I don't think kingdom hearts fans pay enough attention to the fact that in kh1 Sora literally kills himself ON SCREEN as Donald Duck and G. G. "Goofy" Goof beg him not to do it. He gives a strained fucking smile, stabs himself with a massive pointed weapon, actually literally DIES, and this happens in the same game universe as the winnie the pooh swing minigame
Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.
The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.
There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.
A Dream Drop Distance inspired scenario in which "Sora", actually asleep on his own heart station and plagued by nightmares, transforms into a Darkside. Riku, once again, descends to break the curse so that Sora may continue his slumber in peace.