The more I watch the subbed special trailer for DDD, the more confident I am about this theory. It may come off as a little confusing but I'll try to explain everything as best I can. Here goes...
I think that Old MX found some sort of way to cross dimensions/time travel to make contact with his past self sometime before stealing Terra's body in BBS. He then told his younger self his evil plans and gave him a series of "tasks" to carry out. One of these tasks, I'm guessing, was to observe/collect data on TAV, explaining their fight at the ruined LoD.
So what am I getting at here? I think that Old MX making contact with his past self was his "back up plan", in case things didn't turn out so smoothly with the whole body-snatching idea. If something were to happen that would go against Old MX's original plan (ex: losing his memories), it would fall upon the shoulders of YMX to take the wheel for a while.
The reason we didn't see him in the series in the KH1-KH2 span of time was because he was keeping an extremely low profile, and because he because he probably didn't want to make himself known due to the risk of messing up the current timeline with him being from the past / alternate dimension. During this time he most likely sat on the sidelines, observing everything from a distance and making frequent trips to and from his original time / dimension of origin. Old MX also must have given his younger self explicit instructions to step in and save his Old self if things started to fall apart. He most likely almost came close to doing this after noticing Terra-Xehanort's memories were erased, but decided against it when Terra-Xehanort (now AX), summoned his keyblade and went totally haywire, attacking Ienzo, Even, and Braig. After Ansem SoD and Xemnas were created, YMX was probably about to step in for a second time, but again decided against it when he realized that Old MX's plans still had a chance of succeeding if he could revive Old MX by destroying his heartless and nobody. In order to keep his low profile and make things easier for himself, he left this task in Sora and Riku's capable hands.
The reason that YMX is appearing so much now in the current DDD time period and not being as elusive as he was in BBS with the hood up is because Old Xehanort is back in commission and he is now working closely with him to execute his (their?) evil plans.
I thought that this theory would make the whole "time travel" theme we had been speculating about relevant. I would also theorize that time traveling or making an inter-dimensional leap requires an IMMENSE amount of energy, explaining YMX's fading appearance to TAV in BBS as well as in the most recent trailer for DDD when he appears transparent as he is speaking to Riku about darkness and walking down the stairs.
So there it is. Comment on it, bash it, or let me know your thoughts.
I think that Old MX found some sort of way to cross dimensions/time travel to make contact with his past self sometime before stealing Terra's body in BBS. He then told his younger self his evil plans and gave him a series of "tasks" to carry out. One of these tasks, I'm guessing, was to observe/collect data on TAV, explaining their fight at the ruined LoD.
So what am I getting at here? I think that Old MX making contact with his past self was his "back up plan", in case things didn't turn out so smoothly with the whole body-snatching idea. If something were to happen that would go against Old MX's original plan (ex: losing his memories), it would fall upon the shoulders of YMX to take the wheel for a while.
The reason we didn't see him in the series in the KH1-KH2 span of time was because he was keeping an extremely low profile, and because he because he probably didn't want to make himself known due to the risk of messing up the current timeline with him being from the past / alternate dimension. During this time he most likely sat on the sidelines, observing everything from a distance and making frequent trips to and from his original time / dimension of origin. Old MX also must have given his younger self explicit instructions to step in and save his Old self if things started to fall apart. He most likely almost came close to doing this after noticing Terra-Xehanort's memories were erased, but decided against it when Terra-Xehanort (now AX), summoned his keyblade and went totally haywire, attacking Ienzo, Even, and Braig. After Ansem SoD and Xemnas were created, YMX was probably about to step in for a second time, but again decided against it when he realized that Old MX's plans still had a chance of succeeding if he could revive Old MX by destroying his heartless and nobody. In order to keep his low profile and make things easier for himself, he left this task in Sora and Riku's capable hands.
The reason that YMX is appearing so much now in the current DDD time period and not being as elusive as he was in BBS with the hood up is because Old Xehanort is back in commission and he is now working closely with him to execute his (their?) evil plans.
I thought that this theory would make the whole "time travel" theme we had been speculating about relevant. I would also theorize that time traveling or making an inter-dimensional leap requires an IMMENSE amount of energy, explaining YMX's fading appearance to TAV in BBS as well as in the most recent trailer for DDD when he appears transparent as he is speaking to Riku about darkness and walking down the stairs.
So there it is. Comment on it, bash it, or let me know your thoughts.