Yeah, Terra is... he is dumb as a box of really really stupid bricks. So sweet and adorable, but so dumb. No wonder Xehanort only wanted him for his body. (RM's interpretation was more along the lines of "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE" which I think is also a fairly appropriate reaction.)
I think it's pretty clear that our main characters are walking talking exceptions to the rule in pretty much every case. And that does seem to be a thing, Lea's still very clearly Axel and Ienzo (from what little we see of him) is definitely not like his teensy wee human self. As for your question, I don't think they were? I mean, we know the original group sans Xigbar were still back at Radiant Garden, and they did not look well. I'm pretty sure that's why at the very end Lea ran off, to protect them, since given that Vexen/Even was still out cold and Lexaeus/Aleus was walking into walls... if anything I think some of the ones who kept the hoods up might be later additions to the org. Especially because I'm pretty sure that the originals are going to want to stab Xehanort in the face a lot, and that a restored!Marluxia and Larxene wouldn't be playing along as Xehaclones.
...that's pretty much the theory that I operate on with Mickey, yep. It's why Distopia!Mickey is the way he is, even if I haven't written the whole thing, and it's part of the reason he's so incredibly pissed at Xehanort, because here's a dude who gets it but fucks with it anyway basically for the lulz. It also plays into his relationship with Riku heavily, at least in Distopia--that Mickey's lying like a rug in CoM when he says he used to think darkness was bad, but he's doing it for a reason--because here's the perfect proof that he's right, and unlike with Terra he's actually in a position to make sure that the person who embodies that balance stays safe. (Also, something that's canon for my stories? Mickey was the one who introduced Sephiroth to Riku. For that same reason.)
Well, chaos is dark, but darkness is a necessary counterpart to light, and nobody's just one or the other except the Princesses--"the closer you get to the light, the greater your darkness becomes," remember? And given 3Ds, the one can turn into the other. So yeah, it's very easy to read Thor's darkness and Loki as basically pulling a Terra--neat and orderly and controlled until the breakdown.
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Date: 2012-12-01 05:45 am (UTC)Yeah, Terra is... he is dumb as a box of really really stupid bricks. So sweet and adorable, but so dumb. No wonder Xehanort only wanted him for his body. (RM's interpretation was more along the lines of "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE" which I think is also a fairly appropriate reaction.)
I think it's pretty clear that our main characters are walking talking exceptions to the rule in pretty much every case. And that does seem to be a thing, Lea's still very clearly Axel and Ienzo (from what little we see of him) is definitely not like his teensy wee human self. As for your question, I don't think they were? I mean, we know the original group sans Xigbar were still back at Radiant Garden, and they did not look well. I'm pretty sure that's why at the very end Lea ran off, to protect them, since given that Vexen/Even was still out cold and Lexaeus/Aleus was walking into walls... if anything I think some of the ones who kept the hoods up might be later additions to the org. Especially because I'm pretty sure that the originals are going to want to stab Xehanort in the face a lot, and that a restored!Marluxia and Larxene wouldn't be playing along as Xehaclones.
...that's pretty much the theory that I operate on with Mickey, yep. It's why Distopia!Mickey is the way he is, even if I haven't written the whole thing, and it's part of the reason he's so incredibly pissed at Xehanort, because here's a dude who gets it but fucks with it anyway basically for the lulz. It also plays into his relationship with Riku heavily, at least in Distopia--that Mickey's lying like a rug in CoM when he says he used to think darkness was bad, but he's doing it for a reason--because here's the perfect proof that he's right, and unlike with Terra he's actually in a position to make sure that the person who embodies that balance stays safe. (Also, something that's canon for my stories? Mickey was the one who introduced Sephiroth to Riku. For that same reason.)
Well, chaos is dark, but darkness is a necessary counterpart to light, and nobody's just one or the other except the Princesses--"the closer you get to the light, the greater your darkness becomes," remember? And given 3Ds, the one can turn into the other. So yeah, it's very easy to read Thor's darkness and Loki as basically pulling a Terra--neat and orderly and controlled until the breakdown.