[It's spending longer in the dark part of the story than Minato had really expected, but his association of Riku with the Star still isn't really challenged by it. Tarot isn't inflexible, anyway; it's a lens through which to relate to others, but people within an Arcana are frequently not at all similar.
It's what they need to learn, what their personal journey is, that their Arcana explains.]
… Do you think spending so much time with the darkness let it influence you?
[That's what Minato would assume, if it were someone he knew that spent a lot of time enveloped in Shadows. It's not the same, but so far the analogy has served him pretty well.]
Of course it did. And not just the darkness, either. See, Maleficent wasn't working alone. Besides the allies from the other worlds she had, she was being manipulated herself. This guy named Ansem had been waiting for her to make that Keyblade.
I fought Sora and he took the Keyblade back, no problem. So Maleficent let me wield the Keyblade of People's Hearts, and when I did, Ansem stole my body. He was a Heartless, though we didn't know it at the time, and his human body was gone. So when I opened myself up to the darkness that much... he was able to kick me out.
[He pauses, taking a breath. It... had been an awful experience, needless to say.]
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It's what they need to learn, what their personal journey is, that their Arcana explains.]
… Do you think spending so much time with the darkness let it influence you?
[That's what Minato would assume, if it were someone he knew that spent a lot of time enveloped in Shadows. It's not the same, but so far the analogy has served him pretty well.]
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I fought Sora and he took the Keyblade back, no problem. So Maleficent let me wield the Keyblade of People's Hearts, and when I did, Ansem stole my body. He was a Heartless, though we didn't know it at the time, and his human body was gone. So when I opened myself up to the darkness that much... he was able to kick me out.
[He pauses, taking a breath. It... had been an awful experience, needless to say.]