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RISE AND SHINE, KINGDOM HEARTS FANDOM! The fantastic new opening is up and I’m here to bring you some cool details that may have gone unnoticed with all the hype and questions that are popping up and eating all of us alive as we wait for January 25~29. Thus, I’m here to present you some cool theories (that absolutely no one asked for) based on the eye colours of the characters in the Kingdom Hearts series! Or, as I like to call it, the Rainbow Spectrum theory! Sounds a bit boring, right? But I promise ya it gets better, if not interesting! Okay, so let’s dive deep by starting with the basics.

As many of us have noticed, Kingdom Hearts is a game that most characters have blue eyes, with a few exceptions here and there that scream stranger danger to all of us; yellowish eyes are bad by default and are a sign of darkness, generally of people who got Norted, which means they’re considered one of the vessels of Xehanort, or simply put, golden-eyed people are the villains of the story (take Xemnas, Xehanort, Ansem the Seeker of Darkness, Xigbar, etc, for example) and the blue-eyed people are the heroes (take Sora, Ventus, Aqua, Roxas, etc, for example).

That’s cool and all, but... Isn’t it strange that Kairi is one of the few characters that have purplish eyes? She has indigo eyes, it varies between deep blue and purple, as we can see in the famous KH2 ending and in the new KH3 trailers. Huh, how curious. Then we can notice Sora’s eyes clearly changing colours from KH1 to KH3; the once strong, azure-like blue starts to fade away just so hints of green can begin to appear.

Then we have these two... Who share nothing in common, right? Except for the fact that they’re both considered “anomalies”, people who walk between darkness AND light, The Road to Dawn, as it’s explained in KH Re:COM. Not to mention that Riku’s entire arc is him accepting the darkness as part of himself, controlling it and using both darkness and light as his strength to protect what matters the most to him, his loved ones and his home. But what does this entire rambling mean? Well, I’ll let optical physics be our friend here to let us visualise it better!

The more vibrant an eye colour is, the stronger the connection between the individual and their nature [be them light-based or darkness-based] is. The closer such colour is to red, the closer the individual is connected to darkness. The closer such colour is to purple, the closer the individual is connected to light. (I used hex codes to make this little exemplification since I have some difficulty distinguishing between colours by the way so forgive me if they aren’t completely 100% spot-on!)

Rainbow. Seven colours. Seven lights?! Okay, maybe that’s seeing too much into things, but I had to put this here, my bad, let’s get back into being serious.

When you look into a simple colour spectrum it’s funny to notice that the Princess of Heart, Kairi, a person that supposedly has nothing but light inside their being, is the one to have purple-blue eyes. Meanwhile, Ansem The Seeker of Darkness, an entity that’s supposed to be made out of pure darkness since he’s a Heartless, has orange-red eyes. What’s even more fun to notice is that the colours are commonly divided by blocks of wavelength/frequency intervals, which in exchange makes the rainbow’s colours [violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, red]. Then, you have the dude that managed to control both darkness and light, and was chose to be one of the Guardians of Light and a Keyblade Master, Riku; he has cyan eyes, one of the most distinct eye colours in the whole series. By that logic, that’d explain why he’s still closer to the light even if he has great darkness within himself and a good affinity to it; such can be exemplified and justified when we observe that the cyan block interval is closer to the purple block interval instead of the red block interval.

Tetsuya Nomura is known for his love for symbolism and little details [the X marks on items of clothing in BBS and DDD is just the biggest example of this I can think of], and I honestly can’t see how all of this can be a coincidence, especially when we have this new KH3 trailer showing a Young Xehanort facing the night sky with purple eyes. It’s something we should take into consideration, in my opinion. What happened to his eyes for them to change colours and turn golden? Is his name even Xehanort? What did he experience that made him follow the Dark Side path?

As it’s shown throughout the series, people can apparently change eye colours depending on their emotional state and current nature [light/darkness, good/evil]. Take Xehanort, Aqua, Larxene, and others! This clearly has a link to their hearts’ stats, so this is also a cue to Sora’s eyes changing colours.

Literally, Nomura said that Sora will be on the edge of true despair in KH3, not to mention all the hints he left for a possible end to his character since he apparently doesn’t care about him at all, sympathizing with Xehanort way more than his little hero, which to me are pretty good reasons to consider his eyes changing colours in KH3. If this isn’t enough to back it up though, have screencaps of the video KINGDOM HEARTS III – Big Hero 6 Trailer.

Right from the bat, you can see that Sora and Roxas don’t share the same eye colour anymore. Sora’s eyes have major hints of green whereas Roxas’ eyes have hints of navies among shades of deep blue. Roxas currently has bluer eyes than Sora!

Now scroll up and compare to KH1 where Sora’s eyes were absurdly blue, like the summer sky (let’s not forget that Sora’s name [ソラ] is literally written as ‘sky’ in Japanese and that Nomura himself said in the past that that was the reason he named his character as such). I wonder what happens to a polluted sky? Or a cloudy one? Can a sky even get green? Hey, wait a second.

Let’s also not forget that “despair” and “tornado”/”thunderstorm” are constantly used in literature as synonyms or metaphors; you can have H.P Lovecraft (I’ll be exemplifying this with this poem of his, Despair) as a major example, here’s an extract of said poem: “Once, I think I half remember, / Ere the grey skies of November / Quench’d my youth’s aspiring ember, / Liv’d there such a thing as bliss; / Skies that now are dark were beaming, / Gold and azure, splendid seeming / Till I learn’d it all was dreaming— / Deadly drowsiness of Dis”. Please also compare said extract to the end of the poem, the final paragraph of verses, where he talks about oblivion, anguish and agony finally coming after the signs of storm: “Thus the living, lone and sobbing, / In the throes of anguish throbbing, / With the loathsome Furies robbing / Night and noon of peace and rest. / But beyond the groans and grating / Of abhorrent Life, is waiting / Sweet Oblivion, culminating / All the years of fruitless quest.” I honestly think Nomura takes some inspiration out of Lovecraft, but that’s a topic for another discussion.

Other modern authors that use such word-plays on their pieces [despair, torment, tornado, etc] constantly to describe an agonizing sensation are Stephen King, J.K Rowling, John Green, Rick Riordan, G. R. R. Martin and others.

And then we have a screencap from one of Tetsuya Nomura’s interview of this year that I linked before but here’s the link again if you wanna check it out once more. So, green is a hint of despair here.

Isn’t this curiously interesting? I wonder what all of this would mean to Sora, especially since we’ve been told over and over again by Nomura that this is probably the end to his journey as a hero, as exposed on the links above. We have a lot of theories that are based on him getting Norted by the end of the game and ones based on a possible sacrificial/martyr ending. Either way, when it comes to that, the possibilities are endless.

What’s certain is that times are indeed changing and along with it, so is the sky.

And what happens when the sky changes? According to what we learned with Kingdom Hearts, destiny itself changes.

What I’m trying to say is that KH3 ain’t looking so positive for our heroes, my friends. This new song’s lyrics (I deeply believe this song is specifically targeted at Sora, given what Nomura said and this whole context that I wrote) alongside what Nomura said about the KH3 having an ending that will shock or upset most of the fans is really unsettling.

Well, let’s hope for the best! I’ll be probably be writing more posts based on this theory in the future, relating it to the Organization XIII members and more! See you guys next time!

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