If I may step out of line here for a second by talking about the information we've recieved, rather than moaning-counter moaning about Final Mixes (again x100) and do a little theorising about the No Heart revelation that a lot of us have been speculating with for a long time now.
(MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF SPECULATION FOLLOW)
Er-herm
Clearly Master Xehanort as we know him wasn't born with the name No Heart, and as such either himself or someone else must have given him this name at some stage.
Let's assume for a moment that the boy from DI that we will later know as Master Xehanort (hereby referred to by me as Origin Xehanort, OX) was living his life on DI, and like SRK sought to escape his world ("this world is too small", opening scene of BBS). Through a series of circumstances, which for the time being are irrelevant, OX is able to leave DI but somehow finds himself stranded either in the lanes between, or in a dark corridor, or in someway becomes over exposed to the darkness. Eraqus' master, (or someone else responsible for maintaining the balance of light and darkness in the worlds and investigating things that may upset this balance), finds and saves OX, who's heart is now very corrupted by darkness and brings him to LoD. The barely conscious OX is unable to recall anything about who he is or where he came from, (ala Terra-nort, a dark heart sustained in a darkened vessel). Eraqus' master, being a dark-fearing master (whose traits Eraqus picked up) sees that his heart is smothered by darkness, and locks it (Terra must have learned the technique somewhere) to prevent the terrible powers OX now has from being used and gives him the temporary name of No Heart, or Another, though, as this is a pretty cruel name to bestow on someone gives him the name of Xehanort, and as Ven had to do, OX, now known as Xehanort reforms himself as a person, and forms a friendship with Eraqus. We know from reports that a young Xehanort originally turned to darkness, or was at least tempted by it early in his keyblading career. Perhaps the darkness from the Lanes Between was calling on the darkness locked away within the Young Xehanort, where he was eventually corrupted and made pure evil. (mwahaha)
So in essence my idea of the 'No Name' boss is some figment of how Xehnort was when he was much younger than the old man we see in BBS.
(Now for a bit of theory hole covering)
When speakign of Xehanort, Eraqus never mentions a name change to TVA, but then again why would he. The pupils have just met MX, (unless TV briefly met him when he dropped Ven off at LoD), and Eraqus is hardly about to disrepute his former rival to his own pupils by telling them of how they came to met, that would be disrespectful if nothing else.
Riku mentions in BBS that he knew of a boy who left DI a long time ago. Surely he is a thing of urban legend, and even if Riku couldn't recall the name then and there (to Aqua I think it was?) surely if someone said OX's true name to Sora or Riku, then they would recall him as being someone form there home. But all through KH2 Sora shows no recollection of the name Xehanort, after it is first mentioned to him by Mickey in HB.
That'll do for now, I know it kinda doesn't belong here but it's more productive than FM bashing, plus I'd quite like to hear Grass's and others takes on the whole 'No Name' thing we have now. I look forward to being hung drawn and quartered by you all
(MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF SPECULATION FOLLOW)
Er-herm
Clearly Master Xehanort as we know him wasn't born with the name No Heart, and as such either himself or someone else must have given him this name at some stage.
Let's assume for a moment that the boy from DI that we will later know as Master Xehanort (hereby referred to by me as Origin Xehanort, OX) was living his life on DI, and like SRK sought to escape his world ("this world is too small", opening scene of BBS). Through a series of circumstances, which for the time being are irrelevant, OX is able to leave DI but somehow finds himself stranded either in the lanes between, or in a dark corridor, or in someway becomes over exposed to the darkness. Eraqus' master, (or someone else responsible for maintaining the balance of light and darkness in the worlds and investigating things that may upset this balance), finds and saves OX, who's heart is now very corrupted by darkness and brings him to LoD. The barely conscious OX is unable to recall anything about who he is or where he came from, (ala Terra-nort, a dark heart sustained in a darkened vessel). Eraqus' master, being a dark-fearing master (whose traits Eraqus picked up) sees that his heart is smothered by darkness, and locks it (Terra must have learned the technique somewhere) to prevent the terrible powers OX now has from being used and gives him the temporary name of No Heart, or Another, though, as this is a pretty cruel name to bestow on someone gives him the name of Xehanort, and as Ven had to do, OX, now known as Xehanort reforms himself as a person, and forms a friendship with Eraqus. We know from reports that a young Xehanort originally turned to darkness, or was at least tempted by it early in his keyblading career. Perhaps the darkness from the Lanes Between was calling on the darkness locked away within the Young Xehanort, where he was eventually corrupted and made pure evil. (mwahaha)
So in essence my idea of the 'No Name' boss is some figment of how Xehnort was when he was much younger than the old man we see in BBS.
(Now for a bit of theory hole covering)
When speakign of Xehanort, Eraqus never mentions a name change to TVA, but then again why would he. The pupils have just met MX, (unless TV briefly met him when he dropped Ven off at LoD), and Eraqus is hardly about to disrepute his former rival to his own pupils by telling them of how they came to met, that would be disrespectful if nothing else.
Riku mentions in BBS that he knew of a boy who left DI a long time ago. Surely he is a thing of urban legend, and even if Riku couldn't recall the name then and there (to Aqua I think it was?) surely if someone said OX's true name to Sora or Riku, then they would recall him as being someone form there home. But all through KH2 Sora shows no recollection of the name Xehanort, after it is first mentioned to him by Mickey in HB.
That'll do for now, I know it kinda doesn't belong here but it's more productive than FM bashing, plus I'd quite like to hear Grass's and others takes on the whole 'No Name' thing we have now. I look forward to being hung drawn and quartered by you all