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113 Good KH Things

All those small things that are amazing but small.
[Good KH Things 2] [KHI] [CoM] [Days] [KHII] [DDD] [KHIII]

spoilers for everything except KHIII.
In no particular order, other than least-to-most recently thought of and added.
This is a page because I will come back to it after publishing to add more things.

Update: I will try to put the number in the title so you can see without checking the actual page if it's a higher number AKA there's new stuff~
Update: I will start a new page once I reach 113~
Update: Yes the number did go down from 111 to 109 -- that's because I de-numbered a few points which were repeats, and erased a point that was empty. Nothing was removed. 7/3/2018

  1. When Xion takes Sora's form and she walks out on the air and she's got round shoes like Roxas instead of her normal shoes? 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
  2. that bit in thE DREAM DROP INTRO MOVIE WHEN SORA FLIES INTO THE SLEEEP POD AND ROXAS FLIES OUT AND IT'S JUST IN TIME WITH THE MUSICA ND ITS SOO GOODJODODOIO
  3. how as soon as kairi remembers sora she decides to go find him soMEHOW
  4. kairi gives sora her good luck charm and he's like "dope, lemme try this on my keyblade" and it makes a spECTACULAr weapon. it's got great stats.
  5. kairi and riku fighting together in khii
  6. when there's a particularly emotional bossfight (you knOW SOMETHING'S GONNA HAPPEN T.T) and the music reflects that. (see: fighting Xion in Days; fighting Roxas in Re:Coded; Ven vs. Vanitas in BBS)
  7. when ventus shakes his head liek "you just don't get it" before readying his weapon against Vani???????????????????????????????????
  8. hoW VANITAS SHOWS UP AND STARTS TAUNTING VEN AT DESTINY ISLANDS AND VEN JUST IGNORES HIM AND IS GOING TO GO BACK TO TERRA AND ERAQUS AND MAYBE STOP THAT FROM GOING TOO FAR, PLUS HE'S NOT GOING TO FIGHT VANITAS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS TO HAPPEN AND VEN IS CLEVER AND STRONG-WILLED, AND THE ONLY REASON HE DOESN'T GO BACK IS BECAUSE VANI SAYS HE'S GOING TO KILL AQUA AND TERRA!????!?!??????????????
  9. if you get to the highest point in Castle Town and look up in 0.2, the view will shift a little and you get to see a "meteor shower" which is great in two ways: 
      1. callback to the beginning of bbs/"the last night we ever spent beneath the same stars"
      2. there's two shooting stars: representing terra and ven
  10. roxas wears pajamas
  11. ventus does not (or at least, didn't that one night. maybe he was really tired. idk. seems like he'd take of the pauldron at least)
  12. when xion falls off the clocktower, then like immediately after, Axel leans way off the top for apparently no reason?
  13. kAIRI HAVING DRAWSTRING OR WHATEVER LACES ON HER SHOES IN KHI
  14. kairi shuffling backward on the patch of beach at the end of khi
  15. sora's necklace getting shorter on him as he grows
  16. axel's Somebody name being Lea, which is some kind of pastureland or field or something, continuing the naming conventions of the trios
  17. xion's many name meanings:
    1. shion, forget-me-not
    2. No. i  -- i is an imaginary number
      1. i is the square root of negative one
    3. shio -- tide (naming convention continuation!)
    4. roman numeral I:
      1. lowercase denotes a subsection in a list
      2. or, pronounce it: no 1. no one. aghladfkjadslkg
        1. (credit to tvtropes users)
    5. no.i backwards is ion, which is a positively or negatively charged particle; a molecule or atom with added or removed electrons.
      (X)
      1. ion is also a suffix forming nouns denoting verbal action or denoting a resulting state or product (and the example used here is "oblivion" which I think is fitting~)
        (X)
  18. xion gets hit by a stealth sneak (forget what the nobodies call them) and roxas' first instinct is to check on her, not dispose of the heartless
  19. the tv screens in Deep Dive showing Kairi
    1. (thanks)
  20. when the foretellers look straight forward and down, and their masks cover their whole faces
  21. at the beginning of the 0.2 opening, when child!Sora, Riku and Kairi are running out to the water
    1. riku's skip-step
    2. sora looking back periodically at Kairi
  22. the way the wayfinders are translucent
  23. Lea realizing that he's a whole person now because his eye tattoos are gone?
  24. Ienzo and Dilan waking up as Whole People and just cleaning up. sure is needed after sora donald and goofy were let loose in there. Also Tifa attacking the room. but still
  25. Selphie and Kairi obviously being friends in khii
  26. Sora and Kairi promising each other to be safe through the good luck charm
  27. Sora imagining Kairi in her khi outfit when he's imagining them dancing in halloweentown
  28. Sora's fangs
    (i risked spoilers to find this source. the original blog is blocked from non-tumblr users so here)
    or here
  29. Axel being like twice as tall as Roxas and Xion
  30. Namine obviously enjoying the attention from Sora (not to mention being hopeful of an impending rescue), yet still deciding to do the right thing and fix his memories, albeit a bit reluctantly.
  31. How the Organization sends Roxas to plant a device on one of his last days, then a day or two later you realize that Xion is bringing you to the rooms with the devices, and getting power from them to attack you.
  32. How (in the cutscene) Xion doesn't make a very concerted effort to actually attack Roxas. He easily dodges all of her swings.
  33. Gula sitting on tables or higher than everyone else (he sits on like a stack of boxes that one time, while Ava's only on one)(i think)
  34. Xion appearing to be ambidextrous
  35. Axel getting proceedingly more frustrated with Xion, and taking more and more extreme measures to get her to come back
  36. Roxas and Axel deciding to search worlds after their missions when Xion's missing
  37. The textbox dialogue jokes in Days
     (X) (X)
  38. Gula swinging his legs while sitting on the table
  39. When Sora sees Namine and grabs her hand, and the camera pans around him so when she's visible again (from behind his head) she's Xion
  40. in the khi intro when sora falls into the water and you can see kairi and then the water ripples and she disappears
    1. and then in the khii dream drop intro, it recycles that animation except when it ripples kairi tuRNS INTO NAMINE???????
  41. the lEaVEs on the pAtH wHEN AVa's RunNiNG to GuLA
    1. (and chirithy)
  42. Roxas going from "I am ME!!! NOBODY else!!!!" to "You're me. So you can feel what I felt."
    1. and sorA RESPONDING WITH "Roxas, you're you. I wanted to tell you that."
  43. How xion's smiling as she falls backward from her knees
  44. and her head lolling on Roxas' arm
  45. how throughout Days they use Xion's theme, then on day... 356? when she and axel have a confrontation her theme plays but a quicker version of it (edit: lol, no they play The Other Promise), and then her battle with roxas it plays vector to the heavens
  46. "I feel like I'm forgetting something really important"
  47. "I'm going to find Sora. I want Xion back. I want my life back!!" 
    1. implying he's going to do something to sora??
  48. the memory of Roxas, Axel and Xion playing on the bottom screen at some point during Roxas and Riku's fight, then playing again after Riku wins with Xion fading out and having less and less impact in the scene
    49. via GIPHY
  49. how AT FIRST AXEL SEES XION WITH HER HOOD UP AND THEN (in his words)(in the secret reports) SUDDENLY SEES HER FACE ONE DAY
    1. AND IN THE CUTSCENE, WHEN IT SHOWS ALL THREE OF THEM HER HOOD IS UP BUT WHEN IT'S JUST HER AND ROXAS WE CAN SEE HER FACE
    2. IT'S SO GOOD LAKEGDHL
  50. how namine's dress has a similar hem pattern to Kairi's skort
  51. The various Xehanorts' confidence versus the protagonists' repeated desperate attempts that barely stave them off
  52. In Birth by Sleep, all three kids risking everything in an attempt to save the other two -- and ultimately all failing
  53. The Sound Idea being, when Sora and Riku play it, Dearly Beloved
    1. also the sheet music being Dearly Beloved (X)
  54. Stupid retcons/fixes:
    1. the darkness eating Mickey's shirt
    2. a cape unfurling from Lingering Will's armor
  55. And yet in the 0.2 intro, mickey wears his bbs outfit 👀 👀
  56. fabric textures in Back Cover <Open in full size [click on the image] for full effect!!>
    1. textures in the uh the khiifm secret ending w tav
    2. textures in 0.2
      1. the lacy pattern choice for her sleeves/skirt having ACTUAL HOLES IN IT
  57. the symbolism of Aqua sending a reflega to both Ven and Terra and then seeing a shot of them both being blown backward and then a shot of Aqua falling back with her eyes closing, smiling in the 0.2 intro
    1. (it symbolizes her getting them both somewhere safe [to her knowledge], but falling into the dark realm)
  58. when sora bursts out of the water and shakes his head???????
  59. the Organization boots 
    1. line of thoughts as selecting images:
      1. oh i guess they're just Xehanort boots, huh
      2. i lov them
      3. oh boy i forgot how good these shoes were.. I'll include a couple other good ones
      4. heck i'll add 'em all. I can cull later
      5. aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH GIVE ME SHOE JOY
      6. (that is literally a thought that went through my brain, those exact words, i'm not joking, shoe joy)
    2. So enjoy the shoes, everyone:
    Invi MoM Ira  Aced
     Ava
     Invi via GIPHY   gula
     gulagula


















  60. Xion's shoes doin a thing: IDK WHY AND I DIDN'T NOTICE TIL I WAS LOOKING FOR SHOE JOY BUT!!!! LOOK!!!
  61. ROXAS WEARING HIS PANTS OVER HIS BOOTS UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ORGANIZATION:
    !!!!
  62. Roxas, Axel, and Xion sitting down on the clocktower differently
  63. the shadow heartless turning into aCTUAL SHADOWS, LIKE, ON THE FLOOR? WHEN they sink down, in 0.2
  64. the shadows moving when walking past a light source in 0.2
  65. Namine's art style
  66. "You're early" "No, you're just late"
    1. aka the only well voice-acted line in 358/2 days
  67. Aqua's face when she says "she wanted to destroy me"
  68. Terra pushing Ven back and jumping, and getting intercepted by a MOUNTAIN
  69. the way the outlines blur in the scene with kairi and sora on the dock at sunset
  70. TERRA FALLING OFF THE CLIFF AND CATCHING HIMFELF WITH HIS KEYBLADE WHICH I NEVER NOTICED UNTIL I WAS GOING FRAME-BY-FRAME TODAY.
  71. roxas still having two keyblades even after riku catches Oblivion
    1. I'm fairly sure that the replacement keyblade is Kingdom Key
      2. in the bottom left you can see a bit of the blade, with the spiky form of kingdom key
        the glowing white is the handle, see the keychain below the red line? it's mickey right?
  72. Sora holding Donald and Goofy's hands when they hug at the end of KHII
     (don't look at goofy's eyes (◕ᴗ◕✿))
  73. When Xigbar pulls out his guns and they look like wings (courtesy of Penguin, thank you)
  74. In the 358/2 Days opening, when it freeze-frames on the Organization members, how the colors are faded but the eyes and hair are more saturated
  75. HOW KAIRI WROTE "STATING" INSTEAD OF "STARTING":
    1. The near-total transparence of the wayfinders
       i'm sorry for having this twice i didn't realize
  76. Eyes in Unreal Engine 4
  77. Vanitas' name meaning
    1. a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability. (X)
      1. a type of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands from about 1620 to 1650, conveying a religious message and characterized by objects symbolic of mortality and the meaninglessness of worldly pleasures. (X)
      2. A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death. (X)
    2. Latin, literally ‘vanity.’ (X)
    3. The Latin noun vānĭtās (from the Latin adjective vanus 'empty') means 'emptiness', 'futility', or 'worthlessness'. (X)
    4. falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness (X)
  78. "Was I... the one who did this to you?"
  79. In KHII, during the Restoration process, when Roxas has dreams about Sora, at first it statics out Kairi's name
    1. because she was the most edited memory throughout the process
      1. being replaced by namine, and then getting caught in Xion
  80. How short Ava and Gula are
  81. Textures in the Khiifm secret ending for bbs? 
     (I'm not sure all of these are from the secret ending cuz there's like 3 different versions of this scene and these are from 2)
  82. In the khii opening, when sora and co are running up the stairs and riku is too, the first time we see him he's running alone along the top of the stairs. then we see him again, running along the underside of the steps, and ahead of him is a little shadow that I can only assume is Mickey Mouse.
  83. They were making a mentor character and they were like 'well we've got one mentor, right? Yen sid? that's disney backwards. but this is a square property :/ what can we do' 'how bout we name our charactuer 'square' backwards?' 'so like... erauqs?' 'yeah' 'that's terrible. let's transpose the qu.' 'eraqus?' 'ye' 'perf.'
  84. the extra lil grabby sora does after he and kairi break apart?? its so good just. . extra reachy grabby its so cute i lov him so much
    have i mentioned, also, kairi's shuffle? she shuffles back from the edge of the beach part? ahh so good she's so cute (edit, yes i did mention it. #14.)
  85. Sora's smile  
  86. The 358/2 Days keyblades
    Missing Ache --> Ominous Blight --> Abaddon Plasma

    Pain of Solitude --> Sign of Innocence --> Crown of Guilt

    Abyssal Tide --> Leviathan

    True Light's Flight --> Rejection of Fate (JPN: Fate Rebellion) 

    Midnight Roar --> Glimpse of Darkness (JPN: Darkness Gazer) --> Total Eclipse

    Silent Dirge --> Lunar Eclipse

    Darker than Dark (JPN: Darker than Darker)

    Astral Blast

    Maverick Flare (JPN: Heretic Flare) --> Twilight Blaze

    Oathkeeper

    Oblivion (which in Japanese is Passing Memories if that wasn't clear enough)

    Aubade: A morning love song or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. It has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak". (from Wikipedia) (In Japanese, "Aubade Lord") (also, it's from the Mystery Gear, which, if you didn't know, is supposed to "DRAW FORTH ITS WEILDER'S PERSONALITY" alkdhslkasdhlk)

    Two Become One (JPN: Serendipitous Duo)
    Umbrella
    Wooden Stick 
    (Check out This Link for a gallery of nice edits of all the 358 blades) 
  87. The Parallels
     Aqua and Terra/Ventus === Riku and Sora
    (ddd:) (beyond the obvious pass/fail, Sora almost gets norted (like terra) and ends up asleep (like Ven) (that whole scene? with Riku talking about him w everyone in yen sids tower and sora's asleep in the same pose as ven ??), plus Riku gets doubleflight (like Aqua) and sora gets glide (like ven) 
    (khi:) exactly what aqua predicted, w riku giving in to darkness and stuff, but this time sora managed to save him, and their other friend (kairi). however in this, the roles are swapped and i cant handl 

    Roxas === Sora
    Heck, they evenspotlight it at times, when sora's scenes play on the bottom screen of the ds and roxas on the top? they even do it with a couple of fights and i just . . loooooooooooove it 

    The names, obviously

    Xion === Roxas
    Come on, the entire game is literally about this 

    The Paopu fruit, Wayfinders, and Kairi's Good Luck charm 

    Roxas on the sidelines yelling at Axel and Xion to stop fighting === Ven on the sidelines yelling at Terra and Eraqus to stop fighting 

  88. The entire exploration of characters, like There's Roxas, he's in This situation, and here's Xion, who is Basically Supposed to be Roxas, but she's Different, and she's in This situation, and here's Sora who's in This situation and how could that play out differently with different variables? And How Do These Different Characters React In The Same Situation?
  89. How Bouncy khi Kairi is ^‿^
  90. Axel's hand clipping through his hair when he rubs the back of his head (which he does about 500 times during all of 358), even in the HD version.
  91. The HD medals in khux
  92. How, before tricking him into killing her, Xion brings Roxas an ice cream.
  93. "We must... delay, the inevitable..."
  94. when riku goes into Sora's heart to wake him up and Roxas, Ventus, and Xion ask him questions, similar to Wakka, Tidus, and Selphie in the first game
    1. how riku says "Roxas?" when he sees roxas, and then he sees Ven and says "Roxas?" the exact same way 
    2. WHEN HE LOOKS OVER TO THE MINI ISLAND W THE PAOPU TREE AND SEES XION SITTING ON IT AND SAYS "Sora?!" and for a second i thought it was weird cuz the silhouettes aren't similar but then i realized IT'S XION.
    3. Roxas saying "what is it you're so afraid of?"
      1. Roxas says at least once that "it's scary to think" what he'd do without Axel and Xion
    4. Ventus saying "what's most important to you?"
      1. the whole game is about how Aqua and Terra are more important to him than anything, even his own life
    5. and Xion saying, without turning away from the sea, "Riku. What do you wish?"
      1. "I want to be.. with you two..."
        1. WHICH SHE SAYS WHILE SITTING ON THE PAOPU TREE in her own game
    6. it is the HUGEST crime that roxas and xion weren't sitting together or playing in the ocean...
    7. that thing DiZ said, about the heart squad... "whether they fell into darkness or were trapped there, whether they sleep in the darkness of Sora's heart or were welcomed into its warmth"
      1. the second part, i think it means Vanitas and Ven respectively?
      2. the first part must be Xion and Roxas..
        1. xion fell into darkness and roxas was trapped there? bc he was forced to go back?
        2. or vice versa somehow?
        3. idk. fell into darkness doesn't seem right.
    8. Ven sounding a lot more happy and youthful than Roxas
    9. oh no. upon rewatching the cutscene just now, i have realized.Riku: Who are you?
      Xion: Riku.
      Xion: What do you wish?
    10. when you choose "to protect my friends" he says "to get back to the real world and protect my friends"
    11. Roxas disappears and Riku goes "hm? ... hm." and just keeps goin
  95.  [ID: a gif of sora looking confused. Subtitles read "That's nuts . . ."]
  99. Changing Aqua's color scheme when you need a break from the RoD (or she does)
  100. Passion
  101. Hikari
  102. Sanctuary
  103. Simple and Clean
  104. Dearly Beloved
  105. Xehanort's ambidextrous

  106. Of the foretellers, Ava is the only one smiling in her x vector
    (note that probably they all have multiple expressions lol)
  107. friggin... in x ira's eyes are yellow?????? 
  108. Original point: Everyone's masks have yellow eyes but Ira whose are red:

  109. Not a good thing, per se, but . . . the whole . . Rikuplica and Namine's interactions with the Org. . . especially Larxene and Marluxia...
  110. The CoM credits -- Kairi on the beach, and the poem
  111. Axel finds Rikuplica during the credits of CoM and you don't know until Reverse/Rebirth that he took him to kill Vexen.
  112. " your only hope is to use stunt dodge! "
  113. The Secret Board is shaped!! Like the symbol TAV have, like on Aqua's suspenders 

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