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Xenoverse 2's story is funny af to me.

This is a pretty common headcanon, but I always imagine that, similar to Gem Fusions, fusions like Gogeta, Vegito, and Kefla are so bombastic because they love being themselves for the limited time they got.

If they got to be their own people, I always imagined that for fusions of the same people like Gogeta and Vegito: that they'd have some of Goku or Vegeta's traits be more prominent then others. I think its because I always seen Gogeta as a bit more outwardly heroic while I always seen Vegito as much more of a rascal.

My boy died and got isekaied, poor Sora.

I really find alot of the online discourse regarding Sora's KH4 design odd, considering that we really don't know what Sora looks like yet.

Now, what do I mean by this?

Quadratam seems to be the big hub/starting world of the game, similar to Traverse Town and Twilight Town in KH1, 2 and 3.

The whole point of Quadratam is to be a cold-open and a stark, striking difference from Sora's own dimension.

KH is known for having characters change both their design and style depending on the world as far back as KH1, so I think alot of the people worried about this being the game's main style and Sora's primary design to be jumping the gun.

(If I'm not mistaken. I think there's even an interview with Nomura stating this style to be, as far as we know, exclusive to Quadratam)

The closest we've come so far to seeing how KH4ora looks in a more traditional KH style is the anniversary artwork Nomura made for its announcement.

What sticks out to me here is the face and hair. With Sora being older here (probably being around 16-17), his face seems noticeably more mature. His hair is slightly flatter, along with his bangs being smaller, and Sora's face (along with his proportions in general) has slimmed down and gotten very slightly smaller with each new design, with this being the most slimmed down it's really been, mainly around his cheeks. The way Nomura draws him with an Adam's apple also helps to give a sense of maturity, a maturity that I don't think Sora knows how to come to terms with yet.

Now, in-game in Quadratam? I can't really say as we have yet to have an offical render of him in Quadratam or in the style KH3 established. I hope that once we get him in the more "traditional" KH style that some of his traits from Nomura's artwork carries over.

If anyone stuck around long enough to read this, what are your thoughts on his design?

HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALSO GETTING AN OCARINA OF TIME REMAKE?

We got fucking Rei Ayanami and Asuka driving in cars themed after their robots alongside Sonic the Hedgehog as they are racing Unit 01 through Tokyo-3.

Hasn't registered to me before, but Daima is technically the youngest we've seen Goku as a fighter.

Now it's not the youngest we've seen Goku in Toriyama's story, that would be Jaco the Galactic Patrolman.

As someone who always loved Metal Sonic as a character, I really don't get this recent push from alot of people for Metal to have a voice / stark personality in his base form.

To me, the silence was always a part of the general thesis of him as a character (like Showa Mecha G). Metal is a Sonic who is not free in both mind and body, a soldier who takes orders from a totalitarian figure such as Eggman. Metal (to me) has the mind of a cold-blooded professional (again, akin to Showa Mecha G). Metal, in all ways, is the anthesis of everything Sonic is and stands for as a person.