#put your money where your mouth is nomura. you’ve come up with the coolest possible concept ever don’t waste it

[goldensunset]

SUNSET I JUST LEARNED THE WORD STRELITZIA USES FOR “AFTERWORLD” IN THE JAPANESE IS CLOSER TO “LAND OF THE DEAD” AND IM NOT TAKING IT WELL

WE WERE RIGHT AFTER 3 SORA ACTUALLY DIED

IM ALSO GETTING A BAD FEELING SORA DOESNT REMEMBER KAIRI OR ANY OF HIS FRIENDS SHES GOING TO HE HEARTBROKEN WHEN SHE FINDS HIMMMMM

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO JUST LIVE A NORMAL LIFE UNTIL KH4 RELEASES SEND HELP

i can’t even say i’m surprised; ‘afterworld’ is in itself a weird way of saying a world of the afterlife. they most definitely died. but as strelitzia also said, this is a world full of life. so they still exist. there are many ways to ‘die’ in this series but it’s pretty hard to actually stay dead. as far as we know, true death is when your heart returns to kingdom hearts, but then even then it seems you’ll be reborn.

this is all to say that it is hard, maybe even impossible, to ever truly stop existing in this universe. which is fun. in fact i’d say the closest thing we’ve gotten is in fact this nonsense with quadratum. like they really are Pretty Far Gone in a new type of way if they don’t even exist within our own reality anymore. but even then even if you’re no longer ‘real’ you still exist…within ‘unreality’…? that’s wildly meta. this series is bonkers. it’s such an amazingly cool and creative idea i’m jealous i didn’t come up with it.

so like. i WOULD say oh it’s not a big deal it’s just another place for him to be brought back from. but then apparently it’s hard to go back to where you came from. which is,,,very very concerning,,, it seems like getting there isn’t as hard as we’ve thought (riku can you really just open a portal?? as long as you have the nameless star’s help bc she’s from that reality??? i call hacks). but then leaving is. well we know nameless star came from there into our world somehow. it’s unclear if MoM went there and back and then there again or not. but i get the feeling you probably need some kind of great power to traverse the two sides of reality at will.

(we know MoM talks to young xehanort in our world at some point so he must’ve either time traveled first into the future then went to quadratum? or he went there, came back to talk to yx or whatever, then went back again. either way some time shenanigans have happened here bc he’s still alive and strelitzia is still alive and hasn’t aged. anyway blah blah blah i need to stop derailing my own posts-)

but yeah i am Worried for our boy. and i really hope they don’t downplay how bad this situation is. or how significant it is that he’s on the other side of reality. in absolutely no circumstances do i just want this to be a simple rescue mission for riku or even someone else like kairi that eventually decides to come join him. they gotta make this difficult and be creative with it. like sora might actually be screwed.

i mean i believe there’s always a way to fix things eventually but i can’t help but wonder if being there will have some significant effect on him. like what if he adjusts too well and doesn’t want to come back? he’s convinced he’s a part of this fictional realm now, maybe that he always was a part of it? or…what if…

what if he doesn’t forget his friends per se but starts to forget they’re real? like he can’t remember ever having actually met them and starts to think of them as OCs that he daydreamed up? or if kingdom hearts is an actual video game in this reality then like they become blorbo from his games instead of his real friends? so if and when he meets them again he knows who they are but either doesn’t believe his eyes or just doesn’t love them the same anymore???

imagine your friend dies and your memories of them start to slip away but then a video game with a character just like them comes out and you start to get really attached to them for some reason but you don’t know why cuz it’s just a silly game right? you’re obviously not taking it THAT seriously haha right?. do you ever think about stuff like that. what if this fictional character used to exist in our universe but we don’t remember. what if sora was our bestie from a time we can’t remember. that would be so meta i would lose my head screaming. sorry for the existential crisis