#kh2 analysis

I know Maleficent changed some stuff when she took over, but seeing the worst looking version in 1 makes me wonder what all those locations exclusive to 1 look like when fully restored and back to the way things were in BbS. I just really want a detailed map that shows the whole castle with the proper layout and what leads where and what purpose all these rooms had.

So Space Paranoid's page specifically says Ansem copied the computer system created by ENCOM for his own computer. While The Grid's page says he had come upon the Grid and copied its data at the time to create Space Paranoids.

That seems confusing to me. SP implies the world is specifically data made by ENCOM whereas TG's doesn't mention whether its only data made by the company or a whole world that exists all on its own. Coded, KH2, and KHUX proves that an entire world can be copied and made into a data version so at the very least TG, whether real or data, was indeed copied and put into Ansem's computer.

So, since I know nothing about either of the Tron movies, I looked up ENCOM:

I think in a KH setting we can remove the 'America' part of the description, but since ENCOM is just a company they have to be based in some world. I think Radiant Garden is likely because if TG is a whole world it would be hard for Ansem to find it since he can't leave RG at this point in time.

As far as what's canon, Kevin Flynn, lead software engineer of ENCOM, did create TG. So that erases any possibility of TG being a pre-existing world. TG is a data world created by Kevin Flynn.

So I think I might get it now(i.e. I answered my own question halfway through), ENCOM was a company in RG and Kevin Flynn, along with everyone else in the company and his family, were citizens there as well. Flynn created The Grid, Ed Dillinger stole the game and presented it to ENCOM, it became one of the company's games and they had all the data for it. Just as in Tron, the game is like its own world in that data. I dunno how he did it, but Ansem found that data and copied it so he could turn it into the town's operating system. I presume this happens before Flynn gets stuck in the game otherwise there would be a copy of him(and Sam and possibly even Quorra) in SP. Then the world falls to darkness and both TG and SP go into the Sleeping Realms. When the computer in Ansem's lab is turned on, SP awakens, but not TG because it's located elsewhere in all the data ENCOM has, which was probably lost during RG's destruction.

So, my point of this post changed once I figured out the answer to my initial question, but I did figure out the difference between the two worlds incase anyone else was confused too. There you go.

Well Anti form and Rage form only have an effect on gameplay. You can go the entirety of both games without activating them, except for the Xehanort fight in 3 where Rage form is scripted. No one really has a chance to say anything when the only time either of those things canonically happens is in one of the biggest fights in history. Plus in the moment it makes sense since Xehanort did steal all of Sora's light.

Not saying they're technically not real, since Nomura does say "Story-wise, yes. Drives are very strong so AntiForm exists as a side-effect of using too much power." and "Anti is based on Sora getting completely stained in darkness, but Rage doesn't go quite that far. It's based on him going into a rampage state, controlled by feelings of anger." So they are real, but it's hard for anyone to aknowledge them when them showing up is based solely on what the player decides to do. If you never use Drive forms, Sora never uses Anti form. If you never use Rage form outside it's scripted appearance, Sora never does it outside that.

Plus in the story of Sora, Riku using darkness is a journey about redemption and finding balance within yourself. It's also an important thing that Riku can no longer be affected by darkness now that he can control it.

In Terra's case, he grew up with a man that was very against darkness of any kind. He was taught never to rely on darkness, so he was fighting it as opposed to Riku's embrace of it. Using darkness was usually brought on by Terra losing control of himself for a bit and doing it on accident. His fight with darkness is a major part of his story, just like with Riku. But Terra is continuously torn between using it or not cuz Eraqus taught him not to while Xehanort is manipulating into doing it. Riku was given the option of balance while Terra was not. Terra never believed that was a choice he could make.

So, Terra was taught never to accept darkness in any way, shape, or form. Riku was taught to accept it and create a balance. Sora, while having the ability to use those two forms, is never canonically confirmed to use either of them except in a situation where it makes sense and isn't a choice.