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This is what the blog’s dashboard looks like for me right now since Dragon made all these posts.

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If that’s really a proper photo/selfie mode in KH3 please be aware that I’m going to be posting some of that here because I’m a sucker for photo modes. Might bring back the “photo” tag, actually.

As for the rest of it

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have you heard anything about the ps4 bundle??

Not much else besides what’s already out there, no. The most recent article about it said that it might be a Japan exclusive and as far as I know it’s not up for pre-order so that adds some credence to that.

There’s lots of rumor and hearsay and nobody really knows concretely till Square Enix announces something.

Honestly though, we wouldn’t be the ones to ask anyway, we find things out at roughly the same pace everyone else can. Maybe try asking khinsider on twitter?

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Opinion: I want evil Aqua. I don't mean her becoming a Xehanort vessel, but spending over a decade in the Realm of Darkness is bound to mess you up. Imagine her getting blinded by the light when she returns and becoming so desperate to keep away from the darkness that she'll destroy any source of it, including Xehanort and Riku.

If Disney (or Squeenix, if FF13-2′s Snow cop-out is any indication) could commit to that, it’d make for a neat “Light =\ Good” plotline and it’d make for an even better Eraqus parallel for her*. If they do; awesome, when they don’t; fanfic. Or fanart, whatever floats your boat. That said, she’d make for a beautiful bossfight for Riku’s section before coming to her senses in time to knock the senses out of a few Xehanorts.

Overall though I think they might be keeping it too cut and dry but everything’s so vaguely defined I’m just along for the ride at this point.

*he detested Darkness so much he tries to murder Ven, who’s existence threatened the balance of Light/Dark bc X-Blade & fights Terra who is being overcome by his Darkness. “Blinded” by the Light as it were. She starts arguing with Terra about his Darkness similarly to Eraqus & Xehanort late in BbS.

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I just realized something. Master Xenanorts thinks that the keybalde war was people fighting over kingdom hearts. But in actuality khx/khux reveals it was just a regular war with keybaldes. Started because people distrusted each other. His entire motivation is based on a heavily romanticzed version of an old tail (likely the stories of the keyblade war changed over time). I think this is intresting

In Back Cover it’s revealed that Gula did in fact intend to summon Kingdom Hearts. Now, I’m positive that war would’ve eventually broken out (you don’t get to have your Union leaders openly duke it out in the street & not have tension + that damn Book of Prophecy said so) but it might’ve taken longer had this not been the conclusion Gula came to. This is largely because he needed more lux which lead to fighting over it which lead to inter-Union member tensions being exacerbated. 

We even see this in KHUX’s cutscenes at least once where wielders are arguing over Heartless and lux but I can’t recall if it’s before or after the missions where you see Invi and Aced fighting. Either way they were already bickering among themselves about lux in general but once higher quotas were put on the members it all just kinda snowballed.

Even better there’s scenes between Player, Skuld, and/or Ephemer that usually have a line somewhere to the general effect of not worrying/caring about them being in a different Union. Cross Union friendships were apparently rare already, there’s a lot of loyalty involved and anyone who steps outside of that would likely have issues with being perceived as disloyal. Like a Gryffindor being friends with a Slytherin except all the time and there’s magic key-swords instead of wands.

tldr; kinda, the whole damn Union thing was designed to divide wielders & everyone was set up to fail from top to bottom. It’s probably an easier pill to swallow that the great mistakes of the past involved rampant greed than everything it actually was.

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Yeah that looks like Kairi for Reversed Medals. Since my heavy hitters are HD Pete and FB Xion, wish I could have.

I think she’s got a pull chance for that Top Drawers Deal thing they’ve got now? 

Ooh, it’s a .6% possible draw rate. They’ll definitely bring back her 15 draw banner at some point though so join me in studiously ignoring all those shiny new avatar boards till they bring out a good banner, if you want.

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What did Xion EX do?

From the website “1 turn: ↑ Reversed STR by 2, STR by 7, PSM-STR by 6, ↓ targets’ DEF by 3 & PSM-DEF by 4. Enemy countdown +1. HP recovery LV 4. Fills 5 gauges.“

Basically broke-Kairi for reversed medals with more gauges.

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So I'm not really sure if anyone has thought of this but i was recently watching back cover again and I found that many of the foretellers would suit the other roles better. Ira would fit the role of studying the lost page as we see often that he studies the book of prophecies. Invi could be the right-hand, seeing as how she often advices and guides Ira. Ava would fit the mediator as she wants everyone to get along. Not very sure about Gula and Aced but perhaps dandelion and leader respectively?

The thing there is that it (at least now with what very very little we know) seems like the Master of Masters intentionally set them up to fail. He gave them all books (most likely) knowing that it’d become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Then he proceeded to goad Aced into wanting to usurp Ira, definitely understood that Ira isn’t quite the most inspiring leader figure and would eventually fall short of Aced’s expectations, and sets Gula up to look suspicious to and be suspicious of everyone else.

Invi, he basically ties her hands by assigning someone who’s in the thick of things be a mediator/observer knowing that she’d probably do something that’d push everyone but Ira away. Ava is the only one he didn’t screw over in some way but her secondary role was entirely based around the War definitely happening and his students definitely falling into the trap laid out for them.

Except maybe Luxu but he hasn’t shown up yet so we’ll see.

TLDR; MoM set the Foretellers up for failure to a jaw-dropping degree considering the eventual outcomes but yeah, those suggestions would’ve worked better.