If Ventus is directly referred to by name or not is completely irrelevant,
My point was that he's not referred to with any significance, not even by name, in this interview. He's simply irrelevant to this entire issue.
he is already referred to in this interview
Once, not by name and with absolutely no relevance to the question at hand. You're overplaying his significance by making it seem as though he's a concentrated topic in the interview. He isn't. One question pertains to him, and only one.
Kairi is more consequential to the questions in this interview.
and all these things are subtle foreshadowing and BBS's plot was thought up before Days.
But BBS came out after Days, so the Ultimania for Days wouldn't include any spoilers for BBS.
"It" in this case refers to the object "keyblade"
Again, that's not how grammar works. "Xion's Keyblade" is not two separate concepts, it's only two separate
words. "Xion's Keyblade" is constructed as a possessive noun and the item which corresponds to it. You can't separate the two and apply the pronoun to one as that would render the possessiveness of the term meaningless. If Nomura had said, "It isn't that Roxas had physically inherited a Keyblade..." OR had said, "...but more that Xion had awakened
a Keyblade within Roxas..." you would be correct. However, grammar doesn't allow for the kind of loose play you're advocating here.
not "Xion's" keyblade because Xion never had a keyblade
Then why does Nomura repeatedly refer to Xion's Keyblade?
she only sapped power from Sora through Roxas and copied Sora's keyblade.
Xion did have a Keyblade. It was a fake and a copy, but it was still a Keyblade that was able to extract Hearts from Heartless and function in precisely the same way as Sora's. She and Ven fought side by side, each with their
own Keyblades. Hers isn't a proper Keyblade in that it didn't occur naturally to her, but it did exist (to an extent) and was entirely viable for dual-wielding once she was absorbed by Roxas.
You have read the other confirmation, haven't you? It is confirmed that the two keyblades in play are Sora's and Ven's, there aren't more, just these two.
The other confirmation is in reference to the common ability of Roxas and Sora to dual-wield. Sora doesn't dual-wield because of Xion and Roxas only dual-wielded with Xion's Keyblade that one time; in the greater continuity of the series, Roxas and Sora
both dual-wield because of Ven's Heart. That doesn't in any way negate an exception to the rule, which Nomura had already addressed in the Days Ultimania, so it would be pointless to clarify that again.
You read the whole thing false, Nomura says that there is a small part of Xion remaining in Roxas, not in a keyblade.
I didn't say that, or at least, what I meant was that the Keyblade was an indication of her ongoing presence: an aspect of it.
The keyblade Roxas tosses to Riku at Xion's behalf (from within him, she shortly takes control of his arm) is Sora's, that's also the reason Riku can use it without problems against Roxas.
The reason he can use it without it disobeying him is because it's Xion's and she willed it to go to Riku. Just as Captain Jack can hold the Keyblade as long as Sora allows him to and anyone can use a Keyblade handed or physically gifted to them by someone else (Kairi, Aqua), the Keyblade obeys its chosen master first and foremost but can be used by others. Furthermore, Sora's Keyblade is no more Riku's than Xion's or Ven's would be after Sora reclaimed it in Hollow Bastion. That being said, even if it was Xion's, that would mean it was just a copy of Sora's so it makes little difference to your argument one way or the other.
The name of the keyblade is suggested to have something to do with Xion, not the blade itself, which is true since Oblivion => forgetting stuff and in japanese there's also the meaning of that flower which name I sadly forgot.
Which would only further indicate a connection with Xion. It's not solid proof that it's her Keyblade, but taken in context with his other statements, it's evidence to the likelihood of that scenario.
Ven's blade is the Oathkeeper which Roxas kept for himself.
The Oathkeeper has nothing to do with Ven. The Oathkeeper is symbolic of Sora's memories of Kairi, which is why Roxas would be wielding it along with the Oblivion, which is symbolic of Sora's memories of Riku. For Roxas, the Keyblades are both relative to Xion (Xion is constructed from Sora's memories of Kairi, and the Oblivion is implicit of her erasure from the Worlds). Furthermore, if the Keyblade isn't Xion's, why did memories of her flood into Riku the moment he grasped it?
Roxas awakening two different keyblades only for one fight in KH2 is pure speculation and nowhere is this hinted or even reasonable.
It's not remotely unreasonable. It's exactly what he did, even by your argument. If he was wielding a Keyblade constructed of data prior to that battle, then his awakening of Sora's and Ven's Keyblades during the Axel confrontation is just that. The awakening of two different Keyblades. I don't understand your point here.
Roxas lost his complete wielding abilities in the virtual Twilight Town because Naminé and DiZ brainwashed him.
Yes.
The single keyblade he used through the seven days until he regained his memories was a data-one programmed by DiZ.
OK...
When he got his memories back he also regained access to both keyblades he had awakened since he defeated Xion and all powers she sapped where returned to him, Sora's and Ven's keyblades.
But Roxas only gained all of his memories back during the fight with Axel. Indeed, the only memories he
had to regain were those of his time in the Organization. Roxas had no memories when he was born, and he hadn't forgotten anything prior to or directly after Xion's defeat, except for Xion herself, after the fact. When she was absorbed into him, he was able to access his ability to synch wield, yes, but he hadn't awakened Ven's Heart yet (we still don't even know how he managed to access Ven's Heart in KH2, since awakening it should have filled him and probably Sora with memories of Ven). The idea that he did it twice, when one of the scenarios has a much more obvious alternate solution, is really not as reasonable as you're insisting it is.
Nomura didn't reveal it casually, he camouflaged it as he normally does.
That's pretty unbelievable. This is like me saying, "I like the way the sky looks, it's pretty," then you saying, "Yeah, the sky's really pretty," and me saying, "No, I was talking about Adele's voice, I just prefaced my sentence with the sky and failed to clarify that I was speaking about Adele's voice so you wouldn't know that's what I meant." That isn't camouflaging a statement, it's a complete misdirection of wording which is neither practical for the purpose you're claiming it is nor characteristic of Nomura's particular form of parable in any way.
This interview is already littered with allusions for BBS (whose story, as I said earlier, was thought up by Nomura before Days),
The fact that BBS's story was conceptualized prior to Days's is simply not relevant. It hadn't been
told yet and nothing in the interview was going to give away the story for that reason alone. Also, characterizing the Days Ultimania interview as being "littered" with references to BBS is a huge stretch. They literally only mention Ven one time, and it isn't by name. That's the extent of it.
like the Xigbar-Ven connection or Xemnas's obsession with the Chamber of Waking.
Neither of which have anything to do with which Keyblades Roxas wielded. The Chamber of Waking doesn't even have anything to do with BBS except that Aqua's armor was there. It never appears in BBS, is never referenced in BBS and doesn't have any impact on BBS's storyline whatsoever. It's prominent in KH2 and Days, however, and is therefore perfectly valid material to cover in an interview for Days.
Combine the allusions this with the later interviews which confirm stuff you get the true meaning of it all.
Again, none of the BBS allusions in the Days Ultimania interview have anything to do with Roxas's Keyblades.
Building in Xion's fake only overcomplicates things and also doesn't make any sense because Xion's blade was never real.
It does not, in any way, overcomplicate things. Roxas being able to use Xion's Keyblade after absorbing her is actually far less vague in its linearity than him randomly awakening a second Keyblade from a Heart neither he nor the player even knows he has a connection with. Your argument entails that you have to read several different interviews and heavily interpret, out of context, cryptic statements from the series' creator. My argument entails playing the video game. Which concept is more complicated, again?
It functioned but only when she sapped power from Roxas (and by extension from Sora).
Roxas was sustaining her at the end of Days. She was fading, but it was Roxas's insistence upon keeping her memories alive which allowed her to continue to influence his actions and communicate with Riku. As long as she was around, her Keyblade was likely to be around as well. Your insistence that she didn't have a Keyblade is a fallacy; her Keyblade was a fake and a copy, but
she still had one. Nothing that Nomura has said indicates that Xion did not have a Keyblade: all he has ever stated is that it was a copy, but that doesn't mean it isn't a Keyblade which can be used in precisely the same manner as any original. It relied on her existence, yes, as well as on her connection with Sora and Roxas, in particular; her connection with Roxas remained during his battle with Riku, so her Keyblade would still have been around.
In the end, it was all Sora's keyblade which power got divided between Roxas and Xion.
We agree on this point, but it doesn't preclude them both from being wielded at the same time (as we saw, in game, they were both wielded at the same time by Roxas and Xion independently).
The allusions to BBS and Roxas having a heart (=> Ven's) are jumping the reader into the eyes.
You're speaking from the perspective of having already experienced BBS's story and the confirmation of Ven's relation to Sora and Roxas. At the time this was released, there was no clear way of knowing what all of that meant or if it would be addressed by BBS or another game. Allusions do not constitute answers, much less contradict concrete answers. You're doing a lot of work to reinterpret a very simple statement which doesn't even contradict the over-arching vision of the story: Sora has his Keyblade and Ven's, not Xion's (which no longer exists).
It doesn't take much combining to come to the conclusion which, as I can only stress again, was confirmed in the BBS Ultimania later on.
And which I clarified as being limited to the common factor. In fact, let me take your logic and apply it to that confirmatory quote.
Why can Roxas dual-wield?
A: Because he can use both Sora’s and
Ventus’ keyblades.
OK, so clearly we have a sentence here which uses a pronoun device that indicates Roxas can use both Sora's and Ventus's Keyblades (i.e. "
he can use both..."). However, I'm going to insist that the "he" in this sentence is referring to King Mickey. Do you see why that doesn't work? The use of the pronoun "he" is very, very clearly prefaced by the name of the character Roxas. In the same way, the use of the word "it" in Nomura's quote is very, very clearly prefaced by the term "Xion's Keyblade." If you can accept that the "he" in this sentence is referring to Roxas, you
must accept that the "it" in the quote is referring to "Xion's Keyblade". There is no room for interpretation: it's a basic rule of grammar.
Nomura is just sailing around the harbor instead of coming in because he wanted to avoid spoilering stuff, but with our current knowledge the connections can be made easier than slip on a banana peel.
Him making these subtle and hidden foreshadowing hints isn't new.
Nomura can be very secretive and cryptic in his foreshadowing, no doubt, but this simply isn't a case of that. He's being entirely direct in this statement. There is nothing to indicate that he isn't, other than a deliberate bending of grammar and a willful denial of the actual meaning behind other statements he has made. The problem with taking quotes from different interviews is that you risk responding to them without a sense of context, and that's important to maintain. Again, there is no reason Roxas wielding Ven's Keyblade in KH2 precludes him from wielding Xion's in Days. It doesn't interfere with the storytelling, it doesn't complicate
anything, and above all, it has been outright confirmed by Nomura.
