I really wanna make a post about how Vanitas from KH:BbS is actually a LOT like the P4 Shadows and likely meant to embody the same concepts, but since this would be a cross-fandom thing, I wonder if it would find an audience…
I really wanna make a post about how Vanitas from KH:BbS is actually a LOT like the P4 Shadows and likely meant to embody the same concepts, but since this would be a cross-fandom thing, I wonder if it would find an audience…
I don’t think they would do this, because Aqua is painted as a much more calm, composed character than Axel, and the many years in basically limbo would also leave her jaded and patient enough to resist such temptation, I’d imagine. It is an interesting thought, but I doubt it would happen. Even if she had a moment where she acted anything close to that in affect, she’d immediately be overcome by regret and try to correct her mistake as soon as she cooled down the slightest bit.
My first impressions of them.
“Umm… Kinda bland… Does she do anything special? I mean, she seems nice enough, but… huh, I was expecting a more striking personality. Is she even gonna stick on my mind…?”
(OH GOD I DID NOT KNOW.)
What I think of their design.
A bit bland and I have an eternal vendetta going on with the Organization’s black coats, but pretty cute and fine otherwise~
What I think of their role in the story.
Very well done! She tied neatly into everything, filled a few Characterdevelopement-holes for Roxas and, especially, Axel, that were direly needed to make their dynamics seem more believable, created wonderful scenes and generally just was a great way of establishing KH’s extended concept of humanity and how to attain it even further! She was very human and relatable in her actions and emotions. It would have been even better done had 358/2 Days been an OVA or used a different system for character’s facial expressions! Emotions played such a big part in the plot, it really hurt how derpy her face looked in the original 358/2…
What I think of their interactions with other characters.
Her interactions with Roxas and Axel were amazing in how they gradually changed, became more and more complex and sincere and really showed how she, too, begann to develope a more complex grasp on happiness and sadness, togetherness and solitude. I actually like her interactions with Axel almost better than those with Roxas, since he was the closest thing to a parent she ever had. It was heart-warming. Roxas was more of a brother-figure, on the same level as her in communication.
My favorite aspect of the character overall.
Her humanity with all it’s flaws and weaknesses, her balance between independance and dependance, the realism behind her actions and choices and the depth in her struggle in finding out how much about her identity and emotional world is truely “her own”. (That’s more than one, but screw it.)
What could have been improved or changed with regards to the character.
She should have had more cutscenes with Facial Motions from the very beginning, since seeing those was just of extreme importance for her character and the lack of them really, REALLY took away from how much I could relate to her on first playthough.
And, yeah, I still find her design a bit bland.
My number one wish for this character.
That one day she will be able to just enjoy a happy and free, normal life with her loved ones in a place where their only suffering will be that of normal, everyday humans.
I think Axel’s reaction would have been one of the greatest “What the hell?!”s in the series, a perfect mixture of shock, confusion, anger and fear. He would probably have sealed the room right back up and would stomped right over to Saix to get some answers, because, hell, he was told Roxas was *Sora’s* Nobody, so why is there a kid that looks like him in that room?! Is that somehow Roxas’ real Original and was Sora just an excuse? Or maybe Roxas is a Replica, like Xion? What if the Organization is going to do something to Roxas once they get their hands on that kid?! Maybe he’s going to be disposed of then, just like they would dispose of Xion once she’s useless?
Finding Ven in that Chamber would, without doubt, have frighteened Axel beyond compare. Maybe even to the point of rebellion. Maybe this could have been the final straw for him to just take Roxas and Xion and run for it, run somewhere where they won’t find either of them and where noone can scheme and mess with them anymore… Though, alas, they wouldn’t have gotten far. Their Recusant’s Sigils. Xemnas would have found them. And then, all three of them , would have met their end at once…
…Actually, this would make great Fanfic Material.
I really despise Xion
That’s OK.
and I don’t understand why anyone likes her.
Because she has good qualities and a very human personality and traits that many people either find adorable or can identify with. It’s completly normal that there’s people who like her and you should really, really reevaluate your priorities in Fandom if people liking different characters than you do bothers you so much. Don’t waste your time on the stuff you don’t like, enjoy yourself with the stuff you do like.
She was a useless plot point that was completely unnecessary
Oh boy, this again. First of all, she’s a character, not a plotpoint. Why does she need a “use”? Is she a tool? She’s got a really important role: She helps establishing how “the birth of a personality/heart” works in the KH Universe. Unlike the Nobodies, who have a base personality to go off, Xion starts as a complete blank with a little kickstart from Sora’s image of Kairi. She’s vastly interesting because she’s like a field study of “How to create a living, feeling human with individuality and a sense of self”.
Aside from that, she also vastly helped developing what could have potentially been a very 2-dimensional story about Roxas and Axel’s friendship, helps explaining why Roxas started questioning stuff in first place, aides with showing off the true cruelty of Organization 13… etc. etc. etc….
I don’t really see this “Useless” you speak of. Maybe the definition of the word changed in the last 24 hours? That’s the only explanation I can think of for this.
Also, Redundant Department of Redundancy… Department.
and I hope to god she stays gone.
“I don’t like cherry pie, I hope cherry pie ceases to exist, I don’t care if there’s a million other people who like cherry pie and want to continue eating it and that I could just *not* eat it and leave everyone who wants to be, if I hate it then, obviously, it is a bad thing and needs to be purged from the face of the world and that’s why Cherry Pie obviously must cease to exist.”
In the wake of KH 1.5 and all the 358/2 Days related glory that came with it, I have decided to talk about something I have been meaning to talk about for a while - Xion’s name.
Now, “Neni,” you might say “Hasn’t the topic of the symbolism behind this name already been talked about again and again, over and over?”
Well, yes, it is true, that meanings like “Shion”, the flower of remembrance and “Shio”, tide (And also, just so you know it “Salt”) have been covered over and over. However, one meaning has, interestingly, never been touched by any analysis I have read yet. The fact that, in japanese, Xion’s name is spelt and pronounced identically to “Zion”.
(Beware, Kingdom Hearts fanfic under the cut! It’s about Kairi and takes place pre-KH2.)
*sob* Kairi…
I have no idea why I made this list.
By the way, it’s just nitpicking of mine, but I find myself sighing whenever someone refers to normal humans in Kingdom Hearts as “Somebodies”, as if it was an official term.
The whole “Somebody” thing stems from a throw-away line by Axel in Chain of Memories, if I remember right, but at very least by KH3D it’s made very clear that normal people are just called “Humans” in that Universe (Well, at very least in the japanese version, I kinda never played 3D in English…) and that a Nobody doesn’t “have a Somebody”, but an “Original Self”, their true, human identity.
I know that Roxas and Sora co-existing caused some confusion, but people should keep in mind that a Nobody is not usually an entirely seperate entity from their original, human form. Lea/Axel is living proof.
Of course, as an established Fanon-Term, there’s no actual problem with refering to a Nobody’s human self as a “Somebody”. I just would like to make clear it’s not actually what the game calls it. And I’m probably the only one bugged by the use of the term, so never mind me~.
/Pet-Peeve Rant End
