Naminé, Marluxia and Overcoming Envy - Kingdom Hearts 

Axel was the example what could have happen.poor marluxia.i feel we will see more of marluxia in kingdom hearts 4 with he's sis too

​@@platypus0123it's quite likely imo considering everything we know of this new saga

Namine is awesome, I couldn't agree more with what you said. She's currently my top 2 character in the series in fact! And thank you for the kind words

@@gearvanguardshe's best girl number 3 in my opinion, cuz Xion had the ability to defend herself and feelings maybe despite the fact she was purposed to be a weapon and Aqua literally went through hell and back and then back to hell when she didn't really need to. Naminé is important to the series from chain of memories onward, but her role returns to the more mediocre character development because of stuff other characters aside from Kairi have done

Fair enough, I respect the sound reasoning! Personally, I did enjoy her more quiet understated return after she had done so much between CoM and KH3, I think it really helped Replica Riku shine and helped her realise how important she was regardless of it she could fight or not. After questioning and loathing her powers and existence for so long, seeing everyone welcome her with open arms and being shown how important she was, was very meaningful to me. Obviously, what hits and doesn't is all personal, and I'm excited to replay later games to better understand the rest of the cast, which will undoubtedly give me a new level of appreciation for those you mentioned and beyond.

@@gearvanguardif you do'nt find the time to play those games sometimes, might i recommend Everglow's timeline videos?

@@taminostam9912 They are great! I actually credited them at the end of this video, super helpful!

Wow, thank you! It means so much that you checked out all three of my kingdom hearts videos and enjoyed them. Your comment made my day! Thank you again

Nothing makes me more pleased than to hear you could find a deeper appreciation for CoM! Thank you for the kind words

oh dear "[Namine had been] gladly accepting her painful fate if it allowed others to be happy ... While Namine can understand the connections of those she touched so well, she never realized how much she had grown to be an important part of those connections" 😭 welp, i am sobbing again; faaaaar too real.

It means the world that you could connect with the story on a deeper level through my video, so much so that it got such an emotional reaction out of you and that you shared some moments with others! The connections made in the video are things I was also surprised by when writing it, so it was so satisfying to be able to share it; especially knowing how dismissive people are of Nomura's writing I've seen on the internet. As someone whose goal is just to help one person enjoy/appreciate a story I adore just a little bit more in every video, there's no greater pleasure than seeing a comment like yours. Thank you so much.

Aqua and Terra indeed didn't have any grand role to play at that point in time, as Xenahort's plan at that time was using Ventus's pure light heart and Vanitas's pure darkness to forge a X-Blade, not the the later plan to use 13 darkness and 7 light to summon KH. So what Luxu said was indeed correct he was just there to witness Xenahort's possession of Terra.

@@yasq1482 oh yes that is a marvelous observation! very obvious too, now that it’s been pointed out to me. thank you for the correction (: context: the scene itself shows Braig talking *_to_* Aqua and Ventus *_about_* Aqua and Terra, and I had errantly assumed by "you two" he had to have been referring to the two present, Aqua and Ventus. in reality (duh) he was just continuing the whole ongoing Terra/Aqua conversation, and as you said, the two of them indeed did not have any role to play in ongoing plan to summon kingdom hearts. And Braig is indeed 'only' there to make sure Terra falls to darkness because although it's not the 'grand' plan in question, preparing Terra as a young and capable just-incase-vessel is certainly on their collective to-do list. That makes.....infinitely more sense than what i had been imagining to myself lol. wasnt too far off in the grand scheme of things, just had to make a lot of weird adjustments for the details to fit. Still, idk how i missed that That being said while i feel as confident now as one can be that you are exactly correct on the intended reading of the line ( _especially_ at the time of release), i still think the added post-bbs context provides a particular color to the scene in a very satisfying and characteristically Nomura way! which was moreso the point i was trying to get at initially anyway going to lump in some miscellaneous thoughts on the subject. not nearly as relevant to the reply just in the mood gush some more while it is on the brain maybe spoilers for all KH games up to and including Missing Link prerelease material idk Braig was definitely speaking truthfully to his motivations as Braig the henchman, but now it almost feels as if he was simultaneously coldly and candidly laying out his plans as _Luxu_ , too. I think there are a myriad of subtly different options there for precisely what that double meaning would be, which is exactly why it is so cool to me! regardless of which though, there is always the hurdle that this implies that Luxu would have to have somehow been expecting M.X. to fail in this particular attempt to summon kingdom hearts. And As for how exactly Luxu could’ve been privileged to that information is anyone’s guess (I don't believe it is confirmed that Luxu has seen ANY of the book of prophecies beyond the lost page, after all), buuut i don’t think it has to be anything all that complicated, or even directly explained. something even as simple as him suspecting that the rushed and partial procedure MX pursues out of desperation from old age would prove insufficient to fully summon KH; Luxu does have firsthand instruction from MoM as well as direct experience as a master during the og keyblade war, after all. I also think many characters of that tier generally know more than they let on, and there are plenty of world events in the timeline that could signal to an educated enough observer that this is not “the end” so-to-speak. I mean all it would take is Xehanort intentionally or unintentionally revealing his visit from the cloaked figure to one of Luxu’s vessels for him to maaaybe be able to make a decently educated guess that TerraXehanort is necessary for that to happen. For all we know, since Xehanort is a keyblade master who hyperfocused on the keyblade war (and even seemingly knows at least a little about REALLY wonky stuff like unreality), MX himself could have been the one coming to similar conclusions at the time. Maybe more generally though, Luxu’s very role, both thematically and literally in the story, is as an observer on the timeline so i would imagine he would have more hints about the future than _anyone_ in kh who hasn’t read the book of prophecies itself. (also I'm not at all positing the one line as evidence for any of those events or anything like that, just that they would all be simple and clean in-universe explanations a writing team could silently cite to themselves as an excuse when trying to iron out continuity, thematic tie ins, double meaning, etc in the process of planning a story/writing a retcon. I highly doubt anything close to this insignificant will ever be touched on directly in game, though i suppose it has _potential_ to be accidentally "confirmed" in the weird event KHML reveals luxu knew of post bbs events as part of some other unrelated story reveal. Guess ya never know. hi anyone who made it all the way to the end sry i talk so much

Thank you! I'm happy you liked that part of the video, I was really proud of it! :)

Thanks haha

Thank you, your words are immensely uplifting and I am grateful for the support. I have a lot of self doubt in my videos when I first release them so seeing comments like these really helps me keep going. Lovely words that perfectly captures the core ideas discussed, wonderfully put. Thank you again for the delightful comment.

Thank you!! I appreciate the support so much; your last comment was among those that really helped motivate me to get back on my feet. Working on something unrelated to KH right now but I'm excited to work on it after. Thank you again, it means a lot.

@@gearvanguard You're welcome!

Thank you so much! I'm glad I could shine some light on Naminé's character for not just myself when making this video but for others too, she's become my personal fav outside of Sora in fact!

Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm very glad I could show some love to CoM and the characters :)

Thank you so much, that makes me very happy to hear after working on this for so long

Thank you, glad you found something out of my video! :)

That would be pretty crazy and really interesting

I always pictured namine and ava to be related somehow. Like not siblings, but have some kind of connection. I could be wrong but namine gives me ava vibes and Vice versa. Ever since ava was introduced to us.

I'm glad you liked it and thank you!! :)

As someone who spends the majority of my video creation on the script, this makes me extremely happy to hear! Thank you so much for the wonderful words

Thank you very much :)

Thank you :) Appreciate the sentiment very much!

Thank you!! Pleased you liked it :D

Thank you! Grateful for your support :D

This genuinely means the world, thank you so much for your considerate words, I'm very grateful. I will remember to take it to heart.

You are too kind haha thank you :)

This genuinely means the world to me, I'm grateful that you enjoyed the video; I've always been a big fan of analytical content and wanted to see more for KH so here we are now haha. Everything you mentioned was something I paid particular attention to this time as my comprehensibility in both writing and editing, and my enunciation struggles a lot, things I have been criticized for in the past. Thank you so much for writing this, your words are incredibly motivating and I'm over the moon!

Thank you! More will come (even if not quickly) I promise!

Thank you

Thank you, this means a lot :)

Thank you, it means a lot! I'm glad you can enjoy the video, I'll keep trying my best :)

Tysm!! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Thank you so much for the kind words :) happy to hear that!

Hell yeah bro keep up the good work ​@@gearvanguard

Thank you! Means a lot that you liked it enough to rewatch :)

Glad you enjoyed it, many thanks :)

Thank you! Grateful to hear you enjoyed it :)

I'm really happy to hear this

@@gearvanguard Only have good things to say about your method of narration :) plus, your arguments have well put together "trains of thought process"!

Thank you again, it means the world

Thank you! Means a lot that you enjoyed my other videos, appreciate the kind words too! :)

Happy to have shared a new perspective with you :)

I'm glad you could find something out of my video, no better feeling than sharing appreciation with others in a story I love. Also grateful for the kind words on the thumbnail; you're the first to ever do so haha. Love the card aesthetic from the game, spent a good while on it and really liked how it turned out. Fingers crossed on seeing more of these characters, would be sooo interesting to see them interact now. Thank you so much again for your comment, really brightened up my day :)

Thanks! Definitely agree, his personality in UX is quite distinctly different in general too to where I don't think he'd do smth as malicious. I hope they get a good moment together, or it could be a slow burn since it was such a negative experience for Namine. Either way, I hope something happens!

Glad you could resonate with the video! She's become a personal favorite of mine for the same reasons.

Thank you! :)

I certainly can relate, I know with me personally KH3 didn't really hit despite following the series all my life, nor did the contents beyond; I accepted that maybe the series wasn't exactly for me anymore. It took both a few years away from the series, a new perspective of media in general and of course, re-experincing this series again for these videos that I found a new love for KH, and it's still changing. Thank you for your kind words and for sharing your story. I'm grateful that you were able to find something to appreciate in the story from my video. And thank you for the supportive sentiments :)

Thank you

I appreciate the sentiment very much. While he had actually very few scenes in KH3, it kinda carried almost half of this video's thoughts alone. Loved him in CoM, and even more for what they did beyond. Once again, thank you for kind words, I'm grateful you checked out all my KH vids and how understanding you are

Couldn't agree more!

Thank you, appreciate the sentiment greatly haha

Thank you so much for your supportive words and the kind gesture, it means a lot.

Same! Curious to see how different my thoughts are now on kh3 on a revisit given how much they have already changed after revisiting earlier games

A Sora video is my end goal to reach with this video series (he is my favourite character in the series), it won't be anytime soon but I will get to it!

@@gearvanguard ahhhh ok

Happy you enjoyed the video! Riku and Namine are great

Would be so cool to see these two interact with each other in the future especially given their history!

@AfterHoursGear yea he's not bad just traumatized.then maybe we can learn more of namine back story cuz I feel she knows more then organized 13.she might be older then ven as far back.