slumber, pushed over the edge by the Organization and a second sleep. The act of moving through these interconnected layers sends him down. He’s sent deeper into a dream. 

So what happens if he used the PoW in the opposite direction? 

Well reversing the logic, supposedly Sora would fall out of the dreams... more and more.... He’d ‘wake up’ from each layer of dreaming. 

And if the world he originates from isn’t completely real. Is more akin to a fantastical dream.  

He’d probably fall out of his own reality. 

Part 2. “Traversing Worlds to Reach Hearts”