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KHUX Theory Confirmations

Oh my god so much so much

Alright let me lay out my original theories all in one pretty picture. I subscribe hard to @kingdomheartsnyctophiliac‘s Ava=Darkness theory-- so much that I’m down with the next logical conclusion that Ava killed Strelitzia to make room for Brain, her man on the inside. Ava as the traitor, disguising herself as darkness, basically trying to hatch a coup against the very role MoM had her follow is a great twist and it is still alive. 

Brain’s got the Book

Now in my theorizing I believed the reason why Ava would off Strel is because maybe, Strel was the one circled in red that MoM assigned the BoP to. Knowing the book was selectively granted, the fact that the verified impostor in the group has it means it might have been the very motive as to why her. Now as a reminder, the timeline of this switcheroo is very fast but there is still ample time for this to go down. 

Timeline:

Ava carries out her duty and selects the union leaders

Ava confronts Luxu and learns an unknown truth. She is the traitor. The bell rings and the keykids prepare for war

Strel panics and tries to find player hoping its not too late, walks into the store room.

Strel is killed. The Switcheroo is put into action.

War happens and the Dandelion’s retreat.

According to my reasoning Ava changes gears only after talking to Luxu and triggering the war. If she is the culprit then pre-bell Ava can blindly follow the role and pick Strel and post-bell Ava can then basically back peddle that act in order to sabotage MoM’s goal. 

Now I insist that Brain is pretty innocent in all this. Regardless of his level of knowledge of Ava’s plot he did not dirty his hands with Strel’s blood. There’s a good potential he doesn’t understand what brought him to the seat he sits on at all. Furthermore the information they are currently discovering mainly pertains to MoM’s part of the plot. Aka-The orchestration to put them in a digital bunker-- not so much Ava’s counter plot with Strel’s death. He says he’s not sure how much Ava even knew of the (MoM’s) plot and that could be very true. From this we can assume Ava didn’t actually tell Brain much, but simply entrusted him with the task to change/destroy the program. The exact end that program was aiming towards is something Ava perhaps did not fully realize. 

MoM’s goal.

So this update really helped with my theorized motives here. So I had laid out in a recent post that the entire X, Unchained, Ux stuff appears like a series of experimental trials. The fact that MoM reveals that this war has been ongoing is extremely enlightening. Because that means that MoM’s plot is serving some kind of end in exacerbation of this cycle. That this is something he either wants to discover why the war inevitably occurs or he wants to discover the means to finally prevent the war from inevitably happening again (be that by eliminating the darkness that persists alongside the light or whatnot). Ergo the idea of the MoM creating this closed off ‘bunker’ where he controls the variables makes a ton of sense (and Lauriam even calls it a cage). He’s trying to get to the bottom of it or change it. 

The stuff about darkness changing shape and persisting in the hearts of man is interesting in the interpretation of the cosmology of kh but ultimately I think it’s fancy talk for the darkness of human nature. It sheds light on MoM’s apparent pessimism or weariness of this cycle though. So we have 2 variations of motives for MoM. We got a mad scientist route that paints him more morbidly curious and fascinated by the cycle. This is probably the interpretation Ava discovers prior to hatching her coup. But then we’ve got this martyr route that makes it so MoM is simply try to prevent the war from happening ever again.  

Ava’s Goal

So I refer to the mad scientist route as the route Ava understands because I have long picked up that MoM’s Dandelion plot goes to extreme lengths to manipulate the new variables (the leaders) into the very same positions of tension as the original run in a style similar to an experimental trial. As with the Fortellers there are arbitrary unions (for division), there is a secret chosen leader to have crucial information (the Lost Page and the BoP) and there are mechanisms in place that encourage the building of power, in-fighting, and completely refuse recovery (PvP recreation and memory overwriting). 

Like many watchers of Back Cover, the obvious answer to the question “who is the traitor” is simply “there is no traitor”. The paradox is that very truth creates a traitor in Ava. From my theory Luxu’s conversation with Ava that results in the bell tolling reveals this. Ava acts in initial denial and then betrayal, refusing the role and very quickly hatching a plot to negate that role. 

So MoM simply manipulated the situation to build the tension and made it happen. Now that we know that even before X, the Keyblade War was cyclically occurring to MoM’s witness, and now we have a better perspective to the fact that MoM was clearly invoking the war to happen with his apprentices. But even more, it was a long plot to manipulate the rebirth of the realm. And curious enough, the realm is now of his making. (God mode anyone?).

On that note he calls Unchained the trial and UX the ‘real deal’. If Unchained was basically retelling X, then the fact that they expanded past that telling means that MoM has a very stark interest in making the UX phase of the plot unfold differently (or maybe... simply watching IF it unfolds differently).

Who knows, there could actually be well meaning intentions in all this manipulation, we are at least getting some level of feedback to both of those perspectives. 

DT as a data-world

This is a confirmation that really... soothes my heart. The persistence that the entire Dandelion reality was real was starting to erode the theories guys. I did joss my meta-catastrophe concept that Game Station was actually digitizing the world from the outside but it’s honestly easier to swallow this way. In summary, the leaders insisted that the world they left for after the war was real because believing it was data would key them in too early that they are trapped. Lauriam states that truth just as much. It is a cage. The truth is that if they left to the real world there would be nothing but the ruins of the war they left behind. 

This kinda helps with the concepts of worldlines too. I was originally allowing worldlines to have a definition of ‘real’-- expanding the concept of reality to have multiple planes of legitimacy, but it almost seems safe now to interpret worldlines as entirely fabricated strands of reality. Say, a dream or a data construction. I know this was a movement before, but I held on to the idea that there could be a ‘real’ definition in the worldlines based on Luxu’s Observations of the KHUX happenings. This informs a little more about Sora’s kh3 shenanigans (creating dreams that unfold differently?) and implies a wealth of what actually needs to go down to bring us to Scala and make the leaders time displaced (escape the data world and rebuild atop the ruins of the decimated DT from the X war-- and time doesn’t flow in the dream realms a la ddd so they could leave the dream at potentially wild points in time). 

Keyblade War cycle

On a side note, MoM is very evasive when Luxu is asking clarification questions about the forces involved in his childhood war and even the existence of keyblade-- weapons we know MoM himself devised the crafting of. My thought is that the ‘keyblade war’ is a catch-all term MoM is using to describe a repetitive, endless cycle of world-ending destruction. Basically war in general. The keyblade aspect is potentially an added element of his creation. Potentially. Not entirely positive on that matter.

But essentially I do not think events of X was happening over and over and over again. The Keyblade War took many forms but always resulted in total destruction and was always rebuilt by the survivors. By the time X started MoM was invoking the war and trying to control how it unfolds and again, control the rebirth of the world. 

Finally

I have a few more off-shoots to spin from these confirmations. (Xehanort’s ambition to learn about this war by recreating it echoes MoM so discovering that it’s kinda already been done would potentially halt his actions explaining Luxu’s defensive measure against steering Xehanort away from the past). And there are some questionable reactions in the murder mystery drama (my new Ven sleeper agent theory felt some gooooood support with MoM’s description of darkness taking human shape). But my meta catastrophe is seeing some revisions with MoM still behaving like an author and worldlines asserting themselves as fabricated, but MoM’s origin seems to have firmer feet in the realms of fiction at least for now (though his childhood ‘Keyblade’ War is vague enough to be our form of war you know).

This is just my ramblings. I cannot for the life of me make my khux theories streamlined.

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Bomber Brent Stanton says his initial shock at being banned for a year will never go away

Essendon veteran Brent Stanton says the initial shock of receiving a one-year suspension for doping violations in January last year will always be embedded in his mind.

Stanton was one of 34 past and present Bombers who were banned from AFL football last year by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Big shock: Brent Stanton says the first six weeks following the CAS verdict to ban the Essendon players was the toughest time of the four-year supplement saga. Photo: Pat Scala

The midfielder said the first six weeks following the verdict was the toughest time of the four-year supplement saga.

“You just felt so mentally drained that you didn’t want to do anything, you didn’t want to go anywhere, and you’d probably find maybe a few guys travelled straight away but they sort of had to get over that initial lag effect to be able to move on with their life,” Stanton told SEN radio on Thursday.

“I don’t think there’s any challenge or anything tougher that I’m going to face in my life career-wise. Yes, maybe personal life, but this is also going to hold you in good stead for plenty of experience throughout the rest of your life experience.”

Stanton said that most of the 11 banned players who are returning to Essendon this year learnt a lot about themselves during the past 12 months.

“There’s not too many opportunities in your career when you can step away from something that you love and reflect on what you’ve done over the past how many years you’ve been involved in the game and come back and play again,” he said.

“I think that’s enlightened a lot of the players on how to get the best out of themselves for however long the rest of their career is.”

He also revealed he actually received a lot of support when out in public rather than have abuse hurled his way for his involvement in the scandal which erupted in early 2013.

But the 30-year-old will understand if he and his teammates cop abuse from the other side of the fence during games this season.

“So be it, I think we’ve created tough enough skin to move on with it and be happy with where we’re at,” Stanton said.

The 248-gamer said it felt like a new club when he walked back through the doors at Tullamarine last October for the first time since being suspended.

“It was still the same processes of achievements that we want to achieve in the future but it was just a different way of going about it,” he said.

“It was fresh, it was open discussion, we’re becoming a self-driven football club and the coaches will direct you in a certain direction and it’s up to you where you want to take your career from there so it’s been refreshing.”

Despite being out of the game for so long, Stanton didn’t envisage any increased potential for injury for the 11 returning Bombers as they have all been on such specific training programs.

He insisted they’re all up to scratch in body combat and that the fitness staff were very happy with the physical condition each player returned to the club in.

Stanton said the highest-profile member of the suspended group, Jobe Watson, was now back to being the person that everyone knows so well a month or so after returning his 2012 Brownlow Medal to the AFL.

“Jobe’s going really well,” he said.

“He’s very energetic, he’s leading by example, I don’t think you can ask for too much more.

“He’s in the best peak fitness I’ve ever seen him in … he’s training the lights out. His contested ball and his quick hands is unbelievable with the match practice that we’ve been doing so far.

“I’m really excited to see him back out there again and at his full potential.”

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