But DiZ's program, you sort of get another taste of when you go to Space Paranoids -- the Disney world based on Tron. If you've seen the movie, entering the computer involves being "digitized" -- the computer turns your information into data, and you disappear from the real world and reappear inside the computer. DiZ made that program, according to various Tron characters, and the digital Twilight Town seems to be a more advanced version of the same thing. So, Roxas was "digitized" and disappeared from the real Twilight Town, reappearing as data in the digital Twilight Town.
It IS a dream forced upon him, in a way, but it's a dream with RAM and programming behind it, being played out like a virtual reality videogame -- Roxas has just been programmed so he doesn't know it's not real. All Axel had to do to enter it himself is pick up controller two, so to speak. But he must've done some fairly impressive technowizardry to manage it, because the only way in that we ever saw was a teleporter-looking-thing right next to DiZ the whole time. Axel must've made a hole in the program somehow and just waltzed right in.
2.) Well, if Namine has seen that smile, it's because of her tampering with Sora's memories in-between CoM and KHII -- again, she doesn't start out with any of Kairi's memories. XD (The line in the opening movie, "I want to line the pieces up together," I think refers to how Kairi and Riku's memories are also fractured, but that if all three of them put what they remember together, they'll have the whole picture. It's sweet~. [And I know the English is "yours and mine," not "together," but darn it, the Japanese says "issho ni".]
But what she does to Sora's memories, putting them back together, clearly affects the memories of everyone who knows him. (Between CoM and KHII, Riku and Kairi and everyone else who had ever met Sora forgot he existed. When his memories were almost fully restored, they began to remember things -- this is what the conversation between Riku and DiZ means, where DiZ asks if Riku remembers now, and Riku says it's all falling into place.)
It's true that Roxas and Namine are sort of twins; born from the same body, in the same instant, and neither one of them has their Somebody's memories. (Axel, etc., all remember who they were as Somebodies; Roxas and Namine alone do not. But Namine learns who her Somebody is much, much earlier than Roxas does -- during CoM, she claims that feelings for her will only make Sora's feelings for Namine stronger, because "I'm her shadow.")
But I think I'd like Sora, too, if I were Namine. He's totally the hero who tries to save the princess from her castle -- but Namine doesn't get a fairy tale ending. Instead she has to put her prince to sleep and make him forget she ever existed. I can't imagine that was fun. :(
And Sora being Namine's father is actually something that's occurred to me before. Ahahah. The wrong.
In Kairi's defense, she's more interesting in the manga, where she has some snark. But in the main, I agree with you. Namine is much cooler. XD
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It IS a dream forced upon him, in a way, but it's a dream with RAM and programming behind it, being played out like a virtual reality videogame -- Roxas has just been programmed so he doesn't know it's not real. All Axel had to do to enter it himself is pick up controller two, so to speak. But he must've done some fairly impressive technowizardry to manage it, because the only way in that we ever saw was a teleporter-looking-thing right next to DiZ the whole time. Axel must've made a hole in the program somehow and just waltzed right in.
2.) Well, if Namine has seen that smile, it's because of her tampering with Sora's memories in-between CoM and KHII -- again, she doesn't start out with any of Kairi's memories. XD (The line in the opening movie, "I want to line the pieces up together," I think refers to how Kairi and Riku's memories are also fractured, but that if all three of them put what they remember together, they'll have the whole picture. It's sweet~. [And I know the English is "yours and mine," not "together," but darn it, the Japanese says "issho ni".]
But what she does to Sora's memories, putting them back together, clearly affects the memories of everyone who knows him. (Between CoM and KHII, Riku and Kairi and everyone else who had ever met Sora forgot he existed. When his memories were almost fully restored, they began to remember things -- this is what the conversation between Riku and DiZ means, where DiZ asks if Riku remembers now, and Riku says it's all falling into place.)
It's true that Roxas and Namine are sort of twins; born from the same body, in the same instant, and neither one of them has their Somebody's memories. (Axel, etc., all remember who they were as Somebodies; Roxas and Namine alone do not. But Namine learns who her Somebody is much, much earlier than Roxas does -- during CoM, she claims that feelings for her will only make Sora's feelings for Namine stronger, because "I'm her shadow.")
But I think I'd like Sora, too, if I were Namine. He's totally the hero who tries to save the princess from her castle -- but Namine doesn't get a fairy tale ending. Instead she has to put her prince to sleep and make him forget she ever existed. I can't imagine that was fun. :(
And Sora being Namine's father is actually something that's occurred to me before. Ahahah. The wrong.
In Kairi's defense, she's more interesting in the manga, where she has some snark. But in the main, I agree with you. Namine is much cooler. XD
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