Definitely beyond a shadow of doubt in my mind...Larxene!!!
Haha, Optimus Prime got a little too drunk on octane. I did notice the truck too and think it was unusual. It made me ponder if TWTNW may have been a city built/created from maybe lost worlds, their memories, as the Nobodies were also created from their memories and wills to go on after they were initially turned to Heartless.
Well, I do agree it implies a very strong friendship and bonding. It does appear they both care about each other a lot and that it is a sincere relationship, but at the time it's a deep friendship. I can say though, it's hard to miss the intonations that later on they will probably at least try to have a relationship with one another. Whether it works out though would remain to be seen. Even if it didn't, though, they'd probably always be close friends. It's rather clear she does love him more than she does Riku and Riku kind of backed out of the whole thing with her really. I noted he protected her still but his friendship seems stronger with Sora than with her too. In the end, Sora is sort of the centerpiece of the game and holds the 3 together.
I think the hardest boss out of the Org was Demyx. The timed water creature attacks were difficult on Proud Mode to get accomplished within the time limit at Hollow Bastion and it took me a few tries. I lost to no other boss at all, except Xaldin the 2nd time I played so that I could get Mickey, which was voluntary. Xaldin was hard but Demyx was just a task because of the timed battle.
The worst thing about Anti-Form is it liked to show up when fighting the Nobodies. I stopped using forms completely against the Org XIII members because it was so bad I nearly lost to Saix when I decided to take the chance. Fortunately, though, anti-form worked well against him and even though I was near death, I got him! But, that was enough for me to not use forms anymore against the Org. Too close a call. I didn't mind using it though in other areas. It was fun, but the symbolism of Sora becoming a Heartless wasn't one I liked too much, but it was a point to the story.
I was torn between Riku and Sora, as I don't really like Roxas as much, though he's cool too. Riku won though because he's always getting jipped and he's such a cool character that gets overshadowed.
Why does Riku always get left off these things? He's such a shadowy character or something. I chose Larxene from the list just to not go with the typical Axel response I'd normally put, as I've grown to like her more lately. However, poor Riku.
I don't see what a sticky thread in the books section would hurt to suggest new books to others really. It's the right section for such a thing. I don't think it has to be a 'book of the month' sort of thing, but perhaps just a place to post books read and maybe give a rating and review so people could check them out if they wanted.
I think this is a pretty good idea. It would put some order to it and let people browse a bit easier to find what they are looking for.
As much as I agree that I'd love to see more 'intelligent' responses at times than slogans, quotes and bashings from some people in the debate section, I would surmise that sometimes we have to accept that some people aren't capable of it or don't want to spend the time to back up their response, or there just isn't anything to back up. In the end, it is 'their opinions' they voice and we who like to debate and actually discuss why we feel a way and respect others views etc just have to deal with the fact some people are going to do that and ignore them to get to the rational folks that care to know what a 'debate' is instead of just a confrontation where you snap something out from prejudice. I do see the point raised here but at the same time, I am also reluctant to just say someone should remove those comments by people who randomly spam some silly thing in there because it is not respecting their opinions, even if they aren't really 'debating' but more 'proclaiming this is the way' so you can't get anything constructive out of it. Debates are always on hot topics that will always find people who make these statements so we just kind of figure out who's good at it, who wants to learn, who tries to communicate their thoughts even if they aren't used to it...etc..from the people that just want to be stubborn. I'd have to side with Mish that I don't think the idea is such a hot one and if someone is flaming continuously, then we get a mod.
I think it's a bad idea and if someone is -that bad- to merit banning from one area because they want to flame it, they should be reported and removed from the forums if they persist afterwards. It is important for people to be respectful really in my opinion in each spot of the forums, and not just particular ones. If someone is being mean in one area, it's a side of them that needs to be controlled. One area is not a vent to act poorly in while being acceptable in another. Also, as others pointed out, it may be unfair to the person too, when a mod can just come in and ask the person to stop and if it persists, to ban the person, rather than blocking them so if they get mad, they voice it elsewhere as unfair.
(quote)He had lost all his memories at the time, but later showed remarkable intellectual curiosity and readily absorbed my teachings, gaining deep wisdom. Any mental immaturity is surely due to his young age. I'm curious how this leads you to surmise he's not talking about his young apprentice, Xehanort. Xehanort who was Ansem's apprentice seemed young, far younger than Master Xehanort in the past who people here have lovingly dubbed him with the term of endearments: Baldanort and Geezanort. Ansem's note there to me declares that Xehanort was intuitive and very intellectual but also -young- and perhaps prone to some lack of discipline or something that made Ansem point out his 'immaturity'. The above statement of Ansem's report also to me shows he was studying his apprentice still and he was the focus of the 'Heart' to see if he could gain his memories back at all or not. In the report also was mentioned later in KH2, Ansem also made the comment that Xehanort appeared at times to exhibit 'superhuman' qualities. Could you elaborate more on why you think Ansem was studying both Master Xehanort and Xehanort (apprentice) or perhaps I am misunderstanding what you mean?
I also have thought the same thing. The Drive Forms were meant to show what Sora would possibly become and advance to. They were all rather symbolic in their ways. Because Sora has Darkness in his Heart (all beings in KH seem to but the Princesses of Heart), and was a Heartless for a time, the possibility for him to go to Darkness is there. Also, if you think on the symbolism of it even more, the anti-form only happens when you spam the Drive Forms, so it's like the more you depend on power and use power, the more chance that it can corrupt you. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely sort of deal. The Final Form won't let anti-form happen so it's kind of like a rise up above Darkness and Light...which is why I think the symbolism also of having it come from the Nobodies area was important.
Yeah, I believe he's talking about the cutscene after Sora beats Sephiroth in the dark depths region. I would think it was on youtube. I know I had seen it there before, and someone gave a link above for it.
I did feel bad for them both. Axel had orders to pretty well kill Roxas if he wasn't going to return to the Org. He was threatened by Xemnas to be made into a Dusk if he didn't comply. However, Axel I believe threw that fight in a way, hoping that Roxas wouldn't 'kill him' but at the same time, he didn't want to kill him either. He had to make it look good though. That's not to say Roxas couldn't have 'beaten' Axel, but it to me seems that Axel wanted to 'do his job' because he had to, but at the same time lose so that he didn't have to kill his best friend. Axel was very good at playing dead as he had gotten away with it in CoM as well. It was something a bit sad though because Roxas didn't even recall until the last moment. Maybe though Axel was glad he finally was remembered too. I think that's where Axel after decided to just say 'screw the Org' and went to try to get Roxas back and just didn't care about the other stuff anymore. Roxas was more important to him than a fear of being a Dusk.
I believe that's the answer. Roxas even makes a comment that he will be gone after 179 days or something. I have to look that up again, which sets the dates right and Roxas and the Org are set at a time between when Roxas first appeared and before he gets caught by Riku.
Yeah, I pretty much am in agreement with that because it's all so far that makes sense there to me. I think because Xehanort's spirit or at least his Heartless merged with Terra, and Terra forgot who he was after, that Xehanort was the first name that came to him either through the Heartless's memories or Terra's strongest impulse intuitively. This may be why later he changed his name to Ansem. He realized he was wrong and something awakened in him that Ansem the Wise woke up, and he knew it wasn't him so he stole Ansem's name, since he could not still recall his own. He probably got the rest of his memories back through research etc as Xemnas when he was free of Master Xehanort's Heartless that was plaguing Riku instead. Maybe in the KH3 game later we have to fight -another- Xehanort too which is the remnants of Master Xehanort that wasn't just his corrupted Heart. Chilling thought that we just can't seem to get rid of Xehanort. =:)
I have a little theory I'm working on so I'll just put some thoughts down and see if maybe anyone agrees and wants to work with me on it. It would express why there is only one Keyblade that has a Keychain on it which is Master Xehanort's. He probably was intentionally the Keyblade 'master' and perhaps there were many Keyblades made for others, but they were not Key chained themselves and in that battle, those Keyblades destroyed. Maybe the Keyblades themselves were somehow altered to Key chain states as Way to the Dawn (whatever it's former name was) lost its Keyblade power and became Soul Eater. The name 'Chasers' does seem to suggest that the Chasers may have made the Keyblades...or perhaps they were the inventors of the Key chains later, which would boost the Kingdom Key to fight against Master Xehanort. If that isn't it, perhaps the key chains were made by connections to the other worlds to keep them as a safety thing, similar to how the Princesses of Heart are all connected to their worlds they come from. So the memories of the Keyblades themselves would go on and the key chains would show up when one of the Keybladers did something that would get them to react and show up. That's what I have to work with now. Not sure any of it is at all accurate but that's what theories are...just educated guesses.
I'm not sure they are really related at all, though Ven has about the same body type as Sora. His face and hair are different. Maybe though so I won't totally discount the 'brother' theory yet. They may be cousins or something too, or have no relation and so that part I don't think on 'too' much. To me, Sora did seem to be an only child, but there's no proof in the end to support that so much either. We can only verify that Sora has a 'mom'. I think Riku and Sora were single children because Riku even makes the comment as as he is in the Darkness area and says that they will never see their other friends or parents again. There's no mention of either of them having siblings. Of course, if the siblings were somehow forced to be forgotten as Sora was, it discounts this. I do think so far though that Ven's spirit, Not just his Heart, went into Sora and was dormant, so when Sora used the Dark Keyblade, it was Ven's spirit released and that is why Axel makes the comment about Roxas having a Heart. Also, it seems you need a soul to become a Nobody, and if he only had part of his Heart, the rest would work out. So, in the end, I am not sure whether they are related or not, but it could happen. Saying these two are related is more feasible than other relations. We'll just have to see.
I pay too much attention to detail, Christor. Way too much. =:) Another thing about why I doubt Aqua is at all connected to Namine is because Kairi was not even on Destiny Islands when Riku and Sora were there with Ven and Terra. Aqua may have been with Ven and Terra as well, but we don't see her since they are being pretty elusive about her. Kairi though doesn't appear on DI until I believe a year later after 'Xehanort' betrays Ansem the Wise and he and his apprentice buddies go to Darkness and release the Heartless. There is no real answer provided with why or how Kairi ended up going to DI since her memories were taken and the most we got, even exploring Hollow Bastion was that she lived at the castle probably with her grandmother. This is a 'far jump' theory to explain a couple things on Aqua and I may totally retract it later as I find out more info but...It could be that perhaps Aqua played a roll in sending Kairi through a door as a kid as the tragedy struck and was one of the victims there. It may also explain, a connection between the 14th member of the Org and Aqua if there is one. I think it's more likely at this time that Aqua and the 14th member of the Org in 358/2 Days is connected than Kairi and Namine are to Aqua. Again, total speculation.
