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squiishiichaos · 5 years

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How I Would Revise KH3

I’ve seen quite a few of these going around since the game was released, and I thought of waiting to release it, but since it’s already written--these are just some ideas from one writer to the fandom of changes I, personally, would’ve made in order to make KH3 more epic than it turned out to be.

Please Note: SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

1. I’m sure a lot of people took issue with the teasing Sora took early on from his friends, not to mention the scolding he got from Yen Sid, but it actually sets up nice for scenes later on, explains the Odd Behavior of the Organization toward Sora in this game, and really could’ve been used for some great character and relationship development.

Because after being almost Norted in 3Ds, I believe our Golden Boy would likely have some issues he needs to work through. Beyond getting back all of his main character super powers and becoming the next New True Keyblade Master, he almost became one of the Organization. That has to be a hit for someone who has spent the last 9 games practically the poster boy for Guardian of Light.

Having him feel self-doubt and evolving that for the fights later on in the game would have made him feel less flat as a protagonist.

Especially when we have Marluxia and Larxene showing up everywhere, basically ignoring him like a flea, and telling him, “we’re not here for you.” After all the threat he’s posed to them--after knowing he’s part of the many lights gathering for their clash at the final battle--you’d imagine that they’d be more inclined to engage him and give him a better reason to fight than, “oh, these princesses here may be made of Light, we’re not really sure and we’re kinda just seeing how it goes down.”

Have Sora feel the impact of those interactions. Like, “I’m not even worth their time,” level impact. Hell, have a scene in the gummi ship post world, calling up Kairi on his new phone, saying, “Hey!” And have her immediately dropping the smile she got, putting on a face and asking, “Sora, what’s wrong?” When he tries to say, “I’m fine!” and dismiss it, have her tell him he’s not. Say, “you wouldn’t be calling me if you were.”

Have Sora try to call Riku and not be able to get ahold of him. Just dialing and dialing and dialing, and him feeling neglected and abandoned. Have Kairi speak to Riku on the phone, because it just so happens to be during one of their breaks in the Dark Realm, and her discussing Sora’s odd behavior. Make them care, damn you!

*AHEM* Moving on...

2. Riku & Mickey save Aqua early on. Like, I’m talking Prologue level, KHII.9 early on.

In the realm of darkness, when they run into the Demon tide, after Riku escapes because of his Replica and Mickey gets trounced, have Aqua appear as the master of those Heartless.

Since Mickey is hurt, Riku fights in his place and gets walloped after a short playable fight where you get her to half-lifebar and it ends.

As Aqua goes to finish him off--because new keyblades are hard--Mickey shouts out, “Aqua, don’t! Think of your friends!”

As Aqua gives her monologue about being abandoned and forgotten and alone, have him go, “No one’s forgotten you! Ven and Terra still need you!”

“Need me? Where were they when I needed them?! Where were you?! You don’t know what this pain I feel is like--to be forgotten and dismissed--none of you do!”

Then have Riku chime in, “I do.” As he stands up and readies his keyblade for another battle, have him stare her down and say, “I once gave up everyone I cared about for Darkness, and I struggle every day to keep it at bay. But in every darkness, there’s an even stronger light. If you won’t fight the darkness yourself, then I’ll fight it for you!”

After you finish the initial battle, instead of immediately getting back her light, the duo subdues her and they bring her back to the realm of light.

Have a Futaba (obligatory Persona 5 reference, sorry) moment for Aqua. Let her ascent back to Light mean something!

At first, she feels like she failed Ventus and Terra. Nothing anyone says can help that. And they all are trying to get ahold of Sora, but he’s busy and he needs to be there! When he finally answers his phone in the gummiship, Riku tells him the good news and he hops back to the Tower.

When he arrives, Ven’s heart reacts to Aqua and she immediately reacts. But Mickey, Axel and Kairi don’t know. They’re still riding on the moment Aqua smiled for the first time because she found out that Kairi was okay! That she’d done something right! Maybe she wasn’t a failure?

But then Sora walks in, and she does not trust him. He looks like Vanitas and that face haunts her. After all that darkness, she can’t see him--she only sees those glowing yellow eyes and that sardonic smirk, and it takes all of them holding her back to keep her from casting anything more than a measly couple of low level spells at him before they all tell her it’s okay! That it’s Sora, the key to Ventus’s awakening.

And Aqua goes up to him, and they’re both apprehensive, but eventually she takes a nice long look, sees through the mirage and smiles, tearfully, at him.

They agree to go help Ventus while Mickey and Riku stay behind to help train Kairi and Axel.

****Before we continue, I need to make a minor addendum here.

No Hyperbolic Time Island bullshit for Kairi and Axel.

They are on the fucking ropes to get ready for this shit. Thrown into the literal fucking fire, training day in and day out every second of every day to get ready for the throw down they’re now part of.

Every previous cutscene of them is more emotional because they’re exhausted, slouching against a rock, a wall, a chair, a fucking bed! They don’t even know what time it is, but they’re sitting there, chatting away and crying because this is the hardest they have worked in ages, and they don’t know if they can do it anymore. Merlin is merciless. Yen Sid is biting. They are on a crunch and there is no time for playing around!

****Make those scenes so much better for everyone. They were wonderful, their interactions, but make them real, fuckers! This is a warzone, and this isn’t DBZ!

*AHEM*

3. Aqua awakens Ventus.

After her and Sora find Ven, they begin a ritual of waking, but Vanitas feels Ventus’s heart pulsating inside Sora and he attacks. Sora tells Aqua to keep reaching for the connection while he holds him off.

Obviously, Sora gets his ass kicked. Absolutely destroyed.

Aqua steps in to protect Sora/Ven, and kicks the ever loving shit of Vanitas, but then he fakes his defeat and sneaks up on them as they rush to finish the waking.

As Vanitas goes to strike Aqua, the last vestige of Ven inside Sora commands the teen around and gives him one deciding blow before his heart exits Sora and leaves for its home. Vanitas--knowing he’s finished here--leaves, promising them the fight of their lives come their next meeting.

Ventus awakens and him and Aqua share a cute scene where Aqua tells him she’s sorry for being late and failing to protect him. Ventus is just like, “Aqua...it’s alright. You saved me, and now, we can find Terra together!”

Sora breaks the mood when he swoops in, and Ventus goes apeshit (because it was his heart reacting, not his actual conscious >.>)! Fucking pulls out his keyblade, ready to put down Vanitas for the last time, but Aqua is like, whoa, it’s just Sora! He’s been keeping you safe in his heart this whole time!

And Sora, confused, is like...the fuck?

So, Aqua suggests he go back alone and they’ll follow along soon enough.

4. Back at the tower, Riku asks Sora how it went, and Sora recounts his near death experience at the hands of Ventus while Riku is like, Darkness plays tricks on people, as does sleep. Give them time, they’ll pull through.

5. Now, with 2 out of 3 found, Roxas and Namine (and Xion) still missing, it is crunch time, people! So, I had a few playable options I thought up.

First off: Yen Sid’s tower becomes a hub world. If you leave the hub, you can fly off as Sora to do the Disney worlds and restore balance and peace while he continues to level up his Main Character Plot Armor Powers.

Second Choice: You can choose to bring Riku or Mickey with you on these missions, but they’re just kinda there as links. Like, the Sora, Donald and Goofy screen time should not be revoked, so they’re kind of just finisher commands that show up randomly while the 2 of them are doing recon on the Organization.

Third Choice: You can play as Kairi and Axel and spend ludicrous hours trying to beat Aqua and Ventus while running for your goddamn life at Yen Sid’s tower. Legitimately, I’m talking, Beginning of Birth By Sleep and KH1 style battles. You get a potion or something if you win, and you can kick ass as everyone’s 2 favorite Redheads. *BONUS* Kairi finally gets to be a badass.

6. Once all the remaining Disney worlds are complete, we get to the FINAL PART:

7. PREPARATION TIME, BABY!

For starters, Nomura, show them, ya know, actually preparing!

Ven and Aqua, sweating, clearly having just finished sparring or practicing magic and shit, talk about Terra and have their Wayfinder Moment. I liked their dialogue choices here, so, keep those the same, just make it feel more excited and build the anticipation!

Axel sits on his tower, his new clothes beside him as he contemplates the fact he’s almost earned them. Saix shows up and that all happens, with Axel calling his keyblade on him, and Saix being like, “Yeah, okay, save it for the morning, when you’re at your best.” With a sidelong look at the suitcase he’s clearly ignoring.

Donald and Goofy practice together, and the King arrives to commend them on all their hard work. To be honest, I don’t even remember if there’s a scene between the three of them here, and if there is, cool! If not, then, shit, put one in.

Now. The big shit.

The Destiny Trio.

We cut to them all sparring on the shores of Destiny Islands. Kairi has learned a thing or two from Aqua, but she also packs a real punch. Riku utilizes his dark flare and other like abilities to enhance their light and build resistance to such attacks--teach them how to prepare. Sora is his normal badass self, dodging, attacking, and being a good sport. Mind you, this probably all devolves at some point into a fucking hysterical mess when Kairi drenches the boys with Waterza (which she just learned, the badass), and Sora tackles her into the Ocean as payback while Riku tries really, really hard not to die of laughter.

After they’ve recovered, Riku excuses himself to sit on the beach so he can have his little chat with Repliku while Kairi and Sora go over to the tree and talk.

When Kairi grabs the Paopu fruit, it’s just one--because it says share a paopu fruit, not two, you dipshits--and Sora was about to reach for it, too. The two share a smile as they’re like, “This way, no matter what happens tomorrow, we’ll always have each other.”

They share it, and then Riku--who is a fucking ninja, apparently--shows up and places a hand on both of their shoulders like, “It’s about fucking time.” Sora and Kairi share a impish little smile and together, they hold up the shared Paopu to him. He’s at first taken aback, but he softly smiles and the SCENE ENDS!

8. In the Keyblade Graveyard (I swear I’m almost done), here are the changes I’d make.

First off, when everyone is attacked and whisked off and Sora finally gets that moment where the self-doubt reaches its final form, have him, I dunno, react to losing his friends before Kairi! Like, calling out names and reaching for them and growing increasingly terrified! Especially after he just watched all his friends get wrecked by Terranort.

I would completely erase the Final World Bullshit, because it felt like they just put it in there as a way to explain the fact Sora’s story was coming to an end and Kairi heart stuff when they didn’t know how else to do it, and that just felt sad. BUT IF I MUST KEEP IT TO MAKE YOU HAPPY, then I propose that you don’t talk to Namine in the land of the Dead. You instead talk to Chirithy and Strelitzia or whoever the fuck the other chick was, and then you gather yourself together and Sora tells Chirithy, “my friends are calling me back! I have to go help them!” While Digimon’s Kairi is like, “yeah, cool, but if you die again, ain’t no one coming up here to save you, dude, so don’t be fucking stupid.”

Since Riku has natural resistance to Darkness (thanks to his backstory) and Kairi is apparently God in this game, Sora only saves Donald and Goofy while they save Ventus, Aqua, Axel and Mickey separately. Then, together, the whole group goes back to the graveyard, and instead of going through fucking time travel paradoxes that make no goddamn sense, Nomura, the characters regroup and are like, “okay, now, it’s time for the final showdown!”

9. The Gauntlet of Endless Cutscenes

Riku beats up fake Riku himself without Sora, but Sora shows up in the end to help hold off Xigbar while Repliku tears fake Riku apart for the whole Namine scene. Sora is like, “you good, bro?” and Riku’s like, “Sure, gonna go kill Ansem,” and they part ways.

Aqua and Ventus beat up Terranort themselves. They are the ones who release his soul back to his body as Sora arrives to provide backup against Vanitas. Terra, Ven and Aqua fight Vanitas while they tell Sora to go assist the others.

Axel and Kairi fight together--for real, though.

Give these 2 badass Redheads the chance to kick some serious ass against Xion and Saix.

Sora arrives and they’re both worn out because they’re new to this and keyblades are hard, so he wards off Xion until Saix does his thing, then the rest is PRETTY MUCH THE SAME, except Kairi doesn’t get kidnapped.

Because Roxas, Xion, and Sora stop that shit in their tracks (because I want Kairi to be the Touched by Fire badass she always deserved to be, dammit), but when they fail, Kairi swings at him and Xemnas does his teleportation bullshit and knocks her out because, goddammit, she did her best!

Xion and Roxas tell Sora to go while they beat down Saix, and then there’s the Sea Salt trio’s reunion.

Sora goes to Riku and Mickey (I skipped him because Mickey needs no one’s help, and I would assume Sora went there first to help him and he was like, “the fuck? I don’t need you! Go assist everyone else, ya dunce!”), and when he tells them that Xemnas took Kairi, Riku chastises him for his sloppiness.

Together, they defeat Ansem, Xemnas and Young Xehanort, after which, when Xehanort pulls out Kairi, we get a blast to the past of BBS while the 3 of them try to get her back without delay. But, Xehanort uses his newly forged no name keys to hold them off while he imbues Kairi with a piece of himself for the final showdown (Because I think DarkKairi is the only way you can kill her and it be okay. Also, they did hint at the whole princesses of light choose the light bullshit in the Disney worlds, so fuck it, if Nomura can’t keep his canon right, fuck you, I don’t have to keep it right, either, so there.)

This leads to Sora refusing to fight another of his friends, because he has done enough of that in this revised version, and dammit, he can’t do it again! So, Riku does it for him, because he won’t let anyone else he cares about fall to the darkness.

But he gets his ass handed to him. Sora, seeing this, has to fight. Like the Brother My Brother scene from Pokemon the First Movie (may it rest in peace).

After the ensuing melee forges the final key--because who the fuck needs Xehanort, am I right?--Xehanort (hah) goes to put an end to Riku and Sora, but Kairi steps in and protects them, sacrificing herself in the process.

Devastated, Sora goes after Xehanort while Riku stays behind with the other warriors to stop Kingdom Hearts.

Shit pans out as seen, and after the final battle, Sora mourns Kairi and says he’s gonna go find her. Shit pans out as seen and Riku still tells them to let him go, but he also leaves him with a snarky, “and if you get lost again, I’ll just pull you out like I always do,” roll of the eyes and everything.

BRO HUGS FOR EVERYONE!

10. Okay, so the Ending.

Everything is the same, except that Kairi and Sora both disappear as Riku leaves the others behind on the beach to go see them. Leaning against the branch they sat on, he picks up a fallen paopu, looks off into the distance and there’s a glimmer in his eye before the screen

Cuts

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