I just had an unsettling Flash of thought...(theorycrafting)

[vincentr0th]

What if the entireness of KH is a sleeping world?

a sleeping World is always replaying its final Moments. All we have Seen of KHs current Universe is Part of Xehanorts keybladewarreenacting plan.

a world consumed by darkness Turns into a sleeping world.the original world got consumed by Darkness.

maybe the worlds are Splitted bcuz the space inbetween em was to destroyed to be reconstructed.

do you think its possible they end the Story with the it was all just a dream-routine?

 

[Gram]

If they pulled an inception or anything like that I highly doubt anyone would take it well.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

I doubt Nomura would be allowed to do that by Disney or SE. Fans certainly wouldn't be pleased. Nomura respects his own work too much to do that, anyways.

Nomura certainly wanted fans to think about that possibility when the first game came out, but he also thought a sequel wasn't going to happen but look where we are now.

 

[blksabbath74]

When I woke up this morning I heard a disturbing sound.
I said, when I woke up this mornin' I heard a disturbing
sound!

What I heard was a jingle-jangle of a thousand lost souls!
I'm talkin' about the souls of mortal men and women, that
departed from this life.

- Reverend Cleophus Brown

 

[Joker'sHeartless]

While that would be an interesting twist ending (Xehanort wins, keyblade war breaks out, the worlds are destroyed, fade to black, then the KH1/BbS opening starts) it conflicts with what we know about Nomura's plans going forward.

KH3 is the end of the Xehanort Saga, but the series will continue on with Sora as the protagonist.
That can't happen if we are stuck in a Xehanort loop. Maybe if Sora was the agent sent from outside the loop to free the sleeping worlds, like in 3D, but that adds a whole nother universe outside of this one and seems overly complicated, even for this series.

 

[Ballad of Caius]

While that would be an interesting twist ending (Xehanort wins, keyblade war breaks out, the worlds are destroyed, fade to black, then the KH1/BbS opening starts) it conflicts with what we know about Nomura's plans going forward.

KH3 is the end of the Xehanort Saga, but the series will continue on with Sora as the protagonist.
That can't happen if we are stuck in a Xehanort loop. Maybe if Sora was the agent sent from outside the loop to free the sleeping worlds, like in 3D, but that adds a whole nother universe outside of this one and seems overly complicated, even for this series.

Oh God, Kingdom Hearts doesn't need a timeline/time-space split like the Zelda franchise...

*ahem* in a serious tone, this is an interesting ending that would be kind of fun to see it developed as fan fiction, but I doubt this is the conclusion Nomura would want to make for the Dark Seekers Saga. Xehanort has damaged a lot of lives and is indifferent as to what he's done (in-game and out-game we know this). A sort of "happy" ending for the characters and fans will involve something more powerful than what has been proposed here.

'least, these are my $0.02 :v