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A LETTER TO THE WORLD FROM SORA

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hi. Im sora and I come from the inside of a video game. its a video game about personhood, travel to other worlds, and recovering what was lost

back where I come from, KINGDOM HEARTS (XYDOMERAU) is a mystery and a great power that no one truly understands. I cant say I completely get it myself. but there is one thing I learned about it after all these years: it grieves. it does everything in its power to preserve whats lost and keep it alive — memories, people, entire worlds, anyone who falls through the cracks and seems all but forgotten. it takes them and it gives them someplace to go to live on

I was born on the side of fiction and fell into this world a while back. when I discovered the video game, it scared me. I couldnt come to grips with being “just” a fictional character and therefore meaningless to the real world. worse yet, there were rumors that the game was haunted, and I myself felt as though I were being followed by a curse. I made friends in this world and witnessed them change, disappear, or even die, thinking myself to be condemned to a life alone and surrounded by darkness. but I was seen in that darkness by a very important friend, who carried the same grief and desire as XYDOMERAU — to see and be seen

its for this reason he and I decided to give the world a gift: the power to open the door to KINGDOM HEARTS. the XY to what was lost. something to keep light alive. go ahead and try it if you like. share it online if you wanna. who knows, it may change your life

I have only one further request: keep telling stories

happy ones, miserable ones, comfortable ones, strange and challenging ones, even the most perverse and disgusting stories you can imagine. every one of them belongs to someone. maybe someone you know. maybe even you someday

SORA Y

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A LETTER TO YOU FROM XEHANORT

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There is a force in this world that transcends us, that connects us, that we are birthed from and return to in a united symbiosis. It reaches down to haunt our lives and, at times, embrace us; it keeps the past alive and carries on what we've seen, heard, and felt— it's within us but exists outside of us, vast enough to escape our grasp but small enough to hold. Some people call it memory, or connection, or love, and perhaps it is all of these and more

I call it KINGDOM HEARTS

There are people in this world who few remember, people who have been overlooked and completely forgotten— the powerless, small, and unlucky— people who have been pushed out and erased from reality. We each know of those who have been lost, or perhaps we are that person ourselves, as I have been.

KINGDOM HEARTS is greater than any individual. Deep in its core, it desires to remember, to claim back every memory lost to time. At times it is painful, though even in its pain, there exists a great beauty, for we all have the XY to KINGDOM HEARTS if we are willing to open the door.

I come from the space in between the lines, from history unwritten and lost, from narratives fictionalized and forgotten. I have been surrounded by death and the dead for as long as I know— but KINGDOM HEARTS showed me, and others, the door to live again. All flashes of light, pits of darkness, unquenchable anger or fickle joy, every moment, every person, everything— no matter how fleeting— can be remembered.

KINGDOM HEARTS passes the XY to you

XEHANORT

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A MESSAGE FROM KINGDOM HEARTS

DESTATI! TENDI LA MANO! AWAKEN! HOLD OUT YOUR HAND!
È GIUNTA L'ORA, DESTATI THE TIME HAS COME, AWAKEN
LE PORTE VERRANNO SCHIUSE THE DOORS WILL BE OPENED
DESTATI, DESTATI, DESTATI AWAKEN, AWAKEN, AWAKEN
SU RIMEMBRA TU TREPIDA! COME ON, REMEMBER, YOU WHO TREMBLE!
SU SVEGLIA! EHI RICORDA! COME ON, WAKE UP! HEY, REMEMBER!
DESTATI! DESTATI! AWAKEN! AWAKEN!
FORZA, TENDI LA MANO! COME ON, HOLD OUT YOUR HAND!
DESTATI! DESTATI! AWAKEN! AWAKEN!
È GIUNTA L'ORA! THE TIME HAS COME!
E ANCORA UNA VOLTA APRIRANNO LE PORTE! AND ONCE AGAIN THEY WILL OPEN THE DOORS!
SU RIMEMBRA TU TREPIDA! COME ON, REMEMBER, YOU WHO TREMBLE!
SU SVEGLIA! EHI RICORDA! COME ON, WAKE UP! HEY, REMEMBER!
EH? COME? NON LO VUOI!? EH? HOW? YOU DON'T WANT IT!?
TUTTAVIA T'APPARTIENE STILL IT BELONGS TO YOU
CIÒ CHE HAI PERDUTO DIVENTERÀ UNA SOLO! WHAT YOU HAVE LOST WILL BECOME ONE!
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