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I pretty much agree with everything Stellar Mage said.  It gets really annoying when people think that Roxas and Namine should be together because Sora and Kairi are 'together' (do people realize that Sora and Kairi aren't even a couple yet?)  Even if Sora and Kairi get together, that doesn't mean their Nobodies should.  This is like saying a guy and a girl get together, and it just so happens they both have identical twins.  Well, since they're together, then their twins should get together too. That's just really stupid, and it treats the twins like they're the same person.  Just as identical twins are still two separate people with their own personalities, Sora and Roxas are different from one another, and so are Kairi and Namine. 
 
Not only that, but Roxas and Xion spent almost a whole year getting to know each other and became friends, while Roxas and Namine only spent maybe an hour total talking to one another.  Sorry, but Roxas x Xion all the way!

So sorry for the late response; I've been super busy with school!  But that's not really important; what's important is that you and your family are safe and well! I hope you and everyone you know will be able to recover fully!  Best wishes, and good luck!

I AM HERE!!! 
 

 
Good evening everyone, I hope that all of you are doing okay! So then, as you may all probably guess from the heroic catchphrase and equally heroic theme song, I shall state again what the mighty All Might states! I am here! As, my return has finally come to pass!
 
That's right everyone, I am officially back on the prowl here on my beloved KH13, back among all of you beautiful people, ready to deliver smiles and to discuss the video game series we all know and love, and other stuff, and then some! Granted, the power has not yet been restored, though that is being worked on as we speak, so within two weeks my neighborhood should have power! But in the meantime, I am communicating myself to you all thanks to a power inverter that I purchased from someone who just so happened to have accidentally ordered a spare! I got it for 80 bucks, and it's what I'm using now in order to use internet to log in here! And so, with the inverter, I can be able to come online daily, or at least as much as I'm able while the power returns! In other words, I am back, and it feels oh so good to be back!
 
You're all wondering how I've been faring these past couple of weeks, and honestly, well, it hasn't been easy! Hurricane Maria weaved it's devastating path of destruction that fateful dawning of September the 20th, and it was a storm beyond compare, a living nightmare for all of us living here in Puerto Rico! It's definitely the biggest storm I've been witness to in all my 22 years of life, but despite everything, my family and I persevered as much as we could! After the hurricane, things were definitely saddening to see. The neighborhood was completely transformed, with debris and dead trees and horizons that looked as grave as the Elephant Graveyard from The Lion King! It was that bad! But thankfully, my family and I never slept without having eaten or having gotten water, so I thank God we had the essentials and we were blessed and that nothing happened to our home. Other people haven't been so lucky, and as the weeks have passed on, we've been hearing news of people without homes or found dead piling up and continuing to pile up ever more...it's truly something horrifying. 
 
Thankfully, the situation has improved greatly, and everything is getting better by the day! There are still other places of the island where help hasn't come, and I only pray that help arrives soon for those unfortunate enough to still be in a bad situation. Thanks to God, and to all of your prayers and the help of countless people and organizations, Puerto Rico has risen from the ashes, and I know this island will become what it once was once again! It'll take time, sure, but I'm having good faith things will get even better day by day! 
 
So yeah, that's the situation with us here in Puerto Rico! Things can be depressing at times, but like All Might, I never stop smiling! Because when you feel the most scared, that's when you have to smile the most! Laugh in the face of fear and face it head on! And that's what I'll keep on doing! I thank God for life and that I'm alive, and that I'm able to talk to you all now!
 
And well, basically, this long testament is just another way of saying, I'm back, and IT FEELS FREAKISHLY GOOD! I love you all, and thank you so very much for caring and worrying about me! You've all shown me just how truly caring you can all be! Faith in humanity can yet be had!
 
So yeah, see you all on the forums! And remember, everything is okay, because...
 
I AM HERE!!!

I hope you and your family will be safe and unharmed.  Good luck, and I'll be praying for Puerto Rico (as well the other places hit with these past few hurricanes)

Oh man, I am so sorry to hear what you're going through right now.    I can only pray that it gets better.
 
I hope that one of your aunts, uncles, or cousins can take your dogs in while your mom recovers.  If not, perhaps a neighbor would be willing to take care of your dogs for a while?  Perhaps, you could even take your dogs to a kennel/resort and have them stay there and be taken care of while your mom recovers.  I hope that things will work out for you, your dogs, and your family.    I'm sorry that I can't think of any other options. 

I don't like Rick and Morty at all.
 
I also really liked the last season of Game of Thrones, and I like the current one as well.

Oh man, I'm so sorry to hear that you're going through such an ordeal.  And, while I don't know you (I haven't even seen you on this site before), but I do wish you the best of luck!  I can't think of anything else to say, so sorry.
 
And KH13 has very many kind, understanding members here!  Trust me, I know; I had a terrible thing happen to me and my family last year, and there were so many people here that gave their support during that time.  So, don't feel hesitant about reaching out to someone here, okay?

Hey there, my name is Brittany, but all of you know me as Cricket. I've been in and out on KH13 a lot, but that is truly my own fault and for losing friendships here as well. I have a long history here and most of it is not good, in my opinion, and I am gravely sorry for my mistakes. Some of you may remember me talking about my health several months ago, well, it's not super good honestly for a 26 year old at that. I'm gonna get kinda deep here and tell my whole story of who I am and what I've been through as I haven't been really open about this to anyone, in real life or on the internet.
 
I grew up in the most poverty-stricken state in the U.S. You can't really choose/change where you are born and raised though, so I get that and I accepted it later on as I grew older. My parents were very loving to me and my older sister when I was 7 years old and younger. After I became 7 years old and the death of my grandfather in that same year, my parents began to fall apart in some ways. My grandfather owned a family business and my dad, his son, took it over and my grandmother, my grandfather's wife of said family company, tried to keep it afloat for several months afterwards. However, when you are in a rural town and the big businesses need more money and they zoom in on a smaller company and mess them over, it's not really uncommon in the type of place I grew up. Lost the family business. My dad began to become angry, distant, unloving towards me but not my sister or mom. I would walk in on my parents crying many times and I would always see and hear my dad drunk and calling me terrible names later on and also doing the same to my mom. I was 8 years old around this time and I remember just having 4 pairs of clothes when I used to have everything before our family company was robbed by money hungry people. I don't miss having everything at all, I am glad and appreciate the person I have become without all of that and it has opened my heart and eyes to many things in the world. However, I do feel pain or sadness from events that I went through to be the person I am today. I understand there are others who have experienced worse situations than I have and mine is nothing compared to theirs, but we all fight a never-ending battle for this life and we gotta make sure we are okay at the end of every single day. 
 
Whenever I began middle school in my hometown, everyone knew about my family's company being taken away and I lost my friends because they did not want to be friends with a girl "who lost everything." I literally had no friends in middle school and I tried being friends with people and even did peoples' homework, was always super friendly, always apologized for things I didn't even do. The reason I did all this? I was not accepted for who I was at home either at those young ages. My parents were fighting, my sister was smart enough to always be hanging out with her friends or be away from home or be involved in sports. So who experienced the most of this negative home life out of my sister and I? Myself. I was trying to find the right path in my life at this young age as well and I wanted to have a good life in the future and so I became just focused within my studies and school work and also befriending people online when AOL/AIM was a thing and joined an old KH site called KH2.co.uk (or was it KHU.co.uk???). Honestly, Kingdom Hearts put a little bit of light back in my life at this time, pun intended too okay! My escape was video games and nerding out to anime and manga. I lived in a stereotypical type town though so yeah, all of that made me just look 'weird.' Still love anime and etc. all to this day and proud of it and don't care I'm 26; that is who I am. Anyways, I began to get compared to my sister's smarts a lot and became her shadow and was expected to act this way, say that thing, do this, do that. Pretty stressful. I began to get bullied towards high school and was judged a lot for who knows what, I never really said anything about anyone or tried to get on anyone's bad side. I tried to keep a pretty positive outlook throughout all this, got boyfriends later on, had fun being sociable and joining theater and getting my confidence boosted and actually engaging with people and not feeling suicidal like I was anymore and also took a long break from the internet around this time. Then my grandmother became seriously ill before I graduated high school in 2010. She lived with us and my parents were not thrilled about this. My dad got into verbal fights with my grandmother and many terrible things were thrown around and my parents still struggled being kind parents at times. I had a lot of stress of doing well in school, what they expected of me, and also never really letting them know I felt unwell at times. When I tried to talk to them about it, they would change the subject or just not be supportive and think I was a burden. My dad called me a burden on my 25th birthday, so yeah not really nice to hear when you have a 103 degree fever and sick as a dog and also been experience the worst pain you think you could ever feel, because at that time, I didn't know it was leading up to a huge problem with my health overall.
 
My thyroid decided to become bad and I got on medicine for that, but still had this terrible pain and went through 3 surgeries and 3 years of misdiagnoses until this July and found out I have a problem with my hip sockets and joints and my cartilage/joints may be breaking down due to a necrosis of some sort. I get my first hip surgery in December for my right hip and then I'm gonna push through everything, graduate from college in May of 2018 and get a good job and then get my other hip done later on. Also, what has me a bit distraught is that now my shoulders are mimicking the beginning stages of how my hips felt. Not sure what has caused this and doctors are not sure either, maybe it was congenital, ran in the family, maybe my thyroid. Idk, but at least I'm getting it tended to now and am glad the 3 years of pain, depression, misdiagnoses, my parents not believing in their own daughter, being a disappointment, burden, etc. is all now over and I'm getting my degree in May. I am still depressed and it still does bottle up because of the emotional turmoil I went through and I talked with my mom tonight because she is my mom and sometimes we want to confide in our parents about our problems. I try to not talk to her about it, but I'm still so new when it comes to dealing with my health stuff and you gotta vent, but she does not support or understand me at all and it beats me down every time and I just do not get the love I am supposed to from my family and it's just really sad. 
 
So there is my story, there are many things I have left out, because there are darker things that happened, but I apologize for my behavior in the past and am just trying to live and bounce back from this negativity that consumed most of my life. I love Kingdom Hearts and this community, but my own destruction ruined some of the positives here because I was just so overcome with sadness from outside forces: family, health, etc. 
 
Thanks for reading.

Can all of the above be an Option?

Hey there everyone, how's it going!? So then, many of you may not know this, but in the early hours of tomorrow, hurricane Maria, a super hurricane, will be passing through Puerto Rico, and unlike Irma, which grazed us slightly, we here in Puerto Rico will likely be receiving Maria with full force. It's a terrifying thought, and it's a saddening one too, but I have all the faith in the world that the storm will divert course at the last minute and will get flung back into the sea so that no one else gets hurt! I have faith we'll surpass this!
 
That being said though, this is a category five hurricane, so there's likely gonna be massive destruction, so obviously, the power will be out for a good long time, possibly a month or so, so if none of you see me active for this time or a bit longer, it's because the storm hit us hard. But well, I pray that we'll all be okay, and I pray that we will make it through this storm! I love you all, and I'd appreciate any prayers you can give for not just me, but for the whole island of Puerto Rico! It's appreciated! 
 
Wish us luck, everyone!

It was firetrucking horrible!
 
I don't remember much of that ''movie'' and I hope I won't ever remember it.
The movie failed to explain what is all happening in the world of the foretellers.
I was like:
Why are these people the leaders? Why do they wear masks? I understand for their tribus which if you ask me shouldn't even exist in the first place but why hide your face hell how do you look through those masks I want to know I am fascinated by it. OMG they are so one dimensional Wait are these the only living people in this world I remember watching the MMO a few times there are more people here. Wait why is he the Master? Did he create the people in the world? The movie failed to explain people who didn't knew about the MMO before.
Why are there a hundred houses there seriously for a few dumb people.
So there is this traitor but there was no traitor anyway and this all could lead to a war... Of just a few people lol more a street war.
There are also this fight scene in the movie between the foretellers but they just go black screen... And that was it? I missed the first keyblade wielders ever fighting? You can't be serious.
The editing was just yuk well oke.
Oke first the Keyblade started as this magical weapon in KH1 sure a mystical weapon, Birth By Sleep: Everybody can have a keyblade but with some training and ceremo- WAIT these keyblades are just for war? whatever these keyblades used to be special untill 2012.
And the movie ends... ''That was it seriously I wanted to see the war!''
 
The only things I liked was
+Graphics
+Voices
+Animation
+The Master and his keyblade he was good one big troll !
 
That was it and you know I might have forgiven this all... If they just explained things better and had fun characters.

Oh yes, I saw that video that HMK uploaded! Wow, but you adding those little pieces makes that theory all the more tangible! We've yet to see all five Union Leaders have extended interaction with each other, so it could very well be that during the course of the story, a connection between Ventus and Lauriam forms! Very interesting, indeed!
 
And well, with this murder mystery in our hands, maybe it'll be as it was with the previous Foretellers! Odds are that they shall all point fingers at each other, and there'll be conflict and distrust between the five of them, therefore probably leading to another conflict, thus putting into disarray what Ava struggled so hard to build, ya know?
 
There's so many ways the story can go at this point, gahh, it's all too tantalizing! X_X

I'm honestly not sure.  Like you, I can't see this game continuing once KH3 comes out, since everyone will be playing that instead.  So, they have 16 months max to continue the story.

Aw, thanks. And yeah, I’m still keeping my eye on Lauriam too.  Just because I have that theory doesn’t mean that I’m letting Lauriam off the hook completely.  His red herring could be a red herring in of itself; making us think he is too suspicious and thus innocent, when he really is guilty.  I just wanted to say that he could be innocent, since so many people are jumping to conclusions on him being the murderer and traitor.
 
I actually remember reading a YouTube comment theorizing that maybe they are all innocent, and that perhaps Luxu (or another Leader) offed Strelitzia, and disguised themselves as Ava and gave her book to one of the others.  Perhaps they overheard what Strelitzia wanted to do and wasn’t pleased with that, so they got rid of her and chose someone who would keep quiet about the war.
 
Actually, I saw a theory HMK made about how Lauriam/Marluxia and Ventus could be connected.  He said that maybe the two were close friends, and that when Marluxia came into being, he wanted to find his friend, and that’s how he came to Castle Oblivion.  But, he never said how or why Ven and Lauriam could be friends.  Well, perhaps to do a little addon to my theory, maybe when the true traitor blames Lauriam for Strelitzia’s death, Ven actually stands up and defends him.  So, the other three banish the both of them to the RoD.
 
So, the two work together to survive and find a way out, and thus become very good friends.  Near the time of BbS, they find a way out, but like with Aqua and Mickey, only Ven is able to make it out (and in the process, loses his memory) and Lauriam is left behind.  A few more years pass, and Lauriam finally escapes and decides to go find his only friend.  But along the way, he becomes a heartless and a Nobody, but his Nobody still remembers everything, and thus his will to find Ven still remains.
 
Again, Xigbar finds him and he joins OrgXIII.  Somehow, he overhears Xemnas’s true plans, as well as Xemnas’s ‘missing friend’ and how he is supposedly in CO.  Perhaps Marluxia guesses that this could be Ven, and thus decides to make sure he is assigned to the castle.  Perhaps too he realizes that Ven’s heart is residing in Sora (even though at that time it was really residing in Roxas), and thus he had another reason to target Sora; to see if he could find and restore his only friend.
 
Sorry, I couldn’t help but add those last little parts onto my theory.  I’m just excited to see where this is all going!

Indeed! Lauriam's arrival at this point in the story raises many questions, and I'm sure that there's many things that can be deduced! For now, all we can do is speculate while we wait for more updates! And about Lauriam turning into Marluxia and wandering as a Dusk, that could be a possibility! Or he could have been sent to the Realm Of Darkness, and since the flow of time is different there, maybe the moments he spends there are the entire span of years it takes for him to reach Chain Of Memories! It could be possible! With the Realm Of Darkness providing the whole time distortion aspect, it makes the possibility of Ventus and Marluxia living till the present time even more possible, ya know?
 
 
Awesomeness! That's some very layered out info you shared with us all right there! And about what you said, there was a separate theory in the past that I made where I mentioned that Sora being put through hell in Castle Oblivion was probably a test by Marluxia to see if Sora could be a candidate for the Seekers Of Darkness, so your words reminded me of that!
 
But yes, like you said, Nomura is known to be a man who constantly drives plot twists on our faces, and nothing is ever as it seems in the Kingdom Hearts Universe, so odds are that there's more to what happened with Strelitzia, and since Lauriam was just introduced, I'm sure we'll get to see some more development for the five Union Leaders as they move forward to rebuild the world! Whether they'll work in harmony or end up divided and maybe the whole murder of Strelitzia gets discovered, it could be as you said, and maybe if Lauriam is innocent, the true murderer will probably want to put the blame on him. There's many ways that this could go!
 
 
Indeed, indeed! The thing about these kinds of stories is that when certain events take place, it just makes for interesting storytelling, as we see characters going off and doing their own thing! While many may not think that Lauriam killed Strelitzia, I am keeping my eye on him until it's proven he's not the one who did it! It's just interesting how all this is falling into place! I am very excited to see how the story continues forward!
 
 
Ah, there we go, thank you for the corrections! I thought I was fuzzy on some things, so thanks for clarifying!
 
And well, you are right! It's not fair to point fingers this early on, but I can't help but think Lauriam did kill Strelitzia, ya know? But like you said, maybe he doesn't have anything to do with what happened, ya know?
 
What has me curious now is where the story might go from here. Does this mean that the final act of the story will soon come around? Or may there still be more on the way? Also, your theory is also sounding interesting, make sure to make a thread for your theory, cuz I wanna read it!
 
 
You know what? You may be onto something! It is suspicious that there were so many pods in that room...holy crud, this could be the vital clue we're looking for!
 
 
Interesting indeed! 
 
You know....5 capsules...and there's 5 Union Leaders...hmmm...God, it all just seems to fit so perfectly!

Hm, interesting theory.  I definitely agree that the traitor could in fact be one of the new Union leaders, but don’t be so quick to assume it Lauriam.  I know the vast majority of people assume Lauriam offed Strelitzia, but we didn’t see him kill her; they purposefully kept them in the shadows so we couldn’t see who it exactly was.  I honestly feel like it’s a massive red herring to show her getting killed, only to show Lauriam a scene later.  It’s a little too suspicious, and I don’t think Nomura would be that obvious.  It could have been Blaine, Ven, or even Skuld, since we didn’t see any of them receive the book (Ephemer and Strelitzia were the only ones we saw get it).
 
Its true that Lauriam might not be a Keyblade wielder though; especially with the update in the NA version.  How only one of them will have the true BoP; it would actually be best to give it to someone who wasn’t a Keyblade wielder, so that may be why he was chosen.  Thus, he could still get envious of that fact, and betray the other three (though that still means there’s another traitor; the one who killed Strelitzia), and thus go right into your theory regardless.
 
However, he could be a Keyblade wielder.  My little theory is that he is one, as well as a true chosen Leader.  However, the true traitor (Blaine, Ven, or Skuld) puts the blame of Strelitzia’s death on him, convincing the others to turn on him and banish him to the RoD.  Lauriam spends countless years traversing and trying to survive in the RoD, as well as not aging, since we know time flows much slower there, and grows bitter at being falsely accused and betrayed.  Eventually, he succumbs to the darkness of his heart and becomes a heartless and a Nobody, and somehow manages to escape the RoD into the present, where Xigbar finds him.
 
Now, rather his Nobody can wield the Keyblade or not is uncertain, since Roxas and Xemnas are special, and thus could explain why they can.  If Marluxia cannot wield it, perhaps that is why he targeted Sora; so he can use him and eventually reclaim his Keyblade through him. 
 
If he can still wield the Keyblade, well that’s a bit harder to explain.  Like you stated, Marluxia knew something was wrong with OrgXIII, and that Xemnas had different goals in mind.  Perhaps Lauriam was weakened when he turned into a Nobody, and he knew that he’d be no match for Xemnas (or perhaps he still had his normal strength, but would still be no match regardless), and would either be turned into a Dusk, or a puppet to collect hearts for Xemnas.  Thus, he kept his ability secret, while trying to find allies.  He got Larxene, but he knew that the two of them would still be no match.  No, he needed another Keyblade wielder.  Roxas came along, and the two thought that perhaps he could help.  Unfortunately, Xemnas already knew Roxas was a Keyblade wielder and was keeping a close eye on him, so alas they couldn’t recruit him.
 
But then they were assigned to Castle Oblivion.  And lo and behold, who shows up?  Why, none other than Sora!  Now, they could have another Keyblade wielder in their ranks.  Now, why they put Sora and co. through all that mess, honestly I don’t know.  Maybe it was to test his heart and will?  I mean, look at the ridiculousness that Yen Sid put Sora and Riku through to become Keyblade Masters.  Perhaps if Sora broke during their trial, then they knew he’d be useless to fight Xemnas, since he could do worse.  But if he succeeded, then they made the right choice.  Unfortunately, they went too far with their trial, and Sora ended up offing the both of them.
 
Well, that is my little theory.  I just thought I’d share.

I am supremely excited! It's just crazy that Marluxia is from the Age Of Fairy Tales! Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine he'd be in this! And considering that Marluxia is one of my favorite Organization members and one of my favorite KH villains in general, it just adds to the excitement all the more! I can't wait to see what the future holds for Lauriam down the line!

Hey there everyone, how's it going!? So then, as I'm sure all of you are aware by now, the latest story update Union X got in Japan was nothing short of mind boggling, and obviously, it wasn't long before any of us could really not be able to avoid this bombastic news! So Lauriam, Marluxia's human self, is apparently from the era of the Age Of Fairy Tales, which poses many interesting questions! One of the most interesting of which is if he's a Keyblade Wielder or not! But thinking upon all this madness, I've come up with a theory, one I was thinking about since early this morning!
 
Okay, so we know that Marluxia tried to take over the Organization and tried to subdue Sora into being his weapon against the Organization, but that plan backfired stupendously on him! But, the key thing here is that he sensed something was amiss within the Organization, and he knew that it was high time to stage a coup, and I'm sure he was planning to make his treason known right when things would get at their spicy point! But because of Sora, Marluxia's plans failed to meet their due.
 
Why am I talking about this? Well, here's where it gets interesting! Maybe Lauriam is the traitor in the story of Kingdom Hearts Union X!
 
I mean, think about it! Ava entrusted Ephemer and Skuld to gather three more people whom would become the leaders for the Dandelions to usher in a new beginning for the world. The catch here is that all the Dandelions who made it to the Unchained Realm are under the assumption that everything is okay and that the Keyblade War did not take place. It seems Ephemer, Skuld and the others want to keep this fact hidden from them and us, the player character! Even though they're forces of good, the fact they're hiding such a cataclysmic event is nothing short of shady! Well, here's where we enter Lauriam!
 
Lauriam, probably a simple denizen of Daybreak Town, always had a fascination with the Keyblade, and always admired the Keyblade Wielders! He probably wanted to become one, but much to his frustration, he could probably never get one because his heart wasn't that strong, or because he had too much negative emotions in him, therefore making his heart not all that worthy, ya know? So maybe, when rumor caught on that a special group of Keyblade Wielders would be assembling, Lauriam could have wanted to get in on this, and maybe he silently slipped into Ava's ranks in order to get to this secret Organization. Then, when everything went to hell, he managed to survive with the Dandelions and was able to go into the Unchained Realm! Now here's where it gets even more crazy, so bear with me!
 
Since the new Union Leaders want to keep order, and obviously with them being around and whatnot, it'll make things difficult for Lauriam to fit in, because they'll expect him to be a Keyblade Wielder, but for some reason, I believe this is not the case! KH13 member Elfdemon himself indicated that he probably doesn't have a Keyblade, and if you look over at his thread, it makes sense! But anyways, back to me! Lauriam will want to learn the secrets of how to obtain the Keyblade and make its power his own, but he'll want to keep prying eyes away. So, he'd stage his own ascension into the Union Leaders by killing off Strelitzia and obtaining her Book Of Prophecy, figuring that said book could contain the guidelines he needs in order to come about summoning his own Keyblade! But he'd still need to get attention away from him! Odds are that he's the one who will mention to the other Dandelions that the Keyblade War actually happened and that their friends died, and that the Union Leaders are deceiving us. This will cause us to trust Lauriam, and in an attempt to get to the bottom of things, Lauriam will want to go "investigate" while us, the player character, antagonize the other Union Leaders and ask for answers, and they'd be too busy trying to calm the angry mob down than wondering about Lauriam!
 
So I'm thinking that everything will end up spiraling down, order will be lost, the Dandelions will disassemble because of trust issues, and Lauriam will stand as the person who was the traitor all along, having sowed the seeds of division, therefore causing everything to forever change. What happens beyond that, I do not know, except for maybe the fact that Lauriam never got to discover how to gain his own Keyblade, and he was axed by someone, then giving birth to his Heartless, then his Nobody, Marluxia. How he'd survive until all the way through to Chain Of Memories is also another mystery! But this is just a crazy theory!
 
What do you all think?

I agree with this 100%  Vanitas is most likely a SoD, but not the 13th one.  However, Ventus is definitly an option.  Having his heart inside Sora, Ventus's body is just sitting in Castle Oblivion completely defenseless.  It would be perfectly easy for Xehanort to possess it since he'd have no opposition from Ventus (unlike Terra).  Plus, it'd be super interesting for Aqua to not only have to save Terra, but Ven too!  Like you said, it makes the stakes so much larger, and thus more thrilling.  (Plus, maybe it'll mean that Roxas and/or Xion will take Ven's place as a GoL and give them a role in this whole thing, since they're most likely coming back)

Since FFVI got me into FF, being into FF got me into KH.  Sorry if that wasn't clear enough ^-^;

Yeah, I'd be satisfied with 3DS remakes as well!
 
Yessss, I need to play it! You and many other people have told me that the game is amazing!  Ah, so it got you into Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, huh? I'm curious, how did it get you into Kingdom Hearts, though?

Oh, I have a very particular love for FFIV and IX! I just love the medieval style FF entries! Not to say that the more modern ones aren't great, but there's just something about IV and IX that keeps me coming back!
 
But hey, in the future, if Sakurai decides to make another Smash game, hopefully Nintendo era FF characters make the cut!

FFVI and IX are the two games I really, really wanna see remade; hopefully they'd get the FFVII treatment with their remakes, but even a 3DS style like FFIII and IV would be fine too.
 
 
You really should play FFVI, because its amazing!  This was the one that got me into FF in general, and even KH believe it or not.

It definitely is a shame, since I believe that there are far better FF characters than Cloud.  There's Bartz, Zidane, Kain, Vivi, Locke, Rydia, geez I could go on and on, so I better stop here.  And yeah, I really wish SE would stop forgetting about the older FF games.  I mean, it almost seems like FFVII was the first FF, with the way they're treating the series.  Personally, I don't even like FFVII; it felt too Sci-fi-y for my liking.  FFIV, V, VI and IX are much better, imo.

I've always wanted to play Final Fantasy VI, and I've heard that it's one of the FF games that people have been dying to have remastered, so hopefully, Square will end up making a remake for VI, like how they remade FFIV for the DS! I wanna experience Terra Branford's story!!!!! X_X