After getting confirmation that Ienzo will return in this game was great news. Even better was the fact that he will remain with the heroes, and him directly helping Sora means that he holds some sort of narrative value.
After evaluating all of the official material released about him, I have a theory as to why he may be more important than we are all assuming. I believe that Ienzo is the one that creates a Replica Roxas through data, and said Roxas is the character shown in the TGS trailer in The Keyblade Graveyard.
Ienzo's incentive to revive Roxas would be understanding how much Roxas meant to Lea and Sora, coupled with Ansem the Wise's request to try and retrieve him again to undo the pain Ansem the Wise caused to Roxas. Vexen seems to align himself with The Seekers of Darkness, so he cannot re-create Roxas, so it would be up to Ienzo to do that task instead.
In regards to Replica Roxas power with the Keyblade, Replica Roxas could have been kept in a time chamber by Merlin to speed up his Keyblade training like Kairi and Lea, so that this version Roxas was prepared for the inevitable Keyblade War. A covert backup plan in the events that the Guardians of Light are outmatched.
What's everybody's thoughts on this?
After evaluating all of the official material released about him, I have a theory as to why he may be more important than we are all assuming. I believe that Ienzo is the one that creates a Replica Roxas through data, and said Roxas is the character shown in the TGS trailer in The Keyblade Graveyard.
Ienzo's incentive to revive Roxas would be understanding how much Roxas meant to Lea and Sora, coupled with Ansem the Wise's request to try and retrieve him again to undo the pain Ansem the Wise caused to Roxas. Vexen seems to align himself with The Seekers of Darkness, so he cannot re-create Roxas, so it would be up to Ienzo to do that task instead.
In regards to Replica Roxas power with the Keyblade, Replica Roxas could have been kept in a time chamber by Merlin to speed up his Keyblade training like Kairi and Lea, so that this version Roxas was prepared for the inevitable Keyblade War. A covert backup plan in the events that the Guardians of Light are outmatched.
What's everybody's thoughts on this?