#and while that's hard to access in game format the blessed youtube exists

[mcalhenwrites]

So the KH posts that are like "these are not the same person" with people who look like twins and "this is the same person" with two people who don't look like are hilarious and genuinely funny. But they're also pretty wildly inaccurate. They're misleading for people who aren't KH fans, but if you are one, you can kind of brush it off a a joke. And okay, it's confusing as fuck but looking at the KH fandom from the outside, we must seem bizarre to you! Fair, btw. Until you realize people get really twisted up over Xion/Roxas as a ship. "They're both the same person that's wrong!" Incorrect, they're wildly fake, I don't even like this pairing but I'm about to die on a hill defending them. It's down to "they're Soras!" but... No? We had a whole thing where Sora reaffirms that Roxas is his own person. Ven and Vanitas are not the same either. Vanitas is kind of a... byproduct of one of the main thirteen darknesses that is holed up in Ven. It basically stored itself inside Ven, and when Xehanort ripped the darkness out of Ven, he didn't take it all. It just had a limb of itself branched out. That darkness is still in Ven, as confirmed in Re:Mind. Link to that, should start at 25:13. This fandom makes a lot of "Ven killed Strelitzia!" and "Ven is the imposter!" jokes and we fed on the angst plenty, but... in the end, he's not the killer, the darkness inside of him did that hitjob.