Spoilers ► The Implications of Data Sora

[Sonofjafar]

Ever since Coded, there have been a few questions I have had about how exactly Data Sora works as a character? Is he just a tool to be used by the real Sora and Co or does he have any intelligence of his own? Is there an actual realm filled with data versions of everything or is he completely alone when not being used as an avatar? Does he even exist when the computer he’s used on turns off? So many implications and possibilities so little time.

 

[Squood!]

Yes he has intelligence of his own. That's like....obvious just by playing the game. If he didn't he'd be pretty bland.

 

[Launchpad]

I headcanon that it was Data Sora that fought the data bosses in KH3. Little data man is getting stronger than the real thing!!

 

[Sonofjafar]

Yes he has intelligence of his own. That's like....obvious just by playing the game. If he didn't he'd be pretty bland.

Still leaves the door open for possible plot lines involving him going trying to become real or something.

 

[Squood!]

Still leaves the door open for possible plot lines involving him going trying to become real or something.

Why would he WANT to become real? He seemed perfectly fine being a data-copy.

 

[MATGSY]

Well, Mickey is going to Scala where there's the simulated Daybreak Town & Wreck-it Ralph world. The opportunity of Data Sora going to Grand Central Station seems pretty good.

& then this can finally come true:

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[Chie]

Still leaves the door open for possible plot lines involving him going trying to become real or something.

He literally is real. This is the explicit message of the game.

 

[Sonofjafar]

He literally is real. This is the explicit message of the game.

Fine. Maybe not that. Perhaps some kind of look at how the realm of data works when not being seen from outside a computer. Does everyone else have a data copy? Where does Dara Sora go when not being used by the Guardians of Light?

 

[Squood!]

Fine. Maybe not that. Perhaps some kind of look at how the realm of data works when not being seen from outside a computer. Does everyone else have a data copy? Where does Dara Sora go when not being used by the Guardians of Light?

....Pretty sure the Data Twilight Town answers the first one and if not, Data Tidus on Data Destiny Islands certainly does.

 

[Chie]

Digital worlds in Kingdom Hearts seem to be equally real as anything else, except that they exist on a computer, and the data can thus be edited or corrupted from outside of it. This has been clear since KH2 which showed objects and people able to physically move from one to the other, and that's what all the other games have been working with.

This is a world where dreams explicitly exist in physical reality, so the idea that computer data can be entered like a quantifiable physical existence, more like a pocket dimension, is not strange, although these facts about the KH world are often taken for granted by the characters.

As usual almost all questions about "why does the KH world work in this unintuitive way?" can be answered with "this is a metaphysical setting where stories exist and are alive". A "world" is a metaphysical living story, not a planet floating in "outer space" the way we know it. Ergo a data world is really not that different.

 

[Sonofjafar]

Digital worlds in Kingdom Hearts seem to be equally real as anything else, except that they exist on a computer, and the data can thus be edited or corrupted from outside of it. This has been clear since KH2 which showed objects and people able to physically move from one to the other, and that's what all the other games have been working with.

This is a world where dreams explicitly exist in physical reality, so the idea that computer data can be entered like a quantifiable physical existence, more like a pocket dimension, is not strange, although these facts about the KH world are often taken for granted by the characters.

As usual almost all questions about "why does the KH world work in this unintuitive way?" can be answered with "this is a metaphysical setting where stories exist and are alive". A "world" is a metaphysical living story, not a planet floating in "outer space" the way we know it. Ergo a data world is really not that different.

i just feel like the realm of data was a missed opportunity to include some of that meta story telling that the next arc appears to be going for with unreality and all that