You bring up a very good point that the Keyblade was there. I must have missed that. I have pondered if 'number 14' is Aqua or Aqua's Nobody...but that doesn't really explain why the Keyblade is there itself. Also, we can't really know what happened to Aqua yet. So..yeah, wow..good point to think on now.
Roxas isn't there because he probably never was at the Castle Oblivion. In a way I think Xemnas just put some of the Org members there to keep them busy and determine if they were traitors or not. Roxas during CoM and probably after that was at TWTNW instead and going around with other Org members in Twilight Town and other places, as we'll see in 358/2 days. Namine and Roxas as far as I can see had never met before KH2.
I've worked with Vista on other people's computers I fix sometimes and it seems fine to me, but if your system is not really current, Vista will cause some issues. It seems far better to me to buy Vista on a new computer system than to try upgrading to it from XP. I'm sure a good Service Pack, that we seem to need for all computer programs to work how we want to, is what will fix a lot of this and one is due out soon as someone mentioned so perhaps that will resolve some issues people are having. I have to actually upgrade my home computer more before I get Vista on that but it seems fine to me when I use it at work.
I have some experience but yeah, I won't claim to be the expert =:) I do though have piercings and some friends do, and though I did not get stretchers, they decided to work up to huge ones and then later wanted them closed but they were stretched too far. I don't mean regular stretchers won't, but the ones that are pretty large most of the time are stuck misshapen. Wikipedia has some articles on it and actual tattoo/piercing places can be asked which I did and was told it. So I'm really referring to the larger gauges or scalpaling. Sorry for the confusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalpelling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretching_(body_piercing) i I just decided in the end to not get them because I know me and somehow my body would find a way to make it not right, and that's the luxury of piercings to me is that whatever I do to myself, I can take it out and it will go away if I ever got sick of them.
Bird Flu is bad, but note the Spanish Flu which was wretched, though it put a dent in population, didn't take it all out. We also know how to develop vaccines easier now and they had no such thing back then to help them. We just have to do our things to deal with it. One thing to start doing in case it did happen is start storing up on canned goods so that if it does crossover to humans being contagious, you don't have to go out so much to avoid it. It seems that people do need to study it more but in a way, there's nothing they can really do until it does fully cross over to humans, so those of us who aren't capable of doing anything, we just store up on foods, vitamins, ibuprofen, paper masks and stuff, and wait. If it's done early, you won't have to deal with the people that panic later if indeed it doesn't die down.
I would have liked to see some of these mentioned above plus... Maleficent vs King Mickey - just because. I don't know why, at TWTNW Riku vs Saix - when he had the guy right there! Axel vs Marluxia - a real fight in CoM, though kind of off topic. Cloud vs Pete - because I think it'd be funny to see Cloud be so serious fighting Pete. Tinkerbell vs Paine, Rikku and Yuna - she could so take them! (in my imagination) Hades vs Maleficent - Fighting for power. It could happen in a different galaxy. Cerberus vs Chicken Little - I dislike Chicken Little and want him to be eaten.
Very interesting theory and I believe it is very dead on, except for the part on Namine and Kairi really. I'll highlight on that, but I agreed with all you wrote about Xemnas being the one who went down the stairs and all, and that perhaps Namine was used there in some way too. We see very eye to eye there as that has been my thought too. Also, I did look it up months ago when this quandary about 'brother' or 'another' came up and the password is 'another'. Xehanort without the X made sense as the password and Xemnas did know exactly what he was seeking there and what to do. I believe Axel wanted to use Kairi as in forcing Sora to turn to Darkness because he held Kairi and used her as the reason for it. Knowing Kairi could turn Sora back and Roxas would be free again as in KH1, I 'think' that was his whole idea there, and then Roxas would be free again to roam off and Sora and Kairi could go off and do their thing. As for Namine, Kairi and Namine had a lot of unusual powers so I guess we'll have to see how that plays out. Kairi has a lot of potential to do things that right now just manifest themselves in simple things, but when you think about it, they are quite powerful, such as the bottle in the water that opens a door out of Darkness back to Light so Riku and Sora can go home. That simple message embodied the power to do what the two boys could not with all of their power. Also, she made a Keychain unknowingly that she said was of Talacta Shells (spelling there cuz I may have it wrong) which would help sailors find their way home. It became the Oathkeeper keyblade that would help Sora out a lot and also possibly tied Roxas to the whole thing too. The reason why I think Xemnas wants to bring back the other 2 chasers is because i think he is 'Terra's' Nobody. Roxas looks like Ven and perhaps is the part of Ven that may have disappeared in BBS and merged somehow with Sora. Terra I think was taken over by Master Xehanort, but when he became a Nobody as Xemnas, he was freed of that and sought revenge. I think he wanted Aqua and Ven back and it was part of his plan to go after whatever might remain of Master Xehanort, but I'm not sure. That's all speculation and a big guess theory. I'd be interested to hear what you think on this stuff and compare notes.
Yeah, that sucks to get so close and then find out it made you lose any way even after watching the sequence. I suppose the chances of finding such a glitch is so rare because we cannot hope to do such a thing on purpose. What a bummer though to make it that far and then find out you died any way.
Lol, Sora as Napoleon Dynamite. That's just terrifying to imagine. Maybe they could instead just replace him with McCauley Calkin as the Home Alone kid. I could just see as Sora runs into an army of Heartless, he slaps his cheeks and opens his mouth like =:O That would be enough to cry too, now that I think about it. We'd have to watch him do that before he launches paint buckets from stairs at the bosses.
Your attacks are what is growing annoying, Lunacy. We are all entitled to our opinions so please stop declaring people are annoying. You keep insisting people are saying they are 'evil' and very few are saying that including me, but you wish to point fingers and be rude. I think it is you who has the severe mental block to try to tell others what they are saying and you should back off. It is romanticizing the Org to say they did nothing wrong. It is romanticizing the Org to say Sora is a serial killer and a nobophobe. If he was such a Nobophobe he would not have been so appreciated by Axel who saw that the plans had to end. Stop putting words in other people's mouths. It is in itself growing tiresome. Read before you accuse me of saying I said they were 'evil'. Thank you. I did not call anyone names or say they were stupid. How about you stop it now?
There are the lines from KH which was at sunset on the dock, looking out. Had to go through the script to find it. I added more of the script for the whole scene so it might jog the memory a bit. It was a small scene so it's easily looked over.
Un no. Just no. I never said they were evil. You are putting words in my mouth. You tried to say they are not on -any- side and the point of logic here is they have to be on THEIR side. They were on a mission to be whole and restore themselves. That is taking a side. The war is THEIR side versus the LIVING people's side. It wasn't about good or evil. It's about sides. Either one was going to exist or the other because that's how Xemnas was making it. You can't be true neutral and do anything. It doesn't work like that. The Nobodies were said to 'not exist'. There is nothing saying they were not doing something to their own agenda to make it different. If so, show me where, because if it was that way, there wouldn't have been a problem with the Org in the first place. That's the whole point of the story. They WERE doing things to others and causing great mayhem. If they were doing things that were not compromising all other life, they wouldn't have been seen as 'evil' by anyone. Darkness isn't 'evil' any way. It's the destructive nature of emotions and things in existence. Oblivion = Nothingness. That is the state the Nobodies were in which put them in a sort of Twilight state, similar to Riku, though of course, they were also disembodied and stuck as they were. Twilight - The more neutral path accepting the other aspects of Light and Dark. This is where Riku was truly at, and explains why he probably had more sympathy to the Nobodies than Sora or others. Light - the more positive creative aspects of nature and life. Protection of life etc. As King Mickey had said and others, both Light and Darkness are in people and all things. It's not a matter of being evil or good. The 'PEOPLE' who use them are what is determined to be a good positive thing or a negative evil thing by those who stand with or against them. The Nobodies were so not just driven off 'instinct' as you are saying. Xemnas had vengeance on his mind and was plotting things even for after he would gain this power. He had a vendetta and ideals. There was no plan to just merely do something by instinct. Also, all of the other Nobodies clearly had personalities and why would Marluxia and Vexen want to betray Xemnas if they were all mutual on getting their Hearts back and that was it? No, they had real competition even amongst themselves. Larxene was a sadist, Lexaeus was a silent warrior, Axel was a wild card that did things as he saw he should, Zexion was quiet and aloof, a scholar, etc. They -had- personalities and wanted to be 'real and whole' but there was much more to it than just mere instinct. They were people despite not being whole. I am not tagging the Org as "good or evil". They were doing what they were for themselves and the greater purpose Xemnas had. They were not neutral and not on 'any' side. Does that make more sense? You are confusing what I am saying here. I was not stating about their 'state of being'. I was speaking of their actions and deeds, which were full of action, decision, and carrying out things in the worlds of whole people.
I do not believe the Nobodies can bleed, considering they are made up of mostly Darkness or Nothingness whatever and some connecting element, and that their real bodies were devoured by Darkness when they were made. That's why they dissipate to Darkness after you wound them enough. There's nothing saying they have their original bodies and in fact it seems to be that their bodies are made from Darkness and an element and their memories. Their bodies are also not exact copies of their former selves, so I do not think they bleed or age or require food as the manga put in.
Yeah, good analysis. I figured he was commenting on the two Keyblades too, but yeah, it makes more sense when we see that on the DS game he only has one. I don't even think Roxas knew why he had two, but just went with instinct. Perhaps at the end of DS we will see if he actually acquires them there because he must have kept it a secret from the others. He had them in Deep Dive versus Riku so unless they just showed up there because Riku was there and it showed a connection to Riku (mainly Oblivion), he must have gotten them sometime in DS, I'd think. He didn't seem -surprised- in Deep Dive when he drew them so it makes sense that it's something he may have gotten in 358/2 days.
There are other Darksides as shown at the end of KH through the door, where a ton of them were. Also, I doubt the Darksides are one person, but more like they are the Heartless that are created when the smaller Heartless eat worlds, and probably when one Darkside finishes off a world, another is also probably created from the now gone Heart of the planet. I highly doubt it is just one Heart that was changed to that. Even Xehanort's Heartless had a smaller Heartless than that and he's probably the most powerful one. Sora's Heartless was also probably pathetic due to the fact he didn't have a lot of darkness in his heart when he did what he did. Instead, he just used the dark keyblade to free the princesses' hearts. So it made sense why he came back as a Shadow. Had he possessed more Darkness in his heart he probably would have ended up a tougher version of a Heartless. Also, as far as I remember, they told Riku that he had opened the 'door' and not that the Darkside was 'created' by him.
Those are pretty good quality pics. Man, they are getting me all hyped up with all the theories etc we all have going on in here and the great pics showing up.
Roxas I think was picked up during or just prior to CoM time because Vexen nearly gave away to Sora information about Roxas before Axel slew him. They were at that point going to slay Sora any way and Riku because both were becoming major pains and not doing what they intended. However, the point still remains that Roxas knew nothing of Castle Oblivion even if the Org knew of Roxas. Also, Sora and Riku knew nothing of them and Riku is really the only one who saw an illusion of Twilight Town at the Castle. I'm pretty sure with how Namine was, also in luring Sora to the castle in the first place, that Roxas was not even really known to her at the time. Roxas got his memory back of his time in the Org at the end there and still did not recall Namine as having known her before, so I really doubt he knew of her at all. Namine knew things because she messed with his mind and Sora's. Really, Namine in Kh2 only seemed to communicate with Axel and Riku in KH2, other than her time spent with Roxas which was minimal. Also, in the room in the mansion with the pictures, she's never around him in them. It's Axel, or Sora or others of the Org. If she had known of him she wouldn't say she wanted to 'meet him' for the first time in Twilight Town either when the world froze and she was on the street.
Eh, they weren't on 'no side'. They had their 'own' side. That's ridiculous to say. They aren't Dao monks in the middle of nowhere ignoring all humanity etc and staying out of things. They were murdering people and corrupting things and on a power binge. Xemnas 'definitely' had an agenda in the 'real world' so even though they were supposedly 'non existent' they were far from being on 'no side'. They weren't totally 'evil' but they were not good either. They certainly though were not neutral. If you take hostile actions, you aren't neutral. If you threaten the existence of a world or worlds for your own good, or a town, etc, you are not neutral. That is simply impossible.
No, he is not an evil nobophobe that was out to just destroy the Nobodies because they shouldn't exist. The reason is clear that they were using the Heartless to steal hearts which was mass murder, genocide, just so they 'could exist', plus the fact they were harming his friends. They were not nice people and the ones that were okay were still not leaving the Org. I admit that Demyx scene bothered me some but pretty much in all other areas, he did what he had to do. They -were- using him in the first place and had messed with him and Riku a lot and Saix had every intention of using Kairi to bait him to die. He had to do what he did. It's a battle of them vs those who do already exist and it seems funny to me that people are calling Sora out but at the same time forgetting that the Org was mostly pretty bad. To kill thousands, possibly millions of people to 'exist' and let someone like Xemnas and Saix, who were rather crazy and fanatical, gain power over all else was just not something that could happen. It's like having a leader like Hitler or Stalin with Saix being Himmler. People can romanticize the Org up as much as they want but Sora did what he had to do, even if he made a few mistakes. He's only 15, so getting on him seems kind of mean in itself.
I would have preferred it on PS2/PS3 but ah well. I tend to like playing the games at home on a big screen rather than the little ones. Alas, it's for the PSP which is the next best thing.
