SentimentOfTruth:
I'm not dismissing evidence from within the source material. I'm saying that other evidence - the characters' own facial expressions and body language and thus characterization - outweighs the words of people who don't know the characters. If Mickey said that Kairi possessed no darkness, since he knows her, I'd be inclined to believe him, though I'd be skeptical. But the sole person who says that Kairi and the Princesses of Heart possess no darkness is Ansem the Wise, whose perspective was warped by hate and anger, and who doesn't know Kairi.
I'm not picking what is and isn't canon. By favoring the words of characters who don't know Kairi over her own characterization, I'd argue that that's what you're doing; you're ignoring canon proof to suit your own perspective. And I'm not saying that my opinions invalidate the Journals and Reports. I'm saying that the *characters themselves* invalidate the Journals and Reports, and that no single person outside of Ansem the Wise once said that the Princesses of Heart possess no darkness.
Nor am I pig-headed, at all, to dismiss dictionary definitions, nor am I disregarding the material that I love.
Have you read stories by Matthew Woodring Stover? William Shakespeare? Classical Greek tragedies? John Ronald Reuel Tolkien? Clive Staples Lewis? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Aaron Allston? R. A. Salvatore? Rae Sloane? Any number of skilled and experienced published authors? They use terms like 'pure' figuratively and not in the literal, technical dictionary way countless times. *That* is what Nomura is doing with terms like 'pure.' He's using them in an artistic way and he believes that the players who play KINGDOM HEARTS will use the context of those terms to understand what they mean. He's *not* using them in a technical way.
And even if he was, it wouldn't matter unless Nomura specifically said the technical terms were the correct way to understand the story, if the characters prove the technical terms - unless those technical terms are spoken by people who know the characters and who understand how they feel and think - wrong.
People > technical terms and scientific terms.
I'm aware of what you're saying about Ansem, but Ansem wrote most or all of his Journal Entries - correct me if I'm wrong and I'll concede these points - before he realized that vengeance was wrong. And even *after* he did, he didn't realize that he didn't fully understand the heart until he attempted to transfigure an artificial Kingdom Hearts into data, so even *after* Ansem was redeemed he wasn't in a position to say whether or not the Princesses of Heart possessed no darkness.
Furthermore, Ansem's words 'hearts can't be encapsulated by data' are further proof - though no proof is necessary because KINGDOM HEARTS is literature and literature uses terms figuratively, not technically and scientifically - that dictionary definitions cannot and do not reveal anything about the characters' personalities unless spoken by people who know the characters. Personalities aren't limited by technical matters and scientific matters, or by scholarly matters or data. People can be whoever or whatever they choose to be, and feel and think however and in whatever way they choose to think and feel. People aren't math equations, they're individual living beings with hearts and minds of their own. Xion's and Riku Replica's dilemmas, and to a lesser extent Roxas' and Lea's/Axel's and Isa's, are further proof that KINGDOM HEARTS isn't a math equation, though again, no proof is necessary. I recommend that you read a number of published professional works.
I'm not saying that Nomura is misleading anyone with the Glossary definitions. Those *are* clearly omniscient, spoken from third-person omniscient, not third-person limited. But they're *general,* and they just say that the Princesses of Hearts' hearts are the purest around, not that they possess no darkness at all. If the Glossary definitions had said that the Princesses of Hearts' hearts possessed no darkness, then I'd believe that they have no darkness. But they don't.
As for the facial expressions and body language, I specifically asked a friend of mine, Piccolo Sky, to tell me how Anna was characterized in the FROZEN movie itself when she told Kristoff why she was searching for Elsa. - And the words of people who don't know other people are no more fact than facial expressions and body language; both are open to interpretation. - According to him, the same range of emotions is *not* present with Anna and Kristoff or with Anna when she sacrifices herself for Elsa in the FROZEN movie. In the FROZEN movie, according to him, Anna, to Kristoff, makes light of Elsa having disappeared and doesn't say anything such as Elsa's disappearance is her fault. According to Piccolo Sky, Anna *does* say, "It's all my fault." when she's by herself at one point, but then Anna attempts to brush it off with a joke.
With Sora, Anna *does* feel trust Sora enough and feels safe around Sora enough to tell him something she won't even admit to herself *by herself* - that she is responsible for the winter and Elsa running away because Anna was inconsiderate at the coronation. And Anna doesn't just do *this.* She rocks back and forth while singing, 'Do you wanna' build a snowman?' as though losing partial or full sense of reality because she's in so much pain and guilt. And that's more than just facial expressions and body language; as you're aware of, those are clear and undeniable expressions of drastic suffering and agony that plenty of people in stories and real life express when they're hurting.
Anna - correct me if I'm wrong - additionally *admits something to Sora that she won't even admit and then joke about* - that she's terrified that she won't be able to be there for Elsa. She doesn't say so directly, but that's what the line, 'They say, 'have courage' and I'm trying to' means. Sora *specifically acknowledges* Anna's deepest terror when he reassures her, "I'm sure your sister knows how much you love her. If anyone can help her, it's you." Anna trusts Sora *a lot* more than Kristoff, and feels *a lot* safer with Sora. And she's willing to show Sora vulnerabilities that she won't show *anyone else,* maybe not even Elsa.
And it's in response to the two above lines of Sora's that Anna might be beginning to fall in love with Sora, falling in love with Sora, or have fallen in love with Sora. Further still, her eye positions and smile during the two screen captures from that scene are similar to the eye positions and smiles I've seen good live action movie actors and computer generation animation use when they're romantically interested in someone. As two examples of this, I recommend that you play FINAL FANTASY XII: REVENANT WINGS and pay attention to the character Penelo, and watch STAR WARS: Episode VIII: THE LAST JEDI and pay attention to the character Rose Tico.
I'm not just interpreting the facial expressions and body language. I know that my perspective is subjective. I'm cross-referencing them throughout all of fiction that I'm familiar with.
Piccolo Sky agreed with me that Anna is more 'intimate' with Sora than with Kristoff during the scene where Anna meets Sora and she tells him what happened with Elsa. He's on the fence about the sacrifice scene, though, because he believes that Anna's facial expressions and body language could be the result of her physical condition, but he did agree that the scene is different in the Game than in the movie.
On Sora's side, there's more than facial expressions and body language, as well. The picture of him feeling Anna's pain in his heart when Elsa shoots her ice fragment into Anna's heart isn't facial expressions and body language, it's a character event, and therefore irrefutable. Sora also makes a small sound of being *very impressed* when he first looks into Anna's eyes and sees how much she loves Elsa, and when he says, "I'm sure your sister knows how much you love her." it's the first time Sora uses the word 'love' and he sounds uncomfortable about it, and Haley Joel Osment as, as you're aware of, a *very* skilled actor who *very much* knows what he's doing and who would have been specifically told by Square ENiX what Sora is feeling and thinking.
Since you didn't read what I was talking about in reference to the supposed 'glitch,' you shouldn't be arguing against it. I'm aware that glitches happen in the best of titles and that no one is infallible - another reason I'm saying that Kairi and the Princesses posses darkness; to be a person is to be imperfect - but an entire Keyblade hovering beside and above Xemnas when it has a good plot reason to be there is far more than a watermark or Goofy being stuck in an animation. It wasn't a glitch, and while there might be mistakes in the facial expressions and body language, they wouldn't have occurred as frequently as other people have been saying they have.
I'm not disputing any facts from the source material, or refusing to accept them. I've referred to proof and evidence from the source material a number of times. The claim that a large amount of facial expressions and body language were just glitches is dismissing the source material facts and refusing to listen to or accept presented facts, and there's no ifs, ands, or buts about *that.*
KeybladeLordSora:
I'd forgotten that Lea was holding Flame Liberator during that screen capture. Thank you for reminding me. I concede the argument about the hovering Flame Liberator not being a glitch.
Paul
"There's more to a heart than just anger or hate. It's full of all kinds of feelings."-Sora
KINGDOM HEARTS II