This scene makes me super sad because Even most likely attempted to protect Ienzo but Xehanort got them anyway.
Then when Even wakes up as a Nobody and discovers his weapon is a shield, he probably thinks it’s cruelly ironic. Like a constant reminder that he failed to protect the one thing he cared about other than science.
Just throwing this out there for anyone who’s slow to catch on (or easily distracted by Nomura throwing us one bone and sweeping another under the carpet):
Between the anagrams in the names of the Organization XIII members and Nomura under-handedly teasing us with the No Heart boss battle that only came in the Final Mix edition of Birth by Sleep in Japan, we know Xehanort’s name is looking a little suspicious.
Yes, all the letters in Xehanort can spell No Heart (and ‘No Earth’ but really, that was never significant to me).
But all the letters in Xehanort can also make the word Another. And read as Another X… or, say, Another χ…
I know we were handed “chi” and “kye” but it was also handed to us as “key”. Given that… his name is very literally “Another Key”.
And if that isn’t mind blowing enough, think about what that could even mean in the context of the series.
Additionally, it might interest you to know that in KH2FM, Xemnas enters passwords into a computer terminal at Hollow Bastion before visiting Aqua’s armor. The word typed in first was ‘Another’ (followed by several passwords of lengths long enough to be the apprentice’s names – and of course, we know he shoved X’s into their names and created anagrams of them).
Analysis: When Terra finds out Aqua has been spying on him, he bitterly thinks he can no longer count on anyone. Aqua and Eraqus are obvious reasons, but couldn’t he able to rely on Ven? On the Destiny Islands, worried about her and friends’ future, Aqua asks Terra what is going to become of the way finder trio’s friendship. Not ‘Ven, Terra’. Terra.
Conclusion: Terra and Aqua rely and depend on each other in a way neither of them do with Ven. Aqua depends on Terra to keep their friendship group *cough*cough*family*cough*cough* together, and Terra depends on Aqua to be there for him. To be on his side.
Platonic, or romantic, Terra and Aqua are definitely partners.
They are also very patient/understanding with each other. When Aqua’s ‘betrayal’ is revealed, Terra doesn’t yell at her or accuse her the way Ven does-he simply walks away. When Terra admits to Aqua he helped Xehanort kill Eraqus, Aqua is shocked but doesn’t start attacking him, verbally or physically. Instead she listens as Terra explains his motives.
Which leads into another point: When they are upset with each other, they don’t immediately yell at each other. Admittedly, Terra’s walking away was not the best way to handle what happened in Radiant Garden, but the fact he did not yell at Aqua right away proves he was intentionally trying not to blow up at her, most likely because, given how mad he sounded when he did yell, he knew whatever he was going to say would only make the situation worse, and he didn’t want that. He didn’t want to say anything hurtful to Aqua. And when Aqua finds out Terra helped kill Eraqus, she is shocked, saddened, no doubt disappointed, but she doesn’t get angry at him. When she sees Terra’s intentions to kill Xehanort in vengeance, she firmly tells him he is going down a dark path. She doesn’t get frustrated, although at this point no one would have blamed her if she had yelled at Terra. Even now she’s still trying to keep a cool head, to talk to her friend, to find a solution to their problems.
These two care about each other, they trust each other, they depend on each other but not to the point of codependence, they try their best not to hurt each other. These two have the makings of a wonderfully stable romantic relationship and that makes my shipper heart very happy.
Now if only we can get some blatant hints ala Sokai…
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