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Text on the back of the VERUM REX game case in Toy Box

I haven’t really seen anyone talk about this, but there are some Verum Rex games on display and you can actually read what’s on the back of them.

The summary goes;

That’s the story of the King of Truth.

RECLAIM YOUR HEART

After a long fight, weapons have brought great benefits for humanity. But the “KARMA” that sleeps in humans will accelerate further. In the light of the warhead in the night sky, they chose to fight while feeling the pain of their hearts…

Then there are two chunks of texts printed over some images below the summary.

A JOURNEY

WITHOUT A

PLACE TO RETURN

THE WORLD IS

TO ALL HUMANS

TO TURN A PANG(?)

The last word — pang — was difficult to make out. There’s definitely an “A” and an “N” in the middle of the word, and “pang” is the only one that really makes sense (but it’s still a weird word to use in that context).

Here’s my two cents, take it with salt;

The King of Truth is Yozora. (“Verum” means “true,” and “Rex” means “king/the reigning king.”)

Reclaim your heart, huh? Sounds like Yozora is in the same boat as Sora. Perhaps the reason we see him in the secret ending is because, he too, is in the Reaper’s Game. Yozora as a party member… sounds pretty neat to me.

The summary is literally an alternate version of the story of Kingdom Hearts…

“After a long fight, keyblades have brought great benefits for humanity. But the darkness that sleeps in humans will accelerate further. In the light of Kingdom Hearts in the night sky, they chose to fight while feeling the pain of their hearts…”

“A journey without a place to return,” Riku and Sora’s next journey together will keep them from returning home. They will be stuck in another world/worldline/universe, without any hopes of getting back.

“The world is to all humans to turn a pang,” the world that Riku and Sora end up in is a place where all humans wish to change their pain OR the world that Riku and Sora end up is made for humans to change their pain. Pang means “sudden sharp pain,” usually emotionally.

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Talked about this on Twitter a few days ago, but it really has me interested that whenever antagonists have told Sora that he’s weak on his own, Sora has never actually disagreed with them. 

He always launches into his speech about his friends being his power- and they are.  Sora’s bonds are his greatest strength.  But in KH3 I think they are making a really smart move by possibly having this also become his greatest weakness.  (This is one of the reasons I think Riku’s arc is so great- because they also had his greatest strength- the desire to protect what matters to him- be a fundamental part of his fall to darkness.) By the time DDD rolls around, Sora has completely internalized the idea that he is useless without his friends, and that none of his power comes from himself.  This is a very dangerous belief, yet it’s also one that we see reinforced even by Sora’s friends. 

Donald/Goofy KH3 quote: “Sora’s useless without us.”

Though they don’t mean any harm by it, nonetheless having the same type of sentiment expressed by both villains and friends (and friends turned villain) alike is good cause for Sora to have come to lack a belief in his own power.

In KH3, Xehanort seems to have realized that Sora is unstoppable as long as he has his friends, so what better way to break Sora than to remove the source of his strength?  In the Final Battle trailer, Sora witnesses all his friends being taken from him, and in the end it seems he is left completely alone.  This is where we see Sora’s greatest strength become his greatest weakness.

“I was only able to fight because everyone was by my side!  I can’t do this alone.”

Sora has so much faith in the strength of his friends, yet so little faith in himself when he is left isolated.  This is where I’m hoping we will see Riku helping Sora to grow and believe in his own strength- and we got a glimpse of it in the final trailer:

Riku saw firsthand Sora’s internal strength in KH1 when Sora was abandoned by his friends, fought his way into Hollow Bastion with nothing but a wooden sword, and the strength of his heart won the keyblade back from Riku.  Much like Sora helped teach Riku to not isolate himself so much and accept the help of others, Riku might help teach Sora that even when alone he still has immense inner strength.  Sora and Riku have represented both sides of the extremes- complete reliance on oneself (Riku) and complete reliance on others (Sora) - and show only a balance between the two is strongest.

so i found a toy story short stories collection in barnes and noble today and one of the stories was buzz telling a space ranger story and inserting woody and rex into it. needless to say those who created woody in star command headcanons will be pleased to know what his outfit looks like and that he is buzz’s lieutenant :)

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