We found out that Riku's Keyblade's name is "Way to the Dawn" when examining his item slots after he joined your party. Is that Keyblade a transfigured version of Soul Eater? I designed it with that image. Since Riku has always been using Soul Eater, he still calls it that even after it changed form. Keyblades aren't something that you can obtain suddenly out of nowhere so in Riku's case, his Soul Eater was used as an intermediary for that Keyblade.
VI - Could you please give an explanation for the new keyblade "Way to the Dawn" that Riku obtained and the keyblade Kairi has as well as what the conditions for using a keyblade are? There isn't necessarily one keyblade for the dark side and one for the light side, just as many as there exist people with qualified hearts. Concerning the conditions to wield one, at this stage, "Those with strong hearts" is the only obvious one. However, less obvious conditions still exist and there are still plans for an opportunity to reveal those. Riku's "Way to the Dawn" and Kairi's keyblade are naturally the same type of keyblade as Sora's. However there is no particular explanation for the Soul Eater's transfer and occurence, as well as Riku's handing it to Kairi. When there isn't a normal process of acquisition, I think its ok to think there is some deeper meaning there.
These are two statements from Nomura. The first in an interview with him that has been conducted a very, very long time ago, when KH2 was just being released. The second piece is part of Another Report’s Secret Report.I will take out the most important pieces (which coincidently are also the most confusing ones
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“Keyblades aren't something that you can obtain suddenly out of nowhere so in Riku's case, his Soul Eater was used as an intermediary for that Keyblade.”
“Riku's "Way to the Dawn" and Kairi's keyblade are naturally the same type of keyblade as Sora's. However there is no particular explanation for the Soul Eater's transfer and occurence, as well as Riku's handing it to Kairi.”
About the first piece… Here it says that, if you read the whole thing from above, Soul Eater was used as an intermediary for Way to Dawn. Basically, that means that Soul Eater was used to form (and basically is a part of) Way to Dawn. This can be assumed because I have seen the use of ‘intermediary’ when talking about Body and Soul in the creation of a Nobody. (I could go deeper into that fact, but not now.) So, basically, here it says that Soul Eater was used to create, or as some of you like to call it ‘transformed into’, Way to Dawn.
So, Soul Eater transformed into Way to Dawn, to say it roughly. Okay, now about the second piece of info. The first sentence means that Way to Dawn and Kairi’s Keyblade are real ones just like Sora’s Kingdom Key (Also, they are of the Realm of Light). But in the second sentence, please read closefully, here they’re talking about Soul Eater basically being a different/seperate ‘object’ from Way to Dawn. And even more, they’re talking about transfer, which is probably Soul Eater being given to Kairi. It just took on a different form. How? I don’t know. Maybe it is a special Keyblade that takes the form of the wielder’s Heart? Also, note that Soul Eater does not have a Keychain and Kairi’s Keyblade does. That alone must indicate that they are both different blades..
Now, I know this isn’t much of a theory. Actually, this is more of a request. Please tell me if you know more about Soul Eater. I feel that it is an important thing, mainly because it relates to Way to Dawn, which relates to Riku and even to Ven. Please help me out to create a solid theory on Soul Eater and Way to Dawn.
VI - Could you please give an explanation for the new keyblade "Way to the Dawn" that Riku obtained and the keyblade Kairi has as well as what the conditions for using a keyblade are? There isn't necessarily one keyblade for the dark side and one for the light side, just as many as there exist people with qualified hearts. Concerning the conditions to wield one, at this stage, "Those with strong hearts" is the only obvious one. However, less obvious conditions still exist and there are still plans for an opportunity to reveal those. Riku's "Way to the Dawn" and Kairi's keyblade are naturally the same type of keyblade as Sora's. However there is no particular explanation for the Soul Eater's transfer and occurence, as well as Riku's handing it to Kairi. When there isn't a normal process of acquisition, I think its ok to think there is some deeper meaning there.
These are two statements from Nomura. The first in an interview with him that has been conducted a very, very long time ago, when KH2 was just being released. The second piece is part of Another Report’s Secret Report.I will take out the most important pieces (which coincidently are also the most confusing ones
)“Keyblades aren't something that you can obtain suddenly out of nowhere so in Riku's case, his Soul Eater was used as an intermediary for that Keyblade.”
“Riku's "Way to the Dawn" and Kairi's keyblade are naturally the same type of keyblade as Sora's. However there is no particular explanation for the Soul Eater's transfer and occurence, as well as Riku's handing it to Kairi.”
About the first piece… Here it says that, if you read the whole thing from above, Soul Eater was used as an intermediary for Way to Dawn. Basically, that means that Soul Eater was used to form (and basically is a part of) Way to Dawn. This can be assumed because I have seen the use of ‘intermediary’ when talking about Body and Soul in the creation of a Nobody. (I could go deeper into that fact, but not now.) So, basically, here it says that Soul Eater was used to create, or as some of you like to call it ‘transformed into’, Way to Dawn.
So, Soul Eater transformed into Way to Dawn, to say it roughly. Okay, now about the second piece of info. The first sentence means that Way to Dawn and Kairi’s Keyblade are real ones just like Sora’s Kingdom Key (Also, they are of the Realm of Light). But in the second sentence, please read closefully, here they’re talking about Soul Eater basically being a different/seperate ‘object’ from Way to Dawn. And even more, they’re talking about transfer, which is probably Soul Eater being given to Kairi. It just took on a different form. How? I don’t know. Maybe it is a special Keyblade that takes the form of the wielder’s Heart? Also, note that Soul Eater does not have a Keychain and Kairi’s Keyblade does. That alone must indicate that they are both different blades..
Now, I know this isn’t much of a theory. Actually, this is more of a request. Please tell me if you know more about Soul Eater. I feel that it is an important thing, mainly because it relates to Way to Dawn, which relates to Riku and even to Ven. Please help me out to create a solid theory on Soul Eater and Way to Dawn.
