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tammaiyaI'm sure anybody who cares about KHII cares about spoilers and so what is beneath this cut will be of no interest to ANYONE but me, but hey. It's my lj. I can babble if I want to. Beware length! Beware spoilers! Also, beware inanity. Because it does say what's going on in KHII, but there is a distinctive slant towards events which interest me and silly commentary thereupon. *cough* I'm not that far in yet. Only just finished the first Disney world.
Whoo hoo! I'm... not Cloud?
So okay, you start the game as a kid who looks exactly like Cloud would if he were, say, fourteen. Nobody is using any names at first, though, so you're like... maybe I'm Cloud, maybe I'm not. You are, however, bandying around the name "Seifer" a lot.
OMFG YES, thought I!
So anyway, someone has been stealing stuff, and no one can even say the word. Your friends think Seifer has framed you. Speaking of your friends-- you have three. Two boys and a girl. One of the boys looks amazingly like fourteen year old Zell would if he were KH-erised, had his tattoo removed and had brown eyes. But anyway, moving on; you finally find out your character's name.
It's Roxxis. Rocksas. Rokusasu. Whatever you want to romanise it as.
It is NOT Cloud.
WTF, Square! I shrieked. He's fucking BLOND HAIRED, BLUE EYED, and his hair looks like CHOCOBO TAIL FEATHERS. How can he NOT be Cloud?!
But Square merely laughed cruelly and mocked and jeered. Or rather, ignored me completely. But mockingly. Or something. I slunk around muttering about what a DUMB NAME Rocksas was for a while, but I think I was just bitter about not being Cloud. Your friends' names are Hyne, Pintz and Orett. Hyne is the kid that looks like Zell; if not for the eye colour, I'd think he WAS Zell, because the personality and grin and bitching about Seifer all match up. Ironic, huh?
So this mystery thing that has been nicked from everyone in the town has also been stolen from your friends, but for some reason everyone thinks Rocksas is the thief. You collectively decide Seifer might know something-- he's had something stolen too-- so you go pick a fight with him. Which is of course accompanied by exited squeaking on my part, because Seifer! KH!SEIFER.
He's like a rapper slut. I shit you not. He has a beanie, and low slung rapper pants, and he's wearing his usual top only it's a MIDRIFF TOP HAHAHAHA. God I love you Squeenix. Anyhoo, he is accompanied by Fuujin and Raijin-- of course-- and Fuujin looks SO CUTE. Ee! But guess who else is hanging with them?
Vivi.
I almost choked and DIED. Vivi is so sweet. Seifer is so obnoxious. What. XDDD
But whatever, the real thief is a new form of heartless, it shows up, you track it down, get the stolen things back-- they're photos-- blah blah etc. Your toy sword turns into the keyblade and you are like whoa my god WTF, but the important thing is you beat up the neo heartless and the keyblade disappears. Turns out ALL the photos are of Rocksas. Which makes one wonder why the town people all treasure their Rocksas photos so much. That's a wee bit freaky. Plus, why do they assume he's the thief? Egotism, or self image issues? *sniggers* But the point is, the thief was in some bizarre way trying to steal Rocksas's existence.
So, moving on from that.
The format for the beginning of the game is in days. Every time you finish a segment, you go to sleep and dream flashbacks of Sora. This is Sora having his memory reconstructed by Namine post Chain of Memories. Getting the photos back is the end of the first day.
I WAS going to give a more accurate account of what happens every day, but I don't really remember everything, so you're stuck with the things that I remember thinking. Sorry. XD On the second day, Hyne starts talking about what if you're not all together forever and saying he wants to go to the beach. Reality and common sense-- ie, the rest of you-- intervene and point out that between the trainfare and the yakisoba Hyne so desperately wishes to consume, you don't have the damn cash. He's all leave it to me! :D, which turns out to mean "I'm going to tell you all to get part time jobs, chop chop!"
Gee, thanks, Hyne.
But the part time jobs are fun. They're mini games; depending how well you do, you get more money. One of these mini games was what first made me realise Rocksas is an awesome skateboarding PRO and you can press buttons to flip tricks all over the place. I admit I spent a while just whizzing around the town grinding rails and achieving nothing. I enjoy that kind of thing FAR too much. But anyway, yes. The mini games inspired me to great lengths. I wasn't just going to get the money, oh no. "WHAT! WHO ARE YOU CALLING MAA MAA! I REFUSE TO BE MAA MAA! AAAAAAAAAGSHLFJSDLFJSL!" There were three jobs (and another three later), and I played every single one until I got well done instead of so-so. XDDD
So you get the money, and you meet up with Hyne and everyone at the train station, and Orett reveals that she has a money pouch with 5000 money in. She gives it to you. I marvel at the stupidity of this. Well, I suppose I can understand, but as someone who loses things my first instinct was "No! Dude! Don't give me that!"
Anyway, then Ansem, clad in the hooded robe of the Organisation, shows up and knocks you over. Jerkwad, you think. Then you realise how MUCH a jerkwad when you go to buy your tickets, and... nai? My money pouch is not THERE? I must have dropped it, somehow, but-- omg. ARSEWIPE, he nicked my WALLET.
And your friends are like, dude, what? There was no one there. You must have dropped it.
And you are like, O.o;
And I am like, wow, it's like FF7 all over, being that I am crazy! Or people think I'm crazy.
So then the train comes, and the train goes, and you are so TOTALLY not on it. Oh well. We'll go to the beach tomorrow, right, guys?
So if I'm not Cloud, why am I crazy? Square, are you RECYCLING again? ... Carry on.
Yeah, or NOT, because tomorrow-- after your usual recap dream about Sora, which are the most frustrating things ever for me, because either the iso burned wrong or was ripped wrong and the Sora dreams (being of a very fragmented nature) crawl and skip disgustingly-- you wake up and Namine is all, hi. Weird stuff is happening. Follow me like wo! And so you brush off Orret and Pintz to follow her like wo, and you end up in the same place as Seifer and his gang, and you get attacked by those neo heartless again. And then time freezes and goes all freaky weird and Namine is like, use the keyblade, yo!
Rocksas: Omfg WTF. O_O
And then... is that where Axel shows up for the first time? I don't remember. Whatever, you wake up still hanging with Seifer et al; Hyne and co run into the open space area to find you, and then they see you with Seifer. Hyne is all >O and runs off, assuming you ditched them for Seifer. There is now no longer time to go to the beach. You feel like an utter cad, even though it was all a misunderstanding and you had sod-all choice in the matter.
You're like, can't we go tomorrow?
But you and Hyne had already promised each other to enter a fighting tournament tomorrow. Now you feel like even MORE of a cad because you forgot this, but at least you remembered in time. But anyway, tomorrow dawns... and Hyne is STILL not talking to you. Great. The other contestants in the comp are Seifer, Vivi and a guy called Setsaa.
Me: ... Setsaa? *stares* Name rings a bell. Must be an FF character. Looks vaguely familiar. Maybe I'm imagining it.
So you beat Hyne, you look all hangdog kicked puppy apologetic etc, and he forgives you. The second round is Vivi vs Seifer. Vivi beats Seifer in one very tactical hit. Everyone is like, wow, Vivi is stronger than I remember! I am like, wow, he is laughing creepily at me! Seifer is like, that is so not Vivi, yo!
Okay, the creepy laughter makes sense now.
... Didn't that happen in FF9, too? 'S been ages since I played it.
Whatever, so, you vs Vivi. You beat Vivi, Vivi is all, wow. Where am I? What's going on? In a very cute, Vivi kind of way. And then, you fight Setsaa. For the win! While girls scream "Setsaa-samaaa!" and I'm all, "dude, I KNOW I recognise that name."
It occurred to me at 3 in the morning when I was trying to sleep: "OMFG SETZER! FF6! ASDFJLSDFJKLDFJSKLJSDL!"
Which marks the first FF6 character to make KH! Also, Vivi is the first FF9 character.
So. Yeah. You get a trophy that has four materia-like balls in it. I kid not, they're even blue, yellow, red and green. MUST be on purpose.
... To take a break from continuity, because I don't remember when all the Namine and Axel and Ansem stuff happens; Namine at some point asks you if you remember your real name. Me: HAH! HAH! I FUCKING KNEW IT, I'M CLOOOOOOOOOUD.
Although, admittedly the Sora flashback memories of Cloud do put a kink in that theory.
Anyway, you fight with Axel at some point and he's also totally with the "d00d, you don't REMEMBER." He seems very agitated about this. Diz is hanging with Ansem. Those two don't WANT you to remember. Blah blah etc.
So, back to continuity. You get the trophy, you are teh roxx0r, you and your friends go hang out on the ledge of the clocktower over the station. Way high, you. You eat icy poles together, and you break the materia bauble thingies off and throw them all to your friend. You keep the blue. Way to GO, dipstick, support materia are the LAME ONES. Why couldn't you have kept the red? Jeez. Although it does match your eyes very prettily...
*cough* Yes. Right. So things get a bit dippy, and you fall off the tower. Haha, ain't no one gonna survive THAT nasty fall, or rather, the nasty smacking into pavement at high velocity. Then we flick to a vision of older Kairi and Selphie, who have gone through puberty, by which I mean they have pretty girly figures. Selphie calls Kairi "nee-chan". Pretty cute. They're in school uniforms, talking about the kid's island. Kairi asks Selphie if she remembers the people Kairi used to play with. Selphie says yeah, there was a boy, Riku-- he left years ago, never came back. Kairi says she sure he'll come back someday. Then she says, do you remember another boy? Selphie doesn't, and Kairi doesn't remember his name or anything about him. All she remembers is that she promised him something. She says, It's so horrible to forget him like that, so I won't go back to the island until I remember him. Then there's a bit of flicking between falling!Rocksas and Kairi-- Rocksas is hearing Kairi's voice, and he says something to her which she hears. Then they both hear SORA, saying to Kairi, you forget me? Aaah, that's not very nice! I'll give you a clue-- it starts with "so"!
Sora's memories are almost completely rebuilt by this point. Kairi sends off a letter in a bottle, saying she knows he'll come back eventually-- right, So-ra?
Rocksas wakes up.
You're like, wut.
Rocksas is like, wut.
And then he thinks, so it was a dream? From when to when?
Good fucking question.
By the way, Ansem has now made off with your blue materia, not that you've noticed yet. What a klepto. He could give Yuffie a run for her money. Ignoring Ansem for the time being, however, you are being remarkably quiet while Hyne bitches about how there's only a few days left of the summer holidays and Orett nags him about the free-choice assignment. You ask if you fell off the clock tower yesterday. Hyne is like, dude, if you fell off you wouldn't BE here. It was a close call, though!
Rocksas and you: O.o
So they go back to their conversation, and Pintz suggests you all do the project on the 7 wonders of Sunset.... whatev. Can't remember the place name. So you hop a train there, and on the train, your friends all pull out themateria... coloured baubles... you gave them. You smile, and go to pull out yours, but... nai?! Wtf, first your money, now your shiny, what is this? So you sit there uncomfortably and hope the others don't notice you not pulling yours out and take it as a symbolic gesture of seperatism. Which it IS, only it's not YOUR gesture. You feel like a cad, yet again.
Anyway, you get there, and proceed to run around looking for the 7 wonders. Mysteries, literally, but that's what the 7 Wonders of the World are translated to in Japanese. It's all a bit weird. After the first mystery-- different number of stairs up than down, attributed to Raijin being a dweeb-- you go to check things out, there's something FREAKING ODD going on, like a glitch with the world, you bash up neo heartless somehow connected to the mystery, and Pintz shows up, doesn't see anything, and decides it's a hoax or that there's a rational explanation. This happens for the next 4 mysteries. The 6th mystery is a ghost train. You and your friends wait for it; you see it approaching and go OMG IT WAS TRUE! *spazz* and drag them to the station. Train pulls in, you're like let's check it out and see if there's truly no one inside, and take a step towards it. Hyne grabs you and says it's too dangerous. You look back, the train is gone. Moments later a train from the beach pulls in.
Your friends didn't see the train. You feel remarkably like you're going crazy. They agree. It rather puts a damper on the whole day, and no one but you wants to go see the seventh mystery, which is a ghost mansion. Pintz agrees to go, though.
Gay, to the power of ten billion!
The seventh mystery is the mansion you chased the photo thieving heartless to. The story is that people see a girl in the window of the second floor, though nobody lives there. You look up at the window, and see Namine. You zone out, and your consciousness is in the room with Namine. She's surrounded by drawings of you in an Organisation robe, and Axel, and Donald, Goofy and Sora. She tells you that you don't remember who you really are. That you were part of the Organisation. That Axel was your best friend. I think she also tells you that you and Sora are connected, and that you're half of him. She says-- either now or the next day-- that you don't really exist, and Rocksas says that that's a horrible thing to tell someone, even if it's true. She says sorry, maybe that's the kind of thing you're better off not knowing. I have more FF7-like identity issues, as does Rocksas.
Meanwhile, Pintz is like, hello, Earth to Rocksas? Did you see anything? And you say, yeah, I think so, and point, but he discounts it as the wind ruffling the curtains and you go back. At this point, I think you run into Axel again. He asks you if you remember anything, a bit defensive, and you say, "You're... Axel. Were we best friends?"
And oh my god, I just. He just. WAH. His expression is just so EAGER and HOPEFUL when he thinks you've remembered him, and to make sure he asks you the name of your (and his) boss. But you didn't really remember, you were just parroting what Namine told you, so you don't know, and then you break his heart. He's all, "I see. So the Rocksas I knew... doesn't exist, anymore." And then he breaks MY heart. But he does that worse later. Also, the being called Rocksas by Axel puts yet another dint into that real name theory. What was Namine going on about? Did I misread, trying to read quickly? Or is Rocksas my Organisation name?
Well, whatever. You fight Axel, etc, I think Namine pauses time and shows up and tries to tell you stuff but she's dragged off kicking and screaming by Diz and Ansem. When you wake up the next morning, you're Sora for a moment. It's freaky and depressing, but it only gets worse. You go to the usual spot, but your friends can't hear you or see you and they don't seem to notice you're not their. They run straight through you. When you run out into the town, there's no one there; it's desolate. I think it's Diz, for memory, tells you in disembodied voice style that you're fading away, and that if you don't do what you're supposed to then you'll simply be erased. You go to the mansion, and unlock the gate with the keyblade after remembering Sora doing the same thing. You go to Namine's room; she's not there, so you look around at the pictures, and Rocksas clutches his head as if in pain because he looks at the one of he and Axel together and suddenly he gets a flashback. He was the one that was chosen by the keyblade. He fights an Organisation guy who looks like Riku would older and with slightly longer hair, or like Sephiroth would younger and with shorter hair, because this guy is jealous about the keyblade thing (note: he has a black blindfold. Yeah, like in the preview of KHII at the end of KHI). Plz recall that Rocksas looks like Cloud. Yeah.
That? That is the sound of my brain fritzing out. This is cruel and unusual, Square.
Then you get a memory of Axel yelling at you about letting yourself be the vessel for Sora and being erased. I can't remember how much he actually said, but that's what he meant.
Rocksas: Why? It's not like anyone will be sad.
Axel: *broken* ... I'll be sad.
Me: OH. MY GOD. THAT WAS MY SOUL. BEING CRUSHED. WIBBLE. ;;
The gay is overwhelming. And SO IS THE ANGST. *cry* Axel! My poor baby! I don't care if he's evil, he has awesome spiky red hair and light green eyes and lanky wirey limbs and he is in LOFF.
And then you turn around and Namine is there, blah blah, Diz and Ansem drag her off again, never mind that, back to the Axel! So you run downstairs and you get into a fight with said Axel. And you're all, Axel... *woobie face* and he's all bitter and like "oh, so you really remember this time? well TOO DAMN LATE." And you fight him. And he disappears into the ether, by which I don't mean you kill him, I mean he does his sparkly disappearing trick. You continue on. I think there are memories of being prepared to be half of Sora by Ansem and Diz, which is not fun and involves electricity, if I remember right. I was slightly distracted for this point.
... Ansem is the new Hojo?
These FF7 parallels are frightening. I can't believe it's not Cloud!
Parody on that butter ad fully intentional.
Um, anyway, you find the pods with Donald and Goofy, then you find Sora. Diz appears in a hologram and is a smarmy jackass at you. You get hysterical and try to whack him with your beloved keyblade, but as previously mentioned: HOLOGRAM. It gets you precisely nowhere, except tired.
And then the pod opens. Sora's memories are completely restored. He's waking up. Rocksas tells him, with a rueful smile, I'm jealous. My summer holidays are over.
Then suddenly, you go back to the pod opening, but now it's Sora's point of view. You wake up. Donald and Goofy and Jiminy run to meet you. You remember everything up the the end of KHI and nothing about the Castle Oblivion or how you got here.
Rocksas is nowhere in sight.
Sora has his items.
SIOBHAN CRIES AND RAILS FUTILELY AT SQUARE. DAMN YOU, SQUARE. JUST WHEN I'D GOTTEN ATTACHED.
And as much as I love Sora, I still haven't quite gotten over it. *miffed*
I've played past this point, but I'm too tired to say anything about it, so later you get my babble on Hollow Bastion Is The New Traverse Town, Gummi ships are silly. Full STOP. and Captain Stick-Up-The-Arse!, that last one being on the topic of Mulan.
And that's all on the Kingdom Hearts II front from me. I SLEEP NOW.
I need a KH icon...
Whoo hoo! I'm... not Cloud?
So okay, you start the game as a kid who looks exactly like Cloud would if he were, say, fourteen. Nobody is using any names at first, though, so you're like... maybe I'm Cloud, maybe I'm not. You are, however, bandying around the name "Seifer" a lot.
OMFG YES, thought I!
So anyway, someone has been stealing stuff, and no one can even say the word. Your friends think Seifer has framed you. Speaking of your friends-- you have three. Two boys and a girl. One of the boys looks amazingly like fourteen year old Zell would if he were KH-erised, had his tattoo removed and had brown eyes. But anyway, moving on; you finally find out your character's name.
It's Roxxis. Rocksas. Rokusasu. Whatever you want to romanise it as.
It is NOT Cloud.
WTF, Square! I shrieked. He's fucking BLOND HAIRED, BLUE EYED, and his hair looks like CHOCOBO TAIL FEATHERS. How can he NOT be Cloud?!
But Square merely laughed cruelly and mocked and jeered. Or rather, ignored me completely. But mockingly. Or something. I slunk around muttering about what a DUMB NAME Rocksas was for a while, but I think I was just bitter about not being Cloud. Your friends' names are Hyne, Pintz and Orett. Hyne is the kid that looks like Zell; if not for the eye colour, I'd think he WAS Zell, because the personality and grin and bitching about Seifer all match up. Ironic, huh?
So this mystery thing that has been nicked from everyone in the town has also been stolen from your friends, but for some reason everyone thinks Rocksas is the thief. You collectively decide Seifer might know something-- he's had something stolen too-- so you go pick a fight with him. Which is of course accompanied by exited squeaking on my part, because Seifer! KH!SEIFER.
He's like a rapper slut. I shit you not. He has a beanie, and low slung rapper pants, and he's wearing his usual top only it's a MIDRIFF TOP HAHAHAHA. God I love you Squeenix. Anyhoo, he is accompanied by Fuujin and Raijin-- of course-- and Fuujin looks SO CUTE. Ee! But guess who else is hanging with them?
Vivi.
I almost choked and DIED. Vivi is so sweet. Seifer is so obnoxious. What. XDDD
But whatever, the real thief is a new form of heartless, it shows up, you track it down, get the stolen things back-- they're photos-- blah blah etc. Your toy sword turns into the keyblade and you are like whoa my god WTF, but the important thing is you beat up the neo heartless and the keyblade disappears. Turns out ALL the photos are of Rocksas. Which makes one wonder why the town people all treasure their Rocksas photos so much. That's a wee bit freaky. Plus, why do they assume he's the thief? Egotism, or self image issues? *sniggers* But the point is, the thief was in some bizarre way trying to steal Rocksas's existence.
So, moving on from that.
The format for the beginning of the game is in days. Every time you finish a segment, you go to sleep and dream flashbacks of Sora. This is Sora having his memory reconstructed by Namine post Chain of Memories. Getting the photos back is the end of the first day.
I WAS going to give a more accurate account of what happens every day, but I don't really remember everything, so you're stuck with the things that I remember thinking. Sorry. XD On the second day, Hyne starts talking about what if you're not all together forever and saying he wants to go to the beach. Reality and common sense-- ie, the rest of you-- intervene and point out that between the trainfare and the yakisoba Hyne so desperately wishes to consume, you don't have the damn cash. He's all leave it to me! :D, which turns out to mean "I'm going to tell you all to get part time jobs, chop chop!"
Gee, thanks, Hyne.
But the part time jobs are fun. They're mini games; depending how well you do, you get more money. One of these mini games was what first made me realise Rocksas is an awesome skateboarding PRO and you can press buttons to flip tricks all over the place. I admit I spent a while just whizzing around the town grinding rails and achieving nothing. I enjoy that kind of thing FAR too much. But anyway, yes. The mini games inspired me to great lengths. I wasn't just going to get the money, oh no. "WHAT! WHO ARE YOU CALLING MAA MAA! I REFUSE TO BE MAA MAA! AAAAAAAAAGSHLFJSDLFJSL!" There were three jobs (and another three later), and I played every single one until I got well done instead of so-so. XDDD
So you get the money, and you meet up with Hyne and everyone at the train station, and Orett reveals that she has a money pouch with 5000 money in. She gives it to you. I marvel at the stupidity of this. Well, I suppose I can understand, but as someone who loses things my first instinct was "No! Dude! Don't give me that!"
Anyway, then Ansem, clad in the hooded robe of the Organisation, shows up and knocks you over. Jerkwad, you think. Then you realise how MUCH a jerkwad when you go to buy your tickets, and... nai? My money pouch is not THERE? I must have dropped it, somehow, but-- omg. ARSEWIPE, he nicked my WALLET.
And your friends are like, dude, what? There was no one there. You must have dropped it.
And you are like, O.o;
And I am like, wow, it's like FF7 all over, being that I am crazy! Or people think I'm crazy.
So then the train comes, and the train goes, and you are so TOTALLY not on it. Oh well. We'll go to the beach tomorrow, right, guys?
So if I'm not Cloud, why am I crazy? Square, are you RECYCLING again? ... Carry on.
Yeah, or NOT, because tomorrow-- after your usual recap dream about Sora, which are the most frustrating things ever for me, because either the iso burned wrong or was ripped wrong and the Sora dreams (being of a very fragmented nature) crawl and skip disgustingly-- you wake up and Namine is all, hi. Weird stuff is happening. Follow me like wo! And so you brush off Orret and Pintz to follow her like wo, and you end up in the same place as Seifer and his gang, and you get attacked by those neo heartless again. And then time freezes and goes all freaky weird and Namine is like, use the keyblade, yo!
Rocksas: Omfg WTF. O_O
And then... is that where Axel shows up for the first time? I don't remember. Whatever, you wake up still hanging with Seifer et al; Hyne and co run into the open space area to find you, and then they see you with Seifer. Hyne is all >O and runs off, assuming you ditched them for Seifer. There is now no longer time to go to the beach. You feel like an utter cad, even though it was all a misunderstanding and you had sod-all choice in the matter.
You're like, can't we go tomorrow?
But you and Hyne had already promised each other to enter a fighting tournament tomorrow. Now you feel like even MORE of a cad because you forgot this, but at least you remembered in time. But anyway, tomorrow dawns... and Hyne is STILL not talking to you. Great. The other contestants in the comp are Seifer, Vivi and a guy called Setsaa.
Me: ... Setsaa? *stares* Name rings a bell. Must be an FF character. Looks vaguely familiar. Maybe I'm imagining it.
So you beat Hyne, you look all hangdog kicked puppy apologetic etc, and he forgives you. The second round is Vivi vs Seifer. Vivi beats Seifer in one very tactical hit. Everyone is like, wow, Vivi is stronger than I remember! I am like, wow, he is laughing creepily at me! Seifer is like, that is so not Vivi, yo!
Okay, the creepy laughter makes sense now.
... Didn't that happen in FF9, too? 'S been ages since I played it.
Whatever, so, you vs Vivi. You beat Vivi, Vivi is all, wow. Where am I? What's going on? In a very cute, Vivi kind of way. And then, you fight Setsaa. For the win! While girls scream "Setsaa-samaaa!" and I'm all, "dude, I KNOW I recognise that name."
It occurred to me at 3 in the morning when I was trying to sleep: "OMFG SETZER! FF6! ASDFJLSDFJKLDFJSKLJSDL!"
Which marks the first FF6 character to make KH! Also, Vivi is the first FF9 character.
So. Yeah. You get a trophy that has four materia-like balls in it. I kid not, they're even blue, yellow, red and green. MUST be on purpose.
... To take a break from continuity, because I don't remember when all the Namine and Axel and Ansem stuff happens; Namine at some point asks you if you remember your real name. Me: HAH! HAH! I FUCKING KNEW IT, I'M CLOOOOOOOOOUD.
Although, admittedly the Sora flashback memories of Cloud do put a kink in that theory.
Anyway, you fight with Axel at some point and he's also totally with the "d00d, you don't REMEMBER." He seems very agitated about this. Diz is hanging with Ansem. Those two don't WANT you to remember. Blah blah etc.
So, back to continuity. You get the trophy, you are teh roxx0r, you and your friends go hang out on the ledge of the clocktower over the station. Way high, you. You eat icy poles together, and you break the materia bauble thingies off and throw them all to your friend. You keep the blue. Way to GO, dipstick, support materia are the LAME ONES. Why couldn't you have kept the red? Jeez. Although it does match your eyes very prettily...
*cough* Yes. Right. So things get a bit dippy, and you fall off the tower. Haha, ain't no one gonna survive THAT nasty fall, or rather, the nasty smacking into pavement at high velocity. Then we flick to a vision of older Kairi and Selphie, who have gone through puberty, by which I mean they have pretty girly figures. Selphie calls Kairi "nee-chan". Pretty cute. They're in school uniforms, talking about the kid's island. Kairi asks Selphie if she remembers the people Kairi used to play with. Selphie says yeah, there was a boy, Riku-- he left years ago, never came back. Kairi says she sure he'll come back someday. Then she says, do you remember another boy? Selphie doesn't, and Kairi doesn't remember his name or anything about him. All she remembers is that she promised him something. She says, It's so horrible to forget him like that, so I won't go back to the island until I remember him. Then there's a bit of flicking between falling!Rocksas and Kairi-- Rocksas is hearing Kairi's voice, and he says something to her which she hears. Then they both hear SORA, saying to Kairi, you forget me? Aaah, that's not very nice! I'll give you a clue-- it starts with "so"!
Sora's memories are almost completely rebuilt by this point. Kairi sends off a letter in a bottle, saying she knows he'll come back eventually-- right, So-ra?
Rocksas wakes up.
You're like, wut.
Rocksas is like, wut.
And then he thinks, so it was a dream? From when to when?
Good fucking question.
By the way, Ansem has now made off with your blue materia, not that you've noticed yet. What a klepto. He could give Yuffie a run for her money. Ignoring Ansem for the time being, however, you are being remarkably quiet while Hyne bitches about how there's only a few days left of the summer holidays and Orett nags him about the free-choice assignment. You ask if you fell off the clock tower yesterday. Hyne is like, dude, if you fell off you wouldn't BE here. It was a close call, though!
Rocksas and you: O.o
So they go back to their conversation, and Pintz suggests you all do the project on the 7 wonders of Sunset.... whatev. Can't remember the place name. So you hop a train there, and on the train, your friends all pull out the
Anyway, you get there, and proceed to run around looking for the 7 wonders. Mysteries, literally, but that's what the 7 Wonders of the World are translated to in Japanese. It's all a bit weird. After the first mystery-- different number of stairs up than down, attributed to Raijin being a dweeb-- you go to check things out, there's something FREAKING ODD going on, like a glitch with the world, you bash up neo heartless somehow connected to the mystery, and Pintz shows up, doesn't see anything, and decides it's a hoax or that there's a rational explanation. This happens for the next 4 mysteries. The 6th mystery is a ghost train. You and your friends wait for it; you see it approaching and go OMG IT WAS TRUE! *spazz* and drag them to the station. Train pulls in, you're like let's check it out and see if there's truly no one inside, and take a step towards it. Hyne grabs you and says it's too dangerous. You look back, the train is gone. Moments later a train from the beach pulls in.
Your friends didn't see the train. You feel remarkably like you're going crazy. They agree. It rather puts a damper on the whole day, and no one but you wants to go see the seventh mystery, which is a ghost mansion. Pintz agrees to go, though.
Gay, to the power of ten billion!
The seventh mystery is the mansion you chased the photo thieving heartless to. The story is that people see a girl in the window of the second floor, though nobody lives there. You look up at the window, and see Namine. You zone out, and your consciousness is in the room with Namine. She's surrounded by drawings of you in an Organisation robe, and Axel, and Donald, Goofy and Sora. She tells you that you don't remember who you really are. That you were part of the Organisation. That Axel was your best friend. I think she also tells you that you and Sora are connected, and that you're half of him. She says-- either now or the next day-- that you don't really exist, and Rocksas says that that's a horrible thing to tell someone, even if it's true. She says sorry, maybe that's the kind of thing you're better off not knowing. I have more FF7-like identity issues, as does Rocksas.
Meanwhile, Pintz is like, hello, Earth to Rocksas? Did you see anything? And you say, yeah, I think so, and point, but he discounts it as the wind ruffling the curtains and you go back. At this point, I think you run into Axel again. He asks you if you remember anything, a bit defensive, and you say, "You're... Axel. Were we best friends?"
And oh my god, I just. He just. WAH. His expression is just so EAGER and HOPEFUL when he thinks you've remembered him, and to make sure he asks you the name of your (and his) boss. But you didn't really remember, you were just parroting what Namine told you, so you don't know, and then you break his heart. He's all, "I see. So the Rocksas I knew... doesn't exist, anymore." And then he breaks MY heart. But he does that worse later. Also, the being called Rocksas by Axel puts yet another dint into that real name theory. What was Namine going on about? Did I misread, trying to read quickly? Or is Rocksas my Organisation name?
Well, whatever. You fight Axel, etc, I think Namine pauses time and shows up and tries to tell you stuff but she's dragged off kicking and screaming by Diz and Ansem. When you wake up the next morning, you're Sora for a moment. It's freaky and depressing, but it only gets worse. You go to the usual spot, but your friends can't hear you or see you and they don't seem to notice you're not their. They run straight through you. When you run out into the town, there's no one there; it's desolate. I think it's Diz, for memory, tells you in disembodied voice style that you're fading away, and that if you don't do what you're supposed to then you'll simply be erased. You go to the mansion, and unlock the gate with the keyblade after remembering Sora doing the same thing. You go to Namine's room; she's not there, so you look around at the pictures, and Rocksas clutches his head as if in pain because he looks at the one of he and Axel together and suddenly he gets a flashback. He was the one that was chosen by the keyblade. He fights an Organisation guy who looks like Riku would older and with slightly longer hair, or like Sephiroth would younger and with shorter hair, because this guy is jealous about the keyblade thing (note: he has a black blindfold. Yeah, like in the preview of KHII at the end of KHI). Plz recall that Rocksas looks like Cloud. Yeah.
That? That is the sound of my brain fritzing out. This is cruel and unusual, Square.
Then you get a memory of Axel yelling at you about letting yourself be the vessel for Sora and being erased. I can't remember how much he actually said, but that's what he meant.
Rocksas: Why? It's not like anyone will be sad.
Axel: *broken* ... I'll be sad.
Me: OH. MY GOD. THAT WAS MY SOUL. BEING CRUSHED. WIBBLE. ;;
The gay is overwhelming. And SO IS THE ANGST. *cry* Axel! My poor baby! I don't care if he's evil, he has awesome spiky red hair and light green eyes and lanky wirey limbs and he is in LOFF.
And then you turn around and Namine is there, blah blah, Diz and Ansem drag her off again, never mind that, back to the Axel! So you run downstairs and you get into a fight with said Axel. And you're all, Axel... *woobie face* and he's all bitter and like "oh, so you really remember this time? well TOO DAMN LATE." And you fight him. And he disappears into the ether, by which I don't mean you kill him, I mean he does his sparkly disappearing trick. You continue on. I think there are memories of being prepared to be half of Sora by Ansem and Diz, which is not fun and involves electricity, if I remember right. I was slightly distracted for this point.
... Ansem is the new Hojo?
These FF7 parallels are frightening. I can't believe it's not Cloud!
Parody on that butter ad fully intentional.
Um, anyway, you find the pods with Donald and Goofy, then you find Sora. Diz appears in a hologram and is a smarmy jackass at you. You get hysterical and try to whack him with your beloved keyblade, but as previously mentioned: HOLOGRAM. It gets you precisely nowhere, except tired.
And then the pod opens. Sora's memories are completely restored. He's waking up. Rocksas tells him, with a rueful smile, I'm jealous. My summer holidays are over.
Then suddenly, you go back to the pod opening, but now it's Sora's point of view. You wake up. Donald and Goofy and Jiminy run to meet you. You remember everything up the the end of KHI and nothing about the Castle Oblivion or how you got here.
Rocksas is nowhere in sight.
Sora has his items.
SIOBHAN CRIES AND RAILS FUTILELY AT SQUARE. DAMN YOU, SQUARE. JUST WHEN I'D GOTTEN ATTACHED.
And as much as I love Sora, I still haven't quite gotten over it. *miffed*
I've played past this point, but I'm too tired to say anything about it, so later you get my babble on Hollow Bastion Is The New Traverse Town, Gummi ships are silly. Full STOP. and Captain Stick-Up-The-Arse!, that last one being on the topic of Mulan.
And that's all on the Kingdom Hearts II front from me. I SLEEP NOW.
I need a KH icon...
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