KH CAST OPINIONS SOUGHT
I am interested in hearing some thoughts about a characterization issue that's about to come up! Kingdom Hearts cast or other people who don't mind Birth By Sleep spoilers, click on into the cut, where I will explain what I'm thinking about doing.
Completely optional, only involves my character, don't click if you don't want BBS spoilers.
So, Ven's heart is inside Sora. And when Sora unlocks his heart, the Nobody made from his body looks exactly like Ven. This is pretty questionable. And now I'm posed with the question of what exactly Aqua and Vanitas sense from Roxas, re: Ven, since they both have very perceptive senses, and deep connections to Ven. So here's my thoughts:
I rationalize Sora and Vanitas looking alike because infant Sora connected to Ven and literally filled in what was missing, which happened to be a Vanitas-shaped hole, and that kind of influenced bebe Sora and he grew up to look -- well, kind of like Vanitas. And then at the end of Ven's story, his heart went to rest inside slightly-less-bebe Sora.
We're told over and over mostly by fandom that Roxas and Namine are "special" Nobodies, and we can't use them as yardsticks for the rest of the human-formed Nobodies, even though they're the only yardsticks we have. I personally have weird opinions about what Nobodies are, in general. But either way Roxas clearly feels things, and in Final Mix + (and rehashed in Days) Axel clearly wonders if maybe, somehow, he does have a heart. He doesn't doubt Nobodies in general -- just Roxas, in particular. And Roxas answers with a generalization. He doesn't get it.
So, maybe he does have a heart; maybe he has Ven's heart. It explains how he can feel, why he's different, his elemental affinity to light, etc. And by the time Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out and we get any kind of canon for this it will literally be a million years from now. So I'm going to have to make my own decision about this, since it will come up in roughly 24 hours.
This only involves Roxas, so I don't need to worry about stepping on anyone else's toes, but I am interested in other people's thoughts. Am I stretching? Is it plausible? DISCUSSIONTIEM.