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So. I'm listening to Destati (the version where you can actually hear that words are being sung), and I've found the lyrics, and now I'm curious.
The song is about/to Sora, right? A lot of it makes sense - you hear it when he's getting poked at in his dreams in apparent preparation to receive the Keyblade, and the stuff about awakening and extending your hand to receive fits with that. Even the stuff about doors opening is, yeah. Doors opening is a large motif in Kingdom Hearts, and Sora does some opening of doors along with the locking of them.
But what's with the lines about remembering? I mean, you don't just stick this kind of heavily mystical lyrical imagery into a significant part of the game and not have it mean something, especially when it touches on important themes from the series. What is it Sora needs to remember? What is it he has lost? It makes perfect sense when it plays later for Roxas, but not so much at the beginning when you've just got little Sora.
Is there some kind of... I don't know... essence of Keyblade wielder that gets passed on to kids with suitably strong hearts, as a sort of pseudo-reincarnation?
Actually, come to think of it, that might even make Sora's intro line from the beginning of KH1 make some sense at last. "I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this for real, or not?" If there was some kind of hand-me-down essence thing going on with the Keyblade, and it was just about to wake up in Sora, some feeling of subtle disorientation would make sense; suddenly his own reality has shifted slightly, and it's throwing him off.
... oh, dammit, I think I've bunnied myself again...
The song is about/to Sora, right? A lot of it makes sense - you hear it when he's getting poked at in his dreams in apparent preparation to receive the Keyblade, and the stuff about awakening and extending your hand to receive fits with that. Even the stuff about doors opening is, yeah. Doors opening is a large motif in Kingdom Hearts, and Sora does some opening of doors along with the locking of them.
But what's with the lines about remembering? I mean, you don't just stick this kind of heavily mystical lyrical imagery into a significant part of the game and not have it mean something, especially when it touches on important themes from the series. What is it Sora needs to remember? What is it he has lost? It makes perfect sense when it plays later for Roxas, but not so much at the beginning when you've just got little Sora.
Is there some kind of... I don't know... essence of Keyblade wielder that gets passed on to kids with suitably strong hearts, as a sort of pseudo-reincarnation?
Actually, come to think of it, that might even make Sora's intro line from the beginning of KH1 make some sense at last. "I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this for real, or not?" If there was some kind of hand-me-down essence thing going on with the Keyblade, and it was just about to wake up in Sora, some feeling of subtle disorientation would make sense; suddenly his own reality has shifted slightly, and it's throwing him off.
... oh, dammit, I think I've bunnied myself again...
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Sora's a Sorceress! ^___^ Wow, I'm sure that someone would love that for Bunnycrash or something.... :)
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Oh my god. XD That never even came to mind, I really am FF8-ignorant. XD
... Riku would of course be his Knight.
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Oh man, the BunnyCrash bunny will not die....
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*discreetly feeds the bunny*
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It wouldn't surprise me if there'd been previous "heroes" with the Keyblade, it's just that Sora happened to come along at a very important time in the world's history, when the Heartless and the Nobodies were amassing.
(And hey, in the Chinese calender there's a belief that every sixty years or so, there's a really bad cycle of years, and this just continues on like clockwork; one could argue that's what happening with Kingdom Hearts and Sora -- maybe this has all happened before, with a different set of characters.)
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(And hey, in the Chinese calender there's a belief that every sixty years or so, there's a really bad cycle of years, and this just continues on like clockwork; one could argue that's what happening with Kingdom Hearts and Sora -- maybe this has all happened before, with a different set of characters.)
... suddenly I suspect I know what Nomura's thinking of for KH3. >_>
I'm pretty sure the idea of previous Keyblade heroes was meant to be implicit - it seems like whenever the Keyblade appears in history it's significant, so. I was just wondering about the 'remembering' and 'that which you have lost' stuff. If there is some kind of metaphysical torch that gets passed between chosen Keyblade wielders, that'd explain it.
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... suddenly I suspect I know what Nomura's thinking of for KH3. >_>
The question is, do you really think he'll get rid of Sora-Riku-Kairi in favor of reincarnations? Or past lives? Because I know when I think "Kingdom Hearts," I think "Sora" as a character, and I don't know if they can really pull off the whole Final Fantasy "new set of characters every time!" thing, unless it's like Roxas again. :O
I.e., when the Keyblade appears, disaster is sure to follow? Now how's THAT for blurring the line of good and bad? 8D
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I know what you mean about Kingdom Hearts = Sora, though. It's hard to imagine a KH game that doesn't star the spiky little ray of sunshine.
I.e., when the Keyblade appears, disaster is sure to follow? Now how's THAT for blurring the line of good and bad? 8D
Ah, but does the disaster come because of the Keyblade, or does the Keyblade come because of the disaster? 8D Or BOTH? KH1 did say there were stories of Keyblade wielders who had brought chaos and ruin... 8D
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Also... Could I get Destati off you? I have a sad lack of KH music.
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Of course! :3 http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C6777F52102C67C0
I downloaded it off of bluelaguna.com. Excellent place to go for soundtracks. :3 They've got the whole soundtrack for KH1 and KH2 up.
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....bluelaguna.com not found? o.o
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... .net. .NET. Sorry, it's bluelaguna.NET. XD Oops.
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Omgawd. A friend is playing KHII, and she's been recording Sora singing and stuff over MSN. Christ, man... XDDDDDD It's so awesome. She sent me the Japanese version of Under The Sea, too, and... My throat hurts. We can't stop laughing... his dorky little
gayboylaugh, and SUBARASHI UNDAH DAH SEAAA~. *cough* Felt like sharing.no subject
XD XD Isn't it just... crazy? Man. XD XD I love Sora's little dorky laugh. And yeah, JAPANESE UNDER THE SEA IS CRACK.
The Japanese version in general is kind of cracky, to be honest, when you're used to the English. XD kh-vids.net has all the cutscenes in Japanese, and wow.
Donald and Goofy hurt my brain.no subject
X333
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But you know, it makes sense. If you played the GBA game for KH (Chain of Memories), it would make a whole lot more sense. And it makes even more sense if you think of it as being DiZ who is singing.
Still, I really like the idea of the Keyblade passing on the thougths and memories of its previous wielders. I mean, they ARE supposed to be semi-cognizant, right? Otherwise, how would they be able to chose their masters?
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... heeeyyy, yeah. It makes all kinds of sense when taken in a CoM context. :D Still, the song is from the first game, before CoM was (I suspect) even a glimmer in Nomura's eye, and it plays when Sora's getting prepped to receive the Keyblade. So. XD
See, that's what I thought. :D This is a really intriguing idea, for sure. I want to know more about what the Keyblade is.