Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories/Headscratchers

• Lexaeus states that Vexen hates Marluxia. How can a Nobody hate?
  • Maybe some feeling aren't contained in the heart - specially when it's a "boss"/coworker thing.
  • He was arrogant before being turned into a Nobody. He carries over his personality, even though the emotions behind it are gone.
  • Vexen might be using the term "hate" defined as "feeling extreme displeasure or disagreement towards." In which case, "hate" would not be an emotion, but the logical extension of personal preference of companions and environment.
• So Marluxia strips Sora of every ability and item he had in the first game. However, he leaves him Kairi's good luck charm, so that they can use it through Naminé. However, that lucky charm also happens to be the Keychain for the Oathkeeper Keyblade, so why doesn't Sora equip it? It's worlds ahead of the Kingdom Key.
  • Because he also took away Sora's equipment slots while he was at it. Castle Oblivion was weird, man. Sora had to use those cards to attack, so it wouldn't matter what he attached to his Keyblade.
    • There's also the question of what Keyblade he would get if he attached Naminé's good luck charm to his Keyblade.
• Am I the only one who though that Marluxia acted kinda... suggestive towards Naminé? ...screw it. He was acting like a goddamn pedophile.
  • You're not the only one
• Is there any reason why Sora doesn't become mer-Sora in Atlantica in RE:CoM, other than "the developers were lazy"?
  • Because he's still in Castle Oblivion, rather than being under water. He's just in Castle Oblivion surrounded by the illusion of water. No transformation necessary, since he can breathe fine.
    • If that's the case, why did Castle Oblivion go to the trouble of changing his, Donald, and Goofy's forms for Halloween Town but not Atlantica?
    • Sora found the Halloween disguises more memorable, or subconsciously thought they were cool.
    • Atlantica is after Halloween Town. Sora's memory is swiss cheese by that point, he probably couldn't remember in the first place.
• If according to coded Xion can be rescued, or brought back from the dead, or saved from torment, or whatever, then can't Repliku be rescued as well?
  • Repliku... theoretically he could but his entire life was trying to be Riku. What purpose would it be to bring him back if his only goal in his existence can never be accomplished.
    • The purpose of his existence? To learn that he should live life as his own person.
• Why didn't Jiminy just write a summary of what happened at Castle Oblivion instead of the vague "Thank Naminé" message? They weren't pressed for time or anything, so I don't why they didn't just spend a few minutes filling out a journal page so they'd know what had happened.
  • Maybe all that got wiped by the Bugs that came up in coded? It i weird after all that coded's gameplay only involved the worlds in the first game and Castle Oblivion briefly. All of Jiminy's journal writings were probably erased or corrupted by the Bugs.
• This is really more of a "what the hell, fandom?" thing than about the game per se, but: why do so many people think Axel killing Vexen was "awesome"? Seriously? Killing someone by setting them on fire is "awesome"? In what universe? I mean, granted, I am sort of a fangirl of Vexen and of Ansem's Apprentices in general, but I'm not under any illusions that they were a bunch of blameless Dracos In Leather Pants who never did anything wrong, and I still can barely stand to watch it. But that is... sort of the point I'm trying to make here, I guess: just liking a character does not automatically mean everything they do is awesome, and it especially doesn't make their doing something blatantly cruel a Crowning Moment of Awesome just because they look good while doing it.
  • Well, there's quite a bit of Kick the Son of a Bitch associated with it. Vexen was, after all, in charge of the Replica Program, we see him sell out the Riku Replica in Reverse/Rebirth, and when you see the rest of the program's results in Days, you can tell how much he deserved it.
  • Plus, Kick the Son of a Bitch aside, even if killing Vexen was a rotten thing to do, Axel's method is what makes it awesome. It isn't the fact that he set Vexen on fire, it's that he set him on fire without touching him, just by snapping his fingers. That at the very least is awesome.
  • Axel is a Magnificent Bastard in this game, meaning that nothing he does is good, but it's so cool regardless.
• If Naminé is Kairi's Nobody, why is she blonde?
  • Naminé's a special case. DiZ said so himself in Kingdom Hearts II
  • Also, she's not just Kairi's Nobody. She has bits of Ven in her just like Roxas. Since they came from the same event, it was only natural that they'd have similar features.