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Thinking Through the Darkness A LoreBySpec Companion Podcast
Not every theory arrives fully formed.
Thinking Through the Darkness is the space between the idea and the script — where the lore gets poked at, the holes get found, and the thinking happens out loud. No polish. No finished arguments. Just Kingdom Hearts, a microphone, and wherever the thread leads.
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English
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30 episodes
since April 19, 2026
episodic
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The Sora questions continue. In Part 2 of this run through Kingdom Hearts' biggest unanswered questions, I'm back on the Sora row of that Trello-meets-noticeboard of every mystery the series has never bothered to close — and this batch digs into some of the weirdest, most overlooked corners of Sora…
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We've got a Discord now — and someone in it pointed me at a site that's basically what you'd get if Trello and a noticeboard had a baby, stuffed with every unanswered question in Kingdom Hearts. So I'm working through the Sora row, one sticky note at a time. This is part one. I get into: who or wha…
Pokémon was the first video game that ever made me cry — and not for any reason the games were trying to. It was one screen in Crystal: are you a boy or a girl? And it was the first time in my small, very gendered childhood that anyone had ever asked me who I was instead of telling me. This one's p…
⚠️ Content warning: this video discusses addiction, mental health, psychosis, and suicidal ideation, and contains some strong language. Please take care of yourself.
I can't recommend Disco Elysium — and that's not because it's bad. It's a masterpiece. It's because recommending it means assuming an…
Episode 25, and a heads-up: my podcast software lost a few episodes, so things have shuffled around — the Latin lexicon videos this references may land in a different order than you'd expect. This one starts with a great video by iAyeCaptainKai on how far the community has cracked the Scala/Caelum …
Episode 24 and I'm not doing a leak reaction. A lot of people wanted me to farm the Missing-Link material for exposure and I'd rather not — it's stolen, it's not currently in use, and lore-wise it changes nothing. What it did do is confirm the thing I already wanted to talk about: the photorealism …
Episode 23 and this one's different. No theory — just the two games that made me. When I think about the games that matter to me, they're always about other people, and these two are about my dad, who I lost to a heart attack over ten years ago. Doom is my whole family on the weekend, cousins and f…
Episode 22 and I've been going back through every Yozora scene we have — all fourteen generous minutes of them — and the conclusion I keep landing on is that Yozora is a tool. A commander who meets someone who doesn't match his description and attacks anyway isn't commanding anything; that's enforc…
Episode 21 and it's not the Lost Masters arc. It's the Lost Master arc. Singular. No S. And once you notice that, the whole question changes. In this episode I break the phrase down into its parts: what "lost" actually requires — you can't lose something you never had, so this is someone we've alre…
Episode 20 and something's been pinging around in my head since the new KH4 trailer: Quadratum has no colour. Strelitzia is black and white. Sora is red and black. Luxord, black. Sigurd gets purple — and black. The city is greys and whites outside the advertising, the NPCs all dress business casual…
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