User:Rex Ronald Rilander

Discovering Kingdom Hearts
<!--I first discovered the Kingdom Hearts series when I was 13 years old back in mid-2011. I was over at my cousin's house(and while I can't remember how long I had been there, it must have been a while) and while she was talking with someone, I wandered around until I wound up in her room. That's when I saw it: Kingdom Hearts, right there on the floor(on a bed comforter I think, I know it wasn't on the actual floor). And next to it was a PlayStation2(that was usually down in the basement which was also the den). I forget what had been running through my mind back then, but I do remember that I popped the disc in the system and started playing. The opening FMV looked very nice and Sora's statement at the beginning stoked my curiosity. Upon arriving in the Dive to the Heart, I was confused as to why there was no voice acting, considering it was a PS2 game. The manner of combat was also nothing like I had ever known, and the camera wasn't really that great so it didn't help.

After fending off the strange black shadows and opening an equally strange door, I appeared in a island. And then I saw it, the thing that set me on the Kingdom Hearts path: Tidus and Wakka. Two of my favorite characters from the second PS2 game I ever owned, and they were kids! A busload of questions started running through my mind as to why these two were children, as well as who the young girl was. She had Rikku's green eyes, and Yuna's brown hair, it was very perplexing because I had never played any Final Fantasy game before X, so I didn't know that this was Selphie. I thought for sure that Tidus and Wakka wouldn't be seperated from Rikku(they were the ones who were always together in water, and I was on an island, so...).

It was after answering their questions that I had to leave and head home, and when I got back I almost immediately(at least that's how I remember) went online and started looking up Kingdom Hearts. And then I found our sister site, kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/. I used that site for all my Kingdom Hearts info, and read way ahead of where I was. I read about Organization XIII which had an unofficial fourteenth member, I read about how the Land of Departure was transformed into Castle Oblivion, I read about how Keyblade Master Xehanort possessed a guy named Terra and became an amnesiac and took the name of the guy he ended up apprenticed too. You get the idea. Not everything was worded in a way that I could understand it though, and I mispronounced a lot of names(Xion as Zion, Marluxia as Marluxsha, Naminé as Namiiné, and Xehanort as Xenahort(hs and ns look very similar)). I also learned of new game currently being created, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.

After borrowing my cousin's Kingdom Hearts game(which was actually her friend's game(which I still have because nobody's asked for it back yet)) I used our sister site as a guide to getting things in the game and for boss strategies. At least until it became a "fansite". After that I moved here! At the time, the background had a Kingdom Hearts 3D theme and was very..pink. That was a little off-putting, but I perseveered, and eventually got used to it.-->