Purity (Axel/Roxas, #8)

[libekory]

Title: Purity
Author: libekory
Claim: Axel/Roxas
Prompt: #08  ["holy"]
Warnings: Violence, and distinctly semi-consensual sexuality. Plus, Axel's molesting a priest, so there's all sorts of wrong, isn't there?
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2 are not mine. They belong to Square-Enix and Disney. No copyright infringement, no profit, and so on

Comments

[libekory]

No, no, not as flame-y. XD Although the "continuity error" line jumped out at me, since we're mainly talking about things that are entirely, as you say, speculation. Hard to make an error there! XD But I like these discussions. A theory is never fully formed until you have to explain it to someone else anyway. *purr*

Actually, they wouldn't have run into Mickey; Nomura's Ultimania interview said that Mickey's adventure prior to appearing at the end of KH1 involved traversing the realm of darkness. (In the KH multiverse, there is a realm of light, the one that all the Disney worlds and Destiny Islands and so on exist in, and a realm of darkness; we've never visited a world in the realm of darkness. Twilight Town and The World That Never Was are both in-between worlds, with the former being closer to the realm of light, and the latter closer to the realm of darkness. If you look at TWTNW on the map, you'll notice that it seems to be almost "half submerged" below the plane that Sora's Gummi Ship travels on. FYI, and interesting I thought, the "dark shore" is at the border, between the realm of light and the realm of darkness. I think I remember something about Twilight Town being connected to Never Was, helping to explain why they vacation there apparently without attempting to disturb the peace [in Final Mix, Nobody enemies roam the streets, but not Heartless, not ever], and I can't for the life of me remember what all was said about Castle Oblivion, except that they found it, they didn't create it, and when Namine and Roxas were born, she was found in Castle Oblivion.)

And Mickey didn't have his keyblade when he left, he acquired it at some point after that, although Nomura has said this is one of the stories he still wants to tell, so there's no more concrete information than that.

We also don't have any reason to think that the Organization wasn't carving up worlds by the dozens; by the time Sora gets involved in KH1, many, many worlds have been taken by the Heartless, so many that there was a "meteor shower" in the sky with hundreds of worlds vanishing. It's not unreasonable to think that some (or even all, if you think of Xehanort's Heartless's appearance in the Secret Place as being his first foray into the outside world in a while) of them were destroyed by the Organization.

What they don't do is rush right out to confront a keyblade hero, although of course in the original Final Mix Xemnas does seek out Sora after finding his Nobody in Twilight Town, and a plan is thereafter formed to take control of him through Namine and Castle Oblivion.

How do I explain why the Nobodies were making Heartless before they planned to control Sora? Well, a couple of ways: First, we know that Sora isn't the first keyblade master. (Xigbar's Jiminy memo entry says as much; he's fought [and, I believe, killed] several of them.) A pet theory I've always had is that while people who aren't keyblade masters can "defeat" Heartless, they simply respawn elsewhere, briefly "scattered" by the force of the attack but not truly gone. I like this theory because it neatly explains why people like Leon can beg Sora for help while cutting down Heartless left and right.

What this means is that someone like Axel could take a world and quadruple the number of Heartless around without worrying about accidentally destroying any in the process; eventually, a keyblade master will find them, and their hearts will be sucked up by Kingdom Hearts.

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