Now don’t get me wrong I don’t think Aqua is weak. In summary Aqua is too emotionally junked up to find her own path out of the dark. Being in the darkness for so long has not helped her mental state. While it may come from a good place, Aqua uses it to make up for what she thinks she can’t do herself. This level of selflessness is destructive. Aqua is incredibly selfless and she would probably stay in the dark forever if it meant saving someone else. This way of thinking makes me believe that she actually doesn’t have a lot of faith in finding a way out. On top of this she takes on the duty of helping anyone else who falls into the dark. Instead, she resigns herself that “one day” she will return. She doesn’t pledge to find a way out of the dark herself. And one day, I’ll return to Terra and Ven. The next time someone wanders into the realm of darkness, I’ll be here. Thanks to Terra and Mickey, I know what’s at stake. “ The battle for the realm of light…is not won. Now at the end of 2.8 Mickey found out about her, and Aqua did seem to have reinvigorated her will and faith in herself however her last quote is: Which you can see in the whole fighting with her own reflection thing in 2.8. So Aqua is stuck directing all that anger and frustration at herself. They ignored her and her advice that could have prevented some of the bad stuff. The whole game they hurt her and blamed her for things. Deep down Aqua is probably hiding some negative feelings since her so called friends were awful to her. I think that Aqua actually has a lot of mixed up feelings about her friends right now. She hasn’t figured out how she feels about Terra. On top of this guilt, I don’t think she ever properly grieved for Eraqus. Aqua probably regrets most of her decisions. She loves her friends more than anything but that is exactly way she is still stuck. I think consciously or subconsciously Aqua still feels too guilty about everything that happened. Despite this if she had a strong enough resolve she’s directing it the wrong way. However I think Aqua could have managed to find her way out much sooner. Mickey would have been the strongest link to the outside but he didn’t know what had happened to her before the events of 2.8. By the time she entered the darkness most of her friends and family were dead. Long story short I think the mental state of anyone who enters the realm of dark heavily dictates how soon they will find a way out again and maybe even what they see but that’s another topic. Then when Mickey and Riku were stuck in the darkness they had both resolve people who wished for their return. So he had to work through his feelings first before he had the resolve to find a way out. I think this had to do with the fact that he was stuck there right after being betrayed. Ansem the Wise was down there for several years at least. But they seem to have been down there for quite a bit longer. The other characters we’ve seen escape have been stuck there for varying amounts of time. Then they got Kairi’s letter and were reminded to have hope for the people on the outside. They had just had there friendship talk and even though they had just resigned to stay in the dark together. The reason I think these are the two main factors for finding a path out is because of how fast Riku and Sora’s door appeared at the end of Kingdom Hearts 2. If you were to have both of these then it would be even easier to get out. Or you need people on the other side thinking about you. My theory is that to find or make a pathway to the light you need either: A sense of resolve or purpose. Why the flying flip-flop has Aqua been stuck down there for so long without finding a way out? If we ignore the fact that this is probably due to lazy writing (and sexism) more than anything else there could be a really interesting reason why she hasn’t found a way out. Then finally in Kingdom Hearts 2, Sora and Riku are there for only a short time before a way out appeared. Doesn’t it seem weird that she, a super powerful keyblade master, hasn’t found a way out yet? Riku and Mickey found a way out after Kingdom Hearts 1. Even Ansem the wise found a way out before long. Aqua has been in the realm of darkness for 12 years now. This has left Aqua fans being spurred into action. After waiting for twelve years the Kingdom Hearts franchise has finally given the release date for Kingdom Heart 3.
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