37 Good Things about KH 358/2 Days

All those small things that are amazing but small.
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Spoilers for KH 358/2 Days.
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.

I will try to keep the number in the title up to date so you can see without checking the actual page if it's a higher number AKA there's new stuff.
I will start a new page once I reach 113~

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. when xion falls off the clocktower, then like immediately after, Axxel leans way off the top for apparently no reason?
   
   
3. 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.
1. (X)
6. 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~)
1. (X)
4. 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
5. Axel being like twice as tall as Roxas and Xion
   via GIPHY
6. 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.
7. How (in the cutscene) Xion doesn't make a very concerted effort to actually attack Roxas. He easily dodges all of her swings.
8. Xion appearing to be ambidextrous
9. Axel getting proceedingly more frustrated with Xion, and taking more and more extreme measures to get her to come back
10. Roxas and Axel deciding to search worlds after their missions when Xion's missing
11. The textbox dialogue jokes in Days
     (X) (X)
12. How xion's smiling as she falls backward from her knees
13. and her head lolling on Roxas' arm
14. 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
15. "I feel like I'm forgetting something really important"
16. "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??
17. 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
18. 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
19. Xion's shoes doin a thing: LOOK!!!
20. ROXAS WEARING HIS PANTS OVER HIS BOOTS UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ORGANIZATION:
    !!!!
21. Roxas, Axel, and Xion sitting down on the clocktower differently
22. "You're early" "No, you're just late"
1. aka the only well voice-acted line in 358/2 days
23. roxas still having two keyblades even after riku catches Oblivion
1. I'm fairly sure that the replacement keyblade is Kingdom Key



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?



24. 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
25. "Was I... the one who did this to you?"
26. 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)

27. 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.
28. How, before tricking him into killing her, Xion brings Roxas an ice cream.
29. And a day or two before that, xion says "I have to make the most of the time riku gave me" and then when they have ice cream that day she comments on the beauty of the sunset and says she'll have this day memorized "for a long time. forever."
1. at least in the manga, even though I just watched the movie two days ago i can't? actually remember lol
30. that time when xion gets her keyblade back and they go to tell axel and he's laying back on the clocktower
31. cuz like he's waiting for them and has been for a little while
32. and also roxas and xion are so cute and excited
33. All of Saix and Axel's interactions. Are very good wth
34. When Xion falls to her knees after fighting Roxas and then slumps a little more and her feet tilt?
35. "You just have to trust me!" "I don't. I can't. If i can't get answers here, I'll find them somewhere else. That'll be the person... I trust."
36. Every single one of the interactions between Axel and Saix in Days.. All of them. Everything about them. I just. . .. they're both using veiled language and double meanings and implying things and making inferences and axel's growing further away from saix but saix is still the same and he's mad at axel bc he doesn't see roxas and xion as people just assets and they pointedly don't look at each other when they're talking they always talk in passing, or right next to each other or just past and facing opposite ways, when saix comes into axels room axel turns to the side, axel gets defensive and saix gets upset and they're both being stoic and hiding they're feelings and being professional and saix uses his position to get axel to do things for him (e.g. dispose of the traitors + zexion, look for the Chamber of Waking, etc) and to keep him from doing other things (i.e. spending time with/helping roxas and xion) and axel tries to do what saix wants bc he's his friend and hopefully he'll let him be for once but eventually gets fed up with it and starts talking back and answering sarcastically and axel stands up for roxas and xion (at least when they're with him) and is able to wheedle favors out of saix (i.e. letting roxas and xion do missions together when xion can't summon her keyblade) bc he knows him and also is a very persuasive jerk and honestly?
37. also axel's whole thing juggling stories and information, idk how he knows who knows what but as far as i know actually . . . he NEVER tells anyone anything they don't already know or need/want to know. DANG i think i'm ONTO SOMETHING.
    HE DODGES ALL OF THE QUESTIONS, AND DOESN'T ANSWER ANYTHING
    "there were no other reports of replicas from the program gaining a sense of identity, do you concur, axel?" *SILENCE*
    "do you have anything you couldn't bear to lose?" "what do you mean?" (roxas explains) "I think you need a heart for that." "but i bet demyx would be pretty upset if you took his sitar away." "I guess so. Maybe it's got something to do with memories" (or whatever he says)
    plus ALL OF THE TIMES WHEN HE REFUSES TO TELL ROXAS ANY RELEVANT INFORMATION
    "you're a replica. you know that much."
    HE ONLY EVER JUST ASSISTS PEOPLE INTO COMING TO CONCLUSIONS OMG
    OK HEADCANON he spent a lot of time with kids before and so he got used to doing the whole "well, why do you think it happens?" and just prompting them to figure things out themselves?