Bro over here got me in some kind of Trance or some 💩. I just Spent the last two days Watching all of these.... And the thing is.... I'VE ALREADY SEEN THESE LIKE TEN FREAKIN' TIMES AND I JUST CAN'T STOP..! THESE MF VIDEOS ARE LIKE CARROT SLICES AND I JUST CAN'T STOP WATCHING THEM!!!!!! 😭
Thanks! It took a dedicated year to get these KH videos going one after the other from KHFM to KHIII, so I'm happy some can appreciate how long the behind-the-scenes stuff took me, haha.
i'd like to point out that you do Prankster's Paradise before The Grid, since Sora reacts with shock to seeing Xemnas being alive again in Prankster's Paradise. it makes more sense in terms of the story.
That is correct! It's part of the weird quirk with how they assigned the Battle Levels there, where Sora clearly is meant to see Xemnas first in PP before The Grid, just something that happened to me and likely others who use the Levels to determine the order, despite how they present it to you on the Map and for story purposes.
I love Dream Drop Distance, took me a while to figure out how the dream eaters work but way worth it. Does anyone know where or how I can get the T-Rex?
you can get the recipe for the Tyranto Rex after protecting Princess Minnie's carriage from the large Tyranto Rex in Country of the Musketeers in Sora's side.
Yensid's expression at 2:29:50 is priceless. Okay, so, when a Nobody dies, their essence rejoins with their hearts and the two re-corporealize into a Somebody. But I'm noticing that some members are missing--like Larxene. I initially presumed that people who die in Castle Oblivion somehow lost their ability to become whole again, but then Saix(?) appears at the end to become one with Xehanort. Maybe I'm just confusing characters, or maybe Xehanort used time travel to take Saix to the future, from before Castle Oblivion to the grand unification? Also, I think you said that you'll discuss Xigbar becoming half-Xehanort. I'm unsure if that was actually covered, or if my expectations of the explanation were in a different direction. Was that like Sora and Ventas sharing a body? I presumed (perhaps falsely) that Sora regained the memories of Xion earlier, but in retrospect I'm probably crossing a few too many brain cells from the revelations in Re:Coded that had nothing to do with Sora actually learning anything. But why did Xion show up in the dream world and finally have memories of her re-integrate with Sora? Dream magic mumbo-jumbo? So, Xehanort once went to Destiny Islands at approximately the same time as the place was being consumed by Darkness? He was the guy at the beginning of very first game, right? (So much to remember!) Okay, A) I wonder why he was there in the first place, and B) which version of him also decided to mess with Sora and Riku's test, a younger version informed by a version from the future, or a time-traveler from the future? Probably doesn't matter, but at this point I don't know anything anymore, lol. Whew! Good stuff! Almost there!
A bunch of lore stuffs! Love tackling these. Okay, so the only qualifications we know to be recompleted is if one's lost heart captured by a Heartless is defeated as well as their Nobody, they'll eventually reform into a Somebody, and that person returns from where they originally lost their heart. This relates to the ending of Re:coded, where it showed the six apprentices and evidently Isa and Lea as well, when Young Xehanort chose Saïx/Isa to become a Seeker of Darkness. Young Xehanort's the one who was given the time-travel ability somehow and was thus responsible for bringing Isa forward in time for the climax here. I briefly discuss it, but it was more as a callback to why Birth by Sleep decided to focus on Braig's yellow eyes, grey streaks in his hair and pointed ears, which was a major hint that Braig was already Nort'd by then, and was there as the Organization's No. II when Xemnas was later created. Braig/Xigbar's plans aren't fully clear, but he was always shown to be willing to go alongside Master Xehanort's plan no matter what form he took, enough to bear his heart for a while now. Because Sora has Ventus, Roxas and Xion's memories and hearts within him, he was kind of experiencing a bunch of that "hurt" during his forced sleep there. It always seemed to me that he wasn't made aware of the hearts all within him yet because they needed Sora to first learn how to wake sleeping hearts to begin with, since Sora would be pulled off-track trying to save everyone if they told him before he was ready to help those they told him he could properly help everyone who's lives have been interfered with. Re:coded was kind of a test-run using Data-Sora to ensure Sora's heart wouldn't break from all the hurt, but the real Sora himself wasn't made aware, as far as I can tell. The beginning of the test was essentially the actual opening to the first Kingdom Hearts, when the hooded Ansem that was only a heart was there to "see the door to this world" which was also his own home world so long ago. I always assumed Ansem was there because he didn't have a body to possess and take a proper physical form, and was there mainly for Riku, and was thus able to use the same point in time to hijack their Mark of Mastery a year+ later, so it worked out in multiple ways for Xehanort to try and make Sora the Thirteenth vessel when he was there first for Riku before his character development and immunity to darkness possession. I assumed that Young Xehanort was then able to travel through time to this moment, mark Sora with the Resucant's Sigil, and thus keep track of him through the Sleeping Worlds. There's a lot to break down on this one, so lemme know if this helped any! I love reading your comments on this crazy series and how well I seem to be doing breaking down the Deepest Lore Kingdom Hearts has.
@@GazKnightofNylrac A part of me doesn't know which oh-so-popular Spongebob meme to use: Patrick Star going brain-dead, or Mr. Krabs looking around in confusion as the world spins faster than can be comprehended. But let's try to parse this! "Okay, so the only qualifications we know to be recompleted is if one's lost heart captured by a Heartless is defeated as well as their Nobody, they'll eventually reform into a Somebody, and that person returns from where they originally lost their heart" I'm with you here, although it does bring up a question: I don't recall ever seeing a Nobody's respective Heartless (Besides Ansem, Seeker of Darkness), so were the ones for the other Organization members killed off-screen, killed on-screen but I just wasn't paying attention, or never in existence? I figure that, if anything, they were immediately harvested for the construction of a manufactured KH, but that's just wild speculation on my part. "This relates to the ending of Re:coded, where it showed the six apprentices and evidently Isa and Lea as well, when Young Xehanort chose Saïx/Isa to become a Seeker of Darkness. " I have honestly no memory of this, but maybe that's just because I lacked the context of 3D to consider it important. But okay, Saix was given a piece of Xehanort's heart or something very early on (well before Castle Oblivion) and thus time-traveled. "Because Sora has Ventus, Roxas and Xion's memories and hearts within him, he was kind of experiencing a bunch of that "hurt" during his forced sleep there. It always seemed to me that he wasn't made aware of the hearts all within him yet because they needed Sora to first learn how to wake sleeping hearts to begin with," I'm kind of charmed by the idea of hearts having a sort of sleep mode when injured or in danger or disrupted in some way (however that works). But now it makes me wonder how that's separated from locking a heart. What's the difference between a locked heart and a sleeping heart? Based on what I've seen here, with how Sora can hold hearts (both literally and figuratively, the latter being about how people can sort of 'lend' some of the energy of their hearts to those they care about), alongside how unlocking hearts was a means to have them escape from Darkness, and that video I've seen speculating that KH is really just a mass of hearts with a sort of shared consciousness, I have this initial idea: A normal heart is a thing that flows outwards with a sort of spiritual essence, always reaching out to other hearts (power of friendship, yadayadayada, and to be a sort of diffuse KH). A locked heart is one that bars itself from being (for want of a better term) "extroverted", because it is concerned about being damaged by outside influences. Whereas a sleeping heart is one that actually broke in some way and basically lacks conscious impulses. Ventus was nearly dead, Roxas had his own trauma with Xion and perhaps reincorporation, and Xion dissolved into a heart with only lingering memories. Of course, maybe all of this fitting together is just a bunch of happy accidents on the part of the series' writers, or maybe the actual conclusions are completely different, but at least it's helping all of this "sort of" make sense. " I always assumed Ansem was there because he didn't have a body to possess and take a proper physical form" I thought that Ansem, Seeker of Darkness was the form? Like, Xehanort split his heart from his body, and almost immediately Xemnas and Ansem SOD came into existence?
Director Tetsuya Nomura has confirmed that most Heartless aren't special and it's safe to assume they were simply defeated within the last 10+ years in some way, since Ansem, Seeker of Darkness (aka Xehanort's Heartless) is really the only outlying Heartless example alongside Sora, even though his tiny Shadow was more a representation of the relatively-low amount of darkness he had, Sora still retained his sense of self like Ansem did. While that would be the assumption, given how Saïx already possessed the pointy ears and yellow eyes by the time Days/KHII was a thing, he seemed to've been selected by Young Xehanort at the end of Re:coded to be a member of the True Organization XIII, yeah. Since all these Seekers of Darkness were taken from various points in time where they were already part-Xehanort, so it could be at any point in time, since YX could time-travel to any version of himself to bring them to Where Nothing Gathers at the end of 3D. I don't think your speculation's too off-base! It was said that Master Eraqus was going to specifically "lock" Ventus' heart near the ending of BBS thanks to the Chronicle files in 3D here, but exactly how you can affect and change/hurt/extract hearts is a tricky business that isn't totally consistent and probably dependent on ability of the Keyblade Master in question. Part of the rules being so vaguely-explained means we have to infer a lot of the nitty-gritty details until they're relevant or expanded upon, haha. Keyblades are still very much a mystery despite being heavily-hinted at being representations of a being's heart, be it a person or world, that seems to heavily be tied to memory as well. Next video sort of throws in a small detail that's yet to fully be expanded upon on Keyblades, so hopefully that helps a tiny bit on Friday! Ansem, SoD is the Heartless form of Terranort, but he discarded his body in order to time-travel, and thus was nothing but a heart amidst robes when we see him during the first 2/3's of Kingdom Hearts. It's why he was so adamant on possessing RIku's body for himself to give himself form again as a conduit. At least that's how I always took it, since that's the only time we've seen Ansem given a physical form is when he's either in possession of Riku during the events at Hollow Bastion and thus End of the World. in ReCoM he was a lingering manifestation of the darkness Riku possessed so he was able to be manifested in how darkness works on truly dark characters like Maleficent. Very vague, but he was always a shadow in Riku's heart during the events of ReCoM and then KHII, where he physically embraced that darkness and turned physically into Ansem for the majority of the game. So yes, Ansem is the form, but it had to be discarded since you apparently can't take your entire body through time, so as a Heartless he was able to retain his sense of self as a sentient heart, sort of the dark-side equivalent of how Sora was able to partially help Ventus when he needed it, and how Ven took refuge within Sora while separated from his body. Who knows how long Ansem was in that "just a heart in a robe" state, but he seemed to be there on Destiny Islands in the hopes of using Riku, then took that opportunity when Yen Sid sent Sora and Riku there to enter the Realm of Sleep. So much to wonder about! Gotta love the lore in this insane series! That's not even getting into things like "Can Ansem and Xemnas wield a Keyblade?" and other questions I'll be bringing up properly in the 10th video, so much more to discuss!
@@GazKnightofNylrac Wow, the next video is coming so soon!? Well, I guess it has so, given that KH3 is imminent. I'm excited! Your explanations helped! Personally, I hope that, if the nature of KH and hearts in general are explained in any sufficient detail, that it does follow through with the theories just presented, at least to some extent. It provides both a handy sort of Creation myth (as a mythology/lore junkie, that's always fun) and a reason for how the magic system is derived from it. Like, maybe KH was once one giant heart, a source of potent energy that felt lonely, so it split itself into countless smaller selves and seeded them into what would then become the living worlds and the vibrant cast of Disney and FF characters, creating such a rich diversity of company. And, because all hearts were originally meant to be as one, they all have the ability to reach out and rejoin with other hearts (so that, in a sense, all sentient life is KH 2.0, but spread out). So in another sense, the use of magic (maybe not necessarily the mana system, but insofar as it could relate to using hearts) is based on using each person's own piece of God. Come to think of it, what happens to a person's heart when they die? Does it dissipate? Float away? I sort of like the idea of each heart somehow returning back to the original KH, but, then again, there's also the idea of KH slowly dying as it continuously creates new, mortal life across the myriad worlds.
Bro over here got me in some kind of Trance or some 💩.
I just Spent the last two days Watching all of these....
And the thing is....
I'VE ALREADY SEEN THESE LIKE TEN FREAKIN' TIMES AND I JUST CAN'T STOP..! THESE MF VIDEOS ARE LIKE CARROT SLICES AND I JUST CAN'T STOP WATCHING THEM!!!!!! 😭
Nice work on this. I subbed because this must have taken an eternity and a half
Thanks! It took a dedicated year to get these KH videos going one after the other from KHFM to KHIII, so I'm happy some can appreciate how long the behind-the-scenes stuff took me, haha.
i'd like to point out that you do Prankster's Paradise before The Grid, since Sora reacts with shock to seeing Xemnas being alive again in Prankster's Paradise. it makes more sense in terms of the story.
That is correct! It's part of the weird quirk with how they assigned the Battle Levels there, where Sora clearly is meant to see Xemnas first in PP before The Grid, just something that happened to me and likely others who use the Levels to determine the order, despite how they present it to you on the Map and for story purposes.
@@GazKnightofNylrac it would've made more sense to PP instead of The Grid. wish you would redo that one part of the video.
I love Dream Drop Distance, took me a while to figure out how the dream eaters work but way worth it. Does anyone know where or how I can get the T-Rex?
you can get the recipe for the Tyranto Rex after protecting Princess Minnie's carriage from the large Tyranto Rex in Country of the Musketeers in Sora's side.
Yensid's expression at 2:29:50 is priceless.
Okay, so, when a Nobody dies, their essence rejoins with their hearts and the two re-corporealize into a Somebody. But I'm noticing that some members are missing--like Larxene. I initially presumed that people who die in Castle Oblivion somehow lost their ability to become whole again, but then Saix(?) appears at the end to become one with Xehanort. Maybe I'm just confusing characters, or maybe Xehanort used time travel to take Saix to the future, from before Castle Oblivion to the grand unification?
Also, I think you said that you'll discuss Xigbar becoming half-Xehanort. I'm unsure if that was actually covered, or if my expectations of the explanation were in a different direction. Was that like Sora and Ventas sharing a body?
I presumed (perhaps falsely) that Sora regained the memories of Xion earlier, but in retrospect I'm probably crossing a few too many brain cells from the revelations in Re:Coded that had nothing to do with Sora actually learning anything. But why did Xion show up in the dream world and finally have memories of her re-integrate with Sora? Dream magic mumbo-jumbo?
So, Xehanort once went to Destiny Islands at approximately the same time as the place was being consumed by Darkness? He was the guy at the beginning of very first game, right? (So much to remember!) Okay, A) I wonder why he was there in the first place, and B) which version of him also decided to mess with Sora and Riku's test, a younger version informed by a version from the future, or a time-traveler from the future? Probably doesn't matter, but at this point I don't know anything anymore, lol.
Whew! Good stuff! Almost there!
A bunch of lore stuffs! Love tackling these.
Okay, so the only qualifications we know to be recompleted is if one's lost heart captured by a Heartless is defeated as well as their Nobody, they'll eventually reform into a Somebody, and that person returns from where they originally lost their heart. This relates to the ending of Re:coded, where it showed the six apprentices and evidently Isa and Lea as well, when Young Xehanort chose Saïx/Isa to become a Seeker of Darkness. Young Xehanort's the one who was given the time-travel ability somehow and was thus responsible for bringing Isa forward in time for the climax here.
I briefly discuss it, but it was more as a callback to why Birth by Sleep decided to focus on Braig's yellow eyes, grey streaks in his hair and pointed ears, which was a major hint that Braig was already Nort'd by then, and was there as the Organization's No. II when Xemnas was later created. Braig/Xigbar's plans aren't fully clear, but he was always shown to be willing to go alongside Master Xehanort's plan no matter what form he took, enough to bear his heart for a while now.
Because Sora has Ventus, Roxas and Xion's memories and hearts within him, he was kind of experiencing a bunch of that "hurt" during his forced sleep there. It always seemed to me that he wasn't made aware of the hearts all within him yet because they needed Sora to first learn how to wake sleeping hearts to begin with, since Sora would be pulled off-track trying to save everyone if they told him before he was ready to help those they told him he could properly help everyone who's lives have been interfered with. Re:coded was kind of a test-run using Data-Sora to ensure Sora's heart wouldn't break from all the hurt, but the real Sora himself wasn't made aware, as far as I can tell.
The beginning of the test was essentially the actual opening to the first Kingdom Hearts, when the hooded Ansem that was only a heart was there to "see the door to this world" which was also his own home world so long ago. I always assumed Ansem was there because he didn't have a body to possess and take a proper physical form, and was there mainly for Riku, and was thus able to use the same point in time to hijack their Mark of Mastery a year+ later, so it worked out in multiple ways for Xehanort to try and make Sora the Thirteenth vessel when he was there first for Riku before his character development and immunity to darkness possession. I assumed that Young Xehanort was then able to travel through time to this moment, mark Sora with the Resucant's Sigil, and thus keep track of him through the Sleeping Worlds.
There's a lot to break down on this one, so lemme know if this helped any! I love reading your comments on this crazy series and how well I seem to be doing breaking down the Deepest Lore Kingdom Hearts has.
@@GazKnightofNylrac A part of me doesn't know which oh-so-popular Spongebob meme to use: Patrick Star going brain-dead, or Mr. Krabs looking around in confusion as the world spins faster than can be comprehended. But let's try to parse this!
"Okay, so the only qualifications we know to be recompleted is if one's lost heart captured by a Heartless is defeated as well as their Nobody, they'll eventually reform into a Somebody, and that person returns from where they originally lost their heart"
I'm with you here, although it does bring up a question: I don't recall ever seeing a Nobody's respective Heartless (Besides Ansem, Seeker of Darkness), so were the ones for the other Organization members killed off-screen, killed on-screen but I just wasn't paying attention, or never in existence? I figure that, if anything, they were immediately harvested for the construction of a manufactured KH, but that's just wild speculation on my part.
"This relates to the ending of Re:coded, where it showed the six apprentices and evidently Isa and Lea as well, when Young Xehanort chose Saïx/Isa to become a Seeker of Darkness. "
I have honestly no memory of this, but maybe that's just because I lacked the context of 3D to consider it important. But okay, Saix was given a piece of Xehanort's heart or something very early on (well before Castle Oblivion) and thus time-traveled.
"Because Sora has Ventus, Roxas and Xion's memories and hearts within him, he was kind of experiencing a bunch of that "hurt" during his forced sleep there. It always seemed to me that he wasn't made aware of the hearts all within him yet because they needed Sora to first learn how to wake sleeping hearts to begin with,"
I'm kind of charmed by the idea of hearts having a sort of sleep mode when injured or in danger or disrupted in some way (however that works). But now it makes me wonder how that's separated from locking a heart. What's the difference between a locked heart and a sleeping heart? Based on what I've seen here, with how Sora can hold hearts (both literally and figuratively, the latter being about how people can sort of 'lend' some of the energy of their hearts to those they care about), alongside how unlocking hearts was a means to have them escape from Darkness, and that video I've seen speculating that KH is really just a mass of hearts with a sort of shared consciousness, I have this initial idea:
A normal heart is a thing that flows outwards with a sort of spiritual essence, always reaching out to other hearts (power of friendship, yadayadayada, and to be a sort of diffuse KH). A locked heart is one that bars itself from being (for want of a better term) "extroverted", because it is concerned about being damaged by outside influences. Whereas a sleeping heart is one that actually broke in some way and basically lacks conscious impulses. Ventus was nearly dead, Roxas had his own trauma with Xion and perhaps reincorporation, and Xion dissolved into a heart with only lingering memories.
Of course, maybe all of this fitting together is just a bunch of happy accidents on the part of the series' writers, or maybe the actual conclusions are completely different, but at least it's helping all of this "sort of" make sense.
" I always assumed Ansem was there because he didn't have a body to possess and take a proper physical form"
I thought that Ansem, Seeker of Darkness was the form? Like, Xehanort split his heart from his body, and almost immediately Xemnas and Ansem SOD came into existence?
Director Tetsuya Nomura has confirmed that most Heartless aren't special and it's safe to assume they were simply defeated within the last 10+ years in some way, since Ansem, Seeker of Darkness (aka Xehanort's Heartless) is really the only outlying Heartless example alongside Sora, even though his tiny Shadow was more a representation of the relatively-low amount of darkness he had, Sora still retained his sense of self like Ansem did.
While that would be the assumption, given how Saïx already possessed the pointy ears and yellow eyes by the time Days/KHII was a thing, he seemed to've been selected by Young Xehanort at the end of Re:coded to be a member of the True Organization XIII, yeah. Since all these Seekers of Darkness were taken from various points in time where they were already part-Xehanort, so it could be at any point in time, since YX could time-travel to any version of himself to bring them to Where Nothing Gathers at the end of 3D.
I don't think your speculation's too off-base! It was said that Master Eraqus was going to specifically "lock" Ventus' heart near the ending of BBS thanks to the Chronicle files in 3D here, but exactly how you can affect and change/hurt/extract hearts is a tricky business that isn't totally consistent and probably dependent on ability of the Keyblade Master in question. Part of the rules being so vaguely-explained means we have to infer a lot of the nitty-gritty details until they're relevant or expanded upon, haha. Keyblades are still very much a mystery despite being heavily-hinted at being representations of a being's heart, be it a person or world, that seems to heavily be tied to memory as well. Next video sort of throws in a small detail that's yet to fully be expanded upon on Keyblades, so hopefully that helps a tiny bit on Friday!
Ansem, SoD is the Heartless form of Terranort, but he discarded his body in order to time-travel, and thus was nothing but a heart amidst robes when we see him during the first 2/3's of Kingdom Hearts. It's why he was so adamant on possessing RIku's body for himself to give himself form again as a conduit. At least that's how I always took it, since that's the only time we've seen Ansem given a physical form is when he's either in possession of Riku during the events at Hollow Bastion and thus End of the World. in ReCoM he was a lingering manifestation of the darkness Riku possessed so he was able to be manifested in how darkness works on truly dark characters like Maleficent. Very vague, but he was always a shadow in Riku's heart during the events of ReCoM and then KHII, where he physically embraced that darkness and turned physically into Ansem for the majority of the game.
So yes, Ansem is the form, but it had to be discarded since you apparently can't take your entire body through time, so as a Heartless he was able to retain his sense of self as a sentient heart, sort of the dark-side equivalent of how Sora was able to partially help Ventus when he needed it, and how Ven took refuge within Sora while separated from his body. Who knows how long Ansem was in that "just a heart in a robe" state, but he seemed to be there on Destiny Islands in the hopes of using Riku, then took that opportunity when Yen Sid sent Sora and Riku there to enter the Realm of Sleep.
So much to wonder about! Gotta love the lore in this insane series! That's not even getting into things like "Can Ansem and Xemnas wield a Keyblade?" and other questions I'll be bringing up properly in the 10th video, so much more to discuss!
@@GazKnightofNylrac Wow, the next video is coming so soon!? Well, I guess it has so, given that KH3 is imminent. I'm excited!
Your explanations helped! Personally, I hope that, if the nature of KH and hearts in general are explained in any sufficient detail, that it does follow through with the theories just presented, at least to some extent. It provides both a handy sort of Creation myth (as a mythology/lore junkie, that's always fun) and a reason for how the magic system is derived from it. Like, maybe KH was once one giant heart, a source of potent energy that felt lonely, so it split itself into countless smaller selves and seeded them into what would then become the living worlds and the vibrant cast of Disney and FF characters, creating such a rich diversity of company. And, because all hearts were originally meant to be as one, they all have the ability to reach out and rejoin with other hearts (so that, in a sense, all sentient life is KH 2.0, but spread out). So in another sense, the use of magic (maybe not necessarily the mana system, but insofar as it could relate to using hearts) is based on using each person's own piece of God.
Come to think of it, what happens to a person's heart when they die? Does it dissipate? Float away? I sort of like the idea of each heart somehow returning back to the original KH, but, then again, there's also the idea of KH slowly dying as it continuously creates new, mortal life across the myriad worlds.
Stop recoded never happened. It was just a myth
Re:Coded..?
More like Re:tar---
*Cough Cough*
You know what.... nm.... 😒