[ SECRET POST #2872 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2872 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[ozaline]

If you didn't figure out Kairi was one of the princesses until the game told you, I'm rather shocked... As you say you learn about it after Wonderland (which is very early in the game... the first whole Disney world you visit)... you learn right away that the Princesses need not be literal Princesses cause Alice isn't... So of course Kairi is going to be one.

Of course Riku wasn't told the cost of power... the tragic villains never are. Again you're ignoring the comparison to Darth Vader, and Horus... both of whom had their personalities drastically changed by an outside force (the Dark Side, or the Chaos Gods)... The point being though that he had to embrace the Darkside of his own free will, where Kairi is lugged around in a comma for half the game, then strapped into a big key machine.

"and one slip-up could see him doing it again."

Right, exactly! He could be tempted to give into the darkness, and loose control again. But there's still the element of choice there. The whole point of the game is that, he has the power to fight back, with the help of his friends. And eventually learn not to fear the darkness which seems to have been Ansem's real source of power.

The villains always lie about the cost of power in these stories, but falling to the dark side is not by any means as the the distressed damsel trope.

While we want to see Luke redeem Darth Vader, he was there because of choices Anakin made (even though the prophecy about Padme dying was self fulfilling, and the Emperor lied about adverting it.) It was still his choice.

Ansem lied about the cost of giving into the Darkness (even though Maleficent warned him earlier that he might loose himself), but he still made that choice.