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I haven't seen all of Roots or the new game yet but why did they make kite evil? That doesn't seem to make since for him to be a PKer. crying I don't understand!!!! crying crying

You probably know by now that it's not Kite and yet it is Kite.

i agree =P

thanks for the info

In GU, there is an AIDA that resembles Kite known as both Azure Kite and Tri-Edge. It isn't a player character (being an AIDA, of course). Its purpose within The World is debated - supposedly they brought Azure Kite, Azure Orca, and Azure Balmung back to search for Aura, since she was discovered to be crutial to the net.

He's not evil at all. He will just plow down anyone that opposes his goal, just as Morganna did until she became corrupted.

He targets certain PCs that contain possibly useful data to reconstruct Aura, or so the theory goes. He spawned from remnants of rouge data from Harald's black box. How he formed, when he formed, and from whose data he formed is a mystery.

AIDA, you mean.

Well... AIDA isn't exactly one entity. It stands for "Artificially Intelligent Data Anomaly", and it's like an NPC. Rather, it's the exact same thing as an NPC, but it drives on its own, has its own intelligence. AIDAs spawn from what CC Corp calls 'black spots'.

So, really, it may not be AIDA that's behind it, but the 'Black Spots'. What those spots are is still unknown. Perhaps remnants of Aura, the Epitaph that was woven into the origininal World, or even Morganna Mode Gone.

Or, even more radically, perhaps it's part of Cubia - who was the anti-existance in the games. The anti-existance, Cubia, creates itself whenever the bracelet is born. For instance, Kite's first bracelet and Cubia as most know him. Here's something you may not have noticed - within the Cubia core is a curled-up figure that resembles Kite. I noticed on my fifth run through the series - and verified it when I looked it up.

It's possible Cubia took other forms, as well. It seems possible that he was not only Kite's opposite, but Morganna's opposite as well. If Kite's or Morganna's powers don't channel to the new world, then perhaps Cubia's will.

I think it's something that will be unveiled at the end of the series.

Well, the Black Spots DO come from the core of the world, which is why the Administrators are struggling to remove them. If it were simply a matter of a surface infection, it would have easily been removed. It's an obvious internal infection, or perhaps a function.

That being said, it's possible the system is, on its own, trying to birth Aura by openning the Black Spots and creating AIDAs. This function is almost exactly the same as Morganna's - to create a base and use whatever is necessary to birth Aura (in her case, Tsukasa. Then she rebelled against her cause.) The annomalies may be a sign that the system is attempting to create another Aura, but the administrators don't know that for sure, so they cannot take action.

As for the headset... it's possible to play without one. Not nearly as entertaining, but possible. The reasoning behind the comas is still shakey... there seems to be no clear evidence to just WHY a system can capture a personality within a virtual reality. Those who had fallen into comas might have served a purpose - by teaching the system itself what a human conscious requires, and giving it a chance to recreate itself from data alone. However, how a system can obtain a human conscious is still unknown, and there is little we can use to theorize. It is more of a, 'It happens, we know it happens, but we just don't know why.'