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[Squood!]

I think there's more to it than meets the eye. I don't think he'll completely drop the yellow, just like he never completely dropped the red in Sora's outfit. Riku is a combination of white, black, and yellow, and blue/jean. We're just missing the yellow. He looks like he's still wearing blue jeans even if they're a bit darker. His shirt is mostly white again still. His hoodie has the black. We just gotta figure out where the yellow will be. Will it be left to only accents like buttons and zippers? Will the back of his coat have some yellow designs on it?

I see yellow buttons on Riku's jacket :3

 

[FudgemintGuardian]

@FudgemintGuardian I feel like Nomura has mistaken this for "The Mortal Instruments" series, where the good Shadowhunters wore black gear in the last book and the evil ones wore red (except it's switched here). Clearly "Color Coated for Your Continence" will be a thing in III

And it could be worse. Remember when everyone in Advent Children only wore black? Because I do, and it still drives me insane to this day (even though I get why that was).

Nooooo don't remind me of the Advent Children outfits noooooooo!

Forgive me for stating the obvious here, FG, but don't you suppose that it's likely the entire picture was tinted red and that the actual outfits will be more varied in color.

If that was the case then all the white/grey in the picture would be tinted red. Which they're not.

I think there's more to it than meets the eye. I don't think he'll completely drop the yellow, just like he never completely dropped the red in Sora's outfit. Riku is a combination of white, black, and yellow, and blue/jean. We're just missing the yellow. He looks like he's still wearing blue jeans even if they're a bit darker. His shirt is mostly white again still. His hoodie has the black. We just gotta figure out where the yellow will be. Will it be left to only accents like buttons and zippers? Will the back of his coat have some yellow designs on it?

His wrist bands would be a good spot.

 

[LightUpTheSky452]

I just had a thought. This wouldn't really work for X--that as far as we know, is taking place in reality--but perhaps Unchained X? That may or may not be in the Realm of Sleep?

If we're going off of the theory that Ventus is somehow the Player, what if the reason Player looks vastly different from Ven is because Ven is dreaming it all?

Forgive me if someone's already stated this, but dreams are weird. And I know that a lot of times in mine, I'm actually someone else (or watching the events with other people unfold from behind the scenes). So what I'm proposing is that Ven (more or less) is dreaming about what really happened to him and his friends back in X, but because of the wonky property of dreams he's imagining himself differently or imagining someone else in his place?

Player does remind me of Ven a bit. The fact that he/she talks so little at first is pretty similar to how Ven was after his heart was shattered and he was recovering. And as Player's made friends and grown, he/she's become much more passionate about things and talkative (also like what happened to Ventus).

And even some of the things Player's been doing lately kind of reminds me of Ven. The speech he/she made about friendship, the fact that he/she clearly stays behind (being pretty self-sacrificing in that) and doesn't become a Dandelion because he/she is worried about all the Union wielders who didn't make the Dandelion cut.

Edit: The whole "training to use the darkness" thing that Player does in X is also similar to BbS. And, of course, what the Player ends up doing in the end, and that they never were on board with that idea to begin with.

IDK. Just some food for thought. I'm probably way off on all of this, though!

@FudgemintGuardian Riku at least appears to have some yellow buttons like Sora does, so hopefully that hints there's more yellow incorporated in the other parts of his outfit that we can't see now.

Also, I feel like Riku's outfit now is supposed to represent--maybe even moreso than ever before--that he walks the Road to Dawn, and uses equal parts light and darkness.

In DDD, he finally got over some misconceptions about the darkness that he had and learned that it isn't inherently bad, and that he now has full control over it and an immunity to it (he also has learned how to absorb the darkness and turn it to light, or whatever), so maybe this outfit is even more of a hint at his development.

Before he never would've dreamed about wearing an Organization cloak if he could help it, I imagine; it was just full of bad memories for him. But now he's accepted who he is, and his past, so maybe he's even now showing that through his wardrobe?

Or maybe he's trying to throw the Organization off again. Who really knows? I hardly think that would work at all a second time, however Heck, it didn't even really work the first time!

 

[Dandelion]

Nooooo don't remind me of the Advent Children outfits noooooooo!

If that was the case then all the white/grey in the picture would be tinted red. Which they're not.

They are, actually. Open up the picture in photo shop and pick out the whites (I did for you, the white in Riku's shirt has R239, G228, and B232 - putting it in the pink family. Regardless, what I meant was the clothes were colored in shades of red for style, but they're not all wearing red in game anymore than SRK ever actually wore Mickey (well, Sora did but not like that), Donald and Goofy's colors from that first anniversary art.

 

[Xickin]

Ventus. It's his jacket, arm band, and face.

THAT'S VENTUS!?!? Woah, the art style totally threw me off. I didn't recognize him.

 

[Grizzly]

It's definitely Ventus. I think it makes more sense for it to be him over Roxas anyway.

 

[OathkeeperRoxas XIII]

Anyone think the ears on Kairi's hood look a little like Chirithy's ears, just a little? Just want to obersve that then

"Kairi's a furry now!"

"As if she wasn't weeaboo enough!"

Kairi's a memeber of Team Magma!"

In just a couple days. Don't ask how the weeaboo comment works when she's a japanese fictional character. Is it becase it's not badass or anything, just cutesy girlly girl?

 

[SoraForeverKH]

This is totally awesome! I love it! I know this has to be hinting what Riku and Kairi new attire is going to look like. And the idea of them both strangely wearing hoods... I wonder if this means what their hair looks like has yet to be seen. Interesting... Still, I can't see why Kairi has foreteller ears on her hood. That's a new one on me!
Yes, though! I'm so excited to see something new from KH III! (^o^)

 

[KeybladeOrder]

Anyone think the ears on Kairi's hood look a little like Chirithy's ears, just a little? Just want to obersve that then

"Kairi's a furry now!"

"As if she wasn't weeaboo enough!"

Kairi's a memeber of Team Magma!"

In just a couple days. Don't ask how the weeaboo comment works when she's a japanese fictional character. Is it becase it's not badass or anything, just cutesy girlly girl?

I actually thought that they looked more like the ears on Ava's hood.

 

[gosoxtim]

hey eveyrbody what if the hood that kairi and riku are the light hoods that the fairies made for them to procect them form dakrness when they enter the realm of darkness to save aqua

 

[Dave Hunter-X]

Well, Kairi's outfit from KH II onward already has a black hood, but yeah, that ear looks ridiculous.

Hey, it's kinda reminding me of Sora's artwork from KHFM. Hood: On.

Also, first reply, evah.:smile:

 

[Zapt]

Good theory.
So Mickey will have a hood too?

 

[gosoxtim]

Good theory.
So Mickey will have a hood too?

he does his black his orginzation jacket has a hood

 

[OathkeeperRoxas XIII]

I actually thought that they looked more like the ears on Ava's hood.

Appearently the Fartellers are Furries too, but this is logic from Yotube, what can you do?

 

[makine]

Sadly I think that they will stick with their clothes from previous titles :frown:

Nah. Mickey is getting new clothes at the least.

 

[Chuman]

Nah. Mickey is getting new clothes at the least.

where's my motherfucking tron mickey square?

 

[LightUpTheSky452]

Anyone think the ears on Kairi's hood look a little like Chirithy's ears, just a little? Just want to obersve that then

"Kairi's a furry now!"

"As if she wasn't weeaboo enough!"

Kairi's a memeber of Team Magma!"

In just a couple days. Don't ask how the weeaboo comment works when she's a japanese fictional character. Is it becase it's not badass or anything, just cutesy girlly girl?

Actually, according to Nomura, Kairi was a tomboy in KH1. And though she became more feminine, her fire didn't die down at all in 2... or something like that, he said.

Personally, I think this outfit of Kairi's is less girly than her last one. I believe it's sort of a happy medium between her KH1 and 2 looks (like Sora's 3 attire is a happy medium between 2 and DDD), but then again it might be too early to say that just yet, seeing as how we've seen so little of what Kairi' wearing now.

But man, can the Internet be weird! A fictional Japanese character cannot be a weeaboo. It's literally impossible. LOL.

 

[redcrown]

Plotwist- Riku and Kairi's outfits are worn only in Shibuya.

OR Riku's change into darker clothes will reflect him going dark again, and Kairi's only small clothing difference will reflect the lack of development for her in KH3.

 

[Xickin]

Kairi is Chirinthy confirmed. No possible problems with this logic, absolute. Only comment on this if you agree.

 

[Ballad of Caius]

Although Sora already has a hoody jacket, I think the characters that we speculate are rebirth/reincarnations of the Foretellers might also get a redesign with a hoodie.

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It could also explain why, during the Player's dream, both sides during the fated encounter have hoods: the Thirteen Seekers have the black coat, while the Seven Guardians have hoodies.