...of Sora so this has nothing to do with the secret ending. So we see Sora go back to Tranverse Town in the RoS and get bumrushed by all the Spirits. ANYWAYS as its shown throughout the game Ventus' heart is still in the RoS and occassionally does something to benefit our heroes (like shielding Sora from the darkness). As the last last scene is Ventus sitting on his throne after Sora enters the RoS I figure the beginning of KH3 will be Sora saving Ventus' heart and then eventually saving Aqua so they can retrieve Ventus from CO. This has probably be stated or thought of by many but hey maybe I'm just the firt to post it.
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Ven's heart is within Sora, not in the RoS.
When Vanitas pops out beside YMX and Kairi and Riku in TWTNW suddenly transforming into Aqua and Terra that is Ven's injured heart inside Sora reacting.
I do doubt however that Sora went back into the RoS for Ven.
Why? Because Sora still doesn't know anything about Ven, neither his name nor the state of his heart. The only people Sora learned about where Naminé, Xion and Roxas. And Roxas was beside that the only one to actually activate his memories inside Sora and made them accessible to him (that is a prerequisite for the tormented to wake up, bring their memories to the surface, as explained by Data-Naminé in Coded).
Beside this, Sora unlocked some of his own memories, namely his encounter with Aqua, but there was no indicator at all that he became truly aware of Ventus.
So if Sora went into the RoS for something beside the Dream Eaters, instead of Ventus I would rather assume it has something to do with Naminé, Xion and/or Roxas.
I speculated the first part of III would be Donald and Goofy going into the RoS Traverse Town looking for Sora, but I do like this one. It does work very well and makes sense(to the extent of my 3D understanding)
This scene can still happen if Sora takes longer probably due to unforeseen problems arising.
To me, honestly, it makes not that much sense since Sora never really interacted or became aware of Ventus, we only see his heart reacting sometimes and Sora realizes there's this other heart, but no real conscious "connection" is established.
I thought Nomura said Sora went back to say bye to his Dreameaters and Ven smiled because he was happy that Sora was happy...simple concept that I totally overlooked because I thought he was going back to free Ven's heart as wellXD
But it makes sense since Goofy and Donald seemed to be expecting Sora to come back soon.
Yep, that's what Nomura implied.
Ven slightly smiling can also have another meaning though beside him being happy that everything worked out in the end: By lending his armor to Sora he prevented the darkness from overtaking him, giving Riku the time needed to reach Sora's heart and free him. If Ven hadn't done this, there would have been probably no Sora for Riku to save.
So the smile can also be interpreted as Ventus being satisfied that he could for once help Sora, after how much it was already the other way around in the past.
That is the reason why. Sora went back to the RoS because he fell asleep, so he didn't get to do what he wanted. And he wanted to say goodbye to all his new friends. Since that was a very touching moment for Sora, and made him happy, Ventus felt the same as Sora.
Though I really think it'd be a waste just to have Sora go back to the RoS just to say goodbye. At the end he says that he was asleep so there's still something he needs to do. I'd like to think that he went to the RoS to do more than just say goodbye.
One good thing from this, is that now Sora and Riku have the ability to traverse to the RoS. So I it's definitely going to be a place to return.
Yep, and with the possible additional reasoning I pointed out above it gets a double meaning. ^__^
Not only that, remember Yen Sid said to them that both Sora and Riku have gained the power to awaken sleeping hearts. So even if it isn't Ven Sora may still be able to do some good. In fact look for those who sleep in sadness he actually
met in the Realm of Sleep.