Episode 8 and we're doing something a little different today.

No theory dissection. No character files. No paradoxes. Just me talking about what I actually want Kingdom Hearts 4 to be.

And I think some of it is going to surprise you.

I want the series to slow down. I want Sora to lose access to his Keyblade and have to figure out who he is without it. I want a Persona-style daily life arc in Quadratum — a job, an apartment with Strelitzia, a day and night cycle, flashbacks to his adventures triggered by a duck in a park. I want him to sit with the isolation he has never once been allowed to sit with in fifteen years of adventuring.

And I want the moment where Riku finally finds a way to bring him home — and Sora says no.

In this episode I also dig into why the Foretellers make more sense as individual antagonists for ...