Birth By Sleep being the game I know by far the least about, so that's actually pretty exciting! So now I am going to tell you what I know (or think I know) about Birth By Sleep so I can come back post-game and see how wrong I was, hahaha.

BIRTH BY SLEEP IS:

- a game where? people learn how to be keyblade masters maybe?? which seems so crazy compared to what we know in previous KH games, so maybe I'm wrong about this, WE'LL HAVE TO SEE

- a game with three protagonists, each with their own storyline to play through. They are called Terra (looks a bit like Zack FFVII?), Aqua (pretty blue lady), and... Ventus (Roxas???) i think?

- it is set prior to the events of KH, but I'm not sure by how much. But I think it has members of OrgXIII before they became nobodies, specifically the first six as scientists under Ansem the Wise. Maybe? I think that's right.

- I think baby Axel and Saix show up too?

- they better do because that's my ship now

- how times have changed

- I'm pretty sure that Terra is our inevitable ~falls into darkness~ guy, but. I don't know the details of that or how accurate that is.

- I think weird bald goblin villain is in this game.

- I guess we're not supposed to like him because he's ugly and KH is shallow af in that regard.

I totally abandoned my own formatting halfway through that, oops.

Anyway, Kingdom Hearts still has disastrously inconsistent character writing, but it's also annoyingly charming and I can't help but enjoy myself anyway;; So I really am excited to play this next one!

BUT I HAVE ONE MAJOR COMPLAINT, GRR

Final Mix has so many extra scenes! Some of them are terrible (THAT FUCKING SCENE OF XENMAS WALKING FOR, LIKE, TEN MINUTES RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE FOR HOLLOW BASTION, LMAO)

but in all those extra scenes, they still

STILL

haven't added a conclusion for Maleficent and Pete?!?!?!?!?!?!

WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS KINGDOM HEARTS

THEY ARE THE SECONDARY ANTAGONISTS, THEY ARE SO PRESENT THROUGHOUT THIS GAME (ESPECIALLY THE FIRST HALF), MALEFICENT ACTUALLY SAVES SORA TWICE IN THIS GAME, THE LAST TIME WE SEE EITHER OF THEM IS HOLDING BACK THE HORDE OF TEN SQUILLION HEARTLESS, AND STILL

STILL YOU WON'T GIVE ME A CREDITS SCENE WITH THEM?

How can you expect me to live like this?????????

actually yeah fuck kingdom hearts, no forgiveness

I ship axel/saix now but maleficent/pete will always be the kh otp don't @ me

you forgot the thing I learned about KH today, which is that saix is a masochistic werewolf

... see i actually like that

I MEAN, I SAVED IT FOR A REASON

i'm fucking furious i don't want a kingdom hearts favourite

I NEVER USED TO EVEN THINK ABOUT THIS CHARACTER??? HE WAS SUCH A BLIP TO ME, JUST A DULL NOTHING, AND NOW SUDDENLY???????

he bares his teeth and bites

what's not to love

j just for u

you are SO good to me

update: so far Birth By Sleep is ????? but wow Terra's VA is just. completely not into it at all, is he?