Imagine how awesome KHIII could have been if it skipped from CODED right to KHIII:

 

(OLD) master Xehanort returns and wants to recreate a Keyblade war by recruiting many Disney and Final Fantasy villains besides some new Original Character bad guys.

 

Yen Sid leads his army consisting of Sora, Riku, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Aqua and Ven, they clash and the good guys are assisted by some new Original characters that are drawn into the war.

 

Sora is the only main character and travels to many different worlds with Donald and Goofy. At certain fights he gets help from Mickey and the others like in KH2. Drive forms are back and Sora can use the original 5 but also gains new ones.

 

Reaction commands are more prominent and it is possible to enter command styles this way.

Sora can summon actual people like in KH1 rather than out-of-place roller-coasters and parade floats.

 

 

New Worlds include

“Tangled”,

“Frozen”,

“Duckburg” (whooo-oo),

“Shibuja”,

“Louisiana Bayou (Princess and the Frog)”,

“Treasure Planet”,

“The Black Cauldron”,

“Bambi’s forest”,

“Jungle Book”,

“101 Dalmatians” (guiding  Dalmatians while fighting Jasper, Horace and Cruella!!!),

"Pocahontas Jamestown and Riverlands" (Native Tribes Sora but I see Disney causing troubles due to political correctness)

 

 

Vastly extended worlds return with new storylines:

“Radiant Garden”,

“Twilight Town” (Hayner Olette Pence!! ),

“Traverse Town”, “Destiny Islands” (finally playable again, maybe even first world!),

“Keyblade Graveyard”,

“Kingdom Hearts” (we finally get to see it),

“100 acre wood” (always welcome to chill out at and surely cute with new graphics),

“Port Royal” (Plot of Pirates 4 and return of merman Sora fighting an underwater battle against evil mermaids and sharks!),

“Never Land” (mainlands, goofing with lost boys and fighting Hook is always fun as well as FLYING!!),

“Olympus coliseum” (fighting ALL of the Titans!),

“Land of Dragons”

“Beasts Castle”

“Dwarf Woodlands”

All of the princesses of light’s worlds actually with awesome quests to save them all from Xehanort’s minions who want to capture them.

 

 

Sora wants to find a way to get to Xehanort’s secret hideout and he has to fight Disney villains in their respective worlds who act as guardians for Xehanort's plans. More and more new bad guy characters interfere with Sora's paths and he finds out where Xehanort is hiding.

 

As he approaches the Keyblade graveyard he fights Xehanort who has some new tricks and spells and Sora is assisted by several characters as party members. Imagine Sora, Riku and Aqua against Xehanort's ultimate Dragon-like form. Donald and Goofy protect Kairi and the princesses of heart back at Mysterious tower/ twilight town and Kairi especially fights off an army of heartless invading the tower.

 

Xehanort pulls a final trick: he found indeed a way to unlock Kingdom Hearts.

Then He threatens to kill Sora, all other characters are locked out and Sora has to fight a final fight before losing to Xehanort. Eventually Sora is almost lost and Yen Sid fights and defeats Xehanort for good.

 

Anyway there ARE some losses, Ven dies as do two of the 4 new characters and Sora almost dies too.

 

Sora recovers and Kairi confesses her Love for him in fear he might die. Masters Aqua, Mickey and Riku and (now-again) Master Yen Sid combine their Curaza spells but Sora faints and only Kairi can save Sora with a Kiss of true love.

 

Everything is fine, everyone returns to their home worlds.

Yen Sid trains one of the new Characters to wield the keyblade.

 

Sora, Riku and Kairi return to Destiny Islands and Kairi and Sora are finally together. Riku also brought another girl he met on their journey.

 

Mickey, Pluto, Donald and Goofy return to Disney Castle /Town and are happily welcomed by Minnie and Daisy.

 

Jiminy goes back to Pinocchio's world.

Aqua returns to the now-restored Land of Departure and examines Yen Sid's students for the Mark of Mastery. She also built a memorial for her fallen friends Ven and Terra.

 

 

THE BEST thing of KHIII could be its predictability. Deaths like Ven’s would come surprisingly but the sheer technical and visual superiority of the game combined with the final loss of Xehanort we are yearning for yould be the biggest strength of the game.

 

 

 

And a classical Disney-style Ending scene:

First we see all those ending scenes I mentioned above, and then during the credits all the Disney endings are played like in previous games.

Then the final scene:

Riku and his girl are leaning against the Paopu tree on Destiny islands, hugging and Kairi is seen fishing a bottled message out of the water by the docks. (a new raft is seen there too!)

Kairi opens the bottle and is surprised the letter is addressed to her. She reads the letter out loud  and finds out it’s from  Sora. The letter includes some poem that is similar to Kairi’s letter that saved sora in KH2 and ends with something really romantic/tacky like this:

 

We can see the end of the letter:

 

[…] Kairi,

You are my One Sky, my destiny.

I’ll always be with you

And I’ll always keep this promise.

[yours truly, Sora ]

 

Beneath the text we see Sora drew the Paopu fruit sharing he drew on the stone wall in the secret cave. (and his drawing skills have not improved a bit, haha)

 

Then we see Sora sneaking up behind Kairi and covering her eyes with his hands from behind.

Due to her eyes being covered, she stops reading but Sora finishes “I’ll aways be with you…”

She smiles, turns around and her smile becomes radiant when she sees it’s indeed Sora.

Then the camera turns behind the two of them with a wonderful view of the glittering golden sea behind them. The light gets more intense and for a moment we see Naminé and Roxas smiling at each other and Naminé sheds a tear that continues running down Kairi’s cheek. Sora, having watery eyes himself, wipes the tear off her cheek.

 

Finally we turn to a Disney fairy tale movie-like close up showing their faces getting closer, their eyes closing and finally, accompanied by Mrs. Shimomura’s subtlest yet most majestic tunes, the final Kiss of true love.

 

Fade and then the golden letters “The End” appear before the animated logo of Kingdom Hearts III materializes and the music fades out.

 

 

 

The battle report screen shows the usual record data and features a most beautiful artwork including all characters in the series, similar to the one in the KH2 Final Mix.

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy this theory and despite I fear KHIII won’t be as great because it’s been hyped and idolized for too long now, and DDD did a major part in downgrading its potential, I’ll get it just for the growing possibility of Sora and Kairi finally getting together!!

 

Feel free to add you own ideas!

Edited April 15, 201411 yr by MarkXIIII

Thank you very much - another Kairi+Sora shipper, I assume?

They just belong together!!

 

To me, even though I know little I came up with will be in the real deal KHIII, I still do hope we get to see this shipping! Most important thing, haha.

 

Axel says in CoM:  "He did have an effect on me after all. His heart must have rubbed off on me" or so, no literal quote

So, taking ALL the facts from ALL the games into account it is ALL games against one sentence from DDD.

Therefore Nobodies DON'T have hearts but can have heart-like reactions triggered by strong hearts. Only Roxas could cry for example because he had a heart - Ven's

I hope the resolve this point in KHIII by making this clear again

or else Poor lea will have to deal with 2 hearts at once!

The exact quote from Re:CoM was "Hey, I'm enjoying this. You guys really are something!" Of course hes not going to say "Oh, I'm feeling something, I have a heart" because they had been told from the beginning that they didn't and that any illusions of emotion were mere echos of their time as somebodies. Xehanort lied, and they believed that lie, just like a child believes everything their parents say because they assume their parents know everything until they grow up and start meeting other people. Only the Organization never had that chance because they were explicitly told to avoid contact with others and were actually lead away from places that weren't on their to do list to reduce the risk of them gaining their own identity, which is what the KH version of a heart really is.

 

All I'm saying is that I don't see the revelation of Nobodies gaining hearts as a betrayal of the canon, merely as more evidence of how manipulative Xehanort is.

Edited April 16, 201411 yr by Isamu_Kuno

Thank you very much - another Kairi+Sora shipper, I assume? ;)They just belong together!!  To me, even though I know little I came up with will be in the real deal KHIII, I still do hope we get to see this shipping! Most important thing, haha.

I love SoKai . And yes, you should be laughing cause it's a Doctor Who gif .

The exact quote from Re:CoM was "Hey, I'm enjoying this. You guys really are something!" Of course hes not going to say "Oh, I'm feeling something, I have a heart" because they had been told from the beginning that they didn't and that any illusions of emotion were mere echos of their time as somebodies. Xehanort lied, and they believed that lie, just like a child believes everything their parents say because they assume their parents know everything until they grow up and start meeting other people. Only the Organization never had that chance because they were explicitly told to avoid contact with others and were actually lead away from places that weren't on their to do list to reduce the risk of them gaining their own identity, which is what the KH version of a heart really is.

 

All I'm saying is that I don't see the revelation of Nobodies gaining hearts as a betrayal of the canon, merely as more evidence of how manipulative Xehanort is.

 

You'Re absolutely right on Xehanort's manipulations!

 

Maybe I'm just counting hearts too much. I see hearts as concrete countable objects but if hearts are more like identities or purposes / vindications for existance then it totally makes sense. Xehanort even manipluated Xehanort to a certain extend as he was driven mainly by the craving to exist, which he could anyway if he accepted the fact that the "inbetween" has just as much right to exist as light and dark.

So Those certain parts of Xehanort might even turn theor backs on Xehanort himself in KHIII cuz they might be sick of just being someone else as Sora said "are you not afraid of just turning into someone else?"

 

So IF hearts are like justifications for existance I could toitally see Nobodies become "self-aware" (As Xemnas states) and "get their own hearts". In that case, Roxas would only have to realiye he already has a heart rather than replace something that isn'tthere. Xion could have a heart and Axel too. When merging with Sora they could either give their hearts up or merge them with sora's as Ven did. The question sis how to un-merge those hearts again but I guess restoring those characters as won persons can do the trick.

 

For Lea's case, If Axel nurtured his own heart by coming into conatct with Ven's and Sora's strong hearts he definitely became self-aware. He might even  have been able to rebuild his very own heart so he just needed to get rid of the heartless to be complete again.

But we would have to know an EXACT theory on how hearts are defined and how this works. Cuz if the heartless does not release the heart, the nobody cannot become whole and cannot rebuild the exact same heart either.

Theroy 2: If Axel nurtured a heart, he might have something he could give up or merge with his heart once he becomes lea again so it always stays 1 heart for lea (like 2 cups of water getting combined in a bowl of water)

 

Theory 3: this is based on a DDD summary I found on Youtube: the reviewer interpreted Xemans' words as only a paraphrase that nobodies become self-aware and realize the separation into nobodies and heartless is only temporary.

So A Nobody Who is self aware can regain his heart as soon as the heartless is destroyed and the heart is freed. This would make sense for lea to a certain extend but not on th ewhole scale. Assuming Lea looks just like Axel because his cheek makrs disappeared after his shadow-liuke heartless returned his heart does not explain why he had feelings before that...

Oh no, my bad, Axel got killed in KHII, my bad! For a moment I felt llike Axel just lost those cheek marks and became Lea again, sorry

 

Is it just me or is all of this so Fricking complicated???

I hope KHIII explains what a heart really is and how exactly a nobody is restored to a somebody after its destruction and what happens to whichever hearts that are grown or released or lost.

You'Re absolutely right on Xehanort's manipulations!

 

Maybe I'm just counting hearts too much. I see hearts as concrete countable objects but if hearts are more like identities or purposes / vindications for existance then it totally makes sense. Xehanort even manipluated Xehanort to a certain extend as he was driven mainly by the craving to exist, which he could anyway if he accepted the fact that the "inbetween" has just as much right to exist as light and dark.

So Those certain parts of Xehanort might even turn theor backs on Xehanort himself in KHIII cuz they might be sick of just being someone else as Sora said "are you not afraid of just turning into someone else?"

 

So IF hearts are like justifications for existance I could toitally see Nobodies become "self-aware" (As Xemnas states) and "get their own hearts". In that case, Roxas would only have to realiye he already has a heart rather than replace something that isn'tthere. Xion could have a heart and Axel too. When merging with Sora they could either give their hearts up or merge them with sora's as Ven did. The question sis how to un-merge those hearts again but I guess restoring those characters as won persons can do the trick.

 

For Lea's case, If Axel nurtured his own heart by coming into conatct with Ven's and Sora's strong hearts he definitely became self-aware. He might even  have been able to rebuild his very own heart so he just needed to get rid of the heartless to be complete again.

But we would have to know an EXACT theory on how hearts are defined and how this works. Cuz if the heartless does not release the heart, the nobody cannot become whole and cannot rebuild the exact same heart either.

Theroy 2: If Axel nurtured a heart, he might have something he could give up or merge with his heart once he becomes lea again so it always stays 1 heart for lea (like 2 cups of water getting combined in a bowl of water)

 

Theory 3: this is based on a DDD summary I found on Youtube: the reviewer interpreted Xemans' words as only a paraphrase that nobodies become self-aware and realize the separation into nobodies and heartless is only temporary.

So A Nobody Who is self aware can regain his heart as soon as the heartless is destroyed and the heart is freed. This would make sense for lea to a certain extend but not on th ewhole scale. Assuming Lea looks just like Axel because his cheek makrs disappeared after his shadow-liuke heartless returned his heart does not explain why he had feelings before that...

Oh no, my bad, Axel got killed in KHII, my bad! For a moment I felt llike Axel just lost those cheek marks and became Lea again, sorry

 

Is it just me or is all of this so Fricking complicated???

I hope KHIII explains what a heart really is and how exactly a nobody is restored to a somebody after its destruction and what happens to whichever hearts that are grown or released or lost.

Exactly, look at the things Sora says

 

KHI "My heart may be weak, but it's not alone. It's grown with each new experience, and it's found a home with all the friends I've made. I've become a part of their hearts, just as much as they've become a part of mine"

 

3D "Just stop it! You treat peoples heart like bottles on a shelf, but they're not! Hearts are made up of the people we meet and how we feel about them."

 

These thing seem to state that a "heart" is the result of being alive, coming into contact with other people and having your own experiences, and the more of these things you have, for good or ill, the stronger that heart becomes. From the beginning of BbS we can assume that the experiences usually begin the first time a baby feels someones touch or possibly even in the womb because as we know whatever a pregnant woman does has an affect on her child. But lets not start a "when does life begin" debate. Ain't nobody got time fo dat. The point is, at it's core a persons heart is all of who they are, and something like that can never be permanently removed. The only way a person can go without growing a heart, is for them to be completely isolated their entire lives.

Edited April 16, 201411 yr by Isamu_Kuno

Good grief, there are so many long theories .

I just found the missing piece, check out my new thread where I resolve the whole HEART theory!

So I guess it's World War III ?

This was a very pleasurable read, and I like the fact that you mentioned it all with such precision and accuracy, like if you really were an employee of Square Enix!  Thank God your not, because if you were, I would have just spoiled myself the entire game, lol.  But you know, KH3D was an amazing game, I don't understand the hate for it. Oh well, to each their own.  Anyways, Kingdom Hearts 3 will be an amazing conclusion to the Xehanort Saga, of that much I'm sure!