Now that it’s pretty much confirmed that it’s not aquanort but dark aqua
I’m a bit annoyed we didn’t get it at the end of 0.2
We could have at least seen her eyes flicker yellow or the tips/top of her hair slowly turning white and her acknowledging that it’s an effect of the darkness if this really was supposed to be obvious.
But this is somewhat of an issue with this series, that it doesn’t use “show don’t tell” effectively.
I think the main issue was that Blank Points had already established Aqua meeting Ansem and being okay, thus they wrote themselves into a corner with that. Although, did the A fragmentary passage secret ending not come with Blank Points? It didn’t have Darkqua but it did plan 0.2 in some way already
And yeah, had Nomura just NOT given us all the uplifting Mickey speech, Darkqua would have been a concept we all had anticipated. I mean it makes sense that when she survives 10 years AND meets Ansem the Wise after 11/12 that she survives the little bit before Riku and Mickey finally come.
I guess I am more miffed about the fact that Nomura is so casual about it -.-
But I agree, Darkqua (hint) at the end of 0.2 and if we get him Soranort at the end of DDD would have been amazing cliffhangers.
We kind of got a big hint imo when she talked to mickey about it.
“ The darkness is getting to me”
“ Oh but I’m sure you’ll be okay :)”
“..right.”
for reference( starting at 1:30)
which actually, at this point i was convinced there would be something happening. I just wasn’t considering the visual change.
But
I agree that the ending of 0.2 buried this a bit. I also believe they could have adjusted the lines a bit to something like even if the darkness takes over she won’t give in or something similar.
And I don’t see how
meeting ansem would have made it safe for her? There wouldn’t be
anything he could do or is there? Or you mean that they established that
scene and couldn’t alter her look because of this then I see your
point. Still, we could have gotten yellow eyes for a split second. It
would have been enough.
I know there were hints, but the pep talk Mickey gave her and her ultimately making sure Riku would be protected by Mickey gave her this whole “I’ll be your wayfinder” epic moment that showed us again how strong she and her light are.
What I mean by Ansem is that we know Ansem only returns to the RoD during the ending of KH2, so another year after Mickey left the RoD with Riku. At that time, Aqua is okay and I just kind of assumed (which of course might be wrong!) that Aqua and Ansem continue to chill at the Dark margin until they’re saved. I mean I kind of took for granted that the Dark margin is safe, maybe it isn’t and Ansem was attacked there and he and Aqua got separated and losing another person who she couldn’t protect might have affected her psyche furthermore (if not even Xemnas is somehow to blame, we know he can enter and leave the Dark margin and did so before).
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