A Struggle for Existence | The Psychology of Roxas
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
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Table of contents:
0:00 - 1:57 - Introduction
1:58 - 4:48 - Finding a Purpose
4:49 - 9:23 - Creating Connections
9:24 - 11:35 - Roxas' Autonomy
11:36 - 12:47 - Nothing Lasts Forever
12:48 - 15:51 - Imbalance
15:52 - 18:57 - Tension Rising
18:58 - 22:44 - Breaking Point
22:45 - 31:01 - Picking up the Pieces
31:02 - 32:00 - A brief discussion on grief
32:01 - 32:51 - Ending Thoughts and Credits
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Roxas' story helped me get through the worst part of my life. He and Xion's lives have helped me to stay strong as I tackle my own depression and fights of identity
I’m glad you’ve been able to find comfort in these characters :) stay strong
Saix: We don’t accept resignations.
Roxas: I’ve got nothing to say to you.
Saix: Then let’s keep this short and sweet.
Roxas:**proceeds to wreck Saïx's shit**
Something worth noting is Roxas's relationship with Saïx in 358/2 Days.
Saïx is constantly trying to keep Roxas on the path best suited to the Organization's needs and relentlessly dehumanizes Xion at every available opportunity, disregarding their personhood and right to be themselves.
In addition, when Roxas confronts Saïx as he flees from the castle, he is still able to defeat Saïx with what I assume is little difficulty, even when nearly drained of all his power because of Xion.
I think that fight represents how even with the weight of everything going on in Roxas's life, he still has the strength to stand up to those who seek to oppress those they deem as inferior.
If you look at the sequence of Ven’s story in Birth by Sleep at the end of his trip to Radiant Garden Isa wasn’t as warm to Ventus as Lea was. There’s also that Saix saw Roxas as taking his spot as Axel’s friend, even though we don’t see much effort from Axel to maintain the friendship like they has as younger Somebodies.
In the Manga during the battle agains Saix, Roxas somehow gets a power up turning the Kingdom Key into Oathkeeper to break Saix's Cleimore
@@AlexxxMYLSince2013 Indeed, that is interesting. I believe the metaphor behind that is Roxas making a promise that he vows to himself to keep, but won't be able too for a while until Kingdom Hearts III.
Saix was such a bully to him throughout the whole game. It felt really good to see Roxas finally stand up to him
@@GabePlaysYT that moon boy was just really jealous of him and spiting a vendetta secretly.
It’s very telling that a scene in KHIII where Sora thinks strongly about Roxas is in San Fransokyo on the Golden Gate Bridge when he, Donald, Goofy and Big Hero 6 are eating ice cream, likening Roxas to a brother just as Tadashi is one to Hiro. He sees himself as Roxas with Hayner, Pence and Olette eating sea salt ice cream in the same scene. The fact Hayner, Pence and Olette are as determined as Sora to give Roxas his own existence even though their interaction with him was one day a while ago shows how strong a bond he formed with them in conjunction with knowing about their digital counterparts.
One thing I love about Roxas's theme, The Other Promise, is that it always has a part that is moving and changing. Even when the main melody is holding a longer note, the background continues to move and change. They chose a flute to represent the melody of his main theme, which is usually a very bright and happy instrument. They use the key and that flute to help give his theme a sense of forlorn heroism. And this "Forlorn Hero" theme shows itself more and more after Roxas starts to lose the connections he makes.
The newer remastered version includes an organ, a choir, and more low strings, connecting his theme to that of the Organization. Those change to a piano and a set of the high strings during the chorus of the song, which detaches his theme from the Organization's for a few fleeting moments before the organ, choir, and low strings return.
As pointed by another commenter in the uploads of the OST, they made very beautiful comparisons about the instruments, but let me bring attention to the piano, to contrast the flute you mentioned.
The Flute _is_ Roxas, greiving over *everything.* Losing Xion, losing Axel, discovering he's being maniuplated not once but twice, that *he is not his own self.*
And yet, after all that he cries out for, a piano drowns him out. That sounds way more uplifted than he is. _Much like Sora, who is usually upbeat and cheery, to which he, the Flute, had lost everything to and is the _*_ROOT and REASON_*_ why he lost everything - portryed by how the said instrument defiantly plays back taking the lead from the piano before mellowing back to his sorrow._
@@NinjaWarotMCph I absolutely love that! Thanks for pointing out those observations. Makes me appreciate that theme even more.
To add on even more, the song that plays in KH3 during the fight after Roxas returns, Hearts as One, brings out the heroic side of both Roxas's and Xion's themes. In that one, I like to think Roxas takes the piano for himself with Sora as the supporting brass fanfares. Xion's theme takes the limelight for a bit in the form of the flute, getting more cheery as the phrase goes along, all while the piano stays by the side never overpowering the flute.
I honestly just adore this game's soundtrack.
Holy shit I love that. I didn’t even think to look at his theme
Wow thanks for that insight!
Roxas has always struck me as the negative emotions that Sora tries to suppress until he ultimately has to accept them (symbolized in KH3 when Roxas returns).
I think that's a tad reductive... Roxas strikes me as fundamentally different from Sora on almost every level. Coded was a less than stellar game, but it established one thing: Sora knew pain. He knew loss and abandonment. Roxas's emotions weren't born from any suppressed negativity on Sora's part, but rather his own trials and tribulations.
@@TheEnder515
Great idea!
Roxas is one of the most tragic characters in the whole series. Sora WANTED the call to adventure. He wanted to leave his island. All Roxas has ever wanted is just to be a normal kid with his friends. He's very much like Pinocchio who equally wanted to be a real boy and grappled with being manipulated by others for their own agenda. I think he grows to hate Sora because so much of the misery in his life is because of his connection to him. It's what makes his decision of "giving up" and returning to Sora one of the bravest decisions in his life because, in a way, he gives up his autonomy as much as he wants to hold it. But in the post KH2 games, talking and fighting with Sora, Sora validates everything -- the pain in his life and that he deserves to be his own person. It REALLY helps him to understand that Sora is not his enemy. Ironically by "giving up" his autonomy and fully embracing Sora, he gains the freedom and autonomy he always wanted. He's now in his own person and so are his friends. He doesn't have to fight for anybody that he doesn't want too and he can just spend time with his friends. One of the BEST character stories in the whole series!! 🤍🖤
So well said :’)
The 🐐 character
Imo Roxas will forever be the best written character in this series as well as arguably the strongest.
Keep in mind he beats siax with little to no issue, forced Riku to make a Faustian deal to win, and on top of that when they were sapping his strength as well as the memories trapped in him to awaken Sora he still managed to beat Axel.
now an argument could be made that yes Axel was holding back, but keep in mind that this was the organization's assassin whose major role was to kill defectors, who not only manage to take out xion once by surprise, he managed to do it again in a straight up fight when she had absorbed so much from Roxas.
I very much believe Roxas could have killed Riku, killed Xemnas, and completed Kingdom Hearts himself, at which point he would essentially become God. I wonder what it would look like if Roxas remade the multiverse in his image the way Xehanort wanted to… Would he even change all that much besides bringing Xion back? Definitely a lot of fanfic potential there.
@@DreigonixWell, keep in mind Xemnas also has that whole 'can you spare a Heart' attack, even with a 'weakened' Kingdom Hearts, able to warp reality (created a flying dragon thing or whatever) and could make a second clone. Even without Kingdom Hearts, he still managed to pull Sora into a 'fake' World That Never Was, and possibly stop time? (KH1.) We never see Roxas use Time Magic. We can assume he can as Sora learned it quite quickly, same as how Xion uses gravity, but, yeah.
It'd be a hard fight, but I unfortunately think Roxas would lose, he'd have his Heart stolen by Xemnas like Sora would have had if Riku wasn't there. Now, Sea Salt Trio together, or with Riku and possibly Mickey? Yeah, I could see it.
@@Dreigonix God, I WISH people would write fan fics for kh with concepts like this, all I can ever find is high school aus and shipping fics!
@@voiceofthelegion578 I _am_ writing a fic kinda like that, but it is _also_ a very very explicit and indulgent Roxas/Xion And Also A Bunch Of Other People fic, so… some things never change, I guess. XD
@@Dreigonix Hey man, power to whatever you want to write, but as a non shipping avid fanfic reader, I'm just in constant pain with multiple fandoms, and never miss the opportunity to complain about it. I'm sure your fic is great though.
I dont care how much i know this story, this video still made me cry like a baby. Roxas is one of the deepest characters in this series. Thanks for making this bro! Great job!!
This might be an unpopular opinion but I feel Roxas and Xion bond is closer then romantic, they are best friends who need each other. The series is about friendship (I don’t want to start the ship wars on the destiny island trio) so their bond is special enough without going into the romantic sense.
@JabamiLain clue me in on what I missed? What's this about Namine being immoral and unethical? Not defending the character just confused by what ya said. It's been a hot minute since I played all the kh games 2019
@@JabamiLain wait what
I almost had a stroke reading the romantizistion part
Care to explain?
Yeah I got romantic vibes from them too.
@@JabamiLain didn't noticed this one but I just realized what her resolve really mean before her fight with Roxas
This video, broke me a bit, at the end. While I see myself a lot in Aqua, I see my _journey_ through Roxas'. That last scene of Roxas with all of his friends, it got me. I've, lost so much due to things outside of my control. My whole life, torn from me, and then I was placed in a situation outside of my control. Where suddenly, my life wasn't my own, and was told not only that this is the way things were supposed to be, but on some level made to believe that my resentment at not having control over my life is something to be ashamed of.
That, and your discussion at the end on grief, has given me the drive I needed to push forward. I, I _won't_ give up, and I won't stop fighting. I'll return to my own sky, one day. I know it. Thank you, for giving this Princess, enough drive to keep fighting to break her chains, and to one day return to the blue sky that _she_ remembers is hers.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Keep pushing!
@@JabamiLain Honestly, I wouldn't mind reading it.
@@BioRoxas Thank you, BioRoxas. 🥲
Hey Bio? Could you do a psychology of Namine video one day? She is really underused by the fandom and honestly unlike the sea salt trio she doesn’t even have true friends until the end of KH3 (she even suggests to Sora they only care about Roxas and not her in the final world).
I, too, would very much like to see a breakdown of her character because growing up, I used to really dislike her. Somehow, I had it in my head that she was far more responsible for the suffering Roxas went through. (Rather than the people who used her for their own reasons.) Nowadays I'm just sorta lost what to think about her.
Hmm maybe! It would definitely be on the shorter side just due to how little screen time she has but I would be interested
@@BioRoxas thank you! I know people tend to sympathize with Xion or Roxas more due to 358/2 days but I kinda give more sympathy to Namine. She had no one in her entire existence she could actually call a friend.
I think she feels Sora only considered her a friend because she messed with his memories (although I think honestly knowing Sora personality if they met officially he could befriend her regardless),
data Riku she probably feels guilt for messing his memories
Real Riku was only focused on waking up Sora (their interactions seems rather short and formal in 358/2 days and KH2)
Diz openly referred to her as a witch (which the organization members like Larxene called her too) due his prejudice against all nobodies (due to what his apprentices did) but in KH3 his treatment of Roxas and Namine is one of his biggest regrets.
Axel threatened to use her as a shield and they kinda had a moment in KH2FM escaping but Axel was focused on getting back Roxas still
But luckily for Namine by KH3 Sora assured her she is NOT alone. And it seems that data Riku did have a genuine want to save her as he gave up his chance to be reborn in a replica to give to Namine.
Hmm it would be interesting to look at guilt and shame through her story 🤔
@@BioRoxas nice! And maybe show how the interactions she has with the few people she knows kinda could play into her lack of self worth (at least the sea salt trio constantly had each other even to the end) Namine doenst have these sort of positive relationships with people.
Roxas tried to be the glue of the trio, but someone threw water before it settled in
19:03 btw I just love the fact that this scene happens just after he beats the shit out of his supervisor. He is still a kid, after all, when everything is hopeless and lost, one can only go to their happy place and assume the fetal position
Ice cream crew is prolly my favorite . I love them and i cry everytime that reunion scene plays. Like i cant even stop from tearing up for seeing the whole crew on the clocktower
I dont have to be immersed or anything the scene hits by itself
I said it before and I'll say it again: getting gaslit, gatekept and girlbossed around for almost a year straight changes a guy specially if said guy was born that same year.
Also, loved the video.
I've seen some say Roxas is pretty much Cloud's story again with tweaks right down to his design. Living a life that wasn't really his, to finding out he was an imposter.Taking their involvement with Shinra/Org13, their manipulation at the hands of Sephiroth and Xemnas,, the death of both Zack and Xion prompting them..
The scene where Xion starts crying at the end just makes me immediately 🥺
Like, no small bean dont cry and Roxas' little hops to get to her while Lea watches.
I love this trio so much and i cant wait to see where they go in the next saga 😭
It broke me for sure. It still does even when I know it’s coming
Poor Roxas. He's really struggled so much. He feels like he was not ment to exist but Sora knows he deserves to have his own life and a heart. Thats why he got so emotionally when seeing him in Dream Drop Distanc.e
Considering a big part of Roxas's character is how he's his own person and how he's constantly compared to Sora. Imagine if a plot point in the future is everyone keeps mistaking him for Ventus and some people attack him for it
And then anytime someone sees Ventus they think he's Roxas and leave him alone
The fact that KH3 ends with Roxas getting everything he's ever wanted while Sora loses everything is something that I never would have expected. From closure I never thought I would have to an even tougher gut punch. I wonder if even Nomura understood at the time just how prophetic Data Roxas' words to Sora were: "The hurt owns you now, Sora. Don't you see that? It's a wound that will never end." Those two eternally live rent free in my head.
I’ve always resonated strongly with Roxas, and the idea of Nobodies in general, and seen a lot of myself in them.
Not to get too deep into things, but I first played Days as a young teen (my first KH, too,) and even then I was no stranger to depression. However, I didn’t quite understand it as depression at the time. What I did know was that at a certain point, I couldn’t tell if I was feeling too much emotion, or nothing at all… It all seemed to blend into a numb haze. And as many so often do, I masked that numbness in a facade of normality and practiced smiles. Got so used to it I had a hard time telling when I was acting, and when I was actually feeling. (Still do sometimes, to be honest.)
So to have these characters who were supposed to feel nothing, yet seemed to anyway, and even they couldn’t tell how much of it was an act… It hit hard for me. Felt like someone else “got it,” even when I didn’t.
As a result Roxas, and Days as a whole, became something very dear to my heart. Special in that way that only the right art at the right time can be. Always happy to see these things getting the love I feel they deserve, and it definitely gets me a bit sentimental. Heh, maybe a little too much so, sorry.
No not too much :) thanks for sharing and I’m so happy to hear you resonated so much with the Days trio.
Roxas will forever be my favorite character in the series. Superbly well written, has the best story in game in my opinion. (please fully remake days, the 1.5 animated videos left out so much of the story and context). Cant wait to see him in the future because i really doubt Nomura forgets about him for the upcoming arc vs the MoM or whoever the new big bad is.
Funnily enough I also compare Roxas very heavily with Silver from the Sonic series due to their mannerisms, tragic stories and how they deal with things as well.
Roxas was always a character that i related to, hell i've got his cross as a necklace that i had for years, his story help me through a lot, it definitely why he's my favourite character.
Edit: about grief, it something that I've been dealing with, and hearing you talk about it was beautiful.
Roxas, Xion, and Axel will always be my favorite crew in kh. I had always felt like I resonated with both Roxas and Xion. Days was even my first kh game. I had never really thought about it till now about Roxas going through grief through the series and now I’m even more glad I played kh3 to see them finally get their happy ending.
Roxas is so great. So simple yet so complex. His journey was one that really meant something to me ever since playing days.
Oh I didn’t even think of the similarities between the Twilight gang and sea salt trio convos. Great video as always, Bio ^^
Would love to see you do a video on Terra or Ven ^^!
the kingdom key, the ice cream, the stick… roxas my boy im so sorry
Oh I'm far from ready for a psychology breakdown on Roxas. Don't worry though, I got a whole box of tissue on standby. Hit us, Bio!
You'll need them!!
The prince of angst himself
Bit of a ramble, but remember that "Off day" that Roxas has? It's implied (if not, mentioned) that he's feeling that way because of Xion taking his strength/power. So is the final day when he fights Riku a show of him being back at full strength due to Xion being eliminated?
I know Nomura probably didn't intend for this, but Roxas really helped me accept myself as someone who's gay. I'm not saying Roxas is gay or LGBTQ+, but he helped me a lot when I was still in the closet. Seeing Roxas fight for his identity and for his own autonomy really hit hard and the line "I am me, nobody else" hit me so hard that I actually got emotional. It really resonated with me. Roxas will always be one of my favorite video game characters and one that helped me a lot when I needed it.
Off topic, but I GOTTA get this revelation off my chest.
What I found unique in 358/2 Days is Xion had a new face when she interacted with Roxas. But when we cut to Axel doing all the talking, we kinda see through HIS perspective that Xion's hood is still covered. But little by little as he warmed up to Xion through Roxas, he could see that face Xion now had.
The cutscenes made it pretty clear in both the DS and the HD movie on that, and it's an incredibly amazing detail.
Wouldn’t this technically be psychology of Sora part 2?
I hate this... take my like and get out of here
Haha I should've called it that XD
God dammit why does gave to be funny.
Sora you’re lucky. It looks like my psychology video is over.😔
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I've been waiting sense I recommended this in soras video
Hope it met your expectations :>
actually had to prepare myself for days to not cry watching this, thank you.
Congrats, you made me cry.
I wrote a whole paper on Roxas in High School, y'know. It was a character study; an example of tragedy in storytelling. At the time, I was dealing with my own major loss, so a part of me empathized with the portrayal of Roxas. I had just lost my mother, and I was put into an abusive setting. In Roxas, I found a mirror to my grief, to my pain. Whenever somebody asks me what my favorite Kingdom Hearts game is, I'll tell them Days, because of all these heartfelt, amazing games, none have ever touched my heart the way it did. Roxas knew loss. He knew grief and sadness. He often felt alone in a world that made no sense to him. And in the end, despite all of his fighting, he had to accept the inevitability of his own death. He had to accept that despite how he might fight, he cannot change the world around him. He can only move forward.
Roxas still is my favorite Charakter in KH so it is maybe no wonder why days is so dear to me (especially because i played it in a time in which i asked myself what friendship really meant
358/2 Day was the first Kingdom Hearts game I've ever played and no matter how many times I see the aftermath of the fight with Xion and especially Riku, it just makes my heart ache seeing the memories of Xion and Axel fade in and out...
Seeing the trio FINALLY reunite in 3 had me screaming and crying all over the place. They deserve the world and more after all that pain. Truly peak storytelling!
AMAZING Video!
Seeing this video 13 days after it first released is kind of poetic
The real 👑 WINNER’s are the friends we met up with at the end.
Roxas absolutely broke my heart growing up. I had/have those same anxieties and a hole very profound in my heart. I don’t have family and so my friends meant everything to me. I always feel as if my struggles in wanting my friends to stay in my life is the thing damaging my heart even more.
It’s hard. You grow up and see people finding forever homes with new loved ones or start building a new life and all you have left is this…emptiness.
It’s hard.
I’m sorry to hear that :( it does hurt to lose people.. finding that inner peace is important though. Sometimes we wrap up a lot of our identity in others and so when we lose them, it feels like we lose ourselves
So we aren’t talking about the Roxas fight against Sora in the Dive in the Heart
The "who will I have icecream with" line is so incredibly misunderstood. Most people just think it's hilarious, but it's sad on a deep level. It's literally the only way he knows to communicate loss. He is so depraved of personhood that he doesn't even believe that he's feeling real emotions...
Roxas is a WINNER!
This lovely insight into Roxas reminds me of how much he and Ven both deal with similar situations of struggling to keep their respective families from splitting due to the plans and tinkering of outside forces. They have such different backgrounds yet fight with everything their hearts are capable of to keep the bonds they’ve formed from tearing asunder. Thanks again for your hard work and effort.
I will ALWAYS defend the “ice cream” line in 358 :,)
It's so good!!
Roxas: Who will I have ice cream with?
Xion: *Turns into a giant popsicle*
NOOO
This is easily one of the best analyses I’ve ever seen on a character before. And I myself have gone through a lot of the pain and grief Roxas has, meaning this really struck a cord with me. So, thank you. Seriously.
I have a lot of issues with kh3 but the resolution for both the sea salt trio and the wayfinder trio was so good and all I had wanted for these characters for YEARS. Just seeing them all hug was so cathartic.
Winner. Also I love Roxas he is my favorite KH character. Thanks for uploading this on my birthday even thought that was unintentional. ^^
Happy birthday \o/
I wonder if you'll make a psychology of Xemnas
Ever since KH2 he was the most intriguing antagonist of all KH but when DDD came it broke his well established character cause he said nobodies can grow hearts.
It could be part of psychology of xehanort.
@@user-dp1rl1it8joh yeah that's pretty genius
I'm actually interested on Xehanort's mental state
I definitely want to do one on Xehanort :) maybe I’ll touch on Xemnas in it
As much as the Icecream line is memed to hell and back it did shutter my heart when playing KH 358/2 Days 💔
I want to thank you so much for these videos.
Not only does it help me better appreciate the characters, but it often helps me remember why I found such a connection to them in the first place.
Whether it’s because I aspired to be like them, or I felt that I experienced many of the same emotions they did. Makes me want to explore those emotions and strengths in them and find ways to use it for good in my own life.
Again, thank you, BioRoxas.
It makes me so happy to read things like this :’) it’s all I want with this series!
I lik to think roxas still remembered
Wooo! Just woke up and I’m ready! ❤
Edit: this whole video was so calming and relaxing while I work on my gardening. (Hah I grabbed a stick as soon at you mentioned the meme part and laughed)
You did a fantastic job in this video breaking down our ice cream loving boy.
I honestly missed a out on how Roxas really took a lot of what Axel taught him and helped Sion in the same way and how he lost so much when it came to his friends. I didn’t even realize that’s why he’s so focused on ice cream because of Axel teaching him and that’s why we get that meme of him telling Sion about who’s going to eat ice cream with him now. I’m glad you did this cause I have so much more respect for Roxas as a character.
No wonder my partner is a Roxas fan instead of a Sora fan. (He wishes we got an entire PS4 game just for Roxas POV instead of Sora’s)
This was such a lovely breakdown and I’m all here for it! Now it’s time to rewatch in case I’ve missed some things❤
Ahh I’m so glad I was able to help you get to know roxas more :>
Happy gardening ^^ glad I could be your background music haha
I love this! Roxas is by far my favorite character(which I’ve heard is a bit controversial)the first game I played was days and I’ve always felt the closest to the days trio. On that note, I want to see a psychology of Axel/Lea. Seeing his side of days and the journey to get his friends back would be interesting.
I definitely want to do one on axel :>
A great character analysis on Roxas and his psychology.
That scene in Dream Drop Distance is actually called Roxas’s Grief!
honestly very well done video, this was great
winner
I hope you continue this psychoanalysis of characters in Kingdom Hearts 🗝️💕❤️
Terra’s next ^^
I absolutely love these kinds of content so much, thank you
I just found your youtube channel and omg you def deserve more fame
also roxas is my fav character in KH
your psychological analysis of him literally made me tear up
It's crazy because I started with KH2 on playstation 3 or 2. I loved the intro and I thought that I was going to play him for the whole game. It saddened me to experience the whole game as Sora after that introduction. I've made the number XIII a part of my being because of him. This guy changed me, and so did KH in general. Roxas will always be my favorite.
358/2 probably has the best story in any of the KH games
I Finally got around to watching this video in it's entirety and I got to say you nailed it as expected!
You really understand his character and even raised points I hadn't really thought of!
Days is my favorite game in the series because Roxas' Story is one i Identified with a lot through Highschool and even a little bit now as an Adult to the point this felt like therapy to me hahaha
thank you for doing this series, it's always so fascinating. Keep up the good work!
FANTASTIC video. So many things I never even realized I never missed. Great stuff!
His whole life was owed to sora, and everything from Roxas, from his heart to his feelings all belong to Sora, yet he knows nothing about his creditor.
It breaks my heart that his last plea at Xion "Who else will I have ice cream with?", was him losing his last friend...
Roxas, after being denied of his own existence multiple times and finally giving up on fighting for the meaning of his birth, departs into Sora with nothing to his name. One of the most tragic endings of the franchise.
Something that I like is that Roxas didn't retaliate against Sora until Axel got axed
I'm really Glad Roxas got a Second Chance at the end of KH3. He was able to Live as his own person
You're a winner bio-roxas. Thank you for this touching video and all of the tremendous work you put into it.
this is what i needed. thank you for this.
oh this was so lovely! i see so many videos using roxas to explore concepts of identity (which are perfectly valid considering how major of a role identity is to his story), but this is the first i've seen to look at his story though an angle of grief specifically. and your noting of the fact that roxas *repeatedly* experiences loss paired with the joy of connection was a nice detail to point out! it creates such a painful foundation for his ability form secure attachments. it's no wonder roxas cant bring himself to trust anyone anymore by the end of Days. thank you for putting so much time and work into this!
and i just wanted to add a thank you for your ending note about grief in general. i experienced a major loss myself earlier this year and your words were really helpful to hear. and having them connected to a character that has meant the world to me since 2006 was extra impactful. thank you
I’m sorry to hear that :( loss is so tough to deal with and I hope you’ve been taking care of yourself though it
Roxas will probably always be my favorite KH character. Heck, 5 years ago I even made a DND character based off of him and he is still my favorite PC I've ever played. It's inspiring to watch him grow and develop from someone who was given the purpose of fighting but would eventually choose his own purpose of protecting his friends. Sora telling him that he deserves to be his own person always resonates with me.
I think it's a shame that there isn't too much more to dive into with Xion. I love her character and would be interested in a Psychology of Xion video but it seems like most of it would be retreading this video's points since they do mirror each other a lot.
Regardless, this is a great video as always. Thank you Bio!
As much as I love the characterization of Roxas in the games, I think I like it even more in the manga, especially in 358/2 Days. He and all the organization members are given even more personality, and it’s so fun to see
Thanks for taking the time to make this. As someone who resonates heavily with this character (not a good thing), this will help with my clarity.
I hope you find your clarity soon :) I know it can be tough working through grief and identity and during that everything feels so chaotic. I hope you can find some peace soon
Cool & Awesome Video, Roxas is One Of My Favorite Characters to the Point My 1st Kingdom Hearts Plushie was Roxas who i Still Have to This Day 😄👍
"Let's have some ice cream. We are best friends."
"you are right."
"HaHaHahAhAHaHahAhAhA"
YES I’ve been playing days recently again and I needed to see this as a roxas fan this is something I never knew I needed till now
I cried. Thank you for this
Thank you for making this video. At the end, when you are speaking, about grief, in this section, a brief discussion on grief, I started utterly crying. A part of me was saying, it hurts so much. My heart hurts so much. Even now, when I'm speaking these words, with the help of a speech-to-text function, my voice is still shaking. I still feel it right now. I'm doing this via speech, because it would be too much for me to write this down right now, to be honest. I went through so much in my life, so, so, so much. And for many years, I'm already on my healing journey with several therapists and coaches along the way. And things are changing. I'm changing. The people around me are changing, which is beautiful. But sometimes, sometimes a lot even, I still feel that deep pain inside of me. Because of what I experienced, I'm still like a child. I will need a lot of support to manage this life. So many things I never learned how to do. And I need people to teach me. On the one hand, I can say everything is okay. I will do this because I'm looking for people to help me, to support me. On the other hand, a part of me is still yearning for help. Yearning for someone to take care of me completely. As I was always seeking for that help in my life. For someone to finally rescue me out of the place back then where I lived with my father. It was hell. To me it was utter hell.
And I was slways seeking a kind of vulnerability with people that might be very strange to most people. Not just emotional vulnerability, but also physically. No one that I ever had known was seeking that type of vulnerability. And I feel very lonely with that. I don't even know why I'm sharing all of this, but for some reason this is very important to me right now. So I do it. And whoever wants to answer, please be honest. You don't have to hold back. So, yeah. That's what I have to say.
I hope you continue to strive towards healing :) I don’t have any magic words or insight to give but it sounds like you’ve been through a hurtful time. I hope you’re able to find the peace and comfort you’re looking for.
@@BioRoxas Thank you for your kind words. I appreciate that a lot.
Yeah, of course I continue my healing journey. I have no other choice if I want to live. My healing journey isn’t limited by doing therapy. Nearly everything I do in my life is part of it. Watching anime, playing games like Kingdom Hearts, being able to watch these characters growing and acting in a way I was missing in my life for so long. And greater truths in Kingdom Hearts, being able to sense truths, I can’t explain in full. Maybe knowledge I had before coming into this current body. Kingdom Hearts and other media, mostly anime and JRPGs seem to connect me to knowledge that I might have forgotten, but which is still sleeping deep inside of me.
I‘ll have to face really painful memories. And I want to. I might have experienced one of the most painful experiences one can go through in my esrly childhood. I don’t remember it happening, but I feel it in my body. I‘m not sure if I should say it straight forward. Maybe you know already what I mean.
I loved spending time with Roxas… the kh2 prologue hate is understandable BUT… he’s just his own little guy, like let’s cut him some slack! I think the people who watch this would agree though lol
I loooved roxas when I first met him haha I wanted him back after I played kh2
Well, damnn yo, thank you, my man, made one damn good video.
Another way Days echoes the II Prologue is how someone manipulates events to deny Roxas opportunities. DiZ sends Riku into the simulation to steal the munny purse because he presumably doesn’t have the capacity or doesn’t want to risk creating a beach environment (I’m going with the latter, to prevent further breaches by Axel and the Dusks), the loss of a beach day affecting Roxas as the four worked to raise the train fare.
WINNER.
Very well done and thoughtful video. Roxas has been through so much ever since he was introduced. I loved playing the KH2 prologue over and over simply because of how deep it was, how it struck a chord. Roxas and his friends were plagued by tragedy so many times and seeing them finally get their happy ending was well earned.
Your thoughts on his final line to Xion in Days was also unexpected. I always enjoyed the game, but when it came to that moment, I always preferred the fan translated version of "Let's have ice cream again, the three of us." It felt more meaningful to me. But with your thoughts here on "Who else will I have ice cream with?" really gives me a new perspective.
I'd love to see a video on Namine one day. ^_^
KH2 was my first KH game and Roxas will always be my favourite character in the series.
Thank you so much for using your own time to make us this amaying video. I loved every psychology of ... video but i think this one is my favourite until now. Roxas is the character who gave me the most heartbreaks and made me cry the most and i rarely cry over something. I was so happy after hearing that you will make this video.
The sript was so greatly written it's unbelivable. I was nearly crying listening to this video. Seeing his character now makes me happy that he was the one who let me feel like this.
Thanks to him my only wish is that one day i can eat ice cream with all my friends because i never did this before. I always was so jealous of roxas of being able to do this with his friends.
Just another positive thing ... Not only did you make me almost cry with this video and this script but you also wrote it so that my friend who watched it with me , with no knowledge of kingdom hearts understood this video without any problems. She found it pretty interesting how you worked with roxas chrakter and how you explained roxas. How you expained how he change from someone who just doing work to someone whose priority lays by his friends.
Thank you so much for being the link that helped me to show her something of the game and the characters that i can call my home
Oh my god I’m so happy your friend was able to enjoy it and share something special with you :’)
Hearing At Dusk, I'll Think of You always gets me in the feels. I can't help the gut wrenching feeling I get. The pain and sorrow the music and story portray always resonated with me growing up, and evidently still does
Yoko shimomura is one of the most incredible composers for sure. She strikes at your heart with so many songs
HELL yeah. My favourite guy.
That was phenomenal
I've always loved Roxas even before it was cool too, he's such a good charachter and nothing makes me more happy than when he and Sora have a nice moment together. Something that might be cool to do is when Donald and Goofy find out where Sora is, maybe he goes with them wanting to help Sora out of his own darkest moment. I'm almost positive Donald and Goofy will somehow get to Sora first, I just can't picture them not being there with Sora for the whole game. Does'nt mean it can't work and I'll be open minded if their not but it would be weird for that trio to not be together
I've always wondered why Roxas wields Oblivion on his right, and Oathkeeper on his left.
Notice that when Sora is on Double Form, the held keyblades are swapped.
Uh, btw what were you gonna say regarding Roxas's clash with Sora by the end of KH2? This part got skipped, idk why.
28:55 Oof there's an image and sound delay.
What impresses me is that just like Sora, Roxas was able to forgive Axel after what happened by the end of days and the start of KH2, and they were all able to forgive Saïx when he became Isa again. Meanwhile it took some time for Sora to trust Iago.
Oh did it skip? :o I have no idea haha that’s so frustrating 😭
I always thought Oblivion represented the hole in Roxas's memory where Xion used to be, and Oathkeeper represented the resolve Axel had to bringing Roxas back, no matter what. Always with the icky jobs.
"Nothing Lasts Forever" HA I get it.
Lmaoo unintentional but I love it XD
Man I'm waiting to watch this at work
I want to say 2 things about this video.
The first is that the way you looked into the psychology of Roxas made me think about myself with a different and more ordered way.
The second is, i would be glad if there would be subtitles... I stopped the video all the time to listen again your phrases, because i wasn't sure of what you were saying, but youtube subtitles are not so good, so sometime i really used my intuition, where subtitles couldn't help me.
I want to say that obviously it's not a problem with you, it's me who don't speak english as first language nor enough fluently, i really need subtitles and i think more people like me would benefit from it.
Anyways, thanks for your hard work in this, i think I'll remember this video as one of the most serious and exciting for me.
I will look into making subtitles for these videos :) thanks for bringing attention to that!
“I’ve Been Waiting For This!”
Could you please cover Terra next due to the complexity of his situation. Do the fact that he goes through myriads of different things in his existence
That is my next one :)
Can you do Terra next? There’s a lot of hidden depth to him that people overlook to use the Terra is dumb meme when he’s one of the most interesting protagonists on a psychological level.
Yup :) he’s what I’m working on right now!
I’m literally BEGGING and hoping you make video on Axel/Lea. I feel like not a lot of people talk about Axel and the actually depth of his character.
Definitely on my radar