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Near the beginning of the BBS video, right as Terra charges forward to attack MX while Ven and Aqua stay back, MX appears to "refract" into two identical beings. One of these then changes form into the DS.
Here's my idea: Whoever Master Xehanort's apprentice is, I do not believe the DS is he. I know that the teaser info for BBS says something like "three keyblade wielders go searching for a missing master and his apprentice", would someone please confirm if said "missing master" is specifically identified as Master Xehanort? I would think it is but if that's not technically confirmed, it may open up other ideas. Anyway...
Rather, I believe that the DS is some sort of being that possessed Master Xehanort. For sake of argument, I will henceforth refer to this being as the "Thing", since I have no better way to describe it. In so possessing Master Xehanort, the Thing retained - or took on - Master Xehanort's appearance as an old man, and so whoever encountered it had no reason to question that it was anything other than the true Master Xehanort.
When VAT go to challenge "Master Xehanort", the Thing produces the doppelganger of itself that we identify as "DS" or "Dark Soldier", which appears in either its true form, or as a visual hybrid of its true form and a human form.
Why? Well, if it was only because of the circumstances, then perhaps reasoned that with one body - the MX form - it would not be able to defeat the three keyblade wielders at once.
How? For this, I have two ideas:
1.) The Thing, upon either possessing a host long enough or possessing a host with great power - or both - develops and expands its abilities, and one of these abilities may be to produce an illusory replica of itself.
2.) The creepier idea: The Thing, as part of its "lifecycle", possesses a being for so much time, or with so much power, or both, that - upon reaching maturation - it produces an offspring, which may be visually identical to the parent or may be a hybrid of the parent Thing and that parent's host. If this is the case, I believe the DS we see in the video is the newly formed offspring of the parent Thing, who by this time has completely subsumed Master Xehanort's mind and body.
After the end of the video I naturally stray into pure speculation, but allow me to build on some popular ideas: One thought that has been bandied about for some time is that Terra becomes the "Xehanort" we are familiar with in KH1, CoM, and KH2. For purposes of this theory, I will assume that this is indeed the case. Here's what I'm thinking: The Thing's offspring - let's just name it the "Offspring" to differentiate it from its parent - instinctually intends to carry on its natural lifecycle, which means obtaining a host much the same as the Thing did before it. Here are the facets of my idea:
1.) The Offspring possesses Terra, as the Thing possessed Master Xehanort.
2.) The Offspring and the Thing were both able - along with any more of their "species" that may exist - to possess the people they do because of existing darkness within their respective host's hearts. I suspect Terra has significant darkness lingering within him, judging by his seemingly rash behavior, quickness to anger/rage, and of course the yellowing of his eyes at the end of the video.
3.) Because of this, I believe that a person whose heart is full of much light - Sora, for example, or any of the PoH's - would likely not be susceptable to possession by these beings; they require darkness in their hosts hearts to spiritually weaken the hosts to a state in which they are susceptible, or perhaps darkness in a person's heart is what they feed on, making a light-filled heart devoid of value. Riku, on the other hand, would be a perfect candidate.
4.) I do not believe that the Thing or its Offspring are heartless. I know that no heartless exist before Ansem and Xehanort produce them in Radiant Garden, which takes place well after BBS. However, I do believe that these beings prey on darkness, and in fact the existence of heartless may be a by-product of their actions.
5.) VAT are eventually able to defeat and destroy Master Xehanort, killing the Thing. The Offspring remains alive and well.
6.) Upon possessing Terra, the Offspring battles with Ven and Aqua. Where this battle begins I don't know, but apparently it ends in Radiant Garden - remember that as the story goes, "people with weapons of keys appear and do battle, and when they were gone, Xehanort remained, unaware of his own identity".
7.) So Ven and Aqua are gone at this point, either dead, otherwise beaten, or just MIA. What's left is the Offspring, newly arrived on Radiant Garden, who is found and cared for by Ansem the Wise.
8.) The Offspring identifies itself to Ansem as "Xehanort" but says it cannot recall anything else about itself or its life. I believe that the Offspring retains a form of genetic memory after separating from its parent, and calls itself by the name its parent's host used - and from here, one of three possibilities: a) it may not have been initially mentally mature enough to offer much other information; b) the Offspring was fully intelligent by this point, but deliberately lied to Ansem about not remembering its history so as to quietly set up shop on Radiant Garden, or c) the Offspring was beaten into enough of a weakened state by Ven and Aqua that it may have only barely survived, but lost its memories in the process of battle and recovery.
9.) I believe C is likeliest, as this would explain why the "memories of Xehanort" appears as a line in the first video, and seems to be an important theme. Moving on...
10.) The fact that the Offspring - now "Xehanort" - is merely a powerful dark being disguised as a human would explain why Ansem describes him as having extraordinary, almost "superhuman" abilities.
11.) "Xehanort", due to its nature as a predator on the darkness within hearts and perhaps eager to find a way to maximize his "feeding potential", starts work with Ansem and his other assistance on studying the heart, the story of which we know already. Xehanort is amazed when these experiments produce a thing called the "heartless".
12.) Xehanort volunteers himself as a test subject, perhaps knowing full well what will happen, or at least having an idea. Xehanort, in addition to already being whatever his species is, becomes a heartless. This may explain why he/it was able to retain human form and structured mind whereas other heartless become mindless monsters. Already comfortable with the idea of assuming others' identites for its own protection, Xehanort goes by the name "Ansem" and banishes the real article. The production of the nobody who will become Xemnas is incidental and not a part of his plan.
13.) Happy with having new powers and the command of an army of dark monsters, but no longer in possession of a true physical form, Xehanort uses his newfound freedom to grow in power, and search the universe for a powerful being whose heart is full of darkness, to serve as a potential host for itself. It does this because it maintains the natural instinct to continue its lifecycle and reproduce.
14.) Xehanort finds and possesses Riku. At first, the change is gradual; Riku still looks like Riku, but is wearing his dark heartless costume. In other words, he is dressed as the Offspring itself was once garbed in its own infancy. The suit now bears the heartless logo on its chest as a sign of the Offspring's mutation into a Thing/heartless hybrid.
15.) From here, Xehanort eventually takes back the physical appearance that we are familiar with, which is actually a twisted version of Terra's appearance, with a variant of the clothing worn by its parent's host. Had it not been defeated outwardly by Sora, inwardly by Riku, and later permanently destroyed by Ansem's coding machine blasting Kingdom Hearts, it would have eventually produced an offspring of its own to continue the horrible cycle.
Now, the dark, devil-looking enemies that Terra is seen battling in several screenshots - for argument, I'll call them the "Brood", as my theory makes them sound like a colony of insects - we know that they are neither heartless nor nobody, as neither of these exist yet in the time of BBS. I think they may be related to the Thing and its Offspring: perhaps they are lesser types of whatever the Thing is. Or perhaps they are a sort of incomplete offspring that the Thing produces, before it has matured enough to be able to produce the complete Offspring that takes the form of the DS - maybe the little ones are like insect drones while the Offspring is meant to take up position as the King of the colony. In short, I believe that the Brood prey on darkness in people's hearts, but they are not necessarily composed of darkness themselves, and they certainly are not the same thing as heartless. The Brood are some sort of cosmological parasite, and the greatest of them leads to the creation of all heartless and nobodies merely through the pursuit of its own agenda. Perhaps the Brood and the keyblade wielders originally had nothing to do with eachother, but upon discovering keyblade wielders - who have, by definition, extremely strong hearts, whether filled with light or darkness - the Brood sees them as an attractive food source.
I believe that this Brood went into hiding, or maybe hibernation, during Xehanort's heartless reign, as he didn't need them once he controlled the heartless.
I believe that the Brood, or what remains of it in Sora's time, are the so-called "true enemy" that will be revealed in Coded. Why are they acting up now, after remaining dormant for over a decade? Perhaps now that Xehanort is dead, they have no more master to hold them down - or maybe now that Xehanort is not here to lead the Brood into domination - they have awakened and intend to recreate a new King, as all that remain are drones, and they need a King to continue the colony's lifecycle. If true, this would make them the true bad guys behind all trouble in the KH universe.
So what about Ven and Aqua, then? Because we know the central theme of BBS will be "discovering Ven's identity", right? Hmm... I don't know. Maybe Ven is connected to the Thing and its species. I do believe that perhaps he sealed part of himself into his keyblade, though - this keyblade would later find its way to Riku, and then immediately change hands to Sora (after changing form into the Kingdom Key, of course). This would explain why Sora's nobody resembles Ven rather than Sora. As for Aqua, well, we all know about her nobody possibly being #14, I won't go into it here.
Hmm... maybe Master Xehanort, upon being possessed by the Thing, attempted to, or succeeded in, killing Xehanort's apprentice. Or maybe Ven is Master Xehanort's apprentice. We don't know how long Ven has known Aqua or Terra, they may not meet until during BBS - and it would explain the notion of searching for Ven's identity. In fact, perhaps in their day a formal one-to-one system exists for masters and apprentices - maybe Terra is, if not technically a "master", then the senior-most knight of the three, and Aqua is his only formal apprentice, and Ven joins them out of circumstance.
So that's my theory. What do you think?
Here's my idea: Whoever Master Xehanort's apprentice is, I do not believe the DS is he. I know that the teaser info for BBS says something like "three keyblade wielders go searching for a missing master and his apprentice", would someone please confirm if said "missing master" is specifically identified as Master Xehanort? I would think it is but if that's not technically confirmed, it may open up other ideas. Anyway...
Rather, I believe that the DS is some sort of being that possessed Master Xehanort. For sake of argument, I will henceforth refer to this being as the "Thing", since I have no better way to describe it. In so possessing Master Xehanort, the Thing retained - or took on - Master Xehanort's appearance as an old man, and so whoever encountered it had no reason to question that it was anything other than the true Master Xehanort.
When VAT go to challenge "Master Xehanort", the Thing produces the doppelganger of itself that we identify as "DS" or "Dark Soldier", which appears in either its true form, or as a visual hybrid of its true form and a human form.
Why? Well, if it was only because of the circumstances, then perhaps reasoned that with one body - the MX form - it would not be able to defeat the three keyblade wielders at once.
How? For this, I have two ideas:
1.) The Thing, upon either possessing a host long enough or possessing a host with great power - or both - develops and expands its abilities, and one of these abilities may be to produce an illusory replica of itself.
2.) The creepier idea: The Thing, as part of its "lifecycle", possesses a being for so much time, or with so much power, or both, that - upon reaching maturation - it produces an offspring, which may be visually identical to the parent or may be a hybrid of the parent Thing and that parent's host. If this is the case, I believe the DS we see in the video is the newly formed offspring of the parent Thing, who by this time has completely subsumed Master Xehanort's mind and body.
After the end of the video I naturally stray into pure speculation, but allow me to build on some popular ideas: One thought that has been bandied about for some time is that Terra becomes the "Xehanort" we are familiar with in KH1, CoM, and KH2. For purposes of this theory, I will assume that this is indeed the case. Here's what I'm thinking: The Thing's offspring - let's just name it the "Offspring" to differentiate it from its parent - instinctually intends to carry on its natural lifecycle, which means obtaining a host much the same as the Thing did before it. Here are the facets of my idea:
1.) The Offspring possesses Terra, as the Thing possessed Master Xehanort.
2.) The Offspring and the Thing were both able - along with any more of their "species" that may exist - to possess the people they do because of existing darkness within their respective host's hearts. I suspect Terra has significant darkness lingering within him, judging by his seemingly rash behavior, quickness to anger/rage, and of course the yellowing of his eyes at the end of the video.
3.) Because of this, I believe that a person whose heart is full of much light - Sora, for example, or any of the PoH's - would likely not be susceptable to possession by these beings; they require darkness in their hosts hearts to spiritually weaken the hosts to a state in which they are susceptible, or perhaps darkness in a person's heart is what they feed on, making a light-filled heart devoid of value. Riku, on the other hand, would be a perfect candidate.
4.) I do not believe that the Thing or its Offspring are heartless. I know that no heartless exist before Ansem and Xehanort produce them in Radiant Garden, which takes place well after BBS. However, I do believe that these beings prey on darkness, and in fact the existence of heartless may be a by-product of their actions.
5.) VAT are eventually able to defeat and destroy Master Xehanort, killing the Thing. The Offspring remains alive and well.
6.) Upon possessing Terra, the Offspring battles with Ven and Aqua. Where this battle begins I don't know, but apparently it ends in Radiant Garden - remember that as the story goes, "people with weapons of keys appear and do battle, and when they were gone, Xehanort remained, unaware of his own identity".
7.) So Ven and Aqua are gone at this point, either dead, otherwise beaten, or just MIA. What's left is the Offspring, newly arrived on Radiant Garden, who is found and cared for by Ansem the Wise.
8.) The Offspring identifies itself to Ansem as "Xehanort" but says it cannot recall anything else about itself or its life. I believe that the Offspring retains a form of genetic memory after separating from its parent, and calls itself by the name its parent's host used - and from here, one of three possibilities: a) it may not have been initially mentally mature enough to offer much other information; b) the Offspring was fully intelligent by this point, but deliberately lied to Ansem about not remembering its history so as to quietly set up shop on Radiant Garden, or c) the Offspring was beaten into enough of a weakened state by Ven and Aqua that it may have only barely survived, but lost its memories in the process of battle and recovery.
9.) I believe C is likeliest, as this would explain why the "memories of Xehanort" appears as a line in the first video, and seems to be an important theme. Moving on...
10.) The fact that the Offspring - now "Xehanort" - is merely a powerful dark being disguised as a human would explain why Ansem describes him as having extraordinary, almost "superhuman" abilities.
11.) "Xehanort", due to its nature as a predator on the darkness within hearts and perhaps eager to find a way to maximize his "feeding potential", starts work with Ansem and his other assistance on studying the heart, the story of which we know already. Xehanort is amazed when these experiments produce a thing called the "heartless".
12.) Xehanort volunteers himself as a test subject, perhaps knowing full well what will happen, or at least having an idea. Xehanort, in addition to already being whatever his species is, becomes a heartless. This may explain why he/it was able to retain human form and structured mind whereas other heartless become mindless monsters. Already comfortable with the idea of assuming others' identites for its own protection, Xehanort goes by the name "Ansem" and banishes the real article. The production of the nobody who will become Xemnas is incidental and not a part of his plan.
13.) Happy with having new powers and the command of an army of dark monsters, but no longer in possession of a true physical form, Xehanort uses his newfound freedom to grow in power, and search the universe for a powerful being whose heart is full of darkness, to serve as a potential host for itself. It does this because it maintains the natural instinct to continue its lifecycle and reproduce.
14.) Xehanort finds and possesses Riku. At first, the change is gradual; Riku still looks like Riku, but is wearing his dark heartless costume. In other words, he is dressed as the Offspring itself was once garbed in its own infancy. The suit now bears the heartless logo on its chest as a sign of the Offspring's mutation into a Thing/heartless hybrid.
15.) From here, Xehanort eventually takes back the physical appearance that we are familiar with, which is actually a twisted version of Terra's appearance, with a variant of the clothing worn by its parent's host. Had it not been defeated outwardly by Sora, inwardly by Riku, and later permanently destroyed by Ansem's coding machine blasting Kingdom Hearts, it would have eventually produced an offspring of its own to continue the horrible cycle.
Now, the dark, devil-looking enemies that Terra is seen battling in several screenshots - for argument, I'll call them the "Brood", as my theory makes them sound like a colony of insects - we know that they are neither heartless nor nobody, as neither of these exist yet in the time of BBS. I think they may be related to the Thing and its Offspring: perhaps they are lesser types of whatever the Thing is. Or perhaps they are a sort of incomplete offspring that the Thing produces, before it has matured enough to be able to produce the complete Offspring that takes the form of the DS - maybe the little ones are like insect drones while the Offspring is meant to take up position as the King of the colony. In short, I believe that the Brood prey on darkness in people's hearts, but they are not necessarily composed of darkness themselves, and they certainly are not the same thing as heartless. The Brood are some sort of cosmological parasite, and the greatest of them leads to the creation of all heartless and nobodies merely through the pursuit of its own agenda. Perhaps the Brood and the keyblade wielders originally had nothing to do with eachother, but upon discovering keyblade wielders - who have, by definition, extremely strong hearts, whether filled with light or darkness - the Brood sees them as an attractive food source.
I believe that this Brood went into hiding, or maybe hibernation, during Xehanort's heartless reign, as he didn't need them once he controlled the heartless.
I believe that the Brood, or what remains of it in Sora's time, are the so-called "true enemy" that will be revealed in Coded. Why are they acting up now, after remaining dormant for over a decade? Perhaps now that Xehanort is dead, they have no more master to hold them down - or maybe now that Xehanort is not here to lead the Brood into domination - they have awakened and intend to recreate a new King, as all that remain are drones, and they need a King to continue the colony's lifecycle. If true, this would make them the true bad guys behind all trouble in the KH universe.
So what about Ven and Aqua, then? Because we know the central theme of BBS will be "discovering Ven's identity", right? Hmm... I don't know. Maybe Ven is connected to the Thing and its species. I do believe that perhaps he sealed part of himself into his keyblade, though - this keyblade would later find its way to Riku, and then immediately change hands to Sora (after changing form into the Kingdom Key, of course). This would explain why Sora's nobody resembles Ven rather than Sora. As for Aqua, well, we all know about her nobody possibly being #14, I won't go into it here.
Hmm... maybe Master Xehanort, upon being possessed by the Thing, attempted to, or succeeded in, killing Xehanort's apprentice. Or maybe Ven is Master Xehanort's apprentice. We don't know how long Ven has known Aqua or Terra, they may not meet until during BBS - and it would explain the notion of searching for Ven's identity. In fact, perhaps in their day a formal one-to-one system exists for masters and apprentices - maybe Terra is, if not technically a "master", then the senior-most knight of the three, and Aqua is his only formal apprentice, and Ven joins them out of circumstance.
So that's my theory. What do you think?
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