Walking the road to dawn

- A ‘whole’ being is made up of a body, an heart, and a will/soul.

- The heart is your emotions and connections to others, the soul is your mind and desires, and body is self evident.

- The condition of the heart can influence the appearance of the body, possibly with a placebo-type aspect to it.

- Souls come from memories and hearts from other hearts (Kingdom Hearts is also important due to being the ‘first’ heart).

- For example, the toys in Toy Box gained their hearts from Andy’s emotional connection with them, and their soul from the games he played with them (Buzz Lightyear is an exception as Andy had memories of the show he comes from).

- This is also how Data Sora gains a heart (from interacting with Mickey).

- Nobodies like Roxas who spent more time interacting and befriending the residents of the worlds he visited would have grown hearts faster.

- Additionally, a body without a heart cannot age, and due to the RoD there might be a connection between that and darkness.

- While a Nobody lacks a heart, since they retain their soul and body, if their soul/will is strong enough to hold on without their heart they’ll retain their original shape and intelligence.

- If they don’t, they (like Heartless) loose those abilities.

- The body in KH isn’t as much a physical mechanical thing like it is for us, but is instead a construct made of light and darkness which is why the heart can influence it (although unlike the heart it cannot travel through time).

- The Ark takes the light and darkness that make up the body and disassembles them to be sent through time with the heart and soul.

- It’s possible this can damage the soul resulting in memory loss.

- Magic comes from the soul: the Org13 members don’t have powerful magic because they’re strong Nobodies but the other way around.

- You can have an affinity towards a certain type of magic.

- Magic isn’t just limited to the usual spells and elements (elements here refers to things like gravity/space/illusion not just traditional ones like fire/air/ice) but can also be used to enhance things like strength and speed.

- Donald Duck would make a terrifying Nobody.

- Humans like us are closest to Replicas or Data in the KH world.

- Magic is very rarely used without some sort of tool or weapon to channel it like a keyblade or wand.

so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them to it.”

Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“

Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk. Just when you thought-“