Theories About Where Kingdom Hearts Goes Next
Marluxia and Larxene Still Have a Role to Play
If Kingdom Hearts 3’s narrative showed us anything it’s that the story of the mobile game Union X is incredibly important to the overall series.
One of the big revelations that Union X brought was the character links to Marluxia and Larxene, who are Lauriam and Elrena in the events of the mobile game.
After the Keyblade War and the end of the Foretellers, Lauriam becomes one of the five Union Leaders. Meanwhile, Elrena is the younger sibling of Strelitzia, who was supposed to be a Union Leader until she was murdered by an imposter, which we still don’t know the identity of.
After you defeat Marluxia in Kingdom Hearts 3, his death scene has him remembering who he really is, and “his purpose for existing.” Then after beating Larxene, she says she was simply along for the ride, suggesting she was simply there supporting Marluxia/Lauriam all along.
Marluxia and Larxene, at the moment, are the best links between the events of the past and present in Kingdom Hearts.
We still don’t know how they went from the past to being members of Organization XIII, but that revelation will surely come at some point.
Considering Marluxia constantly has his own plans and disregards the goal of the Organization, it’s safe to say that Lauriam has his own machinations as well. Considering the cryptic final lines of both characters in Kingdom Hearts 3, it just feels like we haven’t’ seen the last of them.
