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Being a mixture of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy and Disney, it might be hard at first glance to exactly imagine what the storytelling of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Hearts would be like. Light and thematic like Disney, or more heavy and direct like Final Fantasy. To its credit, Kingdom Hearts somehow manages to be both and neither at the same𝓡 time.
Every aspect of Kingdom Hearts is hilariously convolute🌳d, yet it always makes sense eventually. Even as a light vs dark story, the simplest of themes, it manages to also be the most singularly complex and difficult to parse piece of media going. Of all the wonderful terms within Kingdom Hearts, the Power of Waking is one of the prime examples of its storytelling and how, even within its own lore, words can take on new meanings as the games progress.
Sleeping Worlds And Sleeping Hearts
Before being able to understand the Power of Waking, it's important to know what it affects and what exactly they are. As we see in the original Kingdom Hearts, whole worlds can be consumed by Darkness, trapping them within the Realm of Darkness.
Following the end of Kingdom Hearts, most of these consumed worlds are restored to their original state save for a few. There's no clear reason for this, but that's partly to be expected in Kingdom Hearts.
Dream Drop Distance establishes that these are 'Sleeping Worlds' — worlds that haven't awoken yet from their darkness. As is also established in the first Kingdom Hearts, both individuals and worlds have their own Heart and Keyhole that unlocks them.
DDD then is about Sora exploring these Sleeping Worlds, themselves a dream of their original selves, to reawak🐈en them. Sleeping Hearts of individuals work in much the same way, being Hearts that have fallen to Darkness yeꦑt not yet awoken.
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DDD also handles the idea of exploring a Sleeping Heart. While Sora is exploring Sleeping Worlds, Riku is exploring Sora's Sleeping Heart, which itself a dream of the Sleeping Worlds that Sora explores.
As we see, Riku explores through each Sleeping World until he progresses to Sora's Station of Awakening, the deep black area with stained glass portraits. Here, Riku can free Sora's Sleeping Heart, having ventured to its deepest reaches.
As such, to awaken both a Sleeping Heart and Sleeping World requires diving to their deepest sections to find their respective Heart and restore them to their original state.
As with everything in Kingdom Hearts, it's important to not use real-life definitions in reference to its terms. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:'Hearts' are not the literal heart, but a metaphorical core of someone as a person.
However, it is also not a soul, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Hearts 3 seems to imply the soul is also a thing as shown in 𒁏The Final World.
Who Can Use The Power Of Waking?
Within the series, three characters are confirmed to have the Power of Waking. These are Sora, Riku and Mickey Mouse. Yen Sid, despite the obscene and unexpla🦩ined powers he possesses, does n𒐪ot seem to directly have the Power of Waking nor the means to acquire it.
To acquire the Power of Waking, one must awaken the hearts of the Sleeping Worlds. Presumably, there are others methods of acquiring the power, though no𝔍ne have been explicitly me💜ntioned.
This is the means by which both Sora and Riku acquire the Power of Waking. Sora directly awakens the Sleeping Worlds trapped within the realm of Darkness. Meanwhile, Riku awakens Sora's Sleeping Heart and awakens t🔥he Sleeping Worlds by proxy, gran🤡ting him the power.
Mickey Mouse also has the power, as revealed directly in his Gummiphone entry in Kingdom Hearts 3, though we're never shown him directly using it, at least in any entries where the power was given a name.
The Abilities Of The Power Of Waking
The Power of Waking was directly introduced in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance and was expanded upon in Kingdom Hearts 3. The ability likely appeared in prev🅺ious games without a name, though this has never been directly mentioned and as such would fall in the realm of theories.
As stated directly in DDD, the Power of Waking allows its users to awaken Sleeping Worlds and Sleeping Hearts, bringing them back to their original state. In DDD,🌃 we see this being used to bring the Sleeping Worlds back from the Realm of Darkness and to reawaken Sora in the world of the living.
That all sounds a bit singular and not quite wide in its usage, so Kingdom Hearts 3 expands on it massively. Here, we are told that the Power of Waking can be used in two much more direct ways: to use Hearts to travel to worlds and to use worlds to travel to Hearts.
Retroactively, we see Riku use the Power of Waking to travel to Sora's hearts, and as a result an extension of the Sleeping Worlds in Dream Drop Distance. This is the intended use of the power, to use your connection to individual﷽s to travel to worlds and help them al🌌l.
Sora also uses it in Kingdom Hearts 3 through his connection to Ventus, another Heart contained within him. With the Power of Waking, he can discover where Ventus is sleeping and awaken him, letting Castle Oblivion disappear and the Land of Departure retꦚu꧟rn in its stead.
Abuse Of The Power Of Waking, And Its Consequences
However, the Power of Waking can also be abused. Through one's connection with the Hearts of worlds, it can be used to instantly travel between them to discover the Hearts of individuals.
After all of his friends are genuinely killed by Organization XIII, Sora uses this abuse of the Power of Waking to travel across various worlds to track down the Hearts of his friends and restore them♒ to their original state of life.
We see that this causes a rift in time, creating a reality where they all live,🔜 a🍌 reality that should not have come to pass without his abuse of the Power of Waking.
Though it is not directly said what is the exact consequence of abusing the Power of Waking in this way, it can be fairly comprehensively presumed. In the ending of Kingdom Hearts 3, we see Kairi and Sora together briefly before he simply disappears, with Re:Mind (which deals with the consequences of this rift in time) showing Sora fighting Yozora in a form♛ of reality entire𝕴ly unrelated to his own.
Established in Melody of Memory, this reality is known rather wonderfully as Unreality, with the known world there called Quadratum.
With that in mind, we can assume that using the Power of Waking in such a way can cause your own Heart to simply become lost. Not sleeping directly as we've seen previously, but simply lost among the worlds and even the very reality in which you exist.
Melody of Memory comes to a similar conclusion, with Riku once again using the Power of Waking to follow Sora into Quadratum, having no🧜 natural way of travelling there himself🔯.
This very action implies that the Power of Waking may very well have even more uses, seeing as it can quite literally bring its users into a whole new version of reality — something Kingdom Heart🌞s 4 will undoubtedly expand upon.