Still not claiming any ownership to Kingdom Hearts, its story or characters.

The song line Rachel sings to Aiden in Ch 11 is from the tail end of "Down Once More/Track Down this Murderer" from Andres Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of The Opera. Same goes with Aiden's first Heart Song, "Learn to be Lonely".

Riku's new heart song, "My Past is Not Today" I guess is from one of my MLP: Friendship is Magic movies. I'm not associating Riku with My Little Pony but I was YouTubing and found that song by accident. Glad I did. That lyric hit the nail on the head.

I had a lot of fun with coming up with things for the greenhouse. How many of you caught the pun about the tulips (two lips) trying to kiss? The acid plant they didn't go anywhere near is actually based on something that really does exist. I don't know what it's called but I guess it's a cousin of the aloe plant. I heard about a guy who desperately needed water or something to sooth his chapped lips. Thinking it was an aloe plant he broke a piece off and smeared it across his lips. Guess when he was found his face looked like it had been liquefied. True stuff is sometimes worse than the imagined.

Catch the Jumanji reference with the purple flower that shoots darts?

The song played when Rachel listens to what Riku's heart is singing when they are enjoying their cuddle time is "I can't fight this feeling" by REO Speedwagon. And Rachel's counter song is "Eternity", the ending bonus feature song to the Warner Brothers film, The Swan Princess.

Remember when Aiden's mishap spell changed his voice to a clown horn for a while? I actually can imitate the squeak of a clown/bike horn with my voice. Been able to since the third grade even though I have no idea how I discovered I could do it.

I had a moment of pause when it came to actually posting "Deep Discussions". But I thought it was relevant to put in some of my thoughts to remind us that the world of Kingdom Hearts isn't all teamwork and friendship. Yes, there's fun under the sea and magic carpet rides, but KH has its share of tragedies. In "Chain of Memories", Zexion taunts Riku claiming many hearts (human lives) were lost forever because his hearts' longing to leave the Islands somehow drew the Heartless in. Then there was the time in Birth By Sleep when Terra struck down Master Eraqus. Terra is immediately afterward horrified by his own actions but did essentially kill Eraqus. I think we can forget the dark side of KH. Remember how Axel killed Vexen? And Sora saw the whole thing. So I guess some of the less sunshine and rainbows part of the chapter brings together the "Once Upon a Time" warning that "all magic comes with a price" and that price can't always be paid with hugs and good intentions. Same can be said with how this act ended. It really broke my heart to hear you guys getting to like and worry about Aiden when I knew from the beginning how I was going to end this act. (yes, I plan that far ahead)

No, Rachel's familiar was not inspired by Owlcat. I was going for different and adorable and that's what I arrived at. And fluffy. Very, very fluffy.

I didn't make much up myself in regard to the blue pixie dust and the rising of the blue moon in pixie hollow. If you don't know by now, TinkerBell has her own movie series where the above mention is explained. (interesting also is that Terrance, a Dust Keeper fairy is voiced by Jesse McCartney, AKA the voice actor for Ventus and Roxas).

As for the dream eater teams for Sora and Riku, those were partly based on the Spirit teams I used in my own copy of Dream Drop Distance. The MeowWow and Komory Bat were the first spirits they created, the Yoggy Ram for Sora and Cyber Yog for Riku were the favorites I used for most of the game. DinoWriter's assumption was actually spot on.

The song Rachel sings to Aiden near the end, "Mother Earth and Father Time" is from the 1973 movie rendition of E.B. White's, Charlotte's Web.

In "The Last Journal", the way I ended the chapter was reminisce of the film, Tombstone. Doc Holliday is lying on his deathbed when he looks up and over at something just beyond his feet. He chuckles and weakly says "oh, this is funny," referring to a conversation he and his friends had before then that before you die you're supposed to see a bright light leading you into heaven, and, up until that point, he didn't really believe it. Of course, in this case it was Aiden hearing the new words of his heart song.

Aiden's Heart Song changes into "The Melody Within" from Feature Films for Family's Rigoletto.

Sorry if I broke any hearts with this one.

Hope to see you soon in Act VI of Bound By Light!

And to hopefully make you feel better about how this act ended, I'll drop this little spoiler for you, there will be an Act VII.