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The Child of Destiny Was First Namedropped in Union X, but the English Localization Missed This
I came to the unfortunate realization that there was a massive translation fumble in Union X last year.
The Official English Version
In the English version of the cutscene Confrontation, we're only informed that Darkness believed it was decided that Ventus would harbor Darkness via the Book of Prophecies.
However, this is not the only information provided in the Japanese version.
The Japanese Version
Here's the Japanese version for comparison. It is mostly the same until the last textbox, but I'll include everything for a 1:1 comparison. I know some Japanese (around N3 level) so I'm not trying to claim I can translate perfectly, but I did cross-check with a machine translator.
"First, why did you choose Ven?"
"Because it was decided."
"What was?"
"That he is/will be an existence that harbors Darkness."
"Does that mean Darkness' vessel was decided?"
"That's right."
"The Child of Destiny is written in the Book of Prophecies."
For the record, 運命の子 is the official term used to refer to the Child of Destiny in Dark Road too. It is the name of the final cutscene of DR, when toddler Xehanort is talking to the blue robed player.
I think the true implication of the scene is that the Darkness believes that Ventus is the Child of Destiny, having read the book of prophecies, and that they should target him as their vessel as a result.
In my opinion, this is a huge oversight and is detrimental to understanding the story. We NA players were led to believe that the Child of Destiny plot point was introduced in DR, when it was teased all the way back in UX all along. It also justifies why Darkness targeted Ventus even more, and tells us more about the Darkness' motives going forward.
I hope, if UX is ever recreated, that its story gets translated more carefully. It is a very complex, interconnected narrative that is intermingled with the future of the series.
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lord the misinformation here is something of a work of art
In an interview written for the original Kingdom Hearts 1 Ultimania, Nomura said: "Its development name was the 'Riku Keyblade.' In early stages we planned to have Riku give you a keychain, just like the lucky charm, which is why the keychain is a different colored version of Sora's necklace."
Riku giving Sora the actual crown necklace itself is a popular theory with a lot of evidence behind it (see @blowingoffsteam2 's posts on the matter), but nothing has been officially stated on that matter. And Sora's original design was intended to evoke the general image of Mickey Mouse while standing on his own as a recognisable mascot, yes, but there's been nothing mentioned at all about Riku being "supposed to have his own matching charm" or worries that it would "blue Sora's individuality." All of that's been cooked up out of nowhere lmao. I'm wondering if this was an AI written post born from a mishmash of true facts and theorycrafting (as well as general widely spread misconceptions that are already rife in this fandom sadly)
Since I'm seeing the "Lucrecia didn't even like Hojo and he forced her into everything" sentiment rolling around the fandom again, I'd like to remind everyone that Hojo and Lucrecia are canonically married. They are together. They are in a relationship. Canonically.
Behold, the Dirge of Cerberus relationship chart from the 10th Anniversary Ultimania! And a zoom in on the connection between Hojo and Lucrecia. What's that word connecting them? Oh, that's 夫婦! I wonder what that means?
This isn't exclusive to the Compilation, either, because the only direct interaction between them that we see in the OG is this:
Dirge actually made their relationship worse than was implied in the OG by giving Lucrecia some internal conflict. She still literally fell into his arms, and when Vincent even implied that she should second guess her decision with the project by asking if she was sure, Lucrecia blew up at him.
Hojo is extremely fucked up, I'm not saying otherwise, but Lucrecia was an explicitly willing participant here. They're married. Stockholm Syndrome isn't real. Do I think she felt pressured? Absolutely! Who wouldn't, in her position? However, I don't think the pressure came expressly from Hojo. I think the majority of it came from academia.
We're talking about a woman whose mentor died in a lab accident directly related to her thesis—a thesis for which she was ridiculed, which included research conclusions that remained unproven, unclear, and even fantastical until decades later when Omega was awoken early. Lucrecia needed to be part of something that would cast off the shadow hanging over her after Grimoire's death. I can't imagine anyone in her position not jumping at the chance to work with Shinra's top researcher on something as big as the Jenova Project. Add in the fact that success on Project S would prove her work was better than that of two other scientists who were no doubt much more respected than her—the team on Project G, whose efforts had already resulted in failure—and there was literally no way she could pass up the chance.
If we really want to shift the blame for Lucrecia's decisions to someone else, it was actually Gast that headed up the project. He's the one that took Sephiroth as a baby, we know this because Sephiroth was born in 1977 and Hojo and Lucrecia both went on to work on Project 0 in the same year, so they must have been moved immediately after he was born.
Gast was the lead on the project, with Hojo and Lucrecia working below him as assistants, but I never see anyone implying that he may have pressured her into agreeing to serve as the incubator for Project S, even though that kind of thing literally happens all the time. (Check out the Hwang affair for a real-world incident from 2004 in which a top biotech scientist pressured female researchers on his team into using their reproductive potential in his scientific research.)
The issue with insisting that Hojo and Lucrecia weren't actually together is that it creates a cascading effect on interpretations of Lucrecia's character that simply don't do her justice. If Hojo—the other junior researcher on the project, not even her supervisor—forced her into everything, then she has literally no agency. She had no aspirations, because Hojo is the one that forced her to participate in the project. She had no expertise, because she wasn't brought onto the project to actually work on the research aspect. In fact, she had no part in the project at all aside from her term as an incubator. She's done nothing and is capable of nothing. Hojo forced her into everything, he must have, because she didn't want anything to do with him but still wound up doing whatever he told her to do. I've seen people going so far as to claim that she was sexually assaulted to produce Sephiroth, which is both offensive and ludicrous when you actually look at the source material.
In actuality, these two were married. They met through the project, they had similar goals, and strove to reach them together. And even years later, Hojo does have respect for her work! Against all odds, he respects her work as a scientist.
He didn't agree with her thesis, but he didn't strike it from the record when he got control of the department. Most importantly, he accepted her theories immediately when he realized what had actually happened to Vincent. No rejection, no denial, only shock—but he accepted that Lucrecia was right. According to Dirge, he trusted her work so much once it was proven that he decided to try a variation of her process on himself.
Before this, Hojo still had a photo of Lucrecia. Even after what happened in Nibelheim, even after she disappeared, he kept this lovely photo of his lovely wife, the only person who ever matched his intellect—even if he was correct in that she was overly emotional, often to her detriment—and he gave that photo to Sephiroth so that he'd have a photo of his real mother.
This is not at all how anyone, particularly someone as self-important as Hojo, would treat the memory of someone they manipulated and coerced and forced into helping them.
Lucrecia is complex. She's brilliant, she's got the same moral compass as all her coworkers, but she seems to be really self-aware of that fact: consider her line "you can't call me his mother" when talking about Sephiroth in the OG, the way she blew up at Vincent for questioning her decisions, the lengths she was willing to go to make up for her mistakes. She is utterly fascinating.
And she married Hojo for her own reasons, which I've discussed at length in the past. This was an intentional decision on her part. He didn't force her into anything. They were actually, 100 percent, together.
But, as usual, god forbid women do anything.
(WARNING: I will not abide by misogynistic commentary on this post. Words like "bitch," "slut," "whore," etc. will result in a block. If you use infantilizing language, you will be blocked. If you argue about the existence of Stockholm Syndrome, you will be blocked. Lucrecia Crescent and I would never be friends, but I love her character to the ends of the earth and will not let her be fucking slandered because y'all can't handle a female character being less than a pillar of moral "purity" in any concept aside from sexual liberation.)
75. Percabeth -64
Percy Jackson & Annabeth Chase, the Percy Jackson universe
76. Hucklerobby
Dennis 'Huckleberry' Whitaker & Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch, The Pitt
77. Bunnydoll
Jax & Ragatha, The Amazing Digital Circus
78. Wangxian -25
Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian, Mo Dao Zu Shi
79. Shadowpeach -19
Sun Wukong & the Six-Eared Macaque, Lego Monkie Kid
80. Eternalberry
Hollyberry Cookie & Eternal Sugar Cookie, the Cookie Run franchise
81. Odypen
Odysseus & Penelope, EPIC: The Musical
82. Mizisua
Mizi & Sua, Alien Stage
83. Sterek
Stiles Stilinski & Derek Hale, Teen Wolf
84. Shadowvanilla
Pure Vanilla & Shadow Milk, the Cookie Run franchise
85. Moshang
Mobei-Jun & Shang Qinghua, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
86. Spideypool
Spider-Man & Deadpool, the Marvel universe
87. Davekat 0
Dave Strider & Karkat Vantas, Homestuck
88. Heavymedic
Heavy Weapons Guy & Medic, Team Fortress 2
89. Lumax
Lucas Sinclair & Max Mayfield, Stranger Things
90. Sonamy
Sonic the Hedgehog & Amy Rose, Sonic the Hedgehog
91. Rookanis
Rook & Lucanis Dellamorte, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
92. Zoeystery
Zoey & Mystery, KPop Demon Hunters
93. Poolverine -90
Wade Wilson & Logan Howlett, the Marvel universe
94. Everlark -12
Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games
95. Clois
Clark Kent & Lois Lane, Superman
96. Johnlock
John Watson & Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock
97. Agathario -21
Agatha Harkness & Rio Vidal, the Marvel universe
98. Stolitz -64
Stolas & Blitzo, Helluva Boss
99. Devil's Minion
Armand & Daniel Molloy, Interview with the Vampire & The Vampire Chronicles
100. Skystar
Skyfire & Starscream, Transformers
The number in italics indicates how many spots a ship moved up or down from 2024. Bolded ships weren’t on the list last year.
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30. Zosan -15
Roronoa Zoro & Vinsmoke Sanji, One Piece
31. Ghostsoap -11
Simon “Ghost” Riley & John “Soap” MacTavish, Call of Duty
32. Landoscar +26
Lando Norris & Oscar Piastri, Formula 1 drivers
33. Billford -32
Bill Cipher & Stanford Pines, Gravity Falls
34. Ineffable Husbands -30
Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens
35. Timkon +29
Tim Drake & Conner Kent, Young Justice
36. Abstragedy
Gangle & Zooble, The Amazing Digital Circus
37. Rujinu
Rumi & Jinu, KPop Demon Hunters
38. Merthur -2
Merlin & Arthur Pendragon, Merlin
39. Bakudeku -13
Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Boku no Hero Academia
40. Narilamb -24
Narinder & the Lamb, Cult of the Lamb
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55. Robron
Robert Sugden & Aaron Dingle, Emmerdale
56. Drarry +1
Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter, the Harry Potter universe
57. Mettatenna
Mettaton & Ant Tenna, Deltarune
58. Klance +7
Keith & Lance, Voltron: Legendary Defender
59. Ivantill
Ivan & Till, Alien Stage
60. Jaxpom
Jax & Pomni, The Amazing Digital Circus
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75. Percabeth -64
Percy Jackson & Annabeth Chase, the Percy Jackson universe
76. Hucklerobby
Dennis 'Huckleberry' Whitaker & Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch, The Pitt
77. Bunnydoll
Jax & Ragatha, The Amazing Digital Circus
78. Wangxian -25
Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian, Mo Dao Zu Shi
79. Shadowpeach -19
Sun Wukong & the Six-Eared Macaque, Lego Monkie Kid
80. Eternalberry
Hollyberry Cookie & Eternal Sugar Cookie, the Cookie Run franchise
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