As expected, the main event of KHX’s finale is the full-fledged Keyblade War. It does first take a moment to have a final confrontation with the Nightmare Chirithy, who reveals that the Guilt we’ve been using is actually the power of darkness, which gave birth to him—meaning you are his Player. What a twist! Then he absorbs some of those Heartless who used to be Players and attacks you.

So anyway, Keyblade War! It’s…actually really, really dark! They show flashes of random players attacking, with the narration noting that they aren’t fighting monsters any more, they’re fighting people who used to be friends. You then proceed to fight, one after another, every Foreteller aside from your own. And then you collapse on the cold hard ground in the middle of a field of abandoned Keyblades as the rain pours down on you. Chirithy climbs onto your chest and holds onto you. Dang.

Then it gets weird. Bright light shines down, and Skuld and Ephemer appear to the Player. So, you probably survive…I guess. That was the end of the final episode. The special episode is titled “Unchained 0”, and shows you and Chirithy wake up in Enchanted Dominion (Sleeping Beauty), where Chirithy says you’ve been having strange dreams ever since Ava invited you to join the Dandelions. Which was kind of a while ago. It’s already been said that X and Unchained X diverge somewhere, so I guess we know where, if not exactly how. The sucker punch is that it then shows Maleficent, and she says “Sora and his friends can’t find me here.” Hoo boy.

Various theories I’ve seen include:

-Maleficent can time travel (though I’m not sure how, given the requirements 3D established, so I’m not onboard with this one)

-Alternate timelines (this isn’t something we’ve seen in KH thus far and seems to clash with 3D’s time travel plot…though, the Player waking up with memories that Chirithy remembers differently does sound a little like Reading Steiner…)

-The “Unchained realm” is the realm contained within the Book of Prophecies (which might be accessible through Jiminy’s Journal), and this is where we are now

-Player died and Daybreak Town became a Sleeping World, a projection of the Player was then generated to fill in the gaps in the dream, but now that projection has gained its own sentience and become “unchained”

-Either X or Unchained is a dream within a dream (like what happened with Riku in 3D)

-The possibility that the Book of Prophecies is actually a gateway to the Realm of Sleep

And I just don’t even know, man, I don’t even know. But insane as it might be I’m actually kind of excited. Maybe II.8 will give us something to work with? And it isn’t really clear exactly when Unchained “season 2” is going to start, but hopefully soon. You know, soon for Japanese players.

*goes back to playing Unchained and getting killed on Adamantite quests*