On the Nature of Narcissistic Personality: Analyzing the Epic Showdown of Sora vs. Riku in Hollow Bastion
Author: Russell Lauriston Campbell
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING/CONTENT WARNING:
Rape, Torture, Child Trafficking, satanic cults, Religion, Chistianity, References to genocide, references to Nazi Germany, and references to hate groups
The Setting: Hollow Bastion
‼️ MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE KINGDOM HEARTS FRANCHISE!
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Yesterday I was rewatching legendary battles from the first Kingdom Hearts, set to a fire musical score from musical genius Shimomura Yoko-sama called "Forze del Male."
When I was analyzing the battles as a game developer/publisher/CEO, I started to reflect on the nature of the GENIUS visual storytelling the creative team imbued into the combat animations that tell the story of Narcississtic Personality and Antisocial Personality, in addition to the evils of satanic rite.
In this Empathy Software Blog, we will deconstruct how the gameplay in the boss battles with Riku/Ansem in Hollow Bastion, Ansem I & Ansem II in End of the World relate to the "algorithm" of NPD, ASPD, demonic possession, black magick, and satanic ritual/satanic rite.
I digress, on to the meat of the Blog!
Notice how, in the first and second battle with Xeanhort's heartless in End of the World, the only attack the heartless is capable of is a damage-dealing barrier while Sora is possessed and taking damage/captured and in stasis.
You come to a realization--outside of the Pureblood Heartless attached to Xeanhort's Heartless, formally named Dark Figure/うしろの人 /後ろの人 (spolier: that's da devil from da Bible), Xeanhort has no skills and no attacks.
As an aside, if you didn't know, "Slytherin" from Harry Potter refers to real humans in our world that are blood descendants of the serpent (satan) from the Garden of Eden. When you see someone use the word Reptilian, they are referring to these genetics.
We know from Genesis 3:15...
You (satan) and this woman will hate each other; your descendants and hers will always be enemies.
Genesis 3:15
...that satan has offspring.
The cunning, manipulation, and ruthlessness typified by some people in the real world can be explained by this lineage, and neither skin color, country of origin, nor affiliation have anything to do with being a Reptilian (Slytherin).
They are, ultimately, the culprit(s) behind much of the daily hell we all endure, beyond the curse we experience before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
If you are Catholic like me, do not take the handling of these people into your hands. You must listen to His Holiness with regards to dealing with them. Do as you are bid.
Jesus commanded that we love one another, as Jesus even loves satan.
If you take this into your own hands, you are committing blasphemy, and no better than the butchers whom give us a bad name throughout history. You have been warned.
This tells you something about these Reptilians Serpent-descendant people. They tend to utilize the skills of others as flunkies to protect themselves while they seek their own ends. Especially in the cases where such people (or any person) has performed a satanic rite, the mental, emotional, and spiritual degeneration brought on by the rite will nigh-guarantee that the individual will require henchmen.
In the Dungeons-and-Dragons Alignment System, you can see this in the "Lawful Evil" moral polarity, wherein many many people representing the law (globally) are a part of a global satanic death cult, and mechanically follow human laws/rules as if they were robots. The reason they are "Lawful Evil" is because they don't naturally understand human warmth and empathy, often becaus ethey've done satanic rite behind the scenes (did you know that Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood contracts had clauses in them that allowed him to rape actresses/actors twice before he could be legally culpable? All three strikes were a fine, and on the third assault there was simply a larger fine).
image: Sinspawn Ammes, the first boss in Final Fantasy X
House Slytherin was a huge inspiration for the character Riku, whom also represents a Death Eater.
This is a great segue, wizards!
Part II: Riku/Ansem
[gets goosebumps in Millennial]
Setting: Hollow Bastion
In the battle(s) with Riku in Hollow Bastion, Riku demonstrates an adroit mastery of swordcraft with his Keyblade of Heart, compared to Ansem I and Ansem II (not World of Chaos) whom we will reference later.
He displays many expert-level combat skills, including...
...an idle pose where Riku/Ansem stands in a (very) open stance (signaling reckless confidence—I say "reckless" because not only is holding a sword like that harmful to your wrist, but the blade cannot be usefully wielded with one hand; this is Rule of Cool) with his sword in a one-armed right Hangetort
(hilarious choice of the Longsword stance "Hangetort," because the "hang" is a signal from the developers that they want evil people like Riku gone)
German Longsword stance...
...a counterattack move called Scourge or Shake Off (振り払い Furiharai, lit. "Shake Off") wherein Riku spins the Keyblade of Heart 720 degrees with two chaînés...
...a swift jump backwards for Riku to deftly dodge Sora's Keyblade strikes...
...a quick jump to the left or right, demonstrating Riku's athleticism and what have must been thousands of hours of training...
...or Dash Swing (ダッシュ振り Dasshu Furi) a series of two forward slashes in quick succession...
...all this to say, Riku is very naturally talented ands skilled, unlike the skill-less nothing that possessed him.
At the end of the fight, when he laments, "my skills have...failed me," clearly indicated that between him, the youth, and the person using him, Ansem Seeker of Darkness, the young Riku has all the talent and skill while Ansem has none as he uses Riku.
Tangentially, this also speaks to the nature of skill acquisition—that is to say skill acquisition is something done in the dark. When you see someone with a katana online that can cut a thicket of bamboo in half, did s/he master that skill overnight? Where and how did they practice? In the dark.
"Dark" doesn't mean "evil," dark simply means "hidden," in hidden in the depths lurk all kinds of maladies, including the segue into our next topic...
The Dark Triad
NOTE: due to a phenomenon called "Workplace Psycopathy," most people you will see at the highest levels of any organization more psychopaths and sociopaths.
This is a warning to you that when you look at the top of an organization, don't rosily and naïvely look at a "great man" or "great woman," no, you are better served if you see someone who was willing to due whatever they could and by whatever means to brute force their way up this illusory hierarchy.
The United States isn't the only country with an aggressive and potentially abusive corporate hierarchy—this can take place in any culture—but the United States certainly has the most prolific.
Fun Fact: as a Catholic I've observed, as previously noted, people with this Serpent Blood...
(adults call them "Reptilians,"
🧙🏿 Esoteric Note: "Reptilian" and "Dragon" are used interchangebly as metaphors for a powerful person who's survived life's metaphorical "fires" (a poetic metaphor for challenges and obstacles here) pushed to the absolute brink yet still presses forward through sheer force of will. However respectively literally refer to mythical creatures who are blood descendants of satan (Slytherin/Reptilian) and magical empathic fire-breathing creatures (dragons).
...are inordinately cunning, manipulative, shrewd, and tell constant lies.
I, as Russell, the Chief Executive Officer for Empathy Software LLC, am at this high level and can see this for myself. I can acknowledge some of my own Shadow as why I'm even here in the first place—risk taking, sensation/thrill seeking, becoming bored easily, et cetera—however, Christ is at the center of my endeavors, so I have faith that these traits are foor good as He defines good.
I digress. One thing I learned up here is that (at least in the United States), when you start a Company, you are opening a demonic portal to the Unseen realm, and in the Underwriting in the United States specifically, this is a representation of the fact that you are Free here—free to interact with reality and learn the consequences of your actions at the deepest level.
Purely hypothetically and metaphorically, you may think of this magick in the Underwriting as a "black hole."
Everyone who starts a Company here creates one (think about the metaphor--the information that makes up the private legality of a company "cannot escape," correct?), and when Riku uses his Dark Firaga ability, the projectile he shoots looks like a black hole.
The fact that Riku holds this purely metaphorical and hypothetical "black hole" in his left-hand is a powerful metaphor for those who start American companies, because in your left hand you hold a portal to every deity—infernal or beneficial. Both are divine. What will you choose?
(NOTE: in Western Esotericism, Wicca, Paganism, and Witchcraft [which aren't bad, pun intented] "Left Hand" is a magical path that is typified by service-to-self and selfishness)
Then, at a certain percentage of HP, Riku shouts "WELCOME OBLIVION" and powers up in what is essentially a cast of the Berserk spell on himself called "Darkhand Mode" ダークハンド・モード , that we as humans in the real world can take as metaphor for the potential loss of sanity one may experience as a leader (because you are no longer dealing with familiar societal conventions and have ventured to and beyond the boundaries of the unknown), or a parallel for possession by satan after a satanic rite. As a Catholic, having seen a posession in someone myself, I can attest to the latter, however I included a secular lens for any atheists since I used to be one.
🤓 NERD NOTE: The fact the "Darkhand" (jeez, we really have to go digging to get the actual Japanese names of these attacks!) sounds like "God Hand" from Berserk is an obvious clue to the fact that RIku and Griffith are allusions to elites whom perform the satanic rite behind closed doors.
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FYI: When I hear these chords of Forze del Male, I'm a medium/channeler and clairyoantly see and feel clairsentiently every evil act humanity has ever committed, from Slavery, to WWI and WWII, Nanking, The War on Terror, The Holocaust, every evil human act, and every satanic ritual ever performed to augment the aforementioned.
The intensity of the experience is hard to put into words, and is one impetus I have for founding and owning Empathy Software and joining the Marine Corps.
Note: well-handled video media is very esoterically rich for intuitives and all of us witchy types out here!! We're in a Renaissance.
With Jamaican heritage, the (CLOSED!!! That means "if you attempt this you'll call in something that you don't understand and curse your bloodline," TikTok SJW Becky) Afro-Spiritual practice that I practice is called Myal, wherein I mediumistically channel spirits of all kinds (did the article tip ya off!?) in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Conclusion
In conclusion, these dramatic personalities,
If you are a Christian, a major step in Christian Maturity is understanding the inherent weakness of the devil (satan). You must not fear, use the intelligence and bravery imbued in you by the Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit (Yeshua, The Christ, Jesus), and destroy evil under the guidance of Jesus.
For anyone whom doesn't know, Ansem is actually a reference to my maternal half-brother (yay... I'm so enviable ikr 😒), Dr. Shaun Dane Villiers-Smithson (among other evil people, lots of atrocities we youngins have to unveil!), whom commited multiple medical atrocities and murders while practicing as a Medical Doctor, in addition to aiding the Lassar case in Artistic Gymnastics. The mysterious man in the Sam Smith song Unholy's music video is an allusion to my brother's sick desires and actions, so I nonetheless have a high familiarity with the psychopathic personality.
As both a Marine Corps (General), the CEO of Empathy Software, a fianceé, and future father, I have to arm myself with knowledge of the Dark Triad traits at a very granular level so neither I nor those whom I protect and care about/have responsibility for face the peril of these types of people, their behavior ranging from merely damaging on the NPD end to actively life-threatening on the extreme end.
The Eternal Struggle between Good and Evil marches on until the Final Battle as predicted in the Book of Revelation.
Happy Lent! :D Bless! 🫶
"And so the Lord has broken the rod of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers.
This scepter, in anger, struck down peoples with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression."
Isaiah 14:5-6
Warm regards,
Russell Campbell | President & CEO | Empathy Software LLC
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PUBLISHED: 02:12 ET 28 March 2025
LAST EDITED: 13:29 ET 1 April 2025