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Why would the Kingdom Key ever get replaced? Both the Kingdom Key and the Kingdom Key D are needed to seal the Door to Darkness, so if Sora gets rid of the Kingdom Key, then who's gonna protect the Door to Darkness?

I would absolutely love Port Royal to return in KH3. Port Royal and Timeless River are by far my favorite KH worlds. I would personally want them to cover Dead Man's Chest first and then in a future game cover At World's End. If they cover At World's End in KH3, then they would never be able to use Dead Man's Chest in a future game. If they use Dead Man's Chest in KH3, then they could cover both movies eventually. Also, I wouldn't want them to cover both movies in one game. I think that each world in KH should be focused on one movie at a time, so they can cover it as much as possible and as well as possible.

There have been many different Heartless throughout the KH series, some only appearing in a single game. What Heartless would you like to appear in KH3? (Other than the obvious ones like Shadows, Neoshadows, Soldiers, Large Bodies, etc.) I personally would maybe like Invisibles to return. I also think it'd be neat to be able to fight multiple Darksides at once to show how strong Sora has become. Fighting multiple AntiSoras would be interesting to see as well. It would also be cool for some Heartless from 358/2 Days and χ to be in KH3 since most of them haven't appeared outside their own game.

For KH3, would you want the Gummi Missions to be replaced by an open-world Ocean Between where you can freely fly the Gummi Ship through the Ocean Between to the Worlds while fighting Gummi Heartless and Nobodies along the way? I'm all for this idea completely. I wouldn't want it to be too huge and I'd want the distance between worlds to be about as long as it takes to complete a Gummi Mission from KH2. Gummi Missions are things that many casual KH fans and hardcore KH fans complain about, so I think this would be a great way to turn Gummi Missions into something amazing. It would also be cool to see what the Ocean Between truly looks like canonically since it's sort of hard to tell what it looks like as a whole from the few Gummi Missions there have been in the past. It would also be neat to see what the transition between going from the Realm of Light to the Realm Between looks like and see how the scenery changes. It would be so cool in my opinion to be able to freely pilot the Gummi Ship and customize it more than ever before and adventure through the Ocean Between while coming across hoards of enemies and maybe even getting to be able to land the Gummi Ship on meteors, asteroids, and various other structures and getting out of the Gummi Ship to fight Heartless and Nobodies on them. I also want to mention that I think the warp option should definitely still stay. If you don't want to fly to world to world after you did it once, you shouldn't have to. What are your thoughts on this?

I think this is one of those things like "How does the Emblem Heartless machine work?" and "How does Namine use her powers?" that Nomura purposefully left out an answer for because it's not really that important and we can guess for ourselves. Also, it's such a vast and varying universe with all types of powers and magic, so I think it's fine to presume that Keyblades were just forged with some type of magic that makes them do all the crazy things they do.

Who I think the Seekers of Darkness will be: Master Xehanort Young Xehanort Xemnas Ansem, Seeker of Darkness Xigbar Saix Terra-Xehanort/Apprentice Xehanort (not sure which one they'd choose, probably not both because they're literally the same besides their hairstyle) Vanitas Riku Replica Luxord Braig Isa (only if he still chooses to be evil after becoming an actual person again) Demyx/Demyx's somebody (not too sure about this one. Demyx didn't seem like he really wanted to be in the Organization that much so I don't see why he'd wanna time travel to be with the new Organization. As for his somebody, he's probably off in his home world somewhere playing his sitar, so that's pretty far fetched.)

In Dream Drop Distance, you go to worlds that are in the Realm of Sleep. This does not mean the worlds are not real. The worlds you are visiting are very much real. They are just worlds that didn't fully recover from darkness, so they are now in the Realm of Sleep, which means that the residents of the world, what happens in the world, and even how the world looks is from the past. It's almost as if the world is dreaming of it's past. The world at its core though, it completely real. You just have to unlock the Keyholes to make them recover. The Grid is a real world with real people. Space Paranoids is a data-copy of The Grid that Ansem the Wise made for research and testing purposes, like how he made a data-copy of Twilight Town and put Roxas in it.

That's not how Heartless are made. There are two types of Heartless: Pureblood Heartless and Emblem Heartless. Pureblood Heartless are created when somebody falls into darkness/dies. They are manifestations of the heart of the person who fell into darkness. Purebloods are the ones that do not have the Heartless emblem on them, such as Shadows, Darksides, Darkballs, etc. Emblem Heartless are Heartless that were artificially created by a machine that takes a heart and imitates the process in which a heart falls into darkness. These Heartless are then marked with a special emblem, the Heartless emblem to differentiate them from the Purebloods. Emblem Heartless include Soldiers, Red Nocturnes, Large Bodies, Pot Spiders, Barrel Spiders, etc. Pots and Barrels do not have hearts. Pot Spiders and Barrel Spiders are people's hearts that have been forced to fall into darkness with a machine. Also, ignore the people saying that they are Possessors, because they are incorrect. Pot Spiders and Barrel Spiders are classified as Emblem Heartless and Possessors are Pureblood Heartless. Even though an Heartless emblem on the Pot Spiders and Barrel Spiders is not visible, they are still classified as Emblem Heartless. This could be because of two reasons: either the emblem is on the spider that resides within the pot/barrel, or they are Heartless that somehow escaped before the machine applied the emblem to them. The answer is most likely that the emblem is on the spider that resides within the pot/barrel though. But yeah, if they were just Possessors that took control of pots and barrels, then they wouldn't be classified as Emblem Heartless. Pot Spiders and Barrel Spiders are Emblem Heartless and Possessors are Pureblood Heartless, so this is false. Pot Spiders and Barrel Spiders are Emblem Heartless and Possessors are Pureblood Heartless, so the're not Possessors. Pot Spiders and Barrel Spiders are Emblem Heartless and Possessors are Pureblood Heartless, so this is false.