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like. imagine you are grace. you have a life you enjoy where you get to teach kids you’re fond of about a subject you love. you’ve been hanging out with your friend marissa weekly for years (!) and you have a lot of peers on project hail mary who you respect and even have fun with. but! you’re also like 40, and you know how the world works - at the end of the day, at the end of the project, all of those people will go back to their parents and families and partners. the people whose names are on their emergency contact forms and birth certificates and marriage licenses and apartment leases. no matter how much you care about them, and no matter how much they care about you, there is always someone else in their life who is Above you, and Before you, because That’s How The World Works.

so like… yeah. lmao. aroace grace not opening himself up all the way because he anticipates pain and wants to avoid that is a kind of protective hedging that i find very likely for him to engage in? even if he opens himself up to the people around him, the fact is that most of those people will only reciprocate to whatever degree they/society deem acceptable for friendship, even if they like him a lot.

(pardon me asking this anonymously, Im shy lol)

Kingdom Hearts has been a large part of my life since early high school. I was never a huge Disney fan (shocker) but I loved Tetsuya Nomura’s character designs and really enjoyed the concept of being able to travel to different worlds.

Birth by Sleep still holds the number one spot for combat design (in my opinion.) I really enjoyed the way you would farm spells from Heartless and combine them into new ones. The Command systems for each character was also a lot of fun, especially the Wing Blade series. I played a lot of the command board during my commute to work on the PSP haha.

As far as hopes for KH4, I’d love to see some more Final Fantasy love, maybe some of the scrapped episode lore from 15 or integrating the Eikon system from 16. I’m just hoping the story won’t have me lost for not having played some of the mobile games, it was hard enough trying to catch up with Days and CoM.