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In KH1, Sora sees his home world destroyed and loses his friends? He helps put the 100 Acre Wood back together and reunites Winnie the Pooh with his friends.

In COM (Thank you to estrangeres for mentioning it) Winnie search for his friends he does not remember like Sora is searching for Namine who he think he had forgotten.

In KH2, Sora is dealing with the confusion of having lost his memories, made worse by the Organization constantly imposing Roxas's identity onto him. Well, Pooh has also lost his memories. But that's okay, we can fix that together.

In KH3, Sora is dealing with the fallout of failing the Mark of Mastery exam (something everyone seems extremely judgmental about). Also because of that Pooh loses his connection with Sora. Yet there's no judgment here, they simply spend time together and rebuild their bond. (Sora does finish this storyline more worried than usual, but that also foreshadows his later breakdown.)

And in DDD where Sora do end up having depression guess what? There is no 100 Acre woods!

In every one of the games he appear in, Pooh's feelings mirror Sora's. The 100 Acre Wood becomes a safe place for him to explore his emotions.

This particular bit of the trailer really caught my attention. I've briefly spoken before about how noticeable the influence of daoism seems in kingdom hearts. This bit very clearly echoes the beginning of the second chapter of the dao de jing.

(Two translations)

I think this also plays into the whole light against dark narrative that we've seen play out. For example with Xehanort and Eraqus. (Their whole colour palette is a yin yang reference for crying out loud.)

The yin yang as a symbol comes from daoism. As can be seen from this bit of text, two opposites define, flow into, and cannot exist without the other. No dark without light, no silence without sound, there's only an after because there's a before. But you cannot seperate them.

And seen here when it comes to Oathkeeper and Oblivion. The teeth of the keyblades are even stylized versions of the kanji for light and dark. (And the light one also being the number 7 in scala numbers, because 7 lights.)

We've seen that pure light is unsustainable as is the case with pure dark. They exist in tandem. The fairy godmother said as much.

The push to center light and fight to eradicate darkness only serves to destabilise the balance and have the equal and opposite reaction.

While I'm using this specific scene for this point, it's been said again and again. Usually in reference to darkside. And as we can see from the trailer, it's only gotten worse over time.

When we look at dark road and at what happened between terra and eraqus it shows us that the fear of darkness, rather than accepting it as a part of life, is the very thing that usually brings harm.

Mickey changed his views because he saw that it was possible with Riku.

Sora's currently suffering from this disbalance as we've seen from anti/rage form and the massive darkside.

Now with Riku (with the help of the fairy godmother) following his dreams to find Sora, I hope that he'll be able to bring that balance.

lots of joker studies and scribbles :D

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