Xehanort - Blog Posts
Commission for @snowcapmt of their AU
After making a 10 minute ethnographic documentary on the “cropped mgs meme” for an anthropology course I kinda fell in love with them and wanted to make Kingdom Hearts versions
Credit to @gummi-ships for many of the background screencaps, and to Cropped mgs memes on Twitter for the memes which inspired these
It’s arrived! Oh my God I love it! Thank you kingdomcarrots for your amazing work! It’s so beautiful and I love how you write the characters! Thank you!
Give us more of this two dorks, please? X3
KH Theory
So guys. I have played KH III.
If you don’t want a spoiler, then please don’t read the following text.
We see that young Eraqus and young Xehanort are playing chess together. So my friend and I think that all the Kingdom Hearts games are their chess games. That adventure has never happened in reality. it was only their chess game.
Why?
We see, that all what happened in the games was a game they played in the past. So Eraqus and Xehnaort could know what happened and Xehanort gave up so fast when Eraqus arrives after the final battle.
Aaaand.... at the moment they vanished they became their young form. So, it’s like “Okay, we finished that game. Now we go back”
So... that could be mean, that the Kingdom Hearts games are just the imagination of this two dorks.
And I don’t know why, but I like this theory...
You know, rewatching this cutscene:
I'm pretty sure Braig's/Luxu's entire thought process is something along the lines of...
13) Xehanort is the reincarnation of the sole survivor of the 1st Keyblade War/The Player reincarnates into Xehanort!
14) XIGBAR IS LUXU!!!!
15) Ventus was the one to kill Strelitzia because he was taken over by sentient Darkness
16) Strelitzia is Lauriam's sister
17) Ansem's Guardian was in fact Terra's heart
18) Ephemer founded Scala ad Caelum
19) The Master of Masters basically set Xehanort on his path to being the villain
20) Xehanort gives the χ-blade to Sora
21) Brain becomes Luxu's first semblance/Luxu sends Brain into the future and Brain is Eraqus's Grandfather
Top ten reveal moments in kh (in no particular order)
1). Terra is Lingering Will
2). Vanitas looks like Sora
3). KH1 Kingdom Hearts is fake; Ansem is still alive; Xemnas and Ansem are the same person but not
4). The Dream Eaters are the souls of dead keyblade kids a millennia ago
5). Larxene, Marluxia, and Ven are all from The Age of Fairytales
6). The guy in DDD / BBS secret Boss Fight is Young Xehanort
7). Sora is fucking dead
8). Castle Oblivion is The Land of Departure
9). Ven is in fact not Roxas but Roxas has his face
10). Aqua and Terra met baby Sora and Riku; Riku was bequeathed by Terra
Bonus 11). Aqua was in the realm of darkness for 10 years and almost got out in KH1
Bonus 12). Axel and Isa knew Ven and were from Radiant Garden
Please feel free to drop more. It’s incredible how many fucking reveals and twists and surprises this one series has and they all feel world shattering.
Holy shit how come I didnt think of this
same bitches different font
(seriously Hunter and Vanitas need to talk about their raging Father Figure issues)
Thoughts on the box
My guess is that it contains the Master of Masters’ heartless.
If we assume the motive for his – in my opinion very questionable – actions is, well, scientific interest in the future, then we can conclude that the probability of him wanting to see that future for himself in person, or in fact, to change it to his liking, is quite high.
Now, we know time travel does exist in the Kingdom Hearts universe. The one, big restriction to it is the fact that a version of the person using it, must already exist in the time they wish to travel to. This also means, if one would find a way to create an immortal version of themselves, they could travel into every moment in the future.
To my knowledge, there never was any official statement about whether heartless die of natural causes or not, but I strongly assume they don’t, for various, obvious reasons. (One of them being that it would take the whole drama out of it, if people, who lost their hearts just randomly became “Somebodies” again after both their heartless and their Nobody died of old age.) More importantly though, we were told in the first game, that the only way to kill a heartless is the keyblade. Now, if we were to put a heartless in a place noone could find it, say, a box noone is ever supposed to open, then yes, we can assume this heartless would truly be immortal.
Creating a heartless out of one’s own heart might be a dangerous task, but I am sure it wouldn’t pose much of a problem to a person like the Master of Masters. Also, there seems to be a way to assure the Nobody resulting from extracting a heart would be a high ranked one, seeing how all of Ansem’s apprentices (as well as Lea and Isa, who lost their hearts in the same room, and therefore possibly also at the same time as the others) kept their human forms and memories. Of course the Master of Masters would know about this way, because the keyblade used was his “gazing eye” that allows him to see the future.
Oh, and would you look at which page the Master of Masters has so conveniently opened in the scene we get to see the box.
Plus, the page we are shown, when he explains why Luxu won’t get one of the Books of Prophecies. (*)
By “temporal paradoxes” he might have meant, that he fears Luxu might kill the heartless inside the box if he knew what future would await this world if he does as the Master of Masters tells him to. (**) Namely, not just one, but two keyblade wars.
I originally thought, that Master Xehanort might somehow be the one behind everything, but now I am certain that I was wrong. It’s not Xehanort who started all of this, he couldn’t have travelled into the past, because there was no version of him there. Also, he can’t be the Master of Masters, because we saw him being a child at the same time as Eraqus in the KH3 trailer and they certainly didn’t live since the age of fairy tales.
No, I assume that the brain behind all of it, our real antagonist in the Kingdom Hearts series, is not Xehanort, it’s the Master of Masters. He couldn’t have pulled all of this off alone though, because time is always limited when travelling into the future, so he needed a successor.
And Xehanort is the one he found.
Notes
(*) Of course, it would be possible to argue that the pages shown are mere coincidence, but I highly doubt that. Both of them were highlighted in the movie (especially the shadow heartless, you can’t overlook it even if you tried) and if it wasn’t for a reason, then why would they have done that?
(**) To be honest, I am a bit unsure about this part, because according to the movie, the Book of Prophecies ends with the beginning of the first keyblade war. Still, there has to be something in it that might give Luxu an idea about the future beyond the keyblade war or he couldn’t possibly cause any temporal paradoxes because of it. Alternatively, he may have been able to prevent the first keyblade war from happening, had he been in possession of the information from the book. I find that unlikely though, because Ira still fell for the Master of Masters’ scheme even with analyzing the book in painstaking detail. Perhaps even because of doing so.
Edit: The label on the box reads Xsuper (as can be seen here). Which contains parts of the word Superbia and an X. This might support the theory of the Master of Masters being a Nobody and the box containing his heartless. (Of course it could also mean, the box contains the Nobody and he is a heartless, but I think it makes more sense the other way around, as the Nobody is usually the entity who still looks and thinks like a whole person.)
Also, it could be totally unrelated to the whole theory, and the Master of Masters just wanted to mark his belongings, but I do believe, the fact that his name contains an X, where there isn’t supposed to be one, is a hint.
Additional Thoughts
There are still two things that bother me about this movie.
The first one is the symbol both the Master of Masters and Luxu have on the zipper of their coats.
It reminded me of the Unversed insignia, but it might just as well be something completely new.
The second thing is the fact that the Master of Masters’ keyblade is called “No Name” in the movie. Maybe it wasn’t meant as a name by the characters (though it probably was by Luxu, see the capital letters), but it certainly has to be a hint for us. I can only guess, but I think it might have been meant to show the connection to Xehanort, seeing how the “real” No Name keyblade does look similar to the one used by the young Xehanort.
AKUSAIMONTH: BERSERK Day 8: SET C - “Ultimate Demise”
“So pathetic. Weren’t you trying to protect your friend? Now look what you have done.” “What ... what did you do to Lea?!” “No, the real question is: what did you do?” “What are you talking about! I didn’t do anything.” “Precisely. You just watched as he sacrificed himself. Even now, you do nothing. Aaah ... now, do you really think looking at me with such hateful eyes will bring your precious friend back?” “You killed him.” “Killed him? Dear boy, do you really think, this is what death looks like? No, he’s not dead.” “Then what?!” “Hmhm... Do you wish to see him again? Do you wish to save him? I can bring you to him.”
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