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{{quote|''"Destiny is never left to chance."''}}
'''''Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep''''' is a prequel to the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series set 10 years before the first game. The game's story focuses on the efforts of the three main characters--that is, Terra, Ven, and Aqua--to find the missing Keyblade master, Master Xehanort, and his apprentice, Vanitas. The story is split into three separate scenarios, each focusing on one of the characters' efforts to locate Master Xehanort and Vanitas. While the characters will be alone most of the time during their journey, there will be times when the characters' paths will cross (a storytelling gimmick previously used by Squaresoft in ''[[Treasure of the Rudra]]'' and ''[[Threads of Fate]]'').
All three of the characters are equally important story-wise. The game focuses on several main themes such as Ven's identity and connection with Sora as well as the mystery behind the memories of the original series' primary villain, Xehanort. Each character's story takes between 8 and 15 hours plus additional prologue and epilogue chapters, for a total of at least 30 hours of gameplay.
The player can play the three different routes in any order they so choose, but the recommended route (and the route that makes the most sense story-wise) is Terra, Ventus, then Aqua.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: What kick-starts the plot is the rise of the Unversed and the threat they pose to the Princesses of Heart. The three worlds with the Princesses are visited first, but once you hit Radiant Garden they're forgotten and subsequent worlds focus solely on fighting the Unversed. Fittingly, Radiant Garden is where the three begin to follow their own agendas. Terra {{spoiler|believes himself a failure and is charmed into becoming Xehanort's apprentice}}. Thereafter, he's focused on trying to find Vanitas and put an end to him. Ventus never had the mission, and is intent on finding Terra, and Aqua is essentially scrambling to find the both of them and keep them together.
* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: The game contains the standard level 99 cap. Just playing normally without any [[Level Grinding]] will have you beating each character's story with their levels in the ''30s''. This results in it being very easy to be over-leveled without realizing it -- if you backtrack through the worlds to get the items you missed, you may end up being around Level 40 or higher, at which point most of the final bosses are incredibly easy to beat.
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** This is Terra's standard reaction to just about everything he encounters. Although this seems to be more to do with the nuances of Jason Dohring's acting method rather than Terra's characterization.
** Willa Holland (Aqua) dabbles a bit in it too. That being said, both characters ''can'' emote, but Terra is usually subtle about it (if his friends {{spoiler|and later on, Xehanort}} are the subject of choice, ''then'' Terra starts to break out the passion).
* [[Dummied Out]]: Hackers have recently found remnants of an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxX9huOsGF0 unfinished world] based on ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'', the one completed room being King Louie's temple, along with a few partially unfinished jungle rooms including the edge of the man-village. They also found [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100629010307/kingdomhearts/images/2/21/Light_Seeker.jpg Mickey's Kingdom Key D]{{Dead link}}, which seems to have been an exclusive Keyblade for Ven.
** The final Mix also includes graphics related to the ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]'' Demo(most strikingly the title card). The 2 best guesses to why they're there so far is that they either used BBS graphics as a placeholder for the actual game or they intended to have some sort of demo for ''Dream Drop Distance''.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: While the game's normal ending is a [[Downer Ending]], the secret ending implies that this is what will eventually happen to the main characters. After all, {{spoiler|although they lost, the three really fought like lions and they DID manage to derail most of Xehanort's scheme by destroying the χ-blade and Vanitas. I mean, come on, all that effort should be rewarded.}}
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* [[Eye Scream]]: At his first canonical appearance, Braig still has two functional eyes. At the end of the game, he's wearing his famous eyepatch. Figure out what happens.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Master Xehanort has yellow eyes. Braig's remaining eye becomes golden after being blasted in the face with a beam of darkness (and around the same time, he's developed darkness-related powers to back up his gun skills). Not to mention Terra's turned yellow at the end of the secret movie in ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix''. And Vanitas has them as well. Gold eyes are usually associated with someone who's been exposed to the power of darkness and/or uses it (in his guise as DiZ, even Ansem the Wise had them). As do [[The Heartless]] (the ones that aren't [[The Faceless]] anyway,).
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Terra, Aqua and Ventus, since they all wear a single chunk of armor on one arm, but Ven thought he'd [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511083533/http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/File:VEN1.png go for the gusto.] There's actually a reason they wear it like that: touching the shoulder pad will activate their full armor.
* [[Fastball Special]]: Aqua is both the thrower (with Stitch) and the... throwee (with Prince Phillip). Ven follows the same pattern with Stich and with Hercules.
* [[Field of Blades]]: The Keyblade Graveyard. The ruins of many keys who took on the powers of their masters are here in the place, where there was a fight between light and darkness.
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* [[Hard Mode Perks]]: If you begin a game on Critical, you start with five command deck slots for attacks, instead of the three you start with on the lower difficulties.
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Nope! Ventus getting frozen is certainly ''not'' harmless, as it clearly hurts a lot and nearly gets him killed. For that matter, getting frozen in itself causes a lot of damage in gameplay and sets you up for even more (both you, and the enemies).
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Aqua's [https://web.archive.org/web/20151001050259/http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/File:Aqua_armor.png suit of armor.]
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Lilo and Stitch|Gantu]]'s either this or a type of [[Knight Templar]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|During the credits, Mickey blames himself for all the crap that happened and tries to turn in his Keyblade. Yen Sid won't have any of that.}}
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** During Terra's story, Master Xehanort preaches the virtues of this idea to him, telling him that Eraqus's complete opposition of darkness is as bad as succumbing to darkness, and that the proper way to protect the worlds is to wield both in equal measure. {{spoiler|He's full of crap. He just wants to get Terra to give into the darkness and feeds him this line of thought to encourage him down that road. There may be some truth behind what he's saying, but as they say, the best lies are the ones made out of truth.}}
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Aqua.
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