i just wanna say, as a Kingdom Hearts fan who got into Final Fantasy later, I can conceive of no better PR job in the history of gaming than FF7 Remake + Rebirth for Aerith Gainsborough. because i grew up with THIS whispery little weirdo
BBS model: wedding ring.
KH1 model: no wedding ring.
my favorite inconsequential, dumbass Kingdom Hearts theory is that Mickey running around doing keyblade shit led to a rough patch in their marriage, potentially a trial separation
FACT: you don't have the journal from the start of KH1, but once you get it, Jiminy still has an accurate count of how many Heartless you've defeated. This means that Sora was keeping a kill count in his head until then and gave the number to Jiminy
love that Sora wields the Keyblade, the bane of darkness and slayer of literal demons and he still elected to beat the shit out of Davy Jones with his bare hands. that's how pissed he was