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As in the title, this is my first shot at a theory, or at the very least, my first thread created just for the sake of a theory. Or a fanfic theory, as some might see it.
A rough summary, and one that isn't entirely true, is that Master Xehanort is a Nobody and the Darkness Soldier his Heartless. Or rather, a special Nobody, and special Heartless, that stretches the definitions to be both under their categories, but also outside of it.
The spark for this emerged when I was remembering the notable acronyms from Xehanort's name, with the 'x' taken out, of course. We're left with:
Another
No Heart
A Throne
Tan Hero
All of which I think are at least partially true, if not in the instance of both Master Xehanort and Xehanort, then just Xehanort. Keep in mind this might stretch certain definitions and known facts that this would be considered a fanfic theory more so than a regular one. So, on with the actual theory:
I'll first start by thinking about his more than I need to, and avoid the assumption that Nomura first developed Xehanort, and then for Birth By Sleep made up Master Xehanort, instead going for things in chronological order. This theory begins at a time after Master Xehanort recieved his Keyblade.
His original title was Master, but his name was not the same. He was conducting experiments and the like, when eventually he got bored of the mundane things, and moved on to studies of the Heart, Body and Soul, something that was probably taboo at the time. In these experiments, higher or equal authorities didn't allow Master Xehanort his own test subjects, so he did most of his experiments on his own body. In one of these, he found he could extract his Heart from his body without dying.
After perfecting the process of extracting his Heart, he found that exposure to Darkness gave the Heart a physical form, which Master Xehanort eventually refined into a human-shaped body, with slight alterations, such as an abnormally shaped and sized head (by my opinion, given the size of the helmet of the following character), this was the Darkness Soldier. Further experimentation allowed Master Xehanort to remove his Heart from his Body and Soul without the need of any instruments, and then to even give it physical form too.
Now I want to move use back to what we know about Nobodies, briefly, or rather, the humanoid ones, and to be more specific, the ones in Organization XIII. We can assume that in their human forms, with their Heart, Body and Soul, that they were not much more than normal human beings. Yet with their Heart lost, they are able to perform the spells, attacks, and physical feats we see them doing. Losing their Hearts, it seems, made these Nobodies stronger than their Somebodies, rather than weakening them. I believe the same might hold true should an already powerful and gifted being lose his Heart, ie, Master Xehanort.
And so done with the experiments on Hearts and Darkness, Master Xehanort moved on to the other side of the spectrum, Hearts exposed to Light. For this, he used the earlier process of extracting a Heart without killing the main host, but with the Hearts of regular people, him now knowing he could conduct such experiments without death, and he could even return the Heart to see the effects of those experiments. The earliest tests did nothing to change the Hearts, except that exposing the Heart later to Darkness would take longer for it to collapse and cease to exist (no Heartless formed). Then the the concept of Beings With Hearts of Pure Light caught his attention, both in the properties of these Hearts and these people, but also what exposing them to Darkness might do.
In searching for the BWHoPLs, Master Xehanort assumed another identity to go by, Xehanort, the acronym of which minus the 'x' being appropriate for two of the possibilities. Coming closer and closer to the BWHoPLs, Master Xehanort also started to hear about Kingdom Hearts, a Heart far greater than those he had already experimented on, and likely greater than that of the BWHoPLs. Eventually, his search for Kingdom Hearts and the BWHoPLs began to have negative impacts on those he came in to contact with, usually Master Xehanort being willing to do anything to further his goal of obtaining knowledge, and quite likely power as well.
And so Terra, Aqua and Ven were sent after Master Xehanort. They don't pertain to my theory in any way, save for a little bit at the end.
Here's where things get a little fan-fiction-ally. Master Xehanort feels a natural attraction to Kingdom Hearts because he's the rightful heir to that Kingdom, or he at least believes he is. I mean, personally, it's got to be called Kingdom Hearts for a reason. A thing to note, is that in the two Kingdom Hearts we've observed so far, but only one of them being natural, there was no sign of an actual King in their, except for Mickey, but he's a King for other reasons. Master Xehanort's seeking to be the King of Kingdom Hearts is where I believe the 'A Throne' acronym comes from. He also probably believes he's doing the right thing, like being on a holy quest or pilgramage, and I'd say his skin is at least Tan colour, so that's where the 'Tan Hero' acronym comes from.
And so Birth By Sleep progresses, with Terra, Aqua and Ven seeking to stop Master Xehanort and the Darkness Soldier, and with the latter two trying to forward their goal of reaching Kingdom Hearts, and to also stop the former three.
Then we get to the final battle. Unlike in other encounters, Terra, Aqua and Ven are more skilled, and have that nifty armour protecting them. Master Xehanort decides to take no chances, and seperates the Darkness Soldier from him. This is where that thing I mentioned about Nobodies being stronger than their Somebodies comes in to play, by seperating from the Darkness Soldier, Master Xehanort becomes stronger.
The battle happens, and Terra, Aqua and Ven get the crap beaten out of them, then Master Xehanort and the Darkness Soldier ascend atop a rocky pillar to the Cardiacal Moon of Kingdom Hearts in the sky, the clouds of which Master Xehanort had parted only seconds ago. I do not believe Master Xehanort summoned or unlocked Kingdom Hearts, I think he just revealed it, like it was resting their hidden, but through his actions, aided by his knowledge, he reveals it.
Just before entering Kingdom Hearts, Terra's final attack (that's what I reckon it's going to be. Can't be much else, can it?) hits Master Xehanort, doing some massive damage. Inside Kingdom Hearts, Master Xehanort, lacking a Heart, has an attraction to all the Hearts around him, just waiting to fill that empty space inside of him, and being weakened by Terra's attack, it's hard for him to stop them from filling up that space, so he brings the Darkness Soldier back inside him. With the effect of Kingdom Hearts exerted on Master Xehanort, the two are locked back together, permanently. With Terra's attack done, and Master Xehanort now weaker as his Somebody, he is very close to death.
Here's where I have no idea what happens, and I won't explain it either. Basically, I think Master Xehanort tries what he might to heal himself, but it fails. Then he tries reverting his body backwards, un-aging it. For a few seconds, this seems to work, healing his wounds. Then, Master Xehanort starts forgetting some of the recent events that have happened to him, the reverse-aging process happening both physically and psychologically.
Eventually, the strain of such a process is so much, that the being left behind, at Xehanort's age, is basically devoid of any special knowledge, except for things that everyone knows, like speech and emotions and how to eat, excrete, etc. In a subconscious effort to regain his lost knowledge, Xehanort learns at a fantastic rate, eventually wanting to repeat the experiments he did a few years ago. Shit happens, Xehanort dies, the first Heartless and Nobodies are formed through his death, and that's that, for ten or so years.
When Xemnas and Xehanort's Heartless are defeated, some how they rejoin in Kingdom Hearts as Master Xehanort, and he comes around as a major enemy in KH3.
So, state your opinions, find flaws, errors, holes, flame, whatever.
A rough summary, and one that isn't entirely true, is that Master Xehanort is a Nobody and the Darkness Soldier his Heartless. Or rather, a special Nobody, and special Heartless, that stretches the definitions to be both under their categories, but also outside of it.
The spark for this emerged when I was remembering the notable acronyms from Xehanort's name, with the 'x' taken out, of course. We're left with:
Another
No Heart
A Throne
Tan Hero
All of which I think are at least partially true, if not in the instance of both Master Xehanort and Xehanort, then just Xehanort. Keep in mind this might stretch certain definitions and known facts that this would be considered a fanfic theory more so than a regular one. So, on with the actual theory:
I'll first start by thinking about his more than I need to, and avoid the assumption that Nomura first developed Xehanort, and then for Birth By Sleep made up Master Xehanort, instead going for things in chronological order. This theory begins at a time after Master Xehanort recieved his Keyblade.
His original title was Master, but his name was not the same. He was conducting experiments and the like, when eventually he got bored of the mundane things, and moved on to studies of the Heart, Body and Soul, something that was probably taboo at the time. In these experiments, higher or equal authorities didn't allow Master Xehanort his own test subjects, so he did most of his experiments on his own body. In one of these, he found he could extract his Heart from his body without dying.
After perfecting the process of extracting his Heart, he found that exposure to Darkness gave the Heart a physical form, which Master Xehanort eventually refined into a human-shaped body, with slight alterations, such as an abnormally shaped and sized head (by my opinion, given the size of the helmet of the following character), this was the Darkness Soldier. Further experimentation allowed Master Xehanort to remove his Heart from his Body and Soul without the need of any instruments, and then to even give it physical form too.
Now I want to move use back to what we know about Nobodies, briefly, or rather, the humanoid ones, and to be more specific, the ones in Organization XIII. We can assume that in their human forms, with their Heart, Body and Soul, that they were not much more than normal human beings. Yet with their Heart lost, they are able to perform the spells, attacks, and physical feats we see them doing. Losing their Hearts, it seems, made these Nobodies stronger than their Somebodies, rather than weakening them. I believe the same might hold true should an already powerful and gifted being lose his Heart, ie, Master Xehanort.
And so done with the experiments on Hearts and Darkness, Master Xehanort moved on to the other side of the spectrum, Hearts exposed to Light. For this, he used the earlier process of extracting a Heart without killing the main host, but with the Hearts of regular people, him now knowing he could conduct such experiments without death, and he could even return the Heart to see the effects of those experiments. The earliest tests did nothing to change the Hearts, except that exposing the Heart later to Darkness would take longer for it to collapse and cease to exist (no Heartless formed). Then the the concept of Beings With Hearts of Pure Light caught his attention, both in the properties of these Hearts and these people, but also what exposing them to Darkness might do.
In searching for the BWHoPLs, Master Xehanort assumed another identity to go by, Xehanort, the acronym of which minus the 'x' being appropriate for two of the possibilities. Coming closer and closer to the BWHoPLs, Master Xehanort also started to hear about Kingdom Hearts, a Heart far greater than those he had already experimented on, and likely greater than that of the BWHoPLs. Eventually, his search for Kingdom Hearts and the BWHoPLs began to have negative impacts on those he came in to contact with, usually Master Xehanort being willing to do anything to further his goal of obtaining knowledge, and quite likely power as well.
And so Terra, Aqua and Ven were sent after Master Xehanort. They don't pertain to my theory in any way, save for a little bit at the end.
Here's where things get a little fan-fiction-ally. Master Xehanort feels a natural attraction to Kingdom Hearts because he's the rightful heir to that Kingdom, or he at least believes he is. I mean, personally, it's got to be called Kingdom Hearts for a reason. A thing to note, is that in the two Kingdom Hearts we've observed so far, but only one of them being natural, there was no sign of an actual King in their, except for Mickey, but he's a King for other reasons. Master Xehanort's seeking to be the King of Kingdom Hearts is where I believe the 'A Throne' acronym comes from. He also probably believes he's doing the right thing, like being on a holy quest or pilgramage, and I'd say his skin is at least Tan colour, so that's where the 'Tan Hero' acronym comes from.
And so Birth By Sleep progresses, with Terra, Aqua and Ven seeking to stop Master Xehanort and the Darkness Soldier, and with the latter two trying to forward their goal of reaching Kingdom Hearts, and to also stop the former three.
Then we get to the final battle. Unlike in other encounters, Terra, Aqua and Ven are more skilled, and have that nifty armour protecting them. Master Xehanort decides to take no chances, and seperates the Darkness Soldier from him. This is where that thing I mentioned about Nobodies being stronger than their Somebodies comes in to play, by seperating from the Darkness Soldier, Master Xehanort becomes stronger.
The battle happens, and Terra, Aqua and Ven get the crap beaten out of them, then Master Xehanort and the Darkness Soldier ascend atop a rocky pillar to the Cardiacal Moon of Kingdom Hearts in the sky, the clouds of which Master Xehanort had parted only seconds ago. I do not believe Master Xehanort summoned or unlocked Kingdom Hearts, I think he just revealed it, like it was resting their hidden, but through his actions, aided by his knowledge, he reveals it.
Just before entering Kingdom Hearts, Terra's final attack (that's what I reckon it's going to be. Can't be much else, can it?) hits Master Xehanort, doing some massive damage. Inside Kingdom Hearts, Master Xehanort, lacking a Heart, has an attraction to all the Hearts around him, just waiting to fill that empty space inside of him, and being weakened by Terra's attack, it's hard for him to stop them from filling up that space, so he brings the Darkness Soldier back inside him. With the effect of Kingdom Hearts exerted on Master Xehanort, the two are locked back together, permanently. With Terra's attack done, and Master Xehanort now weaker as his Somebody, he is very close to death.
Here's where I have no idea what happens, and I won't explain it either. Basically, I think Master Xehanort tries what he might to heal himself, but it fails. Then he tries reverting his body backwards, un-aging it. For a few seconds, this seems to work, healing his wounds. Then, Master Xehanort starts forgetting some of the recent events that have happened to him, the reverse-aging process happening both physically and psychologically.
Eventually, the strain of such a process is so much, that the being left behind, at Xehanort's age, is basically devoid of any special knowledge, except for things that everyone knows, like speech and emotions and how to eat, excrete, etc. In a subconscious effort to regain his lost knowledge, Xehanort learns at a fantastic rate, eventually wanting to repeat the experiments he did a few years ago. Shit happens, Xehanort dies, the first Heartless and Nobodies are formed through his death, and that's that, for ten or so years.
When Xemnas and Xehanort's Heartless are defeated, some how they rejoin in Kingdom Hearts as Master Xehanort, and he comes around as a major enemy in KH3.
So, state your opinions, find flaws, errors, holes, flame, whatever.
