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But he had only absorbed it. He didn't attack it like the novels depicted him doing to his Unversed. I would think absorbing it is a bit different from him actually killing it.
Fair enough, but it's impossible to tell either way since we don't see him hurt by the Unversed's deaths in the game.
Xehanort's Heartless uses Ansem's name and practically creates slander against Ansem the Wise.
Libel - • a false and malicious statement about a person; a thing or circumstance that brings undeserved discredit on a person by misrepresentation.
I thought libel was written and slander was verbal? Doesn't really matter either way; that mostly just amused me because it seemed so trivial next to all the other things you'd posted. XD;
And Vanitas and Ventus were practically slaves being used for a goal. Then MX gives Ven to Master Eraqus. So I admit the human trafficking thing is a bit of a stretch, but it is close...right? And I can't think of any other way to describe them except as chattel.
Yeah, I think that's more than a bit of a stretch, considering that Eraqus basically adopts Ven into his family instead of treating him as a slave or anything. XD;
I think it's more accurate to describe the relationship between MX and Ven/Vanitas as more of an abusive master/apprentice relationship than suggesting that MX thinks he owns Ven; he certainly doesn't think of Ven as a person, but Ven actually looks up to him, and Vanitas has his own reasons for sticking around.
Well, the whole idea of Unversed. The KH team didn't really need to make them. And Vanitas, while being a pretty important part of the plot, was a big troll in the game. He had no story (prior to the novel) and was just pure evil with no meaning to him except to become a weird key.
He's pure evil because he's the darkness that was torn out of Ven, though (and being the darkness torn out of Ven was a major part of the plot). I don't think a lack of sympathetic motivation alone is enough to make a character filler; I kind of just saw him as the KH equivalent to the Joker in that regard.