#xion skuld and xehanort's mother for those with black hair

[oveliagirlhaditright]

For absolutely no reason whatsoever... you know what? I'm going to do a list of the hair colors we have for the girls in the Kingdom Hearts series thus far and how many we have for each color (I'm listing brown and black as two different things, even though oftentimes they're both grouped together in the brunette category, of course).

Red – 4 (You may doubt me about this number, but trust me. It's true. It has to do with a spoiler-y thing.)

Blonde – 2. Though I feel like Vor is sort of has dishwater blonde/sandy brown shade of hair. If you choose to see her more as a blonde, then the number goes up to 3 here.

Black - 3

Blue - 1

Brown - 2. But back to what I was saying with Vor before: if you want to count her as a brunette instead of a blonde, then the number goes up to 3.

Gray - 2

White: 2. Though full disclosure: the second one is Kairi's Grandma. Who, of course, probably didn't have white hair when she was a girl, but does now.

I guess people could also argue if they wanted to, that Strelitzia's hair is orange and not red (I've seen some people do that in the past: saying certain people have orange hair and others have red based on the shade). In which case then we have one more hair color: Strelitzia with orange (her as the only one). And then the red number goes down one, leaving us with three gingers.

[kitkat-the-muffin]

It’s definitely a retcon but it doesn’t change any of the information we already knew. In BBS we can see Lea and Isa trying to sneak into the laboratory for unknown reasons, and it’s of course assumed that’s how they ended up joining the organization by proximity

In KH3 we learn more, in how they were trying to visit Subject X and got jobs working for Ansem The Wise to keep in touch with her. It also makes sense that this wasn’t discussed in 358/2 Days since that game was about the tragedy of Roxas and Xion, and not about Axel and Saix’s very specific backstory

Plus it’s obvious that future games want to reconnect to the Age of Fairytales by reintroducing those characters (Ephemer’s cameo in KH3, Brain in Missing Link, Strelitzia in KH4, etc.) and so it makes sense that Subject X would either be Skuld or Ava

Skuld is the most popular option since her arrival in Radiant Garden would align well with Lauriam, Elrena, and Ventus’s arrivals at similar points in the timeline (it’s heavily implied all their lifeboats docked at the same period of time, roughly 1 or 2 years before Sora’s birth). She also matches Subject X’s known descriptions of “black hair” and “only remembers 5 friends and a key”

However, Nomura’s previous claim that the reason Xehanort’s mother looks a lot like Skuld is because of a “bloodlines” connection, implying her lifeboat docked in Scala Ad Caelum and she grew up to be one of his ancestors (the lifeboat would therefore align with Brain’s arrival rather than Ventus’s, but Brain never took a lifeboat himself)

The other leading theory of Ava is more complicated as we do not know what she looks like under her mask, but she would also have memories of “5 friends and a key.” However, this theory compares Ava to a character named Deuce from the game Final Fantasy Type-0, and she has black hair. If this theory is correct (and that all the Foretellers are based on Type-0 characters), then she very well could be Subject X

This isn’t the first time that Kingdom Hearts’s original cast has been based on Final Fantasy characters, not including those pulled directly from FF games. Hayner, Pence, Olette, and Yozora are based on certain FF characters, too, though I couldn’t tell you which ones since I’ve only played the 7 Remake (not even Rebirth smh). My point stands that Ava being Subject X is still a likely possibility, especially since she is missing from the final cutscene of KH3 and Luxu seems to know everything about it

So while the topic of Subject X did kind of come out of nowhere, it has a lot of potential as a plot point

While I absolutely love kh3 and will defend the whole series to the death, it still kind of bothers me that Subject X just suddenly became a major thing in kh3 despite like literally no prior mention of her. Like all of a sudden it's just "oh yeah Lea and Isa had another friend and no one know who she is or where she came from but she's super important and also everyone is interested in finding her :)" Like it just comes out of nowhere and it bugs me a little. Unless I'm forgetting something or there's something in the Secret Reports or something that mentions her before?