#atr76

ok so not-so-spoiler alert: the dreams were xehanort’s fault. her dream was a single dream, that just kept repeating. in the dream she talked to a stranger who’s face she couldn’t remember (it was xehanort) and xehanort talked to her about kano

“you can’t trust him. you’re better off without him. sora says otherwise but, you know what’s best for sora, don’t you?”

and eventually it culminated in kairi using a shitton of light to try and force kano out of sora’s chest.

“holy fuck that kind of rules??” you might be saying, and. yeah. i feel that.

i held onto it for so long because i love a) xehanort being terrifying and b) xehanort making pawns out of every character in this cast

however. i shifted around some things in endgame (which i can’t tell you about, that’s spoilers for sure)---this scene was supposed to tie into something in endgame, but that thing in endgame got cut. which mean this scene served no purpose other than “showcase how terrifying xehanort can be”

which is, like, cool??? and i wouldn’t call it a bad reason to include a scene/plotline

but the inevitable consequences of “kairi tries to shove kano out of sora’s chest” as well as “kairi continues to distrust kano” just???? isn’t fun???? since ATR’s the last ftpverse installment, i kind of. i think i’d like to actually write kairi and kano maybe being friends, (as much as they can be when he’s bodysharing with sora, lmfao????) I JUST, THEY’RE A FUN DYNAMIC, AND I DON’T WANT TO BE CONDEMNED TO WRITING THEM AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE REST OF ALL THAT REMAINS

AND PUTTING SORA IN A “GOD KAIRI STILL HATES KANO, NEARLY TRIED TO KILL HIM OVER IT” MINDSET FOR NO REASON!!!! ISN’T FUN!!!!!!! I DON’T WANT TO DEAL WITH THAT SHIT!!!

it was exhausting me to think about, and there were no longer enough pros to outweigh the cons anymore