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yeah but honestly it would boil down to xemnas being like
"Haha Mickey look at me I stole your journal and Sora ee oo oo oo ah haha heart amirite, I read all about it in your dumb journal"

Why did I read that in Pete’s voice

But within the narrative we have it makes more sense

Because of the dark cubes in bh6

I mean only because its not interesting in the slightest

And the fact he talks about data quite often

In bh6

Like it doesn't pose any sort of conflict at all

I mean it doesn’t have to

Unless he has to be destroyed

Yeah I understand what you're getting at but him talking about data doesn't automatically mean it should be data riku

But that's just not very fulfilling

It’d be kind of upsetting for Mickey

You have a tee total good guy, he gets hit with a dark Ray to make him dark, then you bash him and he gets better

Ehh

You could have him die tho

I think having the actual KH1 Riku would upset Mickey a lot more

Eh he barely knew kh1 Riku

Okay but if data Riku dies he just goes back to his time?

No that's not how it works

No no he is the real data Riku

Like if he dies he’s gone forever

Mickey didn't know Riku during KH1, but now he's had the chance to form a really close bond with him over two years

yeah but data riku is kinda gone forever already

With one of those years being those two working side by side

like in coded they even mention that

they just go into an endless loop replaying kh1's adventures

because that's all there is in the journal

He’s still in the journal isn’t he ?

Seeing KH1 Riku, even if it's a Riku he didn't know then take that path is not gonna take away any of the paternal/mentor feelings he has toward Riku

Again another thing, Sora in TT “a heart can live in anything, even inside data”

Imagine that being an inspiration for Xehanort to take data Riku

Realizing Sora is right

I mean it's your prerogative, but there's just so much more to mine from all of KH that this particular issue is just not exciting to me at all

I mean... He could take Roxas' data

But that’s not a person that’s just data. Data Riku literally had a heart